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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-11-09

In the Portland Express is the follow
ing summary of Sheriff Frothingham's
testimony as to Harrington's statement,
made at the court house Monday night,
which Mr.. rockingham approves as fair
and accurate:
"Mr. Harrington was advised that any
statement he might make would likely
be used against him. He admitted his
signature as taken at Milo, also the sig.
nature of William Dunn as it appeared
on the hotel register at South Paris, to
be his own handwriting. He said that
on Tuesday night, of the week ending on
Nov. 7, he first met Thomas Preece at
Milo, bad some conversation with Preece
in which Preece said be was going by
team to South Paris and would gladly
give Harrington ride as far as that vii
lage from which place Harrington would
be able to take his train for Boston.
"Harrington said that he left with
Preece on Wednesday night, the night
following that Of the conversation. On
Saturday night of that same week that
up in the town of Sumner he and Preece
ran into driving snowstorm, that they
lost their way, that they inquired their
direction at one house after driving con-
siderable distance, came back to thai
house and inquired the direction the sec.
ond time. Then they were shown the
right road and when they were going up
a little hill both Harrington and Preece
were riding, the horse showed signs oil
being exhausted and Preece started tC
get out of the carriage. In getting out
Harrington said, Preece caught hold OIL
the robe which they had over their knees
and pulled it to the ground and the gun
"A rifle, which they had with them
was evidently caught in this blanket ant
Preece must have pulled it over az 1t &C
cidentally exploded, hitting him In thu
back.
"Harrington said Preece fell to th'
ground exclaiming 'Ob, my God HI
said he never spoke after that, that b.
rubbed his hands, shook him, put snow
on him, did everything he could to ge
signs Of life into his body but was un
able to. Then. he dragged the body Out
to one side of the road and took Preece'
money, which was done up in hand
kerchief. There was S55.
cat South Paris Harrington went frs
to store and bought some cigars, the
put the team in q livery stable. Then b
went to the barber shop, bad hair Gu
and over to the hotel where he spent tn
night. He admitted to the officers tina
he took Freezes new suit Of clothes on
of the suitcase and put them on himsel
and then he took the suitcase with hin
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-11-09
7. A. KINNEY, 2, NJ.

Charles Jenness of the Rochester
IN. H. Courier called at the Democrat
office Saturday, in company with +. W..
Sanborn of the Norway Advertiser,
whose guest he was for few days. Mr..
Jenness is secretary of the New Hamp-
shire Weekly Publishers Association,
whose annual outing at Lancaster, n.
H., last June, was attended by Mr.. and
Mrs. Forbes of the Democrat.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-11-09


the Jniversalist parish:
So a'I africa Ie'ufneu .......A. L. Holmes
Simon Morgan, banker and broker
.---------,.- Ernest j. Record
aph Morgan, his son----------.--H Harry shs"
Edward Blake, Morgan's chief clerk
Abe Cohen, with gold mine to sell I'm
.-.-----..-..-.-.-.----- Harold Merrill
Belle Randall, the miners daughter
julia Randall. his wife Miss Lena Franck
During the past week plate glass show
windows have been installed in place OF
The old sash OF common glass, at the
store OF samuel Richards, jeweler anc
opuciau, making a marked improve
ment. SIR. Richards intends to keep up
10 date, though he is SO years OF age, and
The oldest man in business in the place.
de has been in that building continuous
" since 1856, land" says be, III have ad
Vertlsed in the Oxford Democrat every
year for the fifty-nire years, and L dom
believe there is another man that can
say that. Another thing: I served a
three years apprenticeship at the Jewel
er's trade with Uncle Simeon Walton,
and don't think there is another jewel
or IN the state that worked three years
10 learn his trade"
Friday evening about ninety people at
tended the reception given to the teach,
srs by the W. G. T. U. at the vestry oil
Deering Memorial Church. The assem-
oily included members Of the Union
and their husbands, the teachers, the
members of the senior class in the high
school, aud few invited guests. A
snort program was given, which includ'
90 violin solo by Miss Grace Dean, .
vocal solo by Miss Ruth Graves, with
Mrs. Burnham accompanied, and an orig
maj punning "quiz" with local allu'
'lons which produced merriment. Ict
gTream, cake and crackers were served
mere was no formality, the time excep
uutlng the short program being spen
eo!oyably in social manner.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
AMERICAN "GAsv BOMBS.

Americans who have stood in awe.
and condemned the use of poisonous
gases by the Germans in their mode
Of warfare, are likely to receive with
mingled emotions. information that the
United States. should war result with
Germany. does not intend TO be
az a disadvantage on account of such
methods The government is conduct
ing a series of experiments at Fort
Sheridan. with a chemical bomb in
vented by DR.. L. r. Fowzer, the pur-
pose OF which is to cause instantan-
eOus death through the rapid diffu-
sion of gaseous noisons 1t is fur
Their reported that the chemists of the
war department have been working
for a year to perfect such a bomb
1t will be recalled that at the last
Hague conference the representatives
OF the United States refused to join in
a prohibition of poisonous gases as
weapons of war. declaring that as
phyxiatiOn was no more inhumane
than mutilatiOn. and that gas bombs
might really prove 10 be more merci-
full than shIapnel as agents of death.
DR.. Fowzer. however. makes no such
argument. He aims. he says. to elm
mate war ~ making war so deadly
that men wi recon from it in hor-
rOr." Yet all the inventors of new
modes and implements of slaughter
have Urofessed the same laudable
purpose.
In view OF the unfavorable impress
sion created in this country by the
German use OF deadly gases, there
may be public protests against our
government sanctioning the practice.
1t is possible however. that all the
belligerents Will soon have adopted
the new weapon. in which case we
should be obliged in self-defense to
do likewise.
The general criticism leveled at
Germany by enemies and neutrals has
not been based so much on the prin-
ciple OF using asphyXiating gas. as on
the fact that the belligerents had
agreed not 10 use il, and that Ger
many in doing so. was breaking faith
and taking an unfair advantage
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

chemistry, Columbia university, New
York. and DR.. Charles i. North, con-
sulting sanitarian of New Ork city
This commission, assembled in con-
ventiOn. made the following unanl-
nous report TO the City of New YORK
and to the United States, on the sub
ject Of pasteurization;
The process of pasteurizatiOn Is a
matter which has attracted a great
deal of attention in recent years.
This commission has not entered into
any of it's merits, but has given it rec
Ognition in its classification as
process necessary for the treatment of
milk which is not otherwise protected
against infection. The commission
thinks that pasteurization is necessary
for all milk at all times, excepting GER
tilted milk, or its equivalent"
on the subject of certified milk the
majority of this commission voted in
favor Of pasteuriZatiOn of all milk, in
Guiding certified milk. AS pasteuriza-
ton Of certified milk was not unani-
nous this commission recommended
that the pasteurizatiOn of certified
milk be optional.
DR.. Charles Z. North. consulting
sanitarian, says: mo epidemic OF dis
ease was ever traced TO pasteurized
milk; that pasteurizatiOn is not de-
signed as substitute for cleanliness,
as health officials can test raw milk
before pasteurization, to see that 1t Is
decently clean; that pasteurizatiOn
does not effect the digestibility and
food value
He states further that New York
city has for the past three years car
ried out a gigantic experiment in in
FAINT feeding at its SO municipal milk
depots, where babies are fed the year
around to the number of IS, GOO daily
in summer. and 5000 daily in win
ter" For three years all of this milk
has been pasteurized Records have
shown that the babies have gained In
weight, have kept we'll, have shown
no signs Of ricketts, or scurvy, and in
every way give evidence that pas
teuriZed milk is not inferior in food
value or digestibility to raw milk.
The death rate among infants dur
ing this period has been reduced from
125 to "a per thousand births, which
places New York city in the lead of
any large city in the world in the re-
reduction of infant mortality
Right here in South Bend two years
ago less than 10 per cent Of the milk
used for human consumption was pas
teurized; today over so per cent of the
milk used is pasteurized. and at this
rate it can readily be seen that in a
year or so the process Of evolution
will entirely remove the milk dealer
who cannot see the wisdom of clarifi-
cation and pasteurization, as the peo-
pie who use milk are beginning TO
learn the value of this product over
raw milk in it's natural state
ROGERS DAIRY CO.,
BY Alvin I. Rogers
South Bend. May p. 1915
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

a step. One is OF particular interest
to California. and the other 10 the
country in general.
First. it is pointed out that the great
Imperial valley of southern California,
which has 10000 acres under cultiva-
ton, and might have three times that
much, can never be properly developed
or even properly protected without
the annexation OF some OF the terri
tory below the border The trouble is
with the Colorado river 1t brings
life TO the valley. and at the same
time threatens death. At the border
the rivers natural flow is back toward
the north. into the Salton Sink. 1t has
been forced to continue southwark
into the Gulf OF Mexico. by a mud dam
ct the northern end OF Volcano lake.
This barrier. engineers say. will not
permanently remain effective The
silt carried by the river is raising the
level of the lake and threatening
a general inJndation some day. There
is need of charging this dam. and con-
structing a permanent restraining
work at the place where the river
leaves its original channel and flows
toward the lake
But both Of these dam sites are in
Mexican territory. and the United
states government is therefore ham
pered in carrying out the requisite
plans. Why. it is argued, should not
ouvor Ca1ifo~,so - ho,,ok,. - - 4. -
facilitate the development of this area
north of the present boundary worth
more than the whole peninsula 1t
would be possible, too. for Americans
to develop some Of the land below
the line, which it isn't likely the Mex
leans will ever utilize.
The other reason is mainly strategic.
The ownership of Lower California
would give US a continuous stretch of
territory down the coast 500 miles
nearer the Panama canal, strengthen
ing our hold on that great waterway
and providing US with valuable har-
bors and coaling stations.
The peninsula is of little value TO
Mexico. 1t is sparsely settled, the
soil is unproductive and it is almost
entirely separated from the Mexican
mainland. Buying it, however
and of course we could acquire IT in
no other ways a difficult matter.
At present there is no government
in Mexico responsible enough to make
such a transfer. And even if there
were, a legal transfer would be hard
to effect, owing TO a clause in the
Mexican constitution that makes IT an
act Of treason to sell any piece of
Mexican territory 10 another country.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
COTTON FINDS MARkET.

Up 10 the LIST OF May. this country
had shipped abroad 7.321,42O bales OF
last years cotton crop. I'D TO the
same date a year ago, there had been
shipped S,2S3.140 bales. The ship
ments' therefore. were almost up TO
normal in spite of the war. The fears
OF calamity that prevailed throughout
the south last summer and fai! proved
TO have been groundless The world
must have cotton, ard Will get il some
how. war or no war There is a fair
prospect OF the entire crop finding a
market at figures which. through not
proportional 10 the war-level prices
OF other staples. will nevertheless pay
the cost OF production. anS which ap-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
kOcOEnOtOr
Ataxfa

In a very interesting article on Locomotor
Ataxia, DR.. Henry G. Story says that drugs
have practically no beneficial effect in these
cases. HI says that rest should be insisted
upon, and there should be no worries or
troubles. Plenty OF fresh air and moderate
exercise must be insisted upon, but over
exertion is injurious. The use Of tobacco
and alcohol should be strictly forbidden,
and over-eating is dangerous, especially
when the food is poorly E1asticated. The
food must be of the most nour1shing kind,
and the quantity and variety must be
changed so that the patient will not lose his
appetite. The most annoying symptom in
these cases is the pain which at times is
almost unbearable. DR.. Story says that he
finds two Anti-kamnia Tablets rep Gated in an
hour II necessary, gives prompt relief and
rest to the patient. These Tablets can be
obtained at all druggists in any quantity
desired. Ask for AK Tablets.
Also unexceiled for headaches, neuralgia
and all Pain.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
THE MEL TING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.
Some Court Rulings


IL Is impossible 10 divide an annual
rent of six cents between rs persons.
-Brendel vs.. KlOpp, 60 Maryland
THE ad man dropped in to say that
manufactures OF proprietary RENE
dies of various kinds had cancelled his
advertising on a bedbug eradicator
with the explanation that this kind Of
weather is hard on bedbugs. This is
a new contribution OF science TO the
world. The average individual was
not aware that the bedbug was sus-
ceptible 10 changes in the weather,
nor cautious about time or place.
Here, for example, we have the tes-
timOny Of the poet of the Burr Oak
Acorn:
Just as l was about TO slum Der,
Bed bugs got busy in great number
on the pillow on the sheet,
And some were busy round my feet.
could see them on the wall,
Paying one another friendly call
Every corner they did lutte,
Always bringing fresh recruit.
Mercy sakes how they did chew,
Always taking hold anew
One could hear their constant cries
Calling out for new allies.
They're not a thing of real beauty,
But very busy-always on duty
on the mattress, on the springs;
They simply crawl. they have no wings.
Even at some fine hotel,
They know their biz mighty we'll
Il matters not in what room;
Their business is always on the boom.
Then the landlord he does holler,
Rooms and beds now one dollar.
Twas Il new rate we did begin
Where pesky bugs were all thrown In.
O. it surely is some fright
To be tortured all the night
Bugs from cellar to the dome,
But, thank Lord, not in OUR home.
WHAT'S this you are handing US.
old Hos? We apprehend even the
South Bend stomach would become
reversible under it's influence.
EVERYTHING is early this year.
Spring came about two weeks ahead OF
schedule time and the circus season
opens June 10. The latter has its ad-
vantages and disadvantages. 1t IS nice
TO have the clowns and peanut ven
doris early. but it will be long time
to wait for next season.
PRZEMYSII is fully reestablished
on the first page in obedience to the
cycle system. which brings every
thing around again about so often,
like crinoline and false hair
ALI, we know IS that the bout was
stopped. The responsibility can't be
located
THAT'S what makes the 200 fans
SUI c. n. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
THE MELTING POET.

l am the Melting Poet
Daily 1 sit at my window
And rave and tear my hair,
Pound my breast,
Seeking to unlOose that
Which struggles within
Its leashes seeking
Air.
It's hard life / lead.
Among this rabble
From the editorial room.
Which with its ribald song
Makes murderers of us
All
Oft in the Silly afternoon
When / fain would unbOsom
Ny heart TO the world,
This editorial horde of
Huns staggers in
And turns sweet day
Into hideOus
Hellhole,
Until no longer able
To contain myself
7 seek sOlace in
A cup Of pasteurized
Milk.
All. it is then that I grow
Devilish.
And keep the bar loungers
In uproar with tales of
North JudsOn
Orgies. j. AXE.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
The subtle Warming.


(Juniata, Neb.. Herald.)
Some Of these nights something is
going to drop and some young fellows
will get the surprise of their lives II
they don't call a halt on their way to
tie state pen.
PLAYING golf in a high wind is
not totally unlike some of the more
practical affairs Of life, i'm which
things don't land where you look.
OUR weather observer assures us
that the weather will now be normal,
which we interpret to mean that we
can be certain Of a fair day, barring
unforeseen circumstances.
1T is not always advisable" re-
marks an exchange, when in Rome to
do as the Romans do" and yet one
can see that If he were in Rome he
might take advantage of anything that
would give him all there is in it.
NOBODY loves an agent There are
women who sDend more time peeping
througH the curtains and waiting for
the bell ringer TO leave than it would
take to go to the door.
BY a score Of II to l the colonel
saved his $4,000 stake, and the court
refused to let the jury split the costs
fifty-fifty As far as the pubic Is
concerned the result is immaterial.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

proximates the prices that might nat
urally have been expected for so big
a crop under normal peace conditions.
The experience really seems TO have
been benefit 20 the south. Because
Of its bad scare, the section has learn
ed--without paying too serious a pen
alty-the peril Of trusting 10 a single
crop for its prosperity Diversified
farming. long preached, is now &C
tually coming into practice This
year thousands OF southern farmers
for the first time are producing their
own vegetables. milk. butter and
poultry. and thousands more are max
ing a start at raising grain and cattle.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
Letters Of the People

The News-Times opens this column
TO It's readers for expressions Of their
views. 1t accepts no responsibility,
however. for the opinions here put
forth. Correspondents must show
good faith, however, by signing their
communications with their correct
name. This will not be published II
the correspondent so desires and in
dicates, but the name MUST accom-
pany the communication or 1t cannot
be considered.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

Much of the ivory from which piano
keys. billiard balls, knife handles and
combs are made is collected IN Siberia
from fossil remains of the giant man.
moth, the great grandmother of the
elephant Many of these tusks are a
quarter Of a million years old having
been preserved in frozen soil or an
cient ice
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

The Maharajah OF Kapurltrala, In
dia, is doing New York city to the
queens taste. He has with him a wife
owning ss.OOO.OOO worth Of diamonds
and left at home wives to burn. Just
think of doing good little old y. Y.
with all those diamonds TO pawn.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

If Germany, as predicted. will agree
10 abandon submarine warfare while
discussion of the Lusitania matter is
on, maybe it'll be all right. There's
cuSSiOn can
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

Included in young Rockefeller's
broad educative campaign" was edu-
cation for Gov. Ammons and the
judge-advocate of Colorado's militia.
Another great Rockefeller cOntribu
ton to philanthropy!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

"A democrat" writes: "Noucin' as
how old Bill Taft comes etarnally to
the scratch every dinged time a real
big subjeck is up. makes US kinder
want TO send him an invite 10 come
ride our donkey. bein' as his elephant
pitched him off"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
OF The Daily Times.

The author Of the Nicholson law
drew a large crowd at the rink.
W. A. McInerny Is in Terre Haute
attending the 7. A. < B. convention.
The South Bend Pigeon club sent
their birds 10 Frankfort.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

Smyrna can lay claim to a loftier
lineage than perhaps any other city
on the earth. t is her proud boast
that from the earliest dawn Of history
down to the present bembardment her
continuity of name and fame is un-
broken. is in this spirit that she
claims Homer for q citizen.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

long march had been in progress.
and hte officer had been none too pa
teEt Several times he had had oc-
Casion 10 speak strongly 10 the men.
At last on the march home the order
came. March easy''-the time when
songs are INDUCED in. There was no
call for Tipperary" this time. but
unanimously they started singing
Kind Word Can Never Die."-Lon-
don Chronicle
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

Now that Gen. Huerta has brought
his family over and settled down on
Long Island, wouldn't II be nice if
Mr. Roosevelt. or Mr. Taft. would mail
him a card to the Yesterdays club 2"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

o! o.! or! Pity for that Rome edi-
tor who was so pro-German that his
own staff mauled him and resigned!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22
BUYING IOWFR CALIFORNIA.

The old proposal that the United
States should acquire Lower California
: receiving more attention lately.
There ars two reasons given for such
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

That Portugal revolution stirred up
the Spanish navy Spain was having
too easy and cheap a time, anyway.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

What has become OF the old
fashioned significance of the
DreadnOught?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

ALI, we know IS that the bout was
stopped. The responsibility can't be
located.
THAT'S what makes the 200 fans
SUN c., y. f.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-22

PRZEMYSL is fully reestablisheC
on the first page in obedience to th'
cycle system, which brings every
thing around again about so often
like crinoline and false hair.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-24
For Their NeighbOrs.

The hardest housekeeping in the
world is the housekeeping that people
do for their neighbors. Half the
troubles we have are caused by wor-
rying about what people think. What
difference does it make what they
think, anyway? No one can live his
own life and two or three other peo-
pies lives besides. What's the use of
setting up housekeeping on the roof
or on the outside walls for the bene-
fit of the neighbors? You would right
ly be judged insane if you suggested
anything of the kind and that is prac-
tically what half the people do. They
can't do this because the neighbors
would talk, and they can't do that
because the neighbors wonder if they
could not afford to do something else.
They may not say it i'll SO many words,
but they mean it, and it is simply a
great big vacuum in some of our ma
lures where moral courage ought to
be. Half the sting of poverty or
small means is gone when one keeps
house for himself and not for his
neighbors.