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- Horses rarely live to greater age
than thirty, and are not generally very
serviceable for speed or hard work
more than half that long. Custer 8
horse, which was the only thing to es-
cape when the Indians massacre1>C Jus
ter and his soldiers on the Little Big
Horn, lived to the age Of forty.6ve.
There was enough cold corn =
stored in grana.'ies in Canaan to feed
the whole body Of invading Israelites
for year. They numbered 601, ,73O
fighting men, their wives, and camp
followers.
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= Indian corn was once called Tur.
key corn, under the belief that it came
from the Turks. In Europe it is now
known by its Indian name, maize. In
Spanish America it is known by no
other name.
- In Egypt incubators, much of the
pattern as those now in use, were used
1000 years ago.
- The ancient Egyptians first cured
hay. first practiced rotation of crops
and stored grain in granaries.
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Peoples Friend
Who2..-The Dollar +!

DON'T fail to see the grand Axel Ma /.
chine that w. NJ. Wallace has purchased
to save people in0uey on their Buggies,
CARRIAGES. tSc. This is the greatest Ma
chine that has ever been invented in this
country. It saves you putting OH new
Axel Points. This only costs you $500
to make your old Buggles ride like new
ones. Don't fail to come to ace ue. Also.
will shrink your Tires for 371c. each, and
guarantee satisfaction. Horse Shoeing q
speciality. You will lind US below
Jail, on the corner.
W. NJ. WALLACE.
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Plain English Wanted.

There . physician ia my town
said Cincinnati drummer, who has
son whom he is instructing in the
rudiments of the profession, but just
at present the young fellow is think
ing of great many things not down
in the books. lie has lot Of rapid
young companions of the slaugy sort,
and he is master of them all. Indeed
his language is at times so utterly
modern as to be almost unintellgible
to the old-fashioned people, who learn
ed their language out Of Webstcr's
dictionary. The other day patient
was brought into the doctor Office
and the son happened to be present.
The man is suffering from mania
potu, said the doctor after brief
examination.
What was that?' inquired the
son, with an evident effort to catch the
meaning
Mania potu-delirinn trcmcns.
Oh, commented the youngstcr,
you mean the jim jams, the d. t. s,
the delirious trimp ngs. the gortma-
gins, 40 you, suppose. I'll get next
to this medical racket before the n
ish, but until do wish you would
talk plain English for my benefit,
dad -
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and the armies. The ragged condition
Of the American soldiers and off GERS
is well-known. Even when Washing
tons army was partially clothed, it
was in English cloth brought to Amer
lea by way of Holland.
1884. About IA bales Of American
cotton were shipped to England, Of
which eight bales were seized in
Liverpool as improperly entered, on
the ground chat 80 much cotton could
not have been produced in the United
States, and this was more than $50
years after the first importation into
England of cotton grown in this coun-
try.
1877 The first regular cotton fac
tory in the United States was built in
this year at Beverly. Mass, for
carding, rowing and spinning cotton
by machinery The legislature made
a grant of $500 to assist the new enter
prise. In 1889, General Washington
visited this factory.
1871. The average value Of the cot
ton exported this year was 26 cents
per pound; the crop Of the United
States was about four thousand five
hundred Of present sized bales, Of
which three-fourths were grown in
South Carolina and onc.fourtk in
Georgia. About one tenth Of the crop
was exported.
1893. This is memorable year in
the cotton trade, made so by Eli
Whitncys invention of the saw gin.
lie was then living in Georgia, had
no mechanical assistance and only the
rudcst Of tools. lie even had to make
his own wire by hand. Before this,
the old-fashioncd rollcrsgins were the
best machines for cleaning cotton,
previous to them, the bowstring had
been used for beating up and cleaning,
while earlier still the only method of
dctaching the fibre from the seed was
by the tedious process Of picking with
the fingers, that being the evening
task of many members of a planters s
household in the oldcn time. Whit
ncy's gin was patented in 1894. The
word gin is an abbrcviation Of engine.
l795. The second cotton mill in
the United States erected in Rhode
Island. Georgia cotton of good quail
ity offered in New York ut one shill-
ing siapcncc per pound.
1872. War with England. The
price of cotton goods such as had pre-
viously been imported from England
at from II to 90 cents per yard advan-
ced to 73 cents by the case.
1913. Price Of cotton in this coun-
try II cents, in England 1Gd to 26d.
Considerable cotton was exported dur
ing the war in neutral vessels to the
continent, whence doubtless much of
it found its way to England.
1915. The rise in the price of
Soous uurlu6 Cne war na0 given great
impetus to the erection Of mills. In
this year the importation Of goods
from England recommended, prices of
course declined, and many mills that
had been built at extravagant rates
became almost worthless.
1925. After the opening of this
year prices of cotton advanced from
10 to 25 cents in this country, and
from Sd to lad in l. liverpool, on a
prospective short supply; consumption
was checked. There was no killing
frost in the cotton states, and some
plants "rattooned" (sprouted from
old roots) the next spring. From
Latham, Alexander & Co.'s "Move-
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Don't forget the old man
with the fish on his back.
For nearly thirty years he
has been travelling around the
world, and is still travelling,
bringing health and comfort
wherever he goes.
To the consumptive he
brings the strength and flesh
he SO much needs.
To all weak and sickly
children he gives rich and
strengthening food.
To thin and pale persons
he gives new firm flesh and
rich red blood.
Children who first saw the
old man with the fish arc now
grown up and have children
OF their own.
He stands for SCOTS Emul-
sion of pure cod liver ola
delightful food and natural
tonic for children, for old folks
and for all who need flesh and
strength Fl
.oScoTT = EOWME. chemiste.
soc. and si.o5: ali druSsiata. aT hor"'
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The Habit of Lying.

How does one become liar-that is
to say, how does the child discover a
lie and habitually make use Of it?
We car admit that at the beginning
there is absolute sincerity. The child
through all its first years neither lies
nor dissimulates. It's sentiments, IS
desires, translate themselves into
words and into acts. Its body is the
constant and perfect exposition of its
inmost being. Such is the starting
point--sincerity, absolute transpar-
ency.
There is multitude Of little lies
tolerated which we treat as pardon
able. We tell the domestic to say VIC
are not at home when we are; we com
plimcnt people to their faces and criti-
else them when they are gone; we say
we are happy to see some one and
directly after speak of having been
annoyed. No more is necessary. The
example has been givcl.
We lie to the child himself. We
arc pressed by his many embarrassing
questions and in order to free our
selves from the embarrassment reply
with what is frequently falsehood
Some fine day he discovers the truth,
and the evil is done. The graycst
case is when the child is taken as an
accomplice in a lie or when his moth
cr tells him, "Abovc all, do not tell
this to your papa" This is the ruin
of all morality. The third stage is
the first encounter Of the child with
society; the first shock with social
life. The child who tells all he knows,
sees and hears, all that he would bet
ter have left unsaid, is called the
"cnfant terrible. His parents do
not tell him to lie, but they tell him
it is not necessary to tell all he
thinks. This is extremely serious,
as it teaches the child he cannot show
himself as he is. This is the revela-
tion Of the lie obligatory. Above all,
among his comrades he quickly learns
to dissimilate, because if he is naive
expresses all his joys, pains, desires
they make sport of him; nay, worse
they abuse his confidence; the hopes,
projects which he has confded to
them he some day sees used against
MIN.
Thus the impossibility Of living
without lying is revealed to him. So.
ciety excuses certain forms of lying
which are inspired by feeling of
politeness, modcsty, shame.
The child becomes a liar because all
the world about him lies The dis
tinction between the liar and the man
OF sincerity is only relative. There
arc in reality only two categories-
those who content themselves with
the lies exacted by social life and
those who have habituated them
selves to lying more than society wishes
to lie because Of some personal in
terest.
An important cause in the develop
ment of lying in children is the en-
ployment of excessive and i'll advised
punishments. The child who becomes
q liar is the one who lives in perpetual
terror of reproaches, humiliation or
strokes. The lie for him is supreme
resource Chicago Tribune.
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8 NJ Av.> =,
This signature is on every box OF tho genuine
Laxative Bror.0-Quinine Tablets

- An income tax is the price Of
admission to theatre.
Love is still blind, so there's no
use wasting gas on it.
The gangway seems TO be the
path that leads to political glory.
NO one wants to put out the
female who is ablaye with diamonds.
- A man Of high berth is ono who
occupies an "upper" in sleeping car.
When man barely misses the
last train he experiences feeling Of
goneness.
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AMERICAN COTTON.
Origin and Development OF Production
In the South.

III lie S0utn.
1921. The cotton plant had been
found growing in wild state by the
first settlers of the southwestern por-
tion Of our country, but the year 1921
is generally regarded as the first year
of cotton culture in the United States.
Seed, probably from the Levant or
the East Indies, was planted as an
experiment, and it's plentiful coming
up was at that early day subject of
interest in America and England.
It's cultivation was for a long time
limited to small patches for domestic
use. Among list of articles grow
ing or to be had in the Virginia Col
ony in 1921 cotton wool is mentioned; /;
value, Sd per pound. flax Sd.
But cotton planting in Virginia
never reached large proportions. To-
bacco growing was found to be more
profitable. Labor was scarce and
and dear, so that the cost Of hand
cleaning, or separating the fibre from
the seed by hand, before gin was in
vented, exceeded the market value Of
the cotton SO cleaned From Virginia
the culture extended northward to
Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania
and even New Jersey, down to the
time Of the Revolutionary war.
1888. Cotton seed was brought
into Carolina by Peter Purry, who
settled colony Of Swiss near Purrys-
vile; but, from previous mention
made, it is evident that some kind of
cotton preceded his planting.
1884. About this time cotton vas
planted in Georgia from seed sent to
the trustees from England. In de-
position taken in London in 1879 for
the use of the trustees Of the Georgia
grant it is stated that the climate of
Georgia is very healthy, and the. cli-
mate and soil very fit for raising silk,
wine and cotton, all of which produces
may be raised by white persons with
out the aid of Negroes.
1741. A sample of Georgia cotton
was taken to England.
1742. In Louisiana cotton culture
must have already become quite cxten-
sive, for we find that in this year
planter of that state, Mr.. Dubrcuil,
invented machine for separating the
seed from the fibre; probably only an
adjustment Of rollers. 1t greatly stim-
ulated planting in that colony.
1747. During this year several bags
Of Carolina cotton were exported from
Charleston.
1888. We find the first cotton pre-
MUM recorded. a liberal citizen Of
Delaware offers ga for the most and
best cotton off an acre
1770. Shipments to Liverpool, ten
bales from Charleston, three bales
from New York, four bags from Vir-
ginia and three barrels full from North
Carolina. About this year southern
planters began turning their attention
to the cultivation of cotton as q staple
crop.
1875. The first manufactory for
cotton, fax and wool was established
in Philadelphia. Throughout the
Revolution this factory was supplied
with native cotton at two shillings
per pound. The state of the Colonies
during that period was very similar to
that of the south during our late war;
that they we're almos. entirely depen-
dent on foreign manufacturers was
shown by the destitution Of the peonla
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Whereabouts OF the Dove.

Major Shattuck, of the signal corps,
tells an amusing story of az oldtime
religious revival meeting in Ne
gro church near Savannah. In order
that the revival spirit might be quick
ened, it was arranged that the preach
er should give signal when he
thought the excitement was highest,
and from the attic through hole cut
in the ceiling directly over the pulpit,
the sexton was to shove pure white
dove, whose flight around the church
and over the heads Of the audience
was expected to have an inspiring
effect, and as far as emotional excite
ment was concerned, to cap the eli
max. All went well at the start; the
church was packed; the preacher .
text was, I'm the form of dove"
and as he piled up his eloquent pc.
riods the excitement was strong.
Then the opportunc moment arrived
tho signal was given-and the pack
ed audience was scared out of its wits
on looking up to the ceiling and be-
holding a cat, with n cIotheslinc
around it's middle, yowling and spit
ting, being lowered over the preach
er q head. The preacher called to the
sexton in the attic: "Whars de
dover And the sexton voice came
down through the opening so you
could hear it block: Inside the
cat!"-New York Tribune.
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= A woman's idea of dutiful hus
band is one who owill stay at home
and look after the baby while she
spends the afternoon shopping.
= If man knew what his acauain-
tances really thought Of him he would
go away somewhere and do the hermit
act.
Whitewash made of quicklime
and ashes will destroy moss on tiles.
= A boy gweighing one pound on
earth would weigh twenty seven and O
half pounds on the sun.
- There 10 something funny abou,
q rabbits tail-probably because bre.
vity is the soul Of wit.
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What is the sense of woman
having her dress ten inches longer
th-l it ought to be and holding it up
fifteen inches than is really necessary.
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OUR NEW TIRE SETTER

CA-N tighten your Tires while they
are cold without taking them off
wheels or taking out bolts. Leave
the wheels in perfect shape and dish
just right. Can do the work in one
third time it requires the old way.
Don't wait till your wheels are ruin.
ed. Bring them on and see how nice
ly we can do the work.
PAUL E. STEPHENS.
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Stops the Cough and Works of the
Colt.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure
a cold ia one day. No cure, No Pay.
Price 25 cents.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-25
LIFE GUARDS,

The Life Guards are two regiments OF
cavalry forming part of the British
household troops. They are gallant SOL
diers. and every loyal British heart is
proud of them. Not only the Kings
household, but yours, ours, everybody's
should have its life guards. The need
of them is especially great when the
greatest foes of life, diseases, find allies
in the very elements, as colds, influenza,
catarrh, the grippe and pneumonia do
in the stormy month of March. The best
way that we know of to guard against
these diseases is to strengthen the sys-
tenn with Hoods Sarsaparilla-the
greatest of all life guards. 1t removes
the conditions in which these diseases
make their most successful attack, gives
vigor and tone to all the vital organs and
functions, and imparts genial warmth
to the blood. Remember the weaker the
system the greater the exposure to
disease. Hoods Sarsaparilla makes the
system strong.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-25

The Jury was out about an hour, and
returned verdict of not guilty.
/ Park, county attorney, for state
Swasey for defendant.
The second jury was discharged We'd
nesday after the opening Of the witch
ell case, and the first jury, before which
the case was tried, was discharged upon
returning its verdict Thursday.
A hearing was given Thursday by the
court on pauper case brought by the
town of Andover against the town Of
Oxford. Mr.. Wright appeared for An
dover and Mr.. Hazen for Oxford. 1t
appears that eight or nine years since a
Mr.. and Mrs. Averill moved from An
dover to Oxford. Some two years later
Mrs. Averill became insane and was
committed to the hospital at Augusta.
The commitment was made by the town
of Oxford, but as the Averills were town
charges in Andover, that town a few
months later asked to have the bills sent
directly and paid them. Mrs. Averill
remained at the hospital and Mr.. Averill
remained in Oxford, finally acquiring
pauper residence there. His wife thus
became town charge on Oxford, and
this suit is brought to recover for her
support paid by Andover subsequent to
that time. Payment is resisted by Ok
ford, on the ground that the original
commitment to the hospital and the
transfer of the account to AndOver were
irregular and illegal, and that in no case
can the town of Andover recover for
more than three months previous to the
notice sent.
The contested divorce case of Abbie
A. Lander VS.. Wintworth V. Lander
could not be heard owing to the illness
of the libelant, and it was agreed by the
parties that it should be heard in Port
land little later. 1t is understood that
the contest is only on the matter of ali
mony.
Court adjourned finally Friday after
noon. Two verdicts were returned in
civil cases during the term, both for the
plaintiff. One criminal trial was had,
and the respondent was acquitted.
About $3.50 was paid in fines and costs,
which was some more than sufficient to
pay the criminal costs of the term, in
Guiding the costs in inferior courts of
cases sent up. Twenty-three divorces
were granted.
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MENU.
Soup, Julienne.

THE SHURTleFF SCHOOL HOUSE.
Under the Shurtleff school house is an
open basement in which is situated
furnace that heats the whole building.
This basement during portion OF each
year is flooded or partially flooded. The
water enters through the brick walls or
cemented floor, or both.
When the river is high the water over
flows its bank and forms what may, per-
haps, be called lagoon, nearly in the
rear of the house. Here, until recently,
has been dumped refuse and waste of
almost every kind. This fact was
brought to light when ditch was dug to
the river for the sewage pipe. Not until
the water in the river subsidies will it
slowly drain out of the basement. In
the meantime the heat from the furnace
causes this foul, stagnant water to evap-
crate, and the watery vapOr charged
with impurities rises not through the
hot air pipes, but up the stairways and
through the floors to the rooms above.
| Now the air we breathe should contain
little aqueous vapOr, but only a trace.
May not the conditions here described
render these school rooms breeding pens
of consumption and of. other lung and
throat diseases? Would not a watchful,
energetic board of health be justified in
ordering the schools located here closed
during the rainy seasons Of each year?
The writer has no suggestions to make.
Others are better qualified to propose
remedies.
He calls attention to this fact at this
time not because he is aware of any un-
usual sympathy for the sufferings OF
humanity or because he possesses pity
in an abnormal degree for the innOcents
who are compelled to climb the rugged
hill of learning from the vale of PoOduck
tso-called, but that an aroused, intelli
gent public sentiment may hold the mer
who probably will soon be charged with
the duty of selecting a new site and
building new school house strictly re
sponsible for the results. Cannot
house be built without serious defects
Cannot house be built that the assist
ant janitor will not condemn before thu
twentieth anniversary of its erection?
Let every voter in the town OF fari
remember the town meeting on the hrs
Saturday of May. Remember the hour
Up. NJ.
Delenda est Carthage.
HENRY FLETCHER.
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DIZZY SPELLS CURED.

w. H. Mcdonald of East Sebago, says
"Besides Rheumatism, which your H.
F. Atwood Bitters benefited so much
I had severe dizzy spells so that could
hardly stand up at times. One bottle OF
the True Il. F. Atwood's Bitters cured
me. have not had one of these spells
SINCE" A sworn statement before
Lorenzo Norton, Justice of Peace.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-25

All the delegates from Maine to the
biennial meeting of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs to be held in Los
Angeles, Cal, in May have been invited
to be personal guests Of Mrs. Carter OF
2644 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles:
Mrs. Carter is a former resident OF
Maine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-03-25
A CARD.

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
to refund the money on 50cent bottle
of Greene's Warranted Syrup Of Tar II 1t
fails to cure your cough or cold. We
also guarantee 25-cent bottle to prove
satisfactory or money refunded. VIII
Hanson & Kimball; Ernest p. Parlin.
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BORN.

In Greenwood. March Is. to the wife Of Elton
L. Durham, daughter.
In Sweden, Mar. j., to the vile OF L,ndon
Merrill, a daughter-Fannie Elizabeth.
In Norway, Mar. IS, to the wife OF nj. +. Gam
m IN, daughter.
In Norway, Mar. Is, to the wife Of Hugh D.
Smith, a daughter.
In North Pari', Mar. II, to the wife OF John
Ross, a son.
In Rumford Falls, Mar. 10, to the wife Of
Thomas Evans, a son. IL l2 lbs.