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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-10-27
Prohibition in Vermont.

Here is what ex-Gov. CIRCUIT of Vermont
had to say in his valedictory address to the
legislature on an interesting topic:
Prohibition continues to be one of the
most interesting features of our State gov
eminent, more vital to the welfare of our
society than any other, and deserves your
most careful, earnest consideration.
Two thirds of the criminal class attribute
their downfall to the use of alcoholic stimu-
lants, and an equal percentage of the insane
and paupers can ascrlbe their misfortunes
to the same cause.
The prohibitory law is well enforced in
the rural sections, fairly we'll enforced in a
few of the larger towns, indifferently en-
! forced in some of them, and openly disre-
garded in others. The prohibitory cause in
this State is substantially in the same con-
, dition as two years ago. The law is as well
enforced now as then, possibly better, but this
does not meet the situation. Some localities,
but few, however, to our credit be it said
persist III tagrant vioation--a fact well
known to the officials whose duty it is to en-
force the law. There is law enough, there are
officials enough, and we will never be self
respecting people until enforcement of the
prohibitory law is triumphant. After two
years official experience please note the OPP
lnlon that the law can be entered well
one law as another, in all sections of the
State alike, when complainant, prosecutor,
witness, judge, jury and citizen cooperate
in so ordering.
The States attorneys hold the key to the
situation and the Judges of the courts turn
it when they a low certificates of pay. Great
power for veal or woe to our people rests
with the Judges who hold our county courts
The Highest Mountain.
The S H. Eldredge geological survey
party, which has just returned to Seattle
from the Cooks Inlet country, is declared TO
have discovered the highest mountain in
North America. The peak, which towers
far above Mount St, Elias, is situated in
Alaska to the right of the Sushitua river.
The government photographer took trian.
gulagions of the elevations the exact height
of the peak, which he decided to be more
than 10000 feet. The mountain was named
Rullshae, word spoken in exclamation by
the Indian guide of the party upon first be-
holding the wonderful peak. The members
OF the party are reported to have expressed
the opinion that an ascent of Bullshae
would be almost impossible so precpitous
are its sides.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-10-27

WASHINGTON WHIsPERINGs. The navy
department Oct. 18th announced its deci-
sion regarding the court martial of Chap
lain Mcintyre. 1t found him guilty and
sentenced him to dismissal from the naval
service. The charges were founded upon
the ehaplain's criticisms of the superior
officers in "a lecture. The Treasury De-
partment has just been advised that
the Governor General of the Dutch East
Indies has issued a proclamation that all
American yachts having war correspond
ents on board will be treated as priva-
teers. .... The Commissioner of Navigation
has instructed all Collectors of Customs
on and after April l, 1899, to require
British yachts visiting American ports to
enter and clear and pay tonnage taxes the
same as merchant vessels. This step is
taken in consequence of Great Britain i'm
posing light duties on American yachts
visiting English ports. Plans for the new
battleship Maine have been prepared a d
accepted by the naval department The
ship will not be ready for service under
two years, but when she is completed she
will be one of the most formidable in the
world. In point of size she will be near
ly twice as large as the old Maine and per-
haps more than twice as powerful as a
fighting machine. She will have all the
| Improvements known to naval architec
ture and will be faster by far than any
battleship now atloat,
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STATE OF MAIN =

WALDO SIS. Taken this eleventh day of Ncto-
~ ber,A. ID. 1898, ON execution dated the 2Sth
day of September. A d. 1898, issued ON ludg
ment rendered by the supreme Judicial Court for
the County of Waldo. at a term thereof begun
and held at Belfast within and for said County OF
Waldo on the third Tuesday of September, A u.
1898, on the sixth day of the term, being the 2Rth
day of September A. ID. 1898, in favor of NJ c.
Hill OF said Belfast, Collector of taxes for the
City of Belfast in said County for the year Sa7
against Frank l.. Towle of Belfast i'll said County,
and particularly against the Homestead on y.
side OF Searsport shore road, End. W of lane
between lots "a and %. Lot %, Div l, contain
ing eIeven-siXteenths of an acre and situated III
said Belfast, for eleven dollars and seventy &c nts
debt or damage, and eight dollars and fifty ven
cents cost of suit, and will he sold at public auc-
tion at the office of Geo. f. johnson in Belfast
in said County of Waldo, to the highest bidder,
on the 22nd day of November, A. d 1898, al
nine O'Clock in the forenoon, the above described
real estate and all the right, title and interest
which the said Frank L. Towle has i'll and to the
same. OF had on the first day of August, A. II.
1898, at O'Clock an0 five minutes in the fore
noon, the time when the same was attached on
the original writ in the same suit, to wit The,
Homestead on n side of -earNpart shore road
2nd. W Of lane between lots "a and Is Lot %,
Div. l. containing eleven siNteenths Of an acre
and situated i'll said Belfast.
Dated this lth day of October. A. ~. 1898.
SAM Ell q NORTON. Sheriff.
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coming to Belfast. walked eight miles of the

distance before the stage overlook him.
Samuel Kilgore, who recently came here
to live with his son, Postmaster Fl. L. Kill
wright and owned and managed large num-
Der of teams, in the town of Smithtield. He
then retired to farm aud lived there until
about two years ago, when he sold out and
went to visit his children. He is somewhat
lame, but his lungs and heart are pronounc-
ed as sound as those of a man of go, and his
mind and eyeslght are good. His lameness
is the result of an accident
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-10-27

PiIl-Fame 10 cents a vial for DR. Ag-
news Liver Pills would not make them the
fame they enjoy to-day if the cura tive powers
We're not in them. Worth will get to the top
and that accounts for the wonderful demand
for these little gems. They positively cure
constipation, BiIiousness, Sick Headache
Sold by Kilgore & Wilson and A. A. Howes
e. Goa
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-10-27
Chief OF POLICE SPEAKS
Ringing Words Advising People to Use
DR.. Creene's Nervura.
From His Statement No One Can Doubt that
DR.. Greene's Nervura is the Best and
Surest Remedy in the World to Cure.

Chief of Police Henry W.
Mason, of New Bedford, Mass. ,
writes to the people:
ut gives me pleasure to add
my testimony in this brief
note to that of many others,
of the high esteem in which
DR.. Greene's Nervura blood
and nerve remedy is held in
this community. The fact that
IL is the prescription of a regu-
lar physician adds to the conf
dence in which it is held by
the public. | have given DIR.
Greene's Nervura to d personal
friend who was i'll, and was
rejoiced to hear from his own
lips an account of the benefit
he had received. From re-
port and experience, no doubt
exists of the great value of DR..
Greene's Nervura which I
recommend.
HENRY W. MASON.
Chief of Police of New Bed
ford, Mass"
This is your golden oppor-
tunity to be cured and DR..
Greene's Nervura is the rem
edy 10 cure you. 1t is beyond
all question the grandest rem
edy and surest cure the world
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Cures Group, sore throat. pulmonary trou-
bles.-Monarch over pain of every sort. DR..
Thomas Electric Oil.
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"a dose in time saves lives DIR. Woods
Norway Pine syrup; natures remedy for
coughs, colds, pulmonary diseases of every
The times., 1898-11-13
our marriages, and concludes it with

four marriages, and concludes 1t with
this: -s,,ss.-- s..si
"what'll / do in hebben wild SO many hus-
bands? i won't hab but one. bless de Lawd, an
dat's Caesah. Tom he won't be dab; Joe, he'll be
SO tuck up wild de harpa an de banjos dat he
won't think Of muffin else; an Mistah Smith can
Joy hisself wild dat fust wife"
1t is in the delineation of the Indiana
farmer that the author is at her best,
whether the farmer is on his native
heath or in the city AN 1dyl of the
Wabash" AT Way Station Mrs.
Brooks Change of Heart IAN Abiding
Love" "A Farmhouse Drama IAN Oc-
cult Experience" and "A Movement in
Art are seven character sketches
which 1t would be hard to equal in the
literature of the Middle West. The au-
thor does not idealiZe her subject: she
brings out all the small absurdities and
whimsicalities of the country person
with perfect candor; but within and
above it all, there is the sympathetic
understanding and faith or the true nov-
elist. Out of the barest, hardest and
most common lives that magician's
wand can weave enchantments; and the
wand belongs to Miss Nicholas. She has
humor and, what is rarer, pathos, she
has insight, dramatic power and sub
tlety, and she does not overdraw a pic
ture. One or two of the tales are slight
ly commonplace in construction but life
itself is not always strikingly original.
During the last generation we have de-
veloped "A sort of local literature in va
rious parts of the country, each section
having its special romance writer who
has made an accurate study of its life
1t looks very much as If Indiana would
henceforth belong TO Anna Nicholas. Un-
dianapolis: The Bowen-M Merrill Compa-
n.y.
The times., 1898-11-13
In The Fnu Afternoon,

There's burnish of fine scarlet on the pear that
drops today,
Now the glory of the ripe and rich autumnal
Moons has come;
The peach is oyer-mellow, and the apple bends
the spray,
And there's honey, yes there's honey in the
purple of The plum.
With dust upon the drooring of mis- gold and
wings
The butterfly clings loosely where tine last
flowers fame and shine;
Down the dusk Of lonely gaTden-aisles the yell
low leaf still clinSs,
And the grape upon the trells is bursting with
its wine.
There's hioom upon the mountain, and there's
mist upon the stream.
There's light huns low in heaven that never
shone before:
We sing softly with low voices in a slow and
waking dream,
While far of the breaker feathers in dull music
up the shore.
But by ftfuI flow and falling there blows bod
ing breath.
wind that steals from spaces of unknown and
namelcss chill.
And it w-aPs about our dreaming darker dream
OF death,
And lakes the singing from the lip and makes
the music still,
Harriet Prescott spoffOrd, in Harper's Bazar.
The times., 1898-11-13
An Indiana Book.

'An Idyl Of the Wabash and Other In
diana Stories" is distinct acquisition
TO American literature in the department
of fiction. There have been more tales
of farm and village life written in the
last twenty years than there are town
ships and villages in the United States.
Following the lead of Mary E wilkins,
Mary n. Murfree, Thomas Nelson Pace
and Eugene Field, and dimly perceiving
the wealth of literary material in the
common life of America, hundreds of au-
thors have tried their prentice hands at
the dialect story, and most of them have
failed. Here and there is one who really
has something to say and says it. Miss
Anna Nicholas is a writer of this type
In this little book of Indiana stories she
has done some good work of sort which
she is likely to continue.
The tales vary somewhat In merit but
most of them nre good. 1.-THE Solution
of a Text" a story of negro life, while
It has one or two deliciously humorous
paragraphs, yet misses the indescribable
favor of the real negro dialect story. The
last paragraph is worth quoting. "Aunty
Smith" has been telling the story Of her
The times., 1898-11-13
The NeOphytc.

Tie convent walls loomed black against the sun.
And slowly, in the drear October gloom
] saw the monks go strolling one by one,
With fingers bead-entwined and habits dun,
Through the gay garden in the afternoon.
There. shivering in its windy growing place,
Like the pale ghost OF some forgotten spring,
yellow rose raised its pathetic face.
Last OF its sun-filled, perfume shedding race,
As one beiated in his travelling.
And, as the vesper bells began TO ring.
saw monk, the youngest OF them all,
Pause suddenly before the dropping thing
And bend above ii one worshiping,
His youthful forehead on the lichened wall.
Perchance there came sudden memory
OF one who, sometimes in a dainty hand,
Swung such thing as this for him to see,
Where purple twilight flooded hill and lea
In the green closes of alien land.
Oh. calm, white saints, too still and passionless,
Could We not bid your images arise
In the hot heart beneath the priestly dress7
Not mine the part TO wonder. or 10 guess,
The meaning OF the look within his eyes,
-Woman's Home Companion.
The times., 1898-11-13
In SOrroxy.

'Tis all one whether sit and spin,
'Tis all one whether ] rise and weep,
Hope has no promise with me to keep,
have nothing 10 lose | have nothing to win.
The work falls out of my weary hand,
iiie's path is lost to my aimless feet
The world 10 my vision is incomplete
An atom OF shifting and shapless sand.
The best, out OF all that is best, | miss;
The ligft from the morning is gone away.
The noontide is shadows play,
And love but the hint Of a higher bliss.
All things have fallen to the blindness Of fate;
There Is nothing that either | dcIbt, or believe
Neither has late any trust to retrieve;
Therefore ! cit in my darkness and wait
Thou who hast laid on nv spirit this pain,
Leave me, leave not in the dust;
Grant me TO feel and to know thou art Just
Though the bright daybreak dawn never again.
Alice Cary.
The times., 1898-11-13
New Books Received.

1.-The Cost of Her Pride" BY Mrs Alex
ander. CPhiladelphia: ]. B. Lippin-
colt & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop)
1.-The Casino Girl in London" By Curtis
Durham. (New York: R. f. Fenno
& Coz
Father and SON. BY Arthur Paterson.
New York: r. F. Fenno & Coz
1.-The Days With Old Hickory" BY Ev-
erett 7. Tomlinson. (Boston: Lee &c
Shepard Washington: William Bal
lantyne.)
Imperial America BY William c. Le-
we're. (Chicago: Forbes & Coz
"Cowmen and Rustlers." By Edward s.
Ellis. Philadelphia: Henry T.
Coates & Coz
"Stories of the American Revolution"
BY Everett 7. Tomlinson. Boston:
Lee & Shepard Washington: Will
liam Ballantyne)
"a Little Puritan Rebel" By Edith Rob-
inson. Boston: L. C. Page & Coz
1.-THE Sleeping Beauty" By Martha Ba-
ker (Boston: L. C. Page & Coz
with the Black Prince" by William o.
Stoddard. CNew York: D. Appleton
& Coz
Success Against Odds" BY William o.
Stoddard. tNew York: D. Appleton
"The Ba1ll1t oil IeWkeSpury. by u L.
D. Phelps and Leigh North. tCincin-
natl: The Editor Publishing Compa-
ny)
Belle" BY the author of Pomona"
Lady" etc. Boston: Little, Brown
& Coz
Inside of a Hundred Homes" By Will
liam Martin Johnson. New York:
Doubleday & Mcclure Company. 90
cents.)
John Littlejohn of j." BY George Nor
gan. philadelphia: J. B. Lipplncott
& Coz
Little Masterpieces. Being selections
from the writings of John Ruskin,
Thomas Carlisle and Lord McCauley,
edited by Bliss Perry. New York:
Doubleday & Mcclure Company. 30
cents each)
"Harper's Round Table, 1885," (New York
and London: Harper & Bros.)
Home Games and PARTIES By Mrs.
Hamilton Mott and Mrs. S. T. Roer.
New York: Doubleday & Mcclure
Company. 50 cents.)
Battle of Harlem Heights BY Will
liam R. Shepherd. Phi. D., Half
Moon" SERIES New York and Lon
don: ]. P. Putnam's Sons.)
The times., 1898-11-13
CURRENT VERSE. ;
MY shin.

a II
Down 70 the wnarves the sun goes down,
And the dayfight's tumult and dust and din
Are dying away in the busy town
go to see if my. ship comes in.ss
gaze far the quiet sea. a
Rosy with sunset like mellow wine,
"here ships like lilies lie Tranquility
Many and far-but I see not mine
question the sailors every night.
Who over the buwarks idly lean,
Noting the sails as they come in sight
ifave you seen my beautiful ship come in?''
whence does she comeg' they ask OF me.
Nv no was her masterf and what her name?''
And they smile upon me piiynsly
"hen my answer is ever and ever the same.
Oh! mine was vessel Of strength and truth:
Her sails were as white as a young lamb ;
fleece.
She sailed long since from the port OF Youth;
her master was Love, her name Peace.
And, Ike all beloved and beauteous things,
She faded in distance and doubt away;
W,th only a trrmbie Of snowy wings,
She fpated swan-like down the bay
Carving with her precious freight,
All had gathered by years of pain--
tempting prize to the pirate Fate;
And still ! watch for her back again
Watch from the earliest morning light
TIL tb. PALE stars grieve oer the dying day.
To catch the CLEAN Of the canvas white
Among the Islands which gem the bay.
But sac comes not yet; she will never come
10 gladden. my eyes and spirit more;
And my heart grows hopeless and faint and dumb,
As ! wait and wait upon the lonesome shore,
knowing that tempest and time and storm
Have wrecked and shattered my beaufeors
bark;
Rank seaweeds cover her wasting form,
And her sails, are tattered and stained and
dark.
But the tide comes up and the tide goes down,
And the daylight follows the nights eclipse;
And still with the sailors tanned and brown,
wait on the wharves and watch the ships
And still with patience that IS not hope
For vain and empty it long hath been,
sit on the rough shores rocky slope,
And watch 10 see il my snip comes in.
Elizabeth Akers Allen.
The times., 1898-11-13
Song.

We buried her among The flowers
At falling OF the leaf.
And choked hack all our tears; her Joy
Could never be our grief.
She lies among the living flowers
And grass the only thing
That perishes-or is il that
Our autumn was her spring?
Doubtless if we could see her face.
The smile is settled there
Which almost broke our hearts when last
We knelt by her in prayer.
Wien. with tired eyes and falling breath
And hands crossed on her breast,
Perhaps she saw her Guardian spread
His wings above her rest.
So she sleeps hidden in the flowers;
But yet a little while,
And We shall see her wake and rise,
Fair, with the seli-same smile.
Christina Rossetti.
The times., 1898-11-13

The hero. Edgar Blagrove. boy Of four
teen, chances by a peculiarly Henty-like
providence, to be left by himself at Alex
andria at about the time of the invasion.
He thus becomes involved in some Of the
lively happenings of the period, and in
the course of the book we have descrip-
tion Of the battle of the Pyramids, the
battle of Alexandria, Abercrombie's expe-
dition, Acre, sea fight, and, in fact.
pretty much everything in the campaign
which boy could have wished to see
besides much local color and historical
explanation. New York: Charles Scrib-
ners Sons.)
The times., 1898-11-13
Sweet Companionship.

walk the bosky path by the sea,
Alone, yet not alone, for at my feet
Press the glad flowers with sparkling faces
sweet
To tell their names and histories TO me.
All else in mood dscordant seems 10 be:
Harsh cries of gulls the low waves sullen bea.
The wind that tries its yoicings incomplete,
The fog that comes in chill monotony.
The pimpeTnel where tangled violets grow.
Whispers of English Maud; loved Wordsworth
knew
Yon tall-spired ioxglove with its bells of blue;
Their old romance the bleeding-hearts con-
fesS-
Would that life's friends To me might always
show
Such sweet companionship, such iriendliness
Lillian II. ShuGy, in the Overland Monthly.
The times., 1898-11-13
"It's Only Me.n

/ thought myself indeed secure.
So fast the door. SO firm the lock;
But, loi he. toddiing, comes TO lure
My parent ear with timorous knock.
Ny heart were stone could it Withstand
The sweetness of my baby's plea,
That timorous, baby knocking, and
"Please let me in-it's only me9''
l threw aside the unfinished book,
Regardless OF its tempting charms,
And, opening wide the door. took
My laughing darling in my arms.
Who knows but in eternity
!, like truant child, shall wait
The glories of life to be
Beyond the Heavenly Fathers gate?
And will the Heavenly Father heed
The truant's supplicating cry,
As at the outer door I plead,
'Tis !, o Father, only ~"
Eugene Field.
The times., 1898-11-13
H. C. Wells is improving in health.

1.-The Girls Own Paper" an English pc
riodical published by the Religious Tract
Society, gives some directions on smok-
ing, gotten up for the benefit of young
girls. In this treatise We are informed
that no one should smoke more than half
an ounce of tobacco d day. and for a
girl of seventeen to smoke seventeen ci-
garettes a day Is very wrong." Most
American mothers would say so.
The times., 1898-11-13
LITERARY NOTES.

The late John Foster, of Newport. he
areathed to the city of Boston $50, 900 for
the erection of monument to William
Eilery Charming. The monument is lik =ly
to be placed in the Public Gardens. near
the Arlington Street Church.
The times., 1898-11-13

Can person -,rew ale for his own use without
a license f-om the Government INQUIRER.
A license is not required of a person
brewing beer for his own consumption.
Persons who brew to sell are liable to a
special tax.
The times., 1898-11-13
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Is iinseed oil made from fax seed or from cot.
ton seed? ID H.
From FAX seed though the commercial
Product may be adulterated with cotton
seed OIL p
The times., 1898-11-13

George Gray Barnard whose statue of
Pan Is soon to be placed In Central Park.
is but little over thirty years of age, and
has had a somewhat picturesque career.
At fifteen he was elected taxidermist of
the State University of Iowa. In 1874 he
made his debut with an exhibition Of
eight pieces at the Salon of the Champ
de Mars. and his success was instanta-
neous He was elected an associate of
the Societie Rationale des Beaux Art
and his marble group, THE Two Ma
lures, was quoted among the twelve
which were named as La Fleur du Salon.
The statue of Pan is a gift of the late
Alfred Corning Clark.
The times., 1898-11-13

Is Honskong ! city or an island2 PATRON
Hongkong is an island, at the mouth Of
the Canton River, in China. In the
"Opium War of 1S3S-i2, made by the
British on the Chinese, TO compel the lat
ter to buy opium, which the Chinese
government had tried to keep out OF
their country. because Of the harm that
it did, the British seized the Island OF
Hongkong August q. 1899. II was ceded
to them by the treaty of peace Ia tempo
rary peaceD in January, 1S4l. and the next
year the city of Victoria was founded
on the island. The name "HOngkong'
means Sweet Streams" In 1895 the pop
ulation amounted to 239, ,ils, of whom 226.-
10 We're Chinese.
The times., 1898-11-13

To what religious denomination does Mrs. Nc
kiElcy belong? !. G. 7.
Mrs. Mckinley and the President a.e
both Presbyterians.
The times., 1898-11-13
Recent Publications.

Fables for the Frivolous" by Guy
Wetmore Carryl is merely a hashed-over
version, In rhyme, of the fables of La
Fontaine, with some rather clever illus
trations by Peter Newell. The RHYMES
are neatly. artistically, and, one might
suppose, speedily done, and the chief
quality to be noticed in them is a certain
ingenuity in rhyme making. Not every
author, for instance, would have thought
of rhyming nasal" with "witch-h hazel"
or 'higgledy- -piggledy" with twisted and
wriggled, he" The late Thomas Hood
was dabster at rhyme-making, and SO
were the late Mr. Lowell and the late
Mr. Thackeray. but Mr.. Carryl may chal-
lenge comparison with all of these gem
tlemen, both in the matter of rhymes and
In that of using hard words like 'aeso-
phageal," ''effieacious' and ..magnilo-
quential." (New York: Harper & Bros.)
1.-THE Business Girl by Ruth Ashmore,
is one of those sweetly confidential, mild
ly patronizing and generally amusing and
Irritating ''snide talks with girls" as the
wicked New York Life persists In calling
them. They are amusing to the casual
observer and Irritating to the direct OBJ
ject. The business girl doesn't like to be
The times., 1898-11-13

Max Beerbohm's idea of Hall Game :p-
pears in the last number of the Book
man. Mr.. Caine is represented as a
beetle-browed and wild-eyed sandwich
man