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Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
South RumfOrd.

Frank Pye is boarding with his broth.
or, George Pye, on Hall Hill. He has
had to give up his work in the Oxford
mill on account of the gas which hurts
his lungs.
Miss Lila Swain has been quite sick
with the grippe.
S. r. Thurston has gone to Boston to
visit his son, S. r. Thurston, Jr. On
the way he visited his brother Frank in
Sabattus, and other relatives in differ
ent places.
Robert McGrath is visiting his sister,
Rebecca McGrath, in Rocklaud, Mass.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
North Paris.

Mrs. Putney was in the place last
week for few days.
Mrs. Woodsrd Benson Is keeping house
for Abner Benson.
Geo. Tusll is drawing pulp wood for
L. j. Abbott.
Mrs. Trask and Mrs. A. B. Abbott ex.
peoted to go to Chesterville last Sstur-
day for few days, to visit their mother.
Elmer Durham, who cracked rib
while sliding recently, 10 doing we'll and
Is now out.
Miss Lizzie Bonney has been helping
Mrs. A. j. Abbott for q short time.
Moseley Foss has been quite sick. G.
e. Peterson cared for bis stock.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
SINGLE COPIES.

single Copies OF the Democrat are four cent
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Jingle copies of each issue have been placed OF
.ale at the following places In the County:
south Paris, shurtler's Drug Store.
Norway, Noyes' Drug Store.
Stones Drug Store.
Buck1eld, Alfred Cole. Postmaster.
Paris TiIll, Mrs. Harlow. Post ONCE.
West Paris Samuel T. White.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
A Sure Method,

Landlord-Here. now, you needn't be
afraid you will oversleep. And If the
alarm clock should by any chance fail
to awaken you just give the little
hammer a poke with your finger, then
she'll so 01.-Heitere Welt.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

New Ginghams.
Month Of Free Treatment.
It Grows Hair.
Why Hesitate?
IL Grows Hair.
Don't Need Glasses.
Bank Book Lost.
Bankrupts Petition for Discharge.
Bank Book Lost.
DIR. kennedy's Favorite Remedy.
To Mothers In This Town.
This Is an Easy Tes,.
Parker's Hair Balsam.
Sweaters.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17

Terms :-sl5o year II paid strictly In advance
Otherwise e2.oo year. Single copies a cents
ADVERTISEMENTS: - All legal advertisements
are given three consective Insertions for tl.S
per Inch In length of column Special contracts
made with local. transient and yearly advertie-
ers.
norras a,ner,.ncss ,yypprsr,sn and Low nr,ces
combine TO make this department Of our bue'-
meas complete aud popular.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
Wanted.

A capable girl or wO"'' ,,.
h. u ework. Good pay '0' l, o,fs,a
tent help. Adf .lss b. care w, If
Democrat, sou,eY, 's'
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17
West Sumner.

At a meeting Of VIM. A. Barrows Post
held Jan. 7, the following officers we're
alactad.
Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-17

The Grand Army and Relief Corps
held public installation Saturday after
noon. The officers of the Relief Corps
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
They Go from Various Government Departments Where
They Are "Fnshed to Receive Large Salaries from and
Give Large Benefits to Various American Industries

provide salary that would hold the
majority Of them, when the time comes
that they want to go elsewhere. In the last
two years nearly fifty men have left the
geological survey to go into private busi-
ness TO take up work for seml-pubhc con-
Germs or to work for foreign governments.
An estimate made by officials of the survey
shows that the average earnings OF these
men is two and one-half times the average
salary received when they left the survey.
Men will make remarkable sacrifices 10
stay with the governments scientific bu-
reaus," says a high official Of one OF the
departments "A matter Of money Will
not hold them. nor will IL induce them TO
60 There are men in our bureau VINO
could earn from four to five times their
present salaries outside. Other men have
left at only modest increases. With the
scientist II is usually the case that he
goes or stays where his work promises TO
be most satisfactory in the matter OF scien-
ti1c results"
Nevertheless, all countries seem to be
watching the American governments eX-
perts, and picking them off as rapidly as
they develop especial skill in certain lines
and can be induced TO leave the federal SER
vice. A few years ago, before business had
been centralized as at present, private cap
ital could not pay the salaries that these
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

DROM the point OF view OF many
persons the most remarKapie
l. thing in the life Of f. T. Stotes-
bury, the Philadelphia banker, Is not
his recent stepping into the breach that
threatened to deprive the Quaker CITY
of grand opera next year by promising
"a make up any deficit to the extent OF
500 900 out of his own pocket, but tha'
he once refused an absolutely splendid
business proposal from J. 2. Morgan
FOR the sole reason that acceptance
would have involved leaving Philadei-
pha and living in New York.
The house Of Drexel & Co. Is the
Philadelphia connection of the world'
wide establishment known in New YORK
and London as j. T. Morgan & co. and
in Paris as Morgan, Harjes & co. MT
Stotesbury is the managing head OF the
PHILADELPHIA house. AS such Mr.. Stotes-
bury is in the daily and hourly habit OF
saving mo" to all sorts and conditions
OF men, for 1t Is an important part OF
his daily programme to sit at a desk
and pass judgment with celerity and
dispatch on applications for the loan
of immense sums to provide the sinews
OF war for q variety Of commercial en-.
terprses.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

nable scientific men are in demand. and
the government virtually becomes the nm
ishirg school for them in their progress
toward big business positions.
Mr.. Powell. whose loss is keenly felt by
the Agricultural Department, is neverthe-
less in a position to continue important
work for the whole citrus fruit industry or
the United states The California growers
embraced in the Citrus Protective League
represent almost all of the producers or
the West. Working as n government eX-
Iert, Mr.. Powell studied the problems ana
devised methods TO improve conditions.
Oranges were rotting in transit and stor-
age lie showed grower; how TO PICK
without bruising: he studied transporta-
ton problems and worked them out. lie
organized the growers into cooperative
handling and selling agencies; he even de-
yised a plan for having all their railroad
losses and damage claims handled by one
man.
Now. as head Of the Citrus Protective
League, he stands as the watchman over
the citrus industry. If there is a wet sea-
son. If growers are inclined to speed up
their operations and run the risk OF bruis-
Ing fruit. If any one or hundred con-
tinsencies arises, Mr.. Powell stands as the
solemn warning OF what ought to be done
and what ought not
Powell and B. ID. White were two of the
greatest agents OF cooperation among
the farmers that the Agricultural Depart
ment has ever had" said leading officer
Of the department
Mr. White recently left the department at
a trebled salary to go with Baltimore
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

Th. reason why this acquisition Of the
great trotter is easy to understand IS
that Mr.. Stotesbury's pet hobby Is
horses. He loves pictures, too, and mas
some wonderful paintings. priceless oid
masters. in his fine house; but horses
are his greatest delight.
Countless ribbons IN the cases at his
stock farm bear witness to the success
OF his breeding operations. He Is "a
miliar figure at all the horse shows ana
II not able to attend himself he never
allows one to go by without entering
several of his famous animals He oc-
casionally drives In the ring, but OF late
has delegated this work to some one
| else.
I, One Of the most interesting old horses
in the country is passing his last days
on the Stotesbury Stock Farm. Ihls
horse is Victor Hugo, now past tElry
years old, but still handsome old chaT
and surprisingly active in his green OLD
age victor Hugo was the sire OF LORD
brilliant. one OF the greatest sho"
horses the world has ever seen. Loro
brilliant was an unbeaten hero or the
horse shows for years, and his SIRE
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

handsome and stately old feiiow' ''T1. W.
a worthy progenitor Of such inc az e
lives now in handsome quarters a. '"'
stock farm, carefully tended and ooun..'
fu,ly provided for in his declining yea,
A nr,celess horse that can be seen a.
the stotesbury Stock Farm Is Ne'.,s .as
Freeman. a glorious bay, sired oy Ie.U .
the Great and descended from a mar.
out Of the wonderful Arion. whose ma, IN n
was POI. and who holds the worn :
championship two-year-old record 70 a
high wheeled sulky.' The price pa'o w
Malcolm Forbes. Of Boston. for Ario''
was s125.OOO. If you ask Mr.. s.oles'
bury at what price he holds Nett'e r''o
man he will probably tell you at aoou'
the sum that would pay the nat''na
debt. She is priceless to him.
Mr.. stotesbury has made the Amerl'
can roadster famous in many lands. iie
4, the American representative on '"'
hoard Of directors Of the great lnter"a'
t,onal Horse Show at the Olympic Ao"'
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

forces and finances and made bid for
the services OF o. ]. Wright. one OF the
governments drainage experts. They got
him, and he is now carrying out n COM
prehensive drainage scheme in Florida.
Elwood Mead. chief OF the irrigation and
drainage Investigations for the government.
left that post recently 10 80 to Australia
to take charge OF the drainage work for
one Of the larger Australian states.
Many or the men who so abroad from the
Geological Survey do so under leaves of alb
sence, which do not terminate their con-
nection with the survey. They are forbid
den to work FOR any private concern within
the limits OF the United States or To hold
any shares In mining companies. but ont
side its borders they may take I'M privatc
work when under leave OF absence from the
government. Many recognized exner,s rs.
main In the government service as a resul,
OF this arrangement. and the government,
derives profit from their practical exneri-
| ehces abroad The great new oil fields Of
Mexico were located. In their more imnor.
tant details, by four or five members OF IN,
united States Geological' Survey work,p,
Tor big firm OF English oil canitans,s =
| Pearson Il Co.
At present Bailey Willis. a well krowr
eeoiosist of the United States. IL In ,ro.,,
tina. under leave of absence for ,,.o -
U" make survey Of the artcsian well ,,oss,
puies OF certain plains there Tho vo,t
,S Is oe'ns done for the Argentine government
""en Mr. Wills Is working for Uncle Sam
~, "u s..S es,ooo year while he is employed
ny Argentina he Is getting $40. 900 a YEAR
~ =. draton. an expert in copper inves.
usat'ons and statistics. stepped iron, ,h.
theological Survey into a unioua no.,,,o, a.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
Philadelphia Financier Who Offers to Pay OH $looooo
Deficit on Grand Opera Season in Quaker City.

spread outside the walls Of that gather
ing place Of substantial citizens until
IL became public property, probably
much to the disgust Of Mr.. Stotesbury
and possibly TO the amusement OF Mr..
Morgan. who is reported to have con-
graduated Mr.. Stotesbury on having
made the longest speech Of his life In
his speech of declination Mr.. Morgan
is reported also to have congratulated
Mr.. Stotesbury on having expressed his
sentiments regarding New York as a
place Of residence in such terms and
with such emphasis that there was no
room for counter argument
The little story Of Mr. Stotesbury's
"No" to Mr.. Morgan is germane to the
topic Of the Philadelphia flnancier's love
for his native place. as evidenced by his
willingness to put up the money re-
ouired to insure an opera season to the
Quaker City He believes in the educa-
tional power Of grand opera and. as in
hundreds of instances that may be cited.
he Is willing to back his belief with
money rather than have the town passed
over when any good thing should come
its way.
Philadelphians boast and boast with
reason. Of tho grandeur Of their Fair
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

the commercial world. TIE copper ~
ducers wanted man who could be uusS.
with the secrets Of production OF eaeh 'O'.
Iany. but who would not beiray the 80.
Of any one company 10 the other con'i"
They took Mr.. Grafton away from 'ne Il
eminent set him up as the cohh"". "a
each concern and then instructea "" ~.
give cut TO all producers any facts .. ,,rf
which he could disclose without oe"S'
the confidence of the respective conp'",v ~,
In other words, each company 'e"S 49,,
Grafton It's secrets. and he tells 'he . ..,
companies the general facts Of the W.
industry, as based ON these secret reP"
Recently the Southern Pacific h'm, rs.,
stole" three experts from the surNe'. ,,os
were men trained in the land class''"s ,s.,.l
work: that is. In determining the '"'
value of the public lands. .,.,
Another division OF the govern'h,'. fcs
has become distinctly graduate ,,,isics
the business world Is the cxaminIns "s .os.
OF the Patent Office. Ii is We" i, the
nized fact that large percentass srs
young men who go into this dH'' Il
carrying on law courses. with '"e ,hels
becoming patent lawyers as 500" u,ucss
training is complete. \ techh'o"' .,sdt.
ton Is demanded for this work. III. pat
ate Of "A technical school will eh'e' :. sr
cnt Office. draw good salary ~, d
aminer. carry on law course .,d h
Washington's numerous law schoo's r,,sat
three or four years step out ih'o eaeA
law firm at salary of $2,ooo :" ..r "
From that beginning his rise 10 h.eaub
come Is usually steady and rap'' .. ~
of his expert training. Efforts have hs.s...',s =
made to hold these examiners p' :" ~. gcs'
salaries. but dozens OF them lea'.
ernment each year. WORTH h"
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

don. and as a horseman has a proml-
nence that is worldwide.
II NAV even be said in all seriousness
that but for his love OF horses Mr..
Stotesbury would have long since passed
into the beyond An intimate friend or
the financier said TO the writer: Thirty
years ago Stotesbury positively looked
older than he does to-day. He took no
holidays: couldn't see why any one
wanted a holiday; had scarcely any per-
sonal friends: was absorbed In business
to the utter disregard Of everything that
most men find pleasure in outside OF the
workaday world. and he looked to all
who saw him like q man who would
soon be past work, either as physicai
wreck or a subject for the undertaken.
/ In an almost accidental way he was
thrown into the company OF some horse
fanciers while on a business trip. ana
he suddenly, to the surprise of every
one, developed keen liking for the show
animal 1t gave him an interest outside
the dry world of finance and made n
new man Of him. Therefore, I do not
think it is too much to say that Stotes-
bury owes his life to his love for the
horse"
But the stock farm doesn't see Mr..
Stotesbury often. He is too busy hand
| ing out millions to applicants at the
office of the Drexels, or refusing to hand
them out, as his Judgment directs. If
YOU want a million or two or three and
have substantial reasons for wanting 1t
you will get it from Mr.. Stotesbury In
about the time it takes to buy cigar.
You will get refusal in even less time
! If the excuse for borrowing the million
or two or three is not a reasonable one.
Mr.. Stotesbury's signature Is all that is
necessary in the one case. That mo"
delivered with the temperature below
the point where the mercury freezes Is
all that you will get in the other.
The Stotesbury programme for the
business day is cut and dried At =
o'clock in the morning he is at the office
of big watch case making concern. in
which he is interested. A short time
here suffices to clear up all matters that
he attends to himself, and he is on his
way to the bank or the railroad office or
the industrial company in which he is
concerned, and so in due time he reaches
the Drexel office, with its line Of impa-
tient callers, waiting for him TO say yes
or no to the application for money to
finance schemes Of extension or i'm
provement.
1t is said of Mr.. Stotesbury that he
can watt that line Of callers into the
street i'm less time than any man in the
magnate list. He is lightninglike in his
decisions. and as there is no appeal
from the Stotesbury court the arguments
are swift and the business is dispatched
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

A FEW weeks ago a man who had
~ conducted one Of the most i'm
L n portant commercial investigations
and reorganizations ever undertaken by
the government resigned a high post in
the Department OF Agriculture and went to
California His work had made him a
well known figure In every nook and cor
ner of the orange and lemon raising coun-
try Of the West. He was regarded as one
OF the most valuable men in the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. had been advanced
TO the post Of assistant chief OF the bureau
of plant industry and for some time had
been acting chief.
The government paid this man. G. Harold
Powell, a maximum salary Of 5000 year
When he left public Office early this year
he took a place especially created for him
in the California fruit raisers' organiza-
ton at moro than trebled salary. $1,000
He is one Of the many brilliant men
trained in one Of several important lines
Of science and research who are going out
Of the governments technical and scien-
tito bureaus every year 70 lucrative and
attractive places in every corner OF the
globe His immediate predecessor in the
Same executive place in the Department or
Agriculture. Albert b. Woods. stepped out
OF government service about q year ago to
become dean Of the Minnesota Agricultural
College at a salary OF 5000.
Mr. Powell had the task Of recognizing
and readjust!ng the citrus fruit raising In
dustry of California. He accomplished
marvellous results. 1t is estimated that his
changes and improvements in the condi-
tions surrounding the handling and market
ing Of the California fruits is saving $780,
90 annually 10 the growers. His motto has
been 10 Put Science Into Business" The
motto that might be placed above the
Agricultural Department .tself, and above
the geological survey. the bureau Of mines,
the reclamation service and few other
scientific bureaus OF the government might
well be Putting Scientists Into Business"
The men who are leaving these big
graduate schools are taking foremost part
in the development Of commercial science
and in the carrying on Of private research
I'm many countries. They are working for
the governments Of Brazil. Argentina,
Venezuela, Trinidad and for the states in
Africa and Asia. They are in charge Of
important scientific work for private con-
Germs in all parts OF the United States and
in countries now being opened and deve!-
oped by American capital They are locat~
ing important mineral deposits all over the
world, studying methods OF commerce and
trade and returning big profits TO the men
and governments that employ them.
The fact that the United States govern
ment is thus training scientists and then
losing them TO the more lucrative fields OF
private business or TO rich foreign govern
rnents, is not due primarily TO the low SAL
aries paid by the government for its scien-
tiic experts. Heads Of the more important
bureaus from which these men graduate,
state that while their salaries have not
gone UP as fast as the value of their work
has developed, yet It would be difficult to
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

II van ask any one of the rank and file
of the great army Of disappointed seek
ers for money through the good sraces
of Mr.. Stotesbury what sort of SOUND
ia conveyed by that gentleman's use OF
the negative in passing on appnca-
tons for loans they will search sea ana
and earth and sky for terms sufficiently
trapped 10 do justice TO the manner or
the nan who says NO" to requests for
loans on poor collateral, but those mega
tives are feeble and lukewarm COM
pared with the one he gave Mr.. Morgan
on that memorable occasion.
The story was first told at the Union
League, and, being fattering TO the pride
of died-in-the- wool Quaker Cityites, it
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
~ f H Nav Have PROLONGED Life of T. Stotesbuy banker
'o,e. He Declined Brilliant Business Opportunity Bseauss
Acceptins It Meant Living in New York

with an amazing quickness. consider,na
the enormous amounts involved.
One day the Reading Railroad aD.
pealed to Mr.. Stotesbury. They hsa
plenty OF business In prospect. but thew
had not the cars with which to hand,.
IL. Here was a great enterprise hand,.
capped by the absence OF material with
which to do business. They had no
money and their credit was not GOOD
enough to get them the coveted cars On
the mere promise to pay when the car.
had earned their price. Mr. Stotesbury
Is ever ready to lend willing ear to tha
plea for funds when such a Favorable
situation as that is laid before him. Hs
built the cars for the Reading Railroad
and leased them to the company.
II you travel much by railroad you
will notice by studying the freight car,
something that may not have struck you
before. that on many box cars, gondolas
and refrigerator cars there is painted
| this sign:
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
VICTOR HUGO.

mount Park. There was one spot in 1t
that was a disgrace to the city. rank
and weedy spot In picturesque part OF
the park. A gateway was badly needed
TO set off this entrance to the park. The
authorities pleaded mo funds There
is a gateway there now that is the ad-
miration of the world. Stotesbury built
it. although there are few Phlladel-
phians who know he built 1t.
Park gateways and grand opera are
widely different avenues for the placing
of gift money, but the advancement OF
money to bring the song birds to Phila-
delphia was no stranger gift than that
which Mr.. Stotesbury won credit FOR
when a tuberculosis exhibit was offered
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

to Philadelphia and there was not
enough money to bring it to town.
Hang the expense" said Mr.. Stotes-
bury, in effect. THE people should De
educated in the ways and means or
fighting the great white plague. If the
city or the citizens cannot pay for the
exhibit to come here l will be response
he. Bring il along and send your bills
New-York tribune., 1911-04-09

to me"
It is easier to understand the thought
that prompted Mr.. Stotesbury to say
when Sweet Marie. the wonderful trot-
ter. was for sale: philadelphia should
no the home of the greatest trotung
horse in the world Here's n check ior
the purchase price. Send her to my
stock farm"