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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
LOCKE'S MILLS.

j. 3. Barnett IL on the sick list.
Harry Fsrnhsm has gone TO Massa-
chusetts 20 work.
Calvin Cole has moved away from this
village.
Mary Hadakiu has returned 10 work
for Mrs. Hussey.
Mrs. w. II. Fsrnhsm has gone To
Denver. Col. She has a sister there who
IL In very poor health.
Mrs. Clara Brown and children recent
ly visited at Mechanic Falls.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
1sAchsRs, CONVENTION.

The annual convention Of the Oxford
County Teschers' Association will be
held 1t Canton Nay 10 and 20. Further
notice viii be given later, when details
are arranged.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
HEBRON,

Las, year Mrs. II. h. Stearns planted
her sweet peas April llth. and this year
her garden WAS covered with tvp feet Of
snow at that date.
The roads are in bad condition.
Mrs. Cyrus Rsmsdell and son visited
friends here last week, and were about
tao hours coming from their home In
East Hebron.
Miss Addie Maxim Is quite sick with
pneumonia.
II. A. Cushman is having hard time
with the grippe.
Mrs. DR.. Crane Is quite poorly, and
several others are taking their share OF
colds, etc.
Miss Grace Bumpus goes to Poland
Springs, where she win begin teaching
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jewell have taken
rooms 1t Oakhurst, and are houseksep-
ing.
Robins have been singing very cheer
fully for . few days.
A verv poor sugar season b the re
port. Quite . good run this week, but
the buds are 90 large the cap ID dark,
and not the best Of favor.
DIR. DOMAIN has been having TIE
grippe the past week. He 10 still
troubled with his injuries, caused BY
falling while In Augusta.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
SOME TONES MAKE DRUNKARDs,

JUNE IONIVo MhnH OfsC
but Cleveland's Celery Compound Tea
contains no alcohol-it ID purely yege-
table. Steep Il In hot water and 1t IL
ready. II IL a. pure and harmless "a
milk, but 1t Is the quickest and surest
cure In the world for Nervous Prostra-
ton. Exhaustion, Constipation, lndl-
sestion, and all diseases OF the Blood,
Kidneys, Liver, Stomach and the Skin
There Is heslth aud vigor In every ounce
of Il. y. A. Shurtleff q Co., South
Paris; Williamson & kimbsll, Norway,
will give you free trial package. Large
packages - cents.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18

Governor Powers has issned . writ OF
election recIting that vacancy has been
occa stoned 10 the Congress OF the United
states by the death Of Hon. Nelson Ding
ley and summoning the Inhabitants Of the
cities, towns and plantations TO assemble
on the third Monday Of June, which Will
be the 18th, to give In their votes for Mr..
Dingley's successor.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
WEST alJCkeiElO

Mrs. c. B. Harlow and Mrs. John
Flsgg are sick.
Mrs. Bonney Is at work for Mrs. Hsr-
low and Fannie Harlow Is st work for
Mrs. Fisgg.
Miss LeHsy aud Miss Pratt Of Norway
are at Augustus Msyhew's.
q. ID. Warren and wife were at Mrs.
Winslow's sunday.
Lorena winslow Was ut North Buck
field last week.
Augustus Msyhew has lost horse.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
CANYON POINT

BENZ. B. Daley and J. n. Daley are
painting the inside Of Union Hall.
Washington Treat Was out Of doors
this Friday morning. We Are glad %
re Uncle wash ogs again.
I. A. Ellis vas seen In our place Tues
day. He 70 looking better.
Farmers are working up wood plles.
Hay plenty.
Maple syrup scarce.
Our school co0meoced 4oo1Ay, ~
l0sh, Mn SAwysf tsaah9.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
THR OXFORD BEARS
THE uosMos or THE WEEK m Al
SECTIONS or THE COUNTY.
PANS HRL.

rrss Dap1ass Church. ~. h. a. ns>an.
rss,ss: rSsss..nS syssY sssaa = 4 = =
ne g i:@ z: =. Prayer Asssas Wsasssday
Usivsrsai,ss cAareA: sunday school every
sunday - II a. -
Mrs. II. A. Roberts, who has been Wis
isine relatives In Massachusetts, Tor SIX
weeks, returned home Friday.
Carl lverson has moved from his farm
into rent In the John Garland house.
The Paris Hin Water Company organ
lied a. corporation under the laws OF
Maine at the Academy last Saturday
evening. The following officers were
elected:
Prssidens--Georre u. Atwood.
Treasarer-o. A ThAyer.
Clcrk-Henry II. Hammond
pirecsors-H Hiram r Hubbard, Benz. 5. Doe,
a. A. Maxim. W. h Cummings. U. H. Head.
A committee % dram bylaws vas choecn con-
sissins of-9eorge y. Atwood. John r1erces u.
X. Hubbard
This company have obtained the water
rights to the springs on Crocker Hill.
Az engineers survey shows these springs
10 be one and three-fourths miles nom
Paris Hin and nearly two hundred feet
higher than the village. The water In
abundant supply comes from boiling
springs, away from all sources OF con-
taminstion and the natural facilities AZ
forded for storage reservoirs are ex-
ceptiouxlly iue. The Water Company
organized Saturday propose TO put In
gravity system with four-inch main at q
cost Of five thousand dollars or less.
Water rentals already subscribed assure
an income Of about six per cent. upon
the cost Of the plant az the start, which
viii doubtless be Increased. In order TO
install the plant the company now offer
until sold, two hundred shares OF the
capital stock Of the Paris Hill Water
Company st the par value OF twenty-five
dollars per share.
IL Il the verdict Of many city guests
xho have been here that there Is no more
delightful place to spend the summer
than 81 Paris Hill. The present indics-
tons are that the coming summer Will
see more city guests than ever. Valuable
additions and preparations are making
for the sccommod alton Of guests At the
Hubbard House and The Beeches. APP
plications for board and for furnished
houses are already coming In. IL those
who have furnished houses 10 rent or
wish for boarders would make II known
to the Democrat !, might lead to busi-
ness rs the publishers occasionally re-
eeive requests from city people concern
ing these.
The ladies interested In the Baptist
circle are requested 10 meet At the par
sonsge a, :; 30 NJ.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. +. Perkins are WIS.,
ting their son, George E, In Rockville,
Conn.
James Z. Twi,chell has gone 70 Buck
field 10 live.
wHIrrEMoRE DISTRICT.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18

Miss Emms Tuttle Of Auburn Is visit
ing her grandmother, Mrs. W. II. Cole.
Miss Bessie Colby aud Joshus Colby
have the mumps.
W. L. Cooper Is painting his buildings.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
] ". BRACKET. srcrtsry.

Tue several towns and plantations In Oxford
CoQnty Will DC entitled % delegates sccoNhng 10
a. 80, Msf "a.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-04-18
second CoWyre>sionsl District
Republican Convention.

BYaoS BOYD. Secretary of State.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18

SrHE fight in New Hampshire over
the alleged violation of the civi,
service rules has deeper MEAN
ing than appears upon the surface. Il
is neither a mere matter Of personal
antipathy between Senators Chard,er
\ and Gallinger, nor a desire solely On
Mr.. chandler's part to keep the public
service clean and pure. 1t is ouf+a
likely that his charges are true. and il
is possible that he is sincerely desiroue
of having the law fairly obeypd. Put
beyond this there is strong proba-
bility that the senator has another
motive
Senator Chandler is directly at vari
ance with the administration and with
the republican party upon the money
question, not to the extent of actually
breaking with the party, but in many OF
his opinions and utterances. Upon the
Teller resolution declaring that all
government obliga tons might be
legally and morally paid in silver dol
lars, he voted with the silver men.
while his eloquent speech on bimetallfsm.
since the Inauguration of Mr.. McKin-
ley, as well as his interviews and letters
upon the subject, have given the repub-
iican leaders no end of trouble. Very
few better arguments in favor of BIZ
metallism have ever been made than
those in the speech referred TO. Mr..
Chandler threw in a few sharp allu-
sions to the democrats and a little
eulogy of republicanism, just enough,
We suppose, to preserve his standing
in the party. So good was this speech
for the silver cause that Senator Jones
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output Is Immense.

Victoria, B. c., July 1.-THE man
ager of the Dawson branch of a Vic
toria firm, writing from that city, says:
FROM reliable sources we have learn
ed that the steamships Roanoke and
Gofonne will take from st. Michaels to
Seattle and San Francisco Sc, 900, 900 or a
little more. The Canadian Bank of
Commerce shipped 1900, 900 to each
place, the Alaska Commercial company
a little over 100000 and the North
American Trading and Transportation
company 100000. We are informed by
the Bank of Commerce managers that
they had in sight there at one time this
spring AOOO,OOO. The bank people de-
clare that the total output this year
from the spring clean-ups and summer
workings will be not less than SIS, 900. =
90. and will probably reach $40, 00O. 600 -
The Roanoke is reported to have en-
tered the sound last night.
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struck out few partisan expressions
and sent thousands of copies of it over
the country as an educational docu-
ment. Time and again Mr.. Chandler
has predicted the ruin of the repub-
lican party unless it return to hi
metallism.
The senator's term of service expire ;
in 1901; 1t is more than mere gossip
that the republican national leaders.
as well as the extreme gold element in
New Hampshire, have made up their
mind to retire him. For some time past
there have been whisperings of organ
lied opposition in New Hampshire, and
there is ample reason for the belief
that the fight against him is well under
way. Mr.. Chandler is shrewd: he is a
thorough New Highlander in most of his
ideas. The moral sentiment is strong
in the Old Granite State, it's people
abhor anything that smacks of corrup
ton or wrongdoing in politics. Believ-
ing that the civil service law is safe
guard against improper political
methods, they are strongly in favor
of it.
Mr. Chandler knows this. and he is
turning it to account at it's full value.
He is every inch a fighter; he will not
give UP without a struggle. He will
point to his record as a senator, which
is a good one in the main. and show
his constituents that in advocating BIZ
metallism he was simply standing
where Lincoln and the other fathers
of the republican Marty stood-nay,
where the party itself stood until Mark
Hanna and the money power obtained
control of it in 1896 Then he will
show them that, with the exception of
the case of the Teller resolution he
always voted with his party while ad
vising it for its own good. Having
done all this he will invite attention to
his splendid stand in favor of purity
in politics, as exemplified by his fear
less defense of the civil service and
by the exposure of it's violations.
1t is by no means certain that the
senator will not win out on it. Silver's
friends will shed no tears if he does.
No democrat can be elected in his
place, and within the republican party
New Hampshire could do infinitely
worse
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Courtesies of Indian Society.

~ OWN at Grey Horse, in the terri
iOJ tory of Oklahoma, the Big Hill
band of the Osages is entertain
ing its guests, the Pawhuska band. at
a smoke dance The Big Hills, so the
associated press informs us, think SO
highly of the Pawhuskas that they
have given them nearly $4,000 worth
of presents, including many ponies and
saddles, one thousand yards of red cal
leo and fifty nickel watches" These
are indeed substantial tokens of es-
TEEN and affection and illustrate how
brotherly Indians can be when they
want to be. The Big Hills doubtless
know the Pawhuskas thoroughly and
feel that they are sowing their seed in
good ground. Ere. many moons the Big
Hills will arise and journey unto the
Pawhuskas and expect to be entertain
ed in similar manner. If they don't get
the equivalent of their presents to the
Pawhuskas there will be trouble to
burn. If the Pawhuskas are the gen.
tlemen the Big Hills take them to be,
they will present them with the same
ponies and saddles over again, besides
five hundred cast-off plug hats, two
thousand yards of green mosquito net
ting, twenty-five pounds of chewing to-
bacco and seventy-five tin tea-kettles.
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The American Girl Everywhere.

a pleasant incident yesterday about Ed
win A. Conger of Iowa, twice United
States minister to Brazil, now United
States minister to China. When Mr.
Conger first went as minister to Rio
Janeiro he called upon the Brazilian
minister to the United States, then at
home there upon a visit. AS the visit
was ending the Brazilian minister said:
Mr.. Conger prepared to meet stately
Brazilian dame and began to Turkish
up his small stock of conversational
Portuguese. And Mime. Mendoza was
a stately lady, but one of her first say
ings was Are you Ed Conger?''
Yes, madame" Don't you remember
| was at a wedding with you in Gales
burg, ILL.,, when l was a girl?' The
American girl is everywhere now.
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II MEETING of the national dem
I ocratic committee is announced
TO be held in Chicago on the
10Th inst. AS Chairman Jones is still
IN Europe, probably the meeting will
be rather informal and more in the
nature OF a conference than an official
getting together. Still. such meetings,
whether formal or informal are a1wavs
OF more or less Importance. 1t is sig
hlfcant in this case that the executive
committees of the American Bimetal-
lie Union and the League of Ohio VAL
ley Bimetallic clubs are both called to
meet in the same city at the same time
Whether this is a concerted move
ment or mere accidental circum-
stance of dates, we are not informed
but 1t is more than likely that there
is some understanding between these
different committees. The attitude of
the two bimetallic organizations is well
known to all. General A. j. Warner
the president of the American Bime-
tallic Union, has been in the forefront
of the battle for silver restoration ever
since it began, and is one of the most
thoroughly grounded men in the econ
omics of the question, in this or any
other country. His fidelity to the cause
is absolutely above suspicion. The ac-
ton of the League of Ohio Valley BIZ
metallic clubs at its recent great con-
vention in Louisville-the wild enthus-
iasm with which it greeted Judge Tar
wins declaration that neither the trusts
nor anything else should be permitted
to side-track the silver issue, will not
soon be forgotten.
There can be no reasonable doubt
that there will be a full and free con-
ference between the members of the
three committees with regard to the
conduct of the next campaign, and we
venture the prediction that silver will
not be shelved. In fact, the question
of shelving it has never been raised,
except by a few democrats in the East
who never pretended to be silver men,
and few so-called silver republicans
in the West, who are dying with anx-
iety to have the democratic party
abandon it, in order to give them an
excuse to sneak back under the ample
folds of Mr.. Hanna's protecting wing.
OF course they will get there anyway,
but they naturally feet that they can
do so more decently if the democratic
party weakens on the paramount is
sue"
Hence their prayers and tears for
however trivial, in the at
titude of the democracy that they can
invoke in justification of their toboggan
into the gold camp. We shall watch the
progress of events, remarking mean
while that it is a circumstance worthy
of note that these great bmetallic asso-
Citations. formed to advance the cause
of bimetallism and nothing else, are
never found in utilization with the re-
publican party. but invariably seek for
sympathy and aid in the house of the
democracy.
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| IF the two sent out by the associ-
| ated press are a fair sample of
The Letters of Dreyfus to his
| WIFE, the letters are anything but
valuable contribution either to litera-
ture or history. The world would
have better opinion of Dreyfus if his
| wife had kept them locked up in her
bureau drawer Take this sentence:
| DO you remember my telling you how,
when was in Mulhouse, ten years ago,
in September, I heard a German band
under our windows celebrating the
| anniversary of Sedan? My grief was
such that l wept; l bit the sheets of
my bed with rage, and swore an oath
to consecrate all my strength. all my
| Intelligence, to the service of my coun-
| try, against those who thus offered
insult to the grief of AIsace." Drey-
| fus wept and bit the sheets of his bed
with rage because he heard a German
| band playing! True, there are some
| little German bands abroad that would
make anybody weep and bite the very
| bedquilts to pieces but presumably the
German band Dreyfus heard wasn't in
| that class.
Dreyfus shows himself about as hys-
| terical and extravagant as any of his
countrymen. The manly thing for him
| to do is to preserve dignified silence.
The world likes no man to expose his
sores to the public. Ostentation in
these matters is repulsive Dean Swift
| III his list of great and mean charac-
! ters' made by individual acts, instances
! 'Mahomet the Great, when he cut off
| the head OF his beloved mistress on A
stage erected for that purpose, in order
| to convince his soldiers, who had taxed
him with preferring his love to his
| glory Swift pronounces this one Of
the noblest deeds in history. In our
! opinion ii was one of the cruelest and
| meanest. Real heroism is that which
| never tiaunts Itself. 1t is the heroisn,
| of Sir Thomas Pirton. who was in
stantly Killed at the battle of Water
| loo by a bullet entering his temple
After the battle an examination of the
| corpse showed that Sir Thomas had
| been hit by a musket ball at Ouatre
Bras two days before. 1t was a seri-
| Gus and painful wound-two of his ribs
were token. But Sir Thomas, know
| ing that a great battle was impend-
ing, said not a word about his injury
to anybody for fear the surgeon would
keep him in the hospital when he
wanted TO be at the front. There was
heroism for you.
Dreyfus has suffered a great deal
and he has mankind's sincerest sym
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18
TUESDAY, JULY IS, 1899.
SIXTEEN PAGES.
They Hint at Miles.

president ae "D to- tass Of Da ash rst s:
tween friends and with assur-
ances OF the highest personal consider
anon, some of the newspaper organs of
the administration are approaching the
white house at gentle pace with the
suggestion that, after all, it might b =
good thing to send General Miles to
the Philippines
1t is manifest to these organs that
something must be done Too much
mat is true is pouring into this coun-
try IN respect to the conditions at Ma
Mia. Last week the Oregon volunteers
talked right out, to the dismay of the
thlck-and-thin boosters of Alger and
the war department and the presidents
policy. This weeks opening days find
the country filled, through the agency
of the associated press. with the bold
assertion, in which this country's best
known Manila correspondents ioin,
that the American public is not get
ting the truth or the semblance of It
IN the dispatches edited by the censors
5 of the governments appointing. On
TINS score, the testimony printed this
morning is severely frank
OF course, the organs of a Philippine
policy that has failed are not confess
ing that they have Numbered badly.
they merely intimate to the president
that it might perhaps be well to let
Miles go to the front, their belief being
that this would be a clever way to
check the rising tide of criticism,
Beyond doubt, the president could send
Miles in confidence that the best thing
would be dOne-Miles made no mistakes
in the war with Spain. More than
that, he shielded the blunders into
which Shafter and other ill-chosen Off
GERS had fallen, and he did this in a
delicate way.
Yet it seems not likely that General
Miles Will be sent. In fact, he would
be fool to go to Manila if Alger is. 20
be kept at the head of the war depart
ment; Alger would see we'll to it that
Miles was not properly sustained. So
that a contingency is presented that
settles all speculation about Miles, for
It isn't within the probabilities that
Alger will be put out He ought to
have been thrust out of the cabinet
long ago What gives this mismanager
of the war department his grip on the
president of the United States, the
public does not know. But Alger has
IT; and what a foolish man General
Miles would be to start for Manila and
thus sail to his certain destruction.
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KANSAS CITY man is suing tn

II KANSAS CITY man is suing the
Modern Woodmen of America
for $4,000 damages sustained.
he says, during his encounter with the
goat. The goat consisted of an axle
between two wheels eight feet in di-
ameter. Mr.. Dorch, the plaintiff, was
strapped to the goat in such a man.
ner that when the wheels went round
he went round too, with remarkable
velocity. He reached out his hand to
save himself and it was mashed be-
tween the wheel and the floor. 1t will
be seen that the goat has a pretty good
defense. If Mr.. Dorch had followed
instructions and remained passive while
he was riding the goat there would
have been no accident. Bucking the
goat is like bucking the tiger, the
bucker is bound to get the worst of
it. The liability of the goat in this
case is an interesting question and the
disposition of it by the courts will be
watched with curiosity.
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WESTERN MONTANA NEWS
FOUND FLOUR.
HIS Sign Language Provided One More
Sack of the Commodity.

MS Sign Language Provided One More
Sack of the Commodity.
Missoula, July Ill. N Simons has
lot of flour that he holds awaiting
the proof of ownership that the lawful
possessor can make. Mr. Simons found
1t on the road yesterday morning while
ne was on the way to his favorite fish
ing grounds There were four sacks Of
1t lying in the dust and he picked them
up, expecting to meet the owner before
he had gone far. No owner appeared,
however, and Mr.. Simons still has
the flour. He met with an Indian and
little experience in connection with
the flour that demonstrates the neces-
sity of some knowledge of the Indian
dialect If man intends to spend much
time in the country around here. Soon
after ne picked up the flour Mr.. Smons
met this red man, who was riding leis-
urely along with sack of flour thrown
across his saddle. Thinking that the
nour that he had picked UP from the
friends of the red man, Mr. Smons ac-
costed the 1ndiaP in his choicest sign
language. What he tried to ask was:
Does this flour belong to you? If it
does, take 1T out of my wagon" I'm
fortunately, Mr.. Simons is little out
OF practice in his sign manual, and
what the Indian thought he said was
THAT is my flour. Put it in the wagon"
The Indian, acting according to his I'M
derstanding of what had been said
promptly unloaded his -four and placed
1t with the four sacks in the wagon of
Mr.. Simons. This made five sacks of
Hour and no owner. The Indian had
probably picked up his sack from the
road In just the same manner that Mr.
Simons had. 1t is supposed that some
farmer or wood hauler started from
town Saturday night with load of
flour in his wagon and a load of liquid
corn or rye in his tank and that he lost
the flour, but hung on to the liquid load.
The result was that the flour was not
missed