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Notice of Hearing.

The New England Telephone and Telegraph
Company respectfully petitions the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the City of Belfast Maine,
for location for its poles and wires thereon and
the necessary supporting and strengthening fix
lures and wires, IN the following named streets
and highways of said City.
Said Company agrees to reserve space for one
arm at the top of all the above poles for tele
phone, fire alarm and police signal wires, owned
by the City and used for municipal purposes. Said
poles to be erected under the supervision of such
officers as said City may designate.
:-FOllOwing are the streets and highways above
referred to:
High street and its continuation TO Citypoint
from pole line now standing.
Highway from CitypOint TO Holmes mil high
way from Holmes mill to Waldo town line shore
road from Swanville road to SearSpOrt town line.
Miller street from Congress street to Lincoln
vile avenue; LincOnvlle avenue from its june
tion with Miller street to NOrthport town line.
Date August 21 1908
NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
By l. S. BLACK, Special Agent
In BOARD OF MUNICIPAL. OFFICERS
BELFAST, Me September T. 1903
The above petition was rec ived and Or
dered on file and 1t was ordered that Il public
hearing bs held at the Aldermen's room in Bel
fast, October9 1903, at o'clock Z. NJ in accord
ance with Chapter 3IS, Section > of the Acts and
Resolves of 1885.
A. 7. MANsFIELD CityClerk.
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railroad shares to levels where they are
easily worth full quotations basing the
upon the dividend rates, the
present earnings of the roads, and the IA
vorable prospect of maintaining them.
The wheat market has felt the stimulus
OF less favorable reports from the south
west as to the winter wheat. The cold
wave that swept the southwest has I'M
doubleday done damage. How seriously
and how extensive this damage may not
be definitely determined for a day or two
at least. Meanwhile the market has been
strengthened by the reports that have
come. AS everyone knows there Is very
little wheat in our country. Stocks In the
northwest are extremely light If the
actual wheat available for use and the
prospective requirements for the next
three months were the factors Of main in
fluence prices would rule very much high
err. But this shortage in the available
stocks has been offset as a speculative
factor by the fact that we have had the
promise Of the greatest winter wheat crop
ever known. This week the first lowering
of the general condition occurred. 1t now
remains to be seen whether enough wheat
was jointed in the districts where the low
temperatures were recorded to make up q
material loss from the crop as whole.
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NEW BOOKS {;

THE MAHoNEY MILLION. BY Charles Town
send. Illustrated New York: The New
Amsterdam Book Company, 1856 Fifth Avenue.
Price, $1.25.
Mike Mahoney was the dean Of Ma
honey's Alley in New York city, in an
obscure district uninvaded by modern
progress. Mike was a brickmason and
toiled honestly and sedulously and con-
tentedly. The only break in the daily
routine was the antagonism which dawned
between the Mahoneys and the Prussan
saloonkeeper round the corner, whose
daughter Kitty loved and was loved by
Mahoneys son, deemed to low for Kitty.
Mrs. Mahoney, too, became disconnected
and wanted to "live vance where people
put on some stoyle,'' and she had an am
bition to ''go t tn opery in a low-cut
dress and a long-cut trail" One day
Mike was offered million for half in
terest in some Pennsylvania oil land he
owned and sold it, descended from the
working scaffold and bought a house on
Murray Hill, and Mrs. Ma1loney tried to
learn all the fashionable frills, even to
speaking French and waltzing, but Mike
was awfully lonely and hankered after
the alley. A bogus count and bogus
English duchess came near robbing him
of much money Mrs. Mahoney figured
as a Madame Malaprop of the extreme
| kind and blundered fearfully in her at
| tempts to exploit the terms of fashion
able society. The talks of Mike and his
! friend and counsellor, Casey. Of the po-
| lice force, are full of genuine wit and
wisdom The author is happy in his
| closing scenes. Even Mrs. Mahoney had
! enough of Murray Hill.
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Wall Street and Roosevelt.

There are more reports from Wall street
of hostility to the president by the friends
of the trusts. This hostility is. said to
have been intensified by the Northern Sc"
curities decision. It is not claimed that
President Roosevelt was in any way re-
-sponsible for making the laws which the
court has decided have been violated by.
the trust promoters. He was only instru-
mental in having the laws enforced
against an institution, the promoters of
which were warned at the outset was lille
gal and would probably be so declared by
the courts.
And Wall street will have no more use
for the president because he was the
prime mover in securing the passage of
laws in the state Of New York, which the
New York supreme court has just sus-
tanned, taxing the franchises of public
service corporations. Apparently, any
| thing which has a tendency to compel
corporations and capital to do their share
| in obeying the laws in support Of the
government, is looked upon with disfavor
| in Wall street.
| But Wall street is not all the country
| by any means, and perhaps the more ac-
| tive Wall street influences become in open
opposition to the president, for the rea-
sons Indicated, the more enthusiastically
4 the people Of the country generally will
i come to his support. Not that they would
1 indorse hostility to capital, not that the
president has been guilty of any such
error, but that the courage which he has
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displayed in insisting that capital shall
be amenable to the law and render its due
proportion Of support to the government
which protects it should be sustained.
Hostility to the president on this ground
is very limited among the business men.
The business men of the country, as a
rule, recognize Theodore Roosevelt as,
after all, the best friend which the busi-
ness interests could have. While he is
president no radical or extreme policy
will be pursued, and yet, while he is
president, radicals and extremists will
not be able to say that the government
is administered from Wall street. The
middle ground. the sound and unassailable
position which he occupies, his broad
minded and impartial attitude, is the best
security that the business interests Of the
country could have, and in general they
are for Theodore Roosevelt
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Charlie Towne's Wisdom.

In his address before the Brooklyn Dem
ocratic club a few days ago Charles A.
,rowne laconically explained why the dem
ccrats were defeated in 1896.
eve made a great mistake" he said,
sin 1886 in putting a prescription for the
disease into a statement Of it,
In the light Of nine years Of backsight
Mr.. Towne feels sure that the democrats
were right in asserting that the country
did not have money enough, but were
tactically, at least, in error In bringing
forward free silver as the remedy.
There is little doubt that Mr.. Towne's
views on the silver question, views that
he entertained so strongly that they made
him leave the republican party, have been
greatly altered in the last few years. He
now thinks that the essential strength Of
the democratic position in 1896 was in its
demand for more money. But then the
great wrong with him was not the re-
| duction in the volume Of the currency,
but the decentralization of silver. n was
not more money that Mr. Towne pas
sionately demanded in those stormy days
but more silver money.
4 A few years later Mr.. Towne guardedly
I admitted that the money question was nj
longer of such great Importance as it hat
been because the great increase in thu
production Of gold was making it possibl,
4 to get along without silver. Now he ha
evolved so far as to be reluctant to pro
a pose any particular remedy for the situa
4 ton and to be content with stating it.
n To-day the country does lack money
THAT seems to be agreed to by. everybody
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And even nine years ago the democrats
would have had great trouble in making
an Issue out of a mere assertion that the
country needed more money. No more
can they do it now. And they are not
prepared to offer prescription, tho II the
money question is to become live one In
this country again as between political
parties the issue will have to be Joined on
the prescription. 1t is pretty plain that
the remedy must come thru an expansion
of currency rather than of metallic money,
but there is little likelihood Of the DEM
ocrats getting together on any measure
looking to the expansion Of currency.
So. as piece Of "reminiscences Mr..
Towne's speech makes good reading, but
there is not much light in it for a demon
allied party.
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New Charter Commission.

The Judges Of the district court have
appointed a new charter commission.
This is timely action. Unquestionably
this community has learned great deal
within the last few months about the i'm
portance of being able to manage its own
affairs independently Of the management
Of the affairs of other cities.
Just what policy the new commission
will pursue, to what extent they will
deem it wise to amend the existing char
ter, whether they will think it best to
submit practically new organic law or
the old charter with no important
changes, is probably something about
which they have not yet, even as indi-
viduals, framed definite conclusions. The
connection is a special election, and the
appointment Of the commission at this
time presupposes the submission of a
charter at a special election. Sub
mitted under such conditions, it seems al
together likely that the home rule plan
may be adopted, and it seems to us that
the probability of success in that direc-
ton will be enhanced if the changes made
in the old charter are few and simple
1t is true that there lis much to be sai6
in favor of a, complete, new instrument
Delays are likely to attend efforts tt
amend But after all, the most impor
tant thing at present is home rule itself
and the possession Of power to manage
our own affairs as far as possible.
! The commission which the judges hav'
selected is an excellent one. It is entirel,
new, containing no names of men win
have served on previous charter commits
sions. These gentlemen will approach tn
subject free from any prejudice or com
initial to the propositions heretofor
formulated and sumbitted in previou
charters, which is undoubtedly an advan
tage in the direction of prompt and har
monious action.
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The postoffice investigation, which was
to be a family affair, strictly on the quiet,
with the bad boys spanked behind closed
doors, is getting ito be decidedly noisy.
If there had ibeensles Of a disposition to
do things on the quiet there would now
be less to investigate.
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is better for President Roosevelt to have
to get along with a cold sandwich won in
a free-for-all struggle for the lunch coun-
ter, than for the fair to be failure. The
experience OF the last three days ought
to be valuable to ourdst Louis friends.
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Former Governor Taylor Of Kentucky
declares that Howard's conviction Of the
murder of Goebel is an awful crime
The words are not too strong. An inno-
cent man has been convicted on the tes-
timony Of liars. Nothing in the aftermath
of the Goebel tragedy has added to the
luster Of Kentucky's name
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man DallaOS, Ill
which he shows great skill in making
Hans talk in broken English. The Brett
man ballads. are Of a political f1avoring.
They are, however, but a small part of
Leand's literary, work.
But then Hood is chiefly remembered by
his "Song of the Shirt and Bridge of
Sighs.'' And of all Cowpers poetry. the
majority Of people can only readily recall
1.-THE Task and John Gilpin,'' while the
average memory of Milton is befogged as
to the fine poetry he wrote besides Para
disc Lost The author. Of 'Alice, Ben
Bolt altho possessed of large literary
fecundity, is remembered chiefly by that
poen1-not a great poem, by the way, at
all. Voltaire said Of Dante: 'His reputa-
tion will continually be growing greater,
because there is now nobody who reads
him The situation now, however, is
that comparatively few people read Vol
taire's works, while multitudes Of variant
tongues read Dante.
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The Giles Case.

The decision of the supreme court in
the Giles case is a surprise to everybody,
and to none is it more of a SURPRISE
probably, than to the men who framed
the new Alabama constitution. The con-
stitutonal convention was warned that the.
franchise provisions designed to dis.
franchise the negroes would be good no.
longer than it would take fora test case
to reach the supreme court. -.
Senator Morgan was one of those who
was sure that the court would not toler-.
ate the achievement by indirection of What
no one would think of undertaking to ac-
complish directly. &
: But the court has failed to do the ex-
pected; it has refused to deal with the
question at all, ,on the ground that it is
purely a political question and must,
therefore, be settled by congress.
It is not for layman lightly to find
fault with the great tribunal, and we may
assume that if the court says that the
question does not come within its con-
stitutional sphere it is right.
Yet, in the interests of solution Of the
problem, it is to be regretted that the
court did not take the bull by the horns
and hold that the Alabama constitution is
| in conflict with the constitution of the
United Staes. Such decision would have
reformed a lot Of undemocratic constitu-
| lions in the south with minimum OF
bad feeling. The grandfather's: clause
| champions would net be able to stir UP
very much anger over, the cold fact that
| the supreme court of the United States
had found that the Alabama constitution
had collided with that Of the nation.
When the supreme court passes tho
question on to congress the trouble be.
! gins. :Altho the restricted suffrage con
situations of the south were drawn in fui
knowledge Of the provisions of the four
teenth amendment any effort by congress
to impose the constitutional penalty 70
restricting manhood suffrage will be me
with charges of sectionalism, metropolitan
and tyranny.
Nothing could be more just than to ex
clude from the political population 70
; every purpose those who are excluded TO
certain purposes. If the negro is not, a
such, good enough to vote, he is not wort
being represented in congress. If h
doesn't count as q, voter he ought not
count in the popular basis of representa-
ton.
To reduce representation, even justl,
will naturally make the suffrage restrict
! ing states very angry land this IS an er
3 when nobody wishes to stir up the ange
I of section. The idea of a united, hal
$ monious and powerful country has take
e possession Of all minds. Nobody wish:
: to reopen the old wounds Of sections
Z. strife. National harmony is counted
s greater desideratum than justice for II
: negro.
5, The supreme court has passed Il
thorny question on to congress, and col
y gress will probably do nothing with
o The door Of hope Of outside relief h
d Ibeen closed in the southern negro's fac
le And in the north which fought to free t
lei negro there is not the least concer
IS Sentiment is not popular in these times.
- st. Louis seems to have made me
II nf the deflica tion. of the WORLD 81 h
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amY 11FE NEWER QUITE HAppY-WEAITH HANDICAP"

b laid which
morality
the
denied him. He must labor If he does
labor sinplyt lcency
Il ..Andyou
Igetan un
something to
r
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years, as he wrote
verses when 10 years
old. which were pub.
lished and had con-
siderable vogue. Mr..
Leland was a man Of
deep reading; had
published many lit
erary works: was a
. S Kill e d philologist
and journalist and
wrote much poetry,
but he is known to
the world chiefly as
the author of the
! O..
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rdlIrOau case. The octopus
may be excused for gasping
little at this palpable So
lar plexus hit.
q o o q 9
The monitor Arkansas
has been doing a stunt on
the Mississippi river. When
she pulled up to the docks
in st. Louis the other day,
the st. Louis Post-Dispatcl1
celebrated the occasion by
running a dictionary of sea
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Actual canvass of residence
district totals shows out Of
4562 residences: 1919 Journ-
ais, 858 Eve. Tribunes, 644
Morn. Tribunes, and out OF
81 flats, 1II2 Journals, $50
Eve. Tribunes, I63 Morn.
iTribunes.
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Books and Authors
LITERARY POPULATIONS

Charles Godfrey Leland died few days
ago in Florence at the age Of Is, and after
a literary career covering sixty eight
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appointed. Here's hoping that 1t will not
be loves labor lost with 1t.
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This plan of bringing the Minnesota
building at the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position back for a, permanent location
on the state fair grounds is a splendid
one. Somebody thought.
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THE MAGAZINES

OUTING for May-.tGetting into the
game. Playing for the thrill of the sport,
whatever it is, and not merely to win.
That's the American Of to-day declares
Caspar Whitney, editor of Outing. The
pace of twentieth century life demands
physical as we'll as mental vigor and alert
ness and we're bound to keep in the van.
The ethics of sport too, are getting mer
tied attention. For twenty years Cas-
par Whitney has made a careful study of
outdoor America, making periodical trips
from Atlantic to Pacific, from Arctic to
gulf. He has just returned from an ex-
tended trip Of the United States. He tells
what he saw and what he thought of it
in the Sportsman's Viewpoint Of the May
Outing. - '|
Charles Dana Gibson's two-page illus
tration for the May Household Number Of
Golfers Weekly is called 1.-The Eternal
Question" It is a study Of the problem Of
the feminine, true and trenchant, as is al
ways the case with Mr.. Gibsons work.
It is printed in red, and is sure to prove
attractive to even the casual observer.
Another illustration which is likely to
catch the public eye is a new photograph
| of the presidents daughter. Miss Roose-
| welt was caught in charming pose by
Miss Johnston, who took the photograph
! exclusively for Golfers The portrait
|
belle of the White House from that con-
veyed by any previous one. It is printed
4 as a frontispiece
Governmental Parcel-Post in Great
! Britain" by j. Henniker Heaton, NJ. p,
!, is the title~of the Introductory article in
| the May Cosmopolitan. Sir Edward Arnold
contributes a curious article OH 'Knots. .
i illustrated. The Captains of Industry de-
scribed this month are: Gustavus F.
i Swift the millionaire packer: Clement A.
1 Griscom president of the S., 900 900 and
$100o,0OO tonnage shipping combine, legal
" known as the International Mercantile
Marine company, and George j. Gould,
who has proved himself to be almost as
good a railroader and not so much of a
i wrecker as his father. "a Method OF
Equitable Taxation" by John Brisben
Walker is an interesting, concise discus.
sion Of the subject.
1 There is considerable valuable inforraa.
ton with regard to the Philippines in Tho
q National Geographic Magazine for May
There is an article on Improvements il
81 tho Ctitva 0f Manila a roerican ToauoIo,,
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st. Louis seems to have made mess
of the dedication of the world s fair; but
st is better to get experience in the dedi-
|cation than in the actual management. It
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The Ames case begins to be interesting.
We may yet hear more OF those "ances-
trail lesions.'
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April Advertising
Co.'s
The Journal (,s:sss..) 80. 171o
Eve. Tribune { Issues; s. .o73
T~;huro Daily and sunday, \rA62
4IlDullC rs daily and Sundays A4Os

The Journal carried more
advertising in April than any
other Twin City paper daily or
daily and Sunday combined }
ever carried in any one month.
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ton with regard to the Philippines in tho
National Geographic Magazine for May.
There is an article on Improvements in
the City of Manila; American Develop
ment of the Philippines; 1.-THE Garden of
the Philippines and 1.-THE Conquest of Bu-
bonic Plague in the Philippines
New-York tribune., 1903-03-10

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