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The Press., 1898-01-06
Neatly Stated.

Rather a neat way of stating an awk- ward fact was adopted by recent ap- plicant for a pension. The applicant mad been wounded while his regiment was in retreat, but he did not say it that way. ''I received my wound," he said, "while marching rapidly in front of the enemy"
The Press., 1898-01-06

An old Welshw oman of the old school says that the best thing to do with boys who are rough and stubborn is to send them to work in the pits. Weak ones, :" she added, fought to be brought up as ministers. and them as isn t rough DOT weak as pupil teachers ''
The Press., 1898-01-06

Geurge-Is it true that your cousin is in love with Jack Fitzbooby?
 Fred-You can judge for yourself. She eats her dinner before she opens his letters. Gazette
The Press., 1898-01-06
What WWHDO2

It will arrest loss of flesh and restore to a normal condition the infant, the child and the adult. It will enrich the blood of the anemic; :; viii stop the cough, heal the irrita- ton of the throat and 1ungs, and cure ineipient consumption. We make this statement because the experience of twenty-five years has proven it in tens of thousands of cases. Be sHrs ,oa get ScoTT'S EmHision.
 soc. and $I.oo, all druggists.
 SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
The Press., 1898-01-06
To ExpeI Disease

from the human system, in which -un- der certain conditions - disease germs flourish and thrive, or which often pre- sents fertile soil for the propagation of of such unwelcome guests, take
The Press., 1898-01-06
A Thirteen Month Year.

It is suggested that on Jan. 1, 1900, a new division of the;Iyear into 13 months be instituted. If such division were made, the first 12 months would have 29 days, or four weeks each, and the new month 29 days, to make 365, and 30 in leap years. After few days there would be no need to refer to calen- dars, as the same day of the week would have the same date through the year. If Jan. were, say, Monday, every Mon day would be the 1st, 9th, 18th and 22d; every Tuesday the 2d, 9th, 18th and 23d, and so on through the year. The changes of the moon would be on about the same dates through the year, and many calculations, like interest, dates of maturing notes, Easter and many other important dates would be simpli- fled d-Exchange
The Press., 1898-01-06

Prosperity comes quickest to the man whose liver is in good condition. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are famous little pills for constipation. biliousness, indigestion and all stomach and liver troubles. W. D. Heald.
The Press., 1898-01-06
Stop! Women,

And consider that in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a woman-a woman whose ex- perience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any living phy- sician, male or female.
 You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man; besides, a man does not understand, simply because he is 8 man.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Miss Allie Hughes. Norfolk, Va, was friehtfully burned on the face and neck. Pain was instantly relieved bv DeWitt'e Witch Hazel Salve. which healed the in- i'1rv without leaving a scar It is the famous pile remedy. W. D. Heald
The Press., 1898-01-06
What is Scott'S
 E muISiOn?

It is a strengthening food and tonic, remarkable in its f1esh-forn- ing properties. It contains Cod Liver Oil emu1sified or partially digested, combined with the we'll known and highly prized Hypo- phosphites of Lime and Soda, so that their potency is materially increased.
The Press., 1898-01-06

George Elliot is said to have written 'Middlemarch" in four months.
The Press., 1898-01-06

IT IS PREPARED TO PAY HAND. 5OMELY FOR ASSISTANCE REr. OERED. It wishes the services of ono reliable man or woman in every town, village, country district, oI manufacturing establishment in every State. All that is required of any one is reliability, earnestness and work. Fo matter on what other work you arc engaged. it will pay you to examine into this offer.
 Apply, stating position, capability and refer inces, u THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE,
 IrvngInn on-lhc H mdsnn ]. York.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Thomson required three years of time to write. revise and finish ''The Seasons"
The Press., 1898-01-06

Hawthorne spent from six months to a year in the composition of each of his romances
The Press., 1898-01-06

It is easy to catch a cold and just as easy to get rid of it if you commence early to use One Minute Cough Cure. It cures coughs, colds. bronchitis. pneumonia and all throat and lung troubles. It ia pleas W. D. Heald.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Swift employed the odd hours of over two years in work upon the "Tale of a
The Press., 1898-01-06

J. A. Perkins, of Antiquity. O., was for thirty years needlessly tortured hy physicians for the cure of eczema. He was quickly cured by using Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the famous healing salve for piles and skin diseases. w. D.. Heald.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Mrs. Mary Bird. Harrishnrg Pa says. "Mv child is worth millions to me: vet would have lost her hy croup had I not invested twentv-five cents in bottle of One Minute Cough Cure" It cures coughs, colds and all throat and lung troubles. w. D. Heald
The Press., 1898-01-06

o. w. o. Hardman, when sheriff If Ty Ter Co.,, w. Va, was at one time almost prostrated with cold. He used Cham herlain's Cough Remedy. and was so much pleased with the quick relief end cure it afforded him that he gave the fol- lowing unsolicited testimonial: "To all who may he interested I wish to gay that l have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and find it invaluable for coughs and colds" For sale at the drug stores of F, K. Taft, Stafford Springs, and G. L. Phil lips, South Coventry
The Press., 1898-01-06

De Foe is said to have written "Robin- son Crusoe" in six months
The Press., 1898-01-06

The Cosmopolitan Magazine. edited by JoHH BRsBEN WALKER, wishes tO add a quarter of a million to it's clientele. already the larg- est, of intelligent thiuking reade rs possessed bV any periodical m the world
The Press., 1898-01-06
A London Incident.


 are not allowed to take the tools of a defaulting tenant for rent. Yet wom- an complained to the magistrate in west London that her landlord had seized her sewing machine for rent, and so had deprived her of the means of livelihood. The machine did not belong to her. She had it On the hire system. The magistrate told her that she could not recover it. and sine would not only have to lose the machine. but also to pay its value to the firm from which she hired it.-Woman's Journal.
 A CLEVER TRICK.-It certainly looks like it. but there is really DO trick about it. Anybody can try it who has Lame Back and Weak Kidneys, Malaria or ner- vous trouble. We mean he can cure him. self right away by taking Electric Bit ters. This medicine tones up the whole system. acts as a stimulant to the Liver and Kidneys. is blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures Constipation, Headache, Painting Spells, Sleeeplessness and MAl- ancholy. It is purely vegetable, mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guaranteed. Only soc. bottle at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. 3
The Press., 1898-01-06

Mrs. Clark required sixteen years to prepare the "Concordance to Shakes. peare."
The Press., 1898-01-06

Mrs. M. R. Ford, Ruddells, Ill.,, suf- fered for eight years from dyspepsia and chronic constipation. .anI was finally cured ny using DeWitt's Little Early Risers. the famous little pills for all stomach and liver troubles. W. D. Heald.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Bryon spent the leisure hours of nearly four years in the preparation of the first two cantos of "Childe Harold"
The Press., 1898-01-06

Longfellow turned out about one vol ume of poems year f,r many years. Nearly four years were required for his transl ttions of Dante.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O., says, After two doctors gave up my boy to die, saved him from croup hy using One Minute Cough Cure" It is the quickest and most certain remedy for coughs. colds. and all throat and lung troubles. w. D. Heald.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Bulwer Lytton usually composed a novel in about six months.
The Press., 1898-01-06

Hood wrote "The Bridge of Signs" in a single afternoon.
 One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly. That's what you want. w. D. Heald.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
Havana and Yellow Fever.

Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine
unsani tary condition of Havana:
'The harbor of Havana is cesspool
wnich for years has received the drain
age OF the city; besides, it is a veritable
cul- de-sac, which cannot be secured by
the tides or by fresh water streams. The
wharves on the Havana side of the harbor
are notorious as sources of infection. An
examination of the records of the quaran-
tine stations on the South Atlantic and
Gulf coasts for 1894, shows eleven cases
of yellow fever, all having been taken
from vessels arriving at the Dry Tortugas
station from the wharves in Havana. Two
of these wharves, the Tallapiedra and the
San Jose, are especially dangerous.
Under the Tallapiedra, empties the sew
er from the military hospital, where the
yellow fever patients from the army are
treated 1t has been said that no vessel
with a nan-immune crew on board has
ever been tied to this wharf without yell
low fever appearing among them. SO
well known is it as a danger point that
sailors call it ''Dead Mans Hole" and so
great is the danger of tying up to it, that
captains of American vessels have been
known to pay for the privilege of dis
charging cargoes on lighters in the open
bay, the payment being made by deduc-
ton from freight charges, amounting fire.
quently to $500 or $500. American cap
tains have frequently asserted that the
United States Government should not al
low vessels to go to this wharf"
Sanitary engineers have repeatedly
shown that these conditions are wholly
unnecessary. That reform Of this kind
is practicable seems to have been demon
strated in the experience of Vera Cruz,
whose harbor was formerly almost as
great menace to the United States as
Havana. With the great engineering
changes at Vera Cruz, brought about
under the leadership Of President Diaz,
the disease has been practically wiped out
in that city. Forum.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
Law of Ocean Trade.

A declaration of war or the beginning
of hostilities without formal declaration
changes the international legal status of
every civilized nation. The two hostile
powers become belligerents and ,all the
others neutrals. To the former are
conceded rights and on the latter devolve
obligations which do not exist in time
of peace On the ocean commerce is
subject to the international law of war.
OF course all direct trade between the
belligerents is broken off, but neutral
vessels-in the absence of a blockade
may continue in commerce with either OF
both of the belligerents, but under re
strictions imposed by the law of nations.
They may not, for example, carry to either
any contraband articles, such as arms,
munitions of war, etc. Each belligerent
has tue right to capture all merchant
vessels under the flag of the enemy on
the high seas and all goods of the enemy
in such vessels. Each has the right to
capture all contraband articles destined
for the other in a neutral vessel This
right carries with it the right of search
Hence, every neutral vessel on the high
seas in time of war is liable to be stopped
and searched by an armed cruiser of
either belligerent. AS a rule the right is
exercised only in suspicious cases, where
there is reason to believe or suspect that
contraband is being carried.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
Rockland Breakwater.

A representative of Boston concern
which will submit bid for the contract
of dredging Rockland harbor and remov-
ing the Lodges, an important piece of
work for which Congress at this session
appropriated $500, 600, has been i'll Rock
land recently.
Bids for this work will be opened at
Portland, April 9th, and it is understood
that several local contractors will be
found in the list of those wanting the con
tract. The work of dredging, removing
lodges and the completion of the Rock
land breakwater job, will make Rockland
harbor the scene of some very busy opera
lions this summer. Work on the break
water job, the contract for which was
taken last spring by Chas. X. Souther of
Boston, will be resumed the latter part of
next week. The stone comes from Bald
island, where the New England Dredging
Company recently opened quarry and
now have quite an extensive plant. The
breakwater is supposed to be completed
this year but an enormous amount Of
work remains to be done and it is quite a
question whether Mr. Souther's crew will
be able to have the job closed up by that
time. The Rockland breakwater, it may
be added, has proved of inestimable bene-
fit to Rockland harbor in the past few
years and when completed this will be
one of the best protected seaports on the
Atlantic coast
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
Loss of the Bark Har, ard.

A cablegram was received in this city
yesterday afternoon from Capt. L. A. Col
cord of the bark Harvard, confirming the
loss of that vessel at Grand Turk yester-
day morning. The Harvard was bound
from Barbados to Turk Island in bal
last, and had jus; reached the latter place,
to load cargo of salt for Providence,
when she was driven ashore and totally
wrecked. The Harvard was vessel OF
9S2 tons net, and 1893 tons gross; she
was Isl feet in length, 50. : feet of beam
and PIP depth of hold. She was built at
Newburyport in 1878. and was owned by
Foster & Pray of this city. The vessel
carried a crew of about II men all told,
ali of whom We're saved. The valuation
of the lost vessel IS placed at s15, 900,
upon which there is partial insurance il
Boston companies. [Boston journal
March 30th.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
The Influence of Medicines.

The idea formerly entertained by the aver
age person was that medicines acted mystic
riously; exerting a magical kind of power
that was not understood, but, nevertheless.
of undoub ted potency. To day we know that
medicines are only useful in supplying that
which defective constitutions lack. Science
has come into the field of medicine, and
with science has come Anglers Petroleum
Emulsion, for the rebuilding of weak or dis
eased lungs. Soothing, healing and purify
ing, it strengthens and rebuilds by supply.
ing just the vitalizing and nourishing ele-
ments needed. Perfectly agreeable to take
and aids digestion and bowel action.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
Our Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 4th, 1898.
The disposition of free silver organs and
orators to deny the improvement in prices
of farm products which has occurred in
the face of the steady fall in the price of
silver has led somebody to make a com
pa1ison of the prices quoted in the Omaha
World Herald of recent date with its
quotations at the date of the adoption of
the Chicago platform. This table is
specially interesting since it includes
practically all articles of farm production,
showing an increase in the price of every
one, and thus contr0yerting the assertion
that the increase in prices is confined to
breadstuffs and due to the shortage abroad.
The table, which has Just been published
in the Congressional Record, compares
the prices quoted in the World Herald on
the day of Nh. Blyan's nomination, July
10, 1896, with those quoted in that paper
q months later, March 10, 1898, and is
as follows:
Table showing prices of farm products quoted
i'll Omaha World Herald, July 10. 1896 (date of
Bryan's nominatlou) compared with its quota
lions of prices March TO- 1898.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

Secretary Wilson believes the market
abroad for American corn can be greatly
widened. He says it is surprising how
little Europeans know about this great
staple and how they insist on considering
1t suitable only for stock feed. They know
nothing about the dozen and one tooth
some dishes which can be prepared from
it by an American cook, and so long as
they are left alone they will never learn
Secretary Wilson hopes to educate them.
He has requested Congress to allow him
sufficient appropriation to make an ex-
tensive exhibit of corn and it's products at
the great Paris Exposition, where all
Europe will assemble, and to there demon
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07
WHEN TRAVELLING.

Whether on pleasure bent or business,
take on every trip bottle of Syrup of Figs,
as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on
the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing
fevers, headaches and other forms of sick
ness For sale in 50 cent bottles by all lead
ing druggists. Manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

The contrast between labor conditions
IN Europe and in the United States under
its protective tariff is pointed out in a
recent report from Switzerland by Consul
@}eneral Dubois, who shows the average
wages of carpenters and joiners in Europe
70 be 50 cents day against &. 81 in the
United States, and says that as result
those OF Europe are compelled to live
oheapy, their chief food being bread and
pota toes, seldom using meat, living in
tenement houses and in every way less
comfortably supplied than those of the
United States. Locomotive firemen in
europe, he says, consider themselves well
paid if their earnings amount to S22 per
month, while the ordinary locomotive
fremen in the United States earn usually
$50 per month. The journeyman tailor
IN Central Europe gets only 50 for % hours
work while his fellow workman in the
United States gets S12 for 60 hours work
For all foods purchased in Europe, la
borers there must pay as much and
frequently more than American workmen
pay for the same kind and quality in this
country.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

power in the world The navies OF Great
Britain, France, Russia and Italy rank
ahead In the order named. Germany and
the United States are about tied.
Our present effective fighting force con-
slsts OF four battle ships of the first class,
one battle ship of the second class, two
armored cruisers, eighteen cruisers, hf-
teen gunboats, six double turreted mont
tors, one ram, one dynamite boat, one
dispatch boat, one transport and eight
torpedo boats.
The Iowa weighs nearly u, 600 tons, and
as twenty tons is the average load OF
freight car and twelve cars is good load
tor locomotive engine, it would take fifty
locomotives to haul the great steel struct-
ure.
The powder used is brown and in chunks
the size of a caramel. A charge for the
biggest guns weighs 800 pounds and is
hoisted to the breech by a derrick, the
powder being sewed up in burlap bags.
Armor plates are tested by firing steel
proJectiles weighing from 100 to 1900
pounds at them from guns charged with
500 pounds of powder and at distance of
about city block
Our battle ships have speed OF from
htteen to seventeen knots an hour. Cruls-
ers make nineteen to twenty-four knots,
while the monitors can travel only five to
seven knots
The biggest guns in the navy are 40 feet
long, big enough for man to crawl into;
feet in diameter at their largest part and
weigh 135, 500 pounds or Whereabouts.
There are six Rear Admirals in active
service. The offices Of Vice Admiral and
Admiral are untitled, so there is no head
# tln -, T
Barnacles form on the hull of ship,
will decrease the speed OF a ship ID per
cent. and it must go into dry dock.
Sixty-one merchant vessels belong to
the auxiliary navy These ships are sub
sided and by contract must be given to
the United States on demand.
Some of the guns in the navy can fire a
shot twelve miles, farther than a man can
see, for the guns are aimed and sighted
by machinery
The amount expended by the Navy De
partment in 1897 was S34, 561, SIG. This
is a larger sum than has been expended in
any year since 1866.
In a battle the woodwork and all arti-
cles of wood are either slowed below or
thrown overheard lest the men be injured
by splinters.
The origin of the Navy Department may
be said to date from October -, 1775.
when Congress authorized the equipment
of two cruisers
The fastest vessels in the navy are the
torpedo boats Porter and Dupont each Of
which can travel 215 knots an hour.
Battle ships cost from =, 800 600 to IS :
80 600, anil cruisers from 5000, 900 to
81, 600, 600 A good torpedo boat costs
over 500, 600.
Battle shps are for the heavy work :
cruisers arc commerce destroyersi moni-
The Indiana ctui0 lie OItSidp SANDY
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

strate in thoroughly practical way, even
down to the baking of mullins, the value
of American corn as an article of table
diet. Mr.. Wilson says that a mistake has
been made in the past in attempting to
induce the poorest classes, who live on
only one article of diet, to substitute corn
meal for wheat or rye flour. They are
unable 10 have more than one staple article
possess enough muscle making constitu-
ents to displace flour. He looks for its
introduction rather among class able to
afford more than this single diet, who will
appreciate its sweetness and wholesome
ness and its low cost
But little has been heard of late of the
natural gas boom, but it appears it has
had its rise, its Decline and now the sup
ply is said to be nearly exhausted. For
six or seven years the decreasing pressure
has forced nearly all the companies that
supply large cities to put in pumping
plants for driving the gas through their
pipes. There has been almost criminal
waste of this useful agent, which has natu
rally fastened the inevitable end A re-
cent writer on the subject predicts that
artificial fuel gas will take the place of
the natural gas. He says: "Most OF those
who have experienced the comfort and
convenience of natural gas, both for do
mestc and industrial purposes, will, IN
doubtedly, gladly pay more for artificial
substitutes rather than return to the use
of coal, and the near future is likely to see
rapid development of generating high
grade of fuel gas
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

Mrs. Roomer; "What measures do you
adopt to get rid of boarders who are bad
pay!" Mrs. Board: ION Just give them
little cold shoulder Philadelphia North
American.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
TEN effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY NEW YORK, hH
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
Iousness, Indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 2oc.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

Eczema, scald head, hives, itchiness OF
the skin of any sort, instantly relieved, per-
manently cured. Doan's Ointment. At any
drug store.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

Ordinary household accidents have no
terrors when there's a bottle of DIR. Thomas
Electric Oil in the medicine chest. Heals
burns, cuts, bruises, sprains. Instant re-
lief