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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
Not r6uch Danger.

a dash of cold, worldly knowledge
falls occasionally like a wet blanket on
a gush of warm sentiment, and leaves
nothing more to be said a young man
who had gone to the great city to make
his fortune had written home to tell
Of his unexpected success in finding a
job. Il have great hopes of Archie, y
said the mother, looking over the letter
for the fifth or sixth time, eff he only
won't fall into expensive habits!" Il
don't think he will, Matilda replied
the father. 81 don't think he wilton
nine dollars a week. Youths Com
panion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

a little chap was amusing himself
by throwing stones at companion,
when unluckily he missed his friend
and broke a window of the church with
which he was connected. The Sunday
following he was at the Sunday school
with his friend, but he listened very
little to the lesson; he always expected
TO hear this question:: ''Who has broken
the pane?" At last the master asked
him this: ''Who made the Heavens and
the earth?" The child, who trembled
very much, replied: Sir, l assure you
that it was not l." The master, much
surprised at hearing such an answer,
repeated the same question, raising his
voice little. The boy this time thought
he was found out; he answered, while
weeping: "Sir, it is 1; but pardon me, l
will not do it again. Household
Words
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
SCENIC BEAUTIES OF ALASKA
4 Glorious Field for Either Work or
Rest.


Rest.
| To the lover of wildness Alaska offers
a glorious field for either work or rest:
| landscape beauty in a thousand forms,
things great and small, novel and IA
miliar, as wild and pure as paradise
| Wander where YOU may, wildness ever
| fresh and ever beautiful meets YOU in
endless variety; ice-laden mountains,
hundreds of miles OIL them, peaked and
| pinnacled and crowded together like
trees in groves, and so high and so di-
virely clad in clouds and air that they
seem to belong more to heaven than to
earth; inland plains, grassy and tiowery,
dotted with groves and extending like
seas all around to the rim of the sky;
lakes and streams shining and singing,
outspread in sheets of may embroidery
in untraceable, measureless abundance,
Frightening every landscape, and keep
ing the ground fresh and fruitful for
ever; forests of evergreens growing
close together like leaves of grass, grid
ling a thousand islands and mountains
in glorious array; mountains that are
tains monuments of volcanic fires;
gardens filed with the fairest flowers,
giving their fragrance to every wander
ing wind; and far to the north thou
sands of miles of ocean ice, now wrapped
in fog, now glowing in sunshine
through nightless days, and again
shining in wintry splendor beneath the
beams of the aurora-sea, land, and sky
one mass of white radiance like a star.
Storms, too, are here as wild and sub
lime in size and scenery as the land
scapes beneath them, displaying the
glorious pomp of clouds on the march
over mountain and plain, the fight Of
the snow when all the sky is in bloom.
trailing rain-tloods, and the booming
plunge of avalanches and icebergs and
rivers in their rocky glens; while multi
tudes of wild animals and wild people,
clad in feathers and furs, biting, low
ing, getting living, make all the wild
ness wilder.-Joht Muir, in Century.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

An important development in tele-
phone work is proposed for the connec-
ton of the five lakes and reservoirs in
the AdirOndacks, which feed the Erie
and Back river canals. Communica-
ton with these has often consumed two
or three days and required journeys on
foot through miles of forest. The sug-
gested telephone systems will put and
keep each section uperintendent in in
slant communication with each of his
lock tenders. patrolmen, bank, watch
and state scows; also. with each as
sistant perintendent of public works.
and with the main office of the depart
ment at Albany. When completed ii
will become a long-distance telephone
system for the transaction of business
relating to the canals, and solely
operated for that purpose by the canal
officials. On the rapidity and prompti-
tude with which information of leaks,
breaks or other threatened disaster is
communicated to the proper canal Off
rial and the repair forces concentrated
for repairs, depends the magnitude Of
the incidental destruction.-Phi
Dhia Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

inclined. But "Cary's little daughter"
always brought her father something
to eat and drink, meat pie, or baked
potatoes, or fresh baked apples, or bis
cult just out of the oven, or perhaps
doughnuts right from the suffering
kettle, and always coffee with cream
and sugar.
1t was quite a walk from Cary's little
cottage to the mill, but the lunch was
always hot. The small feet hurried so
as TO have it so.
Well, so it went on day after day, in
rain or sunshine. Cary's little daugh-
ter never failed unless sickness kept
her a prisoner, which, of course, it
did sometimes with some children's dis
ease-such as measles, humps, or a bad
cold
She seemed to grow in beauty, if
that were possible, and she had the
sweetest way of doing and saying
things that was altogether charming.
Every man, no matter how surly he
might be with others, spoke gently to
the child. l believe every man loved
her.
And so the years passed on, each one
adding to the child's grace and beauty.
I had never seen her look so lovely
as she did one June day when she made
her appearance at the usual time in the
mill.
1t was her tenth birthday. Old Polly
Davis, the faithful housekeeper had
I - h.
day-a simple enough toilet; but oh,
how beautiful she looked!
She wore a white dress of some thin
material with ribbon tied around her
waist. Her beautiful blue eyes were
radiant with joy, for this tenth birth
day had brought her many gifts, and
she was to have company to tea.
Her golden curls reached way be-
low her waist. Around her throat was
clasped a slender chain of gold, her
fathers gift that day.
She seemed like an angel of light to
the men, many of whom had been made
better by her daily visit there.
Cary and some of the rest of us who
sat in and around one of the big mill
doors eating our eunch watched her
d that day as long as she was in sight.
Oh. the beautiful darling! Oh, the
lovely, innocent child!
WEI. she hadn't been gone long, for
our morning S~Asn't over, when we saw
some runaway horses come dashing
down the highway at breakneck speed.
we all knew the horses, but there was
no one to be seen in the carriage. They
belonged to William Evans, man who
drank heavily, whose sprees were get
ting to be disgracefully frequent. Sew
eral of our men raced down to the high
way, getting there just in time to stop
the runaways. had started to go, but
caught a glimpse of Cary's face in time
to prevent my doing so. TWAS so white
and anxious that ! was frightened.
put my hand on his shoulder. whats
she matter. old fellow" asked. "Ars
son sick?'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Il" he stammered. pointing over
in the direction from which the pant
ing team had come, "she, you know,
went that way; my little daughter"
YES" l said, 80 she did; but she
wouldn't be walking right in the road.
you know. Cheer up, old man, your
little daughter is all right"
truly thought she was. left him
then and went down to see what the
men were going to do with the horses.
They had found Will Evans; his left
hand entangled in the lines, his right
one grasping big whip. He was dead
drunk.
The old fool" said one of the men.
81 suppose as long as he could drive
at all, he cut and slashed the horses"
YES" put in another, land drove 'em
zigzag, the COMPOUNDED idiot! Who
knows what harm he's done?"
Drove 'em zigzag," he had said, and
the words were Like (blow to me. If
a drunken fellow was driving zigzag
along a highway, would even a strong
man be sure of escape? And "Cary's
little daughter" was only child.
l looked around for Cary. l even ran
back to the mill to see if he were there,
but no!
''He has gone to see if his little daugh-
ter is SAFE" thought, and l ran as fast
as l could to overtake him.
AS turned the curve l saw him stag
gering along, poor fellow, like a
drunken man. l hurried up to him and
put his arm within my own to help
him along. Cary had been a strong
man, the strongest in the mill, but he
was weak as a child now The sweat
was rolling down his face in great
drops.
Look at those carriage tracks," he
said, his eyes big with horror.
l looked. In my haste to overtake
him 1 had not noticed them before.
Z he tracks went from one side of the
road to the other, "zigzag" tracks truly.
We hadn't gone far-only just be-
You'd the hill-when-what was that
lying not far from the ivy-grown wall
in the green grass of the wayside
There lay little child.
Can it be that she is dead?" cried
poor Cary, in an agony of soul that will
ring in my ears forever.
Oh, the broken, bleeding heart of
that poor loving father!
1 will only touch upon that scene,
sparing you its heartrending details,
But this life was all over for Cary s
little daughter. ERNEST Gilmore, in
National Temperance Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Lord William Beresford, the husband
of the dowager duchess of Marlborough
is now so years of age, and like his
brother, Lord Charles Beresford, wears
the Victoria cross. He won it in the
Zulu war, by carrying to safety, with
the help of Sergt. O'Toole, another
wounded Irish sergeant under heavy
fire of the enemy. Lord William refused
to Gccept his cross till one had been
given to O'Toole. All three Of the men
were Irishmen and the horses they
rode were Irish, too. - Detroit Free
Press,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

The chief objection to the under
ground service is the foul air IN the
tunnels. Thus far no serious attempt
to introduce electric traction has been
made on the circle" Within a few
years, however, the City and South
London railway, better known as the
Greathead Underground line, starting
in the city, near the monument, and
diving beneath the Thames, has been
constructed to the neighEorhood Of
Remington park, and it is being eX-
tended This is double tunnel-two
great iron tubes, in fact, one directly
beneath the other-and the trains are
operated and lighted by electricity. 1
can testify from personal experience
that the air is pure and the motion of
the trains easy. Passengers are low
cred to the platforms and raised there
from by huge lifts. This system was
the invention and the pet scheme of the
eminent engineer whose name it bears,
and whose recent death was distinct
loss to technical science.-Time and the
Hour,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
TEMPERANCE.
CARY'S LITTLE DAUGHTER.
How n Drunken Spree Snntched Her
In Death from Him.

How a Drunken Spree Snntched Her
In Death from Him.
Her mother died when she was born
so we had heard-but Cary tried to
be both mother and father to the lit
tie one, whom he loved with a devotion
that was as pathetic as it was beautiful
The first time we men saw Cary's
little daughter, she had come down to
the mill to bring her fathers lunch.
She was only four years old-a little
mite of a cherub-but as brave and
fearless as if she were three times her
age.
Cary was the first one to see her that
day, and he uttered an exclamation of
surprise and joy. There wasn't man
in the room but looked up, and hard
ly think l would be making a misstate-
ment if l should say there wasn't a
man who didn't smile.
She stood within the mill door, a
slanting ray of sunshine peering
through the branches of q tree kiss
ing her yellow hair, which waved and
danced about as sweet little face as
l ever saw. She had a tin pail in one
hand and a tin can with close-top in
the other.
Here's your dinner, papa!" she
cried, gleefully, laughing aloud in her
pride and joy. II come all alone by my
own self, did"
Cary ran forward and caught her in
his arms, pail, can and all.
MY baby" he said, lovingly, in a
low voice, as gentle and loving as a
woman's; my baby!" kissing her over
and over.
mo-" was her answer, as the smiles
disappeared for moment and q frown
made little crease on her forehead;
IL amt baby, I'm your little daugh-
ter. don't you know?"
"Ah, l see," laughing merrily and
kissing her again; 80 you aren't and
so you are. You aren't a baby, but
you are my little daughter"
From this time on all the men in
the mill called the sweet child "Cary's
little daughter"
She brought her fathers lunch every
day from that time on. Most of the
men had a cold lunch with milk, or
water, or beer to drink, as their tastes
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
Drink Spelling Soldiers.

A writer in the German Army Jour
nal calls attention to the seriously IN
satisfactory physical condition of the
army reserve, attributing it to excess
sive drinking. Another writer believes
that the whole future of the German
nation depends upon the solution Of the
drink question. Germany is not the
only nation so dependency One-fif-
teenth Of all the cultivated land in Ger
many is devoted to the production Of
materials for the making of alcoholic
characterization Work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
Mosauitocs in Hartford.

Hartford also has a plague of fero-
cious mosquitoes. They have stopped
baseball games, and street car conduc-
tors and motormen travel with heads
swathed in handkerchiefs. The vista
ton. which follows very heavy rains
through July, is the worst of the kind
ever known in the city.-Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
No Fire Wanted,

Hicks-They tell me you got terribly
angry with Mr.. Bass the other evening
and drove him from the house.
Wicks-I wasn't angry at all. Iheard
he was one of MY wife's old flames,
and so l merely put him out. Boston
Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Mr., GotroX-What would you expect
me to do for my daughter if you mar
ried her?
George Goodthing Slightly en-
barrasseD 49, You-er - wouldn't be
willing to die for her, would your
Judge
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

The Roman catacombs are $50 miles
in extent and it is estimated that from
100000 to $4,000, 900 dead are there in
terred,-Chicago Inter Ocean,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

The one thing for which lace paper
may be used and be considered good
form GU a table is for cheese.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

! Now, II PrOfs. Grassl and IaIandruc'
clio will tell us how cells grow in lakes
and duck ponds far from the sea, il
might be interesting reading. 1t is also
strange that in artificial ponds in which
fish have never been placed, it takes
little more than two years to find them
well stocked with various members OF
the fnny tribe, big and little, according
to the nature of the soil.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07
The Social Season.

There will be a scent sociable at Seaside
Grange Hall, this, Thursday evening" to be
| followed by social dance.
Washington Hook & Ladder Co. will give
its annual levee and bail at Belfast Opera
House Thursday evening, Jan. 18th, and
from present Indications it will be equal to
any tireman's ball given here for several
years. The supper will be served at s
O'Clock, and as our citizens never fail to
contribute literally to that feature of the
OCCASION an abundance of the best the city
affords may be depended on. The music
for the dance will be by Sanborn's Orches-
ira. F. FL. Welch will be floor director
Admission % cts, supper tickets, % cts.
The entertainment by the ladies as test-
monial to tine Belfast Band, given at the
Opera House last Tuesday evening, was an
artistic success in every respect The Oper-
eta, "Bazar of All Nations" was given with
new songs and new features, and was most
enthusiastically received. In costuming,
acting and singing it was alike admirable.
The concert by the band which followed, was
treat to music-lovers and well sustained
the high reputation of a local organization
which is the pride of our city. The enter
tainment closed with dance. While the
weather was unfavorable there was fair at
tendance and receipts of about $50. The fol-
lowing letter explains itself.
Belfast, Me-, Jan. 6. 1897.
Mr.. c. 0. Poor, Treasurer,
Dear Sir: Considering the rather slim at
tendance and consequent light receipts at
the Band benefit entertainment Tuesday
evening am glad to add tritle to the net
proceeds of the occasion. l will say that there
will be no charge made for the use of the
Opera House on that evening.
Yours truly,
CHARLES W. FREDERICK
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07

A miniature horizontal engine and upright
boiler built by Geo. c. Trussell are running
good steam pressure in Geo. R. Poor's
window.
Judge W. P. Whitehouse has appointed
Joseph Williamson, Jr., of Augusta, master
in chaneery to determine the amount due
claimants in the case of the Petit Menan
Land and Industrial Co.
There was an error in he obituary notice
of j. Whitmore Wentworth, recently pub
lished. He died at the home of Mrs. A c.
Littlefeld in Knox, where he had been
boarding a little more than year.
The annual meeting of the Merchants
Marine Railway Co. was held yesterday
afternoon and the following directors We're
chosen; W. F. Triggs, l.. I. Shales, W. B.
Swan, E. S. Carter, j. W. Frederick The
business Of the year is briefly reported in
our annual review on page g The directors
meeting was adjourned to next Monday.
The friends of Mrs. Fannie A. (Frye) Bur-
rill We're shocked on receiving news that she
was the victim of a serious accident which
occurred III Lynn, Dec' 19eH, Wneu sue snip
ped and fell on the sidewalk on Summer
street, and sustained fracture of the right
hip. She was taken to her home 329 Essex
street, and afterwards removed to the Hos
pital, where she can be under the best medi-
cal treatment
Thomas Cannon & Son have bought the
grocery business of Charles Fl. Sargent and
will continue at the old stand in Hayford
block, Church street. The new firm consists
of Mr.. Thomas Cannon, who was formerly
in the blacksmith business here, but now
lives on farm on the Perkins road, and his
son, Lewis F. Cannon, an enterprising young
man, and a graduate from the Bangor Com
mercial College.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07
The Raines Law in New York CITY.

A friend writes The journal from New
York city as follows: "Under the Raines
law al. the saloons are now hotels, and are
open on Sunday through the family entrance
(Which is generally on side street, and
you have to order at least sandwich
which in most cases is all they are prepared
to furnish-for the modest sum of five cents,
and then you can order all the beer or
stronger drinks desired. If you are known
there will be no charge for the eatabes
and it is q social crime even to look at them
In fact, some do the same service many
times
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07
How's This {!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO.. Props, Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j. Cheney
for the last Is years, and believe him perfect,
honorable in all business transactions and finan
cially able to carry out any obligation made by
their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O..
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by al
Druggists. Testimonials free.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07

A miniature horizontal engine and upright
boiler built by Geo. c. Trussell are running
good steam pressure in Geo. R. Poor 8
window
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07

The genuine "BELFAST'' sc. cigar
has already found its way into nine diff
ferent States in the Union, also the Do
minion of Canada, and strange to say, it
is less than two years ago this brand was
placed on the market. The only cigar
made III Belfast that is stamped "BEL=
FAST"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07

mere has probably been more infringe
'-''h'S on the genuine ''BELFAST" SC.
e'ear than any other brand made in New
i-ngland. Did you ever notice how peo
re Try to initiate good thing?
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

Then Captain Giovanni proceeded to
build fire in the little stove standing in
the outer room and began to prepare some
fish for his dinner.
When the fish we're cooked he ate them
within the cabin, but brought to the long
table in the garden what may have been
fish OF the periwink!e variety, a wicker
encased bottle of Italian wine and little
Hat loaf OF very white bread.
He dragged the little fish from their
shells with a sail-needle, and while eating
cheerfully related the story of some fisher.
men who had died from indulging in the
delicacy.
'Are you not afraid to eat themP p we
asked.
He assured us that these, which were
drawn up in the crabnets from deep
water, were not likely TO be poisonous,
and continued to thrust the sall-needle
into the deep, pointed shells.
II been here three year." he said, to our
inquiry. Il used to be captain on ship
an sail everywhere, all over the world,
an see many things. l bring first iron
ship that come from Italy to San Fran
cisco. | got captains papers from Nova
Scotia, but not go out no more. Poor
crao-catcher now"
He shrugged his shoulders and took a
deep draught of his Italian wine.
Have you no one to keep house for
your" we asked, faltering ever the per-
sonal questions that seemed i'm pertinen Mt
even to a crab-catcher, no sister or niece
or-wife?''
He sat down the bottle with which he
was about TO fill his glass. and sad look
came into his shrewd, kind ewes.
II got no one" he said ''sister. everv-
body, dead" He looked toward the wat
ers OF the bay and spoke in low tone.
II born in Genoa been on water since
10 years old. Sister, all die when l am on
water. Once-in Genoa-l know very
pretty girl, long time ago, very pretty
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

met with good -natured smiles or shrugs
as they passed on TO open the padlocked
doors OF their respective cabins and 10
begin preparing their meals
A young negro whom we had noticed
assisting the men to unload their boats at
the wharf stepped to the gate, string of
fat, white soles in his hand, and asked if
"the captain had come.
The handsome young Garibaldi leaning
against stanchlon by the lentiI bed
answered that he had not.
when captain comes you can make
picture there" said he to us by way of
conversation, pointing toward the inner
fence.
The captain" came presently, his kind
face lighting up as he caught sight of the
scribbling sketching intruders, and hold
ing open the inner gate we had not ven
tured to pass, he invited us to enter and
make picture" of his garden.
We found this garden to be the quaintest,
homehest. triangular little spot that ever
gave comfort TO a poor toiler after his
days and nights work was done, with
a 1agpole rising from the center ana a
long table with seats about it in a shady
corner and flowers blooming everywhere
from games in the plank floor to the his b
posts surmounted by kegs and buckets
and all sorts of receptacles for blooming,
growing things.
His cabin formed one end of the inclo-
sure, and unlocking the door he opligingly
left it open, intimating that we miehl
wish to sketch the interior. He displayed
artistic appreciation by bringing forw ard
a stool formed OF a nail-keg covered by a
bit of richtoned carpet.
AZ put barrel by door" he said, smiling
Then he threw open an inner door, where
stood his cot and a chair or two, and where
various articles of cl thing hung upon the
walls adorned by colored newspaper cuts
and undrr the small high window an old
American flag was draped. and a crucifix
had its place in corner by the bed.