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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-10-29
Letter from, "Sparkes.O

Work on the Lake road is progressing.
We hope TO have d psssab!e road before
the ground closes, but so many Byron
parties were compelled to "attend court"
that We go, delayed in our start.
Henry ". Park has completed his
barn, it is one OF the best in the county.
J. w. Richards has built large stable
this season. His son Charles has now
recovered from, and now his wife and
his son John are sick with typhoid fever.
Robert Reed of Roxbury is also sick. il
is feared with same disease. A daug hter
Of H. G. Virgin has been sics Tor some
week5; her recovery is not looked for.
Benz. w. Stockwell Esq. is still unable
to do any labor. While able to so out
in pleasant weather, be is quite weak and
feeble. Abel Harrington has been con-
fined to the house few DAYS, but is able
to 60 out now. Others in this vicinity,
have been and are now more or less
afflicted with q "kiud OF slow fever,n
having typhoid symptoms. and DR.. V.
NJ. Abbott, whose health has very much
improved. has all he needs to do. Mrs.
Isaac Bradeen is very sick, but is. l learn,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-10-29
Prom the Portland Prces.
SdlsIE John Smith.

This well known and wealthy mer-
chant, whose death occurred Saturday,
was born in Rumiord, Oxford county.
Jan. 2Sth. 1899. In his youth he was
said to be remarkable for his industry,
forecast and habits OF economy and thrift.
Four considerable rivers run through
or skirt mis- native town, The Great An.
droscoggin, the Ellis. Concord, and Swift
rivers, on all of which are mill sites. and
on their margins stood valuable timber
growth. II is not strange that the lad
early became employed in driving the
rivers.n and was finally an expert "fiver-
man." This business required = cool
head, in the breaking Of jambs OF logs,
holding the river back, which was push
ing with immense power. One misstep
or one moments delay would overwhelm
him in the rolling. tumbling aDd boiling
mass of logs and rushing water. For
several years river and mill work were
Mr.. Smiths regular employment. He
followed the noble Androscoggin to Its
lower falls at Topsham, whore he worked
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-10-29
Stltttr0 Stotp.
tFr1ser's Magazine.l
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY.

About the beginning OF this century.
while the revolutionary wars were rag
ing. communication in cipher was nat
urally very prevalent: and ingenuity was
taxed TO the utmost on one hand to in
vent, and on the other TO detect the me-
dium useo in secret correspondence As
rule ibo Gecipherer had beaten the
cipher. and 40 known method was secure
Of detection. II conventional signs
merely were used. the recurrence Of the
different symbols gave key easy 10 fol-
low cut. Some ingenious spirits CORE
sponded by reference 10 the pages and
lines Of particular editions Of particular
books-olhers by an agreed vocabulary.
But these last methods. although they
might preserve the secret. disclosed what
was often quite dangerous, that there
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-10-29
TAXIDERN1Y.

In, rra1s~..l 10 seq rp an kinds of Birds and
Ani-r.is in rre most c-t-strr manner. Game
birt- -peelsiIy. Binds t.Aeu in p4y'esut OF
,g0rS-.or example, Out ot every SIX Blue 0sJs
SEN rg, VIII t..uru one handsomely stuue.l
Arl mounted on a stand 20 the sender Cash
pail orn - Co . 90 ..chl for good specimens
Of HaWks and O,sis.
Prorrr Attention us Ia o. sll orders by mail OF
e,l.ress Price lists furnished on application.
n. T.. PEARF, Fryeburg, Me.
marl3-3m
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-16
Saturdou the 31st doy of Auqust, 1873.

proceed to take state and settle an account showing
the liens upon the real estate purchased by com
p%lainant Of defendant Booten Or the fund arising
BoOten or his creditors in the suit Of BoOten VS..
Scheffers administrator, SC, whether by judgement,
execution, a%ssigaMent Or other wise VS. t,; and the, re ia
amount Of fund to meet said LIENS and whence the
same Is derived, together with any other matters not
OF required by any party in interest, at which time
and place you are required to attend,
b, s. c.. D. o.. j. ". GREEN SMITH,
aug commissioner.
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Hotels.
RICHMOND, VA.
$3.50 PER DAY.


Situated in the heart of the city. commanding fine
views, and adjoining the Capitol Square and Cover.
norS Mansion.
This splendid new. hotel, the only one situated i
the fashionable port on OF the city, and adjoiningtb
beautiful Capital Park, with its s%tatuary, monuments
fountains and flower beds-is newly and elegantly
FURNISHED throughout, and its bill OF fare is not ex.
celled in quality and variety by any house in the
State.
There has been recent additions sol several splendid
rooms to this spacious house, together with a large
Special suits of rooms always ready for wedding
and large travelling parties. The arrangements are
firSt-class in every respect. The price of board has
been tiXed-owing to the great scarcity of money
at the reasonable sum Of
$3.50 PER DAY.
The patronage Of my friends and the travelling
public are invited to make Ford's Hotel their home.
Al. FORD, Proprietor.
Late one of the Prop'rs Of the Exchange Hotel.
,P.S:-My coaches run to and from all depots and
steamboat landings. dec23
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nIVORCES, in any State. without publicity. bead
IL stamp for the law. G. r. SIMS, Chicago.
may3lr3m
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FUN !


The IRREPREssIBLE.-They were all
out at the Springs, father, mother and a
little fve-year-old boy. After an invigora-
ting bath they went up the hill to the
s'ehicken soup" spring, and. while RECALLING
themselves with the delightful drink, the
aittle one looked at the bubbling, steaming
water a moment, and then asked:
"Mamma, what makes that water boil
so?''
stGOd does my son."
nHow does he do it?"
sob, he builds a fire under it,"
ssDoes he build the fire his own self?"
ssYes, I suppose So"
The little one reflected a moment, and
then asked:
sMamma, does God kick over the chairs
and swear at Mrs. God when he has got to
get up and build the fire?"
. The wife glanced suggestively at her
husband, but his eyes were fixed intently
upon some object away down the river.
The silence about a minute was absolutely
painful, and the man softly remarked:
81 never before knew the Humboldt to
IN 80 low at this time of the year."
Young man, if she auttels out to meet
Won at the gate with a new cordlallty-n
ahe remarks that ''eleven O'Clock isn't a
hit laten-if she invites you to call again
in confidential earnest-if she says good
might with a gentle pressure OF her dear
little hand-if she does all these things
Young man, be not deceived. The straw
horrv and ice cream season is here.
Gov. Wade Hampton, it is said, would
rather hunt or fish than make a political
speech, and yet a South Carolina darkey
SAYS of him: "'Fo' de Lords but every
time dat man opens his mouf 1 feel dat l
am turnin' whittier an gittin' de kinks
out'n my ha'r."
The sweet girl-graduate has been heard
from, Having laid to rest her bouquets
and bolted up her graduating rlbDons sne
Now wears the royal purple, and tastes the
SWEETS of life-she's putting up blackberry
Jam.
When a Aexaulting trustee straightway
k,a5ds himself q Aew three-story house,
with all the modern Improvements, We
cannot but realize that the way OF The
transgressor is hard; mansard, that Is.
eggs are eight cents this morning.
asid a country stofekeeper to 2 testy Old
-,ral gentleman. .sWell, what OF it," the
I'D ,,sn snarled. eggs have been ate
ovor since I can rem ember."
c~ourteons old clergyman being told a
xerv tough story, said, ''since you were an
eyewitness, I suppose ! must believe you
~. r don,t think I'd have believed it i'll
had seen it myself"
A little Irish boy fell and bit histongaa
He arose FROM the ground crying and Sob
hing. and said to bis brother: "Oh,
stephen !! think ye. wild I ever spake
again!"
,swa uow-tales never 60 out OF fashion;
b,,t # seams to us that newspaper readers
don,t swallow tales as they used to before
the J,ouisiana witnesses appeared.
s.Died while reading a newspaper. !" says
a recent paragraph. On Investigation 1t
was found he had borrowed the paper
from a neighbor.
LAS they passed a gentleman whose
optics were terribly on the bias, little Dot
murmured: "Ma, he's got one eye that
don't CO."
nWhat's that man yelling att" asked an
illinois farmer of his boy. why" said
theb boy, she's yelling at the top of his
Edison only sleeps once q week. Thi
8 lie, but we didn't know anything else
o say about him. J
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-16
VIRGINIA HOTEL!
STAUNTON, VA.

This spacious Hotel, the LeadingF ,ousei in tho vay,av
throughout 'p"ni'o"
blocks from either depot. 0"'' 0"J Nv
THE OFFICE is OPEN THE ENTIRE NIGHT
And guests will DO received OF called at any bour.
Special suits Of rooms for families or large traye,irv
parties, 'eAhs
Iaiefe is a very fine Livery attached to the Hotel,
+"hilsshihs carriages to all points at reasonable rates.
Ss-Coaches and Porters in attendance At al tho
Charge. " D"ss"se HfeeO i
Staunton, Va, March 29th, 1877. A0piio'oi'
iune9-1y
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PLANT OF A BELLE.

Long time ago a man from Boston came, tt
L shall not call him by his name, s-
Though it was OF rather high degree,
And might be classed among the royalty.
He STAYED with a ''swivel' engineer,
Which some of us thought SO very queer,
And together to see the girls they'd go,
Determined to take us all in tow.
He got up tale Of heart-disease,
And appeared sometimes quite i'll at ease,
Making each of us willing to share his pains,
If guided by him with loving reins.
He promised one of us a picture true,
Provided she'd send him a carte or two,
But the one Just mentioned was not so green
As to trust In a Northerner, 1 ween.
Home he went, while our hearts he rends
BY forgetting quite his new made friends;
Only saying that he'd remember
To be back early in September.
Alas! he thought he'd played a part,
By captivating every heart.
So here 1 say, in Southern men our faith is small
In Yankees we've no faith at all.
"Put not your trust in princes, is my motto from
to-day,
For I've been told they are frauds in every way,
Hereafter Til not choose a friend from 'mong tn
: royalty;
A noble man of plain degree is good enough for me-
Richmond, Aug. It'll
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poetrp.
FOOL.

mOxAon . xUVAs
''Tis plain to me" said the farmers wife.
"These boys will make their marks in life;
They never were made to handle a hoe,
And at once to college they ought to go.
Yes, John and Henry. it's clear to me,
Great men in this world are sure to be;
But Tom, he's little above a fool
So John and Henry must go to school,"
snow, really, wife, quoth Farmer Brown,
As he sets his mug OF cider down,
TON does more work in a day for me
Than both of his br others do in three,
Book learn'n will never plant beans nor corn,
Nor hoe potatoes, sure as you're born
Nor mend a rod Of broken fence;
For nv part give me common sense"
But his wife the roost was bound to rule.
And so the 'boys'' were sent toScho0l;
While Tom, OF course, was left behiud,
For his mother said he had no mind
Five years at school the students spent,
Then each one into his business went,
John learned to play the flute and fiddle,
And parted his hair:of course in the middle;
Though his brother looked rather higher than he
And hung out his shingle-"H. Brown, NJ. D."
Meanwhile, at home, their brother Tom f,.
Had taken a notion into his head.
Though he said not a word but trimmed his trees,
And hoed his corn and sowed his peas;
But somehow, either by hook or crook"
He managed to read full many a book.
Well, the war broke out, and Captain Tom,"
To battle a hundred soldiers led;
And when the army's flag went down,
Came marching nome as General Brown
But he went to work on the farm again,
Planted his corn and sowed his grain,
Repaired the house and broken fence,
And people said he had ''common sense"
Now common sense was rather rare,
And the State House needed a portion there;
So our family dunce'' moved into town,
And the people called him Governor Brown
And his brothers, that went to the city school,
Came home to live with mothers fool"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-16

GONE EIGHT YEARS AGO ny hair commenced
= falling; top became quite bald: applied
London Hair Color Restorer. Ny halr pot optg
STOPPED fsl gs but Is sn5 now growing n f fss4Glin apd fhee
hair j, ". Abe, MD druggist, 1,O24 Beach street
! philadelgghiaa, J j.; a fggss, a prom min nv ea vife9s
hair commencedfalling, and gN very thin and turned
gray; bnt after using AAondYA Hair EQlAr Rsst2rer
the scalp 6seasse. healthy, TIE hair stopRSs4f falling.
fully: Ask your dfAggtsAt for London Hair Color kRe-
stofer. Price rs cents q bottle. Six BOTTLES, ".
may31y
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-16
PASSENGERS PURCHASING TICKETS VIA
L THE
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY,
Will find it the best and cheapest route to and from
all points
EAST AND VEST!

Smooth Tracks, Best Motive Power, Elegant Coaches
Superior advantages fGr safety and C ,nfort in man
agement and equipment of through trains. Atten-
tive Officers and good eating houses.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20

TO be eOntiLuod. }
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
How a Man Nurses a Baby.

A man is not morally fitted for
the care Of q baby. When he is
walked up at two o'clock in the
morning by an ominous cry from
the cradle, he feels there are certain
emergencies for which religion has
no consolation. He tries to ignore
the infantile demands, but no baby
has ever yet been treated in that
way with impunity. At last, and
Just before the child threatens to
strangle, he leaps from the bed,
grasps the embryo in anything but
a motherly way, and then proves the
possibility of two different trains of
thought at the same time. He not
only sings a gutteral lullaby as he
walks to and fro, but he also in
dulges in a substratum of thought
which cannot be expressed in the
ordinary adiectives of fashionable
society. When the baby shows
plainly that he has started on a reg
ular tempest and introduces his vo-
cal thunder and lightning by turn
ing red in the face, shutting his eyes
and screaming at the top of his
voice, then it is that one of the mas
culine gender becomes convinced
that the mother ought not to spend
the night away from her home and
children. He shakes the baby, he
coaXes it and threatens to kill it,
he calls 1t pet names, and then he
sits down on the edge of the bed in
utter despair and cries 60, Lord -
in a way that makes you feel that
earth has no deeper woe than a
baby that will cry and n father that
don't know what to do about il.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
Take Time to Rest.

Most men and women must keep
in the traces, and keep pulling the
year round. All the more, there
fore, it is their duty to take things
easier as the longer days come on.
Take longer rest at noon. Put on
less steam when you are at work.
Snatch a Sunday now and then
from the middle of the week. "You
cannot" you say. You can. Peo-
pie find time to be sick and to die.
These can just as easily find time
to rest and keep well. All does
not depend on finishing that dress,
or fencing that field, or putting up
so much fruit, or getting so
many customers. Better that the
children should wear old clothes
than that their mother should be
LAID aside by a fever. Better that
the corn crop be a little lighter
than that there should be no one to
harvest it. Put up the store shut
tiers earlier at night; prepare palmer
food in the kitchen. Take a noon
day nap yourself, and give your
employees a chance to go fishing OF
an afternoon now and then. That
only is duty which the Lord lays
upon us, and he is not so hard a
master as we do sometimes suppose.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
Faces and Strings.

Did you ever see a gutta percha
face? And did you ever amuse
yourselves with pinching it one way
and pulling it another, and seeing
what different expressions it will
put on? When you cease pulling
and pinching it, it returns to the
same face it was before.
Your little faces are softer than
gutta percha, and they are full OF
little strings called muscles; and
the little muscles pull them one way
and pull them another, just accord
ing to your feelings. Sometimes
you feel grieved or sad, and the lit
tie muscles pull your face into a
very dOleful depression, and we
know by looking at you just how
you feel. Sometimes you feel pleased
or merry and the little muscles pu II
your faces into smiles and dimples.
But often there are wicked pas
siohs at work at the strings. An
ger pulls, and oh! what a disagree
able look the face puts on in a min
ute. Pride pulls the strings, or
vanity, envy, or discomfort, or de-
ceit, and each brings its own ex-
preston over the face.
The worst of it is, that when
these passions pull very often, the
face does not return to what it was
before, but the muscles harden and
retain that ugly expression BY in
dulging in evil passions, people may
work their faces up into such awful
faces, that sometimes when you
meet a man in the street you can
tell, just by looking at his face,
what his character is.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
Reverence to Age.

The wise man says, 'the hoary
head is a crown of glory when
found in the ways of righteousness"
And so it ought to be esteemed.
But, somehow or other, it does real
ly seem that even matured old age
does not command that respect
from the young now which it once
did. Even grown-up children, now
a-days, often speak of parents, that
should be revered, as "the old man, /"
and 1.-The old woman" little imagin-
ing how it shocks the moral sense
of those whose better nature and
more refined sensibihties revolt at
such impiety, such unfilial ways.
Among certain of the ancients,
want of reverence to parents was
accounted amongst the greatest of
crimes, while lack of veneration
even to the stranger who had grown
old, was attributed to lack of breed
ing. And so it should he in this
our day, fast as the age is reported
to be. Would that all our youth
might be taught this lesson, and
bow reYerently to age.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
Story Of Kellogg.

OF Miss Kellogg the following sto-
ry is told by the Boston Sunday
Times: Having gone to Orono,
Me, to sing at the College Com
mencement there, she complained
of the water. The inn-keeper,
where she was staying bethOught
him of Mr.. Abraham Coburn, a
wealthy citizen of the town, who
had upon his place a spring ofgreat
purity. So to Mr.. Coburn he stated
the case, and that gentleman gladly
consented to furnish the singer
with the famous water; and to give
the courtesy an especial attention
proposed TO bring 1t with his own
hands. The offer was accepted,
and several times a day Mr.. Coburn
carried the sparkling beverage to
the inn. AS Mr.. Coburn dressed
plainly and was called "Abe" by his
friends Miss kellogg did not learn
of his position, and as she was pack
ing up she gave the landlord a half
dollar, which she begged him to
give to "Abe" as he, she said, was
the best man that had waited upon
her. The landlord made no eXpla-
nation. When Miss Kellogg and
her mother were safely in the draw
ing-room car she suddenly dis
cerned Mr.. Coburn on the platform
of the station. She called him, an d
as he came blushingly forward she
said: "Abe, my man, am sorry
you didn't come to say goodbye,
but l lett a half dollar with the
landlord to give you for bringing
me the water" The train moved
on, and the shout of laughter that
went up from the friends of abe
shook the station building.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
How People Become III.

BY eating too much and too fast:
by swallowing imperfectly mastica-
ted food, by taking too much fluid
during meals; by drinking spirits
and other Intoxicating drinks free
ly; by retiring at late hour of the
night and sleeping too late in the
morning; by wearing clothes too
tight, so as to relax the circulation
by wearing thin shoes; by neglect
ing to take sufficient exercise to
keep the hands and feet warm; by
neglecting to wash the body sutfi-
GENTLY to keep the pores of the
skin open; by exchanging the warm
clothes worn in warm room dur
ing the day for light costumes and
exposure incident to evening par
ties; by starving the stomach to
crafty vain and foolish passion
for dress; by keeping up constant
excitement; by fretting the mind
with burrowed troubles! by employ
ing quack doctors and swallowing
quack nostrums for every imagina
ry i'll; by taking meals at irregular
intervals.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
An Anonymous Letter.

Perhaps of all the actions into
which the evil passions of human
ity are led, there is none more base
than that of writing an anonymous
letter. 1t is a moral assassination
committed by masked murderer, q
lie without an author, the mean
spirited act of the disreputable COW
ard, in whose heart gall has re-
placed the wholesome blood, and
whose malice, jealousy, and revenge
vent themselves in SANDER. l would
as soon trust my purse with thief
nay friendship with the hangman
my name with coquette, take
serpent in my hand or liar to my
heart, as hold communion of love
friendship or interest with the des'
picable writer of an anonymous let
ter Peirce.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
The Nan and the Wine.

In the early years after the crea-
ton of the world, man began to
plant a vine, and Satan saw it and
drew near.
"What planteth thou, son of the
earthT' said the prince of demons.
"a vine,' replied the man.
what are the properties of this
tree?"
"Oh, its fruits are pleasant to look
at, and delicious to taste. From it
is produced a precious liquid which
fills the heart with joy"
"Well, since wine makes glad the
heart of man, will help to plant
this tree"
SO saying, the demon bought a
lamb and slew it, then a lion, then
an ape, and last of ali a pig, killing
each in succession. and moistening
the roots of the vine with the blood.
Thence it has happened ever since
that when a man drinks a small por-
tion of wine, he becomes gentle and
carcssing as a lamb; after a little
more, strong and bold as lion
when he drinks still more, he resem-
bles an ape in his folly and absurd
and miscdievous actions: but when
he has swallowed the liquid TO eX-
cess, he is like the pig wallowing
in the mire.