The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-08


. Sick women are invited to consult DR..
Pierce by letter free. All correspond
ence confidential. Address DR.. r. v.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
for the winter, now only few weeks
away There is no means of satisfying
the demand, for the good people of the
North seem to be laboring under the
| idea that this is torrid climate, and
all the clothes they send are thin and
summery The truth is that this little
island of the Mexican Gulf does have
some severe winter weather, accompani-
ed by ice and SNOW, while ''northers''
that chill the very marrow in ones bones
are of frequent occurrence. In lieu of
the million muslin shirt waists we have
received and the equal number of scant
calico wrappers with inch-wide hens at
I! the bottom, it would be much wiser to
| sent flannel and other material suited
to the season; and infinitely wiser yet
to send money and allow the Calves
tonians to buy garments to suit them
selves, of the local merchants. The
latter have suffered enough, Heaven
/ knows, from the storm, without being
utterly ruined afterwards through mis-
guided charity. They have dried their
drenched and deluged good, cleaned out
the mud and salt left by the sea from
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heroic efforts to avert utter failure.
| The insurance companies are making
good no storm-losses: and the mer-
chants. having on hand thousands of
dollars worth of ruined goods, are offer
ing those slightly damaged. but still us
able at greatly reduced prices. But,
naturally, nobody will buy at amy price
50 long as train-loads of goods continue
to arrive for free distribution. and mer-
camille failures are the order Of the
| hour in Galveston. 1t cannot be too
strongly impressed upon the people that
money is the one thing most Imperative
| ly needed for Texas relief money by
the millions of dollars: for clearing up
the mountains of debris. rebuilding the
houses, furnishing them when built,
and purchasing tools, sewing machines.
etc, for those who have lost everything;
but could earn their own support if pro
vided with the implements of their trade.
Some Of our experiences in the Rag
Fair of the old-clothes department have
been odd, indeed. In many packages
we find letters, sentimental epistles
from ladies, presumably young hidden
in the pockets of coats and trousers,
inviting correspondence with the recipi-
ents, and offers of matrimony pinned to
the female garments. Love-letters are
found stuffed into the toes of shoes,
and the most earnest of all came to light
in box of soap and combs. The last men
toned is too characteristic to be depriv-
ed of publicity. The writer, Penn
sylvanian, descibes himself as a good
looking man of thirty years, of I'M
exceptionable habits and generally pros
porous circumstances, but owing to the
death of his wife. a year ago, and long
run of sore eyes, now temporarily down
on his luck" However, he is the proud
owner of a home, whose furnishings
cost exactly two thousand dollars, and
he wants some young woman who has
lost her parents in the flood to come or
and take posses sion of the same, as
wife number two. Owing to the sore
eyes. etc., he cannot afford to pay her
transportation from Galveston to the
Pennsylvania village; but if the Rec
Cross will kindly select the young
woman and purchase her ticket, the rest
will be smooth sailing. He makes 9
special point of ''some young woman
who has lost her parents none other
need apply References are enclosed
and with the evident conviction thai
applicants would be numerous, the writ
er urges upon the Red Cross discretion
in making the choice.
A Vermont widow writes in the same
vein, and puts her leap year proposition
into a box of hand-knit hose. She says
she has good farm, but is tired of thu
cold northern winters, and will sell ou
and come South with her money, tt
marry some flood-sufferer whose wife
was drowned. Occasionally we STRIKE
something pathetic, such as bundle O.
baby's clothing, accompanied by not
saying that the dear little soul for whom
they were intended was called up highe
when only few days old, and its sorrow
ing mother hoped that some happie
mother might find use for the garments
which love had provided.
The inmates of the Dunning poor