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Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
OLD GENT and YOUNG NAN.

A good story is told of Chicago
young man who called upon young
lady for the first time on Sunday even
ing. After an hour or two of pleasant
conversation on various subjects, the
"man OF the house" entered the room
where the young people were sitting.
He was introduced to the young man,
and, after a few remarks upon the
weather, ETC., left the room and retired
for the night. Nine o'clock came, and
the caller, saying "Good night" left for
his home. The next morning, on passing
the house, the young man had occasion
to speak with the young lady, and, when
about to resume his downtown journey,
met the "man of the house" coming in
the gate. "Well, young man, you hold
on pretty long," said the old gentleman,
and the poor young man, without stop.
ping to explain. went on his way, puz.
zled whether to commit suicide or to &c
a-fishing.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
TIE GRANGE.

out of the long wh1ts dresses
And into the da.nty frocks,
Little blue shoes with buttons
In the place Of the worsted seeks.
No longer helpless baby,
Carried IN arms all day,
But a restlesr, nnischievous fellow,
Brimn'ing with frolic and rlsy.
Getting hmse'f into troubles
That seemingly have no end,
Tearing I" big holes" in h:s dresses
For patient mamma TO mend.
Dumping his curly round noddle
Which mammals soft kisses must cnrs;
And meeting a hundred misfortunes
Which babies must learn 10 endure.
Too soon shall lose my baby.
And do the best can
To welcome the magical power
Which changes the boy to man.
Oh! that the YEARS we're slower
In rolling the months away.
And would that for many s@sson
My baby a child might stay
wonder how he is dearer
As only babe on my breast7
Or changed to this roguish fellow
whose feet are never at ;est!
II q rosebud any the sweeter
Before It's q full-gr"wn rose:
All, tho love that j. horn with the baby
Must grow a. the baby grows.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
RETRACTED.

Mr.. Mcguire, of Kansas town, was
elected constable. and the local paper
which opposed him said: "Mr. Mcguire
will wash himself before he assumes the
Office Of constable" The notice mad
dened Mcguire, and he called on the
editor to complain. "You Object to that
statement ?" asked the editor. 81 do"
replied Maguire. every well, I'll re-
tract it" y" said the editor, and then he
put in his paper that he wished to re-
tract his announcement that Mr.. Ma
glire would wash himself before assum-
ing Office, as Mr.. Mcguire denied the
statement; and even that retraction
didn't satisfy Mcguire. but instead in
creased his wrath. Some men are hard
to satisfy.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
NOT INTENTIONAL.

Fitznoodle was out again worrying the
life out of the ducks with his shot gun.
He blazec away at some ducks, and an
unseen man on the opposite side of the
pond rose up threateniagly, with long
gun, and called out:
"Did you shoot at me?"
"Did any Of the shot hit you?" Ia
quired Fitznoodle.
eyes, they did," said the man, rub
bing his legs.
"Then you may be certain 1 didn't
shoot at you. l never hit anything
shoot at. .'-Gaipes,on NcWs,
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
THE FIRST QUESTIONS.

We do not hesitate to give it as our
theological opinion, founded on much
study and wide observation, that one Of
the first questions that St. Peter will
ask q man who presents himself at
heavens gate will be, "Did you put
sand, OF ashes, OK sawdust on the side
walk in front Of your premises in slip
perry weather, like a good Christian ?"
and that the. man who cannot answer
that question satisfactorily will fi1d 1t
harder to pass through the pearly gate
than for camel TO go through the eye
Of needle.-Provids0ce Journal.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
PLEAS.4NTRLES.

THF best stuff for slippers-Ashes.
THr kottlod rum ia fashionable in cold
weather.
P.ssISG around the hat ia one wav OF
getting the cents Of the meeting.
Ir is fixed fact that there Is great
future for everybody who can live long
enough to see it.
81 WOULD like 20 die to might, pens
poet-for once coming into sympathy
with the people.
WHES Jay Gould secs railroad that
suits him, he buys it, pickles it, and puts
it away 10 skin at his leisure.
THr difference between a well-shod
mother and her corrected offspring is.
that she is kid-slippered. and he Is
slppered kid.
els THAT mule tame?" asked farm
or of an American dealer in domestic
ouaclrupeds. "He's tame enough in
front" answered the dealer.
WE see an article in the papers about
hoy inventors. We hope they will in
vent boy who won't whistle on his I'm
gers and yell on the streets at night
"Now / UNDERSTAND, remarked Old
enberg with sigh, after vainly trying
to get view of the stage over the bon
net in front of him "now understand
what they mean by the height Of fash
ion.'"
"PAPA, they don't have any stone in
Ireland do they?" asked little boy
the other day. eyes, my boy but why
do YOU ask such question:" Because
1 thought it was all shamrock over
there"
A FASHIONABLE young lady was seen
backing her brothers boots, and the
next day che helped do tho family wash
ing. 1t is thought she is fitting herself
TO become the wife of an Italian Count.
Puck.
GREECE seems determined to fight
Turkey at any cost. She went to war
with Turkey five years ago, and had one
man killed and two died OF sickness, but
experience has not taught her anything.
Detroit Free Press.
THEODORE PARKER's rule for married
happiness was that the wife and hus-
band should overlook each others faults.
This, however. would not work in Utah,
where mans shortcomings increase
with every new wife.
MARY had pair Of bangs.
They matched her other hair,
And every night before she slept
She hung them on chair.
She wore her bangs to school one day,
Which made her classmates sore,
And hints went round that Marysps
Had worked dollar store.
This kind Of talk produced . fuss
The teacher took it up;
She locked tho bangs within her desk-
Oh! fu,l was Mary's cup.
One evening, at Paris cafe, group
of idlers were discussing politics, and
people who change their opinions.
"Well," said one, "Tve never cried.
Long live anybody" "Quite so. -
! remarked one; "but then you're doc
, tor"
"WHAr did Cain say when the Lord
asked him where his brother Abel WASP"
asked a Sunday-schOol teacher of hi.
class. None of the children spoke up,
but finally little Jimmy snapped hia
fingers and said: 81 forgot wha.
Cain said. but he sassed the Lord back.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
ROLAND AND DIANA.

A wit among the students of the
Rochester Theological Seminary has con.
trived tine following love tale, the chief
interest of which will be found
to lie in the assemblage of words
liable to he mispronounced. Worces-
ter's Dictionary is tho standard,
the pronunciation first given III
that volume being always the one to
decide. Let our readers try this puzzle
in orthoepy:
Roland and Diana were lovers. Diana
was ephemeral hut comely, hypochond-
riacal but not lugubrious, didactic but
not dishonest, nor given to ribald or
truculent grimaces. Her pedal extremi-
ties were perhaps a trifle too large for a
playing organ pedals successfully, but
lier heart was not at all adamantine, and
her address was peremptory without he
ing diffilse. On the whole she might
well become the inamorata of one retired
to some qliet vicinage away from the
sqrlalor and clangor, the dissonance and
contumely, of great metropolis.
Roland, on the other hand, WAS of a
saturnine countenance, at once splenetic
and combative in disposition, so that
his wassails and orgies were almost mani
acal in their details. He was telegra-
pher by profession, having received a
diploma from Caius College, but ag-
grandized his stipend by dabbling in
philology, orthocpy and zoology during
his leisure hours, so that he was accused
of fetichism and tergiversation by his
patrons.
Still his acumen and prescience were
such that only misogynist would dis
| Germ that he was an aspirant for the gal
lows. His acetic, rather than ascetic,
nature apparently inclined him TO visit
a chemical laboratory, well filled with
apparatus, to which he had access,
whence he often returned with globules
of iodine and albumen on his cao~tchOuc
shoes, which subjected him to tho risk
of numerous alterations with his land.
lady, a virago and pythOness in one, and
with the servant her, accessory or ally.
Roland had, however, become accli.
mated to his place. received everything
with equability, rcclined upon the divan
while he contemplated the eiysium where
Diana dwelt, and addressed donativt
distichs to her in the subsistence Of the
raillery.
There was a certain diocesan who en-
deavOred to dispossess Roland in the
affections of Diana, but he was enervated
by bronchitis, laryngitis and diphtheria
which on their subsistence left his carotid
artery in an apparently lethargic con
dition. He had sent Diana ring SCI
with onyx, a chalcedonic variety Of stone
and once hung placard where he knew
she would see it from her easement, bu
she steadily rejected his overtures, ant
I Hill tS IL Iit NSiC
The diocesan betook himself to absolut
ory prayers, but continued his digres
sions and inquiries.
Roland became cognizant of his amOu
and armed with "A withe inveigled hin
into kind of assignation beneath jas
mine, where he inveighed against thi
"Gay Lothario," who defended himsel
with falchion until Roland disarmet
him, houghing his palirey withal. Afte
the joust the prebendary abjectly apollo
gized, albeit in scarcely respirable con
dition, then hastened to the pharmacutic'
aerie for copaiba, morphine and quinine
and was not seen again until the mex
Michaelmas.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
WHTTE-HOTSE.ETIOUFTTE.

by the time ! had done breakfast,
Gen. Washington wrote, land thence
till dinner. and afterward till bedtime.
/ could not get rid of the ceremony oi
one visitor before had to attend 10 au'
other. In a word, 7 had no leisure to
read or 10 answer the dispatches that
were pouring in upon me from all quar-
ters."
Unfortunately, the three gentlemen
who stood nearest the President at tins
time were all disposed to carry the cti-
0Iictte Of the Presidents house 10 an cx-
treme that seemed to the people to SAVIOR
of ROYALTY.
Vice President Adams-just hon"
from the British court-thought tn"
President should he defended against
intruders by system Of chambcrlains
masters-of-ceremony and aides-de-camp.
Col. Hamilton, who was an enthusiast
for monarchy, and Gen. Knox, soldier
both members of the Presidents Cahi-
net-were inclined to go as far III that
direction as they could without shocking
the people.
The consequence was, that, while the
President was protected from the III
trlsion of incessant callers and merciless
hand d-shakings, some appearances oi
monarchical etiquette We're admitted.
The people of that day hated mon-
archy and dcspised its forms. They
feared above all things n lapse OF our
Government into monarchy. They had
had, during the revolutionary period OF
seventeen years-counting from the
Stamp act of 176J-a bitter experience
of the practical workings of monarchy.
They wanted no more of it.
| Hence. when Mr.. jefferson, on com
ing to the Presidency in 1901, swept
away every usage that had IN 1t the
smallest resemblance to the etiquette of
royalty, he keenly gratiiied the mass
of the people.
Nor did he suffer much Inconvenience
from it /; for the city of Washington WAS
! then a morass with meagcr number OF
houses containing very few inhabitants
| uncOnnected with the Government.
Members of Congress, indeed, ate the
President out Of house aud home but
even Hamilton thought that members Of
Congress ought to have access to the
President.
Times have changed. Washington is
city of 1OO,O 900 inhabitants and thou
sands Of visitors can get there in a few
hours if they wish to do SO. Something
ought to be done to keep n President
from being mercilessly destroyed by an
overwhelming torrent Of visitors and
cruel hand-shakers.
The republic has outgrown its child
hood. The people are ready to sanction
anv new code of etiquette that bears
upon it the stamp of justice and sound
sense. They regard the President as
the servant of tho whole people-5O,
OOO. 900 in number-and not merely
of those who happen to find themselves
in the city of Washington.
| If they could give Expression to their
view of the matter, We are sure ma
iorlty of them would suggest at least
| two rules of conduct for the incoming
President
l. See few or no applicants for
office.
9. Shake hands with no man.--
Youths COmDdniOn.
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
"THE rolling SNOWFALL gathers nc

TIE rolling SNOWFALL gathers no
noss."as Tom said when his hard hand
sul of cold stuff whizzed by his uncle's
ear and burst into a thousand bits
against the side of the house. Eyes,
said his uncle, as he hit Tom in the
back with clod of snow as big as his
head. "and l feel called upon to teach
the young idea how to shoot
Richland beacon., 1881-03-26

Irlsa somewhat-remarkable fact the
City of Milan, Italy, publishes greater
number Of newspapers than Boston. al
most identically the same number -
Philadelphia, very nearly as many as
Chicago, and fully seven times ss many
as Brooklyn. And yet the population
Of Milan does not, at most, exceed 275,-
900, which is considerably lsss than that
of Boston, only about one-half that Of
Chicago, less than one-half that Of
Brooklyn, and less than one-half that
which the census of 1880 shows Phila-
delphia to contain.
No PAPER III Italy has q circulation OF
uore than 10, 900 copies.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-03-01

Science hss accomplished no more
wonderful or gratifying result than the
perfection IL an autidote 20 the chilling
sings OF approaching age, something to
obliterate the tell-tale tracks or time aud
preserve the natural adornments OF youth
10 ripe old age. Halls Hair Remover does
all this. and it, praise rrSounds In cot tage
and palace. The jewellers among the
SHOWS or Norway and the peasants OF sun
ny France and Spain, find use for II. and
ind means 70 get il, and IL does not disap-
point them. The whitening locks again
resume their youthful color, the thin. dry
and faded bair becomes bright and glossy.
The whole appearance is changed as II by
magic, and the man or woman, who. before
was called aged, now appears as one in the
prime OF life. Such woudrous changes
cannot pass uunoiiced, and they have pro-
duced the unprecedented demand that now
exists for the first and only article ever
compounded that can produce them in s
pleasing and satisfactory manner.-Neu
Era, Woodstock. III.
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In Insolvency.

STAIE OF MAINE.
OXFORD ss:-Iu the case OF ALDEN ID. STEW.
EMS. in-Olvent debtor:
4 an Insolveni Court held at Paris on tn" 18th
"A dsv OF February. a. u lssl, Alden u. Stew.
enc, OF Bethel, an insolyent dabtor, petitions for
an allowance out OF his esta,e.
STATE OF MAINE.
CouRr OF INSOLVENCY, OXFORD. ss:-On tho
Foregoing petition. ordered that notice be given
all persons Interested by causing copy Of this
order to Ie published t~o weeks SUCCESSFULLY h.
the oxford Democrat. printed At Paris, In .Sid
CDuu'y, the la't publication to be seven days NJ
lcast before n Court OF Insolvency 90 10 held n,
Paris, in sad County. on the l6lh day Of Msroh.
4. u, lssi, ats A. NJ, at which tim. aud place I.
may bc MADE 10 appear why tue prayer OF said
petition should not be granted.
wines, my hand aud the seal OF said Court
this lrlh day o, februuy a. u, 1887.
Il. A. fKYE.
Judg ~ Of the Court OF Insolvency for said Couniy
OF OK ord.
Atrue .opy. Atlesi.-H [. DAVIS Register
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Sfafe 0f mime.

OXFORD, IS :,Probaie Court, February Term.
A ID. 1881.
I bra,ks, and j. ID. RUSSELL Of Hanover In
the County OF Oxford, praying that Enoch Eos
ter, jr., Of Bethel be- appointed Administrator on
the estate OF Charles Jordan, late OF NeWry IN
said county, deceased:
Ordered, That the said Petitioners give notice
to all persoas Interested by causing . copy Of
this order to be Published three weeks successivey
in the Oxford Democrat PRINTED Paris, that they
NAV appear II Probate Court to be held at Paris
in said Comfy on the third Tuesday Of Mar. next
AT O'Clock IN the forenoon and shew cause IL any
they hsvs Why the same should not be granted.
A,,,, ss,y-.ss..s: 4. s. 1Asss. Ssssss.
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Nsaes OF Second Mseting or Creditors In
InsOlvency,

THO the creditors OF Charles q. Holt, OF Canton.
i In the County Of oSfnr,i. and the State OF
haire. insolvent debtor You ere herebv notified.
That with tho approval oi the Judge Of the Court
OF Insolvency for sail County OF Oxford. the
second meeting Of The CT, ditors OF taid insolvent
10 appointed 10 be held a. the Probate Court 70 I'm
In Paris, in said County OF Oxford. on wedues day
the 18th day OF March. A ID lsst, at . O'Clock ia
the forenoon. You Will govern yourselves accord.
ineiy.
Given under my hand and the order OF Court
this 10Th dav OF February, A. D., lssi.
HERRlCK &. DAVIS, Register OF the
Court OF Insolvency for said County OF Oxford.
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AsH-1oNIC
A Perfected Purifier OF the System.

A Perfected furfuer or the System.
Tsuc -"I e-rsasisg ne strength, o5riaasg a.
sTa-s.f ds'li'g, Gsa restoring hsa!tAg fzRcsa0As
-WLA-TEE
For Indigestion, and Dyspepsia,
the many forms of Liver Conn
plant, Impure and Impoverished
Blood, and Functional Derange-
meuts attendant upon Debility, and
for Building mp the weak, ASH
Tonic Is doubtless the most prompt
and certain remedy vet devised. In
L. 10. bottles, 40 cents; Six bottles,
s. Accredited Physicians and
CIergymen, who may desire to test
the Tonic, will be supplied with not
exceeding SIX bottles, At one-half
the retail price, money to accom-
slay the order. Sold by Druggists,
and BY d. B. Dewey x Co, 20 Dcy
s., y. y.
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Physicians and Druggists requiring !
perfectly Pure Pepsin for prescriptions
should send their cards for sample 10 Rob
ertson & Co, manufacturers OF pure pep
sin, 81 Broadway, New York.
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TRUSSES
TRUssEs TRUssEs
A, NJ. GERRY'S, SOUTH PARTS,
will be found full line Of TRUssEs Of every
style and make. Call and get guaranteed nt.
Messengers Notice.
OFFICE Oh THE SHERIFF OF OXFORD COUNT
STATE OF MAINE


STATE OF MAINE,
OXFORD, ss:-February II. A. d. 1881.
THIS is 10 give notice. That on the sixteenth
day OF February, ID. 1881, warrant ~
Insolvency WA issued out OF the Court Of Insol-
yeney for ssid county OF oxford, against the
estates Of NJ see c. Foster and JOSIAH Dutton,
individually. aud as co partners under the name
and style If Foster 4 Dnttou, sdjudged 10 be
Insolysnt Debtors, on petition Of said Debtors.
which petition Was filed on the twenty second day
of November, A. ID 1850, 10 which last named
date interest on claims 10 10 he computed; That
the payment of shy debts and the delivery and
transfer Of any property belonging 70 said debt.
ors 10 them for their use and the delivery and
transfer OF any property by them are forbidden by
law; That 4 meeting Of the partnership Creditors
OF said debtors, to prove their debts and choose
one or more assigutes OF their estate, will he held
AZ a Court of Insolvency 10 De holden at the Pro.
bate Court Pom IN Paris, ia said County OF Ok.
ford Oh the sixteenth day of March, A d. 1881, at
y O'Clock in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date 6Ist above writ
ten. W. o. DOUGLASS, Deputy sheriff,
~ Nesssuenr Of % Court Of Insolvehey fos said
O. q ONDGA
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THE Subscriber hereby gives public notice thai
he has been duly appointed BY the Hon. Judge o.
the trust of Administrator with the will annexed
Of the estate Of
EMMA ROSS, late OF Paris.
arects he therefore requests all persons indebted
TO the estate of said deceased 70 make Immediate
PAYMENT and those who have any demands there
on to exhibit the same TO sox
February Is. 1851.
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eTATE OF MAINE.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

AUGUSTA, February u, 1881.
NIOTICE 10 hereby givrn that petition for the
~ par don Of Ephram Gilman. convict In the
STATE Prison, under sentence for the crime OF
murder, 10 now pending before the Governor and
Council, aud bearing thereon will be granted In
the Coupcii Chamber ct Augusta. on Thursday,
third day Of March next, NJ IL o'clock .. N.
JOSEPH O. SMITH, Secretary OF state.
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Freedom Notice.

yV1BIs 10 to certify that this day give to my
son, CHARLES s Jackson, his time to act and
trade for himself, and that shall pay no eilis OF
his contracting nor claim any OF bis e.rnings;,
At,sst:-BESJN. JACKSON.
RnmkoId Eeh z. lldl.
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American manufactures are making
their way. Australia has discovered that
our watches are the best, and awards her
prizes accordingly.
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Notice OF Foreclosure,

Uyhsreas Joseph A. Knspp, OF ehsl, In the
w County OF oxford and StsIe of Mtinr. N
the 18th day OF July, A. ID ls19. for . valuable
consideration conveyed 10 Eaoch W. Woodbury.
aud Josiah u Purngson. both of Bethel, co-part
neys doing business under tho firm name OF
Woodbury. & Purington, by his deed OF Mortgage
recorded In the OXFORD Re1s'ry 30 Il lS. Page
<S7. ooe third part In common AMI undivided OF
what Il known a. the Joseph A. app stand on
Bethel HUI; bounded on the North bJ the land OF
the Misses Curis ION the Esst by Mechanic street
on the South by the schoolhou-e lot on the Wet
bv land owned by the heirs of T. bridge Chapman,
whereas The conditions OF ssid mortgage have
been broken. and the Grantor did covenant and
agree that tue right OF redemption sh ,u BE- for
ever foreclossd In one year from the publication
Of notice. We therefore claim Foreclosure as by
statute ia such case IN made and prov idcd.
WOODBURY. a PURISGToN.
Bethel Feb. - 1851.
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A.rueeopy-.,....: II. c. DAVIS, Register.

THE subscriber hereby gives public notice that
she has been duly appointed BY the Hon. Judge OF
Probate for the County Of Oxford and assumed the
trust Of Executrix Of the estate Of
JOEL b. THAYER, late OF Paris,
in ssid County deceased by giving bond ~ the Law
directs she therefore requests all persons who are
Indebted to the estate Of said deceased TO make i'm
mediate payment and those who yeany demands
thereon to exhibit the samsto
LOUISA G. ID. THAYER.
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Any farmer who wishes to lease bis
farm and take a years vacation, should
read an advertisement in these columns.
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NOTICE.

frHE meat butiness cari,d on the past season
l. By A. 8. q Theodore ThsyeF. hereafter will
Be continued under the nam Of Thayer 4 Son
as We intena TO make u permanent business.
for their ~ ernl psirnssr and hops BY strict a..
tenton 20 business "a retain their custom. and We
shall spare no paine ~ furnish good meats and In
an acceptable manner.
We shall run 10 Sosth Paris Mondays add
Thursdays, and on the Hill Tuesdays and Fridays
Of each week until warm weather. when We shall
run daily on the Hiu and South Paris and Vicinity
Extra orders promptly attended 70.
As It takes money 70 buy meat we shall expect
cash down or every thirty days. There will be no
attempt 10 establish prices for other parties, but
We shall cell 1t tho lowest living rates.
We cordially invite those who have not tried
our meat 10 ave - Q call a. We do not drive TO
any ones door without.