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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

All who use atomizers in treating
nasal catarrh will get the best result
from Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price,
including tube, Is cents. Sold by drug
gists or mailed by Ely Bros, SO Warren
Street, New York.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. l, 1900.
Messrs. Ely Bros.:-I sold two bottles
of your Liquid Cream Balm to custom
or, VIM. Lamberton, 14l5 Delachaise
St., New Orleans; he has used the two
bottles, giving him wonderful and most
satisfactory results.
GEO. w. McDUFF, Pharmacist.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
Nh e7a-Bebend meuts.

Each line suggests word. The
first letter is dropped for the succeed
ing line.
II catches and holds you on your way.
As along neglected paths you stray
Better trot gently on horseback. say.
Let's shorten our journey as we may
BY crossing the stream through that COW
cred way
To the foot of yon range Of hills so gray
/ could not sleep through all the night;
They piled the timbers left and right
Till shadows gray fled with the light
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. I, 1900.

Maude-I never carry my pocket book
in my hand when I am shopping.
Clara-Why notp
Maude-Because I'm afraid some one
might snatch 1t from me.
Clara-Is it an expensive one?
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
MOTHERS. BE CAREFUL

of the health of your children. Look
out for Coughs, Colds, Group and Whoop-
ing Cough. Stop them in time-One
Minute Cough Cure is the best remedy.
Harmless and pleasant. Sold by F. A.
Shurtleff & Co.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

Judge-Were you ever in prison?
Witness-Well, not exactly; still I'm
now serving life sentence.
Judge-Why, how's that?
Witness-I'm married.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

The high girdles will be more In
evidence than belts, and the figure will
be more defined than/eyer,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

Singleton-What was your notion for
calling your baby Bill?
Wedderly-Because he arrived on the
first of the month; that's the answer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
lmna.san4 "a Ma4ha.s.

"Can you tell me-" asked the traveller,
"how far 1t il to Dunkville and return?"
SWELL" replied the lank Tennesseean,
"it's right smaht distance down theh,
but amt never noticed how fab 1t is
hack -
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
No. s75.-Connected Squares.

No. 315.-Connected Squares.
!. II.
5000 90 o 90
900 90 5000
10000 10000
5000 LII. 10000
5000 XXX 900
Y y " Y
NIX Xxx
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XXIX
M y Xxx
III. To confuse. =. Salty. 3. Point
ed. 4. To scoff. .. A mythical mon
ster.
Ill. \ place of sacrifice. 2. Huge
3. A narrow path. 4. Nimble. 8. tt
let again.
I'LL. That which abates. 2. tt
scold. 3. Rightly. 4. a peculiar com
bination of pulleys. .. A negro. q
Taps again
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
HOMEMAKERS COLUMN.

Correspondence on topics Of interest tothe ladie
COLUMN, oxford Democrat. Paris. Maine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
Bound 70 Make HI. Mark.

Fond Mother Ito teucher)-Don't you
think my boy bound to make his mark?
Teacher am afraid so. 1t seems
impossible for him to learn to write.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
No. REORGANIZATION.

No. DISCRIMINATION
Each word ends in number.l
To delight in exceedingly.
Consequently.
Tie base of Il column.
To flow forth.
To make bright.
To alleviate.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

Many of the newest waists blouse not
only in the front but have slightly full
and bloused back.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

Sharpe-Yes, the fat lady in the
museum is an acquaintance of mine.
Whealton-H'm! l suppose that Is
what you'd call "having a wide &C
uuaintance."
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
M. transformations.

Syncopate to limit and have cord.
Syncopate trick and have idle talk.
Syncopate TO prevent and have wild
animal.
Syncopate rank and have anger.
Syncopate pigment and have gasp.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

"Father, what's the difference between
lunch and luncheon"
about a dollar and quarter, my
boy"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13
aCHED IN every BONE.
Chicago Society Woman VINO Was So
Sick She Could Not Sleep or Eat,
Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills.

Chicago Society Woman Who Was So
Sick She Could Not Sleep or Eat,
Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills.
When a woman's kidneys 60 wrong,
her back gives out and every little task
becomes a burden. She is tired, nervous,
sleepless. run down-suffers daily from
baekache, headaches, dizzy spells, and
bearing-down pains.
Don't worry over imagined female
troubles" Cure the kidneys and you will
be well. Read how to find the cure.
Marion Knight, of 33 N. Ashland Ave,
Chicago, ILL.,, member of the Chicago
Federation Of Musicians and well-known
club woman, says: This winter when I
started to use
IT. Doan's Kidney
NJ y Pills ached in
III A " every bone and
II HIB " b q d in tense
II III pains in the kid
II "N neys and pei
~ vic organs. The
VSs8 uurine was thick
and cloudy, and
WSl S1M I could barely
NJ EH eat enough to
Wy$ees $780, live. I felt
W.SIxfSW change for the
~ better within
week. The second GEEK began eating
heartily. / began to improve generally,
and before seven weeks had passed l
was well. I had spent hundreds of dol
lars for medicine that did not help me,
but Sc worth of Doan's Kidney Pills re-
stored me to perfect health"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Miss Knight will
be mailed on application to any part OF
the United States. Address Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Buffalo. n. Y. Sold b. all
dealers; price, fifty cents Pee box.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

No. 374.-A Kind Of Wheel.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-13

Soak one-quarter of pound of choice
prunes for two hours, drain, add boiling
water to cover, and partially cook. Boil
one cupful of rice for five minutes, drain,
and add it to the prune water and as
much more water as is needed to cook
the rice until nearly done. Season with
salt to taste. Stone the prunes and cut
in small pieces; add half cupful of
blanched chopped almonds. Mix two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter with the
rice and add the nuts and prunes, with a
sprinkling of paprika, and, If desired,
CRATE in some nutmeg. Mix thoroughly
and stuff the goose with tx.
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15
THE GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER II, 1904.
Provision Should be Made for the
Weak Minded.
Monroe Enquirer.

Monroe Enquirer.
The Statesville LandInark is OF the
opinion that the State should pro-
vide some place for imbeclles and
idiots who cannot be cared for by
their own people. Outside the county
home there is no place for this unIor-
tunate class We believe that school
for weak minded children would be a
good thing. SO far as the hopeless
and homeless idiots are concerned.
the county homes are the places
for them. There are Il great many
weak minded children, however, who
with proper training could be Won
deriully developed We have never
seen the advisability OF the State
building a rcfOrrnatory for mean,
vicious boys. A hickory switch is
the best Of all remedies for that class,
but for the poor, weak minded chill
dren who, if they are sent to the com
mon schools, are made the subject OF
lest and ridicule by the more fortu-
nate, there should be some place to
which they could be sent and their
minds trained. Parents OF weak
minded children are OF course sensi-
tive. and they do not want to send
their children who are extremely dull
and mentally deficient to school
where the unfortunate child is far
surpassed by its mates. and for that
very reason many poor child, over
whose mind n cloud hangs, has been
allowed to grow up in absolute ignO-
rance
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15
The Review of Reviews for December.

The RerieF Of Reviews for Decem Der
presents q series OF contributed articles
OF unusual variety and interest. Mr..
Walter Welman writes on The United
States and the World S Peace Movement.
Mr.. Winthrop l.. Marvin describes the
work OF the Merchant Marine Commits
sion, appointed during the last session OF
Congress to investigate American ship
ping conditions in our great ports. lhe
four men Of the month chosen az the
subjects for character sketches are Chief
Engineer William Barclay Parsons. OF
the New ROrk Rapid Transit Commission;
President David Rowland Francis. of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition: THAR
man George r. COrtelyOu. OF the Rcpub-
lican National Committee and Governor
elect William l.. Douglas, OF Massachu-
setts Clarence H. Poe tells the story oi
the remarkable rejuvenatiOn Of rural
North Carolina illustrating his article
with pictures showing the great advance
in the educational appliances provided
by the State for both whites and blacks.
There is u brief account of the trials of
the New York tentrals electric lOcOmO-
motive at Schenectady last month with
two very interesting Illustrations from
photographs. what Port Arthur Means
to Japan is clearly set forth by .idachi
kinnosuke. with Il map OF Port Arthur
and its surrounding defenses. III the
editorial department. THE Progress ii
the World. there is Il full discussion OF
the results of the elections. OF the North
Sea episode and its bearings on Anglo
Russian relations
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15
The Game Law.


Raleigh Post.
Tie laws Of North Carolina pro-
tect at all times nocking birds,
thrushes, wOodpeckers, yellow ham
mers, wrens, Lative sparrOWs, red
birds, orioles, chimney swifts, night
hawks or bull bats, whip-poOr-Wllis,
swallows. martins, warblers. nut
matches. cllicadees, gulls OF all spe-
ries, terms or strikers, sklminerS,
-hearwaters, herons and cranes, cor
morants. prlieans, sea pigeons. vul-
lures or buzzards. and all other non
game birds, also their nests and eggs.
The following are by statute de-
rlIred game birds and may be>kllled
during the open season and Ill such
manner as prescribed by law in the
various counties: Looms, grehes,
swans, geese. brant, ducks, gralIs or
march hens, coots, plovers and snipes.
yellow legs, clewink, curlew, wild
turkeys, grouse, partrldges, pheas-
ants, bob white, doves, robins and
meadow larks.
Tie following birds are not pro-
tected by law: English sparrows,
owls. hawks. crows, blackbirds. Jack
DAVIS and rice birds
a nonresident may secure hunt
ers license from the county clerk OF
the superiorcourt before hunting 1t
is illegal to ship from the State the
bob white or partridge, grouse or
pheasant and the wild turkey. Any
information regarding the
game and bird laws may be had on
to the Audubon Society
OF North Carolina. ut Greensboro.
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15
Official Vote in North Carolina.

The State board Of canvaseers met
in Raleigh last week to canvass the
returns made of the official vote in
North Caroline at the recent election.
The following information will be OF
interest to our readers:
The official vote for Governor is de-
clarcd to be 12s. 762 for Glenn and 70
:jO.J for Harris Glenn's majority, 40
lJ7.
The official majorities OF the Demo
cratic nominees for Congress in all the
districts except the Eighth are large
Following are the figures as officially
declared i'll the several Congressional
districts:
First district Small DemJ, 1866;
Newberry (Rep), 3,1G7
Second district, kitchin Dem.). H.
oG4; Jenkins (Rep.), 1910.
Third district, Thomas Dem.D. 10
60; Robinson Rep.), 5,49G.
Fourth district. f. W. Pou Oem) ..
Il G53: Pearson (Rep), 5.l97.
Fifth district. kitchin (pemD. 1G.491:
Reynolds Rep), .J4G,
Sixth district, Patterson Dem), D.
40; o. J. Spears RepJ, 4,193.
seventh district. Page (Dem.) II .G42:
Mcndenhall RepD, $3.50.
Eighth district, Blackburn QRep). 10
5GG; Newland Dem.) J. 5,}21.
Ninth district, Webb Oem.), l., 2,SS2;
Newell Rep.). $3.50.
Tenth district, Gud-er OemD T., Dol
Ewart Rep.), 1866.
Parker's vote, 124.1OS. Roosevelt
2,372. Parker's majority over Roose-
welt is Z ,52O less than that of Glenn over
Harris. Roosevelt led Harris by 1000
while Glenn led Parker by over 1000
Watson POpD, got SO; Swallow
Ur0.). 361; Debs tSocialistl, 124
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15
The Southern's First Decade.
Railroad Record and Common Carrier

Railroad Record and Common Carrier.
On June both last, the Southern
Railway completed its tenth year.
One decade is a short period in the
history of corporation or a coun-
try, but many important things may
occur in that brief span.
In the case of the Southern, the
system has grown remarkably. 1t
has jumped from + 40 miles to 7.164
miles
Its gross earnings have increased
from ST, 10000 to $45, 900, 900.
It's common stock has risen from
below l., to above 45, although at
present it is about 21.
Its preferred has advanced from
below 20 TO 92. and has been to 9S.
For four or five years it did not
pay u dividend on preferred. Then
it bpgal by paying l per cent. and
for the last two years has paid ) per
cent. annually on the preferred.
Millions.of dollars have been spent
on roadbed, bridges rails, shops,
terminals and equipment. The road
has been practically rebuilt, and it is
now IL high-class property in every
respect.
The Southern has advertised the
South all over the globe, and it has
brought in millions forinvestment in
farms and manufacturing industries.
The company's service has been
wonderfully improved, and is now
equal to anyi in the land. The South
ern has reached down into Florida
and west to st. Louis. 1t has been
progressive and liberal, and the pub
lie has shown its appreciation by
giving it abundant patronage.
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15
Letters to Santa Claus.

The GOLD LEAF has received "a
batch of letters to Santa Claus with
request to publish. They were writ
tel by three little girls at Henderson
cotton mills, and we print them ex-
actly ;,s written, without correction
or abbr-vi,tion. To do SO would
DESTROY their childish simplicity and
originality and detract from their
interest. They are as follows:
Dear San Ia close.
| am Little Girl nine years old My
name is Edna | want you Too Bring me
Safe and a Doll and Doll carriage and
a Little Stoke That can cook on | want
a Doll Bed that My Doll can Sleep on
want Box of tea Sets and Set of
knives and forks and Spoons | want a
chair and Little table So | will close
for this time Your friend Edna allgoOd
house NomBer one
dear Santa clause
will rite You feau lines to let You
hear from me want you to Bring big
doll inches long and carriage and a
burrow and a Stove and trunk and a
little Bed and som neg toes and candy
and oranges to. My name is Jennie
Lamb am nine years old rite soon your
friend Jennie Lamb.
Dear Santa close
| am Little Girl Six Years old My
Name is Bulah | want you Too Bring
Me Little SAT doll and carriage and a
Box of tea Sets want yot. Too Bring me
Little Stove that l can cook on want
you to Bring Me a trunk that my Doll
close can Stay in So will close for this
time now your friend bulah Allgood
The gold leaf., 1904-12-15

Try Porto Rican cocoanut soap. For
toilet and laundry use. Rich in quality
and low in price. There is no better
combination For sale at Fl. THOM-
ASON'S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28
PAYS 500 To SAVE HORSE.
Uncle Sam Has Animal Rescued When
Wedged Between Armor Plate.

Philadelphia, Dec. 2S.-It cost the
United States government 800 and a
lot of trouble to display its humane
qualities by rescuing a horse from be-
meath the cruiser Denver, lying in the
dry dock at League Island.
Attached to wagon, the property or
the department of yards and docks, the
horse stumbled down the steep serra-
ted wall of the dry dock leading to the
bow of the Denver the other night and
was wedged under the armor plates of
the cruiser.
Darkness precluded the possibility of
releasing the imprisoned animal Friday
night The fires under the boilers OF
the Denver were banked and there was
no steam to work the derricks, which,
when tried, would not reach the horse
Several men were put to work laying
tracks from one OF the equipment build
ings toward the dry dock. 1t was this
work that cost Uncle Sam 500. Early
next morning one of the swinging
cranes was switched near the bow OF
the Denver. Private James Helverson
of the Denver volunteered to place
s'hitch band" around the animal and by
means of a rope was lowered to the
horse.
After Helverson attached the band to
the chain of the swinging. crane the
horse was jerked from it's place and.
lifted to the surface, nearly dead from
exposure and brIises. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Q. NJ. Marley and wife to NJ. A. Ha-
zelrlgg, lot 257 and part of lot 259
sixth avenue west, Horne's addi-
llOn .........................$1 81, 6U
r. Meade and wife to J. Reser, part
or the southeast quarter of section
., township II, range 15.......s........ z, 20(
j. d. Rockeg and wife to S. Oldfield,
part of the southwest quarter of
the northeast quarter of section "a,
township 10, range 13.................. 2, 50(
j. T. Porter and wife to F. Ekblad,
lot so and the north half of lot 50
Clay street, Missions addition ...... ], 40l
street also 756, 1858, 760, 1852 and 764
Tenth avenue west .................... II
w. d. Coleman to c. NJ. Bumgardner,
lot 62 and south 1S1s feet of lot so
Western avenue, Watson's addition 300
lot 23I Kansas avenue; also lots no.
1l2, ia and 116 Tenth avenue east,
and lots 344 and 346 Topeka avenue,
ana lots 1888. $40 and 342 Quincy
street ...-
S. Hildreth and husband to F. c. Sla-
ter, lots 479 and 4s1 Washington
avenue, Reeds subdivision ..........$ 200
j. A. Yost and wife to f. D. Peter
son, the north half of the south
east quarter of section IS, township
10, range ID; ::..........:..: $500
j. YoSt to same, the southeast half of
the southeast quarter of section So,
township 10, range Observation-Disclosures. Z, 900
j. r. Mulvane and wife to F. C. Sla-
ter, lots 479 and 4S1 Washington
street, Reeds addition ................
e. Worran to c. Worrall, part of lots
A. Ely and wife to J. S. Ray, lots
25S, 255 and PSI Forrest avenue, J.
w Norris addition ...........-...... 50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28

secretary of war. 1t is said for the
purpose of furthering this movement
men prominently connected with the
United States army in recent days have
made several trips into this state.
They also visited the manufactures of
the American Rice company where
rice has been converted into a dozen
or more varied foodstuffs.
On one of these trips was General
Nelson A Miles-in fact he was here
a few weeks ago when capitalists from
Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin
visited the state for a tour through the
rice belt.
Proper food for the army has long
been a much discussed matter at
Washington, and especially during a
campaign 1t is considered more than
likely that the influence of the Santa
Fe company will assist to bring about
the adoption of rice as a staple food
for the army. There are, however, a
number of things to be considered,
and unless the rice company proves
that its product is a most valuable
article of food for the soldier in gar
rison or field it is not likely the gov
eminent will be asked to adopt it.
Among the data gathered concern
ing the value of rice are facts regard
ing the work of armies of other ma
tons campaigning on a rice ration.
The most shining of the wonders that
can be accomplished is the work of the
Japanese army, which consumes no
meat and lives mainly on rice pre-
pared in many ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28
FIERCE FIGHT WITH BEAR.
Bruin Attacks Settlers in Many Places
in the Far Northwest.

Tacoma, Wash, Dec. 2S.-F'ron
many directions come stories of bears
attacking settlers and others in the
northwest At Dawson Mining Re
corder Wadleigh was chased by two
cinnamon bears which he met on the
trail between Dawson and Glacier
creek.
The bears are so common there that
Wadleigh thought nothing of them I'M
til they began running toward him.
He ran to the nearest tree and pulled
upward his 240 pounds of avoirdupois
as rapidly as possible. AS he reached
the first limb the bears appeared at
the base to inspect a bottle of whisky
which he threw down to them. Wad-
leigh climbed to the highest branches,
remaining there in the cold ten hours.
In the meantime the bears had re-
treated.
Thomas Jeffrey, while pulling
freight to Pelly crossing, espied a
black bear in the water. Having no
spike in it, threw the pole over the
bears neck and held his head under
water until the brute was drowned.
Mordecai Jones of White Salem mar
rowIy escaped death in a desperate en-
counter with a black bear. He had
crawIed into a thicket where bruin
was making mincemeat of his two
dogs and fired twice at close range.
His third shell missed fire and the en-
ragged beast turned fiercely upon him.
Quickly injecting a fourth cartridge,
Jones discharged the rifle with its
muzzle against the bears head, killing
him. Jones and his wife have killed
twenty bears in that neighborhood. Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28
BILLION ON NAVY.
Vessels Under Construction Will Com
pose Strongest Fleet Afioat.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The senate
committee on naval affairs will present
some interesting and rather startling
figures to the senate when congress re-
assemblies.
These will show how generously and
Loyalty congress has responded to pub
! lie sentiments in Building the new
navy
| With the estimates of the navy de-
partment for this year added to the
total of appropriations made since
1888, when we began building the new
navy, the cost of construction and
maintenance is more than one billion
dollars. The amounts carried in the
annual appropriation bills covering
this period is $791,127,123.S apprO-
priated to meet deficiencies, $133,912,-
004.30 estimated for this year, $104,-
436,14S.34; total, $1,029, 465,27
These figures show that congress has
been liberal in appropriating for the
navy and that in the last twenty years
this government has expended more on
it's navy than any other in the world.
Senator Hale, chairman of the sem
ate committee on naval affairs, is in
harmony with the house leaders in the
policy to economiZes on naval apprO-
priations as well as others.
He would get the new ships into
commission before trying to complete
tleship is nearly 100000, complete
and armed.
There are now being built six 16, 600
ton battleships, the Connecticut, Kan
sas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Vermont
and New Hampshire; three $4,000
ton battleships, the Georgia, Nebraska
and New Jersey; two IA, 900 ton bat
tleships, the Rhode Island and Vir-
ginia; two $4,000 ton battleships, the
Idaho and Mississippi; one 1850 ton
battleship the Ohio: two 14,500 ton
armed cruisers, the Tennessee and
Washington; five $4,000 ton armored
cruisers, the California. North Caro-
lima Montana, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia; three $4,000 ton armored
South Dakota: three $500 ton pro-
tected cruisers, the Charleston, Mil
waukee and st. Louis; three $500
ton scout cruisers, the Chester. Birm-
ingham and Salem: two $500 ton pro-
tected cruisers, the Chattanooga and
Galveston; two gun boats, two first
class GOLFERS, two training ships. five
torpedo boats and two large sea going
tugs.
These ships are nearing completion.
and the navy complains of lack of off1-
GERS and men for the ships now in
commission. To place one new ship In
commission means a large increase IN
the navy, and a, considerable increase
in the cost of maintenance.
The naval architects admit that they
have not perfected the architecture OF
the battleships, and the disposition of
congress is to not authorize a large
the perfect type while they complete
and place in commission the ships now
building.
The ship yards desiring the contracts
are bitterly opposed to the proposed
economy of congress.