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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
EaaIIv Rseonstructod,

The professor was In the exaltedly
platitudinous mood that sometimes
masters the wisest Of men. AS be-
tween alternate sips Of morning coffee
and bites Of bacon he read the editorial
articles in his newspaper. he remark
ed to his wife that II we knew what
our forefathers talked about at the
breakfast table we could make history
live"
Now, Mrs. Professor is q plain. prne-
tical woman. with q sense OF humoi
and much experience with profess
sorial moods. She thought to herself
that It is rather fortunate on the whole
that history does not depend for Its
existence on breakfast table topics.
But she said demurely:
ut would be something like this.
think: where's my newspaper This
coffee Is cold. The toast Is burned.
This Is a bad egg. Where DO you buy
this butter? For goodness sake. keep
those children quiet! Well. now l
must be ofY!"-Youth's Companion.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
rh. connoisssurs Surprise.

An amusing story at the expense OF
a certain high French official Ia told by
a Paris contemporary. He was show
ing one of his friends the magnum opus
of his collection Of pictures. a lnnd'
scape Of the environs Of Paris. and de.
picting the city as 1t was in Courbets
time. There could be no doubt as to
the authenticity Of the picture, for It
bore the signature Of Courbet In red.
The visitor pointed out that the horizon
was dirty and would be improved BY
the application Of a cleansing liquid.
A bottle was requIsitioned and some
of the chemical gently applied with
brush. Then was seen n delightful
little sketch of the E!ffel tower. II
may be observed that Courbet. who
was associated In the destruction OF
the vendome column, died about
dozen years before the tower was
hulIf
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17

the idea that places away from hom.
are better than home. So greater effor
must be made to make home attractive
Parents should keep their influence ovel
their children. The home is the place
where that influence can be made most
effective. Children brought up at home
will be more apt to love and respect their
parents than those that are subjected to
"down town" influences. Even the
Church should not be allowed to take
possession of our children. Not all
church people can be trusted as the ad-
visers of young people. Home Is the
time. Being both the safest place and
the cheapest place to entertain our chill
dren, then why not do all we can to make
it comfortable and attractive
And one thing more-making place
homelike does not mean making fools OF
the children. Home to be respected and
loved by the children should be we'll
managed and orderly. Each child
should be taught the manners that in
volve the principle of right and wrong.
II is not for me to tell you how. One
cannot make set rules for bringing up
children, but this do say: "Make home
cheerful and pleasant spot and keep
your children there as much as possible" "
Later on they may thank you for 30 do
ing.
Do not rob yourselves to spoil your
children. Even if the girl is going to
school she does not need new dresses
more than does her mother. Put all you
can spare upon your daughters back and
go without yourself and you will be pun
ished later on by a daughter who is
ashamed of you away from home. If
your children are allowed to grow up to
look down upon their parents it ia the
fault of you, the parents. Children will
not respect father and mother nnless
they are taught to do so. Now is the
tune to think this over. Do not let viii
lage neighbors break up your home.
Bring up your children to respect their
parents and look with suspicion upon
those who allure them from the good old
farm home.
The main thing in America is the fam
lily. We study to improve our soil. We
buy tools and machinery. We improve
our livestock, but too often is the care of
our children delegated to those who
have no interest in them. Let US take
the same interest in our children that we
expect others to take in them. Let not
our interest in modern agriculture cause
us to neglect the children that are raised
upon the farm. The farm that is not
a home will raise children to walk the
streets of our great cities. The farm
that is a real home will keep most OF the
children at home. 1t costs as much to
raise a scrub calf or pig as it does to
raise a good one. In order to raise good
healthy, honest boys and girls, the kind
that pays, We must raise them at home.
Before one can answer the question,
"What shall the harvest be?" one must
receive an answer to another one, "What
kind of home do you have upon your
farm?" Soil, crops and livestock are all
but the greatest crop OF all
and the most important of all results is
hs crop Of children, the boys and girls
who soon will take our PIaces,-Richsr1
H. Wood, Lewiston, Mich, in Tribune
Earmar
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
Studies the Crop.

One of the noticeable things about
modern farm management Is that the
modern enterprising farmer is acquiring
the habit of making study OF whatever
crop he wishes to raise. In order that
he may be prepared for emergencies, in
order that he may be able to grow the
crop more successfully and with less
labor and cost, and further, that he may
be able to grow big crop and a good
crop.
The modern good farmer is not salts
Il ed simply to put in the kinds of crops
that his father and grandfather grew
and grow them in the same way that
they grew them, just because they grew
them that way. The good farmer does
not want to grow his crops in any new
ways lust because he wants something
new, but if there is new way which
is better, he wants to know that way.
Therefore, he studies the crops which
he raises, or which he wants to raise.
studies them scientifically; learns what
soils they are best adapted to, what sort
of seasons they require, when they best
should be harvested, and what sort of
fertilization they best respond to.
These are reasons why the farmer
with a thorough agricultural education
has an advantage over the man whose
know ledge of the technique of agricul-
ture, of the sciences connected with the
growth and maturity of crops, is simply
what he has been able to pick up in his
actual practice of planting, cultivating
and harvesting. These are some OF the
reasons why believe most thoroughly
in an agricultural education.
The man who has not been to an agri-
cultural college or an agricultural school
of any kind with the exception of the
school farm upon which be was raised
and acquired his experience, but who
is reading everything that he can find
which will tell him what he wants to
know about a crop which he is raising,
who experiments with that crop for the
purpose of finding out when best to
plant it, how much fertilization to give
il. how much seed to plant, how best to
cure and handle the crop, he is the man
who realizes the need Of an agricultural
education aud is doing his best to make
up for something which he feels he lacks.
All the knowledge which man acquires
in this way is just so much agricultural
educatiOu
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
NUMBER 38.

Miscellaneous Collection OF burnt
work, B @ Lowe, North Paris, let, 81;
Charlotte Lovejoy, Norway, I'd, TIC;
mosaic work, Blanche Lowe, North Par.
10, Let, Is; mosaic work Of broken china,
Leons Thsysr, Paris, 1st, Is; rsfis work,
Blanche Lowe, 1st, Is; Mrs Alma Bailey,
Norway, I'd, 80; collection Of passe.
psrtout work, Mrs Eva Allen, Norway,
Let, 1; paper flowers, Mrs Emma Twitch.
ell, South Paris, rs; j 81 Linscott, South
Paria. 25.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
The Home to the Young People.
1T OUGHT To BE THE MOST ATTRACTIVE
SPOT ON EARTH.

A few years ago was told BY wom-
an, whose age was not far from forty,
that the great fault of farm papers was
that they were written by men who knew
nothing about farming. 1t may have
been unkind in me, but replied; Eyes,
you think 80 because you are the pres
ident of so-called mothers club, the
members of which are mostly old maids. p"
Well, / shall have less hesitation in
tackling this subject than / would Ger
tain political questions, because l have,
with the assistance of my wife, partly
raised two children. | say partly, be
cause the children think they raised
themselves, and are proud of the term
self made. Besides this, in my early
days had much to do with the care. of
children Of others, mostly good children
these were said to be. Aud further yet,
at one time had charge Of q little flock
of about six hundred boys, mostly bad
boys, the judges ssid,, though the boys,
many of them, even then suggested the
need of something like the ''recall."
But all this experience seems small
compared with the experience gained
while country physician. As such |
visited hundreds, yes thousands, of farm
homes and had the very best of oppor
tunitieS for learning how the farmers
boys aud girls were raised. In this arti-
Gle make no reflections upon poverty.
My parents were poor, and | have seen
as many neglected children in the homes
of rich farmers as in the homes of the
DOOR,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
WAGES No Object.

Cant you get any work. ask =
woman OF the tramp who hal al
ut the back door for food.
"Yes. ma'am." he replied. Il
Offered steady Job by the man
lives down .he road In that big vi
house.
.'That's Mr.. Oatseeu. What was
work.
"He wanted me to get up at 4 in u.
morning, milk seventeen cowa. feed.
water and rub down four horses. clean
the stables and then chop WOOD until
It was time to begin the days work"
What did he want to payT
~ dunno. ma'am. ! didn't stop to
ask."-Youth's Companion.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
Won. but Not Held.

. A learned English Judge asked q
woman to marry him because she,
knowing his weakness, had mixed q
salad so artistically that he declared
he could not live without eating an.
other. The judge soon repented OF
his folly. The lady had foolish ma.
ture and temper which 30 tormented
her husband that he would prolong
the sessions Of his court far into the
night Gentlemen" he was accus-
toned to say when counsel or jury
murmured Mt the lateness Of the hour.
"as we must be somewhere, we can
not bs better anywhere than We are
heraS
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
Praise For the orowisrs,

1.-THE growlers," says a Georgia phi
losopher, ''are the boys that keep the
world moving, for when folks are
growing all the time tie world stops
to ask the reason and straightway
finds a remedy for the trouble. II the
world paid any attention to the Opt
mists things would be at q standstn
Taking It for granted that everythings
O. X. Is the end Of progresA"-Atanh
Constitution.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
He Owns up % r.

Once upon & time an Irishman vas
walking through q lonely csmstaey
and stopped before an imposing loos'
ing monument bearing the following
Inscription: II Still Live"
Pat reflected soberly for q moment
and then said, "Well, II OF was dead,
begorra. OFd own up to itr'-Exchanga
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
Her Role.

HetThey say Miss Lulu Is vefy
much in request for dinner parties.
she-so l have heard. She is q regu-
lar dinner belle.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
Would Feel Easiee.

Caddie Master-What sort Of caddie
do you want, siri Nervous Novice
Well-er-rd like a boy who knows
very little about the gams.-London
Sketch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17

As each kind of work is completed,
see that the machinery used is brought
in and looked over and any repairs need
ed noted and ordered.-Don't forget 1t
until you need the binder, cultivator or
whatever it is, next year.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
The Human Eniama,

His Daughter-Papa. did you know
mamma long before you married herI
Her Father-Just between you and
me. my dear, don't know her yet.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
A Grand Army Score.

A golfer playing his nrst game Of
the season reported downtown the next
day that he had made Grand Army
score-be went out in 81 and came
back In 65.-Chicago Post
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
ahiaet AehiavNd

Nell-Mrs. Dash used to say sne
wouIdn't marry the best man hv'ns:
Belle-well, she has the sadsfacuon "
knowing that she didn't
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17

Make it a rule to count the biddies
every day. Some folks never do this.
They might be robbed and never know
1t.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17

Drink is all right for the hogs, but they
need some grain and vegetables to 60
with their milk. Not only now and then
but every day.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
Premiums Awarded at the County Fair.

the County
Except possible errors copying and getting
the Office but they ae
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
A CONTRAST.

Often have passed the night at farm
homes where the real comforts Of home
we're lacking. No big reading table, no
comfortable chairs, no really loungeable
lounges were there. To be sure there
was plenty of furniture, but none that
those children could use. Instead of the
great big centre table around which all
could gather there were grotesque little
stands covered with trinkets, cheap Or
uaments aud fragile trash that had nei-
,her intrinsic nor educational value. No
place TO sit down, no place to read, look
at pictures, or draw upon paper or slate;
simply a most uncomfortable row of
uncomfortable chairs aronnd the wall.
In such homes the children have to be
cautioned to keep still, not 10 do this OF
that, and in many cases they are hustled
off to bed long before they are really
sleepy. Aud this is another bad prac-
tice that should be corrected. Well be-
hayed children should not be sent to bed
until they are sleepy. How are they GO
ing to learn TO like home If not allowed
to sit up and enjoy it ? Aud the worst
place for wide awake, healthy child is
in bed.
Yes, there is quite difference IN
homes. Plain, usable furniture, books,
papers, and good lights cost no more
than poor ones, and they make great
difference in the child's notions of home.
Now, just word about lights. The
great, big, top-heavy, decorated lamp,
with dark green blinds and load OF
jingling prisms, does not tend to make
room cheerful. Children detest room
lighted with such lamps. Up-to-date
folks do not sit around such lanterns,
even if they have cost Sl.9S. Let the
lamp be plain and simple and useful as a
light giver.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
THE ATTRACTIVE HOME.

First, few words about equipment,
Childrea aud young people like the real
home. While there are exceptions,
most of them would, with the proper
training, prefer real home life to life out
side. Many houses have expensive fur
niture, high priced pianos and many
things that cost money, yet the home is
not so equipped as to be comfortable
aud cheerful for the young folks. There
may be plenty of chairs, some OF them
costing as much as S3.9S each, but uot
one of them is comfortable to the average
youngster. The old-fashioned tavern
armchair, half round, with arms that
come well forward, would be much bet
ter than some that are found in farm
house sitting rooms and parlors. Speak
lug OF parlors calls to mind the fact that
the so-called ''don't you go in there"
parlor is out of place in any farm home.
Nc room in the house is too good to occu-
DIV, and every room should be SO furnish
ed and equipped that IL oaE be used by
every member of the family, young or
old, any day in the week. oh, the chill
of those awful rooms set aside for COM
pany and funerals. am glad they have
gone out of fashion. To-day it is no
longer fashionable to set aside one room
aud dedicate il to dusty silence and
gloom.
Once before | have expressed myself
in favor of the big, low table in the cen
tre OF the big sitting room. Around
this table all can gather, Let it be large
enough for all. Do not have it so high
that elbows cannot rest upon it without
distortlug the spinal column. Keep it
free from useless rubbish. Let no fra
gile or fancy bric-a-brac occupy its space.
Cover it with good books and farm pa
pers, and over the centre have a good,
honest lamp that will give light. The
youngsters will draw around such a
table evenings, and its value in keeping
children at home has never been over
estimated. II children are allowed to sit
around such table evenings they will
soon become very much attached to it,
and their greatest desire will be to spend
as many evenings at home as possible.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
THE BEST SPOT ON EARTH.

So much for equipment. 1t need not
cost much. Simply let everything in
the room be useful and tell the young
people that they are expected to use all
that the room contains. 1t will DO easy
20 teach them their limitations, and you
will find that children who are taught
good manners at home and are allowed
10 make themselves "at home" when at
home are neither green" nor bashful
when away from home.
There are many simple things that can
be done for the children, butt it should
always be remembered that home Is the
best place. Fixing them up" to go
somew here may be all right, but the SAT-
est investment of effort is to fix up things
at home so the children will stay at
home. Some houses are $50 homelike"
and alas some are 30 different.
The "spirit Of CAD" has ruined many
homes. The constant desire to 20
somewhere. Make home the place and
see that every member of the family
spends most of the time there.
But woman once said in my presence
"We cannot expect to keep our children
at home unless mother stays there part
of the time with them" And she was
right.
And father, too. It is nearly as bad
for father to stay down at the grocery
store or saloon nights, as it Is for mother
to 90 to all the lodges, clubs and aids
Make the home interesting and stay al
home and get interested 1t.
There Is no reason why the farm home
should not be to its members the mos
attractive spot on earth.
THE MORAL OF THE SERMON.
But is this article practical ? Well, II
ia ND to me to make 1t so. A good home
makes good children. Good children
make happy parents. 1t Is far cheaper
too, In dollars and cents, to make pleas
ant place of your own home for you
own children than TO entertain then
away from home. There is much tina
can be said upon this subject, but th'
practical ending is that after all 1t is ONLY
at home that children can be taught tt
be useful. The schools fail in man!
things. Some of them even seem tt
teach the youngsters to disrsspect home
and parents. Some Of them encourage
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-09-17
AMONG THE FARMERS.
SPEED THE PLow." /"

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, 1912-09-17

Added for other exhibits, Iva Allen,
handkerchief case, 10c; Ora Thurston,
Rumford, bonnet irish crochet, 40; Mrs
Alma Bailey. hat Irish lace, 30; Mrs
Oscar Graves, table cover knit, 35; Mrs
Bertha Sturtevant, Norway, bag irish
crochet, 10.
Quilts, Spreads, Comforters and Rugs:
SILK quilt, susan P Kelley, Norway, I'd,
75c; Mrs W s Pratt, Norway, 1st, 81;
sofa afghan, Mrs Harold Bailey, Norway,
I'd, so; Mrs c NJ Conner, Norway, 1st,
Is; calico patchwork quilt, Mrs G D
Morse, Norway, I'd, 25; Mrs Harold
Bailey, Sd, Is; Susan P Kelley, 1st, 30;
calico patchwork comforter, Blanche
Lowe, North Paris. 80; WOODEN quilt.
Mrs Noe Daniels, Oxford, lst, 90. "a, 70;
knit bedspresd, Mrs r T Deboll, Nor
way, 1st, 1. Drawn rug, Mrs 8 z Deane,
South Paris, 1st, i; Lovina Starbird,
South Paris, Sd, so; Mrs Albert Richard
SON, Norway, I'd, Is; braided rug, Mrs
Hannah Billings, Norway, lat. 80; Mrs
N E Greeley, South Paris, I'd, 50; woven
rug, Mrs Lila Cobb, Norway, lst, 90;
machine made rug, Mrs T 8 Heath, Nor.
way, 1st, 80. Other exhibits, Mrs A 7
Nc Whorter, South Paris, 80; Mrs Hulds
Perkins, South Paris, Is; Mrs Z A Brad
ford, West Hinot, 36.
OIL Painting. Flowers and Pruit-krs
" 8 Edgerly, South Paris, roses. IS; b
@ Lowe, North Paris, s; Mrs @ 2 Ware,
South Paris, flowers, 2; Mrs L L Pow.
ers, South Paris, fruit, Q; oil painting
4, ndscans Mrs. n Andravs NorvAy
I'd, 2; Mrs ] W Rhlnes, North Paris, 1st,
8; oil painting marine Wow. Mrs Howard
shaw, South Paris. lst, 8; oil painting
animal, Mrs John Cullinan, Norway, I'd.
2; Mrs L L Powers, South Paris, 1st, 8.
Collection water color, Mrs q 2 An.
drews, Cd, 2; Nellie Andrews, 1st, 8;
best water color, Nellie Andrews, 1.t,
8, I'd, 2; specimen orsyon work, Mrs 81
O Aver, south Paris, 1st, 8; e o Love,
I'd, :; Charles e Chick, Norway, Sd, i
| collection hand painted cbins, Mrs b =
Andrews, 1st, 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-08-24
FOREST FIRES

GBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
SIERRA MADRE. Aug. 24-Additional
men have been sent to fight forest fires
raging in Devils canyon. They spread
dying. To prevent spread to the ranch
section. 1000 acres were burned Hun
dreds of men are under the forest rang
ers lighting fire. More will be sent to-
night. Three hundred pounds of provi-
sions have been sent from Mount Wilson
. PASADENA, Aug. PA brisk wind
IS tanning the mountain fire in Devils
canyon, which it was believed was under
control this morning. 1t is working rap
IDLY toward Mount Wilson. hundred
additional men were sent TO fight the fire
Unless it is controlled soon it will be
disastrous to the Sierra Madres.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-08-24
ENDS MUNICIPAL LINE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24.-With the
driving Of golden spike. Mayor Rolph
has signalized the conclusion of the work
OF laying the rails of the Geary street
municipal railroad. From Thirty-thir
avenue to the west side Of Kearney street
IN Geary the great heavy rallied double
track is laid. and in a fortnight the
paving will be completed
The mayor made a brief speech in
which he said that this was practically
the first municipal railroad in the United
states ana was proving of deepest in
terest to the entire country on thar az
count.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-08-24
CANNED TOMATOES MUST
HAVE LABELS CHANGED

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24.-By a ruling
of the United States department of agri-
culture, California Gamers and grocers
have just been notified that the canned
the real article all through rather than
two-thirds juice and one-third tomato
or else the label calling the article to
matoes" must be removed.
Under the ruling canned tomatoes
which sell three for % cents hereafter
will be known not as tomatoes. but as
'Duree made from tomato trimmings with
at least one pound of tomatoes" The
ruling permits only the ''solid pack can
to bear the label tomato
The decision will necessitate the chang
ing of the labels on thousands of cans
of the food stuff already put up by Cali
fornia canneries.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-08-24
TULARE DAIRY MEN ARE
PLANNING STATE SHOW

TULARE, Aug. 24.-Tulare dairy own
ers have enlisted the aid of the publicity
officials OF the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific railroads in a plan for a state
dairy show. and it is hoped that arrange
ments for an exhibition. to be held in
this city, as the center of the dairy dis
trict. can be completed in time for a
showing in the coming spring
As the plans have been discussed. 1t
is proposed to devote several days to
milking contests to which COWS from all
parts OF the state will be eligible: butter
making contests. and various exhibits of
adjuncts Of the dairy business will be
encouraged