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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
QxEQRD.

Rev. Mr.. Newport preached ct the
Congregational church Sunday.
There were no services Of the Metho-
dist church As Rev. Mr.. Staples war
sick.
Carl Edwards was at home from Port
land on Sunday.
Miss Spring returned to Auburn last
week.
Alton verrill's brother from Lynn,
Mass, IL helping take care OF him.
Rev. Mr.. Ericsson preached at the
Advent chapel Sunday.
Charles 81. Smith has sold bis place to
Miss Charlotte Fisher Of the Oxford
Spring House.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
BROWNFiElo.

Mr.. Andrew Thorn and son Clarence
left town Oct. 4th for California, where
they expect TO find permanent business.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. l.. Frink, formerly OF
Brownfield, now OF Portland, are visit
ing at j. l.. Frinks.
Mrs. Greenlaw OF Portland IL visiting
at Mr.. A. BlAke's.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
STEPPED INTO LIVE Goals.

"when child / burned my foot
friGhtfnlly,r writes W. n. Eads Of
Jonesville. Va. (which caused horrible
lex sores for 50 pears, bot BuckIen's
Arnica 6slve wholly cured mo after
everything else failed" lnfalllble for
Barns, 6calds, C1ts, Sores, Bruises and
Piles. Sold By r. A. Shsrtls6 3 Co.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
PERU.

Schools commenced IN town on The
lst; Miss Mad Gibbs teaches IN East
Peru and Miss Ada Gerrish at The Centre.
Married, Sept. son, Mr.. Percy L.
knight and Mlss Addis u. Hartman
both Of Peru. Good lick 70 the Happy
pair = ~ VIII Of thek ffisads: q
! Pe1ne epplss y ~ es11S - ~ 6oy
ssd IT, ! Z sseg1oeq ayYpE11A -
Int 4 1plea1id vsAtAef
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
WHAT'S YOUR FACE WORTH,

6omstimss . fostass, but never, Y
yoa have sallow oouplsxion. jauu-
(iced lock, moeh patches and bloseAss
On TIE skinsll slGns Of Liver Troable.
But Dr.. Kings New Lie Pille give
C1eef 8tin, Rosy Chesks, RlcA Oooplex-
ioo. Only = 6oa6S q \. ~ GhartIe4 y
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09

eSS8S@ -
Mr. oarAA Elder has I'D ~ fAru1,
the vrlllian uamball plaoA - euunG
Klmt all, and = making pgepayeeions =
joln ier family n The Wet. Sic came
here ! few years siuce 70 care for her
brother, william Kimball, In hls last
years.
Cold Baldwin apples may b bcs4ht
about here for 10 cents per barrel on the
trees, the buyers to pick them. Seventy
ave Q snts Per barrel for No. l's deliver
cd at the railway station 10 al the price
that 10 offered
Mr. W. r. stark Of Cambridge 10 ct
his q ttage at the Centre now.
Carrie Hubbard has returned from .
visit o Rochester, N. Fl.
Mn. Walker and daughters Of Boston,
Who lave been visiting ct Barnes Walk
er's, lave returned homo.
John McKeen has been up from Cum
berlaild Mills for few weeks.
Mr. Salmon McKeen has gone TO
Porthnd with Mrs. Colt and viii attend
the n aine Music Festival.
Ernest Hatch 10 doing some work on
the fr INT Of Moore q Browns store and
layinS . new platform.
Setll Heald Il In Portland this week.
Henry ID. Walker has bought Of An
drcws OF Norway work horse, and o.
car Klmball has sold one pair to Albert
Quint Of Fryebufg, and bought . fine
looking pair also Of Andrews.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09

UHtSWs
Mrs.. Leuiee Bayier, Of Jamaica Plein,
Nass., as1Aughtsf ef the late oommsnd9I,
1lexandlr 8. WadDWorth, U. 3. n, Win
IL dApehtsr, Msrgarst, Visited her
cousin, Nh. John p. Hubbard, this
week.
Miss Hannah <. Bucknell has been APP
pointed poatuaster. q Hiram IN place Of
willis +. Wadsworth deceased.
Mr.. George Starblrd b quite III OF
typhoid fever.
Col. J. r. TwItchell IL In III health.
Rev. David Nelson, Nethodist, OF
West Baldwin, and Rev. Joseph @. W.
Herold Of HIrsu, ConGregatiouslist, are
holding series Of meseinga each sven-
Ing, alternating between the churches.
Ir. Solomon Stuart has recovered and
Resumed business.
Mr.. Mark r. Coolbroth, Of Step
Falls, the veteran lumbcrmsn, stated In
Hiram Saturday that be was "A yeers old
and that be had never known Ssco River
a. low as It ID ct the present time.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09

Knicker-You ~ your con b . Con-
tractor. What b his special linsi
Bockef--Debta.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NOV. 6.
For President,
William Mckinley,
Theodore Roosevelt,
or New York.

For Presidential Electors Name,
JOSEPH o. SMITH OF Skowhegan.
GEORGE Z. wESC01'T OF Portland.
CHARLES T. LIBBY Of Portland.
JAMES W. WAKEFIELD OF Bath.
FRED ATWOOD of Winterport.
ALMON II. F0GG Of Houlton.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
NORTH eUckFiElp..

Mary Capen has returned to her home
In Middletown, Conn.
Ben Record and Juls Mayhem went 10
Bryant Pond 70 cattle fair.
Elva and Maggie Healdi and Lila
Fletcher went to Dixfleld TO the teachers
convention.
william Smith u westbrook Is visit.
ing bis brother Etssl.
Mn. Elizabeth Waldron ID with her
sister, Mrs. J. r. Bicknsll, for while.
4. d. Heald ID putting water In the
building where his son Carl lives.
Jefferson Farrar has been digging q
we'll.
Fairfield Farrar Il on the sick list.
Mrs. Gilman Wheeler Of Bangor, who
has been with her husbands folks this
summer, has returned home.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
BRYANT POND.

Called 10 higher life. Mrs. Lydia
Bryant, widow Of the late Mshalon
Bryant, died at her home ut Frank p.
Coles, Tuesday, Oct. ID. Funeral
services were held st the house Thurs
day, at O'Clock, Rev. r. E. Barton Of
Bethel officiating. Aunt Lydia's health
has been failing all summer, simply
wearing out from old age, for IL abe had
lived until the 18th OF October she would
have attained the advanced age Of 80
years. She Was the daughter Of Merrill
Chase and Was born 10 Woodstock, and
has always been an honored and respect
ed resident Of the town. She was the
last Of large family, with the excep-
ton OF Uncle Alden Chase, who was
present at the funeral, and was half
brother OF the deceased. she was a good
womxu and devoted mother, and her
first consideration Was her home and
children. There were six daughters
who grew to womanhood, i've Of whom
are now living, and were with their
mother at the last; one, Mary Ellen, was
called to higher life q few years ago |;
her husband, Mr.. Saunders, WAS present
at the funeral. Aunt Lydia had shock
about four years ago and since that time
has been nearly blind, and has been q
constant care 10 her two youngest
daughters, Mrs. Alice Cole and Miss
Clara Bryant, with whom she lived, and
she received the tenderest love and care
from them, they doing everything for
mother they could, and they will miss
her dear presence in their home, and
urtn ali ha ~
At the close Of the services Mr.. Barton
repeated THAI pathetic poem, Mothers
Beautiful Hands," which recalled forci
big to the minds Of all present, the
many loving tasks performed for her
dear ones by the hands then folded In
death. The floral tributes were beauti-
full and the interment WAS ct Lakeside
cemetery, and We left her sleeping In the
sunshine, to awake In the sunshine Of
Gods eternal love In that beautiful
home not made with hands, eternal and
In the heavens"
John Titus, Frank Cushman, Edwin
Cole, Percy and Albert Bowler have
been camping at the lakes for the past
two weeks.
L. Andrews has bought the Glen
Mountain House and MARI Allen and
wife are landlord and lsndlady. Mrs.
robin is still cook and Lucy Msader
table girl.
Mrs.. Ida En- Earl and son Percy have
been packing the BEST Of their furniture
and are going 70 leave town shortly.
A large number Of our townspeopls
attended the music festival ct Portland
last week.
Mrs. Stella Ford and daughter EtAsl
and Mrs. Emily Fslt attendsd TIE 1ap-
tise couvsution Is yarmouth lat WI.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
DR. MM. c. IOWlE.

DIR. William C. Towle died suddenly
Monday morning, Oct. l, at his home
in Fryeburg, aged 20 years. He had been
suffering from complication Of diseases
for about q year, and had intended to
spend the winter with his son, Hon. War
rem w. Towle, candidate for the nomina-
ton to congress In the 10th district In
Boston. On Saturday he took violent
cold, which so aggravated the diseases
affecting him that death ensued. DR..
Towle WAS born in Fryeburg June II.
1880. He Was for many years the leading
physician in Oxford County. He was =
man Of large form, and open, handsome
countenanee. During the civil war he
served as q surgeon in the 18th and I'D
Maine and Sth Indiana regiments. He
Was very popular with his fellow towns
men, and was always one of the first TO
advocate any improvements for his
native village or town.
He leaves Q widow, son, Hon. w. w.
Towle Of Boston, and daughter, Mrs.
Lucia Livingstone, wife OF Professor s.
I. Livingstone Of Williams College.
DIR. Towle was past master Of the lodge
Of Masons Of Fryeburg, member Of the
Portland Commandery, Knights Tenn
plar, and commander Of the local G. A.
X. Post for several terms. The funeral
WAS as the Towle home on Wednesday,
and WAS private.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09

The Office Of J. A. Record at the
foundry st Livermore Falls was entered
Monday night, and the safe blown. The
Office was entirely wrecked, windows
blown out and roof stove In, but though
they smashed the safe door, they did
not get into the vault. The stable Of o..
A. Barker was entered Monday night,
and one Of his iron gray span stolen.
Mr.. Bankers stable 10 remote from the
house. The harness Of I'd Barker and
the silver geared carriage belonging 70
G. A. DartSr were also tAksn.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09

,ve,.s 49, Ia o,t ~
ss.s.. - n, u-srirc ~
fnrSsr ASnsr.
~. Ana -. sneooro now ocoapv II
rsnt ~ ~. q. n. Wormeil. vhicS va
ieft vacant 6v - remoyai Of - ismily
AZ Rsv. p. <. Rand 70 the rent formerly
occupied bv Rey, Arthur vsriey.
Mr.. i. B. Goddard. Although 81 years
| OF age, went % Portland Friday - buy
stock OF The latset styie Of house fuRnish.
| ins. Mr.. Goddard has been In the bush
meas In Btshel many years, and has %
| fAr recovered from bis Illness that be 10
seen upon our streets every day, actively
enrsged n business. &
DR.. and Mn. Tuell and con Charles
vpent Sunday with relatives In South
Paris, returning Monday.
A rood number Of our people have
bsen eniovinr lie music festfvsi In Port
land.
Nra. j. G. GehrinR attended the fes-
tiyal IN Bangor.
Thursday evening the member Of the
Upiyersalist church and parish invited
their friends 10 reception rendered %
their pastor and wife, Rev and Mra. r.
+. Barton. The parlor and chapel were
prettily decorated with autumn leaves,
and tables were tastily arranged from
which chocolate, coffee and cake were
served. Mia Elaie Hall rendered Q
piano solo yery pleasinely. Rev. Mr..
barton and fsrnlly have spout the month
Of September In BrovnAeld, their former
nome, ana tneir ir'enda were gao 70
r,s.s.r. "a .oc,si sS.,,
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p,,rrh. nv r,sI,,rerv dsrs mani for The
.e..on Ma. r.rrsr,s xorI N i. a. ssa-
sor -. 40 rnr.h .rc,sc..,aa he ths
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
ATWOOD 6 FORBES,
EAassrs anA Prspsisssrs.
Gponsn n. ATWOOD. A. Z. Foa1xaL

rxnns %sl.sO year n paid ssricsly In sdvancs.
oshervtss eao year. singh copies osnas-
ApvxxrlsnnxnnS An lsgal sdvszs1ssmenss
are Given thres consecutive insers1ons nor ol-0
per Inch In length Of oolamn- Special oonsraces
made viii local. sranstens and yeAriy sdversas'
ere.
Jon Pnuruo New type. fAss presses, Steam
power. experienced vorkmen and iou prices
combine " make this department Of our eusa-
aess eomp,ess and popular.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
NORIA PARIS

Thos. Flsvin and family Of South
Paris have moved 20 the home Of Des.
Durham for while. Mr.. Fiavin's
health will not admit Of bis working At
his trade Of painter At present.
W. =. Durham Is spending bis vsca-
ton at his fathers.
Mrs. J. II. Durham fell down stairs
recently, and WAS very badly bruised.
Charles Ross has rented his brother
Daniels farm for one year.
Mr.. Edgerly and family have returned
home from = two weeks vacation.
Mrs. Vests son 10 making . visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Edwards visited
at America Andrews Sept. 80.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brett and Phin
Curtis visited At W. Z. Curtis Sept. 80.
Percy Mayhem had the bad luck 70
break his leg at Gorham, n. e., last
week. He Il now 1T home.
The pr"sldiug elder in this district Of
the N. T. church preached st North
Paris last Sunday.
An agent Of the American Bible So
ciety was through this section last week,
selling Bibles and taking q church MEM
bership eensus.
Some of the children In this section
are sick with the prevailing epidemic.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-10-09
aINGLE COPIES.

SINGLE COkAkS.
single Copsss Of shs Deqccrss are fosr cens
each They vill be mailed on receipt Of price oy
the pubhshers or for the convenience OF pakruns
Angle copies Of each Issue have been placed On
sale &C me following places In the County:
south PARA. SSurtevant's Drug store.
Shurtled's Drug store.
Norway, Noyes' Drug Store.
stones Drug Store
Buckdeld Alfred Cole, PossmAste
Fryeburx AZ. Lewis, insurance Once
Paris Hil, MIS-. Harlow, Post once.
West Paris. samuel Y. While
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Firss Bapsass Church. nev. h H. B1ahop.
PAsoor. Preceding sverv sunday - II 4. H.
Sunday School e q n. SabbekA Rvening -
vics = 7:N ?. \. Prayer Msssang rharsday
evening ~ - Pm.
U.ivsrsanss chsnA: Sunday SCHOOL every
0undav "A n A n
The age-herald., 1900-07-06
--------------- SEMBRICiI COMING BACK
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Mime. Marcella Sembrich is to return to this country next winter at the head of her own opera and concert company and will fill engagements here from December until April 1. c. l.. Graf, formerly busi- ness manager of the Melba- Damrosch Op- era Company, has signed a contract with Mime. Sembrich for fifty performances here, at what is said to be a larger salary than any other singer has ever received in this country before. MT Graf went to Mime. Sembrichs home in Dresden shortly after her return and succeeded in arranging the tour which is to extend throughout the country and will include operatic perform ances and concerts. Mir. Graf is to sur round Mime. Sembrich with a capable com pany of singers under the direction of Sig nor Enrico Bevignani. The chorus and or chestra will accompany the organization on the tour. The repertoire of the company will be confined to La Travlata," "Il Bar biere di Seviglia," Lucia" and Ri goletto.' Mme. Sembrich will be heard also in recital
 The season will begin at Carnegie Hall in the second week of December with song recital, to be followed by similar appear ances in Bosom and Philadelphia The company will arrive here during the latter part of December and Mime. Sembrich will begin tour of the principal cities of the country, travelling as far West as San Francisco. where a series of operatic per- formances will be given during March. MT. Gran who returned from Dresden by way Of London, engaged there for Mme Sem brich's company Signor Bensaude the first barytone of the Covent Garden Company. NM. Bonci, Battistini and Arimondi are to sing With Mime. Sembrich in Berlin during october and November, and it is not i'm probable that Mr. Graf will engage the en- tire company for this country. Mir. Graf is also to direct the concert tours of Mme Gadski and Andrea Dippel next year.
The age-herald., 1900-07-06
Improved His Opportunities

The sobriety of Ii Hung Chang is pro- verbial Of all the charms of life that all lure other men he cares only for power, and disdains that which is simply pleas ure. In his own philosophical way he says: 'Flowery paths are not long," In conver- saton he is either quietly and studiously polite and deferential or brutally and ve- hemently frank, as best suits his ends. His most characteristic qualities are infiex- ible purpose and the courage of his con- victions.
 When Ii Hung Chang rises he goes to work, and at ' o'clock eats a breakfast composed of birds nest soup, rice congee and coffee without milk or sugar. At the of quinine and goes to work again.
 Ii Hung Chang has always been thrifty and has taken advantage of his great op- portunities to make money. It has been said that he is the richest man in the world, but of that no one knows, as Lii has not divulged his financial status. How ever he practically owns the railroads and telegraph lines in China, which he put in on his own responsibility and at his own expense, and derives the revenue from them He is behind every progressive Europan innovation introduced into the country, and while his motto is China for the Chinese he is not averse to using the foreigner and the good things the foreigner can provide
The age-herald., 1900-07-06
I.LIrERACY AT THE SOUTH

From the New York Sun.
 The third Conference on Education at the South was brought to a close last Friday at Capon Springs, in Virginia, after a ses- sion of three days. Throughout it was marked by broad and liberal spirit, more especially as touching the question of ne- gro education, though, as yet, illiteracy prevails to an appalling extent among the negroes, and even among the whites it far exceeds the average in the Northern States.
 For instance, the average illiteracy among the native white population of 10 years of age and over in the six New Eng land States and the three States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania was only 2.31 in 1S9O and among the colored pop ulation it was 21.71
 In the eleven States of the old Southern Confectionery the iliteracy among the na- tive whites and negroes was:
The age-herald., 1900-07-06
TRt OKlY DAILY HEWspAPfR IN ALABAMA
Signing the Scale.

No act in these days of great events-no act in the momentous Chinese war no act of the Democracy even at Kansas City exceeds in human interest the act of yes- terday to this district, when a new scale was signed by the miners and the opera tors. The United Mine Workers and the operators are the bulwark of this district All the other industries are based on their work What they dig out of the ground is handled and rehanded, always with profit to the district until it goes out in the forms of merchantable goods. Some of it becomes wire nails very much of it will soon be made into steel and some of it is sent to serve as fuel Illuminating gas elsewhere. The Operators Association and the United Mine Workers are the corner stones at least, if not the entire founda- tions, of the districts prosperity
 When yesterday they came together in a sensible, busness-like manner, the bells should have been rung and the whistles sounded; but nothing of the kind was done. The operators took up their plans for find ing new markets, and the miners win this morning resume their work in the rooms and galleries deep down in the bowels of the earth. The settlement of yesterday is a tribute to the good sense of the American people. When delegates are instructed to do their best but in any event to agree up- on scale for a year, settlement becomes not only possible, but certain. In the pres- ent case both sides were in an equitable frame of mind, and so long as they remain in that mental condition, just so long will strikes be avoided, and prosperity will tarry in the district.
The age-herald., 1900-07-06

fore them, and that not one of them is equal to 1t. The German Emperor has whip ped China with his tongue, and Russian hordes are itching to grab territory, but both and all stand aghast at the task be- fore them And it should be remembered that the popular outbreak Is at present con- fined to a small end of the upper quarter of China that lies north of the Yellow river. What the contest would be if the untold millions south of the Yellow river should rise against all foreigners can be better imagined that described.
 Land greed is the bottom cause of this rebellion against Western civilization. Rus sia's seizure of Port Arthur and Manchuria; Germany's seizure of Kiaochou and Che foo; England's seizure of Wei-Hai-Wei, not to mention Shanghai and Hong Kong, and the hungry eyes of France, Japan and Italy, did it. The Chinese have risen against merciless land greed, and they have committed and are committing atrocities that must in the last analysis be laid at the doors of the nations that provoked them History will so locate them.
The age-herald., 1900-07-06
Land Greed Did It.

The fate of the legations and of other foreigners in Pekin remains in a fog of rumors and guesses, yet one fact is plain Northern China at least is aroused to bat tie with all invaders. The Government may or may not be in the movement, but whether it is or not the movement is all- powerful, and is sweeping all before it down at least to the Yellow river
 Nor does this movement consist simply of rabbles armed with spears and the like 1t is plain that vast numbers are we'll armed with the latest and best rifles rapid fire guns, and even Krupp artillery. The Chinese have been accommodating since the wcr with Japan in 1894 guns and ammuni- tion, and they are as well-equipped almost as the British found to their surprise last year that the Boers were. To some extent the cases are parallel, and what the Chin ese lack in skill they make up in numbers. ! The powers have lost none of their land greed, but they began to see that there is something in the case besides the ratio of Hivision. They begin to see that land-rob- ping even on an ordinarily peaceful and in- Offensive nation has it's obstacles They be- gin to see that long and costly war is be-
The age-herald., 1900-07-06
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Posaessed of fsreat Strength

The most eminent Chinaman in China Li-Hung- -Chang-is pure Chinese in descent. This may sound like saying that truth is truth, but, as matter of fact, the rulers of China are Manchus and Tartars, and not Chnamen at all, says the New York Her aid. Li-Hung-Chang's success, aside from his intellectual gifts, which are great, is perhaps partly due to his great stature, six feet two inches, a height seldom reached by Chinamen, and by his ability to raise a heavier beard than usual in a country where the beard is the only possession of the white man that the Chinaman envies him.
 he was a young man he must have pos sessed remarkable physical strength. Even in his old age he carries himself in a man. ner that shows plenty of reserve strength: his bearing Is soldierly, alert and imposing. His eyes are large and black, their pene- trating quality yelled by long lids when he wishes to conceal that which they might possibly betray His skin is deep yellow, very much wrinkled. He wears a heavy white mustache and imperial. His cheeks still have color in them in spite of his age, due partly to his correct habits and good digestion, for he is very abstemious, and to applications of electricity for the relief of partial facial paralysis.