Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-09-19

A man who recently hanged himself in
North Dakota left letter stating that
over thirty years ago he murdered Lizzie
f. Grombacher near Youngstown, o.,
for which murder another man was
executed, protesting his innocence to the
last While it is possible that the sui
cide's confession may be fake" there
is some corrObOrative evidence, and il is
probably true. That fact won't bring
the legally executed man back to life,
but it does furnish an instance to
strengthen the argument against capital
punishment. IL the condemned man
were still alive and in prison, it might be
possible TO do him certain fraction of
tardy justice by setting him free,
A short time since a representative
of a Paris paper called on President
Roosevelt, and later sent to his paper a
"fake'' interview with the president re-
garding the peace terms. ThereupOn
the president sent him telegram tell
ing him what he thought of him and his
action. Ii is rumored that the presi-
dent intends to devote himself to literary
pursuits after the expiration Of his term
of Office, and any one who reads the tele-
gram referred to above will have no
doubt that Mr.. Roosevelt is still able to
write clear and vigorous English.
The affairs of the worlds fair at
Chicago in 1898 are now, after twelve
years, pretty well closed up, but the
existence of the corporation must be
maintained indefinitely, as there is
$4,000 still on hand belonging to stock
holders who can not be found. Sub
scribers to the stock were principally
Chicago people who looked on their
subscriptions as contributions, not ex-
pecting ever to receive anything back,
but a dividend of IA 1-2 per cen. was
realized. Now many of the small stock
holders have disappeared, leaving no
address to which their unexpected divi-
dend might be sent.
The Southern Cotton Growers Asso-
citation have decided to fix the minimum
price of their product from this years
crop at eleven cents per pound. But
how about that? The Standard Oil Co.
can fix the price of oil at both ends of
the trade. The intangible Beef Trust
can do the same thing in the meat in
dustry. So also is it with half dozen
other ''trustified" industries. But is the
Cotton Growers Association so closely
organized that it can ''fix" prices?
Sir Hiram Maxim says that we fare
bound to have aerial navigation during
the first part of the present century.
Flying must come" And A. Roy
Knabenshue. who is about the most
successful navigator of the air to date,
modestly admits that he has built very
interesting plaything, and considers that
a flying machine may yet be useful in
war, but does not believe that airships
of any kind will ever be commercially
practical. Knabenshue is probably the
nearer right of the two.
According to Andrew Lang there are
about sixty words in the English Ian |
guage that have no rhyme; but the list |
given in his "Rhymers' Lexicon" does |
not include either "wind" (meaning a |
breeze) or ''devil," two words that have |
probably caused amateur versifiers more
grief than any other two in the language.
In the case of the first named, the diff
Guilty is to a certain extent avoided by a |
form of 'poetic license" which
allows it to be pronounced so as to rhyme
with "blind," but no one has ever sue
ceeded In twisting "devil" into any CON-
bination of sounds which will make a
rhyme with any other word.
n 1t could be done. current Newspaper |
literature might BE- much enriched.