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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-04-13


sUPERINTENDENT's REPORT.
In addition to tabulated stated ents of
school work the Superintendent REPORTS as
follows:
Our schools have been taught by carefully
selected teachers and the results have been
satisfactory.
Schools in the Union schoolhouse were
closed. oy the recommendation of the Board
of Health, Sept 18th until Oct. 18th, on ac-
count of scarlet fever.
Owing to lack of funds the Grammar grade
of school was discontinued for the winter
term and is now division of the Free High
school.
The scholars from what was formerly the
Sargent Dis. No. 6 and those from No. II,
Roulston, have been transported to Union
schoolhouse during the year, No. having
been suspended.
The scholars from Union school, composed
of portion of Searsport, Belfast and Swan
vile, were transported to No I, Porter,
Union schoolhouse has been partially re-
paired but the roof leaks some yet.
In No. , the seats have been arranged
comfortably by taking some from the upper
room to the lower. A bookcase and some
other mach needed things have been fur
nished.
The schoolhouse in No. s has been paint
ed outside. No. l, Harbor. needs exte nsive
repairs, The foundation is giving out and
some other repairs will be necessary.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-04-13
SALES MEN
WAN TED

We need few more reliable, energetic men be-
tween the ages of 25 and 80 years to sell nursery
stock Our terms are liberal and will interest you.
Write at once. OWLS
HOMER N. CHASE CO., Auburn, Me
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-04-13

FINANCIAL STANDING OF THE TOWN.
ASSETS.
Due from j, H. Kneeand, colec-
tor, (es5 about SS3 for collect
ing). ...................... S Its SO
Due from G. 0, Sawyer, treasurer. 10 II
Due from the State for bounty on
seal .....,.....,.... 10
Due from the State for sheep kill
ed by dogs. ..,................... 30 90
Due from the town of Jonesboro.. 10 ~
Due from the town of Ihorndlke. SO 90
Pest house and l0t................ $50 90
Tax deeds and receipts .......-... 50 %
5 2241 10
Liabilities.
Due common schools. -S1 -
Due Free High school,. 53S 80
Due Sears Library, amount of the
John 9. Beals legacy ........... 30 90
Outstanding orders of 1898. ....... 523 %
$ 1889 80
Balance ia favor of the town. $40 40
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-04-13
AUDITORS REPORT.

Outstanding orders. 4,071 sc
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-04-13

The price of peace. The bride: II don t
want to have any trouble with you,
Bridget The COOK: Then, hedad ma 'anl,
let me hear no complaints Life.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-04-13

The amount raised for schools, for
school books and repairs. .........$
The amount due from the town for
school and school purposes from
the year 1897.
Total available school money !. S
There has been expended as show
ed by superintendent report....
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18

as a developed table delicacy, while the
Adam of the cabbage family is agreed by
botanists TO have fiourished way back
there in Central Asia where they say The
Caucasian race came from. The Romans
+ ate cabbage salad, and according to count
there are nearly as many varieties of this
sturdy old green goods as there are diff
feTent races of men.
There is another Roman delicacy -
continued the customer, pointing to a box
of beets. They do say that the Greek
philosophers thought dish Of boiled beets.
served up with salt and oil, a great aid
to mental exercise. For my part,
though, / don know a vegetable that
should be prouder of it's family hsto y
than the radish. Radishes come from
China, but a scientific journal the other
day announced the discovery from a
translation of Egyptian hierogl yphics, that
Pharoah fed his pyramid builders on rad
ishes. He even went so far as to spend
1900 silver talents in order to regale his
masons with the crisp and spicy root.
Again, if you read the Old Testament
carefully, you will be sure to come across
the announcement that in Egypt the chill
dren Of Israel ate melons, beets, onions and
garlic and evidently, in travelling through
the wilderness. Moses had a great deal
of difficulty in persuading them to cease
yearning after these Egyptian dainties.
Beside the melons and peaches and ger
aniums,' continued the garrulous custom
err for all of which we have to thank pro-
ductiVe Persia, water cresS comes from
her valleys and brooks and she taught the
world how to grow and head lettuce How
ever, the Roman gourmands, who adopted
both these salads, ate green peas and
stringed beans that their gardeners found
growing in France and South Germany,
and cucumbers were as popular with them
as with the Jews and Egyptians.
ITO Arabia honor is due for the burr
artichoke. They ate it for liver difficult
ties-and as a matter of fact, there is no
vegetable so good for men and women who
lead a sedentary life, just as carrots that
grew first in Belgium, are an admira BILE
tonic for the complexion, spinach for the
blood, potatoes for the hair and celery
for the nerves. Rhubard. they say was
never known until the fifteenth century,
when the Russians found it on the banks
of the Volga and If you will believe it,
the only European people that appreciate
the eggplant as we do are the Turks.
North Africa first produced this fruit; In
France 1t is eaten raw often as not and
in obstinate England they only use it
for decoration. However the potato had
to make a desperate struggle for popu-
larity and for nearly a century after it
was imported and grown in Europe no.
body could be persuaded TO touch it, Fin
ally, Parmentier gave it a boom that in
two centuries has not in the least dimiu-
ished, and twice this little tuber has saved
Europe from what promised to be a cruel
famine" Whereupon the customer hur-
ried off down the street. leaving the green
grocer staring at his stock of truck with
refreshing expression of pride and in
terest M. A.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
Facts About Vegetables.

How many housekeepers picking over
the vegetables on the stall know anything
about them?" asked a contemplative Gus
toner Of a friend, as he watched his
green grocer fill a small measure with Do
tatoes says the Globe Democrat
Lots of them" promptly replied the
other marketer. why here are the pota-
toes in my hand, for instance They are
native American. 1 guess Sir Walter Raj
eigh.
Il guess he never ate one. for in his day
they We're not considered fit to eat. They
went to Europe from the hills OF South
America, ana a strange matter of fact
when you come to think OF IL is that in
the United States, where. barring a few
sections. vegetables grow In create
abundance and beauty than any other part
Of the world, none save maize and the
ground artichokes are native products"
'Nonsensew calculated the amazed YAM
kee
mo nonsense about it," continued the
contemplative customer. Europe, Asia.
Africa and South America are all more
richly endowed than we. ! used TO think
the watermelon was ours, but bless youi
the North African tribes grew tho big.
juicy fellows and gave use our hrst seeds.
A. 20 the muskmelon, Il IL vegetable Of
such ancient lineage that, Ike the cab
bage and lettuce, nobody knows Just who
were their first wild pfogeniiore. The
melon, az any rate came out OF Persia
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18

was repre- scented by 10th owners and men.
ana quite a crowd was here. The mills at
Milton and Bagdad are shut down, and
have been for some time.
Ten days or so ago J. NJ. Estes. who
represented himself as a partner of Henry
Kruger, buyers Of old iron spread the
report at Ocala that mis- partner had skip
pea out with the firms money and left
Estes in the lurch. On Wednesday Krue-
ger, who had gone to Citra, Waldo, Lake
city and Gainesville, returned to find mat
Estes was missing with some $40, the ef-
fects Of Kruger. The latter insists Estes
was never partner of his never having
contributed l cent to the capital of the
business, but on several occasions had
misapplied Krueser's money in various
ways.
Tampa Tribune: Another onward stride
in the commercial history of Tampa is TO
be made within the next few months
George Kennerloy, of Chicago. is in the
city to &C omp ish this end MI Kennerley
is tie general architec ct ard cont actor for
The great Armour packing Interests, ana
he Is here TO b. gin The erection Of a la ge
refriserating plant for his company Mr.
Kenner,ey was in the city several months
ago, and perfected the ans for the inn
provement. He is back ain, this time to
carry on the actual work of construction.
The plant viii be located on Ash ey street,
adjoining TIE wareh use of Swift & Co.
Il via he a large structure. fitted with all
the modern equipments Of a refrigera ing
establishment.
The Republi an State Central Committee,
H. S. Chubb of Winter Park, chairman,
and j. e. Lee of Jacksonville, secretary,
met in Jacksonville Saturday. pursuant to
a request from Judge John G. Long ma
iional Republican committeeman, now in
Washington asking that state conven-
ton be called as early as possible for The
purpose OF selecting delegates to the ma
tlonal convention. Nine cen members were
present and about twenty others interest
ed In Republican politics. The meeting was
a warm one and after several heated de-
bales relative to the appointment of dele
gates ON different counties, Jan. 49, was
selected as the date of the convention and
st. Augustine the chosen place. 1t was
also decided that this convention would be
the proper body to se'ect a ate ticket 10
contest In The next campaign, but whether
or not this woud be done was a question
the committee was not in a position to an
swer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
A Premium Corn Crop.

This jumbo corn was a veritable wonder
to all beholders, and attracted greater no.
tice and provoked more comment than anv
other product exhibited at our county fair
says G. H. Turner in National Rural
When The fact is borne in mind that this
corn had to compete with a variety that
had captured the prize medal at the Phil
adeiphia Exposition, it's superiority is more
plainly evident
some of the ears had thirty-two rows
were twelve inches in circumference ton
inches long, and had upward of zoo
grains; grains seven-eights of an inch
long. 1t was really amusing to hear the
different remarks that were passed on n
but on one point all seemed to be unani-
nous, viz, 1t was no portland corn ana
could not possibly have been raised of maj
size on poor land
Some would like to have purchasaa some
OF u for seed, but were deferred nv thc
fact that they were satisfied that tbev had
no land upon which they could raise n
We were asked our opinion In the mar
ter, and replied that land that would gro,,
prontabie crop of corn, ought never ~
be put In corn, we were confronted vyitn
another query: Suppose an the land v,a
cultivate should happen TO be Of that Kind ,
Ihen IN that case We would either emu
crate 10 where the lands were ricbsr -.
We would enrloh tho lands wo already mad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
A Great Forage Crop.

Speaking Of forage crops, there is no
other crop of greater value on the South
ern farm than fodder corn. Compared to
German millet, one acre of fodder corn
properly grown and utilized, is worth sew
eral acres of the millet. 1t is strange any
farmer neglects so valuable a crop There
is not one farmer in ten In the South that
has superabundance of good forage on
the first of April. The majority are out
of forage much earlier than this date and
either have to buy Western hay or go
without. While there is no crop other
than fall sown rye or oats that can be
made TO ature earlier than May or early
June, sufficiently so to be cut for forage.
sun fodder corn will come nearer giving
a valuable crop for forage than anything
else that is sown in spring. 1t will be
ready by June to supply forage when
sown in February. Such a crop well de-
serves the best of manuring and cultiva-
ton. 1t Will moi grow on poor land any
more than will oats or millet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
The Problem of Soil Improvement.

A recent bulletin says:
The problem Of improving. our soils most
profitably will be solved in most instances
by the judicious use of mineral fertilizers
accompanied by stable manure, and the
growing Of cowpeas, clover or the like
The mistake must not be made of moving
these crops for hay and then not return
ing the manure, under the wrong impress
sion that the roots contain the most OF
the plant food. Approximately one-fifth
of the total nitrogen may be considered as
left in the roofs, stubble, etc. A carefully
selected rotation of crops, in which cow
peas play prominent part, is the first
essential to the lettering of worn lands.
Peas without mineral fertilizers will i'm
prove for years to come much Of our land
that is beginning to run down; particu-
iarly that which was naturally strongest
and best, such as our alluvial soils and
our clayey limestone soils, which are rich
~ supplied with mineral elements.
If a mineral fertilizer be needed, general
experience teaches that acid phosphate is
by far The more profitable. This can be
still better understood when we have eXA
planned some principles of acid phosphate
manufacture. The finely ground lime
phosphate rock is treated with about an
equal weight of strong sulphuric acid.
Chemical changes take place, so that a
part of the phosphoric acid becomes solu-
bic in water. Another part, though less
soluble, is made readily available 10 grow
ing crops, while a small amount still re-
tainS its insoluble and unavailable charac-
ter. One other important change has TAX
en- place.
The sulphuric acid has combined with
the lime, making lime sulphate, comm n
ly called gypsum or land plaster, so that
it forms nearly one-half of the total
weight of the acid phosphate. II is now
well established that this plaster frees
large amounts of insoluble soil potash,
and so makes the fertilizer element which
is so much the most abundant in our soils
available for plant use. Hence, acid phos-
phate supplies phosphorlc acid dir ectly and
potash indirectly. The 2 or 8 per cent of
potash in the average mixture of aci /
phosphate and potash is perfectly tustifi-
able, as a small amount of this element
may give the crop a better start and NAV
even be a necessity.
Since only part of the available phos-
phoric acid is used during the first year OF
its application, it has been found best TO
apply considerably more than the crop
will remove. Three hundred pounds for a
soil in good condition would not be exces-
sive for general farm crops.
mething should now be said in favor
of the ammoniated fertilizer. For exam
pie, it is often used with profit on strong
lands when one exhaustng crop follows
another, as wheat after corn. A little
easily available nitrogen is furnished so
that the wheat gets a better start, after
which it can forage more vigorously for
itself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
A MORE SENSITIVE RECEIVER.
Wireless Messages May Soon BE
Sent Across Atlantic.

Sent Across Atlantic.
Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 17-Bold researches
by Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden and his
assistant, Prof. Klntner, in the electrical
laboratory of the Western University of
Pennsylvania, have resulted in the pro-
Guction of a receiver for wireless teleg-
raphy that is 1900 times more sensitive
than the so-called "coherer'' of the Mar
conf system.
In speaking of the discovery to-day,
Prof. Fessenden said
Although we have improved the re-
ceiver so that 1t is 1000 times as sensitive
as the original one, we realize that we
have not yet begun to see the limit. Mar
conf, in his brilliant experiments, has dem
onstrated that messages can be sent over
ninety miles AS our receiver is several
hundred times more sensitive, il is clear
that the messages can be sent by our
method very much farther, though just
what the limit is 1 would not like to say.
1t at least should be possible to send mes
sages across the Atlantic with poles less
than 200 feet high. The ultimate dis
tance must be checked by actual expert
ment before il become a scientific fact in
the strictest sense"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
NEGRO SCRAP IN CHARLESTON.
officer Killed One of His AssniIants
and wounded Another.

Charleston. s. c.. Dec. T7.-Officer Robert
Hutchinson, colored, when attracted to a
yard in Smith street tonight by screams
and pistol shots. found a negro woman,
who claimed to have been beaten by her
husband, John Hayward.
The officer was unable TO get at the facts
in the case and arrested the pair AS they
were proceeding out of the gate, three
men, Daniel Hayward, Alonzo Hayward
and Daniel Coaxum, rushed cut of a
house and attempted to take the prisoners
from Hutchinson. AS Daniel Hayward
came up the policeman knocked him down
with his club
The others crowded and struck Hutch
inson to the ground, cutting his overeoat
to ribbons, beating and brusng him with
his club. which they had taken. The Of
flcer drew his pistol and fired three times
from the ground. Alolzo Hayward was
killed and Coaxum shot in the side. The
woman was also hit IN the leg.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
The PeOnia.

This old but magnificent flower Is nos
planted nearly so extensively as 1t de-
serves to be, says vick's Magazine. In
fact, no flower is so easily grown, so per-
manent, or is so free from insects. And
no flower, not even excepting the rose, is
more beautiful or makes a more beautiful
display. A bed of peonies properly pre-
pared will increase in beauty for a life
time, enduring with impunity the coolest
winters, one of the first plants to appear
in the spring. The foliage is beautiful and
keeps bright and fresh all summer. BY
planting the right sorts a succession of
flowers may be had for several weeks
While no plants are more easily raised,
yet they well repay careful cultivation.
They look better in large beds or masses,
and each Individual plant should be given
abundance of room, not less than two or
three feet apart. Unless the soil to be
used for the peony bed is of a porous ma
ture IL should be deeply dug and pulver-
lied to the depth of eighteen inches to two
feet-thoroughly incorpora ting with the
soil we'll rotted manure. One cannot well
use too much of this, il well rotted, as the
peony Is a rank feeder. The plants can
be set out with complete success in the
fall. planting about six inches deep, and
carefully hrming the soil Ground the roots,
afterward covering the bed with two or
three inches of short manure. FAN plant
ing Is the best unless IL can be done very
early IN the spring. The plants should
be well cultivated during spring or sum-
mer unless the bed Is mulched sufficient
~ deep with straw or other litter 10 pre-
vent the growth Of weeds. l prefer TO
mulch them, as they do not suffer from
drought, ana the lururiant foliage con-
ceals the mulch 70 that Is not obiec-
tionable. No flowers should be allowed to
form the first year. and even II you have
few the second 90 not get discouraged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
FLORIDA.

Brooksville News Register: Several of
the counties Of Florida are seriously con-
sidering the question Of issuing bonds for
internal Improvements, and especially the
construction of good roads. Every county
that has put money into good roads has
realized an enormous per cent. on the
money thus invested.
The trial of Steve Stanley for murder
Will he taken up in the Circuit Court at
Tampa next Thursday Stanley killed
Jesse Crowder al Port Tampa about three
years ago. Crowder was a young white
man engaged in work on a pile driver.
Stanley is a negro lalo er, who was en-
plOyed there, ana be struck he young
man over the head with a plank. killing
him. Stanley was captured in Texas few
months ago
A Tampa correspondent gets off this one
Deputy Sheriff w. c. Spencer purchased
u fine black horse a few days aeo. The
horse had habit Of digging holes in the
ground when tiei anywEer. Yesterday he
dug a hole at The north end Of he court
house, and Il was so deep that the animal
fell into it. He was almost chok ng, and
the hai er was hastily cut The horse t en-
ran about half a block, long enough TO
smash up a new buggy.
George Holmes, a young tramp, cir
culated petition among the business men
at Barlow, asking for aid. claiming his
father had fallen from an orange tree and
crippled himself, and he wanted to take
him to Tampa. The cimzens, with their
usual generosity, subscribed literally. In
stead Of buying railroad tickets with the
money, they filled up on malt, ana pro-
ceeded to paint the town red" They
were arraigned before County Judge Bos-
wen, who gave them sixty days each on
the county roads
John w. Hayes, general secretary and
treasurer OF the Knights Of Labor. is in
PENSACOLA, end Friday night addressed a
yoint meeting Of the white and co ofed ia
.oreis M that city - noon TO-DAY he
met Hon. W. A. Blount, rep. esentin,r IA
oMhsfs' ana enaoavored by arbl ration Or
ei means 70 wipe out the d.fferenees
~ exciting between operators ana em-
p''sea' Aearly every mill 10 his section
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18

The peony is an exceedingly deep-rooted
plant and requires some time to become
established. Don't forget 90 give a lib
eral top dressing of manure every fall.
Care should be used in the selection of
varieties so as to have as long a success
sion of flowers and as great a variety of
color and form as possible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
DEAL IN TURPENTINE LAND.
Tampa Real Estate Men Have Just
sold $4,000 Acres.

Tampa, Fla. Dec. 17.-Henry & Knight,
real estate brokers. have closed a deal
with Orlando L. Williams and Ferdinand
Bullack whereby the latter receives the
title to 5000 acres OF turpentine land in
De Soto and surrounding counties for the
sum of $4,000.
The new owners have already made ex-
tensive preparations Tor operating on the
land,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
BROKE INTO WAITS HOUSE.
Nix, Was Met by "a Load of BuckshOt
which Proved Fatal.

Pitts, Ga. Dec. H.-Jack Nix, white
man, was shot and killed last night by
Mr.. Wyatt
There had been bad blood between the
men and Nix went TO Wyatts house in
tent on trouble. When Wyatt declined to
come out of his house, Nix broke in the
door. As he entered he was met by a load
of buckshot which inflicted a fatal wound
The coroner's jury held that the killing
was justihabe
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
PROMINENT BANKER DEAD.
His Son Is an Omcer with the Forces
of Gen. Butler.

Toronto. ont, Dec l7.-Edmund Morris,
general Inspector OF the Ontario Bank,
and widely known in banking circles, died
suddenly from heart failure to-day. Ills
son l. an officer in Gen. Buffers army Ia
South Africa and Mr.. Morris was attack
ed shortly after reading the latest war bull
letins posted az the newspaper Offices.