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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
Farm Hints.


The cellar can not be adapted to all
kinds of fruits and vegetables, as the
temperature for one kind may be injuri-
Gus to another. Sweet potatoes should
not be allowed to meet a temperature
lower than IS degrees, while apples should
be kept at about 30 degrees and white
potatoes little higher. Turnips, carrots
and parsnips may be kept near the freez-
luW NNlut
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
At BANGOR, Bangor House.every Mon
day and Thursday afternoons.
AT, BLUEHILL, Bluehill House, every
Wednesday.

There ism physician in the United states better
known than the uoctor His cures are SO numer-
Gus and often of such miracu lous nature that
many writers have claimed that many Of his cures
were miracles. DIR. Thomas ability to tell patient
his disease without asking question is as well
established as that DR.. Thomas lives.
These visits of the doctor will afford an excel
lent opportunity for many to consult this eminen
specialist close to their homes. :3m4S
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
AVERAGE POTATO YIELD.

The largest potato yield on record was
produced in Northern Wyoming in 1890
According to sworn testimony, it amount
ed to 974 bushels and 40 pounds per acre,
of which 1913 bushels We're marketable.
The expense of production was stated to
have been S74.S So Such crop anywhere
in the country this year would have been
pretty profitable. The average yield of
potatoes in the United States is in ordi-
nary years about 100 bushels to the acre
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
The Trading Stamp System.

PITTsFIELD, Mass, Dec. 15.-Judge
Tucker, in the district court, to- day, de-
cided that the trading stamp system
was illegal. W. T. Petheridge was fined
$40 and costs for giving stamps with a
purchase. The case against him was
brought up to test the system.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23

indiscriminate use of the knife. Read
ing of the many cures made by S. S.
S., determined to give that medicine
trial and after I had taken it a few
days, the cancer became irritated and
began to discharge. This after awhile
ceased, leaving a small scab, which
finally dropped off, and only a healthy
little scar remained to mark the place
where the DESTROYER had held full SWAY.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
FOR ONLY So 90

BellcWN@ that every eng "L 9i ""t"r- -A"u@
uaNc t u+4st pnt E"". asfl'utur au0 family
/ urn'0I we h"fe perfected HrraN-ru"uts whereby
we cam send that prsclictland Instructive iourna.
FARM AND HOME m cpwectuA vi-h oHr owr
publication, Tuf BErtrLltAN lulHNAi. .uuth a
full year tor ONLY $500.
lack of space lorbid- e description ct tIe con
tents of FARM AND u,9tE, vl'luu ..je fuelaalled
for variety and excellence. Prominent among ITS
many departments may ne uenriouel inc Farm
and Garden, Market Reports, Fruit Culture Plan
and Inventions, The ipiary. Talks with il Lawyer,
Around the Globe, Live stock and Dairy The POuI.
try Yard, Question Box, The Veterinary, Plants
hold Features. enc.
th,s ,,i,i,,+ ,l,, ..t nu,rtor. -'. ,,.,',
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
General Lew. Wallace.

The author of "Ben- Hur: Tale of he
Christi has just published, through tie
Harpers, "The Wooing of Malkat m:
Commcdus," poem and play. he
triumph of Islam Christianity overthrow
by Mohammedanism the cross displaced
by the crescent; this is the theme of the
poem, 'The Wooing of Malkatoon' 1t
is to be read and to be judged solely as a
work of literary art, without the faint of
didactic purpose.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
Too
Much Knife !

The use of the surgeons knife is be-
coming SO general, resulting fatally
in such large number of cases, as to
occasion general alarm.
Mr.. William Walpo1e, of Wa1shtown,
South Dakota, writes; "A b II
three years O, there came under
my left eye little b1otch about the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
Maine Central R. R.
TIM Ell Il.

ON and after nov. IA, 1897, trans connecting at
Burnham and Watervile with through trains for
and from Bangor, Waterville, Portland and Bos
ton will run as follows:
FROM BELFAST.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23

size of a small pea.
It grew rapidly,a and
shooting pains ran
in every direction.
I became alarmed
and cons u1t e d a
good doctor, who
pronounced it can
Ger, and said that it
must be cut out.
This I would not
consent to, having
little faith in the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
BOSTON \ BANGOR SIS. CO
Great Reduction in Fares
BELFAST To BOSTON So. 25.

Fare between Belfast and Boston reduced from
$50 to 81 20
Fare between searsport and Boston reduced
from 50 10 to 81 80, and a prorortiorate reduc-
tom made in the price of through ticket, between
Boston and all landings on fenobscot river
The price Of rooms accommodating two persons
each, viii be reduced from $500 and 81 80 to
81 80 and II 90 each
steamers will leave Belfast for Boston. via Cam
den and Rockiand, at about .. 80 p. Mondays
and Thursdays
For Bangor, via all landings Wednesdays and
saturdays at about 800 a m or upon arrival of
steamer from Boston. ,,
RETURNING TO BELFAST
From Boston, Tuesdays and Fridays at 5 p. M
From Bangor, Mondays'and Thursdays at II 90
a IN.
WILLIAM II. HILL, Gen' Manager Boston,
CHAS f. JOHNSON, Agent, belfast
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23

France, Germany and Austria are strlv-
ing to keep one-fourth Of their whole area
in timber, believing it impossible to carry
on agriculture successfully with a less
percentage. Is the spirit of freedom Sc
great in this country that the government
can take no hand? Our timber will never
be preserved by individual effort. If the
destruction of forests and the drainage of
swamps go on for twenty five years more,
how can we expect agricultu raj atmos-
pheric conditions? The Lord will perform
| no miracles to satisfy our covetousness.
Repentance for sin will not work in this
case. Exchange.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
HOW TO MAKE MONEY!

If you are out of employment and want a posi-
ton, paying you from $50 to 500 monthly clear
want 70 increase your present income from 5000
to 5000 yearly, by working at odd times, write the
GL'bh ~, 723 Chestnut St, Phila, Pa. stating
employmeht. land you can secure position with
them by which you can make more money easier
ana raster than you ever made before in your life
5m44
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
BARN VENTILATION

An ingenious way of securing ventila-
ton in a long barn with two cupolas
was as follows: There were large windows
in the cupola, and a stick ran across from
one window to the other that was 6 inches
longer than the cupola was wide. This
stick fastened on to these windows. Now,
when the south wind was blowing hard
it shut that south window and fastened
out the one on the north side, and when
the north wind was blowing hard it shut
the north window and pushed open the
window on the south side 6 inches, and in
that way formed certain amount of ven
tilation in the top of the barn. From the
stables there ran ventilatDg tlues that
opened out near the roof 1t was a very
ingenious way OF securing automatic &C
! ton by the wind. Hoard's Dairyman.
STOCK FEEDING SUGGESTIONS.
In Bulletin SO of the Maine Experiment
Station Mr. Bartlett has outlined sone
of the principles of stock feeding in a
way the farmer can readily understand
and follow. The bulletin gives the
digestible nutrients IN different food ma
terals and cites the ordinary feeding
standards for oxen, horses, cows and
young stock and suggests several APP
propriate grain mixtures and number of
daily rations for different kinds of animals
fed for different purposes The bulletin
is timely and will prove to be a helpful
one. 1t will be sent to all who apply to
the Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, Orono, Maine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
POINTS ABOUT FLOWERS.

The name OF the lily is from tn.
Celtic word Ii, signifying white; THU
flower having always been an emblem
of purity.
The candy-tuft owes its name to the
sweetness of the blossoms and their pc
culiar habit of growing in clusters.
The magnolia was named after
Pierre Magnol, a professor of medicine
at the University of Montpelier, in
France.
The narica is thus named from a
Spanish word meaning Ito fade," an al
fusion to the transient nature of the
blossoms.
The Adonis is SO named in honor of
an ancient hero, a beautiful youth
greatly addicted to the chase and final
ly killed in a hunt.
Clover is the common name for the
trifolium, or "three-leaved plant" an
allusion which will be understood by
all persons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
Misplaced Sympathy.

Miss Wizards sympathes were so
worked up by the narrowing tales of suf-
fering among the famine stricken people
of India and Armenia that she impored
the women of this country to donate the
sums set apart to spend for holiday pres
ents for the children to be sent to Arme-
mia instead of spending it to gladden.
their own household and that of poor
neighbors. When Solomon said, 1.-THE
eyes of the fool are at the ends of the
EARTH" he did not mean the word "fool'
in the ordinary application given it at the
present day, but to apply it to just such
people as Miss Willard, people of imprac-
ticable ideas, whose sympathtes are
&c. ronger than their Judgment.
What is more foolish and impractical
than depriving the children and poor
people of Christmas cheer at our own
doors, and under our own eyes, to send
the money away to distant lands and 4
strange people to be distributed by per-
sons we know nothing at all about. Miss
Wizards eyes are at the ends of the earth
as Solomon expressed it, and her senti-
mental sympathy is so wrought up by the
reports of missionaries that she becomes
entirely oblivious to the widespread dis.
tress all about her at home, claiming a
hundred-fold more for its relief than she
can command or even suggest.
The same kilograms that report the des.
titution in Armenia and famine in India,
tell of the jealousy of the great Christian
nations of Europe, snarling at each other
while they stand idly by aud allow the
Turks to murder Christian Armeniaus
and destroy their property; and the same
cablegram which tells of the famine in
India, announces thousands of tons OF
rice stored for shipment out of the coun-
try to be sold to pay interest to English
bond holders. With such facts as these
before us how childish the request of Miss
Willard appears.
The same conditions which have pro-
duced the rapine, the persecution, the
murder, the famine distress in India and
Armenia are at work in this country,
and hundreds of thousands of its victims
are scattered over the land.
All that is required to make a British
India aud Turkish Armenia in the great
Republic of America is time, sufficient
time for the upas tree to reach its matn-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
Our Presidents Financial Tutors.

When Mr.. Harrison settled down in the
Presidential chair he employed one of
the Seligmens to go to Europe to ascer-
tain the feeling among the crowned heads
governments in regard to an international
agreement for the reconciliation of
silver. Mr.. Seligmen was in the bullion
trade, purchasing silver bullion in Amer
lea and selling it i'll Europe and Asia.
The lower the price the traders could buy
the bullion the larger the profit the trad
ers could make. The traders in bullion
were all Jews of course. Mr.. Seligmen
visited Europe at the expense of this
government and generous salary, hob
nobbed with his Hebrew relatives, drank
wine with them, laughed at the simple
Yankee President, with them, returned
and reported to Mr. President that the
governments were all adverse to the
reconciliation of silver and that the
project was not expedient or advisable.
And Mr.. Harrison graduated from his
tutor with his education in finance COM
pleted.
When Mr.. Cleveland settled himself in
the Presidential chair he employed Henry
Willard, another Jew, as his financial
tutor. Willard, few months after, slip
ped off to Egypt with eight millions of
the funds of the Northern Pacific K. R.
: In his pocket. Willard was accused by
some, Russell Sage among them, of prac-
ticing the black art, and hypnotizing
persons who associated with him. Grow
er's financial education under this tutor
appears to have been that the burning of
greenbacks and issuing of bonds consti-
tute the entire financial science. The
spell was so firmly fixed on Grover that
it sticks, and the last whimper in his last
annual message is pointing Congress to
the wisdom of destroying greenbacks and
issuing bonds.
We trust and hope that McKinley-as
Hanna says-when he takes possession of
the White House will not select tutor
on finance from among the pawn broker
family.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
The Vital Issue.-BimetalIis Versus
the Gold Standard HereSy.

Let us study the future by the light of
the past. We cannot be too careful in
the study Of this paramount money
subject.
During the decade from 1850 to 1860,
we were on bimetallic basis. Our money
consisted of gold and silver supplemented
by miscellaneous paper. The increase of
wealth in this country during the BIZ
metallic decade from 1850 to 1860, was
1875 per cent. The wealth of the country
during that decade was more than doubled
During the decade from 1860 to 1870 we
were on a paper basis of valuation. Half
of the time was period of destruction,
devastation and confiscation, rather than
the creation of wealth. Yet the result is
carefully recorded in the Census Report.
The increase of wealth during the decade
from 1860 to 1870, was 6e per cent, gold
valuation, or Sc per cent, paper valuation.
During the decade from 1870 to 1880,
we had our first experience with the gold
standard. 1t was time of peace and
quiet. Industry should have fourished,
but it did not With the gold standard
came the millionaire and the tramp in
large and dangerous numbers. Before
that we had scarcely heard of them. The
increase of wealth during the decade from
1870 to 1880 was as per cent. 1t was 81
per cent worse than the war period.
The decade from 1880 to 1890 was on
the gold standard. During most of the
time tramps and millionaires were greatly
on the increase. In fact they seemed TO
be the principal productions of the coun-
try. But there must be showing of
wealth. In order to make it as great as
possible the values of all the vacant lands
belonging to the nation and to the states,
and the values of all the Indian reserva-
tons were added to the general aggregate,
and the increase of the wealth of the
country during the gold standard decade
from 1880 to 1890, was 4e per cent; II per
cent worse than the bimetallic decade,
and 20 per cent worse than the war
Verify, John G. Carlisle was right when
in the sanity of his earlier and better day,
he pronounced the curses of the single
gold standard
Mr.. Editor, we cannot keep this subject
too prominently before the people. The
free coinage of gold and silver into good
lawful money at the ratio of Is to I, will
bring us good times the moment it begins.
We will be relieved of tramps and mort
gage foreclosures; and then with a good
healthy tax on large incomes we will pay
our debts and live as an industrious peo-
pie ought to live-Ex Congressman John
Davis, in Chicago Sentinel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
THINGS IN GENERAL.

The ore in the Kansas gold Mines
at Russell, Kan, taken from depth OF
100 feet, is said to pan out $109 to tho
ton.
The specie-room on ocean steamships
is usually 16 feet long, 10 feet wide, AMI
feet high. 1t is formed of steel plates
quarter of an inch thick, with steel
door, which has q burglar-proof com:
bination lock.
A schoolmaster in Cleveland offered
a prize of one dollar to the pupil who
produced the best aphorism. Here is
the wise advice that won the prize: "It
you have good temper, hang on to it;
and if you have bad one, don't lose it,
A great many people object to hiring
or buying residences on the west side
of streets which run north and south.
The reason for their objection is that
more dust and snow seem to accumu.
late on the west than tn The east side OF
such streets.
A rash "ghost" in Railway, N. j., ac-
costed a pedestrian in a lonely spot,
with the word Halt" The pedestrian
clutched the ghost" pointed q pistol
at the white-robed figure. and ex'
claimed "hands up!" The ghost
dropped in faint.
little boy in Buffalo, who was in the
country when an important event oc:
CURED at his city home, thus alluded I'd
the said event, in letter to his mother:
II am glad have new sister, but wish
she was boy. Seems to me if the Lord
couldn't have sent boy, he might at
least have sent q pony"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
Confidence and Prosperity.

The new economic policy which
Mr.. McKinley's administration is
committed to, of a small circulation
OF money and large volume OF
credit has been further developed
by the closing of the Illinois
National Bank and three others in
Chicago with the probability of
carrying down other concerns. The
liabilities of the Illinois National
are $11, 100000. This has always
been the result of the bank financial
policy of a small circulation of bona
fide money and a large amount of
"credit," which is only bank wind.
All panics and financial cyclones in
business are traceable to this one
cause and the time seems to be ripe
for the people to throttle this system
and supersede it by the legal tender
money system.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01

rity and ripen its fruits as in India and
Armenia. Let it be cultivated and nour-
ished by the spirit of greed, luxury and
dissipation on the part of a governing
class as i'll India and Turkey, and as is
now in operation in this country, and a
few centuries hence America will be but
companion picture of Armenia and
India today. In past ages those coun-
tries had as grand and cultured civiliza-
ton as the United States now has. The
same canker which is eating at the vitals
of this country destroyed those old civ
ilizations, as buried relics being found
prove.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
Warren's Honey Chart.

In the present issue of the MIDI.ANI
JOURNAL is published a review of the
above named work by the Chicago E.r.
press. The work is one of the very best
that has been published on the all absorb
ing financial questions and contains some
points that will be new to some of oui
money students and teachers. We will
furnish the book 10 our subscribers for &c
cents copy. The work is issued by
Chas. H. Kerr & Co., of Chicago. The
publishers retail price is rs cents and il
is we'll worth the money. We hope all o.
our readers will procure copy of this
volume and give it a careful reading.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
From all indications that ca

From all indications that cast
their shadows before like coming
events, Mark Hanna appears to be
the impelling and directing force
of the incoming administration.
Mr.. Mckinley is mild hammered,
pleasant, courteous gentleman, al.
together lacking in the rugged
qualities necessary to a leader and
master of events which prevail in a
stormy period of public affairs
which the next four years are GER
1Rain to produce. On the other
hand Mark Hanna is a stern, RUG.
ged forceful character, who regards
nothing sacred that stands between
him and the attainment of his ambi
ton, a sort of human steam engine
The president elect appears to
bend completely to Hanna's will.
The latter is booked for one of his
cabinet, and being so near the
president will continue to be the
force which will control his actions
in the future as in the past. This
is the aspect affairs wear at the
present time, the prognostications
for the future. The public are fall
ing into the habit of speaking of
Hanna's opinion in regard to the
course of the future administration
and never what McKinley's plans
are, are likely to be.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
Reading For the Winter Evenings.

The following list of books and many
others not herein named have been
placed in the office of the MIDLAND
JOURNAL for free distribution on the fol-
lowing conditions Any person desiring
to read those books, the most of which
contain very valuable information on
financial and other economic questions
now agitating the public mind, can have
the use of them, to be read and returned
within reasonable time. The majority
of them may readily be gone through in
week if the reader is sufficiently inter-
ested to desire to gain information or
master the subject treated. Two or three
weeks at most ought to be sufficient time
to master the subject treated in one book.
Hand Book of Money
Honest Money and Sound Sense or "sound
Money and Nonsense.
The Free Independent Coinage Of Silver by the
United States.
Pointers-A History of Republican Finance.
9he White Slave or Cross ofGold. (Romance1
Remedy tor the Panic
New York National Bank Presidents Conspiracy
or the History of the Panic of 1893
Garden Of Eden (Romance.)
The Shadow on the Land.
The Modern Banker. (Romance)
The Pullman Strike. II
The Philosophy of Price.
Human Aptitude.
Peoples Party Campaign Book.-watson. Con-
tains much information.
Dangerline Reached.
The Effects OF the Gold Standard.
Railway Problems.
Story from Pullman. (Romance1
Janson Edwards (RomaDce.)
An Ounce of Prevention.
The Rights of Labor.
shylock's Daughter. (Romance)
Money Found.
The Money Question.
Patriots of America.
Condition of the American Farmer.
Cumulative Taxation.
The Currency Problem.
Breed of Barren Metal.
Man or Dollar-which?
Citizens Money.
Congressman Swanson. (Novel)
Money of the Constitution.
A. P. A. Inquiry into the object
reasons Tor Pardoning Anarchists.-Altgeld.
Agricultural Dc preston PETER.
Relation of Money to Bank Credits.
How We Can All Get Rich.
The Religion OF Liberty
Coxeys Non Interest Bond and Good Roads Plan
of Finance.
Money. Senator John P. Jones.
Proportional Representation.
Direct Taxation Of Land Values.
Financial Science.
Shylock.
The Talmud- Jew.
Anarchists OF Wealth.
Government Ownership Of Railroads
The Financial Problem
The Bank of Venice.
Sub Treasury System Farmers Alliance.
Pacific Railroads,
Dealing in Options and Futures.
Honest and Dishonest Money.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-01-01
THE BALTIMORE WEEKLY SUN.

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Stations throughout the country. of the proceed
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discussion of new methods and ideas in agricul-
ture Its Market Reports, Poultry Department
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