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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Vacation Schools.

These schools minister to the ll-round
development of the children, for the large
playrooms are utilized for calisthenics !;
the morning half hour devoted to dancing
is sure to find light hearts and feet. One
summer all the children were taken, on
successive days, under the care of their
science teachers, to the ocean homes of
the association at West Coney Island,
where the day was spent in collecting
various objects incident to the seashore.
On the return to the city, this day at the
sea furnished inexhaustible material for
the class Another year groups of
the children were taken, under com
petent guidance, to the Museum of
Natural History. There is no reason why
this side of the work should not be i'm
mensely extended, in order TO make more
available the resources of museum and
art gallery, because we are only beginning
to utilize the social and educational re-
sources of our cities. There is no reason
why the very school buildings should not
be used more in the evenings, under prop
er restrictions, because there are many
kinds of meetings and entertainments for
which they would be available. From
''Nacation Schools in New York; by w.
II. Tolman, in American Monthly Review
OF Reviews for August
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Their Joint Debate.
Captain Johnson Was no Orator, But Got There
Just the Same.

Before the war Captain Jefferson John
son was one of the representative citizens
of Maries county, Mo, man of wealth
and influence, but little learning. He de-
cided that he would like to go to the legis-
lature. There was no Republican party
in Maries county then, and usually num-
Der of Democrats run against each other
independently. In this canvass Cap
tain johnson was opposed by man nam
ed Graham, who had recently come from
Pennsylvania. Graham was schoolmas-
ter and man of unusual learning for
those times. He was also ready and
forcibe talker and entered the race
against Captain johnson, whose educa-
ton did not extend much beyond ability
to write his name. with confidence of an
easy victory.
The campaign was scarcely under way
before Graham proposed a joint debate.
When this proposition was carried to Cap
tain johnson, he hesitated. Captain
johnson was not exactly certain in his
own mind just what debate was, but
his friends assured him that he could not
well decline his opponents offer.
GAN right" said johnson in his easy,
good natured way, 81 don't know much
about derbatin, but if t other Teller kin do
it reckon kin too"
So the debate was arranged. 1t was to
open at big barbecue and picnic at Lige
Jones, on the edge of Lanes Prairie.
The day arrived and with it about half the
population of the county. Graham went
to Captain johnson and intimated that he
would like to open and close the debate.
johnson assented.
''Y GU re welcome to take furst whirl at
it, he said. 81 guess l kin make out
with what's left.''
1t was agreed that Graham was to have
an hour to open and half an hour to rejoin,
while johnson was to speak for an hour
and a half without intermission. The peo-
pie assembled about the stand to hear the
flow of oratory, Graham made a splendid
speech ; full of good arguments and humor.
When his time was up, he sat down, feel
Captain johnson arose.
81 don't know zactly what L m expect
ed to do,' he sale, "but as MI. Graham
has made you a speech, an mighty fine
one, l guess I'll do something else. So
I've made up my min ter let him do the
speakin' in this here derbate and II do
the treatin'. If you fellers'll go over
thar behind that clump of bushes, you'll
find my wagon, an in it you Il find a key
of as fine apple brandy as you ever tasted
Take the tin cup off the hook and help
yerselves.'
And johnson sat down. The voters
drank and ate at his expense for the hour
he was supposed to have spoken, and
when the time came for Grahams re-
joinder it was discovered that he had left
the grounds. 1t is almost unnecessary to
add that Captain johnson was elected by
an enormous majority [St. Louis Re-
public,
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The Republican Journal Thursday Morning, August s. 1897
Every Kodak in Line.

The Maine State Fair officers, not con-
tent with securing the greatest attraction
of the age, the horseless wagons, for a
great race at the State Fair, have offered
liberal premiums and secured valuable
specials for the boys and girls and all
amateur photographers. Experts and
professional are excluded No entry fee
is required and every amateur will want
to compete. Landscapes, interiors, por-
traits and animals, both collections and
singles are included There should be a
grand rally of the amateurs from every
section. One of the best quartettes in
New England has been engaged to give
concerts each evening of the fair, and
many new attractions are to be announced
during the coming week. A clean, at
tractive, rtaining and complete State
Fair is assured at Lewiston, Aug. 80, 81,
Sept. l, 2, 8. Special trains and special
rates from every locality. Spend your
vacation among old friends.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Summer Embroidery.

My own thought is that good solution
Of summer vacation work lies in the
graceful embroidery of small pieces of
household linen, and that this can be
done in ways which shall meet most of
the requirements of which we have
spoken; for certainly fads and fancies of
all sorts can be impressed upon these
household pages.
Take, for instance, the most prosaic
ing of initials or monograms. There are
only beautiful, but unhackneyed and in
teresting, and there are SO many interest
ing people to do them for, besides that most
interesting of persons, ones self Think,
for instance, of the delight of receiving at
Christmas or birthday set of damask
napkins with ones own initials curiously
embroidered upon them; or of having a
towel with legend dropping down upon
one at some opportune occasion; or of a
centre cloth for a golf breakfast or lunch
con with golting incidents etched around
the b0rder-not to speak of the innumer
able tea cloths sprinkled with all the
growths of nature and the inventions Of
mind
But [ think like best the old initiating
and marking; to exercise ones good
stitchery and good judgment and fine
ingenuity upon that is field enough, find
for my own summer ambition. To en-
broider w beautifully, and as it was
never done before, to have it appear with
unlocked for variation twelve times on
twelve new and fine damask napkins,
quite satisfies my waning ambition.
There are so many ways of setting one 5
seal upon the linen which belongs to one,
50 many ways of saying 'this thing
cleaves to me in the general distribution
of world goods" and saying it originally
and attractively, that it ought to satisfy
one
But many women will not be satisfied
with simple marking of domestic linen
during the holiday summer hours-I
know it. No matter how they are tempt
ed with arabesque and flourish, for them
remains the problem of suiting size to
color, and achieving bits of decoration
which shall give scope to fancy and satisfy
artistic longings. [Harper's Bazaar,
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The Harvest and it's Reward.

There are some welcome signs that
business conditions throughout the coun-
try are on the mend. 1t cannot be said
that there is any prospect of great re-
turn tide of prosperity, but the coming
year promises to be better than its immed-
late predecessors. The American farmer
is getting higher prices, and existing
crop conditions are especially favorable to
our own producers. This years wheat
crop will be larger than the aver
age in the United States, while much
smaller than the average of several pre-
ceding years in the countries that com
pete with us in supplying the European
market. Thus it is certain that our good
crop will bring relatively good prices
and this means better days for the West
ern farmers, whose reasonable prosperity
is fundamental to the business welfare of
the country at large India, with her
great famine still raging, will have no
wheat to send to Europe this year. 1t is
said that the Australian crop will barely
suffice for home consumption. The
Argentine export has almost reached the
vanishing point, while that of Southern
Russia and the Danubian States is also,
this year, small factor. The prospect,
therefore, is for a very large European
demand upon the crop of the United
States. which is expected to be at least
80, 900, 900 bushels larger than that of
last year, and the average price is likely
to continue at least twenty cents a bushel
higher than year or more ago. From
'The Progress of the World,' in Ameri-
can Monthly Review Of Reviews for Au-
gust
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
The Curative Value of Sea Air.

OF the large number of persons who
come to the seashores of Maine every
year, a goodly percentage of them come
because they have found that the cool
ness and purity of the ocean air has sal
utary influence. How the children from
the contaminated air of the school rooms
and from the dust and microbe- laden
streets of the cities ''pick up during
few weeks stay at the seaside, is mat
ter of constant comment for all and
pleased surprise for the owners of the lit
tie ones. A German magazine devoted
to school hygiene referring to the benefi-
cent action of sea air upon scrofulous
children, says that, at the present time,
almost every civilized country has hospit-
ais for tuberculous children oy the sea-
side, and all observers are unanimous in
testifying to the beneficial influence of
the ocean air in such cases. Cain, who
had the histories of about 900 cases at
his disposal, says that 70.7 per cent. of
them were cured, and that there was an
improvement in further 3. ? per cent. of
the cases. In Banyuls- sur Mer, there
were 81 per cent. of cures, and in the san
itarium at Arcachon, Sc per cent. of the
cases were cured. In the italian seaside
hospices for scrofulous children, the per
centage Of cures reached only 80 per cent,
but the stay at the seashore is only from
30 to IS days. AS to the question whether
the sea air is better than pure air inland,
Calot states that he has seen cases which
did not improve under the most favorable
conditions in the interior, but that, after
longer or shorter stay at the seashore,
were cured. He thinks that the sea air
has a specific influence in these cases.
Calot, who is a surgeon of the hospital at
Chantilly and has had ample opportunity
for observation, is fully convinced of the
value of the influence of sea air as an
auxiliary in the treatment of surgical op
erations on the scrofulous. The greatest
triumph, however, is achieved in the
treatment for the prevention of tubercu
losis. How often children that have the
hereditary predisposition to tuberculosis
come down with the disease after they
have passed through an attack of one of
the acute eruptive diseases, whooping
cough, etc. Through judicious choice
of residence at the seaside, this danger to
the convalescent is largely averted. Favor
able influence of the ocean air is shown
distinctly in the native-born population.
While in the department of the Seine
among 1000 persons under the age of
twenty years, 10 scrofulous persons are
found and in the interior department of
Nievre, even 80 exist In some of the de-
partments upon the shore of the sea in
Northern France only one scrofulous per-
son is found.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Camden's Boom.

Camden is about to experience a land
boom OF most generous proportions The
boom has been under consideration for a
long time and the prime mover is Hon.
w. w. Justice Of Philadelphia, wealthy
retired merchant. With Mr.. Justice are
associated several other wealthy Philadel-
phia gentlemen, but who desire their
names withheld from the public for the
present. The location of the boom is on
Bowers Hill, the most slightly place in
town. Here about sixty acres of land has
been purchased of E. E. Upham, and the
work of transforming the hill with its
rocky fields, shrubbery and pasture will
soon begin. The land will be divided up
into lots of goodly size, sufficient for a
modern cottage, lawns, drives, etc. A
road three quarters of a mile long will be
constructed from and around the hill from
MI Upham's to the main road, near Rob
ert Dutfy's house. From this road will
be cut nicely graded and constructed ave
nues. On the top of the hill there is a
natural depression of about two acres.
From this will be removed all debris and
an artificial lake constructed. Water for
this lake will be from springs pumped by
windmills. 1t is the intention of the pro-
motors to place beautiful fountain in the
center of this sheet of water and fish will
swim beneath the surface. The cottages
to be erected will be no cheap affairs but
will cost from 81, 200 to 81, 800, with every
modern convenience.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Biggest Farm on Earth.

The largest farm in this country and
probably in the world is situated in the
southwestern part Of louisiana 1t ex-
tends 100 miles east and west. 1t was
purchased in 1888 by a syndicate of north
ern capitalists, by whom it is still oper-
ated. At the time of its purchase it's
1900, 900 acres was vast pasture for cat
tie belonging to few dealers in that
country. Now it is divided into pasture
stations or ranches, existing every six
miles. The fencing is said to have cost
about $4,000. The land is best adapted
for rice, sugar, corn and cotton. A
tract, say half mile wide is taken, and
an engine is placed on each side. The
engines are portable and operate a cable
attached to four plows. By this arrange
ment thirty acres are gone over in day
with the labor of only three men. There
is not single draft horse on the entire
place, if we except those used by the
herders of cattle, of which there are 49,
600 head on the place. The Southern
Pacific railway runs for thirty-six miles
through the farm. The company has
three steamboats, operating on the waters
of the estate, of which 800 miles are
navigable. 1t has also an ice house,
bank, ship yard and rice mills. Knox
vile Tribune.
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wages with which they will purchase
literally the necessities of which they
have been in part deprived for the last
four years.

The advocates of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at-the- ratio Of Is to- l.
without waiting for the consent of any
other nation are absolutely paralyzed by
the advices from London which indicate
that Great Britain, as we'll as France and
other European nations, has indicated to
president Mckinleys commission a will
ingness to CO. cooperate with the United
States in the holding of another inter-
national bimetallic conference. These
gentlemen. who have been insisting that
the United States should jump into free
coinage at once without any attempt at
international action, have constantly as
serted that it would be impossible to get
the cooperation of European nations,
and especially that of Great Britain, but
recent advices from London indicate that
the efforts of the commission are not only
likely to be successful as to the calling Of
conference but that it will probably be
held in the United States and attended by
representatives from all the great nations
of the earth.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
The Pilots Relation to the Master.

Here is recent legal decision in regard
to the relations of pilot and master on
board ship: The pilot certainly does not
''take full charge over the captain,'' and,
strictly speaking, the captain certainly has
authority over the pilot The pilot
acts in charge of the ship, and so long as
he is in charge has the right to the sole
management of the vessel. The master,
however, has always the right, and it may
be his positive duty to resume his au-
thority. He IS not relieved from all re-
spoDsibility by the fact that pilot, even a
compulsory pilot, is on board. If the pilot
shows himself to be incapable, the master is
bound to take the navigation into his own
hands and supercede the pilot; and even
while the pilot is acting the master must
see that the proper duties of the crew are
performed. He still has the governing
power, but he must not interfere with the
pilot unless the safety OF the ship requires
him to do SO. The Marine Journal.
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one way OF another exerted a beneficent
influence. And now, in his seventy fifth
year, he is bringing out through the Har-
pers a new volume of stories, entitled
''Susan's Escort, and Others Though
in the minds of his friends in Boston,
where he was born, Dr.. Hale is always as
ISOLATED with one of the leading Unitarian
churches of the city. of which he has been
pastor for more than thirty years, it is as a
writer that he is best known to the world.
Few stories have had so extraordinary a
popularity as ''My Double, and How He
Undid Me- published in 1859, and "a
Man Without a Country" which first APP
peared anonymously in 1868; and the in
tuence exerted in the development of
systematic charity by DR.. Hale s book en-
titled ''Ten Times One is Ten,' not only
in America but all over the world, has
rarely been equalled in literature.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Hints on Canning and Preserving.

In the August Ladies' Home journal
Mrs. S. T. Korer writes on Canning and
Preserving. ''At the outset of her lesson
She emphasizes the value of securing per
fectly sound and fresh fruits, and the
necessity of getting the cans and canning
appurtenances in readiness in advance.
''To prevent bleakage when filling the
Jars Mrs. Itorer advises they be slipped
''sileWise into kettle of hot water, roll
ing them so that every part may be quick
ly and uniformly heated. Fold a damp
towel, place it at the bottom of pudding
pan, then near the preserving kettle; stand
jar on the towel and if the fruit is
small adjust the funnel; fill quickly to
ovelt1owing. Run heated silver knife
around the inside of the jar to break any
air bubbles that may have been caught
with the fruit, and adjust then lift the lid
from the hot water and place it at once.
If large fruit fill with a wooden spoon,
arranging the fruit so that the weight of
one piece will not destroy the shape of
another. Fill to overtlowing with the
liquid, water or syrup, and fasten tightly.
After sealing stand the jars out of a
draught over night The glass by that
time will have contracted, and the lids
will, in consequence, be loose. Wipe each
jar carefully and give the top an extra
turn. Put away in cool, not cold, dark
closet At the end of week examine
each jar carefully, without shaking OF dis
turbing more than necessary. If you find
the lids slightly indented, the contents
free from air bubbles or froth, and the
liquid settled, you may rest assured they
will keep If you do not find it SO, open
the jars to prevent bursting. Reheat the
fruit, being careful to bring it to a boiling
point, and re cam
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Real Warm Weather Rest and Comfort.

There is powder to be shaken into the
shoes called Aliens Foot-Ease, invented by
Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, n. Y, which
druggists and shoe dealers say is the best
thing they have ever sold to cure swollen.
burning, sore and tender or aching feet.
Some dealers claim that it makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. 1t certainly will cure
corns and bunions and relieve instantly
sweating, hot or smarting feet 1t costs
only quarter, and the inventor will send a
sample free to any address.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
The GrandeSt Remedy,

Mr.. R. B. Greeve, merchant, of Chilhowie,
Va, certifes that he had consumption, was
given up to die, sought all medical treat
ment that money could procure, tried all
relief; spent many nights sitting up 81 in "a
chair; was induced to try DR.. Kings New
Discovery, and was cured by the use of two
bottles. For past three years has been at
tending to business, and says DR.. Kings
New Discovery is the grandest remedy ever
Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs, Colds
and Consumption. 1t don't fail. Trial bot
ties free at Kilgore & Wilson's Drug Store.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

The gold Democracy is finding its ranks
greatly strengthened now that it has en-
States where there are to be elections this
fall Large numbers of men who unwil-
lingly Supported the Bryan ticket and plat
form last year are now falling i'll line with
the gold Democrats in an attempt to Sc
cure true Democracy and control OF the
body bealing that name.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

No tariff law passed in the memory Of
this generation has been as thoroughly ac
ceptable to the people as the one to which
President Mckinley has attached his sig
nature more promptly after Inauguration
than any President ever had done since
Washington.
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Edward Everett Hale.

For variety of talent, for unfaggng zeal
and industry, for character and public
spirit, there is perhaps no living American
who stands more conspicuous than Ed
ward Everett Hale. Clergyman, historian,
story writer, and editor and in each capac-
ity distinguished SUCCESSIVE has passed
his whole life in doing work that has in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

The fact that the farmers of the West
are paying off their mortgaged indebted
ness has put such quantities of money into
the markets that the loan agencies are Of
fenng loans on farm property at reduced
rates ana on terms more favorable than
those of last year,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

EX-candidate BIyan's lamentation that
'eenelallaospelity has not yet appeared"
does not seem to apply to himself since
the newspapers of tie country are busying
themselves with the announcement that
ie Las grown 50 Prosperous and luxurious
u his habits that he wea1s. silk and ruffled
nights shirts, habit which they seem to
assume is rather ont of the prophecies
With gentleman who has so recently
sed as the real and only genuine friend
Ut labor.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

A guest at one of the Bangor hotels,
who was accompanied by his dog, regis
tered as, we will say, "John Jones, NJ.
d." although that is not his name.
81 say Jim," said he to the landlord,
edo you know what the NJ. d. stands
for?''
"Why NJ. D. means Doctor of Med
icine,' said the landlord.
''No it isn't" answered Jones, "It' s
Ny Dog
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

Having assured the country of sutfi
cient revenue and of business activity
through the new tariff, the administration
wants to assure it of the stability and
safety of its currency by legislation at as
early a date as practicable on this subject.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05
Editorial Notes.

The calamity yelpers find their program
or 1897 materially interfered with by the
fact that crops are fight abroad and heavy
in the United States, and that the farmers
are therefore more prosperous in 1897
than for many yeas.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

Those prophets Of evil who have been
-1oaking in lugulrious tones about the
7lental tailings Of Secretary sherman are
finding i'll lis letter to Ambassador Hay
on the tul-seal question so vigorous a
retutaton Of their absurd and indecent
charges that they should not under any
circumstances renew the falsehood which
they have been circulating about him.
Whether even such convincing proof of
the faisity of their assertions will be
sufficient to silence them is doubtful,
since their attacks were, of course, for a
political purpose and with view of dis
c1editing and annoying the Mckinley add
ADMINISTRATION and It's Secretary of State.