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.censed Taxidermist, '«ρTiStrMt, rear vtagonic Block,

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ËMÎGLEY & BUTTS, Norway, Maine,

umbing, Heating, Sheet Meu'. Work,

Ul ceilings a specialty.

Harry M. Shaw, ITTORNEY AT LAW

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fcti Paris. Maine

p txamnea ;or Glasses.

ItfUEL RICHARDS, Optometrist and Optician, South Parie, Maine

After Fifty Years. *

Mr. Lorenzo R. Peebles, of Los | sees, holds a Ten Payment Life

icr, with the M;i>sachusetts Mu- l"it has een in force 50 years,

policy was taken at age 30, and

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|e$y and t e resent EXCESS ιού value over net cost is $670.95.

STATEMENT

Is Premiums of S4S.00, $480.00 flasîrst ten dividends, 103·93

■hcost, 10 y e

|bl, of annual dividends ance policy became paid-up,

$376.07

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year, $S 20.74 'Tie bottom does not drop out of

ftettnc Life Insurance when a man

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Real Estate. 7 Park Street, 5outh Pari». Aunt» lor North American Accident

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^ Window 4 Door Frames. ^ **at Dt mj κ'.ηΊ of Flnlah for Inalde 01

send In your ordere. Pine Lui» I *a jaaelee on band Cheap for Caah.

»ning, Sawing and Job Work. Matcbe<t Pint SneatMng for Sale.

£· W. ( IIUDLER, |'*'oaner Maine.

HILLS, Jeweler and Graduate Optioian.

IIM

Norway, maine.

Weak ατκ/ Lame1 Well and Strong

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I fejï1 *nenever I stopped doctoring Pilla, anH°rs.e* 1 tried Foley Kidney ~ after taking them «while

w several years' and since »ell, I've stayed weU and *** of the trouble.

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Suoplv Co., Biifhamtan, Ν. Ϊ

Schedule of Prices for Electric Current, in Effect July 1,1917, Norwav and Paris Division:

b—Available for all inoandesoent light- ing, domestic appliance·, heating apparatus and motors of one horse power or less when connected dl- rectly to the lighting circuit.

c—11c per kilowatt Block Meter Rate. Block Meter Schedules, as follows: lie kwh. first 100 kwh. 10c kwh. for second 100 kwh.

yc kwh. tor third 100 kwh. 9c kwh for all In excess of third 100 k^rh.

d—Prompt payment discount: None. Bills are due and payable upon pre- sentation.

e—The minimum charge for current sup- plied under this olass is 912.00 per year, payable monthly, adjustment to be made at the end of the calen- dar year or for such fractional part of the calendar year as the period of service covered bears to the whole year.

f—Deposits may be required from parties without an established financial rat- ing with the Company.

g—At the above rate the Company will install one or more meter· at lu op- tion. Other meters may be installed at the request of a oustomer at a rental charge of fifty cents per month per meter.

h—Free renewals are given on oarbon lamps when old lamps are returned.

b— Available for manufacturing and all power purposes.

C— 0- 30 kwh. monthly, 9.5c per kwh.

31- 70 " " 8.5c " "

71- 165 M " 5.5c " "

1»- ΘΟΟ ·♦ » 4.5c " *'

601-1250 " " 3.5c " "

1251-3860 " " 3 C " "

•>61-0867 44 ·· 3.5c " M

666S-and over kwh. monthlj, Jc per kwh.

d— Prompt payment discount : None. Bills are due and payable upon pre- sentation.

e—Minimum charge of 110.00 per year per horse power of demand, payable monthly, adjustment to be made at the end of the calendar year or for such fractional part of the calendar year as the period of service bears to the whole year.

f—Deposits may be required from parties without an established financial rak- ing with the oompany.

g—At the above rate the Company will install one or more meters at tta op" tion. Other meters may be installed at thi request of a customer at a rental oharge of fifty oents per month per meter.

b—Available for lighting by multiple arc lamps.

c—9c per kilowatt hour. <t— Prompt payment disco ant: None.

Bills are due and payable upon pre- sentation.

•—The minimum charge for ourrent sup- plied under this class is 912 00 per year, payable monthly, adjustment to be made at the end of the calen- dar year or for such fractional part of the calendar year as the period of servioe covered bears to the whole year.

f—Deposits may be required from partie· without an established financial rat- ing with the Company.

g—At the above rate the Company will install one or more meters at its op- tion. Other meters may be installed at the request of a customer at a rental charge of fifty cent· per month per meter.

b—Available for heating, for manufac- turing purposes and domeatic cook- ing.

c—4c per kilowatt hour. d—Prompt payment discount: None.

Bills are due and payable upon pre- sentation.

e—Minimnm charge of one dollar per kilowatt of demand per month. Minimum of 12.00 per month will be charged under this class of service,

f—Deposits may be required from parties without an established finanolal rat- ing with the Company.

g—At the above rate the Company will install one or more meters at its op- tion. Other meter· may be installed at the request of a customer at a

rental oharge of fifty oents per month per meter.

Rules and Regulations. 1. Permission is given the Company to enter the customer's premises for the

purpose of determining if tbeir service is being carried, distributed and used in a

proper manner, and for said purpose the customer authorizes and requests the landlord, if any, to permit them to enter said premises. No agent has authority to modify this agreement, or waive any of its conditions, or bind the Company by making any promisee or information not contained in this agreement.

2. The customer will be responsible for all damage or loss of the Company's property located on his premises unless occasioned by the Company's negleot.

3. The Company will not be responsible for any failure to supply electricity, or for interruption of supply if such failure or Interruption is not the willful fault on the part of the Company, and will not be responsible for any damage by elec- tricity used by the subscriber.

4. Discontinuance notices will be mailed from the Company's office, and the meter removed, for non-payment unless some arrangement for payment Is made. Reinstallation charges of not less than one dollar may be charged by the Company.

5. In cases where electricity is furnished by a meter, should the meter, or

meters, fail to register the electric energy the consumption will be averaged by another meter, or meters, or by the amount used for corresponding months.

6. The Company shall not be liable in any case whatever for damage or

injury to persons or property arising out of, or directly'or indirectly occasioned by, the supply or use of electric current or by equipment furnished by the Com-

pany. 7. The consumer agrees that he will not connect to the Company's service

any motors that have not bad the Company's approval of the starting character- istics. It is further agreed that be will not install electrical apparatus on the

lines of the Company that will causo any undae fluctuation of voltage on the dis-

tributing system of the Company. Bills for Electric Current may be paid at the store of C. H. Howard Company

after August 1,1917.

Oxford Electric Co. 30-31

Paris Τ rust Company South Paris, Maine

We are ready to serve the

public in our territory cheer-

fully and courteously, with

every accommodation consist- ent with sound banking.

Perley F. Ripley, President Alton C. Wheeler, Vice-President. J. Hastings Bean, Secretary. Irving O. Barrows, Treasurer.

DIBECTOBS :

Perley F. Kipley Alton C. Wheeler George M. Atwood N. Dayton Bolster William J. Wheeler Dr. Delbert M. Stewart Fred N. Wright

John B. Bobinson Leslie I* Mason D. Henry Fifield Geo. W. Cole, Jr. Sumner E. Newell Charles B. Tebbets

Benjamin B. Billings

BOND DEPARTMENT under the super- vision of Ur. J. Hastings Bean.

SAVINGS DEPARTMENT in Branch

Bank at Buckiield.

Vivian W. Hills Jeweler and Optometrist

THE FINEST AND BEST STOCKED JEWELRY STORE IN TOWN

Repairing- at Seasonable Prices x

Our optical department ia by far the best equipped in this part

of Oxford County. Lenses matched, frames repaired without sending out of town.

Correct time daily by wireless from Washington, D. C.

Watch inspector for Grand Trunk R. R.

Opera House Block, - Norway, Maine

CASTORIA OrkMat

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AMONG THE FARMERS. "OTU> ΤΠ FLOW."

Correspondence on practical agricultural topic U «phottod. Addiea· all communication· in taxtod for this department to Hmr D Hakxohd, Agricultural editor Oxford Dem ocrat. Pari·, Ma.

New England Self-Sustaining. Oar discussion of making New Eng-

land farm· more self-sustaining it «tir- ring up more interest than we dared hope it wonid. That all are not agreed doe· not matter. One farmer make· the point that "home-grown" feed mean·

fewer eowi. He figure· that western and southern grains have been the salva- tion of New England dairymen and stook raisers. "Where will milk oon-

eumers be if we do not bay this feed to maintain oar large dairy herd·?11

Those are good and popular argu- ments. However, «appose many of the poorer cowi are «old and enongh good ones kept to consume what the farm will produoe. Whether It is cows or hogs a

man is raising, what concerns him most is what he has left in his pocket after all bills are paid. The Homestead Insists that selling farm produoe and labor on

the farm at retail prices Is better than baying everything at retail and selling all at wholesale, paying the middlemen both ways. Our forefather· suoceeded on the former management.

There Is no doubt about some farms being unable to support the present number of stock. But why overstock a

farm in the first place? The oommon excuse is to get more fertilizer. A· commendable as Is that »mbition, might not it be more profitable In the long run

to improve the farm as one goes along, gradually adding more as the place will support It? Why 100 oows on a plsoe that cannot support 20? As well have 40 cows on a city lot with house and barn, plus a yard for exercise. If a man

is a 100-cow farmer, let him locate on a

100-cow farm. There are plenty of them. They are not all In Vermont and Maine, either.

Department stores are not located In towns of 100 population. Big farmers need big farms—bigness in the seme of poiaibilitiea and not neoessarily number of acres. The farm management surveys may lead one astray If he thinks that all be has to do is inorease the number of stock on bis place and profits will double. Let him give oloae attention to how the outgo compares with the In- come. One may be better off with 91000 income and 9400 outgo than another with 910,000 income and 99999 outgo.

Aa to western grains being the salva- tion of New England dairymen, may that not have qualifications? Can it not be argued that they have only delayed the inevitable time when our farmers must raise more of what they consume, that these grains have placed a premium on abandoned fields with meadows and pastures full of rooks and brush? When trains were low it was easier to buy, and being human our New England farmers took the easiest way. Qood authorities tell us that through changed conditions in the west the day of cheap feeds has gone forever. Meantime, our New Eng- land stock has acquired the "purchased appetite," and our farmers the expen- sive habit of depending upon someone else. The service of that someone else all along the line costs money.—New England Homestead.

Clover In the Mowing. Many farmers find it difficult to get a

oatob of olover. Year after year tbey buy clover seed, sow it, and yet never

get a crop. The amount of money lost In this way is enormous. Yet it ie easy to get a stand of olover. The reason

why some farmers fail is because soil conditions are poor. When conditions are made right, not only does the clover "catch," but comes involuntarily. There are farmers who bave tbeir land in such shape from the nee of lime and the proper fertilizer that they no longer bave to sow clover. On the ground of the Massachusetts station at Amherst there is land which in 1890 was very weedy, "run ont,'1 and about due for reseeding. A year ago (1915) this same land had a wonderfully beautiful crop of olover, a thick, heavy sod, wbioh effect- ually smothered out all weeds, whlob

Sve two bountiful cuttings, and which 't a third on the land to serve aa a fer*

tilizer. Yet, from 1890 to 1915 the land has not known a plow, has not been re-

seeded, and bas bad but one treatment— an annual top-dressing containing the plant food needed by the olovet crop. This oontained principally lime, potash and pbospborio acid. The crop was so

fine tbat a number of farmers were ask- ed as to bow long they thought the land had been in clover. Tbey replied tbat it oould bave been seeded not earlier than the year previous.

When the soil is kept sweet by the

generous use of lime, and kept well sup- plied with plant food, there is never

trouble in getting a orop of olover. This holds true for rotation mowings as well as for permanent meadows. The Penn-

sylvania station baa demonstrated this on tbeir rotation experiments, where for 20 years they have not failed in getting tbeir olover crop. What they have done can be done by every farmer In the oountry.

Grain for Cows on Pasture. I have been asked by many whether

It Is a good plan to feed grains with

good pestare. Kindly let me know whether you woald advise It to be done especially in the early summer

months when the pastures are good, and oows are In good shape. If a grain ra-

tion should be fed, what mixture wonld

you feed? In this seotlon the farmers are feeding wheat bran, ground oats, Unicorn, when It oan begotten, oil meal, and distillers grains. Would you advise

feeding grain In the late summer when

pastures are short or would a good feed of silage be just as good, If not better?

Mauston, Wisoonsln. ▲. J. H.

Whether a oow on good pasture should reoeive any grain or not depends upon the amount of milk the oow Is giving, whether she Is In good flesh and capable of making use of the grain with profit, and the prloe of dairy produota.

It Is onr opinion tbat in moat inatanoes it la better to omit feeding grain when

pastures are at their best. As a ml·, no

profit may be returned on grain fed at this time, whlob, of course, la a very

good reaaon for not feeding any. We elleve, alao, that It is well to omit grain

feeding for two or three months of the

year as we believe most oows will do fully aa good work by having a rest from grain feeding. If It Is ooneldeced advis- able to feed nain with good pasture, then we would suggest a few ponnda of

gronnd oorn or barley or both for either of theae feeds supplement pasture vary well.

A mixture of equal parts by weight of oorn and bran goes very well with paa- ture. When pastures are exceptionally good with a tendency te produee a laxa- tive condition of the bowels of the ani- male, hay of eome kind la fully as bene· fiolal for average oondltlone aa grain. Tbe dry bay tends to correot the laxa- tive tendencies of the grass. When the pastures beoome s host through drought· or overstocking of the paatore, than we would feed allege and some grain.— Hoard's Dairyman.

Tbe total amount of drag planta thai oan be oonaumed In this oountry in anj year Is very email, and therefore thi market oould be easily glutted. Foi example, the total amount of belladonni

El an ta the entire oountry η ses oould al a grown on η few hnndred acres. Be

cause of the prccant Interruption In tb enpply of belladonna, η few doaeatl< growers have nude a profit reeentlj from thia orop. A alight expanelon ο

the Industry would^njoklj Inorceeeth

Getting the Farm Work Done. Tbl· 1· the title of Circular 76 lasued

by the Agricultural Extension Service of the Wisoonsln College of Agrioultnre. It embodies the thought end experience of a WiaooDiln farmer whose name is not given but it is a most valuable and practical piece of inggestlon all the way through. This farmer has 160 seres of land end by his wlie forethought and planning finds It profitable to keep two hired men the yesr through. He says:

Every psper I take np has something in it about the great need for more food and I guese there is something to It, for we must feed a lot of people In Europe at well m our own growing population.

Naturally enough I feel the need of having more to sell at the prloes which oondltions seem to promlae. I have been thinking aeveral cold days this spring, aa I rode the gang plow behind four bl* horses, plowing sod for corn, what I could do to help out.

One of my neighbors said one day, •'What's the use of plowing in aucb oold weather? We are going to have a late •prlng and there will be lots of time to plow."

KEEPS AHEAD OF WOBK.

But I just told him to remember bow cold It wss Isst spring until long a about corn planting time, and how it turned off warm and he still had to plow his big sod field before be could plant it. I asked him If he remembered how the horses on the gang "plow lathered and puffed and had to rest psrt of the time because the aod had grown tough and the weather was warm, and the horse» hadn't been hardoned up by contlnuoua

I made that mistake once, too, but vou bet I won't do it again If keeping the plow going whenever the ground is fit to plow will prevent It. Those oold days were great for plowing sod ana

hardening up the horaea for the summer a

work.

BU8T IN FAIR WEATHEB. β

I have been trying for seversl years to work out a plan that will help in Retting the work done. The greet thing is to get every thing done at the right time and to keep the odd jobs out of the way of the field work. The plan whioh baa been helpful to me may be useful to otbera who haven't a planι aa good or

better, and If anyone has a better one I want to know about It for I'll adopt It at once. I believe every man who reads tbls can improve the plan, and I wish ne

W uiiirtalnty of the weather and the shortness of the aeaaon in which to do a lot of things make farm msnagement difficult. This plan Is one

pace with the sessons and making the most of good weather.

FIELD WOBK COMES FIB8T.

Rule 1. Field work muet have all the time the weather and aoll colnd[t.1°n_^'L permit ua to give It. This le the which déterminée the amount of food we can grow. Nothing, except neceasary work like feeding and mllklngr, be allowed to take ua from the field work and it ahould be planned where poaslbre to get the milking done and keep the horsea working tenboureaday. The best farmer la the one who gets ue other work out of the way and keeps the teama moving whenever the land in condition lor field work.

WET-LAND TVOBK FILLS IN.

Rule 2. There la a lot of work that I call wet-land work; Inι tbla olsas faUs the outtlng of weeds and brush In the fence rowa, the repairing of fencea, the clean- ing up of the wood lot, the repairing of building·, the laying of concrete walks the digging of trenchea for laying water

pipea from the well to the bouse and tt' the barn, and a acore of other taaks which should be jotted down in a note book aa they are thought <oli, and done when field work cannot be done. Tûe rule la: "Plan no wet-land work when iberei. work in the field which can be done."

JOBS FOB BALNT DATS.

Rale 3. There ii a greet variety of work wbiob we can do coder abetter and which we ibonld do on rainy days. Shelling teed corn, mending the harness, and repairing tools are typical examples. If these matters are not cared for in rainy weather, they are in danger of stopping field work jnst when the time of men and teams Is worth the most. It is necessary to have some means of thinking of these tasks when the rainy days arrive or we will let these golden opportunities slip by unimproved.

One farmer I know keeps his note book in his pocket to jot down the tasks which can be performed on a rainy day. This enables him to plan quickly the work for a rainy day. In planning rainy day work, do first the jobs which are in danger of getting In the way of the next dry weather work. The rule is to leave no rainy day work to be done when it is not raining, for in this ollmate our profits are limited by the amount of

outdoor work we get done.

WOBK WITH NATUBE.

We farmers work with nature and must keep pace with her if we are to expect good crops. I have often thought of my work as "rush work" and "get-out-of- the-way work". My problem is to make all the odd jobs which can be done most any time of year if I get at it, keep out of the way of the field work and the regular work in the dairy.

BUSH WOBK CALLS FOB LONG DATS.

Bole 4. Feeding and milking dairy cows, sowing oats, planting and culti- vating corn, and harvesting oats are

examples of work whiob suffer if not done at the right time. If we negleot our cows we snail soon have no milking to do. If we delay sowing oats until the warm, dry days of late spring, we

will bave a light harvest, and if we put ofT cultivating corn for one week after It Is large enough to oultlvate, the fields will be weedy and the crop poor. This olass of work la rush work on my farm, be- oause the profit· depend αροη doing as muob of it as possible, and doing It well. In rush season· we put in long days, ex-

pecting to ease np on rainy days or when the rush is over. At these rush times we follow the rule "do nothing to-day whlohcanaa well be put off until to- morrow".

DOING βχτ OUT OFTHK-WAY WOBK.

Role 6. Work whloh we can do at any time within a wide latitude requires our

very special attention, because the time comes when this work cannot be put off longer and it may stop the rush work. For example, seed oorn may be tested and shelled any time after it is thoroughly onred, but if the work is negleoted nntll the field* are ready to plant, then that most profitable work In the oorn field may be delayed. This may be called "get-out-of-the-way work".

It takes more planning, more think- ing, and more foroe of oharaoter to do this work In seasons when there Is no

rash work than it doe· to oonoentrate on

rush work, for the season oalls ui to the rush work, while It Is only by using oui

heade that we oaa get the other sort ο 1 work ont of the way In advanoe.

The rale I try to follow when there Ii no raah work to be done I· fonnd in the old phrase: "Pat off nothing until to morrow whloh oan be done to-day". W< mut apply this rale methodically and with Industry If we are going to gel ahead very fart. My note book In wbiot I jot down the odd job· whloh ahould Ik dona ha· proved helpful to me.

These rule· have been working them eelve· ont Ιο my mind during many yean of experlenoe. They have been usefu torn·. If they help you I shall be wel paid for the tronbl· of writing them oat

Thar· are a few variation In the > methods of aaklog good clover hay, ba

! th* ?·«·*· 80 ■·"" what thi eathoda, is to out It at the proper tlm<

I aad cure It "la the shade" as mnoh a 1 Mat oarefal to avoid a bast;

drying «ρ of the leav·· «ad overouring

r·. Vi'v ./Vir J

I Zulus In Africa Solve Eugenics.

KXPLOBKB J. H. BALMBB BAYS THBY

USE CLUB OH THB IMPBBFECT.

The Ζαΐοβ Id Afrio», gnlded only by experience, hare solved the problem of eugenic·, »»J· ihe EngU.b explûrer tnd lecturer, J. H. Balmer, who ii bringing the Kaffir Singing Boy. here aa one» of the big musical feature* of the Chautau^ oua. Mr. Balmerhaa «pent thirty-two year· In South Africa, hi· present home, andwent into Africa ae a civil engineer after haying finished hie studies in engi- neering and completed four years of stndy in the Royal Academy of Music in

i Ij<The'Zulu's solution of the eugenic, nroblem. Mr. Balmer said, is a club.

"When a baby is born to Ζα1α Par®Dn^' and it appears to be below the Zulu standard, it is given a genUe waUop over

the head," he explains. "After that there is a burial."

uiij-en ••The Zulus will not permit children with Imperfections to live. If any i« de- veloped the child is made way with. That is why tbe Zulus are the Pjy·^ superiors of other race.. A male Zulu has the strength, endurance and body of a nrizeflgbter in the pink of condition. Their shoulders are broad, their che.ts deep, their waists slim. Their J0™?0 are the .trongest female, propagated.

UNDER BRITISH SUPEBVI8I0*.

The Kaffir and tbe Zulu tribes are

members of the powerful Banta rac"B gf South Africa, and they «· ,0 * \Ler. Uted the terms are often used in er

cbaneeably. They are among the tallest peoples in the world and are noted for their fine physique, warl ke valor a

elaborate social organisation The effl

olency of their military organization was

at one time said to have been mftrveJ°°®· They now comprise village ο®®®";11'®' under British supervision, and many ar

°Yt waYtwenty five or thirty years ago that Mr. Balmer went into South Africa and heoame Interested In the gaining ο

little native boys to sing. Fr(?m J1""' dreds of boys he selected five who com-

prised his first singing They made a circuit of the small native villages and gave concerts to the Kaffi and the Zulus and the Xosa, Tembu and Mpondo tribes and finally ventured into tbe white portions of Africa, where they sang to the white settlers.

SANG TO KINO AND QUEEN. Through the influence of Cecil Rhodes

and the governors of Africa they wen

to London, sang to the king and queen and have since sung to the large. Chautauqua and Lyceum audiences in nearly every state in this country. In that time many boys have made up the organization. These are changed from time to time so that only the younger

b°The program of the entire Chautauqua in full of Interesting features. The Kaffir, will appear on tbe olMingnight Prior to tbelr coming we shall have the Mendelssohn Sextette, the Boston Musi- cal Entertainer., the Tscbaikowsky Quartet and the Royal Blue Ho"»" Band. The band will appear η full con-

certs both afternoon and evening on the fourth day. The Mendelssohn, will ap- pear In full concert on the first after noon, with a patriotic Prelnde address at night by ex-Governor Sballen- bertrer. Tbe Boston Musical Entertaln- ers will appear in the afternoon as a

prelude to the address by James S. Knox and in a prelude et night tothePierce Community Players, who wHl glve The Harvest." The Tscbaikowsky Quartet will appear both afternoon and evening

Ion the third day in preludes at each .e^ .ion In the afternoon they will De followed by Josephine Chilton, "onthejn reader, and at night by Dr. E. L. Wil liams. Chicago's "Fighting Parson.

BASGS ON "SALUBBITIK8." The Kaffir Singing Boys will not ap-

pear in the afternoon program on tbe fifth day, as they will bave tbe fall time at night. Tbe afternoon will be given to Jobn Kendrick Bangs, who will pre- sent his famous lecture, "Salubrities."

Altogether, it l> a well balanced and a remarkable program. Season tickets for tbe entire five days are selling for t2 of tbe local Chautauqua committee, who have made arrangements for tbe bringing of tbe Chautauqua. These bring the cost to within a few cents η

number. One-balf of the single admission re-

ceipts of tbe first day will be given to either the local Bed Crow or some other organization interested in war relief wbioh may be designated by tbe local committee.

The program will all be given under a

large auditorium waterproof tent, and a

Junior Chautauqua for boys and girl» will be an additional feature.

Tbe dates are Saturday, July 28, to

Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the county fair grounds.

Statement by Mrs. Livingston. In view of the publicity which is

being given to tbe women of the Con- gressional Union in tbe city of

Washington, who are a very small part of tbe great body of suffragists of tbe United Itates it seems wise for tbe chairman of tbe Maine suffrage campaign committee to make tbe following state- ment:

We deplore most heartily anything that appears like militancy on the part of the suffragists of tbe United State», and tbe National Suffrage Association of which we are a part has always been and ii absolutely opposed to militant methods. We do not wonder that in this great world struggle for demooracy when hundreds and thousands of tbe best young manhood of our country are

being poured into Europe to make democracy possible that many women

become Impatient with the governmeni at its unwillingness to make demooracy genuine in our own land. Bnt we do not believe that militant methods will accomplish that result. The suffragists of Maine will go on in their peaceful methods of appealing to tbe voters for their support in securing for the women

of Maine full franchisement on Septem- ber 10th.

Debobah Knox Livingston. Bangor.

About the State.

The men who won't work and occupy bed and board in communities where shipyards and Industries are being oper- ated on snpplies for tbe government arr

to reoeive attention, says the Bstb Times, and It is reported that reoords of such useless citizens will be made up and means taken to give them employment whloh will make them producers Instead of what has been termed slackers of the worst type.

The following paragraph Is from a

Bangor paper: One of the joys of being a pedestrian in Bangor just now is to be spattered with mad from head to foot wbea an automobile speeds through a

mud hole. Some autoists never seem to think of people walking. It is a peculiar thing that the smaller tbe auto, the greater the spatter generally. When an

auto la goiog fast enough to oover a

lady*· summer suit with mud, it is generally going faster than the law per- mits.

Frederick W. Blanobard of 8outb Portland was fatally Injured on tbe 15th, and Iwo of his sons were somewhat in-

1 jured, when the automobile In wbieh ! they were riding went through a railing 1 into the Strondwater Blver. The

approaob to tbe bridge was down a

steep inoline, and it Is thought tbe » maohine swerved when it struek tbe t sand spot at the foot of tbe bill, and was > not again under control when it reaobed > the bridge. Mr. Blanobard was 52 years ι of age, engaged in business as head of a

r Arm of plasterers, and leaves a wife and several ohlldren.

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NEWS CONDENSED Fid BUST READERS

Happenings In Various Parts of Nov England

Leslie J. Lombard, 24, was killed by a train on a crossing at Yarmouth Me.

Miss Katherine A. Sanborn (Kate Sanborn), author, died at Holliston, Mass., aged 79.

George Liberty, 2, was killed at Salisbury Beach, Mass., when he was

hit by an auto truck. James W. Neilan, 31, of Cambridge,

Mass., was drowned while swimming in the Charles river basin.

John and William Coady, 5 and 4

years old respectively, were killed by a pair of runaway horses at Hud- son, Mass.

Fire, thought likely to have been

set, caused a damage of at least

$2800 to the Glendale Baptist church, Everett, Mass.

Carson Kitteridge, 7, died from exhaustion after being lost in the woods back of his* home at North Stratford, Ν. H.

Michael J. Cavanaugh, 26, of

Boston (Mike Glover), once welter- weight champion boxer, died in a

Mlddleboro, Mass., hospital. George D. Blythe and Austin New-

ell, who escaped from the Cheshire county jail, Keene, Ν. H., were

captured at Saxtons River, Vt.

The body of George Mitchell, 40, a

negro, who lived on the shores of the mill pond at Lynnfield, Mass., was

found at the bottom of the pond. Richard A. Callahan, a Boston to-

bacco salesman, died from injuries sustained when his automobile crashed into an electric light pole.

Attorney General Attwill of Mas- sachusetts directed Assistant Attor- ney General Seagrave to start an in- vestigation of the present price of

bread.

After forty-three years as keeper of

the United States lighthouse at Hos-

pital Point, Beverly, λ^ββ., Captain Joseph H. Herrick resigned from the service.

John Crowe. 70, and Mary Crowe, 50, his sister, were drowned when an

automobile in which they were riding crashed through a bridge railing at

Kittery, Me. Thomas W. White of Boston was

held for the grand jury at Cam.- bridge, Mass. White, it is charged, during a crap game, shot and killed Albert Denman.

A motor truck on which Frederick W. Blanchard was riding skidded and

plunged from a bridge into the Stroud water river at Portland, Me., killing Blanchard.

Eight stowaways who were taken into custody by the immigration of- ficials when they landed at Boston from a Porto Rican vessel, were al- lowed to go to work In a Lynn shoe

plant. Lincoln M. Grant was indicted at

Pittefield, Mass., on a charge of first

degree murder in connection with the death of Miles H. Hewitt. Hewitt's wife was indicted as an accessory be-

fore the fact.

The Merchants' and Miners' com-

pany sold at Boston the steamer» Berkshire, Indian, Lexington and Tuscan. The first three were sold for $275,000 each, while the latter

brought $650,000. General Selden Connor, Civil war

veteran and governor of Maine for

three terms from 1876 to 1879, died at Augusta, Me., from a complica- tion of diseases. He was born at

Fairfield in 1839.

1 UO yi lV.O Ufc lunn as* j^voi,vu .»

14 cents a quart beginning Aug. 1 as

the result of Boston milk contractors granting another increase to the members of tbe New England Milk

Dealers' association. The first sentence in the superior

court at Boston for treating with contempt a flag of tbe United States was Imposed on Frank E. Hall, who was sentenced to the house of cor-

rection for one month.

An agreement for a $235,000 settle- ment of the judgment of $252,000 and costs In tbe case of D. E. Loewe &

Co. against members of the United Hatters of North America was in- nounced at Danbury, Conn.

Plans for the Immediate training of hundreds of officer· for the United States merchant marine were an-

nounced by directors of recruiting for

the United States shipping board, with headquarters at Boston.

An agreement whereby the 425 men

employed on the street car lines ot

the Cumberland Power and Light company will receive an increase of

approximately 10 percent in wages was signed at Portland, Me.

Governor McCall appointed Chartes β. Baxter of Medford director of the

Massachusetts soldiers' Information bureau, which will keep a card cata-

log and other record· of the Massa-

chusetts soldiers during the present war.

Former State Senator Β. H. Wood-

sum of Braintree, Mass., was killed

and bis wire was severely burned

when an automobile overturned, rolled down an embankment and

caught fire on the Newburyport turn-

pike. Eva Proctor, 2, died after eating

strychnine pills in her home at Ran-

dolph, Mass.

Thomas Wlngate, 7, fell overboard while fishing at Portsmouth», Ν. H.,

and Was drowned. Morris Kendall, 7, was killed at

Worcester, Mass., when he was

struck by an automobile.

Toppling from a bench in the Bos-

ton public garden, Charles P. Upton, 60, was found to be dead.

O. W. Cotton, S8, was killed at

Monmouth, Me., when his motor-

cycle crashed Into a freight train.

Fred A. Hall, 48, keeper of metres

for the Haverhill, Mass., water

works, committed suicide by shoot-

ing. William H. Farnham, «0, for more

than a quarter of a centjiry engaged In newspaper work, died at Chelsea, Mas·.

Axel W. Oramson, If, was drowned

bsiyps Jp a at Pljrmoctfc,

Mass., when he became entangled in weeds.

The will of Martha L. Blanchard or

Tyngsboro, Mass., leaves $5,000 to

the Memorial hospital of North Con-

way, Ν. H. Charles J. McEachern, 27, was

killed at Boston when an automobile In which he was riding skidded and

turned turtle.

Arthur Couture of Salem, Mass., was killed while on an automobile ride with guests who had attended his sister's wedding.

Woman suffrage and biennial elec; tlons were both frowned upon by committees of the Massachusetts con-

stitutional convention. Alfred E. Balkcom of Pawtucket,

R. I., died from injuries received while riding in an automobile which was struck by an electric car.

Henry B. Endicott, executive man-

ager of the state committee on pub- lic safety, has been appointed food

administrator for Massachusetts.

Saul Brener, 42, a traveling sales- man, was arrested at Boston, charged with larceny of $5973 from the Tre-

mont Trust company of that city.

The shipbuilding plant of Rice

Bros., East Booth'ay, Me., was de-

stroyed by fire, together with halt

completed craft. The loss is $150,- 000.

Miss Harriet A. Varney, the for-

mer sweetheart of George Keyes, was

indicted, charged with the murder of

Mrs. Pauline B. Keyes at Brookline, Mass.

Edward J. Roake and J. F. Ken-

nedy, newspapermen, were killed In

an automobile accident at Melrose,

Mass. The car skidded at a curve and

hit a pole. The will of Jonathan Chace, ex-

United States senator, was filed at

Providence. It contains no public bequests. The estate is valued at

about $2,500,000. Trying to recover his hat which had

blown off his head cost the life of

Louis Kadazako, 24, while riding on

the Derby Racer, a roller coaster at

Revere Beach, Mass.

Oliver L. Briggs, billiard table

manufacturer, who died at Boston, left a $2000 fund to provide Christ-

mas cheer for children of his native

town, Westmoreland, Ν. H.

While his children waited on the

beach for his return, Felix D'Costa,

54, standing upright in a moving rowboat, was thrown into the water

at Hull, Mass., and drowned. A compromise agreement on a 10

percent increase in wages instead or

the 15 percent demanded averted a

threatened strike or toolmakers and —-v-'—"♦ nHHironnrf Pnnn

Albert La Rose, formerly assist- ant manager of the Rexford hotel,

Boston, was charged with a series

of thefts from the hotel, Involving an

alleged loss of more than f20,000.

The locating of an "outlaw wireless

plant" In Xoank, Conn., woods re-

sulted in the arrest of Otto Schramm

and his twin sons, Otto and William, on suspicion of operating the wire- less.

Mrs. Philip De Breze, 27, and her

two daughters, aged 2 and 1, were

found lying in a gas-filled room In

their home at Manchester, Ν. H. The woman had killed herself and the ba-

bies.

The body of Miss Lyle W. Ander-

son, 3G, who disappeared from Ha-

verhill, Mass., was found in the

woods off the Amesbury road. She

had written several books on nature

etudy. Virgil G. Eaton, for many years a

reporter on Boston and New York

newspapers, and who traveled with

General U. S. Grant on a trip around

the world, died at hie home at Brew-

er, Me.

As the result of an automobile mis-

hap In which the plaintiff nearly lost

her life, suit for 150,000 in an action of tort has been brought by Miss

Gladys A. Killan against George U. Miller of Haverhill, Mass.

No more 4-cent trolley fares will

be issued in Waterbury, Conn., after

July 25, It Is announced by the Con-

necticut company, which gives in-

creased cost of operation and low

revenue as the reasons for the

change. The Bath Iron Works has been sold

to a syndicate of Maine financiers by the estate of John S. Hyde. Ex-

Governor Cobb heads the new cor-

poration which has contracts for nine

torpedo boat deetroyere to cost more

than $10,000,000.

STORIES OF THE OLD TIME DARKY MAKE UP HER CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM

I·*, «f u m

J08EPHINE CHILTON, Southern Reader.

Josephine Chilton, southern reader, has made a great name for herself as

a reader of southern darky stories. These she tells in the true old time

negro dialect, even differentiating be-

tween the dialects of the negroes of the

various southern states. She is a gift- ed entertainer and reader and in Lon

Ion won much prominence for the waj she presented King Lear at a celebra- tion that was attended by Shakes pear sen scholars from throughout England She will be here on the third after

boon of the Chautauqua.

Seemed All Right. "Bobbie, your face wants washinj

Did you look at it In the glass thl morning?"

"No, mother, but it seemed all rig] when I felt it "—New York Sun.

Th· Finding of Old Qlory. When the day came that oar rtroto*

tlonary fathers needed to design a Am for the new nation of their heroic founding they had bat to lift their eye· to the heavens to find the banner oi their faith and pride.

In the glowing west, In the baralng clouds of the sunset sky—streaming across the wide horizon In alternate bands of flame and mist—they saw the symbol of their own fair dreams, mystic, mlgbty and baffling.

And as they looked there cam· a sud- den rending of the fleecy mass by · wind of liberty's own sending, and through the monster rift thus mad· tbey beheld a patch of azure sky set thick with silver stars.

The stars— the stripes—the blue—Old Glory, blazoned In beauty aero·· the wonder of Qod's heaven, for all the world to see. It Is our flag—God mak· us worthy of It—Anne Rankin In Southern Woman's Magazine.

False Economy. Some people begrudge the expendi-

ture of money to beautify the home or

to bring the comforting message of

friendship In time of trouble. To th«m flowers are of no use, pictures and mualc a waste of money. But a life re-

stricted to things that go Into the pot or are worn on the back results In starving the spirit "If I had two

loaves of bread I would sell one of them to buy white hyacinths to feed my soul" That was th· terse and poetic sentiment of a truth oft neg- lected.

Even the poor need other things more than they need money. The money will be gone next month, but the memory of a great bunch of wild flowers remains. "Flower missions" furnish a beautiful ministry that al- most any Sunday school class can exer-

cise. Send your posies to the hospital· or to the children of the slum·.— Christian Herald.

Little Things Count The more complex life grows the

more these litt'.e things count One or

two men at the pumping station could produce a water famine for 2,000,000 people.

Cut a very thin wire, and a city is In total darkness.

Five cents' worth of calico Is enough to eclipse Raphael's finest Madonna.

When everybody walked to his ap- pointed place of work nothing short of a universal calamity would keep ev-

erybody away from work. Now a de- fective feed wire will halt a hundred thousand lu trolley ears.

And because these little things do foot up to such big totals the human

element remains Important despite all our Inventions.

Most failures are men and women

failures, nut machine failures.—Phila- delphia Ledger.

Lettre· d· Cachet. Lettres de c achet was tbe name given

In France to warrante sealed with tbe king's seal ordering i>ersons to be thrown Into prison or exiled. Tbe first came into use about 1070 and shortly became one of the popular terrors of France. It is said that no less than 0,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis XIV. and 8<J,000 dur- ing the reign of Louis XV. In many cases these terrible documents were

secretly sold und used as a source of illicit revenue. They were frequently signed in blank, and tbe bolder of one

of these royal terrors could write in the name of any person against whom

he happeucd to have a grudge. The na-

tional assembly altolbshed this iniqui- tous privilege of issuing lettres de cachet on Nov. I, 17S9.

Hunting Happin···. In tbe American Magazine a writer

lays: "Men bave been living on this world

for many centuries. They ha\e traded In Iheir lives for many different things —fame, money, power. Hut the con-

census of opinion through the age· is that the tiling most to be desired Is

happiuese. No man can be reully bap- py unless his conscience is clear. There- fore It pays to lie honest and to treut

the other fellow as one would like to

be treated. No one can be happy who sacrifices his health. Therefore fame and too much money, either of which

usually demaud health in exchange, are not to be desired. No man can

bave the highest happiness unless he can feel tl|»t be is doing a little good by living, that he is going to leave the world a bit l»etter ufter he b::s i.ouo.

Therefore it pays to bring children Into the*world and care for them. It pays

to be a good neighbor and a good em-

ployer and a good friend."

Th· Man Who Think·. A man with dirty fate und bauds, ,1

shirt soaked with perspiration, stopped, »

iald down ids dinner bucket, rolled a

broken knuckle out of the pathway be-

tween the tracks, put It close up against ^ tbe ends of tbe ties, where no one could stumble over It, plckcd up his dinner £ bucket and plodded home.

More than fifty other employees had

preceded this man, each one careftrlly picking his way around the obstruction.

I asked this man why he took tbe trouble to roll tbe knuckle out of the

pathway. He seemed surprised at such a question and said, "Why, some of tbe boys might get a bad fall If that knuc- kle was there after dark." I said, "All the other men passed it by/' and be re-

plied: "Oh, they're all good boys. They'd have done tbe same thing If

they'd thought about it" He said something, didn't be? "If they'd thought about It" Ah,

yes, "If they'd thought at>out ltM—Erie Railroad Magazine.

♦ ♦ PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT·.

Φ 8or« Throat. ♦ The most frequent cause of dis· Φ trees or discomfort In the throat Φ Is exposure to cold and wet. Oth- Φ er conditions cause sore throat, Φ such as exposure to Infection. It ♦ may be of gouty or rheumatic ♦ origin. It may be excited by kv + cal irritants, such as hot drink· 4 or the Inhalation of noxloua Φ gases. Φ In mild cases of sore throat a

♦ gargle of a saturated solution of Φ boric acid, used every four hours, ·* will give relief. In severe casas

Φ the application to the neck of Φ cloths wrung out of cold watir ♦ proves grateful. Sucking small φ bits of ice affords mqch relief. ♦ Internal treatment la needed Φ For this a seidllts powder la vary Φ useful or a dose of salts upon ria- ♦ ing in the morning. If, bow· Φ ever, there la any fever or the ♦ tonsils are red and swollen er

f. Φ show tiny yellow or whit· spots 1 Φ on their surface, «end as aoon aa

Φ possible for a physician. Λ Φ'