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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-02
lHideR CaHAa.

In China spiders are highly esteemed
IN the treatment Of Group. You get
from an old wall the webs of seven
black spiders-two Of which must have
the owners sitting In the middle-and
pound them up In q mortar with lit
tie powdered alum. The resulting
mixture must then be set on fre. and
the ashes. when squirted into the
Throat Of the patient, BY means Of q
bamboo tube. are said to effect q Ger.
tain and immediate cure.
Black spiders are evidently full Of
medicinal virtue. for they are largely
employed In the treatment Of ague a.
well. In Somersetshire. II one IL al.
nicted with the unpleasant ailment
the way to get well In to shut up Q
large black spider In . box and leave
| It there till 1t dies. At the moment
Of Its decease the ague should disap-
pear. In Sussex the treatment ID more
heroic: the patient must swallow the
spider.
Perhaps. after all, this remedy may
not be 90 disagreeable a. II appears,
for q German lady who was In the
habit Of picking out spiders from their
webs a she walked through the woods
and eating them after nrst depriving
them Of their legs declared that they
were very nice indeed and tasted like
huts.
SiiE n Lyoas.
The manufacture Of silk has for sew.
eral centuries been the chief business
Of Lyons, France. The Romans e.
tabllshed works there In the third CEN
tury A. d. for the manufacture Of
cloth Of gold and silver. but every ves-
tige Of these was swept away by north
ern invasions The present silk indus
Try was taken there from Italy and
Spain and the Levant about the year
l4o6 under the fostering care OF Louis
XL he imported machinery and weav.
efs With the expressed purpose Of d.
ninlshing the stream Of gold then dow.
Ing into foreign countries. Il b ~
corded that ave aunes Of silk at that
time cost from 800 TO 100 francs. or
nom - 70 60 francs 0o.26 to @l1b0 Q
yard. money then being worth about
four times IT. psssent value.
6ajuSa mn.
Hers's tho story Of Najuba hin n .
nutshell: eir George Colby had b.
tween 600 and 100 mes: the Beers
numbered about 80 men, under Gen.
nal SmitA The British eamped b Q
natural bowl at he top Of the hin, ard |
ut no sentries: TIE Boers clambesod |
~ tie hin b. night and attacked h |
~ eas1y moEnlne. taking ~ DgltidA |
D0upletoly u ouspslsA =
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-02
NeWRY.

Friends Of Phineas Kilgore, formerly
residing In this town, who went 20 Da-
kota several years ago, have received in
telligence Of his death, which occurred
at the latter place very recently. He
has two sisters residing In Newry-Mrs.
Z. B. Knapp and Mrs. Isaac Kilgore,
who are greatly shocked at the sad
event.
Two Mormon elders have lately been
through the town, leaving tracts and
soliciting the privilege Of holding meet
ings. have not heard with what sue
cess.
Mr.. Files, who has been living at New
~ Corner for the summer, is about NOV
ing his family back TO Stoneham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Allen, from
Keene, N. H., have been visiting friends
In this town and Bethel.
Mrs. Congdon has been quite III Of
late, but 10 better now.
Master Gordon, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j.. s. Allen, has been very poorly for
several weeks, and does not seem TO
have improved at this writing.
SUNDAY RIVER.
Born, Sept. 10th. to the wife Of Loren
Trssk, q son.
c. Foster and family have returned to
their home In Everett, Mass.
Robert Foster Of Charlestown, Mass,
IL stopping with his mother at present.
Mary Jackson Of Lawrence, Mass, ID
visiting her mother.
r. II. williamson has been TO Norway
to visit his brother, A. williamson.
Mrs. G. r. Atherton has gone to Phil
lips to visit her parents.
Herbert Kendall ID getting ready 70
make cider. he expects BIG run this
year.
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sale q The following place. In the County:
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-02
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NOV. 6.
For President,
William Mckinley,
OF Ohio.
For Vice-Presidert,
Theodore Roosevelt,
OF New York.

For Presidential Electors Maine,
JOSEPH o. SMITH OF Skowhegsn.
GEORGE z. wESCO1T Of Portland.
CHARLES r. LIBBY OF Portland.
JAMES W. WAKEFIELD Of Bath.
FRED ATWOOD OF winterport.
ALMON II. F0GG OF Houlton.
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Nkw ADVERTISEMENTS.

Remember.
Prepare.
ODcning.
Pncto Supn"cs.
Parker's air Balsam.
Fall Lap Robes.
Elegance.
Nossce.
Information Wanted.
Wal Papers Wall Papers
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

While scouting the banks of East
fast one morning a big king snake ran
plump into a rattleSnake four feet
long, whose dimensions should have
forced a retreat, acco d ng to all rec g
nized rules of warfare. but whose fat
proportions promptly suggested a gor-
geous feast to the hungry ruler o.
reptiles.
Mike McDermott. a farmers lad,
from a clump of berry bushes near by
saw the chance meeting of the two
snakes and observed the fierce prize
fight which followed He had been
picking berries on the banks of the
Lake and looked up just as the scaly
fellows raised their heads to make the
customary polite bow preliminary to
Che engagement. They We're in a first
rate prize ring formed by a sandy
,lear spot among the bushes.
Mike says the king snake looked
surprised when he saw the rattler pre-
pairing for defense. Slowly and with
extreme caution the rattler raised his
head until half its body was in the
air. Then it stood rigid as if expect
Ing an attack. but determined to ward
1t off. The king, three feet long, cir
lied around the r.ttler several times,
drawing nearer with each round.
When the king had narrowed the
circle to diameter of a foot he. too,
suddenly raised his head and body in
the air and stood facing his adversary
For several seconds they glared at
each other in this attitude.
Then the rattler poked his tongue
out at the king, an indignity beyond
the limits of princely endurance The
king very promptly resented the in
suit by darting forward like a flash
and hooking his neck around the neck
of the impudent rattler. Then the bat
tie was on in earnest. The ratt'er was
fighting for his life. the king for his
breakfast.
They fell from their lofty attitude
and rolled in the sand They made no
sound as they twisted and writhed and
whirled and squeezed. Now the raj.
tier was making fierce pecks at the
king with his fangs; then the king
had the rattler by the back OF the neck,
but lost the strangle hold as the S ont
diamond back heaved and s1uirmed;
all the while the lower parts of both
bodies are twined like strands of vari-
colored rone.
Sand flew up in little clouds as they
fought, Mike McDsrmott says. At
times the snakes were lost to v ew
they battled in the hollows made by
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
As Others See Us.

He was a man of middle age who
had been elected representative fol-
three successive terms from his con
gressional district-not because of his
superior ability as a representative o!
the people, but because he had pull
and the people couldn't help it. He
was now engaged in repairing his
fences" with a view to at least one
more feed at the public trough.
What a fine little follow" he said
patronizingly. His remark was ad-
dressed to the charming wife Of an in
nuential constituent, who held in hel
arms boy Of 2, who blinked gravely
at the visitor
Yes" replied the mother. His ia
ther and l are very proud of him"
And well you may be, answered
the willy politician. Hes bright
looking little fellow and maybe he'll be
a congressman some day"
Maybe he WILL" said the mother
with an audible sigh. Maybe he will
poor boy, but I am doing my best tc
raise him right"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
: A Fish That SQuirtS i
: 4 Il Ink in Your FdC6.

The largest loligo | have seen meas
ured three feet eight inches without
attempting to stretch its tentacles
Like the fishes, they seem to sleep
with one eye closed at time, as have
seen them resting on the sea bottom
for this purpose; and when the bait
fell near the sleeping side it was un-
observed, but when dropped on the
other it was gripped at once.
Their enemies are all the carnivorous
fishes, which they often evade either
by evolution, fight or mimicry, for all
of which devices they have some spe-
cial adaptations In the first instance,
they have two tough flexible fins or
wings high on the back. which enable
them TO swim forward or backward
without turning, which is an accommo-
dation of great utility in either attack
or retreat. Then, their eyes are so
situated as almost to- command cir
Gle; this also in fight is invaluable,
for they can see all their enemies and
know their power. and can advance or
retire as the occasion may require.
Then, besides their ink bag, they have
a muscular siphon enabling them to
shoot their enemies in the air some ten
feet and in the sea some three or four
feet away
Not long ago a friend of mine saw a
skirmish between o foligo and its en-
emy in which the cutie came off the
victor. He was fishing in the clear
water off Mevagssey Bay, and, wishing
to catch John Doree, he tied the end
of his line to the tall of live young
sea Dream and threw it into the sea-
Now, Doree is fond of living food
and likes to swallow it headforemost
This suits the fisherman. as when de-
voured in this form the spines of the
Dream act as hooks to the fisherman's S
line and are sure to bring all on board
The Dream had not got far down in
the sea before a cutie saw it and
quickly fastened on to the back of its
neck, and before any steps were taken
to scare it away a large Doree was
seen coming to the front. There was
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

no doubt or hesitation about its pur-
pose. for it was seen that it desired to
swallow the lot, as it was quietly going
forward all the time, but taking a side
view as the opportunity best offered
When about five feet from it's quarry
there was a violent rush on it, with
jaws wide open, but there was just as
quick action on the other side, for the
contents of the ink bag were as quickly
shot into the open mouth. In an in
stant, with the impetus of the rush, the
Doree wasi in a cloud of thick darkness
and the cutie skunk out of sight.
The Doree appeared out of the mud
die in a dreadful state; its eyes
rolled as if in terror. and it's beautiful
olive skin had turned deadly pale.
while its coughing and fumbling were
something to be remembered. black
matter being again and again expector-
ated from gills and mouth 1t was
really thought that the creature was
about to die, and the gaff was got
ready to take it on board. for it had
floated up within four feet of the boat
but noting her outline it gently sank
into the depths below
When gazing the cutie for bait the
face Of the fisherman-unless he has
something white about him-is always
the loligo's target for shooting out of
water.
l remember having a noted London
doctor out at sea for a little amateur
fishing. He would like to see a lolieo
cutie caught. he said. l warned him
OF what was likely to happen when
gazing was on. but he did not care.
Surely" he said, 81 can dodge such
guesswork as this must be for so short
time" | felt dubious as to the result.
seeing his white shirt was a prominent
object through his having such an open
vest. Finally cutie took the bait.
and as l drew it toward us the doctor
lost all thought of himself and his
adornments in his admiration of the
movements and the beautiful eyes of
the creature. when in an instant, as
gaffed it. the whole ink charge struck
him in the throat
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

their contortlons. Once the rattler got
ratified and attempted to run away.
The folds of the king snake were
wound too tightly about him, how
ever, and he was held to the battle
ground. After that the king had the
fighting all his way and made the go
ing according to his own ideas.
Finally the rattler gave up. He lay
stretched out with his head fiat on the
ground, the king twined about him
with uplifted head directly over the
head of the vanquished. Mike saw
the coils of the king tighten about the
body of the other. There was con-
vulsive shudder in the rattlers frame
as the bones in the diamond back bent
and snapped. The fight, which lasted
half an hour. was over.
The boy in the bushes saw the king
snake lean forward and touch the tip
of the rattler's nose with his nose.
Then the red mouth of the king open
ed wide in exultation and satisfied
anticipation Of the feast perhaps. In
another minute the king was engaged
in eating his last adversary, in keen
ing with a time-honored habit of his
race.
When the rattler had half disappear
ed into the face of the king Mike Nc
Dermott sprang out of the bushes and
captured the victor with forked stick.
Chucking him, with his partly swal-
lowed breakfast. in a bucket Mike
carried the snake home.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
.ahIaR ST EfiEsSA s.
~ IS u ~ Aef&NA$&EY1P
The Lamont of the Golfer.


The days are growing short, alas!
The mellow autumn's here;
The grapes are crimson in the press.
The leaves are pale and sere.
The grass is yellow on the meads,
The hills are blue with haze;
The cider mill begins to hum
All, doleful autumn days!
Across the spreading fields the scent
o. roses comes no more;
The fence is bare that was SO fair
With fragrant peas before!
The summers dead. The robin sings
Its farewell to the lark,
And oh it's such little while
From 3 o'clock till dark!
S. z. Kiset
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
The Terrible Juvenile,

PA" said William Jennings Bryan
Jr, balancing himself on the window
sill and making a wild grab at pass
passing sparrow, haven't you got
down off your paramount issue 81
1852"
Il suppose so, my son." replied the
elder Bryan, hurriedly grasping the
boy by the collar and yanking him
back into the room.
Il don't think you ought to have
got off, pa" said William Jennings
Bryan Jr., making desperate effort
to turn handspring over a chair. "Pa,
remount!"
Then it was that Bryan the elder
placed that boy across his knee and
but the rest does not concern us.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Settling the Land Question.

A collier wandering on some land
belonging to Earl D. chanced to
meet the owner face to face. His lord
ship asked the collier If he knew he
was walking on his land.
"Thy land! Well I've got no land
myself" was the reply, land I'm fore
ed to walk on somebody else's Whaur
did you get it FROM"
"Oh," replied the earl, Il got it from
my ancestors"
"And whaur did they get 1t from?'
inquired the collier.
"They got it from their ancestors"
And whaur did their ancestors get
it from?"
"They fought for it"
"Ah, we'll" said the collier, squar-
ing up to the earl, come, and I'll fight
thee for it"-London Tit-Bits.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Elbe and Trave.

The new Elbe and Trave canal, which
has been building five years and has
been completed at a cost of 24,500,00
marks ($5, ,S3l ,000), was formally open
ed by the German emperor in June.
The length of the new canal is about
forty-one miles. The available breadth
of the canal is seventy-two feet,
breadth of the lock gates, forty-six
feet; length of the locks, eightyseven
yards; depth of the locks, eight feet
two inches. The canal is crossed by
twenty-nine bridges, erected at cost
of 81 100000 The span of the bridges
is in all cases not less than thirty
yards and their height above water
level about fifteen feet. There are
seven locks.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
WIreleas Telerranhx

NJ. Guarini has decided to experimo,,
with his repeating system of wirplea.'
telegraphy between Brussels and Az.
werp. With his apparatus he saws I'
can send a dispatch around the world
in one hour. He further states that hi.
telegraphic system between New Yors
and London would only cost f20 on
(S97 .33O), whereas cable costs man
Millions The experiment will be mad.
with a repeater at Malines, which !.
halfway between Antwerp and Bus.
sells.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Cheated.

"Ah," said the groom, here 1t Is.
Here's your friend Bardsley's wedding
present."
"Oh," exclaimed the bride who was
busy in her boudoir, what is it?'
''An original poem of-let me see
five stanzas, with his book"
well! 1t seems to me that after
what | gave him and his wife they
might at least have sent us salad
dish or a pickle fork!"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

A curious coincidence is mentioned
In the latest Melbourne papers. An
Australian lady, who was just conclud-
ing her visit to London, left or lost
her purse on the roof of bus in the
Strand. AS it happened, the next pas
senger to take the seat she vacated
was also an Australian and he found
the purse. One of her visiting cards
was inside. and the finder recogniz-
ing the name, communicated with the
lady in Melbourne and the purse was
restored intact.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

tinguishing between spirituous liquor
and mineral water Mr.. Morell Mac
kenzie had not taken his spirits neat,
SO that the landlord recovered $50 on
his bill for the soda water supplied
with the whisky.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Sultan'S Silver Jubile

Great preparations are beine made
for the sultan's silver jubilee, on Aug.
81, when he will have been Is years
on the throne. Poets and historians
are busy writing accounts OF all his
pious works and the great things he
has done for his subjects. These will
be translated and published in all Ian
guages
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

Railroads have taken little interest
in acetylene gas for car lighting and
there have been many failures in this
field. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
periments in the laboratory on a gen
orator for lighting a car. One advan-
tage of acetylene gas in that each car
can be made separate unit. There
are to be service trials of the appara-
tus on the cars.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Most Discriminate.

For mercy's sake, Mildred! ex-
claimed Mrs. Highmore, shocked at
the neglige attire of her youngest
daughter. who had gone to the front
door to look at a fire on the other side
of the street, don't you know you
never ought to appear in public with
your collar unbuttoned and your
sleeves rolled up except when you are
playing golf?"
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Lively Function.

City Editor-"How did we come to
get scooped on that fire early this
morning."
Night Assistant wasn't any
one here to send out on it but the So
ciety reporter"
City Editor-"Well, why didn't you
send him."
Night Assistant did; and he
merely turned in half column of
names of those present. ."-Philada aa-
ptia Press.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
His Little Joke,

The trembling Boxer knelt before
Lii Hung Chang and strove to explain
matters.
Il must have lost my head. | see
no other reason why | engaged in the
uprising, Son OF the Blue Sky" he
walled.
You are a trife off in your gram
mar" interposed Ii. "You should
say, I will have lost my head"
And the executioner stepped forward
at the proper signal.-Baltimor Amer
lean.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Difficult Situation.

"Be as wise as a serpent" we sug-
gested.
The distraught wife wept afresh.
"If you but knew" she exclaimed,
"how extremely sensitive my husband
is to any impression even remotely
suggestive Of serpents!'
Plainly, here was household
wherein peace could be restored only
by the exercise of the utmost tact
Detroit Journal
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

The English war office is experiment
ing with a new msgazine rife. 1t is
the invention of an Australian and it
possesses several advantages over the
Lee Metford arm, which is at present
employed in the British army The
automatic feed of the cartridge from
the magazine into the breech Is a
striking eature. 1t was tried at Bis
ley in the recent competitions and fired
thirty shots in the minute, with 2S
hits, OF which IT were bull's-eyes.
The rife is said to be vastly superior
% either the Lee -Metford or the Mau-
Ger in strength, efficiency and simpli-
city of construction, while it is 35 per
cent cheaper to manufacture and is one
and one-fourth pounds lighter than the
present Lee-Metford rife. 1t has been
strongly recommended by Lord
Charles Beresford and there Is little
doubt that it will be introduced into
the British army at the end of tho
South African campaign.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Old Laws Hold In England.

Mr.. Kenneth Morell Mackenzie, son
Of the late noted throat doctor, ran up
a bill of nearly $3.50 for drinks at an
English public house, and, when the
landlord sued for payment, pleaded a
statute of George H., the so-called
Tipping act of 1751.' in his defense,
by which an innkeeper cannot recover
for debts for liquor amounting to
more than IS. The statute Is still on
the books. and Mr. Justice Grantham
was obliged TO admit that 1t is good
law now; he managed to deliver a
Portian judgment, however, by dis
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
saint-Saens Near-Sighted.

Camille Saint Saens. the famous
French composer, has become very
near-sighted. so that it is almost not
too much to say that he is blind. What
little work he is doing now is with
the aid OF the strongest glasses and at
great risk to himself.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

A curious fact is related by the
Sydney Morning Herald in connec-
tion with the realization of the estate
of the late Mr.. James Tyson. the Aus
tralian millionaire. 1t appears that
"tidied up" fixed deposit receipts for
100000 In the Queensland National
Bank, scrip for 81 shares in the same
bank, and fixed deposit for $4,000
shares in the City Bank, and other
scrip were found strewn about among
a mass of valueless papers.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

An effort is being made to ..duce
the Prince of Wales to open the Glas-
gov exhibition next May, and it is
expected his royal highness will ac-
cept. There is to be corner in the
exhibition devoted to matters pertain
ing exclusively to Scotland, showing
what the country was like some centu-
ries ago and what it is like at the pres
ent day
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

Moscow has the largest hospital in
Europe, with 1000 beds. There are
ninety-six physicians and 900 nurses,
and about $4,000 patients are cared for
annually.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Clearly Defined.

Miss Olive (of st. Louis)-"Say,
cousin, what's periphrasis?"
Miss Browning (of Boston)-"A
periphrasis is simply a circumlocutory
cycle of oratoriacl sonorosity, circum-
scribing an infinitesimal ideality in
tered in a verbal profundity."
Miss Olive-"Thanks. | thought it
was something like that. but l wasn't
quite sure.'
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
She kflew.

Little Nettie was learning to read
and part of her lesson ran thus: "Tbe
cat has a rat" "Hugh!" she ey-
claimed, "the man who wrote this
book didn't know much. Cats don't
have rats; they have kittens. .'-Kar-
sas City Star.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02
Two Canals Binding Atlantic

1t is asserted that the future VIII
see two canals binding the Atlantic to
the Pacific ocean. The value of such
connection cannot be estimated. I,
will bring prosperity to the nation a.
surely as Hostetter's Stomach Bitter
brings health to the dyspeptic. Trv u
for indigestion, constipation, dysnen
sia or biliousness.
The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-11-02

In Java a small state exists which is
entirely controlled by women, with the
single exception of the sovereign. vino
J man. He is, however, entirely de
pendent on the three women who form
his state council.