Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-12-17
Here and There.

"Jury of women convict woman"
says . newspaper heading. Well, what
d. you expectS
A report from Somerset County says
tho apple crop has been disappointing
there ON account of the worms whicn IN
feat nearly all varieties. And yet those
worms arc practically eliminated By up
20 date orchard methods.
In recent football game for the bone
az Of . hospital In Pennsylvania, eight
PLAYERS were seriously injured and three
others less severely. At any rate that
esye the hospital tho benefit OF num-
Der of patients, IL nothing more.
IL In said to be . fact that Saco fac
tory is making on order thousand
woodpecker nests, which are to % useo
In Massach usetts orchards to attract tne
woodpeckers and induce then, 70 stay
for the purpose Of getting rid OF the
pests which make food for them. TINS
shows something Of progress in one Oh
rectiou 1t least. Not %. many years ago
. great many people looked upon wooc-
peckers as birds which damaged the
trees, and were legitimate game Tor the
hunter.
The big fourteen inch gun which has
recently been installed by the govern
ment nj Sandy Hook for coast defence,
At a coat Of $3.50, 600, and which Was re-
sardsd n the latest word in big gun
building. burst the other day while be-
ing tested. Singularly, IN accordance
with the pacific character given 10 tSe
guu by the army officers through the
nickname Of AUNT Jane" which they
applied to il, no one was injured, though
IL 10 almost miraculous that such should
DO the case.
A New York man in court charged
with overspeedipg his automobile, made
the peculiar appeal TO the court that he
would lose $50, 900 il he was convicted.
Nv the terms of his fathers will he
would receive 1000 il at the age of
80 there were no court convictions
against him. IL would have been easy
for him to avoid the forfeiture of the
beouest, but, like most of the rest OF us
sinners, be didn't stop to think Of that
when be sat at the wheel.
Commissioner Viles says the 6sh and
game laws, together with the numerous
special regulations, are too complicated.
No need of paying a man q salary to give
Ms that information. We knew 1t before.
That unpicturesque condemnation Of
Tillmanism and Vardamsnism, Governor
Blease OF South Carolina, who approves
of lynchipg for . certain crime, has
good chance to find ont what his fellow
governors and the rest of the decent peo-
pls think OF his anarchistic ideas. But
that will probably only foster bis insane
vanity.
Congress has had time to get well
under way for the session, and will now
adjourn and 20 home for two weeks.
This controversy between Commits
sioner of Agriculture Buckley and the
Maine Dairymen's Association doesn't
make the commissioner look any better
to the man on the street; but 1t does dis
close the fact that he should have turned
his attention to law and not TO agricul-
ture. He says the law requires him to
hold q conference in connection with the
State Dairymsn's Association, 40 he had
to organize State Dsirymsn's Assoeia-
ton Of his own, because tho Law didn't
mention the Maine Dairymen's AssocIa-
ton. It's safe to bet that there are
whole lot OF lawyers in Maine who
would never have thought Of that quib-
BILE.