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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03

A deposit of slate, apparently extern.
sive and valuable, though this cannot be
told without further examination, has
been discovered in the townships of
Carratunk and The Forks. The dis
covery is announced by Professor Lee of
Bowdoin College, who Is at the head Of
the state geological survey.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
Denmark.

The corn shop closed Monday night,
Sept. 25, with pack of $4,000, and a
crew began labelling Thursday morning.
Sam Daley & Co. are building a camp
at Scanda Bay Cove.
Chas. Vanoor is having his house
which he bought Of Fred Sanborn, moved
to a position in back of Mr.. S. T.
Jewett's. Mr.. johnson of Fryeburg is
doing the work.
A steel sheathing is being placed on
the Odd Fellows lodge room by a COM
mittee of three, Geo. W. Gray, l. H.
Berry, A. w. Belcher.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
ARE YOU ENGAGED?

Engaged people should remember
that, after marriage, many quarrels Car
be avoided, by keeping their digestiont
in good condition with Electric Bitters
s. A. Brown, of Bennettsville, S. c.,
says: "For years, my wife suffered in.
tensely from dyspepsia, complicated
with torpid liver, until she lost her
strength and vigor, and b,came mere
wreck of her former self. Then she
tried Electric Bitters, which helped her
at once, and finally made her entirely
we'll. She is now strong and healthy"
F. A. Shurtleff 6 Co., druggists, South
Paris, West Paris; sells and guarantees
them, at SOC q bottle.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
ATWOOD & FORBES,
Editors and Proprietors.
GEORGE n. ATWOOD. A. Z. FORBES.

TERMS I'll 50 year II paid strictly In advance.
Otherwise 600 year. Single copies cents.
ADVERTISEMENTS: All legal advertisements
are given three consecutive insertions for $l.oo
per Inch In length OF column. Special contracts
made with local, transient and yearly advert,s-
ers-
jon PRINTING New type, fast presses, steam
power, experienced workmen and low prices
combine 20 make this department Of our busi-
ness complete and popular.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
ArrAnKHn nv A MOB

and beaten, in labor riot, until covered
with sores. a Chicago street car conduct.
or applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and
was soon sound and well. 81 use 1t In
my family" writes G. j. WEIGH, OF Te.
konsha, Mich, land find it perfect.
Simply great for cuts and burns. Only
Csc. at r. A. Shurtleff & Co.'S, drug
store, South Paris, West Paris.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
0ilead,

Mr.. Joseph Bridges is quite sick.
Mr.. Fred Wight and sister Edna at
tended the Bethel fair.
Mr.. Ephraim Wight has returned to
his home.
Miss Helen Chapman and Miss Lizzie
Murphy were in Bethel Wednesday.
Born, Sept. 10th. to the wife of John
ID. Bennett, a son, II pounds.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
LIKE FINDING MONEY.

Finding health is like finding money
so think those who are sick. Wher
you have a cough, cold, sore throat, OF
chest irritation, better act promptly
like w. C. Barber, of Sandy Level, Va
He says: 81 had terrible chest trouble
caused by smoke and coal dust on my
lungs; but after finding no relief in
other remedies, l was cured by Dr.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds" Greatest sale OF
any cough or lung medicine in the world.
At F. A. Shurtleff & Co.'s, Drug Store,
South Paris, West Paris; SOC and S1.00;
guaranteed. Trial bottle free.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
Coming Events.

Oct 3.-Oxford Pomona Grange, with Frederick
Robbie Grange, Otisdeld.
Oct. g. 4. 5-west oxford fair. Fryeburg.
Oct. IL, l2.-Annual meeting Of Oxford Associa-
ton OF Uniyersalists Mechanic Falls.
Nov IA, Is, l6.-Annual meeting OF Maine state
Pathological Society, Grange Hall, Canton.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
Androscoggin Valley Fair.

A very successful fair was held by the
Androscoggin Valley Agricultural So
ciety at Canton, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of last week. There was
larger show of cattle than usual, and
some exciting races. The hall show was
particularly good, four oranges con-
tributing to this feature.
Summaries of the races ara "a follows.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03

Glasses on weekly payments. Dr..
Pasmsntsr. Read my I'd.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03

There Is considerable feeling at Bal
Harbor over the injuring of Howell
Suminsby, member of the entering class
of the high school, whose arm was
broken by q number of older pupils who
met the young man on the street and
proceeded to haze him.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03

We saw in town the familiar face Of
Frank Bicknell who has recently return
ed from visiting the scenes of his early
manhood In California and Minnesota.
Corn canning closed Thursday.
Fairs are over and soon the winter OF
our discomfort will be upon us. Our
summer has been seemingly brief. Sum-
mer visitors and the birds have flown,
and now comes the hustle to prepare for
Old Boreas. Still Maine Is not the worst
place in the world.
Wife and have taken vacation.
Been to the city. We're treated to a
trolley ride and shore dinner, which
caused US to feel like the fellow who
went to the city, took on a jag, and re-
marked to his chum, eve feel now as
though we amounted to something"
MOllie Cole has returned from an ex-
tended visit in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Il. Prince have re-
turned from visiting their children at
Waterville. Their grandson, Prince
Drummond, being somewhat ailing, re-
turned with them.
Abel Irish and E. NJ. Atwood have
been away on business.
George says we lodged.
Hard old time for building dams and
water works owing to high water, but II
is being done.
Just think of letting defective plank
sidewalks remain in dangerous condition
day after day, or perhaps weeks. A
broken limb may bring the municipal
officers to life.
Mrs. Benz. Gerrish has returned from
the hospital at Portland.
The sheriff is stocking up on liquor
again. He went to the Canton fair and
left the writer in charge, which was
rather risky.
Mrs. Nellie DeCoster is i'll.
Rev. w. E. Purinton of Bowdoin wal
in town Wednesday and Thursday call
ing on friends.
Rev. A. W. Pottle and wife went tt
South Paris Friday, returning the sam'
day.
Mrs. Wilson Shaw is spending som'
weeks in Boston and vicinity visiting
friends and relatives.
| Work on the new stone dam is pro
crossing finely and will soon be com
pleted. A fine piece of work is beint
done.
The corn packing factory has shu
down, and our streets are no longer fill
ed with the teams hauling the corn t.
the factory. Both the farmers and tn
packers feel we'll satisfied with the re
suits.
Mr.. Reynolds, formerly of Brockton
Mass, has recently come to town ant
opened shop for repairing and making
boots and shoes. He is fine workman
and deserves good patronage.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
Johns Letter.

HE MAKES A VISIT To THE OLD SOD,
AND WRITES THEREOF.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03

HYoMEI GUARANTEED TO CURE BY F.
A. sHURTLEFF & co. Oh MONEY RE-
FI'SDED
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
IN THE BOOK WORLD

Debtor, encounters in his futile search
Tor employment. Mrs. Freeman brings
out very clearly, as she has done to a
lesser extent in one or two OF her other
stories, the present strange condition OF
the modern mercantile world at large.
which makes employers look askance at
applicants for positions who have passed
their first youth even when these years
OF experience have but given them an
aided qualification for the work. with
out at all diminishing their vigor
II Is strange state of things which
INDUCES people to eschew until the last
sdsp old age, IL they have need to be
haes-earners. said Mrs. Freeman re-
centIy- I have seen this TO a pitiabie
extent, especially in New England.
conditions in the countrv at large have
widely changed as regards the POSSIBLE
lty OF earning an honest livelihood for
men and women who are no longer
young. People whose experience really
qualihes them for work beyond the ca
pdclty OF youth and inexperience have
10 chancs at all, unless they succeed IN
conceaiing the fact that they have
manhood !"
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
Interest on the Water.

Much academic discussion of what
is reasonable railroad rate, partici-
pated in by newspaper editors, maga-
zine writer's. and politico-economic
experts. is now engaging public at
tention. Its basis. of course, is the
legislation on the subject that, it is
expected, will be enacted at the pres
ent session of Congress.
There need by no difference of
opinion as 10 the difficulty of the
undertaking, when the effort is to
fix a rate, not only reasonable. but
just and honest 1t is worthy of
passing statement that few such ef-
forts have been made by railroads in
the past, the ideal OF justice and
honesty in their tariffs being ap-
preached only as competition COM
PEELED or legislation required. II is
sssnmed the body TO which the au-
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
Education in Fairy Tales.

The Association Of Women Prince
pals in New York city recently listened
to delightful and inspiring talk by
Miss Marie Shedlock, of London. on
The Educational Value Of Fairy
Stories says the New York State
Journal
The real object OF story telling
said Miss Shedlock, lis to bring true
dramatic joy to the child. to develop a
Tine sense of humor, and to lead chill
dren to good literature Fairy stories
have a peculiar educational value Tor
children between the ages of eight and
twelve. because they enable the child TO
form beautiful mental pictures. One
Of our chief aims in dealing with chill
dren should be to avoid the common
place.
Stories should deal with first prfn-
ciples and knowledge of the world Such
stories should be told as have an edu-
cational value. not dealing with a cor
ner of the nursery or playground, but
with corner OF the world One of the
great objections raised TO the telling of
fairy tales is that they confuse a
ch1ld's sense OF truth We should re-
member that the child has more power
Of mental readjustment than we give
him credit for, and is able to put i'm
pressions where they really belong"
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
Toby Tyler's Successors.

Few writers can boast so many books
to their credit as a certain author of
Portland, Me, well known to Juvenile
readers as James OTIS
Mr. haler-his full name is James Otis
kaler-went into newspaper work at the
age of fourteen, and later strayed into
politics. II was during a IulI in a politi-
cal campaign that, having a few idle
days on his hands. he wrote his famous
story for boys, ''Tober Tyler, or Ten
Weeks With a Circus" which was first
published serially in Harper's Young
People, and has now become a classic
The great success OF this story led
Mr.. haler to give up his newspa per
work. and since 1850 he has devoted all
his time 10 writing for young people
He has now l04 books on the market.
which would seem TO be all that an
iEdulgent public could swallow" he re-
Gently observed although the pub
fishers and little boys appear TO have a
different idea on the subject
Mr.. Kaler receives many letters from
his youthful readers: IL is seldom that
the weeks end finds him with less than
thirty TO be answered but he makes 1t
his rule 10 reply to everyone, and some
how finds time in which 10 do IL.
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
Literature in the Schools.

Few States are doing more than New
York to make literature a part of the
course in English grammar and compo-
sition In the upper grades of the gram
mar schools. The New York State Edu-
cation Department has just decided that
the examinations for the preliminary
certificate in English shall be based
upon the following selections. one in
prose and one in poetry:
/. Prose.
Warmers In the Wilderness or Bur-
rough's SHARP Eyes"
II. Poetry
Scott's The Lady of the Lake" or
eight poems selected from Longfellow,
Macaulay. Lowell. Browning. Byron and
Shelley
As practically all grammar school pu-
pills in the last year of the course. out
side of New York city take the re-
gents examination Tor a preliminary
certificate, which admits TO any high
school in the State under the regents.
more than 10000 pupils will each year
make a close study of at least half of
the literature required for the prelirni-
nary certificate in English. All of this
literature is now available in inexpen-
Sive form in the Riverside Iiterattlre Sc
RES, published by Houghton, MiIfi.n a
Co. -
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
A Literary Mystery.

If one Is to credit the announcement.
following the recent death of William
Sharpe that the writer long known as
Fiona Macleod" and the author of the
Like OF Rossetti are Identical, the most
extraordinary masquerade in the his
tory of letters has been consumn,ated
says Harper's Weekly Even now there
are many who refuse to accept the reve-
latiOn. although the announcement has
been made with every appearance Of au-
thority
That Mr.. William Sharpe, indefatiga-
Die Journalist. biographer. essayist. poet.
novelist and critic, and Miss Fiona
macleod. most gifted and rhapsodIc OF
the Neo-Celtic" enthusiasts. are one
and the same. will If the fact be sub
stantiated. come as a considerable
shock TO many. Fiona Macleod had
established. in the minds of those who
best knew and felt the extraordinary
charm of her work. an authentic person
alitY.
None. not even Mr.. Yeats. stood more
dSnhlteiy Tor the Celtic movement than
she; none expounded IL with more con-
Flction and persuasiveness II was As
a masquerade. incomparably successfnI
Again ana again throughout '-Fiaao's''
writing the note of distinctively femi-
nine emotion. OF feminine vision and nm
oerSIanoing, is sounded with apparent
reaIlty We know OF a letter written
tapparently) and signed by her II, vvhIcb
TINS feminine quality is peculiarly do-ni-
haht-a letter written. moreover. with
no tnought or publicity or effect
MI Sharpe created Fiano. Mac
leod as sort of spiritual refuge a
Sulse under which he might In whit
man s phrase, unrestrainedly invite his
soul. ne possessed gifts and capacities
mas surpassed the essentially magical
beauty disclosed in The Dominion OF
dreams The Magic Kingdoms The
house OF Csna.' Green Fire From
the Hills of Dream and BY Sundovgn
SHORES Ii seems not UNLIKELY thai
the passing OF Miss Fiona Macleod
VII %llI mean the perpetuity of DIR. William
Sharpe a literary force OF ,,oco-,1-
mon hneness and originality"
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
NEW YEAR RECEPTION

The resident members of the Grand
Army of the Republic and all visiting
comrades will make the customary New
Year call upon President Roosevelt Mon
day next about noon
Col. A. Z. Tasker, commander of the
Department of the Potomac. has request
ed local members to assemble at G. A. r.
headquarters. 1872 Pennsylvania avenue,
Monday at noon. The members of the
organization are requested to appear in
uniform and wear the badge of the order
if practicable.
The President will receive at
la. m.-the Vice President: the mem
bers OF the Cabinet; the Diplomatic
Corps
11:20 a. m.-The Chief Justice and the
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
OF the United States; the judges of the
Court of Appeals of the District of CO.
lumbia; the judges OF the Supreme
Court of the District Of Columbia: the
judges of the United States Court of
Claims: former members of the Cabinet
ambassadors. and ministers OF the
United States.
II: 80 a m.-Senators, Representatives.
and Delegates in Congress; the Com
missioners and judicial officers OF the
District of Columbia.
ll:45 a. m.-Of1cers of the army: off,
GERS of the navy; officers of the Marine
Corps; commanding general and general
STAFF of the militia of the District Of
Columbia.
1915 p. m.-The regents and secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution; the Civil
Service Commission; the Interstate Com
merce Commission: the Isthmian Canal
Commission; assistant secretaries of de-
partments; the SOliCitor-General: AS
sistant Attorneys General: Assistant
Postmaster General: the Treasurer of
the United States, the Librarian of Con-
gress; the Public Printer; the heads of
bureaus in the several departments; the
president of the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb.
1890 p. m.-The society of the Cincin-
natl; the Associated Veterans of the
War of 1854: the Medal of Honor
Legion; the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion OF the United States; the Grand
Army Of the Republic; the Union Vet
eran Legion: the Union Veterans Union
the Society of the Army of Santiago; the
Spanish War Veterans: the Army and
bers of the Oldest Inh8 bitants' Associa-
tion OF the District Of Columbia
1900 p. m.-Reception OF citizens
Gentlemen to be received whether in
carriages or on foot. viii enter the White
House by the north portico' and will
leave by the eastern entrance Opposite
the Treasury.
Carriages will approach the White
House by the northwestern gate and
will leave by the northeastern gate and
be parked in East executive avenue,
where they will remain until called TO
the east entrance from which all guests
will depart
The Washington times., 1905-12-30

thority of rate supervision is given
Will have other inspirations to fair
dealing than the mandates of neces-
sity or the dictates of prudence.
Thence will their difficulty arise.
The difficulty will be real. There
is an initial question. for example,
as TO how a reasonable rate shall be
computed-whether it shall be de-
signed to pay reasonable interest
upon the investment of the railroad
stockholders. OF be determined from
some other standpoint When the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
the authority it will decide these
questions, we imagine, as they arise
Out of the chaos of conflicting argu-
ment, however, emerges one peak of
clear certainty. A reasonable rate
will not mean such a tariff upon goods
and merchandise as will enable
railroad company TO pay dividends
upon the water with which it has
flooded its stock. That time-worn
device for convincing the public that
a corporation is really an object of
charity has outlived it's usefulness
in other directions and it will not
avail when the reasonableness of
rate is the issue to be determined.
There will be no question about
that
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
The Brotherhood of the Nations

A great principle is working out
in the world these days. 1t seems
to be a corollary to the brotherhood
of man. but it is not 1t is the
brotherhood of man itself.
When the wise men of Washington
read that they will smile indulgently
some of them. Especially they will
smile over the thought that a Ger
man warship of the Russian port
of Riga, an English willingness to
lead coalition to enter other cities
of Muscovy, and a concerted demon
stration of the powers before the
Sublime Porte are its basis. They will
call the spirit behind all that com
mercialism" and they will say that
no war was ever yet waged save for
trade. England is the land-grabber
to them; the Kaiser is gobbling a
helpless neighbor, and, as for Turkey
the vultures Will be circling over
that carcass a little nearer than ever
before, their impatience heightened
and their voraciousness more glutton-
ous
But land-grabbing, neighbor-gob-
bling and vulture-circling may not be
altogether what they seem. England
was despoiling Egypt thirty years
ago-and who among our wise men
would see her leave the Nile today?
If Germany should absorb a part of
Russia, as she has absorbed a part
of Africa. and send the farmer back
TO his plow, the artisan to his bench,
the merchant TO his wares, what
the Porte and pick his bones dry
that each bone might be transformed
into a healthful. living, regenerated
body, who would regret the scavenger
work of the vuItures?
Civilization is not always a goodly
thing to see. Today its graphing
irons are an Alexander's ambition:
tomorrow Tamerlane's butchery.
Humanity does not shape an edify-
ing cause" But still the world
blunders along-always forward, al
ways forward. II may well be that the
''commercialism" these wise men see
is only the spit on civilizations
hands,
The nations, whether they like it
or not. are a brotherhood on the
march. They started together out of
the Tigris-Euphrates valley. They
are marching together now. And
when they keep step-as three years
ago in China. and now in the Oar
denelles, and i'll the future, it may be,
in Russia-they cover ground fast.
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
An Editor in Jail.

One of the most entertaining chapters
in Mr. William O'Brien's volume of
Recoilections' of the political and pop
ular disturbances in Ireland during the
years of the Parnell movement narrates
how the author edited United Ireland
for months while he was actually con-
fined in Kilmainham Jail
The police chased the paper ali over
Ireland and England. arresting every
one whom they could accuse of compile
ity, even newsboys, and smashing up
the printing offices whence it issued );
but never could discover its author and
editor. who meanwhile was under their
very eyes in the jail into which they had
put him
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
Winston Spencer Churchill. the Busy.

Judging by the amount Of what he bas
visibly accomplished. Winston Spencer
Churchill must be young man OF un-
usual industry His service in the Eng
hsh army and in parliament would have
quite absorbed the time OF almost any
one during recent years; and the first
announcement of his forthcoming biog-
raphy in two volumes Of his father.
Lord Randolph Churchill, was greeted
by the amazed exclamation. How did
he ever find time 10 write it?''
Churchill is one of the rising young
men in English political life. and
typical instance of how English men In
public life combine political interests
and literature Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.
Bryce. and Mr.. Morley are other ex-
amples of the same practice.
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
What's in a Name?

To read in a daily paper that Heart
Of Hyacinth" wins at New Orleans one
would naturally infer that the good
people of that town had been indulging
in a popular-book contest, but when
one further reads that 'SeIf-Reliant,
That's What, and Oliver also ram the
conclusion is reached that Heart Of
Hyaeinth" in this case is a horse, and
not Onoto Watanna's s novel To name
race-track favorites after popular novels
seems a good idea. Certainly the con-
nection between horses and literature
dates back to the time of Pegasus and
the MUSES..
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
Another "william Ashe."

From the Courier-Journal, Of Louis
willie. KY. we learn that William Ashe,
brought much glory and money to his
friend. Mrs Ward. has just resigned
from the Washington Fire Department
He was simply a private in the sel
vice, and a senior watchman has taken
his place But think of the uncon-
scious distinction that Washingtonians
Will never enjoy again. Of having their
confiagrations extinguished by the very
best-selling gentleman of the whole
year.
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
IN THE GAY WHIRL
OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
Miss Roosevelt Guest at Dinner Party Given by Senator
and Mrs. Elkins-Secretary Bonaparte to Entertain
Gunboat Mayfower.

Miss Roosevelt was a guest at the din
ner given last night by Senator and Mrs.
Elkins, and afterward went with the
other guests to attend the Parker dance
at Rauscher's. The other guests with
Senator and Mrs Elkins were Mr. and
Mrs Larz Anderson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pitts Duffield, Mr.. and Mrs. Beekman
Lorillard, of New York: Miss Zaidee
Cobb, Miss Mary Carlisle, Miss HELEN
Bibbs. Miss Mathilde Townsend, Miss
Katherine Elkins. Miss Grace Bell. Miss
Evon Shepard, Major Mott, Lieutenant
Lay, Lieutenant Sheridan. Robert Goe-
let Lieut.. Il. S. Grant, third. Mr.. Car
Isle. Richard Ellxins, and Davis Elkins.
All of the dining room decorations were
IN red roses and Christmas green
The Washington times., 1905-12-30
New Macmillan Books.

Lord Randolph Churchill the biog-
raphy in two volumes by his son, Win
ston Spencer Churchill; 'Pre-Raphaelit-
ism and the Pre-RaphaeIite Brother
hood" by William Holman Hunt. and
The Portreeve," by Eden Phiiipotts.
nounced by the Macmillan CornDarv for
issue in January