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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

~ tSuo ~ NoeS JfO"s "so spN-
was necessary to his happiness. Hi
feeling for her, lulled Into unconscious
ness by the dull round of domesticity
had been sharply stirred by the loss oi
her presence. Has 1t not been dinnet
into us by proverb and sermon ant
fable that we never prize the music
till the sweet voiced bird has tiowI
or in other no less forid and true utter
ances?
'I'm double dyed dub" muset
John Perkins. 1.-The way I've been treat
ing Katy. OF every night playing poo
and bumming with the boys instead o.
staying home with her. The poor gil,
here all alone. with nothing to amuse
her, and me acting that way. John
Perkins, you're the worst kind Of i
shine. I'm going to make 1t up for the
little girl. I'll take her out and let hei
see some amusement. And I'll cut oul
the McCloskey gang right from this
minute"
Yes. there was the city roaring out
side for John Perkins to come dance
in the train Of Momus. And at Nc.
Closkey's the boys were knocking the
balls idly into the pockets against the
hour for the nightly game. But nc
primrose way nor clicking cue could
WOO the remorseful soul Of Perkins, the
bereft. The thing that was his. lightly
held and half scorned had been taken
away from him. and he wanted II
Backward to certain man named
Adam, whom tie c!,crU5im lonnced
from the orchard. could Perkins. the
remorseful, trace his descent
Near the right hand Of John Perkins
stood chair. On the back Of 1t stood
Katy's blue shirt waist. 1t still re-
tanned something of her contour. Mid
way of the sleeves were fine individu Il
wrinkles made by the movements or
her arms in working for his comfort
and pleasure. A delicate but impel-
ling odor of bluebells came from II
John took 1t and looked long and so
berly at the unresponsive grenadine
Katy had never been unresponsive
Tears-yes. tears-came into JOHN Per
kins' eyes. When she came back
things would be different. he would
make up for all his neglect. What was
life without her?
The door opened. Katy walked In.
carrying a little hand satchel. John
ctar,d at har st,Ipidly
My. I'm glad to get back" said
Katy. ma wasn't sick to amount to
anything. Sam was at the depot and
said she just had little spell and got
all right soon after they telegraphed.
So l took the next train back. I'm
just dying for cup Of coffee"
Nobody heard the click and the rat
tie of the cogwheels as the third floor
front of the FrOgmore flats buzzed its
machinery back into the order OF
things. A band slipped. spring was
touched. the gear was adjusted. and
the wheels revolved In their old orbits
John Perkins looked at the clock. 1t
was SIS. He reached for his hat and
walked to the door.
"Now, where are you going. I'd like
to know, John Perkins?' asked Katy
In querulous tone.
Thought I'd drop up to McClos-
keys" said John. land play game or
two Of pool with the fellows"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

Stuny's ears. But now ne looked uI
at the old gentleman's face with tearfu
agony in his own. The fne snow al
most sizzled when 1t fell upon his per
spring brow. But the old gentleman
shivered little and turned his back
to the wind.
Stuffy had always wondered why the
old gentleman spoke his speech rather
sadly. He did not know that 1t was be-
cause he was wishing every time that
he had a son to succeed him-a son who
would come there after he was gone, Il
son who would stand proud and strong
before some subsequent Stuffy, and
say, I'm memory Of my father" Then
1t would be an institution.
But the old gentleman had no rela.
tives. He lived in rented rooms In one
of the decayed old family brownstone
mansions in one Of the quiet streets
east Of the park. In the winter he
raised fuchsias in little conservatory
the size of q steamer trunk. In the
spring he walked in the Easter parade.
In the summer he lived at farmhouse
in the New Jersey hills and sat In q
wicker armchair, speaking Of Il butter
fly, the Ornithoptera amphrisius, that
he hoped to find some day. In the
autumn he fed StufYy dinner. These
were the old gentleman's occupations.
Stuffy Pete looked up at him for a
half minute, stewing and helpless in
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Maine Orchard Investigation

The results of various tests with Or
chards are now being put before fruit
growers in new bulletin 155 of the Maine
experiment station. A review of the
work in cultivation, fertilization, top
working and spraying is given. An
especially valuable line of work was
that of orchard renovation, which shows
that it is entirely possible to take old,
Improbable orchards and bring them
into good bearing condition so as to pro-
duce profitable crops every year.
1t is shown that fertilizers for or.
chards should contain some nitrogen,
as we'll as potash and phosphoric acid,
but the excessive use of nitrogen alone
is distinctly injurious to the fruit. A
complete, we'll l-balsnced fertilizer is the
one to use. A mixture containing 5
per cent nitrogen, 60 per cent phos-
phoric acid and to 10 per cent potash,
with supply of humus in the form Of
cover crops, is most satisfactory for
general orchard use for term of years.
STATE SHOULD OWN ORCHARDS.
A very interesting article is included
| in the bulletin on the Maine station and
pomology by Director C. D. Woods. He
outlines the work which this station has
done in fruit growing and points out
that the station is doing considerable
| work for the fruit growers and that this
| work will be continued and that it is
not hoped to undertake further fruit
studies in the immediate future. The
matter of securing an appropriation
from the legislature to provide the need
ed farm on which to locate an apple
orchard was brought before the last
legislature and although many appeared
to favor the bill and none opposed it it
was deferred to the legislature of 1909.
The station has also been disturbed
somewhat by the resignation of Prof.
w. Munson, who went to West Virginia
largely because the opportunities offer
ed there along genealogical lines were
greater than the Maine station was like
ly to have in the near future. 1t does
not seem to be practical at present to
invite anyone to take up the line OF
work which Prof. Munson has left, for
the same reason that led to his resigna-
ton would prevent the right kind of
man coming to the station. Until Or
| chards and suitable buildings for the
study of genealogical problems are pro-
vided in the apple section of the state it
will be impossible to offer facilities for
work which would be attractive to a
man who wants not merely salary, but
opportunities for work and investigation.
New England Homestead.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
A Tailor. Advertisement, 1874.

This is to give Notice to all Gentle
men and others. That they may have
good Druggets, sagathie and Duroy
Suits made well and fashionable. for
the first size Men at f8 los. suit and
the larger size at "a. Cloth Serge. com
monty called by the Name Of German
Serge, suits for "a and "a los. Livery
suits for "a and f4 los. Colored and
black Cloth suits for f6 and f5 los. Al
the Two Golden Balls in great Hart
street. the upper end Of Bow street
Covent- Garden. Also Horsemen's great
Coats to be sold ready made at 2Os
each. Morning Gowns. Callimanco
both sides. at 30s piece. blue Clohk'
bugs ready made at l6s each. blue
Rockers ready made. Supertne b'a" h
Cloth at 15s. per Yard Fog's Journal
1874
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Early Cultivation of Corn.

This has been a season when the or
dinary steel tooth harrow has done good
work on the corn ground. Other imple-
msuts have been tried in cleaning up
the fields and keeping the top soil nice
and mellow. But the harrow beats all
of them. Good farmers have learned to
slant the teeth backward, 80 that they
will not catch hold of trash or an old
stalk and tear up the hills Of corn.
Those who commenced by using the
barrow this spring just as the weeds
were starting, aud then kept on using II
until the corn was big enough to culti'
vate, have clean fields and mellow fields:
This has been q bad season for ground
packing and baking, with the result
that those who have neglected theiI
fields now find them almost as hard as
public road. After seeing several fins
fields of corn recently where the harrow
was used two and three times over,
saw stick to the smoothing harrow, ant
YOU will have to "show me" before
will believe there is anything better
L. C. Brown in Tribune Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
A City and Its Press.

In some respects modern city re-
sembles a vast commercial house. In
commerce advertisement is the secret
of success, and the most successful co.
adjutors Of the municipality IN the de-
velopment and putting Of capital are
the newspapers. And here Berlin is
lacking. Her press is on a hopelessly
low level, impoverished. without enter
prise. under the thumb Of the authOri.
ties. In London. New York and Paris
the press has voice in the running Of
the city.-London Outlook.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

The hymeneal strings that had curbed
him always when the Frogmore fats
had palled upon him were loosened
Katy was gone.
John Perkins was not accustomed to
analyzlng his emotions, but as he sat
in his Katy bereft 10 by IL parlor he
hit unerringly upon the keynote Of his
discomfort. He knew now that Katy
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
FOR SALE.

21-2 story dwelling house. pleasantly
located in the village of West Paris.
Consists of nine rooms and bathroom,
shed and stable. About S-4 acre OF land,
with apple and pear trees. The build
ings are situated high from the street,
with broad piazza shaded with vines,
commanding fine view. A spring OF
pure water on premises. These build,
ings are well and prettily furnished and
the owner would be glad to sell the
furniture aud furnishings with the
house. This is a great bargain and will
be sold on reasonable terms. Call on OF
address, w. j. Wheeler, South Paris,
Maine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

When you have mastered the business
of farming which you have undertaken,
then you will see its beauty and cease
TO feel its exactions. Do not undertake
too much to make this condition posi-
ble,-New England Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Our Neiahbors.

Sunday School Teacher-Why did the
Lord command US to love our neigh.
bOrs? Little Lola-Oh. guess It was
another way Of telling Us to love our
enemies. - New Orleans Times Demo
crat.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
A Roundabout Reply.

Darling" said young husband.
"what would you do II | should die7
Tell mew
"Please don't suggest such thing"
was the reply. 81 can't bear the
thought Of stepfather for our little
hov 20
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Mana Dull Attira.

Britishers are constantly becoming
duller and more morose In the matter
of their clothes Their carelessness In
this respect seems sometimes to
amount to affectation. - Chamber
Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Unselfsh.

She-George, is that one Of those ci-
gars gave you on your birthday
He-No; I'm saving those for my
friends. She-You dear, self sacrl6c.
ing, unselfsh man!
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

When q man borrows trouble, the in
terest eats up the principal.-Kansal
City Star.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEED THE Flow"

on practical agricultural topics
is solicited. Address all communications In
tended for this department to HENRY d.
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocrat, Paris. Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14

Preventing sickness or injury among
your livestock is better than curing it.
New England Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Rearing the Dairy heifers.

In a recent bulletin of the extension
department of the Maine college of
agriculture Prof. p. A. Campbell says
After the calf has been removed from
its dam, it should be taught to drink.
All OF the dairy breeds learn to drink
very quickly, and it is wise to have the
first lesson come In the evening. II the
calf refuses to drink when holding the
end of the finger in its mouth simply
allow the lesson TO 90 over until morn
ing and there is very seldom any difficult
ty in having them take hold of the milk
this time.
At this time more damage is done by
overlooking than by not feeding enough.
In nature the calf gets il milk often at
blood temperature and in small guam
titles. Four pounds at feed is a great
plenty, warm, as it comes from the dam,
or heated to 95 degrees. The same
cows milk should be used each time in
feeding as one COW may give milk OF a
higher fat content than another and
changing back and forth from one milk
to the other is very liable to cause case
of scours.
IL there is a tendency to scour, stir
into the milk just before giving it to
the calf a dessertspoonful of blOodt1our
OF meal. By the time the calf is ten
days or two weeks old it can be changed
from whole milk to skim milk by max
ing the change gradual, not over one
pound per day. In making this change
the fat has been taken out of the feed
and must be supplied in some manner.
Some make the mistake of adding lin
seed meal at this time. In so doing
protein is being added to protein which
is undesirable.
Ground fiaxseed may be used as a
substitute by pouring boiling water over
it and forming jelly, this fed to the
calf, not more than tablespoonful at
time to start with, will take the place
of the butter fat that has been removed.
However, if the calf will commence to
eat a small portion of cornmeal with
little bran or ground oats at this time,
the Jelly need not be used. The calf
should be encouraged TO eat dry grain,
care being taken not to give 1t more
than can be cleaned up at one feeding.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
A Reliable
Remedy
eIy's Cream Balm

~ quickly doSofpeu.
Gives Relief al Once.
II cleanses, soothes,
heals and protects
the diseased men,
brane resulting from
Catarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
stores the Senses of
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
CATARRH

Taste and Smell. Full size % cts, atDrus-
gists or by mail. In liquid form, 70 cents.
Ely Brothers, Sc Warren Street, New York
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
GIVE HAY EARLY.

As soon as the calf commences to nib
BILE at hay it should be regularly sup
Piled, that the development of the
paunch may begin and good barrel
formed which is going TO give the COW
her feeding capacity later in life. As
the calf gets TO be six or seven weeks
old it may consume IA to IL pounds OF
skim milk daily and as it grows older
more in proportion. 1t is better to have
the milk sweet. 1t must not be fed
warm one day and cold the next, but
should be the same each day. All pals
and dishes used in feeding should be
washed and scalded each day.
III there are several calves to iced, a
small rigid stanchion erected similar to
the old-fashioued stanchion is very con-
yeuient and "a great saver of labor and
time. At feeding time the calves are
fastened in these and allowed to remain
for a time after feeding is finished.
This allows one man to easily feed a
number of calves and also prevents any
tendency among the calves to suck each
other.
If the calf is young, it is more salts
factory TO keep it in the barn with a
ward to run in the most OF the first sum
mer and in this way they receive better
attention and will be protected from the
heat and flies which oftentimes check
the growth of the calf. From the time
the calf is six months old it can be treat
ed much the same as the other stock.
1t should always be kept growing, and
developed with the idea in view, that 1t
=. Iaxy 10 ha n mill
The same treatment should be accord.
ed her through the yearling period and
at the age of from q to "a months she
may be bred. 1t is undesirable to breed
them much earlier than this, because
they are immature and the extra strain
of reproduction and elaboration of milk
checks their growth aud Development
New England Homestead.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
Large or Small Orchards.

THE SPECIALIST AND THE GENERAL
FARMER EACH HAS HIS OWN ADvAN-
TAGEs.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-14
mAvkSsiyiT2f vkSSTfT2p DAY
1GENFhkMEN)
By o. HENRY.

copyright, 1906. by the 8. 8. Mcclure Col
|" HERE Is one day that is ours.
There is one day when all we
Americans who are not self
made 90 back to the old home
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-21
Lanina Must Stand Trial.

Norwalk, O.-Congressman ]. F..
Laning was ordered tried on four
charges of embezzlement and one
of larceny in a decision handed down
by Judge Doyle in common pleas
court Monday. The judge refused the
plea of abatement made by the in
dicted bankers attorneys. The indict-
ments charging Laning and James G.
Gibbs with obtaining money under
false pretenses, and the indictment
brought under the free banking act
of 1851, charging misapplication of
$56,S64, were dismissed. The Judge
held that the latter indictment is not
good because the Ohio Trust Co., OF
which the two men were the heads,
was not doing business under the
law,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-21
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
A Columbus, o., Groceryman and His
Wife Are Found Shot to Death.

Columbus, O.-Arthur Neidlander,
81 years old and his wife, aged
10 years, were found dead Sun.
day morning, the former in a
room above his grocery store near the
western corporation line, and the
woman in the street adjoining the
store. The mans body lay in bed. He
had been shot through the left breast,
the bullet leaving his body through
the back. There were two knife
wounds in the heart. The woman had
been shot in the side. The bullet
passed through both lungs and, COM
ing out, went through the floor of the
grocery below the room where her
husband was killed. She is believed
to have been shot while in the gro
Gerry and then to have plunged head
long through a glass in the door and
made her way to the street where she
fell dead. She was also stabbed in
the heart There were marks on the
throat to indicate that she had been
choked
Although neighbors heard a COM
motion in the building at a. m. and
hSdlu d iii tdl Ill d WOluttH NOlCt W
kill some one, they did not enter to
learn the nature of the trouble and
the tragedy was not disclosed until
daylight.
The police have made one arrest,
that of John Newkirk, painter, who
lives with his parents not far from
the Neidlander grocery. He is said to
have threatened to kill the pair be-
cause their dog bit his mother re-
Gently
The police say section of a paint
er's ladder found at his home fits a
section of a similar ladder found lean
ing against the store. The police are
by no means sure that they have
solved the mystery, as Newkirk and
his parents maintain that he was at
home all night, and because the cash
drawer of the grocery had been rifed.
Neidlander's first wife got divorce
after much domestic trouble and he
and his second wife did not live hap
PLY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-21
About Rats.

Tom" Speedy, the Liberton natural
ist, has delivered judgment" in The
Scotsmans" on lot of interesting cor
respondence concerning rats. The
statement that the progeny of sim
gle pair of rats will in three years in
crease to 65S,S0S should, he says, be
accepted with the proverbial pinch Of
salt. AS the result Of observation Mr..
Speedy declares that 15 was the larg-
est brood he had ever seen and four
the smallest. Seven was the average
of those kept in confinement. The
young are born blind, and 1t is IA
days before they can see. A month
later they are displaced by another
brood and they are driven from the
nursery to fend for themselves. Fre-
quently only one female is found in a
brood, and this in large measure
must check the geometrical tendency
to increase. What becomes of SO
many young bachelor rats Mr.. Speedy
does not state. 1t is asserted that old
males, when opportunity offers, de-
stroy young broods, but of this Mr..
Speedy has no knowledge This he does
know, that the mother rat keeps the
old male away from her brood in con-
finement.-London Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.

William e. Annis of New York, own
er and publisher of several magazines
was shot six times at the Bayside
Yacht club, Bayside, L. l., by Capt.
Peter G. Hams, Jr., u. S. A. Annis
died little later in the hospital at
Flushing. He was accused by Capt.
Hams of breaking up the latter's
home.
Two men from Evanston, H., are
building a duplicate of the dragon
ships of the Morse vikings and will
cross the ocean in it.
The Baldwin airship made a flight
that broke all American records, re-
naming in the air for two hours and
five minutes.
Rosa Grazino of New York killed
her husband because he tried to force
her into life of shame.
Harry Jarrel and his sister of Balti-
more, Md, were poisoned by toad
stools and died at Rochester, N. Y.
One thousand Chinese soldiers sta
toned at Konghau, near Wuchow
mutinied, murdered their commander,
his clerk and secretary and then at
tackled a camp of soldiers at Onyung
Charles Foresman and Henry Rose,
young boys, were drowned near Mar
quette, Mich.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
begun an active crusade for the cleo
tion of speaker who will allow con-
gress to vote on the interstate liquor
shipment bill.'"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-21
A PLOT TO BREAK UP A UNION
A Sensational Story Is Told by a
Female Detective.

Los Angeles, Cal. - The arrest
by private detectives in this city
of Fred Yockey, vice president of
Union No. Al of the Western Fedora
tion of Miners at Randsburg, CAL, on
the charge of conspiracy to blow up
the Yellow Aster gold mine with dy-
Mantle, has developed a complicated
situation.
Yockey was arrested, it is said, up
on complaint of Mrs. Alice G. Clark,
a detective working for a detective
agency retained by the Yellow Aster
Mining Co. to secure evidence. Ac-
cording to published stories Mrs.
Clark now charges that all of the ac-
cusations against Yockey are false
and says she was compelled to swear
to them by another detective, who
forced her to sign the statements at
the point of pistol. The whole plot,
she AYERS, was an effort to break up
the Miners union at Randsburg.
"The evidence trumped up against
me is just like the evidence that was
made to order for the prosecution of
Meyer and Haywood and Pettibone,"
said Yockey. "It is parallel case
exactly. There was not anything do
ing up in the Randsburg country and
some detective simply worked out
plan to make business good. l do not
take much stock in the story that the
company thought 1t was being robbed
of rich ore. There has been strike
against the Yellow Aster since 1903,
and of course 1t is not friendly with
the union. 1t is true | was vice presi-
dent of the union at Randsburg, but |
resigned that Office short time ago
and left the Mines"