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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-02
SINGLE COPIES

single Copies of the Democrat are four cents
each. They viii be mailed on receipt price by
the publishers or for the convenience Of patrons
Jingle copies Of each issue have been placed on
sale &C the following places In the County:
South Paris, Parlin's Drug Store.
Shurtled's Drug Store.
Norway. Noyes' Drug Store.
Stones Drug Store
Buckneld, Alfred Cole, Postmaster.
Fryeburg. A. r. Lewis. Insurance once.
Paris Hill, Mrs. Harlow, Post ONCE.
West Paris, Samuel 7. White.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-02
WEST serneL.

Oh, TOR Wild, weird narrative
To make our blood run cold;
And oh for nice, cool million
OF dollars, all In gold.
And oh for COW that Win give ice-cream.
And oh for dish and spoon. -
And oh for the time when the frost collects
On the whiskers of the moon.
Oh for an ice.box cold and deep
Wherein to crawl and hide;
And oh for glacier high and long
On which TO take q ride.
And oh for the sound Of the skalers' shoes
As they ring In merry rhyme, I.
And for an iceman who
VIII sell US ice on time.
Chicago rost
The day we celebrate comes this week
The days are growing shorter and hot
ter.
Frank Barrows has been spending g
few days with his aunt, Mrs. 'Vienns
Holt.
A number Of men and teams are EN-
ployed here in getting out piling, mostly
hard pine.
Charles Burgess, Elmer Briggs and
Fred Murphy camped Monday night in
the woods of Mason.
Grin Kimball and family, formerly Of
village, moved back to thai
place on Tuesday last.
Charles A. Durham is learning the
trade of blacksmith, and has taken hit
first lessons ola cousin in BOlster's Mills
Miss Lottie Mason, who, for nearly
year, has been attending school In
birmingham, Mass, came home last
week.
The oldest daughter of Mrs. G. D.
Morrill, had one leg fractured last week
by falling under a loaded team on which
she had been riding.
Joseph H. Briggs, who recently NOV
ed from Albany to Gilead, celebrated his
seventy-seventh birthday by visiting his
nephew, Edwin r. Briggs.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-02
County Officers.

Charles T. Whitman. South Paris. CPk of Courts.
Ellery c. Park, Bethel. County Attorney.
j. Hastings Bean, South Paris, Register of Deeds.
Eckley Ballard, Fryeburg,
Register OF Deeds, (Western DISTRICT
Addison X. Herrick, Bethel, Judge of Probate.
Albert ID. Park. South Paris, Register of Probate.
George NJ. Atwood, South Paris, County Treas.
James K. Tucker, South Paris, Sheriff and Jailer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-02
JOHNS LETTER.

HOW HE DoD6ED AN ELECTRIC SHOCK
ABOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-02

Oxford County Court Directory
and County Officers for
1902.
Supreme Judicial Court.
Terms fer 1901.
Sesond Tuesday of February.
Seoond Tuesday Of October.
Terms for 1902.
Second Tuesday of March.
Second Tuesday Of October.
Probate Court.
Al Sosth Paris.7
Third Tuesday OF each month except August.
At fysbsrs.
Fha Tuesdays of June and December.
Al Rumford Falls.
Second Tuesday of February. second Tuesday
of May, third Tuesday of August, second Tues
day Of November.
Court of County Commissioners.
Al South Paris.
Regular sessions Second Tuesday of May.
First Tuesday of September. Last Tuesday of
December.
County Commissioners,
John NJ. Philbrook. Chairman. Bethel.
Jonathan Bartlett East Stoneham
Randall l.. Taylor, Mexico
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-07-02
Court Of County Commissioners.
Al South Paris.
County Commissioners.

Regular sessions Second Tuesday of May.
First Tuesday of september. Last Tuesday of
December.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
Booker washington's Opinion.

New York Letter in Baltimore American
In an interview at Huntington, L. L., to-
day Booker T. Washington discussed his
reception by President Roosevelt, and said !:
81 do not care to say much about the
matter. L think the newspapers are getting
up a sensation in regard to it, and that
they do not voice the opinion Of the South
ern people. However. they are hurting the
entire South more than they are President
Roosevelt They represent a transient emo
tional sentiment on the part of a class of
the white people of the South, but such
feelings do not last and do not indicate
the general feeling and opinion Of Southern
people"
Have you been personally acquainted
with President Roosevelt for some time?"
asked the reporter.
Yes; i have known him for a number of
years We have consulted together many
times over matters pertaining to my race
in the South. The President is very much
interested in the Tuskegee work, and keeps
posted on ii right along. AS far as | can
learn of him he makes no distinction as to
the color of a mans cuticle when he wants
TO get at facts. and is as ready to consult
with the negro, Indian or Chinaman as he
is with the AnGlo-SaXon when ne wants to
get at the whole situation I'm any line Of
his work.
Il esteem him very highly as man of
sense and integrity. There were two or
three other guests with US at the dinner
given by the President. 1t was a private
affair
Have you not been received at the homes
of some Of the best white people of the
South" asked the reporter.
Il have" said Mr.. Washington. 81 do
not weigh heavily these violent outbursts
of a few of the newspapers, and think il
will blow over soon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
TIME TO COOL DOWN.
Curt but Timely Advice tn Unrecon-
structed SOutherners.

Springfield Republican.
The next thing to happen is for our ex-
cited Southern friends to cool down. Polti-
cal enemies of the President especially the
foes of any policy he may have designed
for building up the Republican party in
Southern States, will probably use the din
ner episode for political or sectional ends,
entirely regardless of the true interests of
the races or of the country; but good sem
sible people in the South may be trusted,
let us believe TO take a sober, sensible
view of the real significance of the Presi-
dents act Ii may be conceded that a
more calculating and cunning politician in
the Presidents place would not have in
vited Mr.. Washington TO dinner. but. thank
heaven, Mr.. Roosevelt was neither CAL
culating nor cunning He simply stood on
the ground which every President, under
our institutions and laws, must stand II
he Is true TO the spirit of his oath OF OF
flee.
If the South demands that the President
set himself up Header OF society. rs
a kind of dictator OF who's Who as the
supreme judge and law-giver in questions
or social caste in the United States, then
~ asks the impossible. The presidency OF
the United States is a constitutional and
political Office. and in no sense a social
junction or O'Clock tea. The President
OF the United states, under his sacred
oath, can recognize no classes in society.
nc hres OF social cleavage. no distinctions
based on race or color. FOR him dClther-
utely 10 snub or 10 ignore Booker Wash
ingtOn. worthy American citizen. be
cause OF his race in matter OF social
intercourse, would be a spiritual treason
10 this democratic Republic This may be
said with the more emphasis because the
Southern criticism of the White House
dinner II avowedly directed. not against
Mr.. Roosevelt in his private capacity. but
against President Roosevelt. the official
head Of the Nation.
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Greenwood.

Miss Bessie Turner is visiting IN Indian
apolis-
Mr.. and Mrs. James Robertson left on
Wednesday for Buffalo.
Miss Mary Handley, of Frankfort, visited
this week with Miss Olive Greasy.
Mrs. Annie Blake went to Franklin to
attend the eggs-Gallagher wedding.
Mrs. Sallie Sloan, of Franklin. visited
Mrs. DR.. Wishard the first of the week.
Mr.. Rollie Scott, of Indianapolis, was the
guest of his uncle, +. o. Hoyt, this week
Mrs. Morrison, after spending some time
here, has returned to her home in Law
renceburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Adams, of Edinburg
visited with George Carpenter and family
this week.
Mrs. w. r. Abbott and son, of Irvington
visited the first of the week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Owens.
Mr.. Ira Justice, of Indianapolis, and mis-
brother Roy, of Upton. visited relatives
here the first of the week.
A reception was given to the Rev. E. p
Jewett and his, family, of the Methodist
Church. at the parsonage by the members
of the Epworth League.
At the home of the brides parents. Mr.
and Mrs. William Lancaster, on West
Pal street, on Wednesday evening, the
marriage of their daughter Ella and Mr.
Marion Gallon was celebrated
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Louise Carver and the others of the
Dainty Paree Burlesquers will leave the
Empire tonight. and Monday their place
will be taken by Phil Sheridan's company
in two skits and an olio Of specialties.
stuart, 1.-The male Patti" will be the nov
city at the Grand Opera House next week.
Miss HiIda Thomas, member of the in
teresting vaudeville assemblage at that the
ater this week, will use new sketch, Miss
Ambition" at the two performances to-
day.
Faust" with its old-time comedy and
fiery spectacular scenes, will have two per-
formances at the Park Theater to-day.
Two meIodramas, IAN American Gentle
man" played by Rose Stahl. William
Before Christmas. with Elmer Grandin at
the head Of the cast, will divide next week
at the Park
All Of the seats in the balcony and most
of the seats on the lower floor for Mr.. JEFF
ferson's performance of RIP Van Wrinkle
at English's Opera House this afternoon
have been sold. The gallery doors will be
opened at l o'clock. The demand for seats
tonight. when Mr.. Jefferson will be seen in
Lend Me Five Shiilings' and Cricket on
the HEARTH will exhaust the supply.
Xxx
The attractions at EngIish's Opera House
next week will be King Dodo," a comic
opera, to be played on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday nights and Wednesday
afternoon, ard Primrose and Dockstader S
Ministries, whose performances will be on
Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday
afternoon. Raymond Hitchcock, Gertrude
Quinlan and Elsa Ryan are the principal
members of the king Dodo' company,
which includes an orchestra.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
PORTER NOT A PASSENGER
SUPREME COURT SETS ASIDE JUDO
MENT AGAINST a RAILROAD.
Pullman Employees Agreement with
the Railroad Company Valid
Cases in the County Courts.

The Supreme Court yesterday told Am
brose Russell, a former Pullman sleeping
car porter running on the Big Four, to "go
way back and sit down" Russell signed
an agreement when ne took employment
with the Pullman Company to release the
railroad from liability for any injury he
might receive while in such employment.
He had his arm broken by accident while
riding on a car, and recovered a judgment
against the railroad company. The Su-
preme Court held that his agreement with
the company was perfectly valid and then
told Russell squarely that he occupied
entirely different position from a regular
passenger, since he did not have to work
at this kind of business if he did not wish
to. The higher court further said that the
railroad company was not bound to allow
Russell to ride on its trains simply be-
cause he was a Pullman car porter for it
was under no legal obligation to carry the
Pullman cars.
The Appellate Court refused yesterday
to adopt an ingenious theory of John
James. former sheriff of Henry county,
TO the effect that if the clerk, recorder ana
sherln together pay into the county treas
ury each quarter enough money in fees to
provide for all their salaries any one of
them is entitled to draw his salary for
the quarter, regardless of whether his fees
have equaled his salary. The court held
that the law requires each official TO turn
INTO the county treasury each quarter sur
fcient fees TO cover his salary, else he
must wait until the fees do equal the sal
airy.
The Appellate Court ordered a new trial
for Jonn Armfield, who was fined for
changing the course of the Salamonie river
near Portland Ind, by constructing dams
out into the stream. The reason for this
order was that the lower court had refused
TO give TO the jury an instruction asked by
Armfield to the effect that building the
dams not a Unable offense unless the
dams actually changed the course of the
stream.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
DAUGHTER GETS THE PIANO.
A Provision i'm the VIII of Frank Item
Set Aside.

Judge Walker. of the probate department,
yesterday heard an interesting case in
which the ownership of a piano was in
volved. The litigation developed in settling
the estate of Frank Item According to the
testimony Item once gave his daughter.
Anna Item, now Mrs. Litchenberg, a piano
for a Christmas present. In mis- will the
piano was left to another person, and Mrs.
LitchenbeTg filed petition for possession
of the instrument.
Several witnesses testified that it seemed
to be the habit of Frank Item TO give
things away with a sort Of lien on them
so that he could take them back when he
wanted them. son testified that bis
father once gave him q watch and took il
back Someone else gave him another
watch and he said his father also took
that one after he Ghe SOM had used IL four
years.
Mrs. Litchenberg's mother was one of the
principal witnesses, and her testimony went
to show that it had always Deen the inten-
ton of her husband to give their daughter
Anna a plano. Judge Walker decided that
since the piano had been given to the
daughter as a Christmas present she was
entitled to it, although the Will provided
of hQrWiSe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
Again Before the Court.

Samuel c. Dawson yesterday filed suit
against his wife, Bessie Z. Dawson, for
divorce. They were married last June,
after several sensational episodes, and re-
Gently Mrs. Dawson filed suit against her
husband for divorce but the case was dis
missed a few days ago, Dawson paying $25
attorneys fee for his wife and 500 TO set
tie property interests. The complaint filed
by Dawson yesterday sets out that he set
tied the property rights with his wife, and
she said she would go TO New York. Later
she asked him TO take her back and he
consented They lived together but ten
days. the complaint says.
The complaint charges that during their
short period Of married life after Mrs.
Dawson dismissed her suit she took a horse
and buggy from Dawson's livery stable
and sold the rig for S125. and he had much
trouble in getting it back.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
FOREIGN INCORPORATION ACT.
Secretary Hunt Outlines Cases Where
the Law Does Not Apply.

A letter has been written TO Superintend-
ent James f. Buckner, of the Louisville
Board of Trade by Secretary Of State Hunt,
in which Mr.. Hunt says it is his under
standing that corporations doing business
i'm Indiana wholly through commercial
travellers, by telegraph or mail, and hav-
ing no warehouse or supply depot in In
diana do not come within the provisions OF
the act concerning foreign corporations.
AS to the recent decision of an Indiana
judge in a case in which a Louisville mer-
camille corporation sued to recover a debt
i'm this State, declaring in substance that
as the foreign corporation plaintiff had not
complied with the new law by taking out
license, etc. it could not recover by law,
Mr.. Hunt says the matter will have to be
determined by the court of last resort in
Indiana, but, having made a careful study
of the law. he does not think there can be
any doubt about the final result.
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cation of the recruit to the auxiliary series,
or even to total exemption"
NEW DIAMOND FIELDS.
Mines of the Gems Are Discovered in
British Guiana.

Venezuelan Herald.
Eighteen months ago we drew the atten-
ton of our readers to the discovery of dia-
mond fields in British Guinea, without be-
ing in position TO furnish exact data as TO
their locality; since then the mines have
passed out of the embryonic stage and have
proved to be an enormous source of reve-
nue..
People are rushing to these mines now
as they formerly did to the gold fields, and
an odyssey is opening for this zone. which
is situated on the upper Mazaruni, a little
river which empties itself al Bartica grove
into the River Essequibo. that is to say, in
the territory formerly in dispute between
Venezuela and England. This place is
reached in boats or canoes, and the route,
although rugged, is not dangerous. The
climate exactly resembles that of the aurif
erOus district of FL Callao.
Our only aim in publishing these lines is
to endeavOr-ungrateful task-tO arouse the
people of Venezuelan Guiana out of their
letharSy, for 1T is natural to believe that,
gold is found in both Guianas, so should
diamonds be.
And it is with regret that we see Vene-
Zuelan Guiana sound asleep while British
Guiana is being developed with most rapid
strides. What, then. is the reason why
the Venezuelan mines with the exception
of few worked by Englishmen, should
nave been abandoned? 1t is well known.
We read in the Demerara newspapers
that the Marshall diamond syndicate has
returned with 1918 diamonds, weighing $50
carats, which were obtained from seventeen
cubic yards of their claim, and Mr.. Gilkes
had also arrived with S27 diamonds.
MeSSrS. Oates. learn from the De-
merara Chronicle, from which we take this
news. the experts of the De Beers diamond
syndicate of South Africa, have been care
fully examining the whole of the diamond
mining district on the MaZaruni They in
tend to visit all the diamondiferous dis
tricts in that colony, after which they will
visit Venezuela, Panama, Colombia. Peru,
Bolivia and Diamontina in Brazil. They in
tend TO carefully examine all the gold min
ing districts, and are empowered to act as
they may think desirable in the interest of
the De Beers syndicate. Mr.. Oates, sr., is
a member of the Cane Eegislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
New Theory of Bovine TubercuIosis.
Nebraska State Journal

The new theory that bovine tubercu-
losis is not dangerous to man has Sc.
an Illinois physician to thinking He
recalls that the employees of slaughter
houses are not subject to consumption
as other men are, and goes from that
to the tentative theory that bovine tu-
berculosis may be used as a preventive
IN much the same way that vaccine virus
is used TO prevent smallpox. A Boston
physician has made a like suggestion. ac-
cording to dispatch from the East which
says; Dr. Dickinson. an expert on tu-
berculosis, who has been conducting ex-
periments looking toward cure of the
disease for a number of years. makes
startling statement regarding bovine tu-
berculosis-that its introduction into the
system suffering from consumption is bene-
ncial In many cases. Bovine tuberculosis
seems TO be a specific preventive like vac
cine rather than cure, and may explain why
slaughter-house employees are so free from
consumption. 1t would indeed be re-
markable circumstance if it should be dis
covered that the much-dreaded bovine tu-
berculosis is a preventive and not a cause
of consumption.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
A "BungaIoo- Sentenced.

The last OF the trio that organized the
"Bungaloos' was sentenced to prison yes
terday by Judge Alvord of the Criminal
Court. His name is Thomas Moran. better
known among his comrades as Senator"
About eight years ago he and a young
man named Armstrong and Red Finley
formed an alliance for the purpose of mu
tual protection against attacks on white
BOYS by colored boys. The membership
has now grown until the police estimate
that there are more than one hundred in
the organization. AS result the cOndi-
tions have been reversed, the white boys
now attacking the colored boys Moran
was under suspended sentence for robbery,
which was set aside by Judge Afford, and
he was sent to the Indiana Reformatory
for from one to three years. Armstrong
is now serving time in the Michigan City
prison. and Finley is in the wOrkhOuse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
What Does Democracy Omerf

Salt Lake Tribune.
Indiana has increased her voting popu-
latiOn by 67,2T4 in q total of 6g4246 i'm
the past six years. We suspect that is
a fair example Of the increase in all the
Mississippi and Missouri valley States. or
this increase we suspect that quite 20 per
cent. is Republican. Indeed. il is difficult to
understand why ii has not been as high as
80 per cent. for what has the Democracy
offered the people that ought to be accept
able TO them since 1896? What does the
Democracy promise now that ought TO
draw men to it? Their creed seems to be
made up, not on principle. but on COM
plants against the Republican party. and
complaints. too. which they could not
remedy if they had the chance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
RECENT LEGAL OPINIONS.
Local Option Law-"Blind Tigers"

Local Option Law-"Blind Tigers
Defendant. being requested by others to
purchase whisky for them, took the money
furnished by them and placed 1t, with
empty bottles on a rock. then walked out
Of sight, and in short time returned, when
he found the money gone and the bottles
filled with whisky. which he delivered to
the purchasers. He testified that he was
not interested in the sale. and did not know
who furnished the liquor: that he had no
understanding with any one that he was
TO receive compensation or reward for his
services in procuring the whisky. He was
convicted OF the offense OF selling liquor in
violation of the local option law, and it
was held by the Court Of Appeals of Ken
lucky. in affirming the conviction. that no
trick. subterfuge, device or pretense shall
be permitted To shield violations or evasions
of the local option law. L64 Southwestern
Rep. Judge Burnaml, 1876
Unfair Competition-Sale OF Rebound
Books
\ dealer who purchases secondhand
school books. cleans. trims and rebinds the
same using covers in exact imitation of
the original. and places them on the mar
ket 10 be sold in competition with those
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-26
AN AUTO IN QUESTION.
Cyrus L. Wilson Sues for the RecOv-
cry of S265.

Cyrus L. Wilson yesterday filed suit
against the Indianapolis Automobile and
Bicycle Company for $265, money he ad-
vanced in payment for a steam road ma
chine He says he purchased the machine
upon the agreement that the firm would
furnish an expert to teach him how to run
it and see that it was III good condition.
He AYERS that it was represented to him to
be a valuable vehicle for physician to
make calls on country roads. He asserts
that he bought the machine on that agree
ment, paying $265 in advance, the remain
der to be paid after the machine had
proved it's value. He says that a test
the machine was TO haul him and the ex-
pert from indianapolis to Brownstown. and
that or the way back it gave out at Co
lumbus. He waited a day for the expert to
get the machine started and then left 1t.
He says the expert brought the machine 10
indianapolis and that it has not been deliv-
cred to him. nor has the company consent
ed 10 refund his $3.50.