Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-07-14

Convincing Testimony.
Directors OF Paris Trust Co.
Oxford Co. Z. Of II. Mutual Fire lns. Co.
Hebron Academy.
Foreclosure Notice.
Here and There.
One might have thought, from the de-
liverances of George Fred Williams, that
be WAS sent to the Balkans to report
conditions az newspaper man, and not
a. . diplomst-except that real news
paper man would know better when to
keep his mouth shut.
We are assured by administration pa
pers that business is in q healthy coudi-
tiOn, that there is no industrial depres-
sion, and that it is only part OF o
worldwide depression" anyway.
A bar tenders strike in a Msssachu-
sets city has led to the employment of
women a. bar tenders. This will not
tend to increase tolerance OF the saloon
by decent people.
Says President Wilson to Minister
George Fred Williams: please send
resignation by return mail" Says Min
lister Williams to President Wilson: "In
response to yours Of yesterday, here's
the resignation before it is requested"
The government report shows q de-
crease Of cent pound in the price of
meat animals under the new tariff. At
frat blush this may look like cheerful
announcement, until you happen to no
tice that IL is "msat animals" The
price of meat has not even been suspect
ed Of reduction.
We are q little inclined, even in these
days when we know better, to think of
Australia ~ q partly known and little
developed big Island Sin the southwest
corner of the world" as George Fitch
says. Such An impression does not re-
ceive confirmation in the news that a
bridge 10 projected which will connect
Sydney with North Sydney, at an est
mated cost of sl3,0O0,0 600 A country
where they can afford 10 spend thirteen
millions TO connect two cities half q
milo apart 10 nothing raw.
The liquor interests and advocates of
license are somewhat perturbed over the
fact that the internal revenue receipts
for the past year show a marked falling
off In the consumption of distilled liquor
in this country. But they find ray Of
light in the fact that the receipts also in
dictate an increase in the consumption of
beer.
That those bomb makers In New
York were killed by the unattended ex-
plosion OF Internal machines that they
we're preparing for other people seems in
q way poetic justice. and people in gen.
sral will waste little sympathy on them.
Yet such Ia the constitution of human
nature, that by some they will probably
DO regarded as martyrs.
Fifty seven gallons Of flies are report
cd as having been caught in st. Louis in
one month in the "swat the fly" CAM
paign. We knew that the gallon was
the principal unit Of Measurement in st. |
Lonis, but did not know that the use of
LIQUID measure for the city's products |
Was 80 general that il was applied even
to dead flies.
An Oklahoma town has instituted |
taks-it-back day, to be appointed BY the |
mayor annually 10 June, when every |
body who has borrowed money during |
the preceding year is expected to pay II |
back. Well, paying your debts once a
year 10 better than not paying them at
all, but 1t 10 somehow q reminder of the |
old saw, BETTER late than never, but |
better never late"
Prominent residents of the state have
presented to the State Highway Com |
mission petitionmaking the commend. |
able request that In the improvement |
of the Maine highways the tree growth |
ness Of the roads may be preserved as |
far rs possible.
At first thought IL seems az II there |
was something almost grotesque about |
the proceeding when We read among the |
names Of aliens naturalizsd In q Maine |
city the name Of . woman. Yet it 10 |
only unusual. and not In any sense i'm |
proper or unnecessary.
Joseph Knowles, who last summer did |
the primitive man" stunt in the Maine
woods, has gone to the Sierra Nevada
mountains in California to repeat the
feat there. He goes into the woods
without previous knowledge or explora-
ton Of them. In the nature of things,
there will be a. many this time az there
were last year who will call the perform
ancs fake.
The Mexican idea seems to be that ne
Quoted while the lighting Is going on.
By the findings Of the wreck commits
sion, the collier Storstad 10 held to blame
for the collision which sent the Empress
of Ireland down with over thousand
lives in the ST. Lawrence about ak weeks
ago. Though much controversy has
ragged over the affair, the finding 10 not
. surprise.
Governor Hainss has appointed Harry
B. Austin of Phillips chairman of the
commissioners of inland fisheries and
game, 10 succeed John s. P. q. Wilson OF
Auburn, who 10 now United States mar
shall for the district Of Maine. Mr..
Austin 10 Q we'll known business, man .
manufacturer Of spools, . prominent
member Of the Republican party, and has
served in the legislature.
Clarence p. Quimby Of North Turner
bss been chosen president Of Westbrook
Seminary. Mr.. Quimby 10 graduate OF
Bates College, with three years teaching
aYnarisnca In North Rillerica Mas |