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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11
Acquitted on "whlts Slave" Charge

In the United States District Court In
Portland on Thursday was begun tho
thai of Loren Blanchard Of North New
~, . man " pears OF age, indicted for :
violation Of the Mann or "vhits slave
sct. II Vas alleged that In Nay. 1918,
he induced Ada 6omsss, sged 10 yesss,
70 70 from Boston 10 Sswry for immoy-
n purposes. Blanchard bed no counsel,
snd conducted bis own case. The jury
w. ont only sbo0t fifteen minutes BE-
for rsturuisg . verdict Of not guilty.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11
LOST.

In South Paris, a pair of gold
bowed spectacles and case. Finder
please leave at post Office. IS
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11
Lie Allea,s Eeef.Ease.

The s,rseydc powder 70 be shaken into The sboel
and used In fhe footbeth- II you want ret and
comfort for rred. aching. swollen. sweating fee!
rse Aliens YootKase. Il reneTee o0rnf and
bunions Of al pain and prevents bnste1. son
and eaiioas spoes. Sold everywhere. &c Try 4
todsT. LII
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

Bat ss s.Oeld almost tni.k. fror The
Way s0ns yso2ls are eoEnssllng us 70
save % rsss al Dsrs,s, taat oar vase
baskets wVEh sRDply oar marks; ozs-
kss<. Z, "a SoY5sxols - rs-snoer lo&s
ese yrles u tns MARKET 5&skst c3utsrts
zOss q, s5oas tsrss siGss &c izss - snss
a ne waste p4xkss DrOoEet
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

Crows xrd blusbiros have come, bat
lad . white spread over their bones.
Five Inches u nsw snoH within the last
twenty -four hours.
The ssd news 10 received Of the death
Of hrs. Mary Bird, widow OF the late J.
y. Bird, Who passed away several years
ago. hrs. Bird bzs made IL her home
With her children IN Portland and other
places. The funeral was held IN the
church here a. HanI's Corner, and the
intsrmsni Was IN the family lot, where
Der husband znd daughter rest In the
Albsoy cemetery, April 9Th Deceased
wss born In Albany eighty years ago.
Her LIE work wsx done in Albany most
~, a. she lived 70 rear . family Oh
sturdy s0os and daughters, all OF whom
have made homes for tbemsel In Other
places. She leaves many fhends bat no
enemies. She bad passed her fourscore
years, and ali feel that her work bad
been well done, and she WA only glad 70
20.
Gag l. johnson, who has driven a.
g. MesslIy's team drauing pulpuood
the past winter, 10 going 20 Crystal, n.
a, 70 take the reins over team for the
Paris Manufacturing Go.
The ladies' Aid Society were 70 hare
. yis supper ct the vssiry April 7. bat IL
looks doubtful for large crowd.
Ernest Paine, who has oeeupisd the
d. A. Cummings place, has moved back
On 70 his farm, known ~ the Frank =.
Bean farm.
rse drsviag OF cord wood sDd pulp
wood seems 70 be well cleaned up for
this year.
Some good cows for sale here, bat not
many buyers. I think thsee viii be
soon, a. the sslectmen have been through
town and made ready for tax asssssing.
We think that the farmers vho are
farmers indeed have their wood piles
waiting for the wood sswycrs to come
and saw them up. What change from
sixiy years ago. when hrewood vss haul.
I'd 10 the door In whole length trees and
cut and split By hand with sn az. Many
. tree have Ne seen 90 drawn that neos-
ursd 2 IL feet In diameter.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

There's Tag GAY, AZ rofssrs "a!
snS syyis csy, s3e eie&o y sne yzsni
2, sssk, snS Sress - ~ssk, sce e. %
ssc tss. sons, ATT! tts eslsoos, /,
soos; filse -, AZ s9ss p4rx u !
101sls, so6 s.s nss VIC kss,s trsek q
a. shs syeeisi esys az sssss VII lave
Like tims for productive work "a
there, oos Eco 0ns ia; is q goo1 t.lng
~ observe II is NAME Yosi Gard Day
sno ]. IL Ayril lS-h. Poet cares Mas
ttsssry ksios's myriad ehsrr,s, Esilec
o. s.ss osy, sk9slo % zrsa toward
pso@0sicz re welfare "a ksirs, 80
lea VACATION s.sss snd god yssyE0gnc
h9ns. Ane ne sxosass il srisln2
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

Ais meeting q tbs Dsnoersne State
Cozmit,es for OrgsEizsti0r lssf week,
wIillsr z. Psctsogsn wss siee,s1 ~
es- pxigc masszsf. Doubtless tia sc~
Do. wa 20. ooosicsre1 rsesssssy, o2'
WA take. o. TIA: Il gsy s,pss, - .
% ss.sf q foeorc
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

sall, save y09i vss,s. Ia worth cav
ioz.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

Mr.. AID ku. Il. T. Szwin AID sor
Glysdor we're ~ 5. q. Bszn's Tuesday.
kiss ksri9ris Barker wsr. 70 Bsthsl
Monday 70 attend Pomona Grzrgs On
Tuesday.
:. q. Bean srd n. 7. sawin were o:
Bethel Wednesday.
Ars. Yl0rsces Wheeler sas ~ s. @.
Beams Wednesday.
r. g. sloan hsx beec q, his place get
ting up wood.
Howard Allen IL working NJ Bakers
mill
sllas KsoIs.or hss got done work At
Bankers mill.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-04-11

The day Of harsh physics 10 gone. Peopk
want mild. easy hxf6yes. DoaH's ReEule1 have
saiisaed thousands. &c e IN drug stores.
For Group or sore throst. use Dr.. Ibomas' &c
lsedc on. Two Dies. &c and Soc. At al drug
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

drawn, and, as such, ne automatically
forfeited all property rights.
And those neighborhood clashes-to
the participants they were not the un-
couth riots they appeared to the dis
gusted ladies in whose backyards they
took place. To the boys they were bat
tles-the North against the South
Custer and the Indians leach side elect
ing to represent the Indians).
At such moments the power OF the
imagination lifts the action far above
the considerations of everyday equity
and convention and makes it a deed en-
tirely apart and glorifed by the magic
presence of the unreal, presence which
is however. oftentimes not so readily
felt by obtuse parents and unsympa-
thetic grown-ups, and therefore the
whole affair is put down to general
cussedness. Such mistakes are very
easy to make.
But TO return to the electric chair.
What connection can there be be-
tween the harmless pranks Of your boy
hood and the murderous assaults of a
depraved young thug? How can there
be anv common ground for comparison
on which the boy from your street may
stand with the boy from those streets!
Just here: in that common craving
for excitement, in that divine gilt OF
Imagination, which, in the mind Of the
perpetrator. divorces the particular for
bidden act from other similar acts until
it transcends the city ordinances, the
statutes and the law of nations and be-
comes a particular act of bravery and
heroism.
Because a boy is brought up in mar
row street with an 81" at each end and
a saloon on each corner is no reason why
he should not be endowed with magma
ton and longing to emulate some hero
in his deeds of glory, and, in his own
turn, become a hero himself.
And here it is that there comes a diff
ference between that boy and yours:
his heroes are not the same. Your boy
emulates General Sherman or Buffalo
Bill or Tom Sawyer, and woe to the man.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
a NEW ENGLAND MAYOR BOASTS
THAT HE WAS ONCE A
BOY GANGSTER.

There was no particular reason Tor
this feud, and on such communal occa-
sions as church suppers or Memorial
Dav exercises the clans mingled with
the easy congeniality Of old friends. 1t
was Just that the spirit of unrest IN
digenous to the growing boy demanded
friction. and the block or the hill were
as convenient picket lines as any. Only
a short time ago | heard the Mayor OF
one of New England's staidest OF cities
recounting, with much vigor, his reml-
niscences of the time when he as lad,
had Joined the big boys in his neighbor-
hood in a bloody conflict with the boys
of "the Valley" which was broken up
onlv after considerable damage had been
done to cartilages and general appear
ances on both sides.
To any man who will recall his sensa-
tions at such times, and who can remem-
ber the motives which prompted him to
do most of the things for which he al
terward was punished, it is merely
matter of personal history that IN the
makeup of every normal boy there Is
at a certain period spirit of unrest, a
martial search for antagonism, crav-
ing for excitement and a fine disregard
for the more subtle points OF the COM
mon law. 1t is period Of your life OF
which you are not ashamed. 1t is
period in the life of your boy from which
YOU derive no serious concern. 1t is the
time when the imagination OF youth IS
craving expression, and these little as
saults on community-life are the best
methods at hand in these days OF lean
romance.
For to the boy with the greatest mag
nation these flights have the greatest
charm. A raid on an apple orchard IS
not to him violation of the divine right
of property. 1t is feat calling for the
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

against the boys few blocks up for the
very same reasons and impulses that
moved the New England Mayor to revel
in an attack on the crowd from the Val
ley.
It is from these gangs that the gum
men are picked. The gangs are the
squads: the gunner the varsity. And
for all their sanguinary names they are
nothing but boys, little brown-eyed boys
whose boyhood has run amuck.
1t is here that there ceases to be any
appreciable parallel between your boy
and Red Jack" To Red, brought up
in surroundings where a concealed re-
volver is sign of authority and its use
a matter for laudable agility and cum
ming such a means of expression of per-
sonal dislike is not so inconceivable as
it would be to your boy, brought up in
the horror of taking human life.
And perhaps, even under such favor
able conditions, your boy might expert
ence a certain thrill of delight at the
feeling Of a revolver in his hip pocket
and the knowledge that he was expert
III its use at--let us say-chippie spar
rows. And even you yourself perhaps
find bit of fascination in the snug fit
of gun butt in the palm of your hand
and the resistance of the trigger against
your crooked finger.
OF course, you wouldn't shoot it at
any one, because your whole moral fibre,
strengthened through years of refining
influences, would revolt at such an act
But the boy Of the streets, with keen
imagination running its galvanizing cur
rent through the wrong wires in his
system, may snuff out an existence at
the muzzle of gun with the same
sang trOid with which thousands of cul-
tivated gentlemen are to-day snufiing
out existences in the trenches opposite
simply because they see uniforms of a
different color than their own.
No one, unless he is mentally de-
ranged, commits crime without discov-
ering for himself an extenuating cir
cumstance, weak as it may be. which
allows him to say to himself: I'm the
abstract this thing may be wrong, but
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Bv ROBERT G.. BENCHLE1.

made law that comes between him and
the following of his ideal.
Little Eddie Horowitz may have heard
of these celebrities, but by far the
greater stress of his education in hero
worship has been laid on the character
istics and feats of the leader of the gang
in his block. The lad of the East Side is
turned out for his stimulus to the street
in front of his tenement. He hears the
praises sung Of "Red Jack" and ED the
Rat" who, in their turn, are nothing
more than older boys who have attained
their appalling titles through assiduous
emulation of their predecessors in office.
The boy joins in with that neighborhood
spirit which collects all the boys in that
vicinity in a concentrated animosity
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
PERHAPS YOU, AS A BOY, WERE
NOT ABOVE DEFYING mo
TRESPASS" SIGNS.

But sources are discouraging things
to find, and, after all, the source Of gum
men and gangsters must be a particu-
larly incorrigible one. A man who would
commit murder in cold blood must
spring from a soil so exotic that for us
to delve about in it for causes and
sources woud do him little good and
could not be other than depressing
for us.
But before dismissing the matter at
this satisfactory conclusion and turn
ing on to the story of the terrible con-
ditions in ireland, Just forget the gun
men for a little while; forget that there
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

daring of Confederate scout and the
agility of Frank Fearless, the Boy Trap
per. The gustatory enjoyment derived
from the apples (Which we're, ten to one,
hard and sour) is as nothing compared
to the imaginative eXhilaration OF Climb
ing the fence, the breathless dash for
the worthless prize under the very guns
of the enemy, and the perilous escape
down the street.
Old Peter Pitts, when he chased you
from his nasturtium bed, did not ap-
peal to you as householder in the just
execution of his prerogatives, which ne
undeniably was. To you he was some
old hermit who ate children or perhaps
ran a counterfeiting machine in that
back room where the blinds were always
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

T>VERY once in so often residents
X, of the civilized belt of this coun-
- try are shocked to read that a
few young men have been electrocuted
for participating in a gang-killing. The
consensus of breakfast table opinion
that morning is that 'it dOsn't seem
right" and. in fact, great many good
people write letters to the newspapers
about it.
Then something occurs across the
ocean which, of course, takes precedence
in our attention, and we are kept so busy
deciding what Germany ought to Go
with Belgium, or how the Mexican peo-
pie are ever to be made law-abiding and
contented like our own fellow citizens,
that the little affair at Sing Sing is filed
under General Conditions"
This is not an argument for or against
capital punishment. Discussion on the
Justice and efficacy Of that institution
should be left until it is too late to pre-
vent it. But there must be some way
of getting at these boys, these gunner,
before they make their appearance in
the soft gray prison shirts with Sits up
the side of one trouser leg, stumbling
across the threshold of the deathhouse.
There might be such thing as taking
them at their source.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

is any such thing as the criminal, and
think back ten, twenty or fifty years TO
the time when you were at the large
front-tooth period Of adolescence. You
weren't a bad boy. You were nice to
YOUR mother and you had a mumbllng
acquaintance with the books OF the Ola
Testament. And, anyway, see what a
good man you turned out to be!
But now and again you might have
been persuade to shinny over Old Bar
ker's fence and collect a blouse full of his
"greenin's," mightn't you? And you
have been known to openly defy mo
Trespass" sign, simply because 1t was
so posted, and for the express purpose
of getting "chase" from the irate pro-
prietor, who never failed to furnish the
craved excitement.
Furthermore, if you lived in smaller
city or town, and were not abnormally
confined by disease or super-sollcltous
parents, you and the fellers in your
neighborhood cherished hearty AMI
mostly for the crowd con the HILL or
"over the tracks," or some such con-
tiguous district.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
LUCKILY YOUR BOY HAS AN IN
HERITED MORAL SENSE TO
FALL BACK UPON.

begins 70 utilize MS inherited anu 8Idu-
ualy acquired powers Of moral reason
ing enough to realize what is essentially
right and what is essentially wrong,
while Red, having no very powerful in
herited appreciation for the finer points
of ethics and no effective training at all
therein, continues in the way he has
started. The gang has grown older; the
coveted gun has been acquired and
proudly concealed his disregard for con-
vention, which was at first so ingenious,
has developed into a vicious disregard
for, first, the law, next the principles
behind the law, and finally for every
thing in general which does not cater to
the satisfaction of his immediate inter-
ests. He courts the distinction of being
"a bad man." because in his eyes "a
bad man" is hero.
An acquaintance of mine is Johno,
aged ten, and of the stuff from which
gunner are made. We are both men,
bers of the same club.
At the last meeting asked Johno if
he would be with us next week.
Sure" he replied, "if don't get
sent up"
"You sent up?" asked. What would
they send you up for?"
Johno is four feet seven and has
cherubic pair of brown eyes.
"Oh, | dunno. Yer never can tell"
was his proud speculation, much as a
schoolboy might let fall hint that he
was in a fair way to make the regular
team, although far be it from him to
boast.
And yet Johno is one of the first boys
in that club that | would trust with
personal mission; he is, as material the
most promising of the lot. In fact, l
would place Johno up with any young
ster in Central Park West for keenness,
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

attractiveness, and, yes, essential hon.
esty. Whatever JohnO may do when ne
gets his gun will be the result OF d.
vorce of his morality from his under
standing of the law; it will be because
that live imagination which renders him
so attractive now has been shunted off
to a circuit which ends in violence. And
yet, to his last night out Of jail, would
trust Johno with my money and my
life. That's the kind of boy | believe
Johno is.
Just now, it wouldn't take so much
of some ones valuable time to make !.
possible for things to be different. Il
he and his brothers could be taken and
lifted out of that environment for
couple of years and set to doing some
thing useful with that energy, or to the
creation of something real with that
imagination, they could be turned from
being the best Of gunner into the most
valuable of citizens.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

y Row h in Him the 1Lakiues an Rat" but His Heroes o00e@
Him-7Ae Stuff That Makes Good Gunm0m WiN MAKE Oo0N
Cui4eu if Directed the Proper Channe-7he Ganeser
Is ONLY a Boy Whose Boyhood Has Run Am"ck

I have a right to do it in this particular
case"
Of course, there is the knowledge that
the law forbids the taking of human LIE.
But what is the law to the boy? A blue
coated cop, sometimes himself OF doubt
full reputation, who is impatient with the
foibles of boys and tolerant with the
crimes of men. The law forbids ball
playing in the street, and the boy in his
own heart knows that there is no harm
in ball playing itself, and if not IN the
street, then where? The law to him is a
bother, and as such has little majesty.
1t is a blanket prohibition against life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and
therefore an impediment to be avoided
and evaded as often as possible.
The gamin who steals apples from a
pushcart is no more of a vicious law
breaker than is your boy when ne steals
apples from private property. The
small boys of the East Side gang are no
more of a menace at that stage of their
development than were those that made
up the honorable Mayors coterie.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
A STATE THAT UNDERSTOOD
BOYS COULD DEVELOP SLUM
URCHINS INTO USEFUL
CITIZENS.

There is something in the idea OF
universal and compulsory military train
ing for the youth of the country thai
embodies just what is needed for Johno
There is also something in it that would
not be so valuable. But, in spite OF rs
incompatibility with pure democracy
if the state could reach out and say u
these boys, Come with me for year
or two and help me build brldgs, CT
irrigate field, or cruise my woodlands
if it could utilize their desire to do some
thing by giving them something tna
needs to be done, and their craving 70
experience new sensations by furnishing
them with a new environment and new
ideas to handle, there would result an
influx into the body polite Of a group
of citizens who could be of real value 70
the community in which they lived and
the makings of citizens of real value are
not to be passed over lightly in these
days of respectable mediocrity.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-20

The early advent OF winter wealth
or in many western and northwest
ern states has brought about q heavy
Increase IN cattle receipts JIM many
%. The leading markell of the coun-
try. and the result has been mark
,j shading of prices of all grades
except prime heavy bulIork7. h.eh
grade yearlines and c1uncrs The
supply OF all butchcJs' AIDES Is far
guuye The needs ol the situation and
packer aye cleaning up Tho supply
from day 20 day at prices named Dos
themselves
The demand for stock'rs and feed
ers is laeeius just non partly of
course. because of burdonsomc snip
rlics. but also because cattle feeders
are quite at loss a, know what to
do The farsgh,ed stockmen .uc
woudrrnl whether IL WN ia} 90 aa
against The feeding game when all
kinds OF grain are So high and th,
propecJ good for Ill higher prices
il ,hr war continues tor another Is
months or moro.
The average quality of cattle tha'
ere coming forward Iu an markets
at this time ls very low ami both
statesmen and killer end 'hc .roNF
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-20
Heavy Cattle Receipts Shade DoWn Prices
On Some Grades; Fat Hogs Work Higher

values for this kind are working
higher again Thou ands OF hogs
are coming 10 market al this time
that should hpye De,n fed for two
months and buyers are diacrim.nat.
ing sharply against them because II
is the icgiNal thing "a do There is
only one place where the thin. soft
shoat is welcome and that is iu the
feed yard Killers VIII ,ell YOU that
thin hogs are seldom sold cheap
enough 50 that they viii make any
money for The slaughterer. Retail
ers will tell YOU the same Whole
salers viii say that tho Thin. soft
hog will be- minus his profit If he
hangs a week on the hooks The
retailer holds that very thin, soft
hog that he sells from his block
loses him money and quite Oxen
causes him 10 lose customers that
ne never again rcgains. The Gus
toner, if he is CANDID and obsary
ing. will tell You thai ne would ratH
er have one pound OF meat from a
well-fnished hog tnan three from
thin. poorly fed animal when II
comes TO feeding a large family OF
hungry children
The present situation In the liz.
hog and provision markets, is ;he Re-
suit Of settled conviction on the
part Of everyone connected with IL
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-20
HOLD EXAMS FOR
WOULD-BE COPS

The civil service commission VIII
hold 400 examination Nov J., 70 de
t,miuc tbe fitness of applicants who
wish o. become parolmen
a H.isut OF five feet eight and
on. half inches or more with a
weight In proportion together with
q lr.' class physical condition Is
necessary 10 meet the requirements,
.r addition 90 other qualifications.
The position pays salary of 81 900
the FIRST year. $l1o0 the second, ST.
-no rhr third and 81 260 after FIVE
Eears ni service
Applications for examinations will
Do received in The Office Of the civil
service commits ion No S02-Sl0 Far
no'lbi.- up 10 and including
Dcr. 3D.
PrintinE-the pain mont kInd--thnt
- right--Timcs Job Dcpt.-Nnin 1870
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-20
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OF any kind an ideal food
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-20

Hai. tta' long foreign war is
ra" au W.i rar The operator
rHo hl.. .a. market "a, .nis TIME Us
taJant ? VafN risk. however, a. q
prolonged upward tendency oi price,
would certainly break The record OF
many yoHs rAe $40 quotation has
lp'n 'urel in many markets and
Nr 're oi fac opinion that this il
Close tp me turning point Tor anoth-
,r downward dip Owners Of hnish-
ed hogs Nll show good Judgment by
.cndus them forward promptly