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The Republican journal., 1898-02-17
SheriH's Sale.
STATE OF MAINE. WALDO -.

Taken this 2Sth day of January, A. ID. 1898, on
execution GATED the 10Th Gay of January, A u.
1898, issued ON a judgment rendered 10y the
supreme Judicial Court for the County of Waldo,
at the term of said Court, begun and held at Bel
fast, in said County, the first TUESDAY of Janu-
airy, A. ID. 1898, ON the tenth day of the term
being the fourteenth day of January, A. II. 1898
III favor of HOWARD +. MASON of said Belfast
collector OF taxes for the City of Belfast in SAID
County, for the year 1896, against WALTER II.
RICHARDS of said Belfast, and particularly his
lot and store on f. side of High street. No. III.
beng lot SO. in div / being the store and lot
occupied by INN and situated in said Belfast. for
the sum of forty eight dollars and seventy-tive
cents, debt or damage and nine dollars and sixty
nine cents, cost of suit, and will he sold at public
auction at the office of Geo. +. johnson i'll Belfast
IN said County, to the highest bidder, Satur-
day, the 18th day of March, A. ID. 1898, at nine
O'Clock i'll the forenoon the real estate above de-
scrihed situated i'll said Belfast. and all the right
title and interest which the said Walter n Rich
ards has in and to the same, had the 30th
day of Juy, A. ID 1897 at eight O'Clock and fifty
minutes III the forenoon. the time when the same
was attached on the original writ in the same
suit, to wit: his, the said Richards lot and store
on +. side of High street. No. L. being lot 80,
div. |, being the store and lot occupied by
him and situated in said Belfast
Dated this 2Sth day of January, A. ID. 1898
SAM Ell G. NORTON, Sheriff
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Prayersfor Munyon.
A Leading New England Clergy
man ;nvokes Divine Blessing Upon
Professor Munyon's Humane
Work.

PEOPLE like ministers OF the Gospel
VINO i've for their fellow-men, are most
ardent in their approval of anything that
is OF material benefit to the human race.
The Republican journal., 1898-02-17
PROBATE NOTICES.

At a Probate Court held at Belfast, within an.
the County of Waldo, on the second Tuesda.
February, A. ID. 1898.
ELIZABETH Ri RECESS, widow of GEORGt IS
u BIT RECESS, late of Belfast. in said Conn. .
Waldo, deceased, having presented a peff-.
praying that an allowance may he made g.
out of the personal estate ot said deceased
Ordered, That the said petitioner give noti.s
all persons interested by causing a copy OF
order to be published three weeks successive
the Republican journal printed at Belfast,
they may appear at a Probate Court, to be he'll
Belfast. within and for said County, ON the SD.
ond Tuesday of March next, at ten of the ,.H.
before noon, ami show cause, if any they h.s.
why the prayer of sand petitioner should uu.
granted.
GEO. +. JOHNSON, Judgt
A trne copy. Attest:
CHAs. l.. HAzELTlNE, Regi>t,.
AT a Probate Court held at Belfast within ana
the County Of Waldo, on the second ruesuaN
February, A, II. 1898.
TOHN W HOBBS of Wiuterport in said Colu
y administrator of the estate of SENN1
BRASBRlDGE h, late of Winterport in said
ty of Waldo, deceased, having presented r..
ton praying for license TO sell at public OF pT,s
sale and convey so much OF the real estate o
deceased as VIII produce the sun OF three
dred and five dollars ana seVeuty-four cents
Ordered That the said petitioner give uolie.
all persons interested 10y causing copy uI
order To he published three weeks successive.
the Republican journal, printed at Betd-'
they may appear AT a Probate Court, to be- ..
at Belfast, within ana for said county on rl,..
ond Tuesday of March next. at ten ot the.
before noon and show cause. II amy they
WHY the prayer of said petitioner SAould O.
granted.
GEO Z. JOHNSON, Juo-
A true copy. Attest
crAs r.HAzrtG>r, Eeei.
Ata Probate Court held at Belfast. virbmu.
ne County ni "aldo. uu the second rw-..
The Republican journal., 1898-02-17

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 az.
ceptable to the stomach. prompt il
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, it,
many excellent qualities commend +,
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 VIII
wishes to try it. Donot accept any
substitute
CALIFORNIA FlG SYRUP co.
san FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. kr. NEW YORK NJ
The Republican journal., 1898-02-17

John W HOBBS of Wnterport, in said Coul
y administrator of the estate of SEW OF
BRASBRlDGE, late of Wnterport. in said
ty of Waldo, deceased, having presented a p..
ton praying for license to sell at public pr pr,.
sale and convey so much OF the real estate 1i
decreased as win nrmMmnn thn smnL ~ iLrn..
The record-union., 1898-10-17
An Oversight.

1t was a matter of much apprehension
at the time, that in the campaign on
the Nile in 1881 the British were not
supplied with balloons. After the cap
ture Of Alexandria, continuous efforts
were made to discover the strength Of
Arab, only fourteen miles away, at
Kafrdawar. On the Sd of August, af-
ter many futile attempts, an armored
railway train reconnaissance was made.
The railroad was on comparatively low
ground and as the London Times"
correspondent reported, "the results
were not worth much.' Two days
later a reconnaissance in force was
made, using the armored train again;
this led to a serious engagement, in
which valuable lives were lost, with
little or no gain in knowledge of the
essential facts. There was still an
other reconnaissance, on the 9th, Of
which it was reported, I'VE are no more
certain than before whether his (Ara-
bi's) full power is there, or more south
ward" On the 14th, Arab was OBJ
served to be raising an earthwork to
a great hight.
On the 2Sth of August, when nearly
a month had been wasted the Times
had the following comment: "As the
want of a balloon equipment has been
mentioned in letters from Egypt, 1t
may be stated that all the War De-
partment balloons remain in store in
the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, but
have been recently examined and found
perfectly serviceable." u appears as
though there had been screw loose
somewhere in the British War Depart
ment at that period.-George ]. Var
ney, in Lippincotts.
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OFFICER OF THE DECK.
Important Duty to be Polite and
on the Alert.

Immediately upon stepping on board
of a man-of-war a visitor sees an Off
Ger with a sword belt on walking up
and down the quarter deck. Officers
and sailors come up to this man so
sprucely rigged out, in his neat, hand
some uniform, touch their caps to him,
ask him questions, give him informa-
tion and receive orders from him, and
then they go away from him and he
PAGES his lonely beat, for he is the man
who is on watch, who, while holding
this position, has charge of the ship.
He Is the officer of the deck"
His position is one of extreme re-
sponsibility. He is held accountable
for the safety of the ship and every
thing and everybody on board her Ev-
cry officer or other person in the ship,
whatever may be his rank, who is sub
Ject to the orders of the Captain, ex-
cept the executive officer, the officer
who ranks second to the Captain, is
subordinate to the officer of the deck.
This officer Of the deck cannot leave
his charge until he is regularly re-
neved by some other officer, whose turn
1t is to assume the responsibility, and
he is strictly prohibited by the rules
The record-union., 1898-10-17

there's no use in telling you now, for
the information would not do you any
good. But a man that is used to kill
ing Indians can tell corpse any time
and just how long it has been dead.
Even if that wasn't the case, we had
another method, for we never shot an
Indian except right through the head.
Didn't want to spoil the hide
What on earth would you do with an
Indians hide" asked Nickum.
Cut 'em in slices and make razor
strops of 'em; that's what we always
did with Indian hides. We used to
ship bales of Indian hides to Europe
every year. That's where 1 got my
start"
That must have been as hard a
fight as you had, wasn't it?'
"Yessir All but one Was in a harder
fight than that down in Arizona one
time. Lost more men. The Indians
came on us by surprise and killed
every darn one of us. Not man es-
capped to tell the tale" And then
Gates engaged himself in a foot race
for a street car.-Salt Lake Herald.
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PROOF TO THE CONTRARY.
It Looked as Though the Bald
Young Man Had Lied.

The prematurely bald young man
with downy white mustache had
been doing his best to make a pro-
found impression on his rural relatives.
There was no reason why he should do
this except in obedience to a natural
tendency which is second only to that
of self preservation, the desire to show
off. The old gentleman with heavy
soled boots and black string necktie
had listened silently for . long time.
He broke in on the sexfes of travellers
tales with the remark:
1T kind O. beats my time that the
west end o. this continent should be so
different from the east"
"Oh, if you haven't travelled much
and don't know the difference, this part
of the world is all right" was the an
swer.
"Yes. But it oughtn' to be so mis-
represented. They ought not to COM
plain that the East has gone an or
ganized monopolies to gobble every
thing worth havin' when the west has
all the geysers an the petrif1ed forests
and the trees that you can drive a
horse and wagon through, if you can
find an augur big enough to make the
hole. l know it's all true, too, fur I've
seen pictures of those things in the
Biographies. But this lake you was
tellin' about can't help thinkin you
got imposed on somehow there"
You mean the Great Salt Lake In
Utah. It's there. I saw it with my
own eyes"
'The lake that's so salt fish can't live
in it?"
Certainly"
AN when you went bathin' you
found the water so salt that you
couldn't sink if you tried"
"Yes, indeed. And what's more"
Hold on. I'm not doubtin' your We
racity I don't say you don't tell every
bit of this in good faith. I've had the
same kind of experiences. One time
was in a room where breakfast had
just beer set, and although 1 was a
stranger in the house, l walked up and
took a fried egg off the plate with n
spoon and put in my mouth. Imagine
my surprise when I Immediately be-
gan to raise up and toward the ceilin'.
1t was amazin' how fine I foated. My
wife an the girls was just as surprised
as I was when they came in and saw
me, and I'll never forget how funny
they looked hoppin' up into the air,
tryin' to do the same thing. After
awhile I wanted to get down, but I
couldn't make it. I began to get wor-
The record-union., 1898-10-17
NO DOCTORS BILLS.
How the Physician is Paid in
Sweden

Do you pay doctors bills? Some per-
sons don't. Do you have an idea that
the medicine men are in the same cate
cory with street railway companies and
therefore to be beaten" in season and
out Of season? Do you object to get
ting bill from your physician, and OBJ
ject on general principles? Then go to
Sweden. That's the place for you.
That's the place where the doctors cease
from troubling, and the poor debtor is
at rest No doctors bills go in Sweden
Who wouldn't be a Swede?
When you are i'll in Sweden and re-
quire the services of a physician, all
you have to do is to send for him He
is likely to be an efficient man and
courteous to degree. Your needs will
be administered to and between the
times of feeling your pulse and taking
your temperature he won't slip one of
his professional cards in your hand and
remind you that he charges $40 visit
Nothing is said of payment, and your
doctor looks after you faithfully until
you have recovered. When you feel
like liquidating the obligation you'll find
that it Is case of write your own
ticket d
If you have been holding an office un-
der Tammany prior to your trip to
Sweden, or have struck 1t rich in su-
gar, you may fill out your check for 4
handsome sum. The money will be ac-
cepted and no comment made If you
have been writing on space for some
years or have picked the horse races
wrong end first, you may send a small
donation to the doctor, and it will be
just as internationally received.
The Swedish doctor on his native
heath tends the sick and makes no
rates. His wealthy patients pay him
handsomely, his poorer patients give
what they can afford, and the extreme
ly poor give nothing at all. All get the
same treatment. The system appears
to have it's advantages, but there are
grave doubts as to the practicabilitX
Of it's adoption in America. 1t might
resolve itself into similarity with the
payment Of taxes on property, the prin-
'ciples Of which are so we'll known that
feature is made of the fact that GER
tain rich men honestly pay In proper
ton to their resources.
1t used to be that the doctors in the
Scottish Highlands operated on a SIM
liar principle to that Of the Swedish
medicos Scottish caution must, how
ever, have finally stamped out the
practice, for in the middle Of the pres
ent century the custom was abandoned
Prior to that time the doctors had coll
lected their dues only once year. This
was on a market day and when all the
farmers had assembled the doctors
would go around, getting from the bet
fer class of patianfS 81 or $40 each and
from the poorer farmers as little as
dollar apiece for the years services.-
New York Herald
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HIDDEN TREASURES.
DISCOVERY IN THE TEMPLE OF
ESCHMOUN, IN TUNIS.
Fortunes Have Been Spent IN
Searching For Buried
Wealth.

Another treasure has just been
brought to light, not in Spain TINS tlfIle,
but in TuniS. 1t is said to be composed
OF valuable objects, such as ingots OF
gold, jewels set with diamonds, anu
other precious articles. 1t was dls-
covered in the temple of Eschmoun,
one of the gods whom the Carthagln-
dams venerated, and is therefore no or
dinary treasure. ESchmoun had tlS
temple in Byrsa, the citadel OF Car
thage. Pilgrims were wont to assem-
BILE there to pray for the protection Oh
the god. The Romans were on the
point of taking Byrsa when prudent
citizen removed the treasure and hid II
at the bottom of a grotto, which was
closed up with large stones. There II
was found the other day by a couple
of natives. Desiring to be on good
terms with the law, they laid the mat
ter before a Frenchman, who in his
turn informed the Residency of the
event. An agreement was come TO
according to which the State gave half
of the treasure to the Frenchman and
the two natives and the other half to
the Beaux-Arts.
True or false, the history of this
treasure must not be forgotten. AT all
times human credulity has had a
weakness for hidden treasures. The
reader may remember the stir that
was made by the reported treasure
which was believed to be hidden in the
ground surrounding the cathedral of
st. Denis The authorities ordered a
search to be made, but nothing was
found. But it was especially after the
Revolution that the stories of hidden
treasures turned the heads of the
people. In some cases there appeared
te. be foundation for the reports. Many
noble families, it is said, at the mo-
ment of leaving for exile, afraid of TAX
ing their jewels with them, preferred
TO bury them secretly in the hope Of
finding them again on their return. The
fear Of domiciliary visits led others to
secure their valuables in the same way.
Now, as many of the nobility who are
said to have hidden their property
We're either executed or never came
back from exile, it results that their
treasures were lost or stolen In con-
nection with this subject a strange ad-
venture is stated to have happened to
a tradesman in Paris named Pauvert,
who in the year 1898 was placed by an
Individual who signed himself Saint
Firmin in the secret of the researches
which he was making for the recovery
of a small casket containing the sum
of 1000 crowns. 1t is not said if the
treasure was ever discovered.
A "DISCOVERER OF TREASURES. !"
Very different was the old Comte
Villiers de rIsle-Adam, father of the
wellknown writer, and one of the most
original figures of the Restoration Per-
suaded, and not without an appear
ance of reason, that the recovery of
his family. one of the Oldest in Brit
tany, was dependent on the existence
of a treasure hidden under the ruins
Of one of the numerous castles which
he formerly possessed, he began by
making explorations on his own ac-
count in diffarent rarts of the country
The record-union., 1898-10-17
ORDINANCE NO. 49S.

An Ordinance to amend Section
Seven of Ordinance Number One
Hundred and Forty-one, regulat-
ing the time for using City water
for the purposes Of irrigation In
the City of Sacramento, and pro-
viding that fire pressure be main
tanned by the City Water Works
during said time.
The Board of Trustees of tho
City of Sacramento do ordain az
follows:
Section /. Section seven Of ordi-
nance number one hundred and
forty-one is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Section 4. No person or persons
shall use, or cause to be used, any
City water for the purposes of ir-
rigation in the City of Sacramento.
except between the hours from
Five to Eight o'clock "a. m, and
from Five to Nine o'clock p. m,
except at the City Cemetery, State
Capitol Grounds, Federal Building
and the Plaza And it is further
provided that during the foregoing
hours fixed for irrigation, the City
Water Works, and the Chief En-
gineer thereof, shall maintain fire
pressure throughout said City.
Section 2. All Ordinances or
parts Of Ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 8. This Ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Passed August i, 1898.
d. MCKAY,
President Of Board Of Trustees.
Approved August 2, 1898.
VIM. LAND, Mayor.
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GATES AND THE REDSKINS.
How He and "BiII' Hanks "Stood
Or" Three Thousand Indians.

Charlie Gates is an old-time Indian
fighter. He used to reckon the dead
Indians by the cord. He has fought
more Indian battles than any other
man on earth or under it. He has just
returned from a trip to the north, and
said:
.The most interesting part Of it was
that I went back to the place where
'RiII Hanks and me stood off three
thousand Indians for three days one
time back in the late sixties. There
was seventeen of us at first, but only
three of us lived to tell the tale. The
spot is some thirty-five miles from
Blackfoot,. Idaho, where the roads
fork. The Indians sailed into us one
afternoon and made things lively. I tell
YOU. We dragged the wagons together
in a circle. killed all the horses and
strung them around for breastworks
and bade the painted fiends come on,
and they came. Why, it fairly rained
Indians. We kept shooting and SO
did they, until night came on, when
we discovered that Bill Hanks, myself
and Jim Defoe were all there were
left of us. We knew we could not hold
out so we drew lots to see who would
GO for help, and Defoe won and crawl
ed out. He told us when he got back
that he crawled nine miles through the
darkness before he dared rise up
"Why did he crawl so far?" asked
"Dan" Nickum, who was a listener.
Because he didn't get through the
Indians for nine miles," answered Gates
with dignity. There were more In
dfans there at any time than was ever
gathered together at one time, before
or since. Well, sir. for three days me
and Bin sat there in that circle and
moved down Indians. When the SOL
diers did come we were mighty glad, l
tell you. After the fight was over they
counted, and found me and 'Bill' had
killed exactly two thousand of the
three thousand which first attacked
US. The soldiers killed the balance"
"How could you tell which ones you
killed, and which the soldiers killed.?
asked Nickum again.
simple enough" said Gates. when
q corpse was over day old we credit
ed him to our account
"But how could you tell the fresh
ness of a corpse? 2"
"Oh, that's dead easy. OF course,
you have to know, and so longs the In
daans are not likely to trouble US again
The record-union., 1898-10-17
Nerves and Food.

Sir Henry Thompson, writing in the
Nineteenth Century" makes the fol-
lowing remarks upon the altered diet
which has become necessary owing to
the extraordinary changes affecting
man in every rank of life and his sur
roundings in all parts of the civilized
world, which have taken place during
the last sixty years:
1T is difficult, perhaps impossible, for
the present generation to realize the
contrast presented in reSpect of the de-
mand now made on mans activity, eS'-
pecially that of his brain, during, say,
the last thirty or forty years, with that
which was required by the routine of
life as it was in the 'thirties.' The
wear and tear of existence have enor-
mous!y increased, and the demand for
rapid action and intense exertion by
the nervous system is certainly tenfold
greater now, to make a moderate es-
innate. than it was then. A railway
appeared i'm the first year of the, decade
named; the penny post and the electric
telegraph not until its close; while the
press, both daily and weekly, now gi-
gantic, was then by comparison insig-
nificant and dimunitive. For the great
majority even of business men life
was tranquil and leisure plentiful, while
competition was almost unknown. l
need not attempt to- describe what ii is
now. Such changes have naturally been
the cause of permanent injury TO many
whose powers sufficed for the quiet
time. but gave way in large and still
increasing number under the inevitable
struggle which issues in the survival
of the fittest.'
THE necessary result of this extreme
demand for brain activity, since that
organ is the sole source of energy on
which all the functions of the body,
including that of digestion, depend. is
an insufficient supply for the important
process. Under these circumstances
nothing can be more important than
to provide food of kind and in a
form which will economize the work Of
the stomach. 1t must not be bulky;
much of it may be advantageousy
soluble inl form, SO as to be rapidly and
easily assimilated, even predigested
sometimes; and when solid not reQur-
ing much mastication. l have found
nothing which fulfills these conditions
SO completely as the various concen-
trated extracts of meat which are now
SO extensively used. A teaspoonful of
sound beef extract in a breakfast cup
of hot water when the brain is fatigued
and the stomach unfit for work is often
the best antidote possible, reinvigorates
the system, and prepares it for a light
meal or for a little more work, as the
case may be-a result far too frequent
ly sought through the pernicious habit
of obtaining temporary relief in a glass
of wine or spirit"