Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-02-06


At banquet in London, recently, the
lord mayor announced impressively that
his wife, his three daughters, his eldest
son and his daughter-in-law were total
abstainers. The temperance cause is
moving along, even in London.-The
Advance.
Governor Hoch of Kansas, says, that
one of the most hopeful signs of these
modern times is that the commercial
world is rapidly arraying itself on the
side of temperance. "This," the gov
ernor remarks, ''is not matter of senti-
ment, it is a matter of business, a cold
water matter"
In late number of the Union Signal
Margaret Dye Ellis, our Washington
correspondent, writes:
"As is we'll known, for the past six
months the Christian Herald of New
York has been laboring most ensrgetical-
~ to secure signatures of women to q
memorial to be presented to the Senate,
urging the expulsion of Mr.. Smoot.
This memorial, which will have nearly
one million names affixed, will be pre-
sented early In the year, and with appro-
pirate ceremonies will be classified and
bound in about twenty-five volumes.
at is expected that great anti
Mormon meeting will be held in Wash
ington the last Sunday in January,
when prominent speakers will address
the meeting, and the volumes of the
memorial will be exhibited prior to their
presentation to the Senate.
"If, following this work OF securing
the names of women, there Is sent many
hundreds of brief letters from men to
Senator's, urging them to vote for the
expulsion of Mr.. Smoot, 1t would 60 far
toward strengthening the sentiment need
ed in the Senate to bring to pass this
desirable contamination.
"Let me urge that this be looked after
at once, and that every senator shall re-
ceive letters from his voting constitu-
ents which shall 30 impress him of the
feeling in his state that the presence Of a
Mormon Apostle sitting in the highest
legislative body in the nation shall be-
come an impossibility."
"a boys chances of getting q good
position when he gets through school
are greatly reduced If he smokes cigar
ettes."
at is the opinion of Judge Slemmons
of Illinois, borne out by years of expert
ence as Judge and attorney that cigar.
cites make more criminals out of small
boys than all other agencies. A boy
addicted to the habit loses all sense of
moral responsibility. He becomes to
certain extent degenerate, liar and
petty thief"
THE POSSIBILITIES IN A BOY.
A boy is man In the cocoon-his life
is big with possibilities. He may make
or unmake kings, change boundary lines
between estates-write books that will
mould character, or invent machines
that will revolutionize the commerce of
the world. Remember that Corsican
boy, zone of a goodly family, who
weighed only fifty pounds when ten
years of age, and who was thin and pale
and perverse. Who would have thought
that he would have mastered every phase
of warfare at twenty-six, and when the
exchequer of France was in dire con.
fusion, would say, The financesP will
arrange them
"Be patient with the boys. You are
dealing with soul stuff. Destiny waits
just around the corner. Be patient
with the boys"
SIN Wales barrels of beer have been
taken back to Carnarvon because there
was no market for them. The sober
ing effect of the revival is impressing
many with the feeling that the greatest
temperance movement the world could
have would be general revival"
To die with an idea unattained ia in
finitely nobler and better than to live
content with an ideal too easily and
quickly realized.
The United States drinks enough
liquor each year to float all her battle
ships.-National Advocate.
The liquor traffic costs more each year
than our whole civil service, army, navy
and congress, river, harbor and pension
bills. All we pay for local government;
all national, state and county debts, and
all the schools in the country.-New
York Tribune.