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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10

IN BRIEF. D1ummers are unhappy
over new rule of the Boston & Maine
which prohibits the opening and remov-
ing or adding any article TO the contents
OF a trunk while on the railroad property
1t has been the custom of drummers to
leave trunks in the stations and take a
portion OF their wares to storekeepers for
exhibition, but under the new rule this
cannot be done. The special feature of
Memorial day observances in Boston was
the unwilling of the statute of Col. Robert
Gould Shaw on the common opposite the
State House, in the forenoon, followed by
literary exercises in Music hall, over
Which Gov Wolcott presided.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
To a Girl Graduate.

Whittier away? What road, my friend?
1t has full many turn;
The flight of the eagle is without end,
But the wood thrust seeks the burn.
Over the sea the white sails fly
The herons they wander far,
The song lark scars in the azure sky,
And the petrels cross the bar.
Whittier away? What road, my friend?
The rover is full Of fire,
But the peaceful vale where the willow
bend
Is the nightingale's desire.
lHarper's Bazaar.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
SHERIFF'S SALE

WALDO, SIS Taken On execution iu
w MELVILLE A. HUNT, against
HUNT of Thorndike, in said County al
sold at public auction on Thursday tur
of July, A. ID. 1897, at ten OF the l.Hs
forenoon, at the office of the Sheriff, m III
said County, all the right of redeemlng iln
ing described real estate IuOrtgaGed, " b
Leslie Hunt has OF had on the eiEhtee|
March, A u. 1897, at four hours, T. 81, j"'
iii ST parcel situated III said Thurndikc at
ed on the north by land of Ed. A ~
heirs of Nathan Ward; on the east by It
road between the premises and land oi 4
gins; ON the south by the road ruuuln
Prince BeSsey farm to the town house un
west by the county road leading by L. "
and Charles Bessey, containing one hun
tifty-tive acres, more or less ana the secul't
also situated in said ThOrndike, and beln-
ed as follows; beginning at the northea-
of land where the old Union store former
thence southeasterly, on the south line oi ID
ty road passing by the site Of said store
rods; thence westerly, parallel with the 81
of this parcel of land, eight rods thence Fl
ly, parallel with the east line of this
land, twenty rods, to the county roaG Ia~
the north side of the site of said stoHr
easterly, on the south line of said CONT
eight rods, to the place of beginning, c'
one acre.
Dated this twenty ninth day May, A. "
SAM UEL G. NORTON. ST."
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
THERE IS A CLASS OF PEOPLE

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re',
there has been placed in all grocery stoFe- % f
preparation called Grain-o, made of pure g'''
that takes the place of coffee. The most de''
stom ach receives it without distress and oh'
can tell ii from coffee. 1t does not cost over
as much. Children may drink it with gleal '
fl. 10 cts. and % cts. per package. Try II
for Grain-o.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
What II Means.

When we advertise that we will guarantee
DR.. Kings New Discovery, Electric Bitters,
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, or DR.. Kings New
Life Pills, it means that we are authorized
by the proprietors to sell these remedies
on positive guarantee that if the purchaser
is not satisfied with results, will refund the
purchase price. These medicines have been
sold on this guarantee for many years and
there could be no more conclusive evidence
of their great merit. Ask about them and
give them trial. Sold at Kilgore & Will
sons Drug Store.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
Register OF Deep Water Vessels.
SHIPS.


N Apner G9ourh, y "A Hlchols, sailed from
NE" o oIh NJ - I lol llohs nong, NJ.
hoPes, LAW va u MYERS. salleu iioiii NE"
ioih -1PIii 20 loi y Tan ianeieeo' :.1 -
- d r uAlel oa ooiG1lu' aiiaNe" a'
Na pis 81 M var ~ ron rnalau d mia ~
" oellg ol DaCh' oulGis' saileo iloln Ne"
u ouno n !, ioi iAo % Nohg' .,.,t &c..
@; l,anlei D PAR ape saileu lioil
~ iras ~ iuI noaron ai1oa fn,,,, Dol
~ oSi 81 h saliGu oiil =,
iliole ap ,a ioi San 10 W. TaAclsco SpoAeh
My = laI w W, ~ ION :, CO .--,
inisa w; ~ "a
al t'ioIo - pili - iroiii 3u S iiae
EniiS heeu' = y Nlciols, arllNe1 aV Iiloso
apr 10 ,l3ua NeM h2lN Ia I,3iU f ,las
York May from Marseiles.
Henry B Hyde, Serbner, arrived at New
York May % for Honolulu.
Josephus, 2 Gilkey, sailed from New
York March for Shanghai
Mary L Cushing, j \ Pendleton, sailed
i from Hong Kong May ID, for Honolulu.
| May Flint y 7 Nichols, at Honolulu
Feb - for New York
| Puritan, A Blanchard, sailed from San
Francisco Nov = for Hull
Reaper, Q Young. arrived at Honolulu
May y from Newcastle.
4 L r Thomas, g Nichols. sailed from
| Cebu Feb p for Boston passed AMER March
26.
| Sachem. H I Lancaster, arrived at New
| York May T. from Hong Kong.
S ID Carleton, Amsbury, sailed from New
| York April 29 for Shanghae.
| st Nicholas, G + Carver, sailed from San
Francisco April . for Karuk.
State of Maine, H G Curtis, sailed FROM
4 Shanghai prior to April II for Manila.
Tilie L Starbuck, Eben Curtis, sailed
| from New York March u for Sydney, NSW
VIM II Macy, Ausbury, sailed from Homo
| lulu May 25 Tor New York
/ VIM Ii Conner, Frank l Pendleton, sailed
/ from New York March II for Hong Kong
| spoken A pri g. lat 81 n Ion 80 w.
! w j ROtCh Sewali Lancaster, arrived
/ at New York April Is from Hong Kong.
BARKs
,,, VI, e.;, :, u;,1., ,,u,,,, ~ >,.,,,,
hoth Apfi5 II ron oIhgap Ii ,,;,o,, fu,a
\ AlIce heed' a tahSon foro' Salleu from
NV loih ~ ~ ~ nlo oane Ilj f,,,
BADGES May 10 for Turks Island
Edward May, sailed from Manila Feb .
for New York.
! EVE Reed, A L Whittier, cleared from
New York April Ii for Cape Town.
Harvard Colcord, sailed from Port Town
send Feb for Valparaiso.
Herbert Black, w II Blanchard, arrived
at New York May Il from Pernambuco.
Iolani, Mcclure sailed from New York
Feb 10 for Honolulu and Hong Kong.
Lucy A Nickels, Amos Dow. arrived at
Hong X ong May "A from New York.
Mabel | Movers, VIM Movers, sailed from
Portland May 26 for Bridgewater, n S, to
load for River Plate.
Matanzas, arrived at Havana May ~ from
New York
Penobscot E G Parker, sailed from Hong
Kong Jan 81 for New York passed AMER
March 5.
Rebecca Crowell, M Dow, arrived at
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10

"Our little girl had diarrhHa in a very bad
form. We tried every thing we could think
of but without effect until we got DR.. Fow-
lers Ext. of Wild Straw berry, which helped
her right away" Mrs. Ann Bergman, Yer
ban, Sanilac Co., Mich.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10

Bicycle riders, foot ball players and
athletes generally, find a sovereign remedy
for the sprains and bruises and cuts to which
they are constantly liable, in DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
Attention Pensioner.

Having purchased the original record
estate of j, c. Gates, for the convenIenrt
pensioners having claims pending, and o'
who may wish to present claims for addiuou
increase of pensions, l will be at c. +. t,.t'
sh ,e shop 81 Main street, opposite the pvs,
June "a and %, 1897. It'll.
&c MOkSb
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10

The only remedy in the world that will at
once stop itchiness of the skin in any part of
the body. that is absolutely safe and never
failing, is Doan's Ointment. Get it from
your dealer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
House for Sale.

A story and half house, pleasantly located
fine view of Belfast bay; ten rooms all finished
fine cellar city water in house; nice garden under
good cultivation, apple, pear, plum, shade trees
etc. Nice neighbOrhood. Inquire of
NJ. c. DILWORTH,
Or c. B HALL, Main ST., Belfast. AT
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-06-10
EXECUTORS NOTICE. The subscrut
IL gives notice thar he has been duly
Executor of the last will and te,tameur
DENNIS c. MYRICK, late of qs.

III the County of Waldo, deceased and 81, .
as the law directs. All persons hayiu4 p
against the estate of SAID deceased are l~-
present the same for settlement, and al I
thereto are requested to make paymer
ately. AGGI' STUS e.. MY .
Troy, May IL, 1897 .-3w2l
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20
STATE RETRENCHMENT.

State expenditures have been increasing
so RAPIDLY in some of the Eastern common
wealths that the taxpayers are not only
crying halt but for retreat. Expenditures
upon charitable, reformatory and penal in
situations nave been increased TO meet the
demands of progressives; all sorts of boards
nave been created, and public improve
ments at the expense of the State have
been undertaken. The result is that the
volume of state taxation has been doubled
within a few years. In cities the cost of
government has also been largely increased.
There is not any considerable city in the
country whose expenditure for municipal
purposes has not increased largely in
twenty years. There are few in which there
is not a persistent demand for even greater
taxation to pay for the introduction of the
things desired and devised.
Indiana, as a State. has escaped. to a
large extent, the increased state taxation.
If it were free of it's debt, the rate of taxa
ton for state purposes would be low. This
is not because Indiana is wanting in those
progressive and energetic people who would
build up great Institutions at the expense
of the State. They are with us. and they
are always comparing the RIGHTEOUSNESS of
Indiana with the liberality of other States.
II all these excellent people had been
needed, Indiana would have a much larger
debt than it now has and a much higher
tax levy, if its Legislatures had accepted
the advice of those who are asking the
State to spend more. The last Legislature
paid no heed 10 demands for appropria-
lions which would open the way to large
and constant expenditure.
Ii may be understood. SO far as the State
is concerned. that it is the purpose of the
executive and the boards under his APP
pointment and general supervision to check
the propensity TO expand expenditures. Of
ficials are quite sure to be reminded that
the States money must be expended upon
business principles. and that they should
not feel it important to expend the whole
of an appropriation. That policy will be
worth something in the State. but it would
mean vastly more to the taxpayers in the
municipality and the county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20
A CASE FOR PROMPT ACTION.

The new tariff bill was reported to the
satisfaction at the announcement that. by
agreement Of a majority of the ways and
means committee, the final vote on the bill
will be taken on the 31st inst, a week from
next Thursday. Under other circumstances
the time for debate would be short, but in
the present situation there is nothing to
be gained by prolonged debate. The object
of the special session is we'll understood.
the duty of Congress is plain. and
the majority have confidence in the ways
and means committee. and the sooner the
bill is passed the better. Two weeks is
long enough time for the opponents of the
bill in the House to put themselves on rec
ord. and as-they are not responsible for the
measure they should not be permitted TO
delay its passage unnecessarily. The
sooner IL passes the House the sooner that
branch of Congress will be discharged of
responsibility in the matter. and the coun-
try will know where to locate responsible
ity for delay occurring thereafter. The
reasons in favor of prompt action are very
strong. Importers are removing their
goods from bond at an unprecedentedly
rapid rate in order to get the benefit of the
present low duties. The custom house Of
fcers at every port Of entry I'm the country
amounts OF duties being paid at different
points shows how the revenues are being
scalped. Not only this. but indications
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20
THE UNPoPULARITY OF TAXATION.

The new rules of the tax commission
icies and shares of building and loan asso-
Citations into the tax duplicates will not be
popular. No system Of taxation is popular,
and probably never will be. To taxes and
death humanity objects. To the latter The
objection is less vehement because 1t has
never been evaded: but as taxation is fire.
quently escaped in part. the hostility to u
system Of taxation which touches the in
dividual can be counted on with certainty
on the part of the person taxed.
For years the owners of farms and real
estate have been insisting that they have
been unduly taxed. Demagogues have
helped to impress upon farmers that they
have been taxed more than they should
be and more than those in towns who hold
a like value of property in other than real
estate. 1t is the burden of complaint, and
has been until many excellent people who
own farms believe that they pay all the
taxes of Indiana and other States in which
they live. The figures of the abstract Of
assessment Go not sustain this impression.
since the farms and Improvements of In
diana were valued at $3.50, 93S, $50 in 1895 of
the entire total of 81, 120, 302, 600 of taxable
property.
There is already very serious objection to
the proposition of the tax commission to
add the values of life insurance policies
and building and loan shares to the taxable
property of the State. Very likely the pro-
test will become vehement. Those who hold
such policies insist that the State already
taxes the premiums paid upon such policies.
which, considering that the policies, even If
paid up, afford no revenue is enough. To
this the farmer will say that he has been
paying taxes on his land all these years
largely in excess of the income it yields.
and hat the holder of an insurance policy
representing property which returns no in
come is in the same condition as the farm
er whose lands do not return a percentum
of income. A large class of taxpayers who
have mortsaged farms or lots with i'm
provements say that they are taxed for
what they owe instead of what they own,
and so long as they are thus taxed every
kind of property should be put upon the tax
duplicate. The farmer has been complain
ing of what he regards as an injustice these
many years. and one cannot converse long
with intelligent farmers upon general
topics. particularly about election times.
without being impressed with the idea that
agricultural people are convinced that they
are wronged in the matter of taxation, just
as the holders of life insurance policies and
building and loan stocks will be if the prop
osition contained in the instructions of the
tax commission is fully carried into effect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20

ecution. II these men had been able 10
make a confession which could have saved
them they would have-made II long before.
Even then a confession which refuted their
sworn testimony in most important particu-
lars could not have availed. The last
stories OF these men were easily refuted by
evidence TO the effect that the man whom
they made an ~accomplice. or, rather. the
leader in the crime. was absent during the
entire period covering the commission Of
the crime. These facts must nave been
known to those who announced in their pa
per the day before the publication of the
so-called confession that it might lead Gov
ernor Bradley TO reprieve the men under
sentence. This performance doubtless made
a sale for 10000 papers. and that was prob
ably the only object gained and perhaps the
only one sought. As for the confessions,
they confirm the guilt of the men who pre-
pared them. and would seem 10 add 10 their
infamy. if it were possible. by attempting
to make an innocent man, whom they be-
lieved 10 be insane, their accomplice or
leader.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20

point to very heavy importations during
the next two weeks of sugar. tobacco.
woods and woolens. A Boston dispatch
says:
The sugar importers are actively engaged
in buying up all available sugar. both IN
the markets OF Germany and Cuba, Tor
prompt shipment to this country in an ef-
fort to get the commodity into the market
without paying the government the new
tax. There is now stored i'm Hamburg. for
shipment TO this city alone more tnan
5000 tons Of raw sugar, and steamers are
being sent for as rapidly as they can De
chartered and loaded. Four large steamers
are now due here from Hamburg and six
large vessels from West indian ports.
1t is said the valuation of the sugar now
on its way to Boston alone will reach into
the millions. and the aggregate amount on
the way TO New York and Philadelphia is
much greater. Very heavy orders have
been placed for wool, wooden goods and to-
bacco in the hope of getting them in under
the present tariff. The immediate result of
these large importations will be a tempo
rary increase of the revenue until the new
tariff takes effect, but then the country will
have a stock of these articles that will
take some time TO consume and there will
be a reaction and decrease of revenue. If the
new tariff bill could become a law by the
18th of April it would be worth millions TO
the government in revenue and of immense
benefit to the country at large. The ne
cessity of prompt action is very urgent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20

At a meeting of the Empire State Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution in
Albany. ~. Y, a few nights ago. a discus
sion arose about the use of the American
flag. II was contended that the national
emblem was used altogether too much
and one speaker declared that this was "a
stain upon the Nation" He recommended
legislation making it "a crime punishable
by a SO fine for any person to use the
American flag except on government or
school buildings No more absurd sugges-
ton could be made. The flag should not be
put to base uses. but with this limitation its
use for proper purposes and on proper occa-
sions should be encouraged TO the greatest
possible extent. The various revolutionary
societies which are exploiting themselves
nowadays must not undertake to get a cor
ner on he flag. 1t is possible for a person
to be patriotic without belonging to any of
these societies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20
AMENDMENT.
New Paragraph Added to the Wool
Schedule-Divided Democrats.

WASHINGTON, March ia new para
graph has been added to the wool schedule
of the tariff bill by the Republican Elem-
bers of the committee as follows:
Oriental, Berlin and similar rugs and
mats. and carpets woven whole for rooms.
valued at not more than 30 cents per square
yard, 10 cents per square yard and 20 per
cent ad. valorem; valued at more than 80
cents and not more than so cents per
square yard. 80 cents and 20 per cent.
valued at more than so cents and not more
than 81 per square yard, 40 cents and 20
per cent; valued at more than 81 and not
more than 81, so cents and % per cent:
more than 81 per square yard. $1.25 and 80
per cent"
Discussions have arisen among the Demo-
cratic members of the ways and means
committee which may result in the pre-
sentation of two minority reports on the
tariff bill. Mr.. Bailey. of Texas. who is at
the head of the minority of the committee.
in virtue of his position, Will write the
main report, but il is not improbable that
cline to sign it. Mr.. Bailey differs from
his Democratic colleagues radically on the
the subject of free wool, and yesterday
amendments in the committee, the former
to place wool on the free list and the latter
to make the maximum duty collected on
woods not to exceed 20 per cent. ad valorem,
he voted against the McMillin amendment
and declined to vote on that offered by
General Wheeler.
MIR. Bailey takes the position that the
Chicago platform, by implication, opposed
free raw materials and especially free wool.
the great product of the West. The plank
in the Chicago platform held that tariff
duties should be levied for purposes
of revenue, such duties to be
SO adjusted as to operate equal
ly throughout the country and not discriri-
mate between class or section: Mr.. Nc
Millin and several of the other Democratic
members of the ways and means committee
who are ardent silver men. cling TO the
free wool idea and claim that the Chicago
platform does not run counter TO their posi-
ton. But some of the Democratic MEM
bers like General Wheeler. who favor free
wool. are still opposed TO free coal and iron,
which was clasSed as raw materials. by
the supporters of the original Wilson bill.
In fact, General Wheeler made a speech
against these features of that bill.
In addition to the dissensionS over the
question of free wool and other free raw
materials there is a strong intimation that
Mr.. Robertson. of Louisiana, one of the
new Democratic members of the commit
tee, will, in words. indorse the sugar
schedule. 1t is possible, however. that the
present complications may be smoothed out
In some way and that Mr.. Bailey may be
able TO write a report in which all his DEM
ocratic colleagues can join. Efforts TO this
end are now being made as the Democrats
are extremely anxious to go into the tariff
fight with a solid and united front.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-20
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
Mr.. CuIlOm VIII EndeayOr to Amend
the acknowledgements Law.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-To satisfy a
general curiosity as 10 the programme for
railroad and anti-ticket scalping legislation,
Senator Cullom. of the interstate-commerce
committee, was asked this afternoon what
his plans were in regard thereto. He said:
Il have concluded to delay the introduction
of the ~scalping bill for the present. for the
reason that have in mind the preparation
of a bill to amend the interstate-commerce
law in several particulars and make anti
ticket s~calping "a feature of the measure.
The Interstate-commerce Commission has
been making suggestions to amend the ex-
listing law for several vars past. and L Will
ingraft as many of the suggestions in my
bill as meet my approval. Railroad pool
ing is oneNof the questions to which L am
giving careful consideration. What my po-
Sition in regard thereto will be, i do not
say how soon L Intend TO introduce the
bill, but as the question is a very large
one 1t is possible that | may defer it until
after the tariff measure is out of the way"
The purpose of Senator Cullom 10 make
anti-scalping a feature of a general bill
amendatory of the existing interstate
m law, meets the approval of the
more thoughtful members Of both branches
of Congress. The strongest objection to
the scalping bill raised during the last days
of the Fifty-fourth Congress was that il
authorized in effect the pooling of the pas
senge business of railroads. and that that
sort of legislation should not be gone into
piecemeal. This view seems TO be adopted
very generally in Congress and out. and If
the principle is embodied in our laws, other
and kindred issues will be acted on at the
same time. The amendments to the inter
state-commerce law VIII, in all probability,
come up next winter in Congress. and will
take a great deal of time-occupying a con-
spicuous place in public attention. Condi-
tions are shaping that way, and the rail-
roads are already beginning a campaign on
a larger and more comprehensive scale
than any they have yet gone into. with a
view of securing the enactment of long
desired legislation which they claim is nee
essary for the protection of vast invest
ments in transportation lines and for the
good of the people at large. They claim
that only by pooling and by the prevention
OF all means of cutting rates. passenger
or freight traffic, can the real spirit of the
interstate-commerce law be carried into
effect and equal justice be done to all.