Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-11-07

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p. N, although the audience had long
been in place and had been noisily call
ing for the curtain for fifteen or twenty
minutes.
Judging from the testimony before
the investigating committee, the Yer
mont state prison might without great
appropriateness have been termed the
Temple of Venus.
Patent medicines which contain too
large percentage of alcohol are soon to
be placed in the category of Intoxicating
liquors by the government, and manu-
facturers and dealers will have TO pay
taxes accordingly. The move involves
considerable change in conditions, and
the manufacturers of remedies are try
ing to find out where the line is to be
drawn. This the government itself
doesn't seem to know, as yet only for
mulating the general principle that those
remedies which are practically liquors in
disguise will be reckoned as such, while
those which are strictly medicines will be
exempt. That is somewhat like the
general principle employed by political
economists for determining the relative
share of capital and labor in the product
that each is entitled to that portion
which it produces. 1t is in applying the
principle, and deciding the relative pro-
portions in any concrete case, that the
trouble lies.
Undoubtedly some patent medicines
ought to be classed as beverages, while
others emphatically ought not to. On
one point the public should not be mis-
led. The fact that remedy contains
alcohol is not sufficient to condemn it.
The alcohol may be essential to the COM
pounding and preserving of the medi-
cine, and the presence of quantity OF it
does not necessarily make the medicine
desirable or even possible as beverage.
Compounds which could be used as
beverages, or even which were designed
for that purpose, have been put out
under the name of medicine, and it is
against such that the proposed action of
the government is directed.
A young man in New York who had
been scratched by the teeth of little pet
dog, imagined himself to have hydro
phobia He was thrown into acute
hysteria by his fear, and eventually died
from congestion of the brain. This is
one of the most striking examples of
the power of the imagination ever re-
corded.
1t wasn't anything strange that when
an American admiral hunting in China
accidentally filled a Chinese woman with
q charge of bird shot, mob of Chinese
attacked the admiral's party and took
away their guns. OF course it wasn't
just the lawful course to pursue, but it's
easy to guess what would have happen
ed if the situation had been reversed.
Later dispatches report that the affair
has been adjusted" and it won't be
necessary to make display of force in
any Chinese harbor.
"What a whole billion means" is the |
title of an article now going the rounds |
of the papers, which gives some startling
figures to impress the reader with the
magnitude of q billion. The trouble |
with it is that 1t is from an English journ-
al and reck0ns the billion according to the |
English method of enumeration, while
we In America use the French method. |
The difference is shown by the two lines |
below, the first representing An English |
billion, and the second q French Tor
American) billion.
1000, 900, 100000
1000, 100000
In other words, the English billion is
Just one thousand times as large a. the
American billion, or what in our system
il called trillion. 1t Is an interesting
article which is referred to above, but
the American papers ought TO drop it
out.
At the national w. C. T. U. conven-
tion In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lillian N. N.
Stevens Of Maine was reelected national
president, receiving AT out Of ATS bal
1otD cast.