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The Republican journal., 1901-08-15
All who can are requested to meet at the
fair grounds next Monday for work.

All VINO can are requested to meet at the
fair grounds next Monday for work.
A very enjoyable birthday party was
given at the residence of Hon. William B.
Swan Tuesday in honor of his little grand
son, William Swan Kelley.
DEATH OF MRS. A. j. BILLINGS. Word
was received here yesterday of the death
that morning of Mrs. A. j. Billings OF Free
dom. She was returning from Windermere
Park and was thrown from her carriage
and so severely injured that she lived but
one hour after the accident. She was the
widow of the late DR.. A. j. Billings, was
prominent in Grange and Grand Army cir
cles and had many friends in Belfast and
throughout the county who will learn of her
death with deep regret
The Klark-ScOville Co. is playing week S
engagement in the Belfast Opera House be-
fore good houses. They are presenting
new plays at popular prices, and giving
good satisfaction. Their specialties include
performances on odd musical instruments,
moving pictures, songs, mOnOlOgues, etc.,
and are all good. The company gave way
Wednesday for the Pirates of Penzance by
local talent. A watch is on exhibition at
Chase & D0ak's to be given to the holder of
the lucky number on the combined audience
of Thursday and Friday evenings
John Pierce Of New York is cruising on
the Maine coast in his handsome steam
yacht Seneca, accompanied by Mrs. Pierce
and John B. Mcdonald of New York, con-
| tractor for the $35,OOO,OOO subway in that
city. Sunday the Seneca was at Frankfort,
and Monday she came to Belfast and re-
manned several hours to enable Mrs. Pierce
to visit her mother, Mrs. ellison Carman of
New York, who is spending the summer
here. g. F. Hartman joined the yacht
| here, and she left Monday afternoon for
| Camden.
| North BELFAST. Mrs. F. r. Downs and
daughter Blanche of Charlestown, Mass,
| arrived Sunday to spend few weeks va
cation at their former home. Mrs. Martin
Mixer and sons Irwin and Herbert of Lynn,
Mass, are visiting friends and relatives in
this vicinity. Gertrude Newell is at home
| for short vacation. Rev. F. W. Barker
of Brooks will preach in the church next
Sunday morning and evening in exchange
with Rev. c. S. Harrison. Communion will
be observed "A program for Sunday
school concert is in rehearsal and will be
given Sunday evening, Aug. 25th.
THE MAINE REGISTER. James n. Don
ham. travelling agent for the publishers,
delivered the copies of this valuable work
to Belfast subscribers this week. The
Register this year is OF unusual value, on
account of the Congressional and Legisla-
ture appointments, census statistics and
other matter pertinent to the beginning of a
new decade and new century The book
contains an addition to the usual political
| and court directory, election returns, valua-
tion, etc, a complete business directory of
425 towns and 20 cities in Maine and a
township p,all thoroughly revised to date.
The price is $500. Published by G. NJ.
Donham, 800 Congress ST., Portland.
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

THE MAINE LAND.
There are lands that are fair, and gems
most rare,
In kingdoms over the seas;
There are mines of gold, with their wealth
untold,
Enshrouded in mystery;
There are skies as blue, and hearts that are
By the Danube and the Rhine;
Rut there's no other land like the Maine
The land of the cliff and pine.
>rsr, a land has it's palaces grand
For those of high degree;
where the proud pOtentate regales in the
state
There are lands of the East where heather
feast,
And kneel at pagan shrine;
Rut the best of all lands is the Maine
land,
The land of the cliff and pine.
There are toil-worn hands in the Maine
and
Her sons are sturdy and bold;
Her daughters fair as the volets rare
That bloom on the summer void;
Let others sigh meath the warm southern
sky.
Where tropic bowers entwine,
tut for me there's no land like the Maine
and,
The land of the cliff and pine.
ifeu heigh-ho for the Maine land, the
home land,
Ye truants wandered away
F-0m her pine-clad hills and rushing
rIllS,
She's calling for you today
I'll, Ger the deep, when the world is asleep,
You think of your home and mine;
ID tue dear land, the fair land, the Maine
land,
rhe land of the cliff and pine.
Frank H. Colley.
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15
BASE BALL.

Honors We're even in Belfast's games up
river last week. They were defeated at
Old Town Thursday and won from Bangor
Friday. Belfast had no scorer at either
game The Bangor Daily News gives the
following for the Old Town game:
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15
Ryder'S Cove and CaStine,

The steamer Silver Star will make all excursion
Sunday, August 18th. from Belfast to Ryder's
Cove and Castine, weather permitting. The Steam
er will leave the B. & B. s. S. Co.'S wharf. Bel
fast, at $50 A. NJ: for Ryder's Cove and Castne,
and returning will leave Ryder's Cove at $50 and
for sale on the wharf by F. W. Pote. 1w33
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15

The Old Towns came to Belfast Tuesday
and our boys evened up the score between
them by defeating the visitors 13 to g. This
makes the games and between Belfast
and Old Town, and increases Belfast's total
of games to q, with il won, percentage of
$40, very large percentage of winnings.
Costello, new man on the Belfasts played
fine game at short, with chances and l
error. German struck out men, and Davis
of the Old Towns, T. Two base hits were
made by Ring of Belfast, Smith, Small and
Webb of Old Town; 9-base hit by johnson
and home run by Doherty. Two double
plays were made by the Old Towns. The
game throughout was characterized by good
playing
The Belfasts went to Rockland yesterday,
and won ~ to- O.
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15

Two base hit, McAllister Three base hit
McAllister. Home runs, A. Davis, Webb. Stol-
en- bases,C Davis, r. Webb, Taggett ., Darby.
Base on balls, c. Davis, McDermott, Ring
r. Hit by pitched ball, Taggett ?. Struck
out, A. Davis, McAllister, McDermott,
Doherty, Goode 2, johnson, Darby, Dear
born. Passed balls, Davis ., johnson 4.
Umpire, Long.
Belfast won at Bangor 10 to 6, but we
have seen no report of the game.
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15
@MA~r

This signature is on every boz Of the genuine
Laxative Brom0-Q Quinine Tablets
the remedy that cures . cold i'm one day
The Republican journal., 1901-08-15
FOR SALE.

The house lot on Congress street known as the
Patterson lot, will be sold at bargain.
DUNTON & DUNTON.
Belfast, Sept. 20, 19OO.-3Stf
The representative., 1901-03-14
Stature of the Centenarian..


One of the most interesting and trust
worthy statements in respect to old age
is the report on the habits Of centen-
arians, made some years ago by a COM
mission appointed by the British Medi-
cal association. 1t seems that most of
these old people were small or medium
o. statue and a spare habit of body; the
voice was rather feeble; most of them
had lost their teeth, but nearly all en-
ioyed good digestion, one old man of SO,
clergyman, placing his hand on the
organ in question and saying that he
never knew what it was to have a
stomach. Nearly all OF them had en-
joyed uninterrupted good health, and
many had never know1swhat it was to
be sick. They were all very moderate
in eating, most of them using little ami
NAL food. Few indulged at all in in
toxicating drinks, ard those only in
notable moderation. They took consid-
erable outdoor exercise, and nearly all
possessed the good-natured, placid dis
osition.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The representative., 1901-03-14
He Scents Danger.

Russell Sage is getting old but he is
still levei-headed. In speaking of tha
gigantic railroad deal whereby the
Southern Pacific became engrafted upon
the Union Pacific system; he says:
Such combinations of concentrated
capital are sure to arouse the people
And the people, once aroused, are more
powerful than this railroad combina-
ton or any other that might be formed.
l regard it as very dangerous to have
such great combinations 1t is right and
proper that the capitalist who invests
his money in railroads or other great
enterprises should be assured Of rea-
sonable and fair return. it is right that
railroads should have an agreement not
to cut rates below fair profit-making
figure. But this should be done in con-
ventions, by meetings, BY agreements
not in the sitting of competition.
You will find that. in the end this
zeal will excite distrust, arouse resent
ment and incite to reactionary meas
ures the people, the state legislatures
and eventually the national congress
Injured by rates, statestwill inaugurate
legislation, and there Will be deep hos
tility to combined capital. still own
interests in the Union Pacific, but l dis
approve of such vast combinations -
Exchange.
The representative., 1901-03-14
The white House China.

In way the china in use at the state
banquets at the White House is we'll
worthy of rank among it's art treasures
Congress has from time to time made
various appropriations, ranging in
amount as high as $1,000. for state dim
ner services, and these various services
are stored away in the big china closets,
for no ware bearing the special copy
righted White House mark is permitted
to leave the executive mansion, save 1t
is broken. AS rule. each new admins
tration secures new set Of china, and
the old sets are kept for show purposes
only. The Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and
Cleveland sets are thus preserved. The
Hayes set is the handsomest of the en-
tire lot, and cost about 81 500. Each Of
the 1,500 pieces is hand-painted, and
each of the 500 pieces Of cut glass is en-
graved with the arms Of the United
States. There has always been much
admiration expressed for the Lincoln
set-Waldon Fawcett, In Woman's
Home Companion.
The representative., 1901-03-14
Points About Belgian Hnres.

The color is the red, golden brown.
or tan of the thoroughbred Belgian.
There should be but very little gray
about them 1t is not an unusual thing
for the headquarters to shade Off into
a slightly grayish tinge, but when the
animals are scored they suffer cut in
consequence. The thoroughbred Bel
gian in exhibition flesh should, when
fairly grown, weigh about eight pounds.
Corn-fed or fatted, they will weigh more
and lose somewhat in symmetry or
form. For this reason fanciers feed
mostly oats for their grain ration. He
should be long in limb and body, with
straight front feet, fine in bone. Add
to these the characteristic color, or
shades of color, of the Belgian and we
know we have good blood.-National
Rural.
The representative., 1901-03-14
Rural Delivery Here to stay.

Year by year the appropriations for
this service have been increased by con-
gress, from $4,000 to $15O,O00, then to
$3.50, 1000, and lastly for last fiscal year,
to $1,750,00O. All this has been brought
about in response to the irresistible de-
mands of the plain people, who, having
once tasted the service, demanded more
One year ago only Idaho, Montana, Mis-
sissippi, Utah and Wyoming were with
out practical examples Of the new serv-
ice. Each of these states, Mississippi
and Montana excepted, has since been
supplied with rural free delivery Two
hundred and fifty new services, each
averaging 25 miles in length, and serv-
ing about 1000 persons, are being start
ed every month. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that the appropriation for the
rural delivery of mails will not be less
than $5,000,000 for the present year, and
nearly every cent of this expenditure
will come back into the treasury in the
shape of increased postal receipts or re-
duced cost of collateral postal service.
-Pearson's Magazine.
The representative., 1901-03-14
The Great Orator of the World.

Men who stir the surface of thought
for moment may be inferior and COM
mand little permanent respect, but the
great orators have left too many land
marks behind them to be confounded
with rhetoricians and msn Of the mo-
ment. We have not one OF his orations
left by which we might Judge for our
selves, but if there be anything in the
testimony of all men of his time, julius
Caesar is entitled to rank among the
greatest orators of his age. Yet, how
ever much we may mourn over the pas
sage of the Rubicon we cannot deny to
Caesar the highest rank of all those who
have managed the affairs OF practical
life. Daniel Webster, who was our
greatest orator, has never been denied
the rank of great man. Henry Clay,
whose oratory was of that sympathetic
kind which we most suspect, was the
most powerful party leader who ever
dictated his will to others.
The representative., 1901-03-14
The WOOdpecker.

Woodpeckers which were long consid-
cred fair game for the gunner are now
recognized almost everywhere as useful
birds. The flicker is so fond of ants
that it will alight on an ant hill, thrust
in its bill to bring out the inmates, and
then gorge itself on the agitated ants
as they swarm from the opening. The
sapsucker was considered an injurious
bird for many years, but Frank Boiles
showed that its tapping trees ordinarily
produced no serious injury; indeed, it
is now claimed that the birds eye form
alton in the wood of the maple, which
increases its value, is the work of these
birds. Woodpeckers are deserving all
that they can ask at the hands of farm
ers. The downy woodpecker feeds upon
the woolly aphis, often seen on our ap-
pie trees.
The representative., 1901-03-14

The United States and Great Britain
are the only two first class nations that
do not own and operate some of their
railways. In comparison with private
ownership, government control is prov
Ell to have been great success in every
case. There is reduction in freight and
passenger fares and the entire abolition
of the dangerous preferential system
abolition of strikes, an improvement in
the postOffice and an improved condition
OF the overwOrked and underpaid rail-
way worker, who, when disabled or
worn out by long service, is pensioned
by the government. In New Zealand
where the railways are not only owned
by the state, but nearly all built by the
state, the wages Of the employees average
80 per cent higher than those paid or
the railways of the United States. You
can ride 80 miles there for 10 cents The
annual profits of the railroads. postal
telegraph, telephone and express are
sufficient to pay all the federal taxes.
Notwithstanding the great extent of the
country and its sparse population, first
class service is rendered the people. Il.
has been figured that under governme MT
ownership We could travel from Boston
to San Francisco for 81. the government
still earning a good profit-New York
Tribune.
The representative., 1901-03-14
why Man Is Superior.

Man is a perfected marsupial. He is
q creature of pockets. With him the
necessity of pouch simply develops
one. This is the law of evolution.
The first we read of him as pocket
bearing animal was on level with the
kangaroo. He then had one pouch fast
ened to his belt Now look at him and
compare him to woman, for whOm-in
his chivalry-he is truly sorry. She, In
her helplessness, Is usually behind the
kangaroo, and at her best only equals
him with one pouch fastened at her
waist. She was not evolved through the
laws of nature, but under the sterner de-
crees of the dressmaker
What difference between no pockets
and score Of pockets! The first is
woman; the other, man. Woman Is lit
orally fettered for want of pockets. She
must carry in her hands whatever is not
part of her clothing, while mans arms,
palms and fingers are free-free to help
his unfortunate sister.
Think of five pockets in trousers, five
in vest, five in jacket and five in over
coat-an exact score in all. Some men
have more than this. When man took
up the handkerchief habit he made a
pocket for that convenient article. He
doesn't have to be picking them up-ex-
cept for the women.
He made a pocket for his knife and a
pocket for his watch; a pocket for his
keys and a pocket for his letters; a
pocket for his tobacco and little pocket
for his car tickets, and he kept on max
ing pockets as fast as he needed them
Women, in their helplessness, envy
him. They reach out to him to borrow
his knife, to borrow his pencil, to bor-
row a bit of string and to borrow a
dozen articles that he usually has stored
away about his clothing. He is kind
and lends, for he is sorry for them in
their arrested development.-New York
Herald.
The representative., 1901-03-14

Six months ago the press of the civil
lied world was filled with gruesome
stories of the massacre of Christians
by Chinese; today Christendom is, or
ought to be, standing in shame and
confusion of face before the fact that
Christian troops in China have surpass-
rage, in rapine and ravage. The whole
record has not yet 1eaped to light. Gen.
eral Chaffees dispatches are evidently
too plain spoken for the war department
to think 1t prudent to publish them. But
enough is known to make it certain that
Christendom has bettered the instruc-
tlons of the boXers.--New York Evening
FOst.
The representative., 1901-03-14
Will Have to Come Down,

Tom L. johnson offers to buy out the
street car system of Columbus and run
it on three cent fare basis, with uni
versal transfers. The nickel held it's
place as the standard street car fare for
a long time, but it has no logic to stand
on, and it will have to come down. If
street railroad corporations will not
bring it down, municipal ownership will.
The present owners of the Columbus
railway find themselves able to pay but
IA ia cents an hour, while charging
high rate of fare, and yet one of the
most successful street railway men who
ever went into business admits that 20
cents an hour is about the proper figure
for the payment Of employees
This, too, he believes with fares re-
duced about 10 per cent
If Tom L. Johnson agrees to carry
passengers for three cents each, give
universal transfers and pay his en-
ployes 20 cents an hour, it simply
means that the rate of fare and the rate
Of wages have been all out of propor-
tion in the past.
Mr. Johnson is not fool nor a phil
anthropist. If he acquires the street
railway company in Columbus it will be
an investment and Mr.. Johnson will ex-
pect to make some money out OF it. lie
is one of the shrewdest men in the busi-
ness and If he thinks he can make
money on the conditions he offers, it is
pretty certain that he can make money
out of the franchise
His offer to pay the employees 20 cents
an hour and to agree to short day of
nine or ten hours, will doubtless set the
employees to thinking CO..,
Press.
The representative., 1901-03-14

The report of the city electrician of
Chicago is another contribution to the
fast accumulating mass of testimony in
favor of municipal ownership of mu-
nicipal monopolies. Since 1888 the city
has expended $2,7Se, ,OO012 for the con-
struction, maintenance and operation of
its electric lighting plant. Had the
lights been rented they would have cost
S2,5O7. .110.50, or only $27S, ,S8962 less
than they have cost in fact, and there
would have been nothing besides that
difference but monthly bills to show for
it. AS it is, though the city has no col
lection of light bills and has expended
$27S,89S.62 more than the lighting might
have been rented for, it has an elaborate
electric lighting plant of it's own
National Advance.
The representative., 1901-03-14
Hard Punish M ents.

A German jurist who has travelled in
Egypt gives the following details of the
penalties there inflicted for various Of
fenses: In the Egyptian penal system
the last and the bastinado are the prin-
clpal correctites used. Vagabonds get
off cheaply for they are merely impris-
oned until they show evidence of i'm
provement." But bakers and butchers
who use false weights or defraud their
customers in other ways receive a pub
lie bastinado of from three to 80 blows.
Any man who Injuries tree must either
pay twice the amount of the damage
done or take seven lashes A peasant
who disguises himself as a Bedouin in
from which the Bedouins are exempt is
punished with 70 lashes. If an official
is guilty of crime he suffers the loss
Of his Office, in addition to other punish
reputable persons testify that his char
acter has improved. Any one who in
jures the obelisks or. other ANTIQUITIES
is compelled to repair them at his own
expense in default of which he is prompt
ly sentenced to receive 100 lashes, in
fiicted at the place of his sacrilege. A
village sheik who appropriates the tax
es or shows partiality in imposing them
receive 70 lashes. Dilatory taxpayers
are put in arrest until they see the error
OF their ways. When peasants go to
law, they must, as preliminary. be held
in arrest for time.
The representative., 1901-03-14
Railroad Fares I'm Russia.

United States Consul Thomas Smith
reports the following facts from Mos
COW, in Russia, where he is stationed, to
the government
Cities of from 10000 to $4,000 are
now numerous in Siberia. Hotels sup
piled with comfortable rooms, restaur-
ants which may truly be said in many
cases to be palatial, electric lights and
telephone connections are not difficult
to find. One may now traverse Siberia
with his hands folded, if he so wishes;
as the elegant weekly vestibule, supplied
with bath, piano, dining saloon, drawing
room, leather sofas, easy chairs and OBJ
servation cars-the whole fitted with
electric lights and call bells-rolls from
Moscow to Irkutsk. The cost Of this
remarkable journey of 5000 miles, in
cluding sleeper, is but $44 first-class .
just read that description over again,
Mr.. Free-and-Independent American
Citizen, and figure the difference in con-
venience and cost between public owner
ship in Russia and private ownership
In America.-National Advance.
The representative., 1901-03-14

The fttest are the strongest and the
strongest things will survive. ant, the
weaker will perish. Truth and justice
are stronger than lies and injustice AMI
will put them down. The people are
hundredfold stronger than their
tyrants and exploiters, but they are not
yet conscious of their strength. They
are blind Sampson grinding in the
mills of their oppressors But they are
coming to consciousness and sight, and
the first half of this century will witness
the spectacle Of Sampson laying his
hands on the pillars which support our
rotten economic system and pulling it
down in ruins. Yes, the fittest and
the strongest will survive.-Southern
Mercury.
The representative., 1901-03-14

Funston, the magnificent-Funston Of
Kansas-has conquered the Filipinos
some more. He conquered the same
rebels two years ago and now again
he smashes the whole blessed outfit in
happy succession. He swims rapid riv-
ers with bowie knife over his heart
and job lot of artillery stock between
his toes. Funston is always sensational,
and his admiring countrymen bow in
humble alteration before every new
manifestation of his glorious personal
ity. Grant has done what Funston has
left undone, and before these mighty
heroes the rebellion lies PROSTATE. All
that remains is to loot all the farms and
reconcentrate the women and children.
1t is earnestly hoped that Funston and
Grant may be able to parallel the he
roic deeds of the Spanish soldiers-Non-
confOfmist. Sz.sz-.
The representative., 1901-03-14
A Great Traveller Is Hood.

The mileage of the blood circulation
reveals some astonishing facts in our
personal history. Thus it has been cal
culated that, assuming the heart to beat
SO times minute at ordinary heart
pressure, the blood goes at the rate of
207 yards in the minute, or miles per
hour, 1853 miles per day and 81 ,32O miles
year. If man "a years of age could
have one single blood eorpuscle floating
in his blood all his life it would have
Travelled in that same time 5,15O,SSO
miles.-London Daily Mail
The representative., 1901-03-14
W0r3ted the Senior.

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 23.-As an in
direct result OF an attempt on the part of
juniors of the state university to break
up banquet held by the seniors last
Tuesday night, Guy H. Robertson, 'O1,
and Paul Coats Harper, '02, two Of the
most prominent students of the uni
versity, fought to finish with bare
fists. The fight was in the presence of
so OF the leading upper class men. Four
rounds were fought, at the. end of which
Robertson was completely knocked out
b, succession of blows on the head
and face.