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1t would be difficult to find adcqla,e
words in which to express the admiration
which everybody must recognize as the
due Of Theodore Roosevelt for the astute-
ness with which he has eliminated himself
from consideration as running mate for
Mr.. Mckinley on the 1900 ticket Ten
days ago il looked very much as If
he would be forced TO climb on the
Vice Presidential shelf. his weII-known
repugnance to the nomination TO the con-
trary Notwithstanding But he has seen
his opportunity aud grasped il. BY de-
ciaring that the bandit leader. Taylor.
ought to defy the Constitution and laws
OF Kentucky. and continue his armed in
surrectiOn against legal authority Mr.
Roosevelt has placed himself in a position
where Mr. Mckinley aud the party leaders
would not dare to touch him for nomina-
tional purposes with forty-foot pole. lie
is a shrewd and sleek citizen.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-02-05

CFrom the indianapolis JournsI1
'eWhat is a bachelo- Aunt Naithae'
On. he's a man who thinks every ciri tt4t
looks at him intends TO marry him.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-02-05

From the Detroit Free Press.
Dabney-Tm taking life easier now; my debts
are less troublesome.
Courtney-Have you at last learned not 10 incur
biiS2
pabney-No; I've learned not to wory about
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-02-05
DIsintere.tcd Anec.inn-

(From the Chicago Times Herald)
81 have been married for fifteen years. and ms
vile never fails to meet nae &C tbe door
Wonderful
'ies; she's afraid I might 90 in without wiping
my feet"
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
News of the Oranges.

Saturday evening, May 18th, will be chill
dren's day at Seaside Grange, with a special
program for the young folks.
South Branch Grange, Prospect. is flour
ishing and adding to its membership. A
very enjoyable program was given last Sat
urday evening.
Equity Grange will observe its twenty
fifth anniversary with appropriate exercises
at special meeting May 18th The program
and details will be completed at the regular
meeting May 18th
Secretary Libby says the coming session
of the Maine State Grange in Lewiston will
be the largest ever held. "We are going to
have the biggest class in the sixth degree
we ever had," says he. "We never had
over 125, but predict a class at the next
annual meeting in Lewiston of 25o.''
The grange can help the old home week
just where the work is needed-in the rural
towns The grange is an organization of
the farmers, their wives and their sons and
their daughters. The effort of the grange
has been to break up the isolation of far
mers. Before we had the grange we lived
more apart, and knew little of the people
outside OF our immediate neghborhood.
Now we meet in our halls once in two weeks,
enjoy good dinner and have mighty
good time. The grange halls are large, pro-
vided with kitchen and dining rooms, and
barn room for horses, and can be used for
pubic meetings in the country towns on the
week of jubilee. Solon Chase in Boston
Sunday Herald.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
Yachts and Boats.
Prospect.

l.. f. McMahan is taking out the centrc-
board of his yacht Bessie and is to put on a
fin keel, 3 feet deep, with lead bulb Heck
poets to have her in commission about June
1St.
Nichols. & Thompson of Round Pond have
just put overheard handsome 25-foot
launch for j. +. Parkhurst, Esq, of Bangor,
who will use her on Green Lake. The boat
is fitted with Murray 4 Tregertha gaso-
line engine and on her trial proved very
speedy. She is of pretty model and finely
finished
At the annual meeting of the Penobscot
Yacht Club held in Rockland last Saturday
afternoon the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year. Commodore, VIM. H.
Gardiner of Camden; Treasurer, {. F.. Nc
lntire of Rockland. Rev. W. O. Holman,
who has been secretary of the Club for the
past few years, declined a reelection and
Mr.. Gardiner was also chosen secretary
Measurer, Mr.. Barrett of Rockport. The
council and committee remain the same as
last year.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
EVENING SESslOn.
Transfers in Real Estate.

The following transfers in real estate
were recorded in Waldo County Registry
of Deeds for the week ending MAY o. 1900 :
Avis H. Mari, ct al, Palermo. to Edgar W.
Chadwick. IIbbards Gore land and puild-
ings in Palermo. Geo. +. May hew. Belfast,
to William F. Whtcomb, do. land in Bel
fast. Ruth {. Clifford, Stockton Springs,
to I.illias y. Staples, do; land in stockton
Springs. Lettie NJ. Clark, ct ais, Chelsea,
to +. X. Grant, Frankfort; land in Frank
fort. Joseph Gordon. Thorndike, to Frank
Harding, do. land and buildings in Thorn
dixie. Blanche 5. Hartman, Prospect, to
W. W. Clark, Frankfort land and buildings
in Prospect. F. II. Mosman, North Reading,
Mass, to b. O. Sargent, Searsport; land in
Searsport ID. NJ. Nichols, Searsport, to b.
.. Sargent, do. 4; land in Searsport. JAS q.
PendletOn, Searsport, to SearspOrt First
Congl. Parish land and buildings in Sears
rort. Geo. II. Slower, Belfast, to Frank A.
Whtcomb, do +; land and buildings in Bel
fast. Geo. l. Wescott, Prospect, to Lewis
A. Brown, Belfast land and buildings in
Prospect.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
Clinton Creamery Cremated.

The Clinton Creamery and contents were
burned to the ground about one O'Clock last
Sunday morning. James Whitaker, owner
and manager of the plant, was founda short
distance from the building unconscious. Be
sides the machinery and building there was
in the building at the time of the fire about
$500 worth Of butter and eggs, which would
have been shipped Monday. The case is a
hard one for Mr.. Whitaker, as every cent
he had was invested in the business
Mr.. Whitaker said, Monday, that he was
at work in the creamery packing eggs and
accidentally overturned "a lamp. In his
efforts to extinguish the fire he was so over
come by the smoke as to be able only to
reach the outside, where he fell in a swoon
The plant was valued at $1,000 Mr..
Whitaker had an insurance of 81 200 on the
building and machinery and $500 on the
stock on hand. 1t is estimated that it would
cost close to $4,000 to build the same plant
to-day
Mr.. Whitaker says that he shall rebuild
as soon as he can get his insurance adjusted
and things in shape so th at he can 60 ahead.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
BELFAST THURSDAY, 10,

for to get the best results. The soil for use
under glass should be more sandy than for
the same crop out of DOORS An average
proportion is . parts fine sand; 2parts well
rotted manure and part sandy loan. There
should be plenty of organic matter in the
soil. Different plants require different
amounts of moisture, some more from
above, others more from the earth. The
gardener should read, study, observe the
conditions of his own place, and act accord
ingly. A temperature OF co. at night and
7o7 to 80 by day is about an average for hot
houses. He begins planting in August for
Christmas fruit, and keeps it up at intervals
to keep constant supply. AT this point it
was announced that the speaker had barely
time to catch the $50 train at Belfast, and
the meeting adjourned.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
DR.. John F. True Dead.

AUBURN, Me-, May 3. DIR. John F. True
died at his home on Drummond street at j. &c
O'Clock this afternoon, after an illness of lit
tie more than week.
DIR. True was born in Deertield, N. H.,
Oct -, 1917 He had lived in Auburn AZ
years. Previous to coming to Auburn he
lived for time at Exeter, Me-, where he
began in his own kitchen the manufacture
of medicine which has since become wide
ly known.
DR.. True was twice married, his first wife
having been Miss Hannah Frost of Norway,
and his second wife Miss Sarah Curtis Of
Eddington She survives him. The chill
dren by his first wife are Mrs. Henry Lowell
and Mrs. Walter l. Parsons of Auburn and
Abram True of Boston.
Edward c. True and J. r. True, sons by
his second wife, have been for several years
associated with him in the business in Au-
burn.
Mrs. True is dangerously i'll. Mr.. True
was one of the most popular and esteemed
of Auburns citizens, and his death will
leave a place not easy to be filed in The he
social and business life of the city.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
Concerning Local Industries.

viii Coombs is fitting up the old George
Wight blacksmith shop i'm which to do the
iron work for the new Pendleton schooner
building in Carters yard.
The Bucksport creamery plant has been
sold to F. }. Gerry Il Co. of Dexter, mana
gers of the Dexter creamery and of the
creamery in this city. Chandler Wilson has
been engaged as local manager at Bucks
port.
G. IL. Foss of Dexter has succeeded A. r.
Eames as foreman at the creamery. The
business shows slow but healthy growth,
with an increasing number of farmer pa
irons and ready sale for all the products.
1t is proving a great convenience to our
housewives, as the grocery stores all take
orders for and deliver fresh cream when
ever wanted, while the farmers find ready
and reliable market for their cream and
milk.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
snort OF removal of all the old piles, might
leave the poorest one of all.

SNORT OF removal of all the old piles, might
leave the poorest one of all.
10 make the flooring safe. would require a
removal OF the whole of it, An ATTEMPTED
systematic repairing would probably de-
velop many defects, and result in an ex-
pendlture nearly equal to the cost of re-
building, while the result achieved would
not be nearly so satisfactory.
am nrmly convinced that the most
rational thing to do with this bridge is to
entirely reconstruct the whole of It, only
utilizing the piles and timber that have
been put in recently and all known to he
sound, and making the bridge uniform in
appearance and construction, it's whole
length.
Such structure, or treste. would in
volve an outlay of but comparatively
small amount, say $4,000 or $1,000, and
with an occasional replanking last a score
of years.
Ii then, the city should decide, at flu
ture time, to build an elaborate stone and
steel bridge, on different site, the loss
upon this bridge would not be excessive,
representing but couple of years interest
upon the cost OF the more elaborate struc-
ture. Respectfully submitted,
PARKER SPOFFORD
In the separate boards Mr.. Spofford,
Elmer A. Sherman, b. H. Conant and A
representative of the Berlin Iron Bridge
The bids for building the bridge, as adj
vertised for, were opened and read in the
Board of Aldermen, but the hour being late
the Boards adjourned before they reached
the Common Council.
The following election clerks were an
pointed: Republicans, Chas. l.. Fletcher.
w. b. Washburn, c. +. Cobbett, R. F Russ.
c. j. Stephenson; Democrats, W. NJ. Welch.
Frank I. Parker, F. A. Greer, S. A. Pavson.
John Carr.
Chas. Fl. Sargent, Collector of Taxes, re-
ported that he had collected and paid to the
City Treasurer on taxes of 1899, S39, 52S. .33.
An ordnance was passed establishing the
office of Auditor, defining his duties and
fixing his salary at S75 per year.
Adjourned to Tuesday evening at o clock.
The Boards met according to adjournment
Tuesday evening, but on account of the alb
sence of parties interested in the bridge
matter, again adjouned, to Thursday even
ing, May 10th.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
Contents of To-Day's Journal.


fAtIE. /.
.,i. selling in Monroe Lessons in Horticul-
Dl-h school Notes. Wedding Bells. News
oranges. Clinton Creamery Cremated DR..
d, b True Dead. City Government Waldo
Teachers Association. Transfers in Real
Yachts and Boats. Concerning Local In
Personal.
PAGE2
kmdike Tent. Political Points, Belfast
prafy, Fruit Growing in Waldo County,.
.N Court Working the Slot Machine.
PAGES.
,-u-h the Heart of Spain. Sermon Writing. %.
}lk Fashions. Yachts and Boats.
PAGE4.
.. llS...Obituary. .Northport News. The
u - The lnterSchOlastic Base Ball League.
,aducy Strike on.
NtNS of Belfast
PAGE6.
u o the Week. q. University of Maine Who
Heroine ?...NeWs NoteS...ln Swarming
New and Conmodious Plant. Spring.
FACE !.
IS News and NoteS..Senator ElkinS' Ac-
II Blame. The Maine Bible Society," The
I-rtlieS... Farm Property Rates. Register
Mater Vessels. Hard on Sailing Ship
,rut Charters.~Abner Dunton of Hope
PAGES.
rt Locals. ship News. Markets Births
i--rs... Deaths. Secret Societies. PaySon
VIII.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

The Western Union Telegraph company
has placed at their main and branch Offices
in this city copies of the universal edition
of the Western Union Telegraphic code
book for the free use of their customers,
The book contains over 175,O0O code words
and is being extensively used by the tele-
graphing public. Bangor News
The Belfast Office has also been supplied
with the code book.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
Wedding Bells.

NG-FLETcHER Arthur G. Young
and Mamie S. Fletcher of Lincolnvile were
married !i ID. in that town Monday afternoon,
ceremony was performed in the presence of
quite a number of friends and relatives, and
was followed by an elaborate wedding din
ner. The groom is son of Nathaniel Young
and the bride adaughter Of VIM. f. Fletcher,
all prominent in that section. The young
couple have the we'll wishes of wide circle
of friends.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

10 AN. Music. Address of Welcome, Ar
thur Ritchie, Supt of Schools, Liberty Re
sponse s. c: Thompson, Winterport; Nature
Study, w. r. Howard, Prin. of High School,
Belfast; School Discipline, John r. Dunton,
Supt. of Schools, Belfast; Discussion; Busi-
ness Session
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

Principal Howard announced Monday
that as there would be no school next Fri
day the deolamatons for that day would be
postponed until Monday.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

The score of the teams in the Waldo and
Knox Interscholastic League that played on
Saturday will be found in another column.
Next Saturday, May 10Th, the Rocklands
and Camden's play at Rockland, and the
Belfasts and Vinalhavens at Vinalhaven.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

A few High School pupils accompanied
the team to Camden. Had it been a fine
morning there would doubtless have been
more. The Camdens gave an evening socia-
BILE in honor of the Belfasts, and a very
pleasant time was reported by the excur-
SiOniStS.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
CITY GOVERNMENT.

The May meeting of the City Council, al
ways one of the most important of the year,
was unusually SO this year, many matters
of public interest coming before it. Full
boards were present in both rooms.
Roll OF accounts No. was passed, contain
ing the following amounts under the va
riOuS annrOnriation
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
Waldo County Teachers Association.

The spring meeting of the Waldo County
Teachers Association will be held in Liber-
ty Friday, May 18th, with the following
program:
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

MooDY-PITMAN. Albert II. Moody and
Lizzie NJ. Pitman were united in marriage
March 18th. Both are among Appleton's
most popular young people, Mr.. Moody be
ing at present Chief Templar of the Good
Templar Lodge, and Mrs. Moody is also a
member of the Good Templars and Golden
rod Rebekah Lodge. They have the best
wishes of IL host of friends for their future
prosperity. Congratulations. Temperance
Record.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

HAsKEL1.-THrRLow. f NJ. c. s. stu
dents and alumni will be interested in the
announcement of the marriage of Miss Bes-
sic G. Thurlow and Rev. Horace B. Has
kell both of Stonington. NJ. and Mrs. Has
kell have gone to Mr.. Ilaskel'S charge,
Millnockett. Bucksport Herald
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
High School Notes.

There was no school last Friday ON ac-
count of the storm, and the first and second
divisions recited and rehearsed Monday.
The second and third periods were omitted.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

Miss Sawyer, 'o3 has returned to school
after short absence.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10

Miss Poor, '01, sprained her ankle last
week, and has been absent from school in
consequence.
The Republican journal., 1900-05-10
A AFTERNOON SESSION

2r: NJ. Music; Teaching Exercise in Geo
graphy, Miss Mary Brown, Liberty; Draw
ing, Miss Lena f. Cleveland, Camden !;
lntermission; Music; Essentials in con-
ducting a Recitation, Prin y. F. Richard
son, Castine Normal School Reading in
Common Schools, Miss Nellie f. Harvey.
Castlne Normal School Question Box, con
Quoted by Hon. W. W. Stetson, State Supt. :;
Business.
EVENING SESsIOn.
l.30 p NJ. Lecture. Hon W. W. StetSon,
State Supt.; Music.
The officers of the Association are as fol-
lows: Pres. s. {. Thompson, Winterport
See. Grace A. Lord, Belfast; Executive
committee Mrs. Carrie NJ. Aver. Liberty,
Miss Bertha |. Bird, Belfast.
The Belfast teachers will start from the
Supt's office at ! A. NJ. Friday
The age-herald., 1900-07-29

a small scale, derived from the fields that occupy part of the space known as the Wal chung, 1. e., the Chinese portion, and sepa- rated by cross wall from the Nui-chung or Tartar city.
 How important is the daily supply by camel caravan of the necessaries of life to the Pekinese may be gauged from the fact that over 10000 ships of the desert, on an average, enter and leave the gates of the capital every twenty-four hours. Ride out at whatever time one may choose it is certain that long strings" of these useful beasts of burden, the leading qua druped bearing between It's humps Man churian driver and at it's throat bell, and followed by a score or so of It's fel- lows, the head of each animal roped to the tail of the preceding one, will be met with beyond the walls, either bound inward to market or bound outward to the hills. The last of the string likewise bears bell. and it's tinkle assures the leading driver that none of his charges have broken loose.
 In the plight of the Chinese capital to= day 1t is almost certain that the ordinary traffic cannot be carried on. The roads to he northward, and well as those entering from the east and South, are in the pos session of Boxers, as witness the de- struction, reported some days ago ,of the British Ambassadors summer residence, which was situated little to the north west of Pekn, at the base of the nearest
 
 It is true that the camel traffic has Of late years been appreciably diminished by the facility with which supplies could be brought up from the coast by railway, but 1t has by no means been abolished ,and the railway not having been available for some time past, owing to the operations of the Boxers, the probability is that the inhabi- tants of the capital have had to rely more than ever upon their Mongolian market for the means of existence.
 If it be true that the rebels secured the approaches to Legation street." and the quarter in which all the foreign residents were congregated, last week, 1t Is certain that provisions cannot have been conveyed to the beleaguered garrisons, and save for the trining stocks that may have been &C., cumulated within the "compounds' of the various embassies, there Is nothing, unless relief comes, but starvation or submission to look forward to- Submission to Chi nese mob, it is almost needless to say, would be only another form of extinction.
 So long as the ammunition for the Max inns held out, however, and so long as the Chinese were unable to mount cannon upon the city walls to play upon the legations from the adjacent and commanding heights thereof, it is certain that a stout resist ance to the onslaughts of the bowling rab- ble will have been offered. Beyond this all is conjecture and the possibilities are too apparent to be contemplated with caim- ness.
The age-herald., 1900-07-29
HOW PEKIN IS FED
Conditions Affecting the Possible Star
 vation of the Legation Inmates

Among the dangers to which the foreign population of Pekin is exposed must be in cluded that of it's supplies being entirely cut off by the insurgents, says the London News.
 At ordinary times the city is greatly de- pendent upon frozen meats brought in from Mongolia on the backs of camels. The Mongol market adjoining the British lega- tion, is the rendezvous for innumerable strings" of camels and the half-savage drivers, and on this unsheltered plot may be seen exposed for sale the carcasses of sheep, strangely contorted, which have been skinned while warm and left out to harden in the severe frost of a mongolian night prior to transportation to the Chinese cap- ital Cartridges and other game are simi- larly prepared for transit to Pekin, and are purchaseable in the frozen state throughout the long North China winter and well into spring. In the hot season live animals are driven into Pekin and slaughtered according to demand, but the bulk of the food supply Is at all times de- rived from places at a distance, even from beyond the great wall, there being but little produced within the confines of the vast city itself save root crops, and those on
The age-herald., 1900-07-29

their wives with them The agent made speech to them, in which he set forth the fact already stated. The medicine men made replies. Rolling Pony, who had ten beautiful young squaws and one old one, was the principal talker against the giv- ing up of his wives. He said that they represented him a wealthy man and II he had to give all of them up but one the Indians would think he was very poor man and he would lose his influence among his people. He said that for his wives he had paid nearly 1000 ponies and had been twenty years in gathering them around his tepee. He made no mention of loving any of them, but said they were good workers and tended his crop in good shape
 The agen, asked him if he loved them and which one he liked best. He made no reply, saying he did not understand the question. Then the agent told him he must make his choice then and there. The squaws were all lined up before the old man and he looked at them long and earn estly. Finally he selected the oldest one. Rolling Pony has been an Indian police man for the last ten years, but he told the agent he was going to quit now, as the government had not given him fair deal The discarded squaws will be taken charge of by the Indian agent and made to Work for their living.
 Mario, a Kiowa warrior, had five wives, but he gave up all but one. Gawkey, a Comanche policeman, had eight wives and he kept the oldest one. About sixty old men had to give up their many wives and they invariably took the they had bought first, casting the youngest and prettest aside. The squaws who were thus deserted did not seem to mind it, but were glad to be released from the hard work in their husbands harem. The old men were very much against giving up the many squaws, first because they repre- sented many ponies, and, second, they were a mark of influence in Indian society. The more squaws medicine man possessed the more popular he was. It is among this class of people that the white people who want to take free homes in the new coun- try to be given away soon will have to live. They are peaceable Indians now but they cling to their old customs with deathlike tenacity.
The age-herald., 1900-07-29
TOOK THEIR BEST WIVES
A Sad Day For the Indians Who Gave
 Up Polygamy

Wichita, Kas., Correspondence of the Chi
 cago Record.
 Last week was a hard one for the old men of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribes of Indians. They had to give up all their wives but one. Some of the medicine chiefs had as many as ten women whom they called wives. All but the favorite one are now living away from the old buck tepee.
 When the law was passed throwing open to settlement the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservation it was decided that the Indians should be more civilized. It was with this end in view that the Indian agent announced to all the men that they must give up their numerous wives, or they would receive no part of the land to be allotted, nor would they receive their share of the money shortly to be paid them It was a hard blow to the tribes, as they have always practiced polygamy without any interference.
 In reply to a letter from Agent Mischare, the Indians gathered at Darlington on the first of the week. The old men had all of