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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-10-24

Dewey l. al light. and The Ovstions he Il re
ceiving are richly merited; but the Dewey HER.
allure In the newspapers and magazines begins
70 be q little monOtonous.-belfassJ journal
Still, il ia one Of the penalties Of life
in this age Of the world, that any object
OF popular interest has TO be overdone In
the newspapers and magazines, often
times st cost OF much money TO the
publishers and much WEAKNESS 20 the
rpalPrs
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-10-24

Doughty, Mrs. Edwin. house LOT,
Aigh S.. 50 % 10
Foster. p. L., land on Pleasant
Sc, 100 81
Russell, Geo. W., No. of range !.
No. Of lot6, 10 800 %
Richardson. Herbert, lot near fair
grounds, 100 81
South Paris, Maine, Oct. 81. 1888:
A. II. JACKSON,
Collector of Taxes for South Paris Village
CORPORATION for 1888
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-10-24
pouoMA oaAMoe.

Oxford Pomona Grange will bold 1t
next session with RockemekA Grange,
Peru, on the flrst TuesdAy In November.
PROGRAM.
An.
Opening grange In sth degree.
Routine worn.
Comforting 81 degree.
Pm.
Music, furniahed BY Rockemeka Grange.
Recitation, Union Grange.
Rc-ltation. Canton 0ranGs.
mental TO tks farming interests Of the country.
Al, A. B. walker; Neg. J. A. Roberts.
Oshsr exercises 70 b furnished By Rockeueka
SECRETARY.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-10-24
A Tight Roof

for little money. A roll of Red
Rope Roofing costing S. will cover
a roof 10 feet square. Nails and tins
go with it. A boy who can drive
nails can apply il. A few strips of
wood laid across and you have as
tight roof as any man in the world
can make, let him use what he pleases
for material. II makes no difference
whether it is fiat or pitch it is tight
Just the same. I sold one man in
town two thousand Il. for a perma-
nent roof, he says ii it the best roof
he ever used. Call for the Neponset
Red Rope Roofing at
WIN. e.. LEAEITT'S.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
PORTO RICO FORESTS.
Government Pamphlet Deals with tho
Timber of the New Island
Possession.

The national department of agricul-
Conditions of Porto Rico" by Robert
4. Hill, of the geological survey. Mr..
Hill, who made his observations in jan
uary last, says that the island was orig
inally covered with forests from Tie
sea level to the mountain SUBMITS,
though many of them have disappeared,
owing to 500 years of exhaustive cult
walton of heavy plantation crops. He
is of the opinion that in ten years the
cleared slopes of the barren mountain
sides can be covered with productive
trees.
These forests now contain 30 varie-
ties of trees used for timber and fuel,
one for cordage, IL for dyeing and tan
ming, eight resinous trees and ten yield
ing fruit. There are seven varieties OF
palms, which are used for sustenance,
clothing and utensils. The principal
trees valuable for fruits are the orange.
lime lemon, citron ,guave, cashaw, anona.
corazones, Nancy, jobos, alligator pear
and mango, and these are common and
highly productive all over the island.
1t is curious that apples, plums, pears,
cherries, peaches and other trees of
temperate climes do not bear fruit,
though they take root and grow luxuri-
ously.
Mr.. Hill is of opinion that Porto Rico
presents an interesting field for the
practice of economic forestry, and that
all of the mountain slopes can be rapid
ly eforested.-Chicago Tribune.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
DELUDED DEMOCRATS.
HystericnI Declarations
and Charges.

The Atkinsonians are overstating
their case. There is nothing to justify
the hullabaloo they are trying to raise.
The question of tariff reform as orig
inally stated was not demand for free
trade, nor yet an unqualified denuncia-
ton of protection. The specifications
made afforded good basis for discus
sion, and some prominent republicans
were inclined to support the PROPOSE
ton, the gist of which was that tariff
duties, by reason of the growth of the
country and the development of bust
ness, should be rearranged. But this
did not satisfy the extremists. They
assumed leadership, and forthwith be-
gan to talk about II Chinese wall, the
reign of robber barons, and generally
to substitute the extrayagances of the
stump for the figures and the sober
vocabulary of business.
The country was slow to respond.
Several national campaigns were fought
before the change was voted. Then
came an exposure, the humiliation OF
which has never been exceeded in our
politics. The men who had pledged
themselves to destroy protection root
and branch were now forced to take
shelter under that policy. The bust
ness OF the country, as they found,
was so intimately connected with pro-
lection that the destruction of the lat
ter, as promised, would bring about
Wholesale bankruptcy. They dared not
keep their pledges, but shuflled and
lodged and cut the schedules in so un-
skillful n fashion in lame effort to
cover their retreat that confusion ev-
erywhere prevailed. The people turned
them down at the first opportunity, and
that ended an agitation which had con-
tinued undated for nearly 20 years.
1t may be admitted with regard TO
} our new possessions that they afford
n legitimate topic for discussion. How
shall they be developed? Precisely:
What form of government will be best
for them and best for us? We are re-
sponsible for them, and should exert
ourselves to do good part by them.
Men may differ as to these matters,
and serve public interests by discuss
ing them. But when an alarm is sound
ed that the country is on the high road
to pcrdition, and will shortly reach that
destination unless it executes n right
about face, withdraws from its new pos
sessions and snuggles up within its old
borders again, hysteria is permitted 10
take the place of reason.
Just as the free traders, having won
their fight by playing upon fears and
prejudices, were exposed and repudi.
ated, just so would these shouters about
Caesarism and Imperialism fare if j,
were possible for them to win. Noparty
in Office would dare to surrender tn,
fruits of our victory over Spain, or ever
seriously to temporize with the dutic.
imposed by national pride and nationa
development. A campaign cry is on,
thing. The responsibility of Office il
another thing.-Washington Star
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
THE SILVER SCARECROW.
Anti-Expnnsienists Trying to Raise
the BugnboO of "Im-
perinIism."

The reported failure of the Bryan
spellbinding tour in Nebraska, the man
ifest indifference of the people of Iowa
to the declamatory alarums of Candi-
date White and the dull thud with
which McLean's anti-American attack
upon the presidents Philippine policy
fell upon the people of Ohio are all sig
nificant straws indicating the direction
of public sentiment on the expansion"
issue.
1t was most inopportune time to
inaugurate the campaign against Elm
pcrialism" in these states, when the
people of all parties are engaged in gen
erous rivalry for precedence in the pub
lie ceremonies arranged with lavish
elaboration for the reception of the
naval hero who, more than anyone else,
is responsible for the sudden revival
among the people of the sentiment of
cXpansion-a sentiment that has been
coexistent with our national growth
and progress. 1t is poor time to ask
the people to pull down the flag when
the people are covering with honors I'M
paralleled the man who raised il in the
Philippines.
But even though Admiral Dewey had
remained in the far Pacific il would not
be possible for Bryan, White and Nc
Lean to persuade the American people
that our determination to honorably
discharge the national obligation inn
posed upon us by the victory in Manila
bay is the forerunner of any policy of
imperialism" on the part of the pres
ent administration. The people are in
telligent enough to know that there Is
no dream of empire" involved in our
efforts to set up law and order in the
Philippines. No man who has person
ally investigated the condition of af-
fairs in the Philippines or who has any
accurate knowledge of their people has
yet claimed that the Filipinos are Gu
pable of self-govcrnment. If the sup
preston of instruction in these is
lands and the establishment of stable
and humane government under our flag
is imperialism" then the present adj
ministration should welcome the issue
and the people would sustain IT over
whelmingly at the polls.
But there Is no such issue before the
American people. The campaign in Iowa
is already old enough to demonstrate
that the people will not be stampeded
away from national expansion and ma
tional duty by thesilver scarecrow, 81 n
sm."-Chicago Times-Herald.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
CLD-FAsHIoNEo PosIEs.

oh. those sweet old-fashioned posies that
were mothers pride and JOY.
In the sunny little garden where ! wan
dered when boy!
oh. the morning -glories twinlng 'mongst
the shining supfowers tall.
And the clematis a-targle In the angle of
the wall!
How the mignonette's sweet blooming was
pertaining all the walks,
Where the hollyhocks stood proudly with
their blossom-dotted stalks.
While the old-maids' plnks were nodding
groups of gossips, here and there.
And the bluebells swung SO lightly in the
lazy. hazy air!
Then the sleepy peoples STOPPING low
their dropping. dYowsy heads,
And the modest young sweet-wllliams hid
ing in their shady beds!
BY the edges of the hedges, where the
spiders webs were spun.
How the marigolds lay. yellow as the mel
low Gumme" sun
That made all the grass a-dapple meath
the leafy apple tree.
Whence you heard the locust drumming
and the humming of the bee.
While the soft breeze in the trellis where
the roses used to grow
Sent the silken petals flying like scented
shower CT snow
oh. the quaint old-fashioned garden. and
the pathways cool and sweet.
With the dewy branches splashing flashing
jewels DER my feet!
And the dear old-fashioned blossoms, and
the old home where they grew,
And the mother hands that plucked them.
and the mother love / knew!
All! OF all earth's fragrant lowers in the
bowers on her breast
Sure the blooms which memory brings us
are the brightest and the best;
And the fairest, rarest blossoms ne'er
could win my love, know,
Like the>sweet old-fashioned posies mother
tended long ago.
--Joe Lincoln. In Saturday Evening Post.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
POLITICAL DRIFT.

DTo a man up tree it looxs as IL
John Peter Altgeld is about to take n
header into the cold and cruel outness.
Washington Post.
DMr. Bryan is letting lis oratory
spread over so much ground that his
credit for successes in some states is
sure to be neutralized by the disaster
in others Washington Star.
DThe free traders are not saying
much about the Dingley law just now.
The government receipts for August
showed n surplus of more than million
dollars, and they were $4,300,000 in ex-
cess of the revenues for August of last
year Cleveland Leader.
DThe leaders of the democratic par
ty are not only radically wrong on ma
tional politics, but they are willing to
be wrong IL so they can deceive the
people for personal advantage. The
Bryan motto may be read: II would
rather be wrong than not PRESIDENT
Troy Times.
CzThe trust problem, said Gen.
Roosevelt in n speech in Ohio, will be
solved by republicans and not by dem
ocrats. Political history teaches that
this is the natural course OF all such
problems in this country. Democrats
buster, republicans accomplish.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
r1The silver papers suffer from the
same difficulty which afflicted Gen. But
terfield-inability TO discriminate be-
tween accurate and inaccurate express
sions. But the general has got over his
trouble, and the free silver papers show
no signs of recovery. 1t is sixteen to
one they never will.-Brooklyn Eagle
(Dem.).
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14

My Margery's cheeks they are sumac
red
When she bakes her cakes for me,
And her eyes are as brown as the brown
est leaf
That ever grew on tree.
Not dead, dull brown, but they spar
kle bright
AS dewdrop in the sun.
No autumn woods are as fair a sight
She certainly takes the bun.
And when tell her things like these
She'll bake me all the cakes / please.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14

There is glory in the woodland,
Where the naples are a-growing,
And the sumacs blush in crimson,
And the goldcn-rods are blowing,
And the oak leaves and the beach leaves
And some other leaves are glowing
With tints that you might say are
opalescent.
There's glory DER the farmland,
When the pumpkins. round and mel
low,
Lie among the dropping cornstalks
In thick blobs of reddish yellow,
And the stubble stretches golden
It's sight to make fellow
Bubble over with emotion effervescent.
All the same, I'll take the kitchen,
When my pride and joy and treasure
Filleth up bowl with buckwheat
From a well-proportioned measure,
Stirreth in the baking powder,
Addeth salt and milk to pleasure,
And then taketh down the glossy soap
stone griddle.
IT'S aesthetic delectation
There. when as the pallid batter
Trickleth down in shapely circles,
And. without a splash or splatter,
Waxeth golden at the edges
Where it curls up from the platter
And turns smoothly, darkly brown
throughout the middle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
Ability Recognized.

Mighty smart feller," said the man
with the road-brimmed hat; mighty
smart"
"Did he get the best of that horse
trader"
"No. He didn't get the best of it..
But he didn't get nigh as much the
worst of it as l figured he would
Washington Star.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14

Ehrpublican interest is on the alert
and will have the hearty aid and APP
rroval of every class OF a progressive,
patriotic people, who hold principle
above partisanship. There is no doubt
OF republican victory in Ohio in Novem-
Der; the vital point Is to make IL over
whelming. - Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14
BY KENNETH F. HARRIS.


Though the sun shines out his best
And the lisle-thread undervest
Doth not seem to fill the bill;
Leaves from treetops sailing down
When the wind-blown branches stir;
Cambria waists with capes of fur
Everywhere about the town.
Straw hats obsolete or rare;
Dreary, drizzly, sloppy rains;
Subsequent rheumatic pains;
Crimsoned noses here and there
These and other tokens bleak,
Would appear to indicate
Irrespective of the date
That fair summers made her sneak.
But there's balm and consolation and
there's happiness and joy,
And a feeling of elation that no grief
can quite destroy;
Our regrettings sentimental cannot
lessen it jot;
We don't care continental if the ice
man calls or not.
Why should you weep for summer fed,
Dear heart o mine?
Put thicker comforts on the bed;
Do not repne. r
Grieve not, my sweetest one, but oh, -
When morning breaks
Mix up n goodly mess of dough
For buckwheat cakes.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14

Long I've waited; now they've come.
Thank you; yes, j will take some;
Set 'em down in front of me.
Here's the way cakes ought to be:
Red and reeking hot, and light
AS dandelion-down in flight;
Fragrant as their mother bloom,
Permeating all the room.
NV installments are by threes
When get such cakes as these.
Lift them with great care together
Gently! they're not made of leather;
And singly lifted cake
Will be pretty sure to break.
Heed We well the words utter;
Also, kindly pass the butter.
This originates from cows
That, mildeyed, sleek-sided, browse
Where an argent river moves
Through soft wales and shady groves.
Nothing ending up with zine"
Goes with buckwheat cakes, ween.
Uf this butter has fault,
IT'S, perchance, trife salt.)
Slice IL up in even flakes,
Slide il in between the cakes.
larry not, but instant chirrup
For the Vermont maple strip.
Pour the ruddy liquor out
On the top and round about;
Saturate each spongy Pore,
Stick in your fork-I say no more.
Down i'm the basement dark
The hands on the meter click;
They're touching the thousand mark
So often it makes me sick.
And the gas il is blazing high
In every chandelier,
Though the suns in the MONDAY sky
And the day il Is bright and clear.
But the janitor says that we
Must wait three more weeks for heat
So the reason is plain to see
Why the meter goes on to mete.
Chicago Daily Record.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-10-14

Manuscript Copy ~ the Dibic.
A man in Glasgow is making manu-.
script copy of the Bible.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
IS NO TRAITOR
 TO HIS COUNTRY Congressman Shattuck'S lnScrip- ton on Atkinson's Paper. CAUSTIC CORRESPONDENCE You Could not be Elected Delegate to Convention for II ,minating
 Director of the County
 Poor House."
CAUSTIC CORRESPONDENCE

Cincinnati, August 25.-Congressman w. B. Shattuck recently received a copy Of the "Anti-Imperialist," which he returned to Edward Atkinson at Boston with the inscription, Respectfully returned. Take my name off your list. I am no traitot to my country"
 In a letter dated August 15 MT. Atkinson replied "I am very glad to have the ir- formation that you are not traitor. Had you been, should have taken your name off the list of members of congress, to. all of whom my pamphlets in support of Sen ator Hoar and others are sent I may add that since we assume that you do not sup port the opponents of criminal aggression our effort to take your name off the list of the members of congress at the next cleo ton will be fully justified
 Congressman Shattuck's rejoinder. which he mailed today, contained the following:
 T beg to tell you that I would not, even for the nomination to congress. support those guilty of criminal aggression against this government Gas you are guilty of. Your intimation that you may be able to have my name taken off the list of the members of the next congress because I decline to receive your reasonable docu- ments is another evidence of your monu- mental gall and egotism, You would suc- ceed in your effort about as we'll as you did in getting your criminal literature in the hands of Aguinaldo and his followers. You knew what you were doing when you tried to get this trash in the rebels hands. Your purpose was to give the rebels encourage ment to embarrass the government of the United States and to induce the rebels to hold out until perhaps you could try your luck in having the names of the loyal con- gressmen taken off the list at the next election.
 Not one precinct in the First Ohio con- gressional district would elect you or one of your kind as a delegate to convention to name a director for the county poor house."
The age-herald., 1899-08-26

mittee. composed of sewell Haggard, Ell P Smith and J. A. Rountree, was ap- pointed to formulate a plan. The com mittee retired and after thorough con- sideration reported that a first prize of $i5 and second prize of s10 would be offered for the best and second best weekly news paper published in Alabama.
 It was also recommended that a special room be fitted up at the state fair and that a display of headings of all newspapers published in the state be made, with other features to be added. The report was unanimously adopted and the secretary was instructed to notify all papers of the de- pertinent and to urge them to enter the competition.
 A general discussion was indulged in, af- ter which the meeting adjourned until next Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, when the constitution and bylaws will be adopted and other business transacted
 The following members were enrolled:
 Eli P Smith, J. A. Rountree. M. B. Mayer L. W. Friedman. Sewell Haggard. Richard F Johnston, H. W. Laird, John A. Sparrow, F. G. Mulcahy, Harry J. Burney, J. R. Hornady, R. W. Jones, N. T. P. Finch, Lucien Julian Walker, J. c. Hal stead, B. c. Bulger, Rufus N. Rhodes, R. w Ewing, D. E. Green, G. M. Cruik- shank, J. J. Smith, w. H. Jeffries, E. W. Barrett, T. H. Vaughan Fred F. Allen, J. A Rountree J. H. F. aMosley and Max Korpeles. 'l.A,-J-,..i
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
FURTHER DETAILS OF STORM
The Hurricane Along Virginia Coast
 Was Very Severe

Norfolk. Va. August 25.-The story of the maritime disaster from the late hurri- cane grows daily. A consultation of the northbound arrivals through the AlbemarIe and Chesapeake canal chart reveals many sloops, barges. lighters and small schoon- CTS missing 1hs section Is very remote, and news travels slowly. Two schooners arrived In the capes today in distress, the Frank w. Mccullough, Captain Dunn, and the Oscar c. Smith. both badly handled by the storm.
 The Mccullough sailed from this port for Savannah with coal August s. She caught the first force of the hurricane on the 18th and from then till the 18th fared badly. Her full story is as yet unknown, but when she arrived at the cape her boats were gone, her foremast broken off, main sail and forestay sail gone and the crew on short rations and without water.
 Captain French, the wrecker, sailed with his wreeking outfit for the marshes today to rescue the steamer Nous which is nearly a mile inland in the marshes.
 The Diamond shoal lightship is reported in bad position, as she lies stern foremost in a quicksand. The Beswick, which was lost in the sound Is thought to be the schooner Sallie Purnell Beswick, we'll known in Norfolk and Baltimore.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
WHOLESALE BURGLARY
Thieves Loot the Little Town of Mays
 vile and Escape

Huntsville, August 25.-(SpeciaL)-A big burglary was committed at Maysville last night, and only one store in the town was not entered.
 The following stores were robbed: J. B. Lawler's drug store, John H. Hawkins grocery, F. J. Alexander's general mer- chandise and R. L. Williams general store. The thieves rified the cash drawers and secured a few dollars from each, but did not molest any articles of stock.
 Williams safe was dynamited and com- pletely ruined. The thieves stole horses and came to Huntsville. The animals were recovered today.
The age-herald., 1899-08-26
HUNTSVILLE
Governor Johnston Invited to Speak at
 the Constitutional Convention

Huntsville, August 25.-tspecial)-The executive committee of the chamber of commerce held a meeting last night and ex- tended an invitation to Governor Joseph F. Johnston to deliver the address of well come when the constitutional convention is called to order. A general committee of arrangements for the convention was ap- pointed and N. F. Thompson was elected chairman.
 The demurrer to the indictment against Joseph Barker charged with concealing partnership funds, was sustained by Judge Speake in the circuit court yesterday on the grounds that there is no Alabama law making the charge a criminal offense. Barker was required. however, to make bond in the sum of S2.O00 to await the action of the next grand jury.
 Immediately after the indictments pend ing against him were quashed Barker filed four suits in the circuit court aggregating $20O.0OO, claiming $50,eO0 damages in two suits each against his prosecutors, H. F. Alexander and J. F. Brownlow, for malic- ious prosecution.
 All of the parties are from Columbia, Tenn, and the case has attracted a great deal of attention.
 Work on the street railway was suspend ed yesterday because of the failure of nec- essary copper wire to arrive and nearly a hundred men were thrown out of employ ment for the time. Since track building could not begin, Street Superintendent Murphy objected to further grading in the streets because none of them that have been graded have been restored to condi- tion fit for traffic.