Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-09-29

While the results OF the Maine cleo
ton are somewhat different from the
figures given in the Democrat last week,
il seems 10 be yet a little early to give a
definite statement. An inspection Of
the ballots is going on, and some changes
result. A number of the legislative dis
tricts are close, and some of them will
be changed from the first announcement.
The legislature will be close on joint
ballot.
Really, brethren, we feel compliment
ed when we see extracts from the Demo
crat in our esteemed contemporaries"
and we don't think we are real fussy
about the matter of credit. But when
We fnd in our exchanges in the course
OF three days, three paragraphs original
ing in the Democrat, two OF them the
bright product of the editorial brain, one
reproduced without credit and the other
two credited respectively 10 two other
newspapers-why, il almost seems as II
you ought TO be little more careful.
Il is reported from Washington that
the sudden break" between Carrapza
and Villa caused profound sensation"
there. Apparently they would have us
belirve that the people of Washington
are pretty green.
A new variation of the wedding story
style appears in no less standard than
the society page Of the Boston Herald.
In this story the details of a wedding are
given in full, including the full names of
the groom, the officiating clergyman, the
brides parents, the attendants of the
bridal couple, and those who assisted at
the reception following the ceremony,
while the bride is mentioned only as
"Miss Crocker." Really, We are wonder
ing whether the omission Of her full
name was an oversight, or is in accord
ance with "good form" according TO the
most up to-dste usage.
1t Is becoming evident that every ma
ton involved in the present war is de-
terAined that the outcome of it shall be
the destruction of militarism MN the
other nations.
One submarine safely sinking three
cruisers has demonstrated that battle
ships are worthless. One siege gun has
demonstrated that Notifications are of
no avail. Continue the war little
longer, and we may have demonstrations
of what we are beginning TO suspect,
that this whole fighting equipment isn't
worth as much as "scrap Of paper"
One commodity it is predicted will
come down in price quite materially in
the next year or two-radium. Now If
we could only eat radium.
And now we have found out what
made the prices Of food jump when the
war broke out. 1t was the consumers
themselves-so says a prominent whole
saler. Why, of course, the consumer al
ways 'gets it both ways, going and com
ing" He not only has to pay the ezra
cost, but has to take the moral blame for
the increase Of prices which are fixed BY
some one else.
From the viewpoint of some Of the
Democratic papers Of the state, the tenn
perance cause has received a serious set
back in Virginia, through the adoption
of state prohibition by majority of over
$4,000.
There will be no resubmission. now
say the Democrats, but there may be a
constitutional convention. IL is really
too bad that a man who was bright
enough to invent the constitutional con-
ventiou scheme should aspire to no other
Office than that of state treasurer,
where his talents will be buried in ledger
pages. OF course it is we'll understood
that the principal il not the sole purpose
OF the scheme is to get another vote on
the prohibltory amendment. Moreover,
II 10 hoped by mixing up with the pro-
hibitiop matter other changes which may
appear desirable TO some, to catch votes
for the removal of prohibition, so that
some men who would vote to retain pro-
hibition il that were the sole issue will
vote for all the changes in bunch. That
10 the colored gentleman who is concealed
10 this constitutional convention wood
pile, and who is the sole excuse for the
woOdpilets existence.
A Maine daily advertises to give away
q folder giving the list of members-elect
Of the legislature, but fails to advertise
that il will print Few edition daily un-
I'll the "inspection Of ballots" is finished.
Kaiser Wilhelm is reported I'll as the
result Of falling into . trench partly
filed with water. Perhaps by this means
the Kaiser will find out something about
what war really is.
He 10 indeed bold prophet who pre-
tends to forecast either the probability
or improbability of future usefulness of
any raw material. As has been Illus
trsted by the radium mineral carnotite,
the mineralogic curiosity of one decade