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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-08-22
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Raw. Nr. Jordon and wife are enjoy
ine 4 vacation IN Casco, The C0sgrega-
tionsl pulpit WAS supplied Sunday BY
Rev. Mr.. Newport Of Mechanic Falls.
A largo number Of boxes arc being
hauled TO the corn shop TO b used when
the canning season opens.
Scribner q Smiths circus gave two
performances Tuesday Oh . vacant lct
on Church Street. The show was well
patronissd By tho villagers and the coun-
try people In general. All were salts
fied with the price Of admission and the
performance.
An entertainment was given Thurs
day evening 1t Odeon Hall for the benefit
Of the soldiers monument fund.
MIDDLE INTERvALE.
i'll. Kimball and family OF Dover.
N. H., have been visiting friends and
relatives and looking after his Interest
In lumber business.
The Swan twins Of Dover, ". H., are
the guests Of the Caswell family.
Miss Amanda Swan Of Manchester,
N. H., 10 Visiting relatives 10 TINS VI
cinlty. :, ~
has been the guest Of her sister, MIS- Il.
p. Kimball. !,
The late thunder shower was needed
and the slight damage done by light
ming was of little account compared with
tho good done by the rain.
Circle was entertained by Mr.. ana
Mrs. II. Bean August 10th.
Mrs. L. p. Kimball has been caring
for her sick father at West Paris, but
has returned to her second term OF
school ut the lakes.
Arthur Jordan Il at home on vaca-
tion.
Miss Brooks of Greenwood has been
the guest Of her sister, Mrs. J. Howe, on
Holt Hill.
Lula Klmball and her aunt, Mrs.
Coffin, have recently taken trip to the
Lakeside.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-08-22

o,,ce Harlow has gone to Dix
W., -, .,ay Of few weeks.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-08-22

u,lIrtr and children, Ralph and
Nrs. ~ Ro.ton, are visiting at Mr..
IsbbsTds.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1893-08-22
NIRlES FOR BeTnel RACES.
FIRST DAY. TUESDAY.

Ne following entries have been made
she races al Bethel, Aug. I'D and
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-10-07
Killed His Sweetheart.

jamestown, Ind, Oct. Oscar
Darnell took Miss Lizzie Manor out
for a buggy ride on Tuesday. He
proposed to her that they go to am
other place and get married. They
drove to Lebanon, but the girl re
fused to marry without her parents
consent. The couple started to re-
turn home and when nearly home he
renewed his opportunities, but With
out success, as the girl still refused
to marry him unless the ceremony
could be performed at home.
Thereupon he drew pistol and
shot her in the mouth. After shoots
ing her he cut her throat and drag
ged her to a straw stack in a field.
Then he apparently becoming con-
science stricken he tried to revive
her, but she remained unconscious
and he carried her to house close
by and awo'1e the family.
Darneli then returned to the straw
pile after a doctor had arrived and
shot himself. He was lying dead
when found. The girl is still alive
and has revived enough to tell what
is known of the case.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-10-07

The New York Democrats have
adopted platform calling for the
repeal Of the Sherman law.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-10-07
EAST AND WEST.


city people are horribly ignorant of
country life and ways" We wish
that the acute intellect of the Sun
editor would give us dissertation
on how much the average man of
New York City knows any way, out>
side of his regular business We
wish that the Sun would send out
reporter to interview a dozen Of those
public-opinion makers on dozen of
the most commonly discussed ques-
tions of the day, and publish the in
terviews. When man is denied
books, if he lives in the mountains,
the mountains become books to him.
The trees are letters. The trees and
rocks make him an alphabet. From
them he gets to reading the fact that
there are very few differences be-
tween men except such as are made
by their opportunities, and as rule
the mountain man is a broad minded
man. So the farmer in the country
knows not only about his farm, but
he has general ideas on most sub
lscts, because he has a good deal of
leisure time and he occupies that by
reading. But put an ordinary man
in any business, with nothing around
him but the high walls of a great
city, while he may become an adept
in his business, he is liable to be
come sorry fool on matters which
ordinary people are supposed to be
posted on. The great masses of the
people of New York, who are in a
potion to make what is called pub
lie opinion, are a pltiably ignorant
class of people, That any one will
be convinced of if he will but 60 to
that city and spend three days. In
this we are speaking of the more in
tslligsnt men and not of the myriads
in the slums, and the very reference
to it, with the thoughts which that
reference engenders, makes it clear
that tho reputation of the people of
New York City for intelligence rests
on a thinner foundation than any
other class of people of our country
stand upon. Senator Jones of Ney-
ada the other day said to Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu-
sets:
lodge, 1 have read your books
They are entertaining. For all l
know to the contrary the grammar is
reasonably correct, You have
good gift of language. Yon can soar
gloriously through the blue empy-
rean. You can deal beautifully with
metaphors. Sometimes you venture
upon an epigram. You can paint
words until you paint out the best
part of their meaning. You can
make it clear in few words through
what wide range your scholarship
has wandered, but you don't know
blamed thing in the world of how a
poor man goes to work to make
living"
The fact is, every Eastern man, on
reaching the age of twenty-one.
ought to be compelled to go West
and live in the hills, ON the desert or
in the forest for three years, until he
adds to his knowledge obtained in
the books of the East, little of that
wisdom, which, so to speak, is picked
The morning call., 1893-04-09

has been slumbering for years, but within a
lew months past low mutterings have been
heard, and on her distant height fire has
been distinguishable at night, indicating
that she may ere long awaken from her long
sleep and again stretch fiery arm over the
country as she has done IN years past
Mauna Kea, too, is plainly visible, and the
whole scene is one Of weird beauty.
Freed from the irritating restraints i'm
posed upon him by the difficulties of the
fern trail Harry shows disposition TO rush
ahead; but the terrors OF the way so i'm
press themselves upon You that you keep Il
tight rein and endeayOr to quiet him, win
hand and voice. In truth. the pathway is
no easy one. For a few yards it may be
comparatively plain travelling; then it sud-
denly disappears beneath a sheet of water,
the depth of which yen have no means OF
knowing until you ride INTO ii. Emerging
from this il takes a jump OF several feet to
a higher level, only TO descend few yards
bowlder. So tortuous IS the route that at
no time is the whole party Of six visible
from the head of tie line. Now the road is
along the rocky bed of little mountain
stream. You are beginning TO gain con-
hdenee IN Harry, and suffer him to proceed
at jog trot, to his evident relief. The
hated rival, on a splendid little bay mare
IulI OF life and spring, Is close behind you.
we nave nine miles of this" he says.
dark"
You hear the announcement with dis
may. 1t is raining necessarily, a wet, pen.
etratiDg, soaking rain.
and every drop wonld turn mill"
Despite your hearty lunch you are hungry
as hunter, and in that high altitude ii is
growing cold. Just then an easy Bit of
read stretches ahead and Harry breaks into
gallop. 'Be careful" calls the II. r., and
turns to answer the query of some one DE-
hind him. On gnes your gallant horse. and
your blood quickly grows warmer. This is
something like. Suddenly, from the mist
before you. looms great bowlder, a couple
The morning call., 1893-04-09

Instantly you feel grateful warmth tina
increases as you continue to pull, until it is
as hot as you can bear it, A strong smell
OF sulphur asshlls your nostTils. "W here
does 1t come from?" You ask. and the
attendant explains that it Is steam from
the crater. The arrangement is very
simple, Just pipe sent into the
earth down below at the sulphur
banks, an arrangement for shutting off or
letting IN the steam, and there you are, an
insignificant little scTibbling mite from San
Francisco bathing in Madame Pele's sui
phurGus breaihi 1t is delightful. After ten
minutes in the yapOr you step out, sponge off
IN water made hot by passing in pipes
through the earth, outside. then a crisp,
cold shower bath. brisk rub and you are
soon snug in bed, sleeping soundly, to
awaken next morning without a vestige of
soreness or fatigue from your long, hard
ride of the day before.
Halemaunau is overfi0wingp was the
word that came on the evening of March II
just as We were sitting down at the dinner
table.
All thoughts of that meal were instantly
driven from my mind, and hastily DOMINIC
my riding-habit ] sprang upon the back OF
q waiting horse and was soon speeding
down the steep bluff 10 where Madame Pele
was holding carnival. The way lies for
three miles down precipce and across the
rough surface OF the great black crater,
where once n sPething mass of fire suUeet
aud dubbed in the daysbefore, in the great
battle OF the elements. Pele, the goddess
ot the crater and the leading deity in the
Hawaiian Pantheon, was forced under and
entrapped beneath the cooling crust of her
own lava. Not even yet suDdued is the
fiery goddess, ana the great lava bed is
tossed, and piled. ana wrlnkled, and riven
in evidence Of her struggles TO escape and
resume domain over the weird waste.
Scanned and cracked and furrowed Is the
great field. as though the devil himself had
Dlowed and narrowed il to receive the seed
oil destruction sown 10 catch the souls of
men. And 1t is black. From edge to edge
The morning call., 1893-04-09

OF feet high, and stretching all across the
pathway. You have passed ever enough of
them already to know that ySur horse must
climb it, but it is nearer than you had sup
posed, and ere you can pull him to walk
lie is up to and has cleared it at single
bound. Landing without a stumble
on the other side he instantly leaps
10 another ana springs away up
running stream knee-high. CHANGING
down at the bottom you see through the
churning water that he is literally jumping
from rock TO rock, as unconcernedly as
though he were cantering along park road,
and your heart gives great thrOb of ad-
miration for the splendid creature. You
laugh aloud and pat his neck and in an
insane recklessness, at which you afterward
wonder. you even urge him on. Up he goes,
rejoicing at the chance to show the stuff he
is made of, now lowering his head as lie
splashes through the deep "catch," as these
waysde pools are called, now squaring back
his shoulders in a splendid leap, then run
ming free along an uneven, rocky stretch,
until, on a rounded eminence YOU draw rein
and turn 20 look back upon the trail.
Not one of the party is in sight. Nothing
Is TO be seen but the heaped-up brown lava
rock on every side-the shining green and
The morning call., 1893-04-09

riage long ago. and now pause for moment,
to rest the nurses and allow them TO drink
from "ca.ch" near deserted hut. while
you gather and eat the delicious Wild guavas
that here grow to a great height in the
scantv soil that thinly covers this region of
lava rock. \ on have travelled eight miles
IN two hours. and there are five miles more
Of steady climb before the HALFWAY
House" VIII be reached, so. the carriage
having come up, you essay TO ride on.
Harry is quite willing, but yonr hated rivals
horse is otherwise minded. He plants both
forelegs and plainly expresses his intention
to camp down among the guava bushes and
spend the day. Moral persuasion and oil of
birch are alike without effect, and presently
the native driver gets down from his seat,
takes the brute by the rein and leads him
along. lie stops. however, and baiks again
as soon as the rein is lOOsed. Il can make
him 60" the driver says, so the hated
rival dismounts aud turns driver
while the latter precures stout
club and proceeds TO reason with the horse.
The battle Is a stubborn one, Equus bucking
like broncho for a while. aud then making
a bolt over the rocky road. YOu follow Mt
a good pace Harry apparently anxions 20
see the fun. On goes the plug, kicking,
The morning call., 1893-04-09

rOars, and from every crack OF the miles OF
black lava behind and around US the steam
pOurs in clouds. The lake no longer RACES,
but mutterS sullenly, like giant Qnrlled for
the time, but only for the time, and biding
his opportunity to renew the outbreak. |
feel strange sensation of pity for the I'M
tanned demon of the everlasting fire holding
her own against the fearful odds OF the sub
DUNG elements, as. after a final glance at
the sulien, heaving mass, | turn to ride
like pillar of fire by night, the glow from
the burning lake lights up the blackness
OF darkness across the lava-beds. but
progress Is Slow, as our horses pick their
way In Indian file across the inky field,
every other rider carrying lantern, by
which alone the trail can be seen.
The next evening / went again to the
crater and attempted to walk across the
fresh lava flow to the lake. 1t seemed like
risky undertaking. The friable stuff was
still hot, and every crack showed the molten
lava still glowing underneath. We walked
along, striking the lava with our sticks at
every step. but the heat grew intense. At
fifty yards my skirt was burning. Before |
had gone much farther n hole the size of
dollar was burned in the sole of each shoe.
and was forced reluctantly to turn back
lest L find myself shOeless on that fiery
promenade. The gentlemen of the party,
heavier shod, went on to the lake, but re-
turned later with ruined shoes and bIlstered
feet, TO remind them that though defeated
for a spell Madame Pee still resented in
truderS in her domain.
ADELINE E. KNAPP
The morning call., 1893-04-09

Jacques Desmoulins was once a soldier
in the French army. but having allied him
self with the republican forces he was spot
ted by the secret police and thrust into La
Conciergerie. one OF the oldest prisons in
the empire.
He had been in cell 10 for so many years
that he had almost forgotten why lie was
there, and it was only now and then that
the cruel injustice which had been done him
presented itself with any feelings which
gave rise to rebellion.
He had never once stepped from the damp
cell into which he had been thrust, how
long ago, he knew not, for in that place
there was no means for counting the pms
sage of time. Day and night were nearly
the same to him, excepting that when he
heard the evening bell at s o'clock he gen.
orally rolled himself in the one old blanket
and stretched his limbs upon q rough cot in
the corner of the cell. The faint streak of
sunlight, which barely found an entrance
through the little barred window which
looked out over a desofate plain at the rear
of the prison, told him that without it was
and sit with his face between his hands
and arms upon his knees until his attendant
brought his morning meal.
After this had been eaten he passed the
time until noon in drawing pictures with
stick upon the graveled floor of the cell,
working out problems and now and then
composing few words of song. nap in
the afternoon with view of the guards as
they were called out for parade at 4 o'clock,
which could be seen from his window, COM
prlsed the mOnotOnOus features of each
The morning call., 1893-04-09
Longevity of Our Age.


The numerous instances of death occurring
at extreme old age prove that longevity is a
characteristic of our age. These prolonged
lives show that the conditions under which
we live are favorable TO longevity, since
these old people have lived all their days
under substantially the same conditions.
The man who was born in 1920 and Is now
20 years of age has used about the same
quantity of whisky and tobacco during that
entire period, Notwithstanding the assertion
of admirers of "the good old times" that both
those luxuries were much better formerly
than now. The old people in Missouri who
have attained threescore years and ten and
bid fair TO live another score of years came
ON the stage just as the era of sanitation be-
gan, when such causes o. death as ague and
snake bites began to diminish, and are mon
uments not of the healthy condition of for
mer but of the present age. Hence we may
conclude that length of days is in store for
the present generation; that the sons will
live 10 be older than did the fathers; and
this assurance is rendered stronger by the
steady growth of sanitary science
The morning call., 1893-04-09
TAKEN BY SKYROCKETS.
Novel Method of Photographing the
Camp of an Enemy.
Chicago Times.


An exceedingly interesting English inven-
ton consists OF camera combined with a
parachute. especially designed for obtaining
photographs of Notifications and of the
camps of the enemy, although pictures may
also be made for general surveying purposes.
This parachute is snugly folded In a thin
case al the end of a rocket, which is fired
TO the required height and burst open by
means of n time fuse. The explosion sets
free the parachute. which is protected from
injury by means of a casing of asbestos.
The parachute has number of thin UNI
brella ribs, and these are forced outward
and kept in that position by means of a
strong spiral spring.
From The parachute camera is suspended
and a string held by the operator is attached
by universal joint TO the bottom of the
device. for the purpose Of pulling the para
chute back. The camera is fitted with en-
instaD taneous shutter, operated by clock
work, so as to give several exposures at
intervals. AT the back of the box is an
arrangement by which the plates can be
manipulated the same rs ciockwOrk. A
swinging motion can be given the camera
by the operator. and this Will enable him to
obtain successive pictures over wide area.
The whole arrangement is exceedingly in
geni0us, aud If itcan be employed practically
IL marks an important step in the science Of
modern warfare
The morning call., 1893-04-09
swEETEN LIFE WITH KISSES.

good-by kiss is a little thing
With your hauc on the door to 60
But 1t taxes the venom out OF the sting
Of thOugbtless word or cruel fling
That you made an hour ago.
A kiss OF greeting is sweet and rare
After the toll oil the day,
AND II snooths the burrows plowed by care.
The lines on the forehead you once called fair
In the years that have flown away.
IT'S little thing to say. 'You are kind;
love you, my DEAR" each night:
But senuS 4 thrill through the heart ind
For love is tender. as love is blind.
AS we climb life's rugged height.
We starve eaca other for loves caress
W. take. but We do not give;
II seems so easy some soul TO bless
But we dole the love grudgingly less and less
Till IT'S bitter and hard TO live.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The morning call., 1893-04-09
EVERLASTING FIRE
A Ride From HiIo to the
Volcano House.
HOW KILAUEA's LAVA FLOWS
One of the Iost Wonderful Sights
in the Whole World De-
scribed.
From STAFF Correspondent of THE CALL.

"Yo cannot endure it," said the Port
Physician; "it is suicidal 10 try"
DO not attempt it," urged the Court
Interpreter; Il did it once, and never wish
TO try it again"
ut will rain all the way" the Sheriff
argued; you'll be drowned before you get
there"
Il wouldn't try it." was the counsel of
mine host of the Hilo Hotel. "You will be
unable to 90 about or enjoy yourself after
such a hard ride"
And so the chorus swelled, until nearly
every man in town had personally. or by
messenger. expressed TO me his remon-
STRANGE against my announced intention 10
travel on horseback from Hilo to 'the
crater"
"Tou are crazy to attempt it," said one
blunt adviser.
1T is only thirty miles," I pleaded.
Yes, butitis thirty miles upstairs. Thirty
miles over rocks and streams and bow lders
and lava. Thirty miles through mud and
mire. The worst road that ever was known.
1t IS enough to make you downright ill.'
Only one woman's voice was heard in all
tie chorus.
You can do it as well as not" said Doc
tor Frances a sturdy, splendid example Of
that triumph Of the age, a woman doctor.
Garry sllcker and you will be all right"
\ pommel-stieker may not be an institution
peculiar to the island OF Hawaii, but never
saw one anywhere else. 1t is a sort Of coat.
of prOdigious capacity and with multitude
nous buttons. cut with a huge bow in 'front.'
TO 90 over the pommeI of a saddle, with
double sleeves, double laps down the front,
double collar and big pockets. The gar
nent smells like an old tar-barrel soaked in
cod-liyer oil. You become aware of this
when about mile of, and when you don
the coat you also realize the peculiar fitness
Of another name given by the islanders to
the thing, THE pommel-s ticker" IS well
named. 1t sticks together when you roll it
UD, aud takes two men TO unroH it. Once
Grrayed in it you understand why the Ha-
walian riders do not rise TO the trot. You
The morning call., 1893-04-09
Unjust Taxation.

1t is unjust to tax the stomach with burthens that
IT cannot bear. Many silly people thus tyrannize
that faithful servitor until 1t rebels and Furnishes
them as they deserve. Dyspepsia Is usually the
child OF gaStronomic folly, but whether this or tho
natural associate of inh ersnt feebeness from child
hood, it IS sarely and pleasantly remedIable with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the finest and mos.
highly sanctioned gastric tonic In existence Asa
result of the tone impaired the stomach and the
increased activity OF its digestive and assmative
action, insured by the persistent use OF this benign
invigorant, general stamina Is augmented the
nerves strengthened and tranqulIized, and ten
dency to Insomnia and hypoehondrl defeated
BiiOUsness, chills aud fever, rheumatism and Kid
ney troubles are conquered BY this admirable mea.
&
The morning call., 1893-04-09
"This Is the State OF Man. I"
London st. James Gazette.

:
There are few things in real life more
pathetic than the speech of Mr. Munro. who
three wears ago was worth $500 coo, and
was Prime Minister of Victoria. At
temperance meeting in Victoria he is re-
ported to have said 81 came to Melbourne
over thirty years ago with hardly penny
In my pocket. | worked hard as a work
ingman, and ceived every honor which
free state could confer on any of its citi-
zeus, until at last | held the highest position
In the land. Now | stand before you, 81
years of age, without a shilling in my
pocket. For the first time in my life,
through liabilities which l undertook, never
expecting to be called upon to meet them I
am unable to pay 20 shillngs in the pound"
The morning call., 1893-04-09
A Very Sad Affair.


Mr.. O.dchappie-Yo are looking very
bad.
Vanderchump-Yes l know 1t. l went to
n dinner party on Washngton's birthday
and drank a little too much wine. When /
went to bed / forgot to take off my boots,
and L went to sleep with my feet on the
pillow, and consequently l dreamed all
night had toothache, when it was nothing
but my tight boots hurting my corns.