Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-07-25
here and There.

Here and There.
Ex-Governor William T. Cobb, whose
name, portrait and alleged uttersnces
have been used as valuable campaign
material by the license league, declares
in a public statement that he shall vote
for the retention of the prohibitory
amendment as the best contribution be
can make to the moral, social and
economic welfare of Maine. This decls-
ration gives the license forces quite a
jolt, and their organs are now trying as
hard to discred;t Governor C0bb-one OF
the "squarest" men who ever filled the
governors chair-as they had been laud-
ing him before.
Malaga Island seems to be an unde-
sirable possession. Attorney General
Pattangall gives it as his opinion that 1t
legally belongs to the town OF Phipps-
burg, and Paippsburg doesn't like 1t.
A retired fisherman in South Eliot re-
lates that he once caught an eel twenty
four feet long, the skin Of which held
eight bushels of corn, but says he takes
no stock In sea serpent stories!
With regular gambling already cut
out, and no racing this year. Saratoga is
said TO be about at the end of its rope.
Where's the personal liberty league?
The Maine was blown up from the in
side, and we owe Spain q public &C.
Acknowledgement Of that fact. The Maine
was blown up from the outside. The
Maine was wrecked by the explosion OF
Its magazines, but from what cause,
whether external or internal, we shall
never know. These are some Of the con-
illusions deduced in the course of the
work of removing the wreck of the
Maine. II no satisfactory evidence of
the cause of the disaster should be
found, there would be one compensa-
ton, In that lovers of controversy would
still have the subject left to them. And
II it should be shown beyond a reason
able doubt" that the cause was external
to the vessel, certain ones would doubt
less refuse to be convinced. And still
once more, what real difference does it
make?
At last the college course in athletics
IL here. Now perhaps you may think
that IL has been here for 10, these many
years. Yet the athletics have nominally
been outside the actual college course.
Now, in one college at least-the Univer-
sity of Wiscousin-they are to be an
actual part OF it, specified in the curricu-
lum as q part of the work which leads to
the degree of bachelor Of arts.
To those familiar with the conditions
there IL a certain fishy sound to the
stories about the electric railroad, wind
Ing three or four times around Mount
Washington, which is to take the place
of the present cog railway, and the 400
foot concrete hotel which will stand on
the summit. Yet they may all be true.
Certain IL is that II all this talk material
ICES, the summit of Mount Washington
will be another place removed from &C.
feasibility to the vulgar throng, and at
tainable only by those who have the big
price.
The Simplon tunnel, between Italy and
Switzerland, Is fortified" by devices at
both ends, by means of which 1t could be
blown up and destroyed in q seconds
time. Could there be q more striking
example OF the wicked wastsfulness of
war?
Westward, like the star OF empire, the
center of population takes its way. The
census of 1910 locates this center OF pop
ulstion-which 10 q point quite definitely
fixed-3l miles westward and seven
tenths of mile northward from it's loca-
ton In 1900. II Is now near Unionville,
Indiana.
An authority says that very few il any
people are actually driven insane by the
effects of heat. Yet no Is disputed by
numerous reports from the recent over
heated term, and probably will be many
times in the future. Perhaps he is right,
and perhaps he isn't.
According to the New York Tribune,
silk stockings may now be bought at
almost any price from Is cents up. Guess
the Is cent ones would have the smear"
prefixed, under q pure goods law.
"Agitation of the matter of high prices
has waned somewhat, but there Is no
waning in prices, a. rule" says an ex-
change. Yes, the agitation served ito
purpose, as the principal campaign ma
terlal which contributed to a general po-
litical overturn In the country. Now
that the overturn has been made, those
who were agitators during the campaign
year have very little to say about the
high prices.
Even Alaska has had hot wave. In
some respects the effect is different from
that OF q hot wave in New England. a.,
instead of drying up the streams, 1t
melts the glaciers and sends the streams
'kiting."
One advantage Of male attire over that
of the other sex was shown by an In.
cident In Portland the other day. With
his clothing from the waist up on fire
from q gasoline explosion, . man war
able to run to box and pull In fire
alarm, without being even dangerously
burned. When . woman's clothing
takes fire, the consequences are almost
always serious, and very frequently fatal.
Names fire loss In buildings and con-
tents will be larger In 1911 than ever be-
fore since the Office Of insurance COM
missioner was established In 1858, &C.
cording to Commissioners Beechsr Put |
nam. For the past ten years tho annual