Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-09-10

Jingle copies Of each Issue have been placed on
sale at the following places In the County:
Norway, Noyes' Drug Store.
stones Drug Store.
Buckneld, Alfred Cole. Postmaster.
Paris ain, Mrs. Harlow. Post Once
west Paris, Samuel T. white.
F.A. ShurtlefY & Co.
Coming Events.
Sept. Rockford Pomona Grange, BOlster's
Sept. Il, Is, ls.-Oxford County Fair
Sept "A, IS, S-Androscoggin Valley fair, Can
Oct. s.s-wes. Oxford Fair, Fryeburg
oct. 2, S.-North oxford fair, Andover.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Fan and winter Dress Goods.
Ready. TO Wear Hats.
New Goats.
Wanted.
II You Want TO Fight.
The Norway National Bank.
oxford County Agricultural Society.
wsyside Laundry.
Here and There.
While the rain of last week was one of
the best things that ever happened for
the state and indeed the whole East, the
management of the Maine State Fair has
everybody's sympathy in striking such
bunch of weather. II ever an institution
played in hard luck, particularly as re-
CARDS weather, the state fair has done it
during the last dozen years.
There must be some intense fascina-
ton about ballooning, beyond the money
which it brings to the professional. The
enthusiastic youngster who made ascen-
sions from the state fair grounds last
week Is the same one who was badly
smashed up and almost killed in fall
there last year; and an aeronaut who
fell into the water of the Massachusetts,
coast and was barely rescued few days
since, declares that there is no business
like ballooning.
Commenting on the recent seizure by
game wardens in Portland Of a large
shipment of pickerel and perch, the
Bridgton News says:
DThey are believed to be taken ny the dyna-
mite process, which Il cruel and unlawful"
Unlawful, yes, as it certainly ought to
be. But cruel? Compare the instan-
taneous death by dynamite with that in
flicted by the sportsman who makes the
fish fight, with hook in his mouth, to
the point of exhaustion, land the longer
the fight the more "sport"), and then
r., inf bottom IN
the boat to gasp out what life remains
by the slow process of drowning. Dyna-
mite cruel?
As the result of the measures taken to
stop gambling at Saratoga, Canfield's
famous gambling house there is for sale.
Doubtless Garfield feels that the au-
thorities have been interfering with
business.
Sandford's "Shiloh" is again reported
from the outside-to be on the verge
of crisis. So it has been several times
before. To normal people Shiloh can
not but be regarded as a community OF
misguided men and women, but it has so
far succeeded in weathering all storms.
Things are so quiet just now in that
island, that perhaps many of US have for
gotten that we are in charge of affairs in
Cuba, and are to remain so for number
of months at least, and possibly In
definitely, though the possibility is not
generally regarded as q contamination
devoutly to be wished.
A Maine exchange reports that taxi
dermist in town is mounting an eagle,
and gives the particulars as to the shoot
ing Of the bird. Looks as II there was
going to be trouble for somebody, when
Bre'r Carleton hears of it.
Rural free mail delivery is only four
teen years old, from its very beginning.
When if ever before did so important an
institution get so large and so sure
growth in so short time?
The Argus hammers away at the idea
that it Is "local option" which the liquor
dealers of the country are fearing and
they are working against is the growing
sentiment for prohibition, and the tend
ency to enact prohibitory laws which is
30 strongly manifested at the present
time In the South.
Those New York politicians who
would like to get Governor Hughes out
of the way might perhaps boom him for
vice. president, but they have had one
experience at that game, and are too
wise to repeat it.
Capt. Amundsen is going to make a
try at the north pole, and in the news
dispatches is credited with the intention
of using polar bears in the same manner
that dogs are used in the north. That
shows that some of the papers don't
have q state fair to make copy from, or
they wouldn't have to publish that kind
of thing.
The South has suffered three distinct
losses in it's representation in the United
States Senate, which will be in evidence
when congress assemblies. Two of the
losses are the deaths Of Senator'S Morgan
and Pettus of Alabama, and the third is
the election of jefferson Davis as senator
from Arkansas. That section may how
ever congratulate itself on the escape
from any danger there may have been of
having Vardamsn Of Mississippi as one
of its representatives In our highest
legislative body.
Souvenir hunters carried off about
everything that wasn't nailed down from
the ship of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden
while 1t was in New York harbor. The
day may come when we shall find the
people Of the United States described in
foreign books as nation of petty
thieves.
In an article in a recent magazine,
Woods Hutchinson, describing the con-
ditions under which people should sleep,
says:
"An windows should be open from the top. at
least one, and better two or three feet. 10 that
grntle current OF air can be felt blowing across
the face..--..-- The temperature OF the room
should be about 50 degrees TO 90 degrees r., II
possible"
There are a good many nights In the
year when the gifted writer would find it |
pretty hard maintaining both these ideal |
conditions, in this latitude.
A recent newspaper article forecasts a |
large increase in the price Of coal, aris-