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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01
ponds.

No wonder turkeys were scarce and
dear at Thanksgiving, when Westing-
house gave ), 200 to his employees, Hon.
Redfel Proctor of Vermont 1000, and
Others in proportion. Judging from the
geports in the newspapers it must have
been the most bountiful Thanksgiving
this country has ever known.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01
DEPOSITS SOLICITED.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED,
WALDO TRUST CO.,
C. f. KNOWLTON. President,
c. o. POOR, Vice President.

DIRECTORS-J. Manchester Haynes, Au-
gusta Edward johnson, Belfast; Edwin G.
Burleigh, Augusta; Clarence o. Poor, Bel
fast Fields S. Pendleton. New York City;
Charles E. Knowlton, Arthur /. Brown, Til
eston Wadlin, William A. Mason, James c.
Durham, Robert p. Chase, Belfast; Albert
PIERCE, Frankfort; George E. Macomber,
Joseph Williamson, Byron Boyd. Augusta
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

With so many steamers going to and
fro there would seem to be little dan
ger of the bay freezing over this win
ter, no matter how cold it may be, and
ice boating must be confined to the
ponds.
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ST Rsc RIPTIoN TERMS: In advance, 500 year;
500 for six months; so cents tor three months
\ ADVERTISING TERMS: For one square, one men
length i'll column, 50 cents for one week and
Is cents for each subsequent insertion.
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Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Piles. Druggists refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no mat
First application gives ease and rest. SOC
II your druggist hasn't it send 5Oc in
stamps and it will be forwarded postpaid.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

The National Grange has gone on rec
ord as favoring industrial education in
the country schools, especially in the
matter of agricultural training.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

The appointment of Bernes 0. Nor
Con as warden Of the State prison meets
with general commentator. Former
u. 5. Marshal Saunders, who appoint
ed MI Norton to the position of Depu-
ty which he has since held, says: "Mr
\ Norton has many excellent qualitica-
tons for the new position to which he
has been appointed. AS a deputy mar
shall he was efficient, faithful and ener-
getic. He always exercised good judg-
meDt"
While the movement in the South to
give The electoral votes of that section
te Roosevelt, making his election to the
Presidency unanimous, will hardly ma
teylalize, the admission that he 'has
been unjustly attacked on the negro
question, misrepresented in relation to
the government of the Philippines and
his position misstated on other public
questions is encouraging. An apology
is noW due from the Presidents detract-
or~ in the North.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

Total abstainers are to be given pref
erence in insurance rates. They already
have the preference in many other d.
rectiOns.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

Lumbermen should supply themselves
when going into the woods with a liberal
amount of Browns Instant Relief.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01
SMITHTON. (Freedom)

Most of our young people are away at
work this winter. Harold Bragdon has
gone to Taunton, Mass, to work in the hos
pital. Leona Russell is at work in Albion
for Mrs Buzzel. George Bragdon is at work
in Mr.. Brakes store at Albion. Frank ana
Fred Thurston are in Lewiston attending
college. e. Mrs Hannah Hall has been sick
for the past week. DR.. Small attends her
49,. John Wentworth spent Thanksgiving
with his mother, Mrs. Florence Wentworth.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

To Cure q Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

LIBERTY.
A new mail route has been established be-
tween here and Waterville, which will give
our people western mail about five hours
earlier than we now receive it. The route
is by North Palermo and China vllage.....
The officers of Liberty Lodge of Masons for
the ensuing year are as follows: W. j..
Greeley, W. NJ; A. II. Norton, S. W; II.
A. Moody, J. W.; A. J: Skidmore, Treas: {;
A. P. Cargill, Sec'y; Rev. E. J. Hatch,
Chap. G. H. Cargill, Marshal; 0. W. Rib
ley, S. D.; C. II. Wellington, J. D.; F. ?.
Bennett, S. S.; Daniel Little, j. S.; 7. II.
ROWell, Tyler.
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We paid to depositors in this depart
ment, subject to check, last year
$3,O29.50
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Published Every Thursday Morning by the
Republican Journal Publishing Go.

rny) Editor and
&HAhLiS A TlLohohA' Business Manager.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-12-01

The recent death in Portland of Chas.
VI. Rice of the {. NJ. Rice Paper Co. will
be felt as a personal loss by many OF
the newspaper men in the State, with
whom he had long sustained business
relations ont of which grew warm
friendship and high esteem. 1t was a
pleasure to do business with him, and a
pleasure to meet him personally, and
now that he has gone the writer feels
shat he has one friend less in the city
of Portland.
Every body will rejoice that the Pres
2dent mas returned safely to Washing
Ton from his visit to the st. Louis Ex-
position: for recollections of the TRACE
DIV At Buffalo are Still fresh in the pub
lie mind. The President was favored
with dne weather while in st. Louis
and lis trip from beginning to end was
AT ovation. Theodore Roosevelt has a
strong hold upon the affections of the
American people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
Frank Duncan's Sentence.

The trial court has sentenced Frank Duncan to death by hanging on the 11th day of November next, and hls
 counsel has given notice of an appeal
 to the Supreme court on a writ of er- TOT claiming that the Frank Duncan now in jail is not the Frank Duncan who sawed through iron bars and escaped from the same jail nearly three years ago. The supreme court can suspend the sentence in order to give the prisoner a hearing and this will possibly be done.
 A delay in the execution of Frank Duncan is not at all a serious matter. He is in jail to stay, and there is no reason why he should be hurried to the gallows. Let him have a full, square opportunity to offer any de- fence he or his lawyers can suggest. Let him have due process of law even if it be long drawn out.
 The grounds of his appeal may be improbable, but no one is authorized to say out of hand that they are be- yond the range of possibility. Mis- taken identity was favorite device of William Shnlsacnearn and long ar ray of confusion in personality sus- tains the attemut of Duncan's coun- sel to procure writ of error. A writ of error and a new trial involves bill of exceptions later on, and the exc eution of the sentence already pro- nounced may be postponed full year, even if it be sustained at last, as has been the rule in sentences pro nounced by Judge Samuel E. Greene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
TAKING TOM TOO SERIOUSLY.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Congressman Tom Heflin says it was all meant joke, but the republican papers continue to take his Czolgosz- t-Washington utterance serious ,ly and as a correction is never able to catch up with the original story, the Alabamian is being vigorously criticised
 It is not unnatural that there should be such criticism. In the course of a polit- ical campaign, l. is well for party orators to label their jokes, for otherwise it is impossible to differentiate in cold print between the serious and the comedy parts; and it is also well for speakers to bear in mind the tendency of news paper correspondents to seize upon some sentence or sentences which sound sensa- tional to lend color to their reports, which helps them sell.
 We are glad that Mir. Heflin has made it clear that his utterances were not meant Go be taken seriously. While this disclaimer cannot catch up with the original story, 1t is better that it has come late than not at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14

tofore Alabama has suffered from un- Gerpaid judges. No good lawyer in active practice can afford to leave that practice to accept a limited term on the bench at $25OO a year. MT. Thomp- son is certainly right when he asks for better compensation for the circuit judges.
 But when MT. Thompson's bill is perfected, so far as he and his col leagues can perfect it, how is 1t to be brought where it can be transformed into law? This is a question that Gov ernor Cunningham must answer. A special session of the legislature dur ing the coming year is probably in eyitable, and Governor Cunningham has intimated that it is at least pos sibility. MT. Thompson should go ahead in the work of preparing a new court bill, for it will be needed when the congestion of the present courts becomes a burden and a crying evil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
THE FoRsAkEk HOMESTEAD.

By John Greenleaf Whittier. Against the wooded hills it stands,
 Ghost of a dead home. staring through It's broken lights on wasted lands
 Where old-time harvests grew. Unplowed. unsown, by scythe unshorn,
 The poor. forsaken farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden corn
 And pale green breadths of rye. or healthful herb and flower bereft
 The garden plot no housewife Keeps; Through weeds and tangle only left The snake it's tenant, creers. A little spray, once bloss om-claj,
 Sways bare before the empty rooms; Beside the roohess porch a sad,
 Pathetic red rose blooms. His track, in mold and dust of drouth, ' On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves. And in the fireless chimney's mouth
 His web the spider weaves. The leaning barn, about to fall,
 Resounds no more on husking eyes; No cattle low in yard or stall,
 No thresher beats his sheaves So sad. so dreari It seems almost
 Some haunting presence makes its sign; That down yon shallowy lane some ghost
 Might drive his spectral kine O home so desolate and lorn,
 Did all thy memories dies with thee? Were any wed. were any born,
 Beneath this low roof-tree? Did rustic lovers hither come?
 Did maidens. swaying back and forth In rhythmic grace, at wheel and loom.
 Make light their toll with mirth? Did child feet batter on the stair?
 Did boyhood frolic in the snow? Did gray age, in her elbow-chair
 Knit rocking to and fro? The murmuring brook, the signing breeze, The pines low whisper, cannot tell; Low mounds beneath the hemlcck trees
 Keep the home secrets well
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
Iron Market Advancing.

Iron has long been considered the barometer of trade in general and the present condition of the iron in dustry is therefore held to be the harbinger of period of high prosper ity. The demand for foundry iron is especially strong, and so is the de- mand for basic iron. The strength of the latter is explained by the activity which has sprung in the steel-malxing plants, and the strength of foundry iron is no doubt due to the prosperity induced by the big crops of the coun. try.
 If, as some anticipate, No foundry should be advanced to twelve dollars a ton, every operative stack in this district would be blown in, and the prosperity of 1S99-1902 would be re- stored and re-established. From the lowest point the price of No. 2 foundry has been increased fully one dollar and a half, and another advance of like size would carry it to twelve dol lars. ..
 It is reasonable to say that iron will next spring command a fine price, even if it does not this winter. Found .x,.,,o o,, ood furpooa onorators ara box,, ever, much like Wall street operators in forecasting prices. If they see con ditions that justify an advance in the price of iron to twelve dollars within six months, they will be apt to begin to hold or to bid for it at once on or near the basis. The prospect is at any rate encouraging in the great in dustry. The commercial metal no longer goes a-begging. It is wanted in all directions, and the big crops and the big canal are pulling together to put the price up and keep it up.
 This district is wholly willing, and, best of all, prosperity is coming even in presidential year, when as a rule prices hesitate. The men in the iron and steel trade have overlooked the preidential race altogether, and are acting oblivious of it's influence as factor in the market,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
Ills humour
Senator Moruan on Panama.

In a series of papers prepared for and printed in the Louisville Courier Journal Senator Morgan is exposing the trickery and corruption of the new Panama Canal company, a concern owned jointly by Frenchmen and Wall street, and worked by it's owners to bunco Colombia and hoodwink Uncle Sam. President Roosevelt eagerly walked into it's trap, becoming there by a party to it's acts, many of which are indefensible
 The conspiracy to steal the province of Panama was concocted at Washing ton and Bogota, and Senator Morgan lays before the people the story of chicane and trickery in all it's details. The story is lengthy, but full of in terest, and it goes to show that our senior senator has lost none of his skill in the summing up of compli- cated set ce circumstances and facts.
 The legal and diplomatic imperfec- tions of the entire Panama canal out rage are presented by Senator Nor gan in the papers now in course of publication, and whoever desires to know the inside and full history of the shady transaction should read Senator MorCan's story of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
Corn Bread in This Country.

Our exports of corn to European countries have risen from 24,000, ,000 bushels in 1888 to about 300,000, ,000 bushels at the present time, and today Belgium at least is using more Indian corn per capita as food than the United States, in which it is great native cereal In Belgium the baker ies put about 25 per cent of corn flour in the bread they make, and such bread is readily sold lower than wheat or rye loaves. It is considered more nutritious and more easily di- gestible. In Germany the favorite loaf consists of one-third corn and two-thirds rye, and five-pound loaf thus made is sold at a saving of about 25 per cent.
 The change in the European bread supply was started by c. J. Murphy, who was sent abroad as commits sioner by the department of agricul- ture. He began the propaganda in 1888, and he maintained it until the use of corn as food was well started and even established, and today Euro peans are more familiar with corn bread than Americans themselves. MT. Murphy asserts that both in Bel gium and Ireland the per capita con sumption of corn as human food is higher than it is in the United States. The value of the Indian corn as food is not appreciated in this country. Years ago children thrived and grew strong through the consumption of Johnny cake, ash cake, hominy and pudding, but in recent years corn meal has fallen into comparative dis use, although it is cheaper, more wholesome and more digestible than wheat flour. The preparation of corn for the table can be more varied than that of wheat, and yet for some reason Indian cora is not freely used. Mir Murphy says the consumption of American corn in crowded Belgium is higher than it is in this country. It is difficult to account for the dislike of this country for corn in It's various forms. We grow it, and we should not look with an unfavorable eye on our own excellent ard abundant product.
 The subject deserves careful atten- ton, with view to reinstatement of American corn to the place it held on the tables of our ancestors. Corn was not a rejected article of food cen tury ago, and it was freely used as late as fifty years ago. We may have progressed backwards in this matter. MT. Murphy things we have.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
A New Judiciary Measure.

Von L. Thompson is framing a new bill designed lo readjust and make efficient the courts of this state. Mr. Thompson is ,n position to see the evils and iniusiices oI congested dock cts. aud he aims to !, epare a bill ihal will prevent congestion in any circuit He proposes, too, to simplify the court system of the state by abolishing all city and criminal courts, throwing all litigation and all criminal cases into the Circuit court, which is to have ir each circuit all the judges the pub lie business demands.
 He provides, too, for the payment Of all circuit judges by the state, each judge to receive $350O a year. Here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
SPIRITUALISM VIEWED
 IN THE EAST AND WEST

when the body is asleep than whn it is
 awake By willing so, at the moment
 when the body is lulled into unconscious
 ness. we can visit these poor wanderers
 and help them on their way to their
 next incarnation. '
 l confess to being a little amused at
 the Indians idea that we should ac- cept notion like this on the strength of what many generations of his people were supposed to have found out about it thousands of years ago. But I had to confess also that whil it was impossi- ble for me to assign trickery as the suf- ficient explanation of every development of spiritualism that I had ever witnessed, i- was perfectly true that had never heard of an utterance of a supposed spir- it that was not more or less foolish.
 Note one occurrence of which I perso- nally know. With newspaper man.
 who was an absolute skeptic concerning spiritualism, I went to a certain medium. My friend wanted an exposure to make story Of In his heart he scorned the
 whole business, and contemplated a
 roast on the medium.
 Those present were sending up to the
 medium little articles which thev had long carried on their persons. wrapped and tied in paper packages, and the me
 dium pressing these packages unopened
 one at time against his forehead, wrote
 down message for the applicant. The newspaper man sent up A utt1e gold pencil, and in time got 1t back and a note written by the mediums hand with 1t. When my friend opened the note he turned as pale as a sheet. It was addressed to him in his own given
 name and was signed with the name of the woman who had been his betrothed and who had given him the pencil, but who had been dead many years The medium was absolutely unknown to either of us before that moment. and we to the
 medium.
 But what was the note? Drive and non sense. There was not a gleam of anything in it that could not have been written by any one else to any one else. It was the usual consoiing'' rubbish that mediums deal out to their trusting pat rons.
 But there were the names. The mans was common place--we will call 1t James, and say that the mourn might have hit upon it by a lucky guss- But the wo- ans was unusual. as unusal say as Rox- ana That the medium guessed both names
 was an impossible supposition. There are a good many such cases. Yet
 we cannot acce. the Indians explanation of the intellectual inc ipetence of spirits
 We have to find out things for ourselves A little knowl.-ge. self-gained. is more valuable to us than twenty centuries of other peoples sublmated wisdom. For east is east, and west is west And never the twain shall meet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
Golden Rod in Bloom.

The golden rod is now ready for har- vest" said the Rev. Marvin Hefiin. Tn fact, I never saw such a fine crop of the national flower in my life as there is be- tween Ensley and Wylam. For miles the large fields between those two cities are literally covered with the golden rod They present beautiful appearance and will appeal to ones patriotism as much as seeing the stars and stripes float to the breezes. They will also afford much pleasure 70 those who are students of botany.
 ''Very few people," continued MT lief lin, ''stop to think why the golden rod was generally adopted as our national flower. The reason for it being so much honored above the other plants are that fl grows abundantly in every section of the United States and that it was first discovered in this country being an in- digenous plant of the states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
About Persons.

M. Strauss of Montgomery is at the St. Nicholas.
 William Neill of Macon. Ga. is at the St. Nicholas.
 " w. Weller of Anniston is at the Nor ris.
 Alexander Troy of Montgomery is stop ping at the Morris.
 W. R. Jackson of Jemison Is at the Morris.
 Thomas Bradford of Montgomery, mem- Der of the state convict board, is at the Morris.
 F. R. Clemments of Tuscaloosa Is at the Metropolitan.
 Tipton Mullin of Clanton, member of the state democratic executive committee, is at the Metropolitan.
 A. c. Smith of clanton is at the Metro politan.
 R. s. Johnson of Nashville is at the Colonial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
kNOx'S OPEN LETTER.

From the Talladega Mountain Home.
 In the Sundays Age-Herald there ap- peared an open letter from Hon. John R. Knox, to the New York Sun, in which he tells in his masterly manner, why the south became solid why it remains solid and how it's solidity has been in- tensified by the meddling policy of Roose- vel. The letter IS an exhaustiy presenta- tion of the dominan. southern question from a constitutional standpoint and shows how the great southern problem is being embarrassed by Rooseveltism.
 The Home has only space to make this brief mention of MT. Knox's letter. It is a calm, strong, dispassionate defence of southern politics and may be profitably read by every citizen desiring clear ex- plantation of conditions and facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14

l.. E. w. in the New York Mail.
 \ Have a Hndoo friend who has been
 much amused by the discussion of the phenomena of spiritualism which has followed Dr. Funk's puzzled article on the subject in the "Homiletic Re view" You Westerners," said the Him doc, are a perpetual race of babies You assume that the world has just been newly created for you, and, with wide open. wondering eyes. you question mat ters which the wisdom of the east has found out all about thousands of years ago. You have the childish idea that thing that you find out for yourselves is somehow better found out than If some one else had done it, whereas the real truth Is that twenty generations, conn pairing discoveries and observations, can determine anything whatsoever better than one person can do 1t in his little lifetime"
 What has that to do with spiritual ism ?' I asked.
 This, that a hundred generations or Indians studied this subject until they found out all about it, and then stoweu the knowledge away as an asset.
 Did the Hindoos find out that there are spirits?"
 "Certainly And also that no good re- suits come to the human race from sum- moning them here or getting messages from them.
 .eYet there may be something TOT the
 lJ.zxr rnflrf benefit of the spirits, and they work us when they can. The spirits you must know are the disembodied souls or nu- man beings waiting for another embodi- ment They are, in this state, bound to the earth and helpless. The human soui has a race of experience to run, and 1t can know no rest until it has run 1t, save such as comes from the knowledge that 1t may attain at It's goal.
 "A spirit embodied Is a spirit plus its relations and attributes. a spirit capable of attaining wisdom. A spirit disembodied is like a body of infantry crossing a river from one battlefield to another. Ships might serve well on the river, but this infantry cannot. As an army it is inn potent, helpless. It must be guarded from danger as it passes
 ''There are strata of thought and mat ter through which these earth-bound souls waiting for a new tenement may commun- icate with people in this fife, but chai lenge you, or Dr. Funk, or the most en- thusiastic spiritualist, to. find single case in which a disembodied spirit has shown anything like the wisdom or IT, telligence that belonged to his last in- carnation.
 Thy are all poor feeble, silly, imper- feet things. They need our help and we can give them ;iat help by sending our selves to them by an exercise of the will each night as we fall asleep. For the spirit in us move and acts more freely