Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-08-19

Shurtlens Drug Store.
Norway Moves Drug Store.
stones Drug store.
Tuckfeld Alfred Cole. Postmaster.
Paris HILL Mrs. Harlow, Post once.
West Paris, Samuel L. white
" Coming Events.
Aug. 2l-Reunion of Twenty third Maine Reg
iment, South Paris
Sent I4HMaine state Fair. Lewiston.
sept. Especial state election, To vote on con
stitutional amendments.
Sept. g. 10, ll-OxfOrd County Fair.
sept l6, II, ls-Androscoggin Valley Fair'
Sept 81 34-Oxford North fair, Andoyer.
Sept 3O-Oct. /, 2-West Oxford Fair, FryeOarg
Dec. 2.J-Annual meeting Maine Oalrymen ;
Association, Lewiston.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Final Clearance Prices.
our Ausust Clearance sale
DOCS Baekache Worry You.
Real Estate For sale.
4. u. Cummings Y sons.
sale of Dress Goods.
Fly Net.
Paris Trust Company.
Atherton Furniture Store.
Here and There.
Having been barred by the California
anti-alien laws from holding land IN
that state as individuals, the japanese
are said To be organizing corporations
which hold land, they having discovered
that corporations can do things winch
individuals can not. And the Americans
have only themselves TO thank for hsv
ing taught the japanese that fact. 1t IL
simple case of chickens come home &c
roOst.
With ieweiry robbery at Kennebunk
port, even though il does not run into
the hundreds of thousands, Maine keeps
in the swim with the big resorts OF th'
country.
The various Balkan. wars have cos
100000 lives, and while IL is true tina
from our exalted point OF view those
lives do not count as would so many
Americans, it is an impressive total To-
the hell of war in one short year. Ais
there is a financial cost of at least bill
lion and a third, and that bulks large II
our materialistic age.
Doubtless the much talked-of fiyless
city is some like homeless Goldfish.
After these seven times seven years o
rich plenty for the express companies
they should be slow in complaining o
the comparatively lean years which ma,
follow the reduction of rates made D.
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
President Wilson's political life is an ope
book to his COuntrymen but why are his gol
scores kept secret Chicago News.
OF what importance are the scores, a
long as we have learned that Tut
Tut p' is the utmost of the president
calculations on the links
Two recent reported discoveries, l
actually such, come near to resiizlnl
some of the dreams of the imaginative
writers of romances. One is method o
firing explosives at long distances D.
means of infra-red or ultraviolet rays, l
is not stated which-perhaps both. Th'
other is process which not only water
pr,nss the filmiest silks as we'll as an.
heavier fabrics, but renders airship GOV
ers invisible when they reach certain
height. OF course the first thin
thought of in co Iuectiou with these dis
coveries is their application to war, ant
both are seen 20 he of great possioiiltie
In the gentle art of killing people. fer
hapS they may also have other value.
The Democrat has been favored with
free copy OF the speech Of Hon. John u
Works OF California, United States sena
tor, in introducing an amendment to til
constitution of the United States pro
hibiting the sale, manufacture and i'm
portation of distilled liquor. The sen
ator comes from state which manufac
lures little distilled liquor, but larg
quantities of wine and considerable beer
which are not prohibited under his pro
posed amendment. The senator's TEN
perance speech wonld be more etfectiv
il it were not composed of about fort.
per cent exposition OF the evils OF In
temperance, and sixty per cent exposi
ton of the small damage TO "buslness
by his measure, compared to what wouI'
be done by prohibiting wine and beer
The Prince of Monaco is about TO visi
America. He is a gentleman, schola
aud scientist, of large wealth and higl
culture, and he should be received witt
the proper respect due the man wh(
lives or the revenue of the bigges
gam bling house in the world.
Government Buffalo Herd Increased
The birth of 10 calves in the buffal
herd maintained by the government oil
the Wichita national forest and gam
refuge, near Lswtou, Oklahoma, ha
been reported by the game warden II
charge. The herd now contains tota
of As head of full blooded buffalo, or
more properly, bison, of which % ar
males and 2l females. All OF the ami
mails are 10 splendid condition.
In 1907 the American bison society do
mated to the federal government uu
cleus herd of Is animals which had beer
bred aud reared in the New York zoo
logical park The animals were trans
ported to the Wichita national fores
which is also game refuge and placed
under the care of the Forest Service
They readily adapted themselves Il
their new habitat, but the area upol
which they were placed was within IN,
zone affected by the Texas fever ticl
and during the two or three years fol
lowing their transfer only the constan
care and watchfulness OF the forest 9th
GERS prevented the complete loss of tn
herd.
The animals were examined almos
daily to determine whether they haC
become infested with Texas fever tick
and were placed in specially designed
cages and sprayed with crude oil at in
tervals OF from Is to so days, but not
withstandiug the extreme precaution:
which were adopted 8 OF the animal
died. Gradually, however, the enclos
ures in which the buffalo were CON
fined were freed from fever ticks ant
there is possibility that as the buffalo
adapted themselves to their new eDvir
onment they became more or less im'
mune to the disease. No losses from
Texas fever have occurred for severa
wears, and the herd has almost quadru
pied in number since il was established
The fact that the herd has not increas
ed more rapidly is due largely TO th'
preponderaDce of male calves. Thi
characteristic of the buffalo is so pro
nounced in all OF the herds now In cap