Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-03-06
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500 tons of coal from the depot for the
Robinson Manufacturing Co. Mr.. Robin
son uses from / 200 to 200 cords of wood
and about 1000 tons Of coal each year.
His monthly payroll is little over So
10000, making from S72,000.00 to $780,
10000 year in clear cash distributed In
this village. And what is more, every
payment is as certain as any thing earthly
can be. For more than twenty years Mr..
Robinson has been ready each payday,
and has met each bill the instant it became
due. Indeed, so accustomed has everyone
become to his regular habits, that should
he run over single payday, even for
week, it would be as unexpected as for the
sun to rise in the west. We know OF no
one who has employed so large number
of different persons, of all classes and dis
positions, for so many years, and had so
little trouble, and secured the general good
will of every one TO so great an extent, as
Mr.. Robinson. lie has always been the
friend of the laboring man. lie has made
the interests of his employees his own.
He goes among them las man among
men" They speak TO him as freely as one
speaketh TO friend. Is man or wo-
man out of work or in trouble? If so they
90 TO Mr.. Robinson, almost As matter OF
couse. Indeed, 1t has become common
saying, that If anyone goes away from Ok
ford they are sure TO come back again.
He has collected class Of employees
around him such as no other large mill In
this State can show. There are ladies
who stand beside his looms, whose educa-
ton and manners, 1T them for the best So
ciety in the land. The men are Mr.. RS
friends. Why shouldn't they be friends when
they have all grown old together amid the
familiar clatter OF the driving mill In
long wears the mill has fed them, II has
clothed them, it has been their staff OF
life. A few years ago little English lad
"a mere boy--came over to Americas
busy shores. He was 4 stranger among
strangers. lie was foreigner, with that
foolish prejudice against him, with which
every foreigner has 10 contend. III had
only ttco cents - tico ltHle copper coins.
What could he do, this red-cheeked Eng
lish lad, with his poor capital OF two cents,
against those wealthy, shrewd, grasping,
merciless business men with whom he
must contend, against those ptiess de-
mons of trade, who, in their wild. mad,
delirious race for gold, think no more of
trampling few poor souls beneath their
feet than as II they had been nothing but
whitening leaves In their path! what
hope was there for him with such large
odds against him? What could he doG
What has he not done; That lad was
Joseph Robinson, and to-day his name
stands in oxford County Ike mighty
tower of strength. His check IS as good
a. gold. No bank in all oxford County is
more safe, more sure, more honOred than
he.
Prof Taylor, the blind musician, gave a
concert, the 22d. lie is pretty well known
around here, and seems 10 be one OF those
most fortunate men who make no enc
mics.
oxford has the champion liar, whose
foul tongue starts scandalous stories, so
rich and racy as TO almost take ones
breath away. The latest makes our wor-
thy minister and q good-hearted young
man in the mill It's victims. IL represents
the minister in q favorable light; but still
for rich sensation knocks the spots right
Off from anything the Police NelcS ever
dreamed OF. We found it 10 be false from
beginning 10 end. We hope these sneak
ing scandal-makers will die soon. They
have lived longer now than they ought TO.
They are too smart for this world. Their
wonderful talent would be better appreci-
ated in another world-a world where
snow storms never come, where cold winds
never blow.
We look up as We write and see the jolly
face and portly form of DR.. Il. G. Meal
lister moving by our window. II is said
that the people of New Hampshire have
made themselves so healthy. by taking his
good medicines that the poor undertakers
have packed up their duds and fed from
the State in terror. without joking, the
DIS medicines have done much good in
that State.
There was little man in our town, last
Monday, who
Wanted TO be big fighter and with big fight
30 he took out his little pistol and held it in
his hand.
No gore wasted; no blood spilled no
one scared but the man who had the re-
yolver.
For lack of space we leave out five or
six columns of items this week. Men poi
soned; horses sick, laying down in road,
failing asleep; run-aways, smash-ups, |
tip-overs; men rising up on their coal
sleds and cursing each other with torrent
of bitter invective that would make Cicero |
himself turn green with envy scandals, |
and rumors of scandals coming; inter
esting dog-fghts, sending CLEAN OF ex-
citement athwart our lonely soul; big bugs
may come, big bugs may COVE record it
not. A. WARD, JR.
PARIs-Hon Hannibal Hamlin gave the |
7 actura Committaa of Paris Hill Renairs |
Fund Committee twenty dollars towards
repairs on the building. The Committee
had invited Mr.. Hamlin to lecture for the
benefit of the fund.- but as he was unable |