The Republican journal., 1909-05-20

ADVERTISING TERMS. For one square, one
inch length in column, so cents for one week
and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion.
Wonder if President Taft is receiving
marked copies of the Lewiston Sun, tell
ing him what kind of tariff would suit
the editor of that paper and how to run
the government in general.
An analysis of the license vote in Mas
sachusetts shows a net gain of 40, 900
votes for no license in three years and a
gain of three cities and one town in the
last elect zion.
The southern mackerel fishery has
been q complete failure this year, en-
failing heavy loss on the fishermen.
The Penobscot river salmon fishing has
also been failure thus far, less than
half dozen fish having been taken. The
cold weather and continued northeast
winds 10 doubt have affected the run of
salmon. but the absence of nackerel
from the usual waters at this season re-
mans ufldccOu0IeQ 1O1.
Practically all of the leading magazines
and many of the weeklies refuse to pub
fish liquor advertisements. That policy
was adopted by The Journal many years
ago, when under the management of
William H. Simpson, and such advertis-
ing was not then illegal in this State. A
like stand was taken at the same time
against lottery advertising, now forbid
den by law There is no law against ad-
vertising fake schemes, but they find no
place in The Journal
Brady Elder sold his holdings in Carl
oou and migrated to Pennsylvania,
bought farm III Punxstawney and set
tied down to farming. The local news
paper, the Punxstawney Spirit, there
upon exults greatly, and says: Farm
ing is not what it used to be in Maine.
Things are a bit slowup there, anyway :"
The first statement is correct. Farming
is not what it used to be in Maine 1t
mas greatly advanced in the past few
years, and is rapidly advancing. But let
the Aroostook Republican of Caribou
tell the story. 1t says:
Pennsylvania is a big State, contain
ing $4,000 square miles as compared
with SO, 900 for Maine and 6, 400 for this
county. It is capable of creating con-
siderable wealth from its mines, etc, to
say nothing of its having a government
mint at Philadelphia; but when it comes
right down to the art of farming as COM
pared with Aroostook, it simply ism t in
1t to any greater degree than President
Castro was as compared to President
Roosevelt. Why, there isn't farm big
enough in the whole Keystone State to
make a fair-sized garden patch for one
of our enterprising husbandmen. One
of our farmers could scrape off more
genuine, rich soil from one of his sulky
blows than can be found in any garden in
Jefferson county. Penn. In the raising
of potatoes hay, grain, ETC., Aroostook
could give the residents of the Keystone
State the right bower and joker and then
auchre them; where they raise pecks of
potatoes we raise barrels; where they
raise ton of hay.we grow two.
Mr.. Dunton's reference in his address
Of welcome to the Boston visitors to the
days when communication with Boston
was by sailing packets recalls the further
fact that in the olden times that was the
only communication with Castine. Capt.
Isaiah Skinner who died in Castine in
August, 1887, aged y years, had run a
packet between Belfast and Castine for
SO years. In those days there was much
visiting between the two places and bust
ness relations We're intimate. Castine
was then an important business center,
with vessels engaged in the foreign
trade. The families who used to visit
back and forth have pretty much died
out now, but Castine still has it's attrac-
tons for the later generations of our
people, as it does for visitors from out
Of the State. Aside from it's natural
beauties it is a place of much historic
interest. and has long been the home of
intelligent and refined people. At the
time when the steamer May Queen was
running between Belfast and Castine an
illustrated article on Castine appeared in
Harper's Monthly, one of the pictures
showing garnet filed with old-fashion-
ed furniture, etc. One day there was an
excursion to Castine from Belfast and at
least half dozen members of the party
had copies of the magazine, and lady
was heard to declare that she was deter
mined to see that garnet. On the return
trip she was asked as to what success
she had in her quest, and she said that
she had visited the garnet, and told at
length of the quaint things seen there.
But the curios brought home from for
eign voyages, the heirlooms handed down
from generation to generation, are not
for the eXcursionist or transient visitor
While Castine has become a fashionable
summer resort, with handsome cottages
along its water front and clustered about
Dice's Head, most picturesque place,
the remaining descendants of the old
families lead quiet, retired life in their
tree-embowered homes, where one has
glimpses of trailing vines, trim gardens,
flowers and shrubs Tn the summon tiuo