Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-23
ABOUT THE STATE.

The body OF Freddie Patent, VINO us
appeared from Lisbon Wednesday, was
found the next day in pond not far
from the village.
Mrs. Fred Violette was drowned at
Old Town, Sunday, the 14th, while fish
ing with her husband. They were in
canoe which upset. Mr.. ViOlette sue
ceeded in reaching shore, but his wife
drowned before assistance arrived.
Belgrade is so prosperous now with
fishermen and other summer visitors
that it has made no effort this season,
to revive that old advertising dodge
about visit being expected from Ex-
President Cleveland and Joe Jefferson.
1t is reported at Augusta that Adju-
tant- General Richards will resign his
Office to accept an appointment as super
intendent of construction in new
soldiers home in Tennessee. Two can
didates for his position have so far APP
peared, Col. E. c. Milliken of Portland
and Capt. W. A. Paul of Lewiston.
The Is months old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Albion Day of Limestone. met
with peculiar death few days since.
The child fell head foremost into pail
half full of hard wood ashes. The
ashes were cold, but in crying the child
filled her lungs so full of the ashes that
she could not breathe when found, and
died after two days of terrible suffering.
Alonzo Day, a Rockland laborer, ap-
peared at the city marshal's office We'd
nesday plentifully smeared with blood,
and told a story of being murderously
assaulted by his wife, who first attempt
ed to force carbolic acid down his throat
while he was asleep, and later tried to
cut his throat with razor. Mrs. Day
emphatically denies that portion of her
husbands story in which she is accused
of attempting to kill him. She says the
man inflicted the wounds himself and
that the alleged attempt at poisoning
was either drunken fancy or deliber-
ate falsehood.
And now they say that the Maine room
in the New England Building at Buffalo,
since the committee of which Mr.. Kicker
is chairman got into the game, is the
handsomest and most attractive of the
six. Newly papered and carpeted, with
rich furniture, with portraits of Governor
Hill, Mr.. Blaine, Hannibal Hamlin and
Governor King on the walls. huge
moose head over the mantel, big regis
| ter for visitors, etc, etc., so that visitors
from Maine can hold their heads high at
the exposition. 1t is we'll. And it only
remains for Maine to raise the small
balance of that $4,000 needed to pay for
its part of the building itself.
That was rather a stalwart prayer
that the little Gardiner boy put up, and
was expressive if not wholly reverent.
Living as near neighbors is family that
is in deplorable condition, the mother
dead and the four or five children COM
ing along almost any way. One of the
younger male members of this family
has decided fancy for climbing the
trees on the premises and has received a
few quite serious falls; so when the
4-year-old tot in the next house was say
ing his prayer the other night his mother
was Mortified to hear the following
clause injected into it: "Oh, God, take
care of the Blank family. Tommy
climbs the trees, and oh God, see that he
doesn' fall and break his cussed neck. "
1t is needless to say that that prayer
came to a very abrupt ending.
Maine Woods: Trying to see how
many fish one can bring home is an old
fashioned way of fishing and should be
discouraged. Fishermen come home
and point with pride to 100 or 200 trout
they have taken from the neighboring
brooks and then have to hunt for friends
enough to give them to. The next poor
fellow who fishes the stream comes home
with a bare half dozen and wonders why
the fishing is so poor. There is such a
thing as getting enough and knowing it,
and there is such thing as not knowing
when one has a sufficiency. Reports of
large catches come in frequently telling
of enormous catches made in a short
time. OF course this shows that at that
time there were many fish there; it
also shows that it is of no use for any
one else to go there right away. In some
places good catches are made and the
most of the fish are put back into the
water. This gives supply of fish, keeps
the stream stocked and gives plenty of
sport. There is no sense in killing more
fish than one needs for immediate use.
The wholesale slaughter can but kill the
goose that lays the golden egg. Every
one interested in preserving our fishing,
whether in brooks or lakes should lend
hand to discourage the practice.