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The Oxford Democrat. NUMBER 7 VOLUME 80. SOUTH PARIS, MAINE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1913. the fui! b»»nefit of the wnshhouse prlv tlu'Ir face» in tbei: rubbing his Ktouiiicb with oue bund, one Into the yellow haze of light and entry, holding I»· Gasoline Traction on a Maine Farm. and found him with had swerved told liim. "Me si<-k. Thees place ιιυ Ibwt ί AMONG THE FARMERS. sank again into darkness behind us us Ilexes, morning hands. when rli*· flame * and of the work of the ttieui. We jot steam: no can work." and demand· Auctioneer. we walked. the dirt grime suddenly down Hint caught icenaed to leave the " still on his face. lie It—the trickling, like •ni that he be allowed MAIN.- TUB fLUW." ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES AS The air was cool and dump. but as previous day could always hoar wns a short, with a thin, black over and some- mine. There were others who would '*l- we the last corner the daiup- (ïrvek. water ntnnliur pebbles Ti;rnéM _ SHOWN AT HIGH MOOR. turned which down into as we «at and waited we work at night in addition to the day uess seemed suddenly gone from It. It mustache, droo|>ed timeM. loo. CorTeeuoMeiKc on a Au old Kus· practical agricultural topic Here the two "rat tall" points. Around eacb could hear far up in the strata above if they were permitted. L."IXK la Mllctte<l· Address all oommunlcattoaa Id was 'warmer and closer. 'YfARfr- of enter the ρ tended (or this In it· work at Farm the a black line of coal dust was as the pressure sian and hi* son. who would ^ Dentist, <iep&rtment to Hkmby Ρ Highmoor track swerved up froiu one of the main eye heavy sudden crackling Surtfeon Hammond, Kitltor Oxford De>» Maine Station l>euenth it* on shift in the morn· Agricultural Agricultural Experiment at the end. as au actor's cray- 4«Ό feet <>f solid stone bent mine the earliest MAIN Ε ocrat, Pari a. Me tunnels into a "room." and penciled, though by needed more power for traction tban timbers and worked all lone, enraged and ,(1πη·\κι». this room, which we on. His torn black working clothes, weight the supporting pil- in?, day could be farni.hed bone· or "headiug," of ■Aimaie^· readily by with oil from his lars of coiiI that held up the roof of clamoring for ears it the,» did uot re- be reached a few minutes Inter, empty greasy dripped pit Cora work at the farm call· for a good noises ami sotue- Plant Important Dairy Feed. one on him like rags on a the mine. Old miners call these ceive empties Imuiedutelj. •leal of traction the grow- and waiting for its tirst load, stood lamp, hung J0NB8. power during often meu on shift H. r. COAL seen From the scalehouse we the "working" of a mine, and tlmes the traek the night MINE I had scarecrow. IN cars which the A pnone in of the square y> entries In where the rooms were close together would tind them loading all the empty ■Jentiet, TUB DICTA OF THEORISTS OF LESS VAL IE "pp,e ,Γββ· are low beaded By before at the mine bottom and which walked up the now familiar λ ·! .' JL® between them <ars that could timl and d'®cu,t without the on to the room where ηnd the walls of coal they leaving MAINE THAN THE COW'S VEBD1CT. Injuring we several times sidings bj "third west south" » as passed cor- *»K<VO. ·'£«reea to work closely to tbem with 1910, to out our and were thin there was a constant splin- late at night to retire alone to the Copyright, the track. Τ lie car was pushed up we worked and dug picks to *. elrabIe ίϋΓ c,ean cu|t»va- noises that of the room at house ; 1.'—1 the wheels a of coal where tering sound and louder ner the bounding it * M by JOSEPH the eud of the track and its shovels from under pile Careful observers of méth- tion"MTK1S «Γβ many acres to frequent- us to our feet In in which iived. practical Atlantic Moatkly two blocks of coal. we had hh.den them the uight before. would brill? suddenly they some !'°°nl(Tbfri ,βΜ0η if is by <M· Hi ode in dairy feeding have for time ®ar,y "spragged" of fear. or twice oil Ureek church f K ended, and Then in the still close air of the silent a little panic (Mice day» ooted the to draw dMi?ah'ra^to harrow the orchard· after Coepeay H USB AND Here the tunnel suddenly growing tendency not the loading nor the long lie white starched kilts and braided £ at Law, "κ The Author. "face" a room we each to till the It is Attorney more aud more on the corn 8,1 ϋί thit work when from the blank, back rough, began moruing heavily crop w that ■ on hours with the shovel and pick .acketo ot .Macedonia gave color to the MA1NK. for the not of courte t^ht should be done wae found impossible broken of coal streamed dowu first car. t.tKUkV. ration, confining pile Is the si- a * itb the seven to nine bornes that the be- Into the brain, but It streets, and oiice came a half Collection* Specially the winter feeding to corn and cob both sides of the car und reared up Down in the scalehouse. where the grind dingy a* tbe season of 1910 lence and the waiting, the silence and lozeii who added their cop- meal and corn stover, is very often duriDg the roof. cars were hauled over the scales set in Kgyptiaus com- fore it against done so-called who have and 1911. In looking about for a trac- sweat and of burning oil filled tbe till then the sounds, and then the silence per laces to our u.edle> ot nations κ λ ; ark. by dairymen CHAPTER I. ".lust shovel 'er full, then wait the track before being dumped into the of the cow or the '•on the claims made the and the air, which sucked up men were Americans. Scotch- not studied the neeria power, by partment, out and sends In Man Davis rnmiu. 'i'he head at Law, of St. The New Man. the motor takes her bins between the rails. Old jjkKRK economics of But, as (Iackney Manufacturing Company the cracks beneath our feet a vast In an un meu and I can reuieuiber Attorneys good feeding. through that one. I'll look and when the loader's A coal mine is city Kuglisliineii. tbe ia toward sounded well. after an empty, and till took the weights, MAINS stated, growing tendency r?r «uto-plow EN days my graduation ι us under the force of a piston, world. Reside the hoisting how "Uncle ou the X*Joe or îhe,r was though in awhile and see how small brass with hie rlerpround Jlnimy" wept rr C. P»rk the more extensive use of these machines purchased Harvard 1 took in on you olice mini lier—a tag derrick. Kl·, intelligently from my place tanned and tbe flames in which the men are lower t'*ourth of « tu ii ihc band Λ f ie winter of and baa been used on pulled yellow it—was to «haft, down Jul) played corn as an economical, productive ration 1911, as an unskilled workman In you're pelting along.' num'ier stamped upon given f the men's into smoking streaks the mine and from which the "Dixie" and how steel ey»*d Sau that be used with te farm tbe present aeason. It is not caps and walked down the ed Into ipiiel base—all may profit, one of the of the Then lie turned \ ARD J. 'lie of the letter to die- lurgest great Then I felt the sjteed of the "hoist" of «•oal Is lifted in great or more would take his tiddle illarry du- then other things needful being added purpose present aud left me ill the dim light fît "skips" dy DJt NEAL.J soft coal mines that lie In the middle ears track thereunto. cuss the good and bad pointa of this par- diminish. A pressure came in my often in the mine cars themselves. ller had been in St Louis that winteri it hie Physician. was with no of writ- single pit lamp. 0 result of "cular machine, but rather to indicate west, it thought 1 swallowed hard, and a second my These are usual- and, marching and down the litt.'e and au d This is unquestionably the aud There Is (lie alrshaft. up Fridays, *>roe in which a traction that 1 chose my oc- the practical feeder having forced upon of the way· ing iny experiences later a soft yet abrupt iwuse in our the only two connections between parlor ot his house stroke out with no 'rnent. in of II. ly much of the of power baa been found very useful tbe hut with the intention ou heels. CHAPTER a <. uth Parie. Me him the fact that theory cupation. desceut brought me down my the mine and the outer world. Shaft lender touch, hut with wealth of feel- work at Farm. 4' If the earliest that told the Highmoor actuul work the "operating me a Greek a ι out? 1··» 1-i dairy teaching learning by The black wall of the shaft before Loading Coal With Buddy.