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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18
AT THIS SEASO'

The careless man tries to win; the
careful man tries not to lose.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Two men never come to blows unless
they are angry and foolish at the same
time.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

1t is no disgrace for man to be poor
if he doesn't owe you anything.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Dreamers SOW their ambitions; doors
reap them.
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81 owe my whole life to Burdock
BlooNBitters. Scrofulous sores covered
my body. seemed beyond cure. B. B.
B. has made me perfectly we'll woman"
Mrs. Chas. Hutton, Berville, Mich.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Talk is cheap, but silence is better
bargain.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

You can tell what some people think
the world owes them by the debts they
owe to others.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Possession of your house is nine
points of the mother-inlaw.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18
Manhattan Full of Holes.

Manhattan Island is like an enor-
nous coal mine. with intricate CALLER
les and apartments underground. :.
large group Of curious suDterranean
rooms and passages is to be found at
the foot of Broadway, extending Out
laterally to the east and west. An al
most continuous line of them follows
Broadway. Several of the banks ana
trust companies have offices fitted III
below the crowded sidewalks, where
rows of CLERKS work silently, unmind'
full of the rush and turmoil above their
heads. In the safe deposit vaults Duiit
below the pavements OF broadway
Wall, Nassau and Broad streets are
stored millions of dollars worth of Sc
curities, over which the crowds hurry
all day heedlessly.
The pessimist calls attention to the
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HOMEMAKERS COLUMN.

on topics Of interest 70 the lsdi
"a solicited. Address: Editor HoMIMAKTRs
COLUMN, Oxford Democrat. Paris. Maine.
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STOPS THE COUGH

Any man can teach wisdom; few are
able to learn IL.
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FOX The COMfLEAlON.
The complexion suffers from bilious
ness or constipation. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers keep the liver and bowels
healthy, and remove the cause of such
troubles
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La grippe coughs yield quickly to the
wonderful curative qualities of Foley's
Honey and Tar. There is nothing else
"just as good" F. A. Shurtleff & Co.
Grin Stevens, Oxford.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Ten cents will buy trial size of Ely's
Cream Balm; enough to convince you
that it is the greatest Of remedies for
nasal catarrh or cold in the head. Full
size 80 cents. All druggists or mailed
by Ely Brothers, Sc Warren st., New
York.
1853 Second Street, Albany, N. Y.
Messrs. Ely Bros.-I suffered greatly
with catarrh and tried different remedies
without effect. After using one bottle
of your Cream Balm I found relief and /
cannot praise too highly such remedy.
Sept. 81, 1899. Miss Cora Willard.
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AND WORKS OFF THE COLD.
Laxative Bromo-Q uinine Tablets cure
cold in one day. No Cure, no Pay.
Price Is cents. F. A. Shurtleff & Co.
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Key to the Pusxler.

hey 10 tne fusAAeFs
No. 45.-Beheadments: /. Gone. z.
Prov. 8. T-rifle.
No. 46.-Syllable Building: l. Gar.
garnet. 2. Garfield. 3. Gar-pike. 4.
Garden. s. Garland. G. Gar-rick.
No. 47.-Concealed Word Square: l.
Erase. 2. Raven. 3. Avert. 4. Serve.
5. Enter.
No. 4S. A Well Known Author:
Dickens.
No. 49.-Three Hollow Diamonds:
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MAPLE CREAM.

Mix two tablespoonfuls of maple sugar
into the unbeaten whites of three eggs;
stir constantly while adding two cupfuls
of hot milk; fill wet custard cups two
thirds full with this mixture, and bake
them about thirty minutes; when cold
turn them out on pretty glass dish,
sprinkle them generously with maple
sugar, and surround with whipped
cream. OF course, these should be set
in pan of hot water to bake.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Happiness leaves of where knowledge
begins.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Every man knows a lot of other men
that he would like to class as strangers.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18
MAPLE SUGAR SANDWICHES.

Prepare the sugar by either scraping it
into shavings, or much better way is to
put it through meat chopper, then
spread thin slices of entire wheat bread
with butter, then with the sugar soften
ed with cream. A sprinkle of Drowned
and chopped almonds will improve it.
This will be dainty acquisition for the
afternoon tea or the picnic lunch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

Occasionally a small boy tries to keep
clean so he won't have to be washed.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18
FOR THE COMPLEXION.

Love is blind. That is why so many
women marry men to reform them.
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lmpertAnt % Mothers.
Hrsnins carefully every bottle Of cAsToR1A,
q safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
nd ~ that Is
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A bold lover makes a strong husband.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18
MAPLE CUsTARD PIE

Mix one-half cupful of scraped maple
sugar with one level tablespoonful of
flour and three eggs slightly beaten; add
one half teaspoonful of butter and one
quart of milk; fill deep pastry.lined
pan, and bake half an hour; dust slightly
with nutmeg just before baking. This is
delicious
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-18

BEEcHAx's PILLS will dispel the "blues."
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The pessimist calls attention to the
fact that the man whose credit Is the
best really needs no credit at all. He
can nav enthusiastically Evening Post.
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No. 6..-Double Acrostic.

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And In turn. Dear Judge. '''''"
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Dear maid. and dost thou not '''''''
Such .s.s ssss we cansss's''?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-25
POET OF THE MORGUE
A Partisan Character Who
Has Just Passed Away.
CLOVIS PIERRE'S WORK
HIS INVITATIONS TO VIEW THE
GRUESoME "FINDs."
One Waterside Family Who Rescue
Tumblers in the
Seine.
CLOVIS PIERRE'S WORK
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS, October IA, 1904
The poet OF the Paris morgue is dead. The
late Clovis Pierre, who for the past thirty
years, as registrar Of the lugubrious estab-
lishment, received the unknown dead of a
mystery-ridden capital and put them in the
way of their last aid or vengeance, enjoyed
his unique poetic title undisturbed. In his
peculiar line he had no competition.
The place of registrar OF custodian of the
Paris morgue Is one of responsibility and
honor. In one sense 1t may be likened to
that of custodian of any hospital or asylum
operated by the government! Each I'M
known dead person had to be committed to
the care of Clovis Pierre by committing
magistrate. In another sense his place
might prove, at any moment. to be Of the
utmost delicacy. Great brides have been Of
fered to the custodian of the Paris morgue.
Great family secrets have reposed In his
keeping. Great criminals have trembled be-
fore his incorruptiblty. Clovis Pierre felt
the responsibility Of his position. To re-
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people, as they loaf along the river. by a
horrid pleasantly. pretend that the folks
OF the waterside prefer to wait until the
suicide has sunk three times before they
pull him out. 1t is needless to point out
that this is error. The poet OF the Paris
morgue has nevertheless pointed IL ont.
Five dollars is paid for each life rescued.
while the dead bodies only fetch 81 each
few weeks ago the eldest of the well
known "resCuers'' Of the Seine died at BIZ
lancourt-indeed. "Pere Joseph as he was
always called. gave mp the ghost in the
same month with Clovis Pierre his old pa
tron at the morgue. During twenty years
ne had built Up fine reputation as a fisher
OF men. while hooking ''fritures Cfries) for
the Paris restaurants. Pere Josephs best
year was 1892. when he found forty-two
dead bodies bringing him $50 francs), be
sides making nine life rescues. for which
he received private money rewards well
as the official sums In 1896 he had the
luck to rescue the two young children of a
rich suburban merchant. The latter gave
Pere Joseph an annuity OF 600 francs ($12D,
which made him almost comfortable for
life.
Family of Savers.
Another family by the waterside (cele-
brated by the poet - the morgue in his
The Rescuers'). a mother and her four
sons, have received nine medals and some
flfty-two rewards for bravery. The mother
Is a washerwoman, working all day long
within the curious washing shed furnished
to the public by the municipality, just in
the shadow OF the old Pont Neuf. Her spe-
cialty has always been to jump up from
her work and dive for children who have
tumbled into the river in their play.
1t is a curious sight to see one Of these
rescues a body brought in. Parsians
are such gapers that any one can collect a
crowd in three minutes by looking intently
at a point In the river When the folks
along the river any commotion in Il the
parapets are damned as If by magic
though 1t should be only for the toilet OF
some poodle being washed against his will.
Here is a the writer saw himself. Two
young men larking in a rowboat pIayfully
splashed a dog thus being washed on the
river bank. Perhaps they splashed its mis-
some vagabonds took up the cry that the
young men were trying to drown the dog.
The crowd gathered. following the row
boat. and soon II was cried aloud that an
attempt had been made to drown the wo-
man. 1t was with all the difficulty in the
world that the two young men were saved
from lynching by the river police.
The majority of the suicides from che
river are at first unknown. Therefore they
must be exposed until recognized. Many
dry-land suicides. also, try to hide their
personality. AS to the motives for suicide.
families often find Ii to their interest to set
up insanity. Apart from this doubtful
cause, drunkenness Is assigned as the chief
cause with men. Then, in both sexes. comes
want and misery. After this IL is incurable
diseases, lack Of work, despair in love. dis
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lleve himself OF it from time to time he
turned to poetry.
All his poems-which now fill two volumes
were inspired by incidents of his long Of
fee. One is an ode to the refrigerating APP
paratus. Another, relating to the accidents
and suicides of the river, Is called Ihe
Abuse Of Water" Another Is on The
Pigeons of the Morgue." All have been
published and republished in the Paris press
as gruesome curiosities, not without the
true poetic spark. One only-or, rather a
part Of one only-achieved place In the
consciousness of the Partisan population.
1t y a line from what Clovis Pierre himself
looked on as his best effort fondiy entitled
my House."
'Mieux vaut Sc pendre dune maitresse!'
One hears 1t quoted laughingly In CONVEX,
sation every now and then. My House
is of course, the morgue; and its conc!ud.
ing lines are addressed to the hearts of ALI
despairing folk:
"ouoi! pour calmer. votre sombre trstesse,
Vous chosissez l. afrreuse pendaison?
Mieux vaut pendre au cou tune maitresse.
All! vsnez 1anais dams ma maison!
Which may be rendered in English dog
gerel:
What! t, soothe your somber sadness
ham, ,esi s.. Pse %
And. all come never to my placer!
Those who came to "his place" each year
were, nevertheless, many. Clovis Plerre
insisted that they should be treated with
more than respect, with difference even
One Of his philosophical poems Ut may be
called the 'Thanatopsis" Of the morgue)
opens with a declaration Of the equality
Of all In the presence of sudden death,
shows the millionaire night reveler and the
homeless wandering beggar subject TO the
same nocturnal accidents, the shiverins
shop girl and the rich grande dame on her
way to church subject to the same conges-
tions switches to the dangers OF the
Paris streets by day and night, thence 10
the various motives for suicide, ana WIND
ing I'D with fine and not undeserved eulo-
gy of the morgue and its various services
He Identified.
AS indicated in this poem Of Clovis
Pierre the Paris morgue's chief reason for
existence Is the identification of unknown
bodies. whether murders, suicides or acct
dents. And, little by little. It has come to
be transformed, not only into something
yery like a medico-legal insti ute, but even
a highly-specialiZed branch OF the detective
system.
In this way, on an order from the public
prosecutors office, not only the unknown
dead but also the bodies of known victims
whether Of high family or Of low-may be
taken from the custody of their mourning
relatives and be temporarily exhibited at
the morgue, in the hope of developing some
clue to the identity of their assassins. So,
in his poem Zone might call 1t BALLAD of
THE Dead Accuser'' Qn the feminine the
late poet Of the morgue stakes his argument
from the case Of a beautiful young girl of
wealthy parents in the north Of France, who
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questions are asked. The exhibition hall
Is almost like an open portico giving on the
street.
All day the people crowd the funereal
hall. The poet of the morgue, in his "Mu-
scum Of the People," shows its first visitors
to be day laborers on their way to work.
Later house servants running breakfast err
rands stick their heads in for a moment.
Then, till lunch time, little boys and girls,
accompanied by their nurses-or alone II
they be poor and common children-come to
again to eat hot waff1es on the curbstone.
Caters to the Season.
Along the curb two apple-women sit. In
summer one Of them sells cold drinks also
licorice water and thin bottled soda-whiIe
the other deals In hockey pokey ice cream in
small dabs. In winter the first retails hot
chestnuts. while the other fetches out her
waffle iron. The trade Is brisk, because the
sights inside give children and even grown
ups a strange hollow feeling in the stomach
According to his long poem. The Roll
Calf (not much more than statistics put
in doggereD. Clovis Pierre shows that the
great majority Of its clients have always
been persons Of middle age with four times
as many men as women. This includes all
murders, accidents and suicides. But the
impressions Of the casual visitor are differ
ent. He only sees the bodies which remain
exposed, unrecogniZed for days, victims of
mysterious crimes, and very often young
or aged women.
Recognized and unrecognized, the contin-
gent from the river Is four times as numer-
Gus as any other. The next In frequency Is
being crushed beneath the wheels OF Paris
drays and omnibuses.
AS to the river, deaths from drowning are
most frequent In July. and dwindle to moth
ing in very cold weather. though the Seine
seldom freezes. 1t thus happens that in
winter there are fewer bodies to examine
and fewer to expose-two very different
works. For the chief means Of suicide in
Paris IL by drowning. Men use 1t three
times as often as any other means. and
women seven times as often. Again, In
deaths by drowning there are nearly three
times as many suicides as accidents.
The prefecture Of police, with a view to
sncouraging humanity" encourages the
seal Of fishermen and river 1Oafers by CIV
ing medals and fixed money prizes for all
bodies rescusd, quick or dead. Now there
u an ancient prejudice IN Paris which pre-
tends that the reward - more for fishing
cut corpse than fsDoujag life. Whence
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NEW COAST LIGHTS
Great BiValVe Lens That Are
Disks Instead of Cylinders.
FLASH TWENTY MILES
MOST DANGEROUS STATION rs
DIAMOND SHOALS.
a Wrecked Lightship Taken Through
the Woods and Launched
Again.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
With the beginning of November there
begins a hard fight all along the coast OF
the United States-a fight rarely chronicled,
yet incessant and fierce. 1t is the fight of
the coast lights and signals against storm
and fog.
From March to November the men Gagged
in the slender steel and stone cylinders that
stand on hidden lodges with the nearest
land lying along the horizon like a dim
cloud. need not fear even II storm-beset;
for the summer storm does not last long
and they are sure that the relief and sup
ply vessels VIII make their way to them
within a few days. But when the gales Of
the late autumn and of the winter begin
there may be a month and even more when
no ship can dare to approach those foam
bordered ocean perches.
Then the keepers are as besieged men.
They must save every drop of oil. that their
lights may be kept burning even should
new supply fail to arrive when due. They
must watch their machinery every minute,
for no help could reach them to repair it
should it break down.
On such lighthouses as famous Minot's
Ledge off Boston harbor, rising sheer out
of the sea, they are imprisoned unable to
move an inch out of their narrow tower.
Minots Ledge light stands eighty-five
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her own steam, so she win not be an abso-
lutely helpless hulk when she breaks away
from her mooring in bowling gale. as she
Will more than once in this coming winter
Lightship number 3d. also built to go
under her own steam, was driven from her
anchorage six times in four months but
managed to steam back to her position each
time. The seventh time she failed She
fought against the hurricane for three days
and then went up on the North Carolina
beach near the Creeds Hill life station. The
life savers got her crew Off
The value of the Diamond Shoals light
ships Is shown by the fact that during this
vessels last year on her station $50 steam
vessels and 1878 sailing vessels passed her.
Lightship's Extraordinary Voyage.
The United States light vessel that has
had what probably is the most extraordi-
nary experience is Columbia river light ves-
sci No. so. Her station is off the mouth of
the Columbia river. eight miles off shore.
That shore Is one of high rocks and for
bidding promontorfes, wherefore there are
such names along its threatening miles as
Cape Disappointment. Cape Foulweather
and Destruction Island. One day in Noyem-
Der gale began to blow from the sea. II
rose to rate of seventy-four miles an
hour. The heavy anchor chain Of the light
ship snapped. She drove toward breakers
that were so bad that even the old captain
described them as ''frightful' in his short
dry, official report.
Sail was made and the men worked her
about twenty-five miles off shore. The next
day two tenders steamed out and tried to
tow her In. Both failed. BY dusk the big
high-sided iightship was In the breakers.
NOW, there was only one chance for life
North and south lay rocks, promising a
sure end to ship and men. But between
them lay short stretch Of sandy beach II
the ship could hit that she might escape
immediate destruction. She was headed for
1t and struck the right spot before dark.
Her crew was taken of In the breeches
buoy
When she struck. her men by consum-
mate SKILL had 80 handled her sails that she
turned head to the sea and thus presented
her high bow to the surf with the result of
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s fairly certain

now the department feels fairly certain
that it has succeeded.
The value of acetyline gas for coast lights
does not lie in it's Illuminating power. kero-
Sene oil has been found to be the most sat
isfactory in all respects for all kinds of
lights in that respect. But acetyline gas Is
Of great value with the hundreds of lights
that are not in the care of Keepers but are
simply lighted and left burning day and
night. Small lights set on bars and reefs,
range lights set along shore and on hill
tops, and many lesser lights in harborS and
estuaries are kept going this way.
The trouble with kerosene is that after
time the wick carbonizes and the light fails
before the kerosene in the reservoir Is eX-
hausted. With the new apparatus for
making and burning acetyline gas there Is
no such trouble, and the burners will last
at least as long as the gas holds out. Lights
have been kept burning for sixty days and
nights without needing attention.
The method cannot be applied to light
buOys or other floating lights, as the proper
production and government of the supply
of gas demand that water shall reach the
chemicals only in strictly regulated quanti
ties. So that class of lights still must con-
tinue to depend on ordinary gas and kero-
sene for fuel For this purpose immense
iron tanks are used. On their tops Is
cage, in which the lens is set. Immense
chains are shacked to the bottom. and a
queer cast-iron mushroom anchor holds
them in position. These mushroom anchors
or sinkerS are so shaped that they work
themselves deep into the mud or sand, and
after few weeks they cannot be dislodged,
even by the huge derricks of the lighthouse
tenders. When 1t is desired to take up
buoys of this knd-as in the winter when
the ice threatens them-they are unshackled
from the chains and dragged aboard and
big wooden spars are fastened to the chains
to serve as marks until the niger is past.
Diamond Shoals Sti Defiant.
While every year sees MOI or less dam
age to lighthouses and beacons, there is
only one spot along the coast that has de-
fed the lighthouse builders successfully.
and that is Diamond Shoals, OF Cape Hat
teras, the most dangerous place in the light
house service. A lighthouse engineer will
get hot in the collar if it is suggested
that this spot has defeated the department.
there and built to stay. He will point to
and has remained of the mouth of the Elbe,
But the question of money prevents. A
lighthouse on Diamond Shoals would cost
too much.
So this year, IS in previous years, light
ship will hang on to the bottom there with
it's anchors like grim death, with all on
board praying that 1t will continue to hang
on A somewhat alarming comment on the
beauty of the station Is to be observed in
Light vessels number II to - will be used
on this station alternately" Each of these
ships Is fitted so that she can move under
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hibited. Within three days the real muir
derer-an alcoholic Paris loafer-had con-
fessed to stabbing and robbing her. while
the unhappy young man who had loved her
and would have married her but for the
inexorable French law of parents consent
was completely rehabilitated. AS the public
prosecutor had calculated, the real, UNI
known assassin could not keep away from
the morgue and the sight of his dead vic
tim Again and again he came to look.
Suddenly. such occasion, a heavy
hand was clapped on his shoulder and
hoarse voice exclaimed, You are the mani"
Gasping and trembling. the wretch con-
fessed. Now, had the girls body been I'M
mediately handed over to her parents for
burial in the north of France, the true
assassin would not have been discovered,
and-as the law must have a victim-her
true lover might have gone innocent to the
Euillotne.
Gruesome Invitations.
&c. as In Clovis Pierre's Invitation" the