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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-31
FOR SALE,
W. E. GRINNELL,

ed mules good workers and kind. Also
one set double harness for same. This is
rare opportunity for some one who de
sres an easily kept team. He also offers
one new State Prison made grocery wagon,
3 secondhand open wagons, secondhand
top buggy, 3 sets single driving harnesses,
several horses, harnesses and wagons.
Good bargains to those who apply early
Also has 30 pigs that he must dispose OF
within two weeks. 3W21
Searsport, May "a, 1900.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-31

TROY. The farmers are well advanced
III planting and sowing grain. Notwith-
standing the very cold May, the grass is
looking nicely. Apple and cherry trees be-
gin to bloom. and it is hoped that the buds
We're not injured to any great extent by the
cold, frosty nights We have experienced.
Mr. Lewis Harding recently sold six nice
COWS, with their calves. to Mr.. Bailey of
Winthrop. Mr.. Harding is one of our pro-
eresslve farmers. He has lots of young
stock, that will make nice cows in the near
future ....C Charles Williston, who was in
lured by falling in Mr.. 1Iarding's barn some
four weeks ago, is able to be about again. 80.
Rev. W. A. Luce preached the memorial
sermon at the church May 9th to quite
large audience. 1t would be very encourage
ing to Mr.. Luce if the old soldiers and their
families would become regular attendants
at the Sunday services. -. Mrs. Sarah Rogers
and her daughter Grace from Pittstield were
in town this week -. Mr.. and Mrs James
a. Dodge OF Jackson were the guests of
Mrs. NJ F. feathers one day this week..
DR.. Claire Whitney and wife of Unity were
in town Sunday. Mr.. Thomas Caverley of
Hermon is the guest of his sister, Mrs
Clara Bagley.. Mr. F. B. Green of Booth
bay HarbOr called on friends in town last
Saturday and Sunday. Mr.. Fred r. Car
ter has returned from Hampden, where he
has had employment in mill. Mrs. Kate
Smith and child of Chicago are visiting her
brother, Rodney Whitaker. -. DR.. and Mrs.
M. 7. Dodge made business trip to Pittsfield
recently and the doctor bought an improved
crawford" wheel. We shall look for some
''scOrching'' when he and his estimable
wife have mastered the art of bicycling.
Quite number of new wheels have arrived
in town this season, but the roads will have
to be greatly improved before much pleas
ure can be derived from bicycle riding in
this section.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-31
SHIP NEWS.
PORT OF BELFAST
ARRIVED.


ARRIVED.
May "a. Sch. Lizzie Williams, Candage,
Bucksp
May 26. Schs. John I. Williams, Pendle-
ton. lslesboro; Volant, Pendleton, Rock
land.
May 30. Sch. Cumberland, Portland
SAILED.
May %. Sch. p NJ. Bonney, Burgess,
Vinalhaven.
May % Sch. Lizzie B. Wiley, New York
AMERICAN PORTS.
New York, May %. Ar, sch. Jose Ola
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Wilson, Fernandina Mark Pendleton, Ban.
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cd, sch. Jennie A. Stubbs, Ponce; sid, ship
Mary L. Gushing, Hong Kong; 25 ar, schs
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Gladys, Brunswick, Ca, VIM. E. Downes
Savannah for New Haven cid, schs. Her.
aid, Georgetown, Dem. Olive 7. Whittier
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Housekeepers must exercise care in buying bak-
ing powders, to avoid alum Alum powders are
sold cheap to catch the unwary but alum is poi
son, and its use in food seriously injuries health.
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BORN

BARKER. In Rockport, May 90 to MI and
Mrs. William Barker, daughter.
HUTCHINSON. In Stonington, May 10 to Mr..
and Mrs. AlvernOn Hutchinson, a daughter
ROBBINS. In Stonington, May IL. TO Mr., and
Mrs. Daniel Robbins. daughter.
ToRREN. In East Union, May H. to Mr.. and
Mrs. v. A. Torrey, a son,
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Cottage at NorthpOrt Camp Gr11l

The j. G. Ferguson cottage ON Bay W.
Northport Camp Ground, is offered foI "
is one OF the most desirable location, H
grounds, convenient to the hotel post on
steamboat wharf, and presenting fine
the Bay. Apply to or address
CHARLES q. ltkEA
%. NOrthpOrt Camp Ground. Man
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27

AS In most nations, the women OF
China are more earnest and more in
terested in religion than men, and it is
said that the Chinese women have had
good deal to do with the beginning
and spread of the boxer uprising by
urging the men to destroy the foreign
ers and the Chinese who have been
converted to Christianity. Women are
among the most numerous and active
members of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety in China. A group of young
Chinese women who belong to the So
ciety is shown in the accompanying IL
lustration from The Little Chronicle,
Chicago's excellent Juvenile weekly.
The Christian Endeavor movement
was started on the Pacific coast at
Portland, Ore, and naturally one of
the things that early occurred to the
founders was to send missionaries over
In the ships that do the work of COM
merce between China and the Pacific
coast. The first society was started at
Foo-Chow in the southern part of the
Chinese empire four years after the
first meeting at Portland. The con-
verts here carried the new religion to
other places and it spread rapidly
throughout southern China, so that
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27

st-sss fashion,"
a There was not the,seast conscious
mess on her fair young face as she
Fl IKE.
If | thought we were never to meet
again." he declared, hurriedly, Il
should not care to live an hour"
That is the language OF poets"
she said laughing
~ wonder if the nightingale's song
were put into words, what it would all
be about?"
Love-" he answered, CURLY.
Lowell said Violet. 81 should think
it would be something more interest
ing than that"
More Interestingly" he asked, not
quite sure If he heard rightly.
ooh, yes" she said, much more in
teresting! ] should imagine that birds
sing of new themes; love is as old as
creation"
Just then the nightingale finished its
song-long beautiful notes that seemed
to die away over the trees; then all
was still.
"Do you remember what Barry Corn
wall says?" asked Lord RIVERS. II
think the idea is beautiful
"'Music leaves
Her soul upon the silence, and our
hearts
Here and forever hoard those gol-
den sounds,
And reproduce them, sweet, in after
hours
"You like quoting poetry" she said.
"A night like this is in itself a
poem" he answered.
81 shall take away with me a con-
fused dream of moonlight in June, of
the waterfall, of the nightingale"
"And of me-" she interrupted, with
a bright laugh. Shall you forget
me?"
you will be the center of the poem, T"
he replied, with a bow, "the very soul
of it. l shall never forget you. II
you should be passing through the
wood tomorrow, will you look at my
picture?"
Have you been working at it to-
day."
nv, my Hlhu udS oSeH HIieu, pOSS-
essed by another picture" he said;
"but l shall work at it tomorrow"
you want my aunt Alice to keep
you at work." she remarked. "And
now, Mr.. Randolph, goodnight 1 am
afraid this is a terrible discretion.
We must never repeat it."
He did not tell her that the one
half hour had been to him as a dream
of Paradise.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27

For my part, ! think she is a very
tender, devoted wife, and he's a surly
BRUTE" said Miss Emily Lonely, land
they have only been married two
months. Men are such treacherous
creatures
Mrs. ]. Matrimonial Bliss laughed
cheerily. He isn't brute, Miss
Emily. He's just trifle run down, poor
young man, and his adoring, little wife
evidently hasn't got far enough along
to her knowledge of the sex to realize
that there is a mighty big difference in
the best methods of taking care of a
sick woman and sick man. If there
Is one insult that man more acutely
resents than another" Mrs. Bliss con-
tinued, lit is illness, and he deeply OBJ
iects to being reminded of it. He
knows that he is then unnamed and
more or less an object of amused pity
to his own sex, so a sick husband
must be handled with gloves. 1t is
wifely tact that tides him over, and
that is what our little friend should
learn. She really is painfully obtuse.
Last night she tried to put her white
worsted shawl about his big. broad
shoulders, made him change his seat,
because she suspected he was in
draught, and reminded him of his pills
right before all the other men. Do you
wonder he used winged words? Though
being newly married he spoke in a
tone only she could hear and complied
with all her requests, except the use
of the shawl. In consequence she was
hurt and huffy. and her eyes grew
pink, and then he got madden and went
out, by way of revenge, and stamped
up and down the wet beach, reveling,
no doubt, in the knowledge that she
was wringing her hands on the piazza
and longing to rush out, and on her
knees offer him his overshoes. but her
pride and fear of his manly wrath held
her at bay"
"And you think that's kind and ten
der and nobleand-" began Miss Emily
Lonely in wrathful amaze.
mo, Miss Emily" chuckled Mrs.
Bliss; but it's masculine and natural
and I've been all through it with my
John. Did l ever tell you about the
time that John Matrimonial Bliss, Esq,
banker, broker. after-dinner speaker
and retired warrior, came down With
the German measles"
Miss Emily shook her head.
He doesn't dream to this day that
he ever was the victim of so pesky a
little ailment. but sometimes, when he
chooses TO remind us about his won
derfui escapes anu daring adventures
he mods across the table at me and re-
fers to the summer of his return
from Cuba, when he had a very close
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27
A Group OF officers.

there were soon thousands of members
One reason. no doubt, that the new
faith pleased the women of China was
that it gave them rights and dignities
which they never had enjoyed under
the Chinese religion. AS has been told
in the story of the wonderful rise of the
empress dowager, a girl is not looked
upon as OF much Importance as com
pared with boy and is given practical
ly no education. Only about 100 out
of every 10000 can read. She is prac-
ticaliy slave, first to her parents; sec
ond, when she is married-and this is
nearly always to some one she has
never seen before-to her husband and
her mother-in-law. If her husband
dies she is still bound to obey her ED
est son.
The Christian religion and the civil
ization that came with it meant, to
considerable extent, release from bond
age in those Chinese households where
it was adopted. So that it is easy to
understand why it was particularly
popular among women.
In other ways the Christian Endeav-
orers of China, like those of the rest OF
the world, stand for reforms. They are
bitterly opposed to the opium habit.
OF late years they have come out open
ly against the binding of women's feet,
and, of course, oppose the barbarous
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27

punishments which are practiced under
Chinese laws. The Christian Endeay-
or movement had grown more this year
than ever before. Scores OF new So
cieties were being formed in southern
China and a number of new ones in
northern China. The growth IA north
ern China, no doubt, helped to rouse
the class of people to whom the boxers
belong, as it was to them further
proof Of the spread of the influence OK
the same hated foreigners who had
forced the opium Of India into the
empire, seized provinces and built rail-
roads over the graves Of their ances-
tors.
DR.. Francis e. Clark, founder of the
Christian Endeavor movement, was in
China when the boxer uprising was just
beginning, and went to the great inter-
national meeting in London fresh from
a tour OF the mission fields which are
now being laid waste. The convention
at Foo-Chow, which he attended. and
addressed through an interpreter, was
held in a big tent and was filled with
enthusiastic delegates. Although they
came from different provinces and
could hardly understand each other,
they all understood the good work Of
the Christian Endeavor society and
pledged themselves to help carry it
everywhere in China.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27

solid food at ali 1 dine and lunch and
tea and breakfast with him. If I eat
with MIN he doesn't feel as if he were
being dieted and, to tell you the truth,
barring Il few really injurious things
that the doctor may put on the menu
expurgatorious. 1 always feed my
sick man on the best and most various
the market can afford We've had
some really jolly meals on the counter
pane.
The last and most precious sacri-
flee wife can make to her ill or con-
valescent lord is to yield her point
in argument. Now, l don't mean a
high and noble fortitude when he
grows absurdly angry over some fool
lsh trifie, or panied Christian silence
when he contradiets or stiffens him
self to refuse his medicine. That at
titude initiates, but l mean when he
takes some strange but harmless no.
ton in his head, contrive if possible
to let him have his way, and when
anything must be talked over, yield to
him the rich and rare delight of ac-
cepting his view Yield slowly, for he
will want to thoroughly enjoy the
sweets of victory, but yield neverthe-
less, and in after days you can resume
your DID, original, obstinate position
and he won't contest it with you"
Its pity" remarked Miss Emily
Lonely, as the lunch gong roared
through the hall, that you couldn't
give some of that really sensible ad-
vice of yours to our little friend out
there, moping so tearfully under the
lawn tent"
"Oh, she will find it out by and BY"
assured Mrs. j. NJ. Bliss, rising with
hungry alacrity. There is no school
for sharpening womans wits like join
ing the big class in matrimony."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27
CLUB LIFE IN CHINA.
Mandarins and Rich Men Congregate
for Social Pleasures.

Club life in China is not an innova-
ton from the west. For centuries the
rich Chinaman has had his club, and
as rule it is quite as elegant an af-
far as are the aristocratic clubs of
mandarins and rich men with preten-
sions to rank. Some have a. political
faint, some are merely social. but all
have one peculiar feature. This is
room or oratory set strictly apart for
religious exercises. In. the oratory the
maeg of a Chinese god is placed. From
time to time members of the club enter
the sanctuary to offer their devotions.
Apparently it is no uncommon thing
at the beginning or successful ending
OF great enterprise-such as. saw. the
murder of an enemy or the consumma-
ton OF a political conspiracy-to see a
Chinaman hastenng from the secular
part Of his club bearing a rich offer
ing or prayer for the god in the club
sanctuary.
He observes his devotions with a
gravity that bears witness to his sim
certify. Some devout Cinnamon visit
the god the moment they enter the
club building and again PROSTATE
themselves the last thing before leay-
ing. The cllb god is not usually a
war divinity, but now, in the centers
where the boxers hold sway undis-
turbed it is more than probable that
the boxers" god has been placed in all
the clubs.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

He gave me shilling to bring you the
letter, and two shillings not to tell
your aunt"
The note contained few hurriedly
written lines from the artist, asking
her to be so kind as to look at his pic
ture on the morrow. He would be
sketching at nine in the morning. She
smiled as she read it-for she could not
foresee what was to happen in the flu
ture, and she was only eighteen.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27
CHAPTER ".

Then you would not marry an aris-
tocrat Miss Beaton?" asked the
young artist.
II? No-a thousand times no!
am not sure that should care to mar
ry at all; but an aristocrat--never!
If loved some young lord so dearly
that my heart was breaking with love,
would not marry him"
There are not many girls who think
as you do" said Lord RIVERS, gloomily.
They have not been SO well taught"
youth and inexperience. Long years
ago, far back in the olden times, when
aristoeraey meant chivalry, it was a
different matter. Aristocrats are not
knights in these days. They do not
understand what true knighthood
means"
I'm what do they fall short?" asked
Lord RIVERS, looking with admiration
at the flushed face and shining eyes.
The present race are effeminate,
luxury-loving effete. self-indulgent-"
Stop Miss Beaton," he said; "asser-
ton is no proof"
Proof is not wanting" she replied.
MY aunt Alice says that honor is dead
amongst them-that nothing of it lives
but the name. and that it is an empty
sound. she says-I wonder if can
remember one half?-that names once
hlazoned high on the roll OF the battle
field now serve as examples among
card-sharpers. She says that in old
en- times, when man of noble birth
and ancient title injured the honor of
his fellow man, they stood together
face 10 face and fought it out; now
they compensate injured honor with
money. Aunt Alice says they have
lost the respect of loyalty toward
woman which goes so far in making
man a chevalier and a saint. One now
steals another mans wife; a few
thousand pounds puts the matter right.
The honor of the old days was best.
when a man avenged his injuries in
the hearts blood of his rival, instead
of taking money for them"
How prejudiced you are!' he said.
Il do not think so. / am emphatic
ally a daughter of the people; see
the wrongs of the people. l asked my
own aunt Alice one day il | might
read the newspapers. She said, No:
they are unfit for any modest girl to
read; they are full of divorce cases and
scandals in high life l thought the
duty of the aristocracy was to set
good example to the people below
them. Do they? Are the men such
models of honor, integrity, courage,
and truth? Are the women to be rev.
erenced and admired?'
You must remember" ne inter-
rupted, that your aunt Alice is not in
fallible, 1t does not follow that, be-
cause she says thing. it must be true.
Now hear me-that is, IL you have pa
thence. Miss Beaton. Yours was such
a fierce onslaught. VIII you listen to
me?"
Certainly" she said. II should
like to hear your opinion on the sub
ject."
We'll, then, believe that the finest
body Of men and the best women in the
world are found amongst the English
aristocracy The men are high-bred,
courageous, and honorable; the wom-
en-, good. refined. and charitable. Who
says that honor is dead IN the breasts
.of English gentlemeng say it lives.
and will live forever, just as loyalty,
purity. and goodness live in the hearts
OF the women"
To be continued.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27
THE SICK HUSBAND
ONE WOMAN'S THEORY THAT
WORKED WELL
AND SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE

He Doesn't Like to be Reminded That
He Must Take Care of Himself and
Impugningis Constitution is as
Serious a Mistake as Attacking
His Honor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-09-27

Speaker Henderson opened the cam
'aign in Iowa at waverly Tuesday.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-24

ing and between forty and fifty men were
in the mine at the time Five were
brought ought alive from the east head
ing. while none of the men in the other
parts Of the mine were injured. The
names Of the killed aer as follows:
White: John Connolly, mine superin-
tendent; Joe Glass. William Tyson, Jas.
Mccarthy. John Hankey. Wesley Clegg.
John Willett. John Gatewood, Robert
Gatewood, Charles Wesley.
Colored: Sim Mcintyre, Dan Goldstein,
Joe Pagan, VIII Beeves, Robert Beeves.
Allie Bynum, Joe Taylor. Jim Marks.
John Lee Palmer. Peter Palmer. John
Hubbard
John Connolly, the none superintendent.
came to this state about three years ago
from Pittsburg, Pa. He leaves a wife
and three small children. Willie Tyson
was the son Of Jordon Tyson. a promin-
ent citizen OF Moore county.
This is thesecon d explosion this mine
has had within the past four years. the
former one having occurred on Deem
Der 3, 1895, when forty-three men lost
their lives. The disaster that occurred
yesterday is the fourth in the mines his
tory. and in the disasters about eighty
five men have lost their lives and many
others have been injured. The explosion
in 1885 was caused by fire damp. although
many of those killed on this occasion lost
their lives from the resulting explosion
OF almost go pounds OF dynamite that
was stored in the mine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-24
arrived here this morning and me, Colo

arrived here this morning and met Colo
mel Plumers force"
London, May 22.-Lord Roberts reports
to the war office in u dispatch dated
Krooustad, May q, as follows: "Mahon
reports that the flying column entered
Mafeking at a. m. May IS. He was
stubbornly opposed by 1.5O0 men on May
H. nine miles from Afafeking, but the
Beers were driven from their strong po-
sitions after five hours fighting thanks
he says. TO the magnificent qualities OF
his troops, A detachment OF Canadian
artillery, by a series OF forced marches.
reached him the morning Of the fighting
and rendered valuable assistance. Ma
hons casualties were about thirty. The
Boer losses were heavy"
London, May 22-Further details OF the
fighting at Mafeking say that Com
mandant Sarel Eloff's followers deserted
him, whereupon Eloff fired on them him
self and then surrendered. with eighty
followers. The dispatch also says that
one party of Beers was driven out OF the
staat and allowed to escape, as 1--WE had
sufficient prisoners" The capture OF
Eloff and his followers cost Baden-Pow-
ell three men killed and seven wounded.
London, May 22-Deiails OF the meet
ing between the columns commanded by
Colonel Plumer and Colonel Afahon show
that as the former rode into MasibIstad
at sunrise. May IS, the Hon. Maurice
Clifford. Colonel Rhodes. Prince Adolphus
Of Teck. Sir John Wnloughby and others
rode in front with the information that
Colonel Mahon's column was within two
miles OF the place.