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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22
ANNUAL MEETING.

So promptly was the annual meeting
of the Oxford County Agricultural So
ciety called to order ct o'clock Thurs.
day afternoon that 1t was only six min
utes past the hour when 1t adjourned.
President William ]. Wheeler was In the
chair.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22
Free for All. Trot and Pace.
Purse $500.

Mary shontelle, blk m, g.. b,
Honesty, b g, Wayne Presby
Lisbon, n. H..:...:..1 q
Candy OWL, DR.. H. w. Wat.
son, Haverhil ..........2
"e Caribou " SIS
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22
THE NEW BLANKETS

THE coming nights finds big department OF blankets
stocked overlooking with magnificent showing OF SOFT blankets
Grade and every price the finest
If wool blankets made have blanket need which cannot
supplied to your lasting satisfaction and economy
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22

2.24 Trot and Pace. Purse $500.
Dan s., Jr., b c, W. A. Nelson
Caribou ...............2 ! !
Alfred Nelson, b 6, E. E. Riggs,
lnteryale '.....l -
Frank Albert, 8, Mayberry
Farm, Casco. ...............3
Bessie Herrck, IN, G. G. Robens.
Sanford .....4
Della Wilkes. CHI IN, r. o. Briggs,
bucknelQ
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22
ATTRACTIVE COATS
NEW FALL SKIRTS

1T WILL BE REVELATION those who have read
skirt STYLES Wider and pleasing change
Russian tnic style in such standard fabrics as
Storm and Ferch Seges, Wool Tahetas and many novelties
Dress Skirts 81 so to $500
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22

A full hour late about starting wss the
parade of premium stock Thursday
morning, and 1t was II O'Clock when 1t
finally moved, but it was worth while,
1t was headed by a platoon of FIVE police
followed by the Lewiston Brigade Band
Behind the band came the officers In
automobiles, next the horses with Mar
shall A. 8. Fuller, and last the cattle,
with Marshal Charles Sewall Penley
Though some of the horses and moro Of
the cattle which receive awards Decessa
rily do not appear In the parade, there
were nearly 200 animals In the process
sion which circlsd the track, and tho,
were the cream of the handsome lot OF
exhibition.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22

2.4o Class Trot and Pace. Purse $500.
Flora billiard, b. m, DR.. H. W..
Watson, Haverhill .....a.l l
Rapidite, Howard Georgia. St y,
Johnsbury, Vt. .....2 2
Rodolph, blk. g, E. E. Morse, .. a..
Auburn 1903
Richard, Brooks, Rumford; :..4 4
Thos. X, b. g., H. G. Phillips, .
Woodsville, N. H..........6
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22

THE BEST FRUIT IN THE WORLD.
Say, do you know that the famous fruit
regions of the Northwest and the Anuap-
oils River valley in Nova Scotia haven't
a thing on Oxford County, when 1t comes
to the production of apples? The best
apples in the world are grown on our
soil. II you have any doubt OF that, you
should have seen the show OF apples
made at this fair. It was never sp.
preached here before. 1t was probably
never exceeded as fruit show In Maine
1t would be hard to excel 1t with all New
England to draw from.
Along the shelf were arranged the box
exhibits, the peck lots, and the plates,
not strung out separately, but piled one
on top OF another, in many places four
and five plates deep. And this conges.
ton is reminder of the fact that such a
lot of fruit really needs more room than
there Is available for It. At least half
the upper hall could we'll have been used
for the fruit alone. 1t Is a we'll under
stood fact that larger exhibition build.
ing could be put to good service II we
had 1t, and the time Is coming when We
must have it.
While the exhibits of fruit came from
all parts OF central and eastern Oxford, q
large portion were from members OF the
Oxford Bears Fruit Growers Association
in Buckfield and Hebron. As to the
quality of the fruit, 1t Is hardly neces
sary to say anything about that. Not
only are our apples always good, but un
der modern methods Of cultivation they
are steadily improving. Here is a Will
liam's Favorite, for instance, truly Z
favorite in boyhood's days, but this Is sc
much larger and deeper colored and gen
orally more snowy than the apple o.
long ago that, II It we're not for the dis
tinctive shape, We should hardly recog
nize 1t.
| Az in previous years, the fruit va
scored by G. A. Yeaton, the director o
orchard demonstration In Oxford Count!
we'll known to our fruit growers, and yo'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22

Under the grand stand, In the coops
used for this fair and the Western Maine
Poultry Association were shown hand
some lot of birds, somewhere from $50
to 500 in number. The list Of premiums
In this department gives pretty full in.
formation regarding the exhibitors and
their exhibits, as only few failed to
receive awards.
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222 Class Trot. Purse 5000.

Helen H., DR.. H. w. Watson. :,
Haverhill, Mass. %
]. G. Audubon, b s, W. Z. Berry,. y.
Lancaster, N. II. .....S.;;1
Mary Heir, m, w. A. Mel. ,
son. Caribuo. ........2 2 2
Tm sUn, a.2sA; a.aaN; s.aSH
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: 2.1s Trot and Pace. Purse $500.
Honesty, G., Wayne Presby ,
Lisbon. N. H. .............. Il 1
Ha Ha, CHI M, Ira W. Fitz, Au-
burn -.
Don Wilkes, b g, w. A. Nelson,
Siroc, b &, G. B. Robens, San. >
ford ................... % or
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2 40 Class Trot, Purse $500.

2.3O Class Trot. Purse S200.
Blowfelt, b. g., T. G. Churchill,
Dover. N. II. ........:.. Il
Lord Wilkes, b. s., w. IL. Nelson, y
Caribou $3.50
The Enchanted, Dana Rosebrook .
Lancaster ......o
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-22
BABY SHOW.

Mothers and infants gathered in num-
bers for the baby show Tuesday after
noon, and the babies in general stood the
ordeal better than did the judges. The
entries and awards were as given below.
The judges were Louise Page Cole and
Sarah B. Parlin and Miriam D. Russell
of Wilton
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
MR.. BURLESONS LATEST

Postmaster General Burleson de-
termination TO select fourth class
postmasters strictly on their merits,
as demonstrated by their ratings in
the civil service examinations. Will
probably make him the center of a
teapot tempest here in Washington.
There will be plenty of politicians of
all parties to protest. 1t is going to
require a good deal of sweet rea-
scnableness and the spirit of accom-
mediation and conciliation that Presi-
dent Wilson commends, to carry out
that policy without a huge political
row. But if the Postmaster General
sticks, he will win. There is every
reason to presume he will stick. He
didn't launch such a program with
out knowing what it meant.
The Postmaster Generals success
will mean the definite establishment
of the merit system; not bogus and
dishonest merit system, prostituted
to politics and made 2 mockery
among people who understood, as
was done with it under Taft; but a
real merit system that nobody and no
party will dare to assault in the fu-
ture. We have never had an admin
istration of the merit system that
was more than so per cent honest, if
it caEe that close. The postoffices
have been the largest sufferers.
Mr.. Burleson's ambition to make
his department a business success
will be well served if he carries out
this merit policy. He will find new
fields into which to extend it; and
another decade will see his admins
tration marked as the real beginning
of honest execution of the merit sys-
tenn.
- The Times is not impatient with
those Democrats who don't like to
see their patronage go glimmering.
They would have to be better than
not to be disappointed at los
ing the very plums that the Taft Re
publicans cynically took. But if the
merit system is ever to mean any
thing, somebody must make q begin
ming in honest enforcement of it.
Rurleson seems to have cut that task
out for himself. May he succeed
hugely.
The Washington times., 1914-01-24

SOURCE PROBLEMS or THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION. by Fred Morrow Fling. Pin
D.. and Helene Dresser Fling. NJ. A, pub
lished by Harper Brother. OF New York.
Skcpticism in children is rare, but
once in while along comes one who
is called. perhaps. an "iucOrriGible.
who wants to know the why Of every
thing. and boldly questions the
authenticity not only or the Bible. the
dictionary, and the fact that two and
two are four. but who wonders who
made the histories and why the word
OF that person should he infalIible.
Such doubling is a little preCOCiOus'
but entirely justified, and. working on
this theory. Prof Fling has instituted
a new and fascinating manner OF
studying history. The more preCo-
cious and eager the child the more can
be obtained from tn" history course
studied by PrOf. Filings method And
il is simple enough.
The authors merely lay out for the
benefit Of the student the sources them
selves, the wheels. the mechanics that
are employed by the historians them
selves m the formation of a history.
This leaves the child not ouIy to FOR
mulate, build scquentially. and form
critical attitude toward Nthe par
ticular situation in question, but pre-
sents the whole subject in light
that is infinitely human aud palpitat-
ing with reality. He is made familiar +
With facts ;hrOugh the instruction of
tho mechanics, and, when he writes his
final paper. becomes histpr an hln-
self
The only difference lies is the fact
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
ENTITLED TO BE URGED
FOR OFFICE.

We hope it isn't true that. Presi-
dent Wilson automatically becomes
set against the appointment to Of
fee Of any man who is strongly
urged by his friends and admirers
for office.
The professional ofiice-seeker is an
unmitigated nuisance to the appoint
ing power. He isn't very likely to be
a valuable public servant. He wants
the job. The man likely to be useful
is the one that the job wants.
But for responsible men, anxious
to get good public service, TO urge
upon an appointing power the Sc
lection for office of somebody they
believe 10 be the man best fitted to
fill il is a horse OF another color.
It's their proper business TO try to
get him into the Office If they think
he's exactly the man for it, It's the
proper business Of the appointing
power to want to get all the informa-
tion they have TO give about him and
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
CONSUMPTIVE CAMPS.

State Senator Jones, of Montgom
cry county, is about to introduce in
the Maryland legislature a bill au-
thorizing the county authorities to
establish county hospitals or camps
fer the treatment of INDECENT con-
sumptiveS according to modern
methods.
Facilities for the right handling Of
such unfortunates are woefully lack
ing, especially in the village and
rural communities. The State main
tains such an establishment; but to
get them there, and to maintain them,
is too expensive to make it attractive
for most people who need its advant-
ages. The effort should be to provide
facilities in such places and form
that relatives and friends can help to
the utmost. The county plan would
make this possible.
The Social Service League of Mont
gomery county has been working
long and earnestly to accomplish this
end in that county. There should be
little need to argue the case; the
prevalence of the disease is so wide
spread among the poorer people, es-
pecially the colored people, and the
impossibility of getting proper care
except institutionally, that the men
ace cries loudly for attention. Segre-
CATION takes the victims away from
the rest of tie community, and thus
reduces the danger of the disease
spreading. Beyond that, it gives the
victims of the disease the best DOS
sible chance to check and at last
overcome its ravages. There is no
scientific or medical division Of orin-
ion nowadays as to what ought to be
done. 1t is a mere question of doing
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
Ballet Stands by Principle of School
VENDOME COLUMN.
Specialization

airy high school and which appeals
far more strongly to certain types
of mind.
Besides this type of technical
high school for boys. there is also
developing a technical high school
for girls. whose aim is very sim
liar; a school in which the yoca-
tional element Is made prominent,
but in which literary and scien-
tific studies must hold prominent
place.
Third: There is now in process of
development in our large cities a
type of secondary school known
as the commercial high school. This
school is the outgrowth of the
commercial course of the ordinary
literary high school in past years,
as the technical high school is the
outgrowth of the manual training
course.
It Is likely that these three types
of secondary schools will cover the
field of secondary education for
years to come and mark out the
three directions in which the high
school OF the future will develop.
In nv Judgment the policy some
times advocated and in some cities
adopted, OF massing these three
types Of secondary schools together
into one large institution, Is a Sc
riOUs mistake.
Manual training departments in
literary high schools have not been
successful: and the commercial
courses in literary high schools, up
TO very recent times. have been fail
ures. No man is large enough to
master in detail tile problems of
these three different types OF secon-
dary schools and preside with in
telligence over an institution cover
ing the whole field. Each type Of
school will develop best and reach
the highest degree of efficiency un-
der a principal who thoroughly
cOmprehends its problems and a
teaching corps whose interests in
these problems is deep, intelligent,
and united.
These conditions never exist in any
institution which combines the three
types OF schools. So long as a city
is not large enough TO need more
than one high school, these three
types of schools must, as a matter
OF course. be represented in this one
school in the form of different
courses, but when there is need of
more than one high school in a city,
il should be the policy to develop
these three types of schools as in
dependent institutions, centrally To-
Gated. before there is any step taken
to establish suburban or branch
high schools. II is only very eXcep-
tional and peculiar geographic con-
ditions that would Justify in any
given city a departure from this
policy.
The present is a formative period
i'm the development of secondary
schools in this country, and we stand
at the beginning of new evolution
of secondary education. We have it
in our power either to direct this
evolution into right lines or to mis-
direct II into wrong lines TO the last
ing disadvantage of our secondary
schools. There is no problem Of
more far-reachins Importance which
our school boards are called on to
solve in the next ten years. than
that of determining the right policy
for the development of secondary
schools in their respective cities.
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
MR.. DIES SPEECH.

Congressman Dies Of Texas gives
a fine example of that density Of un-
intelligence which assumes that a
suggestion of pensioning Government
employees is a new and dangerous
form of radicalism. That most gov
ernInents pension their employees un-
der certain conditions; that the Fed
eral Government has long pensioned
certain classes; that cities, States,
md school jurisdictions unquestion-
inSly adopt and carry on the policy;
that great employing corporations do
the same thing as a mere matter of
sound business policy-all these
things would seem never TO have
swum into the Dies ken.
1t is cheap and easy to berate the
evil Of civil service employe as an
overpaid and underworked person.
But what shall be said of Dies, paid
$500 a year on the presumption that
he knows enough 70 provide some il
Illumination to questions of public
policy, and yet who has as little in
formation as he displays in this
speech?
Civil service employees as q matter
Of fact are constantly being Iibeled
by the dissemination Of such stuff
as this Dies speech. The country is
given the impression that they. are
luxurious parasites, doing no service
and oveTpaid. 1t is so easy for serl-
cus-minded people to learn the truth,
here in Washington; to know that in
fact the civil service people as 4
class have a hard, and every year a
harder time, making ends meet on
salaries that were fixed sixty years
ago; It is so eXcuseless that anybody
mould ;f.lk such nonsense as Martin
Dies does, that patience ceases to be
q virtue in view of the persistence of
such unfairness.
The Washington times., 1914-01-24

The Washington Times has re-
ceived the following letter from a
correspondent, and the extracts from
the article mentioned which follow
the letter here are the portions re-
ferred to in the communication:
Editor Washington Times:
"Apropos of Mr.. Welliver's article in
the issue of the 18th instant, are. you
willing to present both sides or the
question? Do YOU think the opinion
OF Mr.. Ballet, whose status in the
educational field is beyond question,
is worth the part of the space which
you gave to the opinions OF Mr.. VIII
son. II so, ii seems to me that the
accompanying statement of Mr.. Bal
lets views might prove of consider
able interest to your readers.
CSd.) IAN OLD BUSINESS HIGH
ALUMNUS."
Here Is the statement OF Thomas
NJ. Ballet for which publication is
requested. 1t is an excerpt from
long article prepared for the School
journal:
Up to comparatively recent years
there have been only two types OF
high schools, known as the classical
and the English high school. Today
the public high school is developing
in three directions and We are evolN-
ing three types of public secondary
schools.
First-There is a type which COM
blnes the courses of the classical and
the English high school and which
mas, thus far, not received a distinc-
time name, but which might, per-
haps, be called the literary high
school
second-There has developed with
in fifteen or twenty years, a new
type OF secondary school commonly
known as the manual training high
school, in which manual training is
made an integral part OF the course
Of study and is taught mainly for
its education value. This type OF
school is gradually being developed
into a technical school of secondary
grade, in which not only manual
training is added to the usual liter
school. but in which at least the
sciences and the mathematics and
the drawing are taught in their ap-
plcation to mechanical Industries.
In short. these schools will in
the future not be literary high
schools with manual training
added, but they will be technical
schools of secondary grade, whose
aim will differ from that Of the
literary high school very much rs
the aim Of our higher technical
schools differs from that of the
college.
This technical high school will
serve % as a fitting school for
the higher technical schools. (2)
1t will train foremen for manu-
featuring establishments, super
intendents Of shops. and in short
that large number of men who
come between tine engineer on the
one hand and the mechanic on the
other. go 1t will train men as
agents for the sale of manufaC-
tured goods. with whom a knowl-
edge OF the process OF manufaC-
ture is an important qualification.
% II will give a general training
which is probably not a whit less
broadening than that OF the liter
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
THE SHRINKING LORDS.

England is no stranger to pro-
posais to change the organization
and clip the power of the House OF
Lords. These proposals have been
mooted on the hustings and in the
pages Of Liberal and Radical re-
views, and have been heard in the
midst OF exciting debates in the
House of Commons itself. Having
already borne fruit in the modifica-
ton of the absolute veto which the
lords have been accustomed to use'
i was supposed that the force of the
movement had been spent for time.
Therefore, the announcement by
Postmaster General Samuel that the
government will introduce within q
year a bill to abolish the hereditary
principle in the upper house comes
as a surprise to the world, no less
than as a shock to an influential part
ct public opinion in England.
Some day the upper House OF Par
lament may DE nearly like the
United States Senate, but that day
is a long way off unless the innate
conservatism in British character has
been modified to a much greater eX-
tent than is in evidence at present.
Meanwhile, details of the govern
ment's new plan will be awaited with
worldwide interest
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
GOETHALS HOMEWORK.

II is hard TO think of Colonel Goe-
thals as police commissioner of New
York; harder still, TO think of him
failing on the job. The builder of the
anal will prove himself a man of
magnificent courage if he accepts the
cfer of Mayor Mitchell, for that ac-
ceptance means risking the distinc-
tion OF one glorious success in the
possibility of failure in another.
Colonel Goethals has been a good
zeal more than chief engineer of the
anal. The strange little court"
Ihat lie has been in the habit of hold
ing at Empire has brought to him
all manner Of troubles and quarrels
tor cUnIposure, and he has won the
complete confidence Of all classes Of
people. He has been a sort of be-
uevOlenL despot. and a success at it.
RCt New York politics is a danger
Gus game. The mayOralty of the
"rcat city has been a graveyard of
political careers and ambitions. The
police commissionership of the
Mitchell administration is very like
Iy 10 determine whether that admin
islration shall be rated a success or
q failure
There is something very attractive
in the proposal that Goethals be
asked TO take charge of the business
of building the Government railroads
in Alaska and opening that vast
country to development Another
immense task which awaits and de-
mands the services of such a man
is the Improvement of the Mississippi
river.
One thing about Goethals and the
police commissionership is that the
zero Of Panama would be certain to
get fair chance. He would have
tine benefit of suspension Of Judgment
while he found himself" and dcyel-
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
SAVING PUBLIC MONEYS.

The Ohio legislature has estah-
lished a budget committee, with gen.
eral directory supervision over the
entire system Of revenues and ap-
preparations. When it was created
little was expected of 1t; but thus far
it has clearly and convincingly
shown how 70 prune a million out of
the annual expenses of the State.
There is excellent authority for the
belief that a like organization to
handle revenue and appropriation
problems in the national legislature
could save 800, ,OOO, 900 to $3.50, 600 900
a year.
1t would seem worth saving.