The Republican journal., 1898-01-27


severe surgical operation is improving
quite rapidly and is able to be out.
List OF unclaimed letters remaining in the
Belfast post Office for the week ending Jan
22nd: Ladies-Mrs. Phebe McKenney. Gem
tlemen-Mr. frankie Holbrook, Care Wind
sor Hotel, Whalon Kilon.
The Boston Tea Co. have leased the Mar
shall store on Main street, recently occupied
Mrs. r. A. Clifford as a restaurant, and the
place is to be fitted up with plate glass win
dows, new fixtures, etc The Tea Co expects
to take possession about March 1st
The new instruments for the Belfast Band
have been ordered and two have been re-
ceived They double B fiat bass and a
an f fiat tuba and four Z fiat altos by E. S.
Pitcher aud a euphoneum by Chase & Doak.
Tie euphoneum and piccolo have arrived
and are fine instruments The lot will
cost $3.50, exclusive of freight. The fund
for the purchase OF the instruments amounts
to S525,
New ADVERTISEMENTS. See announce
ment OF the assignees of bargains offered at
the sale of clothing, furnishing goods, etc,
at the White Store, 81 Main street. The goods
must be disposed of, and have been marked
down to prices that must ensure sales...
Have you got that sleigh? If not, call on j.
W. Jones, 60 Main street, who can supply
you with anything you want in that line,
Good sleighing is assured for some time to
come, and moonlight evenings are at hand.
Get sleigh. Burkett's bargains continue
right along, and while others are sleigbing
he is staying - prices Good, reliable
agents, men or women, wanted at once.
Address ''Z,' Belfast, Me-. Chase < Doak
have new styles in metal grdles and hat
pins.
SLAUGHTER OF RODENTS. The vicinity of
the railroad track at the freight station was
the scene of a wholesale slaughter of inno-
cents (?) Sunday. The high tide drove an
army of rats from their abode under the
Lewis wharf, and they started for shelter on
the mainland. But an unexpected obstacle
met them in the form of the beautiful snow,
and the fugitives were soon so badly chilled
that they could hardly move. At this stage
they We're discovered by the boys, who at
once went cunning for them with clubs,
and when the battle was ended a count OF
the slain showed 209 victims. In one pile
there were 137, while the field of battle was
strewn with the bodies of their comrades.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Schooner Maria Webster
went to Isle Haut last week to get load
of sheep for Simmons and Freeman of Waldo,
but when they got there the sheep-fold was
bare--a Rockland dealer had been there and
bought the whole flock. Schs. Eliza j.
ron We're at New York last week discharg-
lng, and sch Willie L. Newton was loading
for Brunswick, Ga. The big four masted
schooner W. B. Palmer receives 81 per ton
for carrying coal from Newport News to
Boston. ... Sch. James Holmes will leave
Lewis wharf, Boston, tomorrow, Friday, for
Belfast, with general cargo. Sch. Adelia
7. Carleton arrived yesterday from Barren
Island, n. Y, with phosphate for L. A.
Knowlton. Sch. John NJ. Flske arrived
yesterday from Portland with corn and oats
for L. T. Shales & Co.
SLEIGHING. Up to the present time Janu-
ary has given US continuous sleighing. The
night of Dec. 31st enough snow fell TO make
good shedding. and each storm since up to
last Sunday has improved the travelling.
When the roads got worn down and slewv
there came a slight fall OF snow to make it
all right. Thursday, Jan. 10Th, 6 inches of
damp snow fell, which made as good sleigh
ing as could be asked for The storm of
Sunday, Jan. 23d, it was feared would block
the roads and cause trouble, but the roads
were broken out the next day and sleigh
riding was resumed. 1t is likely to continue
for some time, as the large body of snow on
dinary rainstorm After the above was put
in type another clustering storm set in, be-
ginning early Wednesday morning and was
in progress when The Journal went to press
THE PEOPLES LECTURE COURSE The
fourth entertainment in the Peoples Lecture
Course was given Monday evening in the
Belfast Opera House. The lecturer was DR..
James Hedley of Cleveland, Ohio, and his
subject was "What is a Man Worth 9" DR..
Hedley is possessed of marked personality,
and he held the closest attention of large
audience throughout his discourse Without
preamble he at once entered upon the dis
cussion of Lis subject, taking as an illustra-
ton famous painter, who became poor and
died unknown in garret in London This
painters greatest work was entitled Peace.
and represented thrush upon its nest The
painters remains We're taken to the dissect-
ing room aud used as a subject to demon
strate the chemistry of the human body. The
demonstration found the proper quantities of
salt, sugar, carbon, calcium and glue, all
having a certain commercial value, but the
worth of the man cannot be measured by
such method. His worth lay in mis- work
tor humanity, which far exceeded the COM
mercial value of his chemical Ingredients
1t is not the physical or chemical that makes
the worth of the man. 1t is the character
We cannot measure mans worth by chemi-
cal analysis, nor by the epitaph on his tomb
stone, nor by his eloquent words glibly
spoken; but by his character. Character
and reputation are not synonymous. Char
acter is what man really is. To be at its
best it must be coupled with persistence,
understanding faith and Loot opd rra,ta.+