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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Nature Gardens in Alaska,

| The most extensive, least spoiled, and
most unspoilable of the gardens of the
continent, says John Muir in the January
Atlantic, are the vast tundras of Alaska
Every summer they extend smooth
even, undulating, continuous beds of
flowers and leaves from about lat. 500
to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. And
in winter, sheets of snow flowers make
all the country shine, one mass of
white radiance like star. Nor are
these Arctic plant-people the pitiful
frost pinched unfortunates they are
guessed to be by those who have never
seen them. Though lowly in stature,
keeping near the frozen ground as if low
ing it, they are bright and CHEEKY, and
speak Natures love as plainly as their big
relatives of the south. Tenderly Mapped
and tucked in beneath downy snow to sleep
through the huge white winter, they make
haste to bloom in the spring without try
ing to grow tall, though some rise high
enough to ripple and wave in the wind,
and display masses of color, yellow pur-
pie and blue, SO rich they look like
beds of rainbows, and are visible
miles and miles away. And
IN September the tundra CLOVIS in
creamy golden sunshine, and the colors of
the ripe foliage of the heathworts, willows,
and birch, red, purple and yellow, in pure
bright tones, are enriched with those of
berries which are scattered everywhere as
if they had been showered down from the
clouds like hail, their colors, with those
OF the leaves and stems, blending har-
moniously with the neutral tints Of tile
ground, of lichens and MOSES on which
they seem to be painted. John Muir, in
the january Atiantlc.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Bargains in SchoolhOuses.

TOPEKA, KAN, Dec. %. The Attor-
ney General and State Superintendent of
public instruction has decided that the
200 schoolhouses in the depopu!ated dis
public auction. These buildings have
stood for years unoccupied, the homes OF
bats and owls. In some cases enough
taxes have been collected from non resi-
dent land owners to keep six months
term of school running, in many instances
for the benefit of a single family.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Cattle Perish.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. %, The sleet
storm that has prevailed for the past three
days in Texas has proven most disastrous
in it's effect on the stock interests of the
west and northwest portions of the State.
Reports from 200 miles west and north of
Fort Worth are that the death rate among
cattle will be Unprecedented, the fatality
being most pronounced among the recent
importations from Mexico and the cattle
taken to the big plains country from
Louisiana. In some localities fully 35
per cent. of the Mexican cattle have per-
ished. In the extreme western part of
the State the storm was not so violent n
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

them by the Coin Harvey and other
patriots who head this organization, in
clude all OF the propositions mentioned
above, and a number of others of like
character, and are another evidence of the
fact that the men who ''worked' the
free silver proposition in 1896 are begin
ming to feel the need of new issue in
order to hold their followers together.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
LET.
Notice # assignee Of his AppOimt-
lRpilf.

At Brooks in the County of Waldo and State of
of Maine, the 18th day of December A. d 1897.
1NHE undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap-
l pointment Assignee Of the estate of TIL
TON A. ELLIOTT of Brooks in said County of
Waldo. InSolvent Debtor, who has been declared
an Insolvent upon his petition by the Court
of Insolvency for said County of Waldo.
2w5l CHAS. F. BESSEY, Assignee.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

The orange and lemon crop of southern
California has been injured by frost during
a succession OF cold nights The fact that
oranges do not show the frost for from
two weeks to a month after the cold
weather renders the extent Of the damage
very uncertain.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
MERCHANTS MARINE RAILWAY COM
PANN will be holden at the store of Messrs. y s
Lord Il CO.. Front street, on "Wednesday. Janu-
AIRY >, 1898. at 2 O'Clock y. The object Of
the meeting is choose five directors for the en-
suing year also To transact any other business
that may properly come before said meeting.
CHARLES W FREDERICK. Secretary.
Belfast, Dec rs, lS97.-3w5O.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

A bottle Of DR.. Wood Norway Pine Syrup
in the house saves doctors bills, saves trou-
BILE, and very often saves precious lives.
Gives almost instant relief in cases of
coughs, colds, or lung troubles of any sort.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

The people who were assuming few
days ago that the new tariff law would
not probably produce sufficient revenue
to meet the running expenses of the Gov
eminent ale beginning to change their
minds. The present indications are that
the December receipts will equal the De-
cenber expenditures, and the Treasury
officials estimate a large increase in re-
eeipts early in the coming year. There is
every reason to believe that the new law
VIII produce considerable surplus i'll the
next fiscal year without any additional
tariff legislation.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

In cases of burns, sprains, scalds, or any of
the other accidental pains likely to come to
the human body, DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil
gives almost instant relief
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

Eczema in any part of the body is instant
ly relieved and permanently cured by
Doan's Ointment, the sovereign remedy for
all tchiness of the skin.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson is be-
ing received with marked attention in his
tour through the South and there is rea
son to believe that his visit to that section
will result in great advantage to its agri-
cultural interests. There is a marked
contrast between the attitude of this Re-
publican Secretary Of Agriculture and his
Democratic predecessor, who spent most
of his time in frowning down the beet
deyising plans to prevent the distribution
of seeds to the farmers of the country.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

The ''Patriots of America whose
patriotism seems to run exclusively to
socialism, single tax, irredeemable paper
currency, free coinage of silver at 16 to l,
and a few other dangerous doctrines of
this sort, are to vote in their ''lodges''
next month on series Of propositions as
possible national issues for the next
national political campaign. These
fads, which have been presented
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30
Editorial Notes.

The November earnings of 1O4 railroads
whose reports have been presented are
more than twenty per cent. in excess of
their November earnings last year.
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Belfast National Bank.

The annual meeting of the stockholders % tlle
Belfast National Bank for the choice of directors
and the transaction of any other business that
may legally come before them, will be held at
their banking room on Tuesday, January II
1898, at 10 O'Clock a
Belfast, Dec. Is, 1897.
4w49 c. W. WESCNTT Cashier.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

Statesmen at Washington are devoting
their attention largely to the question of
the currency. Every man has his scheme
for the improvement of the currency sys-
TEN, and each one feels that he must
press lis own views on the subject. 1t
seems probable, however, that when these
are all presented, Congress will fall back
upon President McKinley's simple but
sensible plan of retaining in the Treasury
the United States notes which are re-
deemed IN gold, and permitting the ma
tional banks to increase their circulation
in way which will gradually transfer the
banking business from the shoulders of
the Government to those of the banks.
1t is q mean thing to say, but somebody
at Washington has trotted out the fact
that the circulation of money in the Unit
ed States since the day of Mr.. Bryan S
nomination has increased more than
double the entire amount of the money
of the Republic of Mexico, which is just
now welcoming William j. as the greatest
financer of the age. 1t will be remem-
bered that Mr.. Bryan in his speeches at
the Chicago convention and during the
campaign insisted that the currency of
the country could not increase without
the adoption of free coinage of silver, yet
it has increased in the II months since
that nomination by sum double the en-
tire money of the country in which he is
now being received with such honors.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

N@Hitl standing the fact that the farm
els Of the country have disposed of large
quantities Of wool at greatly decreased
prices, the manufacturers are still. calling
foI more and are now finding it necessary
to send abroad for additions to their
stocks, which are already running low.
he great reduction in the number of
sheep in the country which resulted from
Democratic fee trade make it necessary
for the manufacturers to draw large
amount of wool from abroad until the
farmers are able to bring their flocks back
to he conditions which existed under the
protective tariff.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

Rigid economy in public expenditures
is the watch word on the Republican side
in Congress- This was the recommended
ton Of President Mckinley's message,
and has been re-echoed by chairman
Cannon of the House Appropriations
Committee, and Chairman Dingley of
the Ways ana Means Committee, and
there is reason to believe that the
Republican party in the present Congress
viii make record of economy of which
members in all parts Of the country will
have reason to be proud.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

President McKinley's dignified and
fotcetul utterances on the Cuban question
continue to receive the commentators of
the country. The splendid progress
made by his administration in Cuban
matters not only in the release Of all
Americans confined in Cuban prisons
when he came into office, but also the
change il the attitude of the Spanish gov
eminent toward the people of Cuba since
tie views of tie administration have been
expressed on the subject, have apparent
ly shown to the people of the United
States the wisdom OF a course which com
DIMES C nselyatism with humanity.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

Our English friends are displaying great
activity in their attacks upon our new
protective tariff measure. They hail
with delight the assertions of their
Democratic colaborers in the United
States that the new law is not producing
sufficient revenue to meet the running
expenses of the Government and are
doing all in their power to again line up
that element in the United States which
has been driven from its free trade doc
trine by the utter failure of the Wilson
law after three years test.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-30

The enthusiastic greeting which the
MeXicans are giving to Mr.. Bryan is
doubtless very gratifying to his followers.
but some critic may inquire whether the
commentators Of people whose grade
of Intelligence is far below that of the
United States, whose per capita of money
currency system produces a dollar worth
less than one-half of similar dollar in
this country, add anything to Mr.. Bryan S
standing as tinancier.
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Charter Members OF Keystone Chapter

The Camden Herald is publishing
history of Keystone Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons, No. "A, and we copy the follow
ing from the sketches of charter members:
The advocate., 1897-03-31

under the operation of this law. The
civil service law had it's origin in the
evils growing out Of a rapidly growing
demand on Congressman and Senators
for Office. This demand was clamorous,
persistent and Unsuitable. 1t was fast
becoming intOlerable.
The change has been most gratifying.
The law was but poorly administered at
first. Time was required to prepare and
promulgate rules, and the early methods
of examination were anything but salts
factory. Indeed, in this particular, there
is still room for improvement. But now
the machinery of the civil service is
working well. When clerk is needed
in any department Of the government,
instead Of having to look over petitions
OF applicants and listen to speeches Of
Senators and members favoring some
particular person, note is addressed to
the Civil Service Commission and the
names Of the first three persons on the
eligible list are forwarded to the proper
officer, and one Of them is selected with
out further ado.
1t sometimes happens, as it probably
did in the Omaha case, that employees
are improperly discharged, but that is
not the fault Of the law. The officer is
to blame.
The wise thing for Senator Allen to do
is to apply his great pow OF mind to
the correction Of abuses under the law,
to amend the statute where 1t needs
amendment and so modify the rules as
to secure proper civil service reform.
The advocate., 1897-03-31
A PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY.

The Populist members of the House Of
Representatives at Washington have pc.
titioned the Speaker, asking that they
be recognized as a separate and distinct
party, just as Republicans and Demo
Gratis are recognized AS a sufficient
answer to this petition, it is said the
Speaker classes all the opposition mem
bers as one body; and if statement said
to have been made by Mr.. Simpson is
true, it will puzzle the petitioners to sat
isfy the Speaker that his position is not
the correct one. Jerry is reported as
having said, only last week and since the
petition was presented, that ''it is still a
fight between the gold standard and the
opponents Of a contracted currency. The
middle. of-the-roaders have been to all
intents and purposes assistant Republi-
cans"
If Simpson is right in saying there is
only one opposition psrty-that Popu-
lists are but assistant Republicans, what
use is there in his asking to be recog-
nized as anything else than assistant
Democrats, and more especially when he
clRssifies himself, in the Congressional
Directory, as "Demo-PopulistH"
The advocate., 1897-03-31
SENATOR ALLEN AND CIVIL SERVICE RE
FORM.

Near the close Of the last session OF
Congress, Senator Allen of Nebraska se-
cured the adoption Of 9 resolution asking
information about the discharge of two
government employees engaged in the in
spection OF meats at one of the packing
houses at Omaha. When the answer
came, the Senator criticised it and de-
nounced the administration of the civil
service law. On the gath day of the
present month, the country was informed
that, as a sequel to debate the day be-
fore, Mr.. Allen introduced bill to repeal
the civil service law and all supplement
tary acts, and also to annul executive
orders based on these bills. The bill
further directs the head OF every depart.
ment to establish rules relative to ap-
pointment with reference to the special
fitness Of applicants for the service re-
qUired and not with reference to ed
ucational standards. 1t is expressly
provided that the lack Of university, col
lege or academic education shall in no
case disqualify an applicant. The bill
expresses the purpose Of restoring TO all
United States citizens equal rights to
appointment,
1t is not encouraging to find man
like Senator Allen proposing to neutral
ize all the good work that has been done
The advocate., 1897-03-31

WHEN it is said that the percentage Of
wealth gain in the new States Of the
West has been greater than that Of the
old States Of the East and that therefore
our gain has been greater than theirs, it
is equivalent to saying that when John
buys iack-knife for cents and sells it
for 10 cents, gaining 100 per cent, he has
gained more than James who bought
knife for 81 and sold it for 81. 10, thereby
gaining only 10 per cent. The Western
States have gained from so per cent. to
more than 100 per cent. in material
wealth during the last fifteen years, while
the Eastern States have gained about 40
to 45 per cent. during the same time; yet
the gain of the old States has been
vastly more than that of the new Mas
sachusetts, for example, gained four and
q half times as much wealth in the ten
years from 1880 to 1890 as Kansas did,
though our percentage Of gain was more
than twice that Of the little New Eng
land State.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

A WASHINGTON dispatch informs us
that the opposition made by the colleges
Of New England and by many scientific
men against the duties placed on books
and scientific apparatus by the Dingley
bill, induced the trainers Of the measure
10 amend it and restore so many of the
articles to the free list as are imported
for the use Of educational institutions.
Why cannot books used by common peo-
pie be treated the same wayY
The advocate., 1897-03-31

Oklahoma Territory, South Dakota, Ten
nessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
Grain, live stock, and any other article
may be shipped at any railway station in
the State and billed for San Francisco,
Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, New
Orleans, Galveston or st. Louis, and it
will 60 through. So, too, farm supplies
may be shipped at any one of these cities
or at any railway station in any one Of
the forty-fve States and three Terrific
ries, billed for any railway station in
Kansas, and they will reach the point
named. A railway not connected with
roads that are engaged in interstate COM
merce would be worthless. Indeed, five
short lines in Kansas 1Oith such connec-
tiOns have recently been abandoned be-
cause, even though they could deliver to
and receive from interstate lines, they
had not trade enough to keep them in
operation.
Our principal troubles in Kansas, SO
far as the transportation question is con-
cerned, have grown out of the vicious
custom Of re-billlng at Missouri river
points and determinations in favor of
through tariffs, and riv8lries among dif.
ferent foreign companies competing for
traffic of certain territory within the
State. TO remedy evils arising from
these causes, the State Legislature has
thus far striven in vain, and the Inter
state Commerce Commission has been
weakly and with little success striving
to work reforms in these particulars.
Give us reasonable interstate traffic
rates to and from all points in Kansas,
and there will be little left to adjust.
Give us through rates on everything we
send out Of the State, and on everything
we bring into the State, and the rest will
be easily handled. The State legislator,
when dealing with this subject, has
found his principal difficulty in getting
rid Of obstacles in the way of such law.
The railroad managers, standing blindly
in their own way, as they are now learn
ing, have uniformly resisted any and all
legislation proposing that they should
treat the people Of our own State just as
they treat people Of other States. They
have formed combinations fixing dis
eliminating rates discriminating always
against and never in favor of Kansas.
This is why the people have clamored
for maximum rate law. II discrimina-
tions had to be made, they wanted them
to be within the dead line.
The advocate., 1897-03-31
ALEADNG QUESTION IN TRANSPORTATION

In dealing with the transportation
question Legislatures will be wise to take
notice of the fact that every year that
subject comes to be more National and
less and less local in it's relation to the
commerce Of the country. OF the
twenty,s six railway companies reporting
to the Kansas State Commissioners last
year, not one Of them is limited to local
traffic alone. All are more or less doing
an interstate trade. The shortest lines
are connected by trade relations, il not
by lease, with the longer and more i'm.
portant roads. OF the 32,7l4 miles oper-
ated by the roads reporting, all but S,Sl2
miles lie outside Of the State. Connec-
tions of our Kansas roads are found in
Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indian Ter
ritory, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
The advocate., 1897-03-31

A BILL passed the upper house Of the
Illinois Legislature last week to get rid
OF department stores. Is there any dif-
ference between the present department.
store and the old-fashioned general
store, except only that the new is larger,
more convenient aud more pre- ftable
than the oldE
The advocate., 1897-03-31
TRANs-MlssOURI FREIGHT ASSOCIATION
DISSOLVED.


Excepting the Supreme courts re.
versal Of it's opinion In the income tax
cases, nothing the court has done since
the time of the Dred Scott decision has
surprised the country like the recent
opinion against the railroads in the
action brought to dissolve the Trans.
Missouri Freight Association.
This was a combination among the
following named railroad companies:
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Missouri,
Kansas g. Texas; Chicago, Kansas Il Ne.
brasks; Rock Island; Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha; Burlington in
Nebraska; Rio GrYnde; Rio Grande
Western; Denver, Texas & Fort Worth;
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley; Memphis
Route; st, Joseph & Council Bluffs;
Missouri Pacific; Sioux City & Pacific;
st, Joseph & Grand Island; Frisco
Route; Union Pacific; Utah Central.
The association embraced all the roads
carrying freight through Kansas City,
Omaha and st, Louis, and it has been
declared by the Supreme court to be un-
lawful, The case went up on an appeal
from the decision Of the United States
Circuit court Of the district of Kansas.
That court decided in favor of the rail
roads. The government appealed to the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
for the Eighth district. Here the rail
roads we're again successful. Then the
government appealed to the United
States Supreme court, with the result
above stated.
The opinion puts two questions as the
only ones in the case Q) Whether the
antitrust act applies to common carriers
by railroad; and (2) il so, does the agree
ment among the companies in this asso-
citation violate any provision of that act?
The court hold afiirmRtively on both
questions. They say the language Of
the act includes every contract, combi.
nation in the form of trust or otherwise,
or conspiracy in restraint Of trade or
commerce, among the several States or
with foreign nations.
The decision has thrown the whole
transportation world suddenly into
trouble. 1t was not expected. Only a
few days before the Joint Traffic Associ-
ation-a combination among the East
ern roads-was sustained by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals in New
York. 1t was presumed that when the de.
cisions in the lower courts were uniformly
in favor Of the roads, the Supreme court
would affirm them. The reader, by look
ing over the matter on the first page of
the ADVOCATE, will see how railroad men
feel about it.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

The New York Journal, referring to
the Topeka Capitals recent statement
concerning the payment Of debts and
lifting Of mortgages during Che past
seven years in Kansas, wants to know
show great q proportion Of this debt
raising has been accomplished through
the process Of rorecIosuTeS' II the
The advocate., 1897-03-31

THE pressure on the President for
Office is telling on his health. 1t is
pity that mans life is endangered by
the opportunities Of persons who want
something to do.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

NEws comes from Switzerland that the
government Of that republic has made a
proposal to purchase all the railroads Of
the country. The price set is 964, 1884, ,769
francs (about $l92,S76,954), to be raised
by sixty year loan.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

The late antirailroad combine decision
was reached by majority OF but one.
We pray that the railroads will not play
the income tax game on the court, and
persuade one member that he was wrong.