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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Farm Dairy is Passing Away.

Creamery Drives Dairy Butter from Market.
St. Paul Pioneer Press The State Dairy
and Food Commission received very high
compliment from a local butter dealer the
other day, suggestive of the vigorous man
ner in which the department is executing
the law prohibiting the shipping OF sale
of oleomargerine. ''Why, those fellows
have got it down SO fine,' said he, "that
they are inspecting the axle boxes on the
freight cars for traces of oleomargerine,
and | actually believe that if they should
find that the railroads were using it as a
lubricant they would have the officials in
court
1t is by such effective methods that the
commission has finally succeeded in ban
ishing oleomargarine from the State. 1t is
but rarely now that any of it is found with
in the State, with the possible exception of
some OF the more remote lumber camps.
The commissions record in the matter of
filled cheeses is just as good. Only in the
case of cheese, it may come into the State
if branded as such.
The inspectors in their tours through the
State note very marked scarcity of but
ter. A year ago there were tremendous
stocks on hand in the cold-storage ware
houses of the country, and everybody was
looking for the prevailing low prices to
rule indefinitely. The situation in so far
as Minnesota is concerned does not seem
to oe due 20 any falling off in the amount.
On the contrary, the number of creameries
has been growing larger every month, and
the aggregate output correspondingly
greater.
''The only explanation | can see for the
improved price of butter" said Inspector
Williams yesterday, ''is that the improved
quality makes a better market. AS the
butter gets better the people eat more of it.
In the days of dairy butter the stores and
warehouses were loaded up with all man
ner of grades, from extra down to
grease Many people did not know the
difference between good butter and poor,
and so bought the cheap article from
motives of economy, and then ate as little
of it as they could get along with. There
is little or no dairy butter in the market
to day. 1t is all creamery product, and
in most cases of very fine flavor. People
have had to buy it and use it, and they
have been using far more of it than of the
poor stuff they formerly bought. 1t is
this increased consumption that, in my
estimation, has contributed most to bring
about the present improved prices. And
believe that the per capita consumption
is going to grow larger all the time, as the
people get better acquainted with the
merits of the creamery product
''The good old days of dairy butter are
no more in this country. 1t is rare ex-
ception now to find a farmer that makes
butter. 1t is likely soon to be lost art
in the family There are in some German
communities Of the State, conservative
families that, while sending their milk to
the creamery, still reserve enough to make
the butter for their own use. But in a
short time that practice will be discon-
tinued, and dairy butter will be as much
of curiosity as the creamery article was
twenty years ago, | look for even higher
pric Is than are now being paid.''
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
The Day Of the Clipper Past.
SO the Stunsail Has Disappeared for Good
from Most American Ships.

SO the Stuiisan Has Disappeared for Good
from Most American Ships.
''Stunsails out of fashion, said the
Old Skipper, as he pulled vigorously at
his old clay pipe, which has been around
the Horn almost as many times as it's
owner. well, they may be; but it is
because financial economy has abolished
them on American ships However, an
old shipmate of mine, who is bit of
crank, and left this port the other day,
still carries topmaSt stunSail. 1t may
be for sentimental reasons, Just as con-
federate veteran might display the flag
under which he went to battle. But stun
sails are just as practical to-day as ever.
'Studding SAIL you say? Oh, yes;
studdiig sail may be literally correct, but
Jack says 'stunsail.' He obi, cts to mouth
ing participates and words with long end
ings. He wants brevity all the time, in
everything, perhaps, except rum. The
corruption of language by sailors is pro-
verbal. Stunsail may be corruption of
studding sail; but studding sail itself is
corruption OF steadying sail, or steering
sail, which, in my opinion, was the origi-
nal term. The stunsail, although used
only in moderate weather, was driving
sail. Our yachts carry stunsails to-day in
the form of the immense side sail that is
called the spinnaker.
cit costs to fit a ship with a suit of
stunsails. Their use means extra labor
for the crew, or a larger crew, and their
storage takes valuable cargo room. This
means expense for the ship, which her
earnings in these days of railroads and
ocean tramps do not warrant. The car
goes that sailing vessels carry to- day do
Of a1r I,
high freight rates. The modern sailing
ship is little better than floating ware
house; it is not driven; spars and canvas
are not pressed as they were before the
advent of the steamship. Sailing ship
to make short passage is one of the lost
arts. There is no demand for auxiliary
canvas such as stunsails. The Yankee
clipper is out of it-defunct
Away back in the middle of the cen
fury the stars and stripes tloated over
ships that were really clippers, below and
a!oft. IN competition with one another
ard with foreign craft our clippers carried
valuable cargoes-tea from China, coffee
from Rio, and fancy merchandise to San
Francisco. The steamships do the tea
and coffee carrying now Il was not in
those days go as you please run. The
clippers were under orders to get there to
catch the top of market. Hours saved
on their voyages, long though they were.
meant many dollars for all concerned
Ships were driven then with canvas that
fairly smothered them in fair weather
and foul, and Yankee seamansliip, with
its characteristic Judgment and nerve,
was recognized and rewarded.
''But all this is merely memory now.
| can fancy the clipper of tie fifties com
ing head on, rising against the clear sky OF
the lower ATTITUDES, her sails mounting
above the blue horizon, tier upon tier
skyscrapers, moonrakers, cloudcleaners-
snow-white pyramid, an angels foot
stool, as Jack says. Did they carry stun
sails? Aye, up to the royal yards n.
Y. Sun.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
FREEDOM ACADEMY.

The spring term of this institution will com
mehce March l, 1898, and continue J. weeks
The officers of this school have been very FORTH
tunate Ill securing the services of w. w. RICH of
southwest Aarhor, Me. as Principal Mr.. Rich is
professional teacher and well equipped tor the
"o'h o. teaehlhs ny tie latest and most approved
hle'h"as- such assistance will be furnished
the needs of the school may demand
lhose who wish to obtain board Will call upon
: w. Liobe%' DE- A. NJ. Small and Gustav1s Bel
lows, who will render them such assistance as thew
may need. j. w LIBBEY. Secv
Freedom, Dec. 20, lS97.-2m51
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
No. 81 FROM ST Belfast, No
MeSScn=er's Notice.
OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF. OF WALDO CorSrY.l
STATE OF MAINE. WALDO CuUNr1. s..

OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF WALDO Cot-xIy.l
STATE OF MAINE. WALDO CuUNr1 s.
BELFAST, Dec 81 A. ID. 1897.
This is to give notice that the DIST i,v Of De-
cemLer A. u. 1s97, Warrant in Insolvency was
issued by Geo. E. johnson, Judge of the Court ~
insolvency for said County of Waldo. against the
estate of CHARLES A. BOW DOM of Prospect in
said County, adjuc eed to be an Insolyeut Debtor.
on petition of said Debtor, which petition was
illed on the 2 st day of December 4. u 1897 to
which date interest on claims is to he c,1I,n,ti
that the payment of any debt t. or ~ sail Uebt-
Or ana the transfer and delivery Of any property
ny MN I'm are f"r9ldden ~ law that meeting Of
the Creditors of said Debtor to prov. tuptr iebts
ana ~ case there are sufficient tu authorize
tine same 20 choose one or more assiguees of hi4
estate VIII ne he'd AT Court 01 Insolvency 10
he holden at the Probate Office i'm said Belfast.
N the Y y Gay Of January. &. d. SOS .tt two
O'Clock in tie afternoon
Given under my hand the date first above writ
ten. $ g. NDRrt,N,
Sheriff as NIessenacro f the court of ,.,,.,,
for said Comfy M Wlido 2,,5i
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Jersey Cattle Club.

The Maine State Association of the
American Jersey Cattle Club, met Dec
22nd, at the State House, Augusta. Pa
sey herd. The following officers were
elected: S. M. King, South Paris, presi-
dent. r. 0. Jones, Winston, vice presi-
dent; J. A. Gilbert, secretary and treas
urer; George Blanchard, director for three
years.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY.-Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for
over fifty years by millions of mothers for
theil children while teething, with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child, softens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and
Is the best remedy for Diarrh9a Is pleas
ant to the taste. Sold by druggists in every
mart Of the world. Twenty five cents a bot
lie. Its value is incalculable. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and
take no other kind.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

Commissioner Evans of the pension bu-
reau is a strong advocate of the policy of
publishing the entire list of pensioners
who draw pensions from the government.
He expects that bill for this purpose
will be introduced in Congress in January.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
THE HOMEL|EST MAN IN BELFAST

as well as the handsomest, and others are invited
- call on any druggist and get free trial bottl
If Kemp's Basam for the Throat and Lungs,
semedy that is guaranteed to cure and relieve all
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis
aud Consumption Price 25c. and DC.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

The Christmas money order business of
the New York post Office this year great
" exceeds that of any previous year. All
of the foreign money order business is
transacted at the New York post flee and
great mass of orders will be handled
there this week. Our Christmas presents
to Europe represented by the money Or
ders sent during the first IS days in De-
cember aggregated 81, 53G, 1916. OS, in l40,-
oOa orders.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

BANGOR, Dec. 22.-Ice to the thickness
of two or three inches has again formed in
the Penobscot and as the freeze is very
satisfactory to the ice companies, the
boats will not again be allowed to break
up the fields. Navigation If the river is
therefore at an end for the season.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

.s,Iv husband had two cancers taken from
IT.; farp. and another was coming on his lip.
LIS LIS took two bottles of Burdock Blood Bit
&c 80 and it disappeared He is com pletely
VI ~, Mrs VIM. Kirby, Akron, Erie Co.,
\ Y
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Tries for Young People.

Try to be satisfied to commence on a
small scale.
Try not to look at richer homes and
covet their costly furniture.
Try being perfectly Independent from
the first, and shun debt in all its forms.
Try to cultivate the moral courage that
will resist the arrogance Of fashion.
Try to avoid the too common mistake of
making an unwise effort to ''begin where
the parents ended.'
Try going a step further, and visit the
homes of the suffering poor when secret
dissatisfaction is liable to spring up.
Try to cooperate cheerfully in arrang-
ing the family expenses, and share equal
ly in any necessary self denials and econ
omies.
Try buying all that is necessary to work
with skillfully, while adjoining the house
at first with simply what will render it
comfortable.
Try to remember that it matters but
little what ''people Think provided you
are true to yourself, to right and duty,
and keep your expenses within your
means. Somerville Journal
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
rheumatism Cured In a Day.

mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neu-
ralgia radically cures in to g days. Its
action upon the system is remarkable and
mysterious. 1t removes at once the cause
and the disease Immediately disappears
The first dose greatly benefits: IS cerCs
Sold by A. a. Howes & Co, Druggists. Bel
taSt' mods
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
TAX COLLECTOR NOTICE.

me taxpayers of the city of Belfast are hereby
notlned that all poll taxes and taxes on personal
estate for 1897 are now due and immediate nav
ment is requested. a discount of two per cent
VIII be allowed on all taxes paid before Jan
i99e shall be in my office in Memorial building
from $50 to IL 80 A M. daily until further notice
NJ. c. HILL, Tax Collector.
Belfast, Sept. 8. 1S97-tf30
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

long and dangerous spells of illness, and save
many dollar in DOCTORS fees.
Munyon's Homeopathic Home Remedy
Company compound separate specific for each
for IS cents each Personalietterst to Professor
Munyon, 1905 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa,
are answered with free medical advice for any
disease.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
CHILD love-,
n unyon Tightens
Home Ties.
He Brings Repose and Relief
to Mothers Mind.

Can children love their parents too much7
for food and shelter and for wisdom and ex-
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO.
One OF Them Was A Green Parr0
But 1t Knew How to Ride.

One of Them Wa. A Green Parrot.
But 1t knew How to Ride.
Pedestrians started. horses reorod I'M
On +ho,n h,,a 49, I'll. s,,.r,4 ~
on '1leli iAinu iess WIN iilsn'' "hu
Wheelmen turned their heads and
risked their necks in an effort to see
when +he latest bicvclo p,,, rode down
n.o.a s..aat .aa4o.as, sho ~ -
nioau s.iee. yesterday one was d
regular girl" in the sense that she
was still single, but she had evidently
heen an fo, naor,v if+v voors Hor
cost,,no Voc a ma,ral NJ ontio,itv.
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
THE LIBRARY AND re AT.
MoSPHERE.
Copyrisht. 1san

O- --.H
There may DO one or two countries
where the percentage Of illiteracy IL
lower than In the United States, but
there 10 no country more, deserving to
be called . nation Of readers than this.
The peasantry Of other lands rarely
make . practice OF reading, but In
America the laborer. the artisan and
the farmer are ardent readers Of the
daily newspapers, and often Of class
publications. yer II they do not ven
ture into the field Of general literature.
The magazines owe their enormous
circulation to this widespread love of
reading, there being dozens of them
that sell far more than a hundred thou
sand copies every month, thus proving
that they must go into millions Of
households. The tremendous and ever
increasing output of books is another
testimonial of the habit of the people.
This growth of love for reading must
TO a great extent influence the lives of
the people for the better, and although
It by no mean follows that q library
will make readers, there can be no
denying the fact that a convenient and
comfortable room with something of
artistic simplicity and finish about it,
set apart and dedicated as a library en-
courages and fosters the habit. That
this is known and appreciated by the
people is shown by the fact that Of late
years a very large proportion of the
houses built contain a room set apart
for that purpose. 1t is we'll within the
memory that when a house contained
two rooms on the first floor in addi-
ton to the dining room, one was called
front parlor" and the other "back
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
Accidental llappcnIng..

Bailey's general store and The post
office building at Ford City were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone have started
from Cannes on their return to Eng
land.
The schooner Charley Hastings is he
licved to have foundered in Long ISL
and Sound, and her crew, consisting of
six men, is believed to have been lost.
James and John Fulton of Eddyville,
Ky, prominent and wealthy young
men, were drowned in the Cumberland
river there at an early hour, by the
o%verturning of a skiff. The bodies have
not been recovered.
At New York fire broke out in the
apartment house, No. 81 West 1O5th
street. Three persons who were on the
top floor lost their lives. They are
Mrs. G. H. Toninger and her three
year-old daughter, and a young lady
named Miss Cleo Ryan, who was visit
ing the Tolltngers.
Three persons, two wolnen and a
baby, were smothered to death by
smoke at New York, In a ttve-story
dwelling house, which was partially
destroyed. The dead are Mrs. Eliza
beth French, twenty-three years old,
her six-months-ol old child, and Miss
Ellen Mor1isscy of Albany.
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
FIRST FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR
ing colors, but these may be shaded
to light fawn color, or terra Gotta OF
warm yellow If necessary. Paneled
ceiling and hardwood floor, the latter
covered with rich oriental rugs, ii
means permit. OF course these are
not essential, some of the most de-
lightful libraries have merely papered
ceilings and floors covered with cheap
er carpets or dark mattings.
In a new house where everything is
planned, from the beginning the prob
LEM of fitting the library is compare
lively simple. Instead of movable
bookcases, which are always cumber-
some, low shelves should be arranged
around the walls as permanent fixtures
or they may be carried up to the cell
ing to fill odd corners. Dust is a great
enemy Of books, and to keep this out
is the excuse many people give for
sticking to the old-fashioned way of
having book cases with glass doors, but
this end is just as we'll obtained by
pleasing escaloped leather valances on
the shelves or hanging attractively
India silk curtains in the front
of them. The tops of the low shelves
furnish an admirable place for the
display of artistic bric-a-brac, which,
II possible, should have a classic lit
erary significance. It is needless to
say that this last quality should also
distinguish the pictures that adorn the
room, none Of the furniture should be
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
Otherwise.

Gov. Adams has signed the bill abol-
fishing capital punishment in Colorado.
Two thousand men employed by the
different %tanneries in Chicago went out
on a strike recently.
The monthly statement of the Lchish
Valley railroad shows its net increased
earnings for February yer S155.221.
Receiver Dent, of. the First National
Bank Of DEBORAH, Iowa. will at once
pay off a dividend. of 70 per cent to de-
positors.
Default has been made on the April
coupon of the Wheeling l. Lake Erie
first mortgage bonds of 1923. and a
protective committee is being formed
In the interest If the bondho.dcrs.
WhittingiM Bros, dry goods, assigned
Kat Louisville, Ky. Liabilities and as-
sets about 10000 each. The firm also
had branch houses at Madisonville,
and Huntington, w. Va.
THE Chesapeake & Ohio railway
s6hopg at Huntington, Pa, employing
aO0slEen, viii, on April /, begin work
- ufls time. Notices to that effect
oSeYb4ensposted.
nHoeking & Ohio Valley Editorial
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10

parlor," or more euphonious, a parlor
and reception room. At the present
time, however, one Of the rooms Is al
most invariably dubbed "the library"
even If it only has a beggarly array of
books. Indeed 1t is not uncommon for
a house of any ~pretensions to have a
Study" in addition to a full ledged
library.
1t is meet and fitting that the library
should be a general sitting room and
the place where the best of the house
life centers. Most plans that are
drawn now, give the library one of the
choicest locations in the house, and
full advantage is taken of this fact, in
the fitting and furnishing of the room.
1nasmuch as the library is most freely
used in the evening, it is not essential
that the room should be the most boun-
tifully provided with natural light, but
still the architect has given sufficient
windows, II he understands his calling
SO that the furnishing of the room may
have q quiet, dignifed tone that its use
suggests. II through any oversight the
room is dark and gloomy, light colors
must perforce be chosen. but under
ordinary circumstances a rich, warm
tone is far preferable, especially as 1t
is the only one that can be in harmony
with the books that are to play su, b an
important part in the furnishing.
Reds and browns are the most pleas
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
Honey Farming.

The honey trade in this country has
grown to great proportions. for honey
has ceased to be a luxury. says the
New York Tribune. 1T forms part Of
the grocer's stock in the smallest ham
let and bakers and candy makers and
patent medicine men use It by the
hogshead. There are several firms in
this city who regard an order Of $1,000,
$500 or $4,000 worth Just a. 4 dry
goods merchant looks on an order for
nifty yards Of muslin. New York, Bos-
ton and Chicago are the centers Of the
trade In this country, and London rules
the world. The supply IL steady, for
II there Is . shortage in one part Of
the country or the world, another part
10 sure to make It up. There II no use
in attempting to make an estimate Of
the value Of the crop. but It will 70
we'll into the millions. It 10 known
that there are $4,000 beekeepers In the
United States. and many who are I'M
known. Honey comes from all parts
Of the country, but California and the
northern states supply the greater
part. The southern states do not fur.
nish "a much al would be expected.
partly because people are not paying
attention to the work, and partly be-
cause bees are not cared for as well as
at the north. The honey which the
southern states do send is different
from that of the other states; the
product Of Florida is considered the
best, but that Is only as a cheaper
grade.
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10
A Race Of SUPERINTENDENT.

Two Danish Officers, Messrs. Olouf.
sen and Philipsen, have just arrived al
st. Petersburg, ON their return from o
journey Of exploration to the Pamir
country, whore they reached places
hitherto untrodden by Europeans.
They have brought back with them
over 800 photographs of the places they
have visited and types they have met.
among others, tribes who are still IRE.
worshippers and totally uncivilized 10
their mode Of life. The men Of these
tribes, and ven their animals, are Of
very small proportions. the bulls and
cows being no larger than a European
foal. the donkeys about the size Of q
large dog, and the sheep about as large
as a small poodle. The use of money
is unknown to them, and their only
trade consists in the bartering of furs.
Women are bought at the rate of five
or six cows or fifteen sheep apiece.
These natives are very timid, and on
the approach Of strangers take tc
fight. Messrs. Philipsen and Oloufsen
have also made interesting meteoro-
logical observations. In the course OF
their voyage they occasionally reached
a height of $4,000 above the level OF
the sea.
The Dickinson press., 1897-04-10

Seeding Clover.-As the seed Of AL
sike clover Is only half the size of COM
mon red clover. from four to five
pounds per acre is nearly as good as
nine or ten pounds usually sown of red
clover. But 1t is better to put on a
little heavier seeding than this, as the
Alsike clover, perhaps because of its
small seed, is more libely to be de-
stroyed before the plant gets firm hold
of the soil. 1t does not pay to seed
light with any kind of clover, nor vet
with grass. The space not occupied
by the valuable crop will not be vacant.
for weed seeds are always ready for
just such opportunities. Mammoth or
pea vine clover. as it ia often called
has a slightly smaller seed than The
medium red clover. But 1t grows "a
strongly that q less amount Of seed If
The mammoth clover will give a seed
ing close enough to exclude everything
else. II there were greater liberality
in seeding, many kinds Of weeds would
be less numerous than they are.-Ex,