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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

The lumber operators in northern
Maine are anxious for . heavy rain 70
settle the snow and an the swsmps. Az
We the case Last year the snow came
before the ground was we'll frosen.
Men arriving In Bangor who ere inter-
sstsd In the sntsrpriss tell the same
story Of rain needed now before more
snow oomsi.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25
West Lowell.

Geo. Andrews, who has been In poor
health for the last two years, died ct the
home Of his sister, Mrs. Caroline Fox,
Tuesday noon. He had been about the
house till Sunday, though he was falling
In strength and trained nurse came
Satu rdsy to attend him. The funeral
was at bis late home Friday afternoon.
He was prominent In social orders.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

81. N. W. writes the Democrat from
Wakefield, Msss., - follows:
As looked over my Boston Herald I
noted the following news item and was
especially pleased ct the last part OF 1t:
BANGOR, NE, Dec. l5.-statistics gathered In
this city show that huntsmen who visited the
Maine woods during The CUNNING season that
closed to-day, killed more bears than IN 1915, The
number being u. while they obtained $40 deer
against IA lat year. Ths local figures are
generally about half - large % those for the
entire state. Not single person died Of
accidental shooting during the season, and
accidents were much fewer than usual
Then / turned over the page and
chanced to read the following:
AUGUSTA. Me-, Dec. 15.-Seven persons were
killed In the wooda during the big game hunting
season In Maine which closed today. One man
Vas shot In mistake for dear, three accidentally
shoe thonselsos, tvo were accidentally killed By
companions, and one man dted Of exposure
vhile hunting. Thsrs were 10 fztalities last
season.
Some press agent down q Bapgori!l
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

Private Scott B. Merrill Of Arson, 10
the regular United States infantry, y
reported dead OF broncho-pneumonis
somewhere In France.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25
Here and There.

The Berlin Tageblatt Is reported as
being anxious about the food supply In
Germany, and not afraid to express Its
anxiety. Doubtless the Tsgeblstt Is not
alone In Its anxiety. Germany must be
very short of food.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25
Coming Events.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.

Jan. !. 2. S-Show of Western Maine Poultry
Association, Norway Opera House.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

Most disnruring skin eruptions. scfofula, PIN.
nles. rssh0s. etc., are due 70 impure blood. Bur.
docf Blood Bitters - . cleAnainG blood sonic' u
Vail recommended. d q at al stores.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25
SINGLE COPIES

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single copies of THE DEMOCRAT are four cents
each. They viii be mailed on receipt OF price oy
the publishers or for the convenience OF patrons
single copies of each issue have been placed on
GALE at the following places In the County:
south Paris, Towards Drug Store.
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Paris Hili. Helen E. Cole, Post Once
West Paris, Samuel L. Wnise
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Snow and more snow.

Snow and more snow.
The days are growing longer.
Look for total eclipse Of the moon
next Friday morning.
Shut-ins without telephone counec-
tions cannot be expected to gather much
news.
The sugar famine continues, and
molasses 10 advancing In price.
The music Of axes and saws may be
heard from al directions In fair weather.
James D. Uhlman has sold his span of
horses and bought another horse 10 Nor
way last week.
1t 10 becoming too common occur.
renee for mail addressed to West Paris
and other Offices to be left here, and
papers which belong here to be carried
up the line and brought back the next
day.
"Slocum" of East Sumner has my
thanks for his kind words In last weeks
Democrat, and wish him oil the COM
pliments Of the holiday season.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25
South Paris. Maine. December IS. 1917
ATWOOD 6 FORBES,
kditors and Proprs3ora
GroRaH II. ATWOOD. A. =. roRnxs.

TERMS .-s1I50 . year II paid strictly In advance.
Otherwise eaoo year. Single copies = oen"'
ApvKRrlsxxxGrs: AN legal ADVERTISEMENT
are Given three consecutive Insertions nor el-oo
per Inch In length Of column. Special con-
tracts made VIII local, transient and yearly
advertisers.
Jon PRINTING New type. mast Presses. eaecsric
power. experienced workmen and iow pSoSs
con. sine 70 make this department Of our ous,-
ness complete and popular.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25
West Bethel.

"Ring, Christmas bells,
Hopefully ringi
There are graves-but they hold only dust.
No souls have goIe down In the gloom;
No shadow hangs over the tomb.
There 10 death, but In God We still trus..
Ring, Christmas bells,
Hopefully ringi
"Ring, Chr istmas bells,
Steadily ringl
Signs and mourning the lower air all,
But they rise TO the portals above,
And are blent In the full chord Of love,
And Loves banner floats over us still.
Ring, Christmas bells,
Steadily rlngi
"Ring, Christmas bells,
Evermore nngi
TN our souls catch your meaning, and sing
With the angels the cheering refrain
That echoed DER Bethlehem's plain,
And We look on the face of our King.
Ring, Christmas bells,
Evermore ringp'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

Aside from the question OF our own
interests and those of our allies in the
war, the present peace conference BE-
tween the German and Russian more-or-
misrepresentation is almost pathetic.
On one side are the Prussisns obsessed
with the idea of domination, and on the
other representatives of the dc facto
government Of country which is as yet
In state Of practical chaos. II 10 not
to be wondered at that Russia Is weary
after three years and half Of war; but
any peace which comes ont of the confer
snce under present conditions will be
''msde in Germany"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

And what form Of compact or agree
ment can they make which will be
effective or lasting? The Russian gov
erument which Is represented at the
conference is not so we'll established that
its promises are likely to be accepted by
Germany without conditions humiliating
to Russia. And we know how much
attention the German government pays
to treaties.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

The world do move, and not entirely
In one direction, either. II any one In
July, 1914, had forstold the war In all
Its details, his words would have been
pronounced incredible. So II any one
four years ago had prophesied the sub
mission OF q prohibition amendment to
the constitution of the United States in
the year 1917, he would have been
regarded as almost equally wild. Yet II
has happened. And II this Is ratified By
three fourths Of the states within seven
years, national prohibition will have
come.
While party lines did not control the
vote, ii is hardly necessary to say that
Names delegation 10 both houses Of
congress voted for the submission Of the
amendment.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-12-25

New Years Eve dance next Monday
evening Dec. 31st at Centennial Hall.
Is cents to all. Music by Shaw Of South
Paris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18

flower of our regular army. When
the vital matter of food control falls
cfoul of conflicting and widely rep
resented interests. the president comes
promptly to the rescue.
Certainly majority in both senate
and house, says the New Republic,
recognized that the present was no
proper occasion to interpolate a
sweeping domestic reform like nation
al prohibition into war measure. But
many of those who recognized this
shrank from mourning the odium of
those of their constituents who place
prohibition above every other issue,
and who are sufficiently numerous in
most constituencies to turn the cleo
TONS President Wilson did not
shrink from such odium. Probably
he would personally prefer bone dry
nation, but not at the expense of ma
tional harmony in the existing crisis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
SIDE TALK S
Temperament Tragedies.
BY RUTH CAMERON

There are few things sadder to me
than to see two close relatives togeth-
err who have an unfortunate effect on
each other.
1 am thinking just now of a mother
and daughter.
They are both pleasant, attractive
| people when you meet them individ-
ually. people reasonably easy to get
! along with. The mother is somewhat
domineering but she is very kind
hearted and has hosts of friends.
The daughter is rather obstinate
but she is quiet and restful, in many
| ways an ideal housemate.
And yet if you saw these people
together and never saw them apart,
you would think what disagreeable,
irritable people they were.
Each transforms the other into
| another person. The mother becomes
critical, nagging, interfering, the
daughter bad tempered and unbeliey-
ably rude.
The daughter appears the worst,
both because her mothers exasperat-
ing interferences are always made
with kind intent, and because the
things the daughter filings out at her
mother are in such wretched taste.
1 think it always offends us to have
a child speak rudely to it's parent even
when we sympathize with the state
of mind that caused the rudeness.
And yet the mothers temperament
is just as much to blame for the lack
of harmony between the two as the
daughters. That is if one should talk
about blame at all in such cases.
can't really feel that two tempera-
ments are any more to blame for not
harmonizing than two colors.
l think we all know cases like this.
Even nearer home than the one I
cited is that of father and daughter
both of sentimental, irritable, high
strung dispositions. Each needs a lit
| tie patience, a little calmness in a
companion. Neither finds it in the
other and the result is constant fric-
ton when they are together.
| Perhaps the sorest tragedy of an
tagonistic temperaments is when such
temperaments develop in a husband
and wife. People blame them for
having chosen each other. Poor fools,
they chose in a moment when nature
had blindfolded them. Blame her!
In fact nature is to blame for all
| these temperament tragedies, and
| those who suffer from them should
have our sympathy. That is, if they
make the best of the conditions, try
| to use patience and forbearance, try
to let each other alone. Nature is to
blame for the lack of harmony. She
isn't to blame for peoples making the
! worst of it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
THE MODERN CHINESE wall

Along the line of the governments
effort to increase the production Of
food stuffs the Los Angeles Times
nent editorial:
| Millions of acres of available land
remain non-prOductive in the great
| southwest because the capital and the
| labor are not available for their culti-
walton. Enormous quantities of food
stuffS are going to waste because it is
| impossible for the farmers to secure
the necessary labor to harvest the
ripening crops. At time when the
| food shortage of the civilized nations
is the greatest in the history of man
kind vast fertile tracts, capable in
| themselves of feeding one-fourth of
the population of the United States,
are lying idle by reason of artificial
restrictions which prevent hundreds of
thousands of willing workers from OBJ
tanning employment where labor is so
sorely needed.
| Government experts are making re-
ports, chambers of commerce are pass
ing resolutions; but reports and res
buttons are poor substitute for
bread. 1t is recognized principle in
medicine that desperate cases Justify
radical treatment; hunger is sweeping
like malady over score of nations,
and the only thing the federal govern
ment does is to pass bills about food
regulation and ce-fixing in one
house of congress to be rejected by the
| other.
| In California thousands of bushels
or wheat lie rotting in the fields be-
cause the labor was not available to
harvest the standing grain. Hundreds
a year ago to follow the admonition
OF the government and double their
producing acreage are now ruined be-
cause they have not been able to mar
ket the crops they planted 1t will
| take great deal more than academic
appeals to patriotism to induce hold
erS of large tracts to make an effort
this year at planting an increased
acreage when no prospect is offered
Tor labor for next years harvest
There is not enough available labor
on the Pacific coast at the present
time, IL the whole population. male
and female, that can be induced to
iaDor We're employed, to plant and
harvest half the available land. When
the Pacific coast states have supplied
their quota of men for the new army
and navy this number of workers will
nave been still further reduced al
least 20 per cent There is not enough
LABOR TO plant and harvest an avera ge
crop; and to attempt to double pro-
duction under such conditions is sheer
folly.
While this almost disastrous short
age of labor exists on the eastern rim
of the Pacific ocean, hundreds of thou
sands of capable and willing farm
hands are fR&ed in enforced idIeness
in China an4t 3pan. Between them
and the great agricultural areas OF
the southwest rises a new Chinese
wall, the Chinese exclusion act On
enc side productive areas are unculti-
waited and crops are rotting in the
fields. on the other women and chill
dren are dying of hunger; but the
openings in the wall are jealousy
guarded for fear, most active of ali
warders, keeps watch at the gates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
TRAVELETTE
Nfeaux.
BY NIKSAH

Meaux.
I The little French city of Meaux has
gained an immortal place in history.
It marks the high-tide of the German
advance in 1914, the nearest spot to
Paris where the Prussians trod. Thus
far the advance patrols penetrated,
and here they were recalled to swing
off in the great detour that ended in
retreat. Over Meaux flashed the Ger
man taubes. looking down in puzzled
misunderstanding at the endless
scurrying line of Partisan taMcabs
that bore the French sixth army to
the front to save the city. 1t was
something new in transport, this army
in taxicabs, and the Germans, accus-
toned to do all things by rule, went
SO far astray as to interpret it as
rush of the people of Paris to sur
render themselves to the invader.
| Near Meaux you see one of the most
significant things in Europe-the first
grave. Less than 80 kilometers from
Paris this unknown Frenchman fell.
! Over his body is a bare ohlong of wire,
fencing off little white cross. There
are literally millions of these rude
graves dotting the, pleasant plains of
northern France. but this is the near
est of them all to Paris itself. A
/ little farther and you find them scat
| tered more and more thickly. and
now some of them are capped by
black crosses instead of white, to
mark the spot where a Prussian lies.
ana over the DOuleS OF herman ana
Frepchman, the lush crops are crowd
! ing in for this section of France is
being intensively cultivated as no re-
! gion has been before.
A few kilometres northward and
eastward is the first of the great
monuments raised over a common
grave. where the dead lie by hum
dreds. The French engineers have
erected many of these. They tower
up in the fat land as the memory of
Y . Ito. toll IL,
minds of future generations. The
wheat may rustic green about them
and the traffic of peace flow by, but
the countryside will be forever hal-
nameless men laid down their lives
wholesale that a nation might live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
DINNER STORIES

A Baltimore mother was much dis
tressed by an incident in her house
hold that seemed to indicate a ten
dency to cruelty in one of her Off
spring.
"Oh, Harry" she exclaimed. How
cruel of you! Why did you cut that
poor worm in two?''
We'll, mother" answered Harry.
"He seemed so lonely"
While visiting in the Highlands of
Scotland last summer little old Eng
lish lady made use of an ear-trumpet
when she attended divine service.
Such a continuance being entirely I'M
known in those simple parts, it caused
much excited discussion. and finally
one of the elders was deputed to deal
with the lady.
On the following Sunday the un-
conscious offender again made her
appearance, and again produced the
much-discussed trumpet; whereupon
the chosen elder rose from his seat
and marched down the aisle to where
the old lady sat, and, raising an ad-
monitory finger, said severely:
The first toot, ye're oot!''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Oatmeal Wafers-During the warm
days your children will probably eat
oatmeal waters when they cannot be
prevailed upon to eat the porridGe it.
self. Beat eggs lightly, add small cup
sugar, one tablespoon melted butter.
pinch of salt and sufficient oatmeal to
form verykstiff batter. Drop by spoon
full on CREASED baking pan. having
them some distance from each other.
as they will spread. Bake in moder-
ate oven It'll crisp brown.
War Cake for the War Brides-Beat
one egg, add one cup brown sugar.
one tablespoon melted shortening;
heat well. Add one-half cup sour
milk mixed with one-half teaspoon
soda Sfft one cup flour, one-half tea
4poon grated nutmeg. one-haIf tea
spoon salt and one TEASPOON baking
powder. Then add one cup bread
crumbs. Stir well and bake one-half
hour. One tablespoon of peanu. but
ter may be used. instead Of butter IL
one prefers the flavor. Various kinds
OF crumbs may be mixed together and
used IN this way
Bacon and Rice-One cup cooked
rice. one can tomatoes (either strain I'd
or whoie1. and four slices fried bacon
cut into dice (drippings also) Stir
all together and cook about twenty
minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
awHATEVER you WANT TO Know"
number of things have been or

: A number of things have been or
are about to be put into practice ow-
ing to the war which should not be
permitted to lapse when peace shall
be declared. One of these is the
building of ships. The foreign COM
merce of the United States has been
carried on in alien bottoms for more
than half q century. A return to this
practice should never be permitted.
Another important step is the reform
in the management of railroad trans
portation by which approximately two
tons of freight are moved where but
one was moved before. Another i'm
portant policy which should become
permanent is embodied in the plan of
the government to arrange for the
use of the internal waterways OF the
country for freight carrying purposes.
Many important lessons are likely to
be learned if the war continue long
which will be found to be fully as
useful after the war has ended. Our
entry into the conflict seems destined
to lift the country out of rut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18

foot. tripping her deity. But like a
flash she was up-had thrown herself
protectingly in front of Boyce and
thus caught in her own white Shout
der the thrust Dan aimed for Boyce's
throat.
Silence fell like pail over the bab-
BILE. Boyce caught Jess as she was
falling, laid her down and stanched
as best he might the yelling blood.
After look at it Buddy laid hold on
Dan to throttle him. Other hands
tore him away. their owners saying
significantly: Wei. do better'n that,
Bud-give him ell he deserves" Jess
f'eard and understood Dan would be
iynched. Family she tried to rise
upon her elbow. crying weakly:
Don't, don't, neighborsi Don't do
murder! This is-just an accident"
Then she tainted dead away, but
her protest saved Dan. Her hurt, tho
severe. was not mortal. Long before
1t was fully healed all the Cove knew
and rejoiced that as soon as she was
strong enough she would be taken
flrst to Lumberton, then on to a far
fine house, where the elder Royces
would be more than happy to welcome
her as daughter-(Copyrig 1917,
by the Mcclure Newspaper syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
FOOD REFORM.

New York hotels and restaurants
are about to go on a strictly war
ration basis. 1t is proposed by lead
ing hotel men that there be instituted
enc meatless day other than Friday.
and that war bread" be served to
guests and employees. Many ether re-
forms are urged.
At a recent meeting of hotel men
it was unanimously agreed that the
following program would help mater
tally in Mr.. Hoover's food conserva-
ton campaign:
That there should be an individual
service of bread and butter of uni
form weight, rolls to weigh from 1
to 1 Il ounces.
That at least 10 per cent of some
other kind of flour, namely, rye. po-
tato, banana. corn, rice. ETC., should
be put into wheat bread and rolls
That a greater proportion of the
rolls served at breakfast should be
made of other than wheat flour.
That all stale bread and trimmings
war bread to be served to guests
ana employees.
That the substitution of rough
breads in the place of wheat breads
has proved impractical. as the rough
age causes the use of much more but
ter; hence, in conserving wheat, the
hotel would be using more fats.
That the practice of serving toast
as a garniture with variohs dishes
should be discontinued.
That the, service of fresh pork to
guests and employees should be dis
couraged as much as possible.
That broiling, roasting, braising
and stewing should be encouraged and
frying eliminated, so as to conserve
butter and lard.
That one day of each week other
than Friday shall be designated on
which beef will not be served.
That cheese be removed from free
lunch counters.
In the face of this reform people
probably will continue to eat what
they want. if they can find it and
have the price. Any reduction in the
consumption of certain articles of
food is likely to result in a curta:lment
of production and nothing actually is
gained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
WILSON NEVER sHIRKs.

The president has been appealed to
to help unravel the tangle of tho food
control bill and he has responded
promptly as he always does. Genuine
legislation to food and fuel is his sug-
Eestion.
Lack of moral courage can certain
y not be imputed to President Wilson.
IL any unpopular action must he I'M
de.taken in the national interest.
everybody else lodges it. while the
president puts it thru without finch
ing. 1t was the president who was
forced TO assume responsibility for our
entry into the war. for conscription.
for the unprecedented policy of inn
mense loans to foreign nations. 1t
was the president who alone dared to
place n quietus upon the plan of rush
ing volunteer division to France I'M
der n popular hero. and who deter
mined upon sending overseas the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

lFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A mans tongue can spoil all his in
dustry.
High prices are raising more corn
than patriotism.
When an elderly person laughs he
wrinkles up.
Let the bullets do all the whistlinS
when there are busy people around
Minds of some people are as Uttered
with bunc as their yards are with
junk.
1t is no disgrace to be dull. but
don't call attention to it by trying to
act smart.
The average man usually figures
how little he can contribute and feel
respectable.
1t is said the inventor of the ma
chine gun got the idea from watching
his wife talk.
How religiously people grumDle at
a man who has money and knows how
to keep it.
One way a woman has of being dis
agreeable to a boy is to talk to him
about table manners"
A mans eyes may be bigger than
his stomach. but no boys eyes ever
deceived him in that way.