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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-11-14
CHAPTER XIV.
Three MESSAGES.

8 Robin approached the Ritz .
"A tall young man emerged from
~ the entrance, stared at him
for an instant and then swung
of at a rapid pace in the direction OF
the Rue de la Paix. He was the good
looking young fellow who had met
her at the steamship landing, and 1t
was quite obvious that Ne had been
making Investigations on his own &C
count
Robin permitted himself sly grin
as he sauntered into the hotel. he
had given that fellow something to
worry about, II he had accomplished
nothing else. Then he found himself
wondering II by any chance 1t could
be the Scoville fellow. That would De
q facer!
He found Quinnox and Dank await
ing him in the lobby. They were vis-
|, IDLY excited.
"Did you observe the fellow VINO
Just went outf" inquired Robin, as-
suming q most casual manner.
"Yes," said both men In unison.
~ think we've got some interesting
| news concerning that very chap.
added the count, glancing around un-
easily.
"Perhaps I may be able to antici-
pate It, count" ventured Robin. aHve
| an idea he is young scoviile. the chap
who Is supposed to be- In love with
Miss Blithers-and vice versa," he
concluded, with q chuckle.
aWhat have you heard?" demanded
the count in sstonishment.
aLet's sit down." said Robin. st
once convinced that be had stumbled
upon an unwelcome truth.
ouinnox gravely extracted two OF
three bits Of paper from his pocket
and spread them out in order before
his sovereign.
aRsad this one flrst" said he
grimly.
Il wss Z cablegrsn from their imam.
ola; agents In New York city, and \
said:
M. b. making . hurried trip to Paris
Just learned scoville preceded 1iss b z
Dkirope By fast steamer and hao BEEN seeI
VIII her In Paris B. fser9 en e1opement
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ApoplexY Days.

It is the lethargic, full bloOded, thick
and short necked subject who eats
and drinks more than Is good for him
and who does not take sufficient exer-
else who most frequently falls q VIC
tim to apoplectic seizures, according
to the New York Medical Journal.
Quoting DR.. F. Barlow, 1t says, "The
majority Of seizures occur on Sunday
or Monday. owing probably to the
greater indulgence in the joys OF the
table on the day Of rest and the slight
Increase In excitement consequent on
the return to business"
Big eaters and cocoa drinkers are
Just as liable to 1t as heavy drinkers.
alcohol is frequently made the scape-
goat for an attack Of this character,
when really excessive eating Is to
blame"
1t Is easier to prevent than to cure
aIoplexy. Moderation In eating and
drinking and regular action Of the
bowels are the very best preventives.
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Som. o.oorsph phie.l Doubles.

Accidental doubles Of geography are
very curious. There are the two total
" unconnected Galicias, the one In
Austria. Hungary and the one in Spain.
As to the Carpathians, the doubling
occurs between the ancient and the
modern aliases. On the map Of the
ancients we find a people named Carpi
In the north Of what Is now Hungary
and north Of them the Carpatus noun.
tains. But "Carpathian" In vergil,
Horace and Ovid means something
quite different The Carpathian sea
was the sea between Rhodes and
Crete, from the island Of Carpathus,
now scarpanto. and the "Carpathian
old man" was Proteus, who lived and
no doubt pracuced his quick change
tricks there.-London 6pectatoe.
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Unprofitable Acres.

The study of methods in farm man
agemept in the several states has reveal
ed many Improbable acres. Many OF
these acres could be brought under cul.
tivation at small expense and instead OF
yielding little or nothing would become
as productive as any part of the farm
A few years ago German farmer OF
Wisconsin drained large swamp aud it
produced tremendous yields of corn, far
more than the areas which had been
worked for many years. The email
amount expended for drainage made
this worthless swamp a rich, productive
field and source of profitable income.
The loafing acres are often the cause
of Improbable returns to the farmer.
Much has been said about the boarder
COW and she is fast being eliminated by
the men who have comprehended diff
ference In cows. Many agencies have
camped upon the trail Of this parasitic
creature and many of them are hitting
the highway for the slaughter house.
But Improbable acres have been passed
unnoticed. The demand for farm prod
ucts and the fact that many farms are
Improbable because of them must now
receive the same attention as the boarder
COW.
A few years ago We drained six-acre
field on Hoard's Dsiryman Farm and
planted it to corn. The soil lacked in
potash, as We later found out, and the
WELD was next to nothing. The follow
ing year we applied one ton of muriate OF
potash to this field, and the average
yield was IS tons of green corn for the
silo. We may say that expense of drain
age and this fertilizer was small COM
pared to the returns. 1t is not q bad
practice for every farmer, at the close OF
the crop season, to note the production
of his fields and to approximate the
profits from each. Study the acres that
that have yielded no returns and plan to
make them productive. The farmer
who has no improbable acres Is the one,
as rule, who Is receiving profit from
bis endeavors.-Hoard's Dairyman.
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A Costly Lesson In Diversification.

The wheat farmer of the Northwest
apparently learns the lesson of diversif1-
cation but little more readily than his
cotton crop brother of the South.
In speaking of the experiences Of the
present crop year, Director A. D. Wilson
of the Agricultural Extension Division
and Farmers Institutes Of Minnesota
saws: ut is practically the same lesson
farmers have had every few years, for
the last fifty or more years, in the North
west. That is, the fallacy of depending
upon any one thing The big grain crop
led too many to forget former lessons
and to put In little too much grain and
not enough corn. This years wheat
crop failure Is just one more lesson that
the only safe type of farming, on the
average farm, is diversified farming"
The wheat crop of North Dakota must
be reduced from so per cent to 30 per
| cent of the farm income before the agri-
culture of that state will be upon thor
oughly sound basis, according to Thom-
az Cooper, director of the North Dakota
Horticultural Experiment Station.
IWhen our live stock interests have
increased sufficiently to return ms cash
income amounting to approximately
one.third our total income" be says,
ave shall cease to worry about damage
to our wheat crop. p."-American Farming.
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peward IN Accomplishment.

In divers ways work brings its own re-
v.ra and when our work 10 of Q high
order it brings q mental exhilaration
that in we'll worth all IL has cost us in
toll and care. The boy who has raised q
nrize calf feels q sense OF satisfaction
that obliterates. all memories Of the Ia
hor and anxiety involved in the perform
ance of his task. The man who takes
hold of tumble down worn-out farm,
and by dint of hard work restores 1t to
its ancient glory, has much deeper
satisfaction in bis accomplishment than
is afforded by the mere pecuniary re-
ward,
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Following the plan Of last year the
Maine Live Stock Breeders Association
vill this year hold itss annual meeting
;o,ntlv with the Maine Dairymen's and
;hs Maine Seed Improvement Assoeia-
sicns. The meeting will be held at An
custa City Hall, Dec. 4-S. Tuesday,
nee. s. forenoon, afternoon, and evening
hss been set apart - Maine Live Stoch
Rreeders' Association Day. On that day
the Association will hold It's regulai
hnslness meeting and carry ont an In
structive, interesting program. Dufipe
che day and evening ample time VIII oe
allowed for separate meetings OF the
various State Breed Associations.
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When You look for bull, don't take
ono that 10 offered you merely because
he is registered. Make sure that biz
dam and grand dam produced what you
hope for 10 your coming herd OF COWS
m he sbould cost you 925 to $50 more
because he 10 near akin to some famous
producing animal, or because he hal
daughters in the dairy that are making
!. 600 pounds or more Of milk above the
weld Of their dams, do not hesitate be-
cause Of the money. You will find ID
time that it was grand investment.
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hls Mlstass.

whats wrong, old chapr remarked
the bachelor. "You look worried"
II made sad domestic mistake" -.
Piled his married friend.
"Howr
my wife invited one Of her oN
flames to our party, and thought that
established gufncient prscedsnt for NJ
70 invite one Of my Old. gweeth1astsr-
London UtBitk
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rs . fight oil along the line in farm.
ing: but, after all, IL ID joyous struggle
We get used TO unfavorable conditions,
make the beat of them, and forget them
10 the hope that they will never occul
again.
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One Of the surest ways Of hurrying
the payment on the mortgage 10 to take
care Of farm machinery and make it iass
= long - you can.
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Hens cannot do their best unless they
have liberal amount Of meat In their
ration. Not lees than Eve percent should
ever b used. Ten per cent ID bettefs
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AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEHD THE PLow."

correspondence on practical agricultural topics
Is solicited. Address all communications In
landed for this department to HENRY D.
hAhhOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocrat. Paris. Ne.
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to the place. It's several hundred
years old and must require" . lot Of
conveniences, such - bathrooms,
electric lights and steam heating.
Probably needs refurnishing nom top
to bottom, too. and . new roof. ]
never saw . ruin yet that didn't leak.
Remember those castles ON the Rhinei
WIN you ever forget how vet We got
the day we went through the one at"--
'1They were abandoned. tumhlsdown
castles" she reminded him.
There INIT Z castle IN Europe that's
any good IN . rainstormS hs pro
claimed. ~ !.
1T = tins ga !atoGne1 yeSzes1i
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EASTERN STEAMSHIP L|NES'
All-the-way-by-water
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
Between Portland and New York
Reduced Fares and SatsroQm Prices
..,r;s rron Portland and New York. Passenger
a." tuesday and Saturday one week; Thurs
N, snernate week. Freight service Tuesday,
WSass ana saturday. Leave Franklin
SooP.M NJ. ' o." "' Leave NOW io'-
METROPOLITAN LINE
oirect Between Boston and New York
pres. - s,ssS ao1rs Route via Cape Cod Canal. Ex-
Z, I,r Sseel Steamships Massachusetts and Bunk
Sesh leave A. North Side India Wharf. Boston,
resn..y Jays and Sundays at 8 D. IN. Same service
Mu,,rning from Pier Is, North River, foot Of
street, New York City.
BOSTON AND PORTLAND LINE
Isssa steamships Ransom B. Fuller and Bay State
IaSn ~nnnn wharf, Portland, week days at
@1p.m. '"'' 0o'''n "0eA u~''
PORTLAND AND RocKLAND LINE
Tner T9sesner Nonhegan Leaves Portland Tuesdsys,
bsv ~ and Saturdays at .. m, for Booth
inS. "1nsoor, kockland and intermediate land
pes5, nesarn-Leave Rockland Mondays, Wed
and irss.1o .no .riosys at SIS O. m, for Portland
''srr1sdiase landings.
INTERNATIONAL LINE
soo ) Portland Mondays and Thursdays as
@u. ts,u sos 9 hssepors, Luoec and st John. Re-
800 4 49,. - JON Mondays and Thursdays 8
NAN save Portland Tuesdays and Fridays
=. H. due Boslon 400 ?. \.
y.. b. A. CLAY. supsrintsndsns.
wharf. Portland. nsins. Phons -.
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8 Robin approached the Ritz .
\ tall young man emerged from
Y the entrance, stared at him
for an instant and then swung
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INTERNATIONAL INN

Soo = Portland Mondays and Thursdays ai
6n' 49,, .os ksstport, Luoec and Sc. John. Re.
800 ~ Soon Mondays and Thursdays n
4 n, due Boston 400 ?. n.
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orators office.
"What is It? The history Of Eng
land?" he demanded sarcastically.
~Message for you. Mr.. Blithers. It's
long one. and I had q hard time
picking 1t up"
There were four sheets Of writing
at some outlandish price per word. but
what cared he? His eyes almost start
ed from his head as he took In the
name at the bottom Of the message.
It was maud"
He took the precaution to read It be-
fore handing 1t over to his wife, to
whom It was addressed In contunc-
ton with himself. It was from Paris
and ran thus:
Dear Father and Mother-In reply to
your esteemed favor Of the 18th, or pos
sibly the 10Th, beg to inform you that
arrived safely In Paris az per schedule.
Regarding the voyage, Il was delightful.
We had one or two rough days The rest
Of the. time II was perfectly heavenly. !
met two or three interesting and amusing
people on board. and they made the time
pass most agreeably.- think wired you
that had q glimpse Of certain person.
On my arrival in Paris / was met at the
station by friends and taken at once to
the small exclusive hotel whore they src
stopping Tor the summer. Il - 20 small
and exclusive that I'm sure you have
never heard Of II. may - weil tell YOU
| that have seen Channie-you know who
I mean-Chandler ecovillA and hs haa
been very nice to me. ConcsEning your
| su9eestion that rsconsidsr the stateme4t
issued to the prsss. I beg 70 state that
/, don't - any sense In, taking the world
! into my confidence any farther than II
has BEEN taken already, II that y gram.
matioally CORRECT. I have also sent wort
| to 3 certain person that he = not TO pay
! any attention to the report that We art
!. uksly TO change our minds In order to hell
; out the greedy newspapers who don't ~
| par to know when they have had enough
(! ! hops thAt IL yeYa&s wtll bl1ees Asth 9!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-07

Hardup, a little town 40 miles
farther up In the hills. In the
little bank there he exchanged
his gold harvest for coin of the
realm, and he was we'll satisfied
with the result. 1t was not a
fortune, nor was he likely to find
one in the hills. But he bought
a team, wagon aud harness with
the money, and he had enough
left over for a two-months' grub
stake. Nothing startling, but
still not bad-that wolf-den find.
After that he settled down to
work the thing Systematically.
One day he would pan the sandy
gravel, and the next day he would
rest his back digging postholes or
something comparatively easy.
He went out in June and
bought mower and rake. He
hired a man for a month. To-
gether they accomplished much,
while the gold pan lay hidden I'M
der a buck brush and Wards
waxing moments were filled with
an uneasy sense of wasted time.
Still 1t was necessary that he
should put up what hay he could.
There would be calves to feed
next winer, he hoped.
He was thankful when the
creek bottom was shaved clean
of grass, and the stack beside his
corral was Of a satisfying length
and height. After that he paid
the man off, and breathed thanks
that he was alone again, and
could go back to his plan of dig
ging a nice little bunch of cattle
out OF that bank before snow
flew.
CONTINUED i'm our next issue.)
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NEXT WEEK, "THE OUTSIDER"


THE bars were all right. It
was last Friday | think. was
away that night, and Aunt Martha
is a little hard of hearing. |
came home the next forenoon
was over to Seabeck's-and the
bars were in place then. Aunt
Martha had not been up the
gorge, nor had any one come to
the ranch while l was gone. So,
you see, Miss Louise, here's a
very pretty mystery"
He laughed, but Billy Louise
saw by his eyes that he. did not
laugh very deeply, and that he
was really worried.
" You think they were driven
off, don't you?"
Charlie Fox shook his head,
but his eyes did not complete the
denial. Miss Louise, I'd work
every other theory to death be-
fore I'd admit that possibility!
don't know all of my neighbors
so very well, but | should hest
tate a long. long time"
ut needn't have been a neigh
Dor. There are lots of strange
men passing thru the country.
Did you look for tracks,"
Il hunted every foot of that
Cove twice over. Then | began
riding outside. There isn't a
trace of them anywhere. I had
just bought them from Seebeck,
you know"
After Charlie had ridden away
Billy Louise went down to a
shady nook by the creek, where
she had always liked to do her
worrying and hard thinking.
If those four calves we're stol-
en-, then there was a 'rustler" in
the country; If there were, then
no ones stock was safe. And
Billy Louise could not afford to
pay toll to a rustler out of her AZ
head of cattle.
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thin FOLKS TURN
FOOD into FLESH
Report Weight Increases of Ten
to Twenty-Five Pounds When
SargOl Was Taken With
Daily Meals,


If you are thin, rundown and
under normal weight and would
like to put on from ten to twen-
ty-five pounds of good healthy
flesh you must make your meals
do you more good than they are
doing now.
Flesh, fat and muscular tissue
must come from the food you eat
but If your organs of assimilation
are defective and you lack the
power to turn food into flesh and
fat much of the good of your
meals must leave your body as
waste.
If you are ten pounds or more
underweight try eating a Sargol
tablet with every meal and take
another just before going to bed
and try to see If this is true in
your case. Weigh yourself before
you begin and each ten days
thereafter. Do this for sixty
days and note the difference.
Don't guess at results. Let the
scales tell their story. Reported
gains of from ten to twenty-five
pounds and even more from this
plan are by no means infrequent.
Yet the action is perfectly natural
and entirely harmless.
Sargol is a splendid1y balanced
combination of assimilative aids
designed to increase the nourish-
ment you obtain from your food
and so to make your food develop
healthy fat, flesh and muscular
tissue between your skin and
bones. 1t can be obtained from
Crown Drug Co., 1882 Pacific av.
or leading druggists everywhere
and each large package contains
guarantee of satisfactory weight
increase or money back on sixty
days use.
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sharp tap of the shovel and was
resting on the ledge beside the
pile of dirt he had thrown out,
that he first became conscious OF
the pile of dirt as something
more than the obstacle between
himself and the wolf pups.
He lifted a handful of sand,
picked something out of it, and
looked at it intently. He said
"Humph!" skeptically. Then he
sprawled over that pile of gravel
and sand and searched with his
fingers, as young girls search a
thick bank of clover for the
magic four leaves.
Looks like there's money in
wolves" he said aloud and
laughed little.
I've got to play safe on this, 3"
he warned himself, while he
scaped the last of the pups. mo
use getting ratified. If she's good
as she looks, she's fine. She'll
help boost my little bunch of cat
tie, and that's all | want. | ain t
going to go hog-wild over it, like
so many do
He had no goldpan of his own,
since this was not a mining coun-
try, and his ambition had run in
a different channel. He. there
fore. took the tin washbasin down
to the creek and dumped the
handkerchief full of sand which
he had brought away with him
into it.
Then, squatting on his boot
heels at the edge of the stream,
he filled he basin with water and
rocked it gently with a rotary mo-
ton that proved him no novice at
the work.
Coarse gold, and not such a
damn lot" he said TO himself with
careful impartiality. But it's pay
dirt, and If there's enough of it,
it'll help lot at this end of the
COW business"
His first impulse - to ride
straight to the Wolverine and
show Billy Louise these three tiny
nuggets-he rejected as a bit Of
foolishness. He was perfectly
willing to trust Billy Louise with
any secret he possessed, but he
knew that he would be feeding
her imagination with dangerous
fuel. She would begin dreaming
and building castles and pros
pecting for herself, very likely;
and that trail led oftenest to
black disappointment. If he made
good, he would tell her-when
he told her something else.
Ward set to work the next
morning In dead earnest, with
pick, shovel and pan, to make the
most of his little find. After a
couple of weeks he stopped long
enough to make a hurried trip to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-07
A Quick, Sure Way
TO End Catarrh
oatarrh Germs Breed by Mil.
Hons In Air Passages of Nose
and Throat. Just One Way
To Drive Them Out.

TO stop catarrh for good YOU
must drive from your system the
germs that cause catarrh and that
are now feeding and growing fat
upon the swollen inflamed nue.
GUS membranes of your nose and
throat.
A splendid means of DESTROY
ing catarrh germs and overcom-
ing catarrh has long been recog-
nized by physicians In the well
known oil of Hyomei (pronounc-
ed High-o-me) and 1t is now
very simple matter for any ca
tarrh sufferer to use it with
splendid results at home, by
breathing It's air through a little
hard rubber inhaling device
which leading druggists are sup.
plying with each large complete
treatment. Just pour a few
drops of the oil of Hyomei into
this inhaler. place 1t beween your
lips and then breathe naturally
and the pleasant smelling anti
septic, germ killing air will pen.
ertate deep down into every fold
and creyice of your raw. sore
nose, throat and lungs and give
you quick certain relief, opening
up the air passages, making you
breathe easily, stopping the in
Illumination and discharge and
driving from your sysem every
catarrh germ that has found
lodgment there.
If you want to be free from
every symptom of catarrh, are.
tired of trying one thing after
another without benefit go to
Crown Drug Co., 1892 Pacific av.
or any other reliable drug store
hereabouts and get a complete
Hyomei inhaler outfit, use 1t ev-
cry day for a few minutes and IL
II does not drive the catarrh'
germs out of your system and
give you real lasting relief from
Catarrh, your druggist will give
you your money back.
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NOTICE

The books for the registration of
voters for the General Municipal
Elections to be held on the 4th and
18th of April, 1916, will close at
midnight on March IA, 1916.
w. u. NICKEITS,
City Clerk.
March 2, 8 &C. Z, s. 9. 10. II, 10,
1915.
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44J LOST IN WRECK

LONDON, March 6.-Reports
from Santos, Brazil, today declar-
ed that 445 passengers and the
crew of the Spanish steamer
Principe de Astorias are missing.
They are believed to have been
lost in the wreck of the vessel on
a reef off the South American
coast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-07
WOMEN ON BATTLESHIPS

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March
6.-Secretary Daniels issued a
special order today permitting
wives OF federal commissioners to
travel to Buenos Aires on the
battleship Tennessee to attend
the meeting of representatives OF
North and South American re-
publics. Never before have
women been permitted to travel
on warships.
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If you aren't a regular
subscriber to The Times,
don't you think you had
better phone Main IL
right away and tell the
circulation department to
deliver the paper at your
home or office?
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Yesterdays Late News
PENSION FUND EMPTY

The firemen's pension fund, in
augiirated by the state legisla-
ture four years ago as a means
of assisting injured firemen or
widows of firemen, is meeting
with rather doubtful success in
Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-07
WOMAN SUES DOCTOR

Claiming that DR.. Harry Fea-
giles, Morton physician, treated a
broken rib as strain, causing
permanent injury, Mayme e.
Breunig, of Tacoma, has filed O
suit for $4,000 damages in the
superior court.