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ished leather looked like the roofs of
some weird city. Tusks cleaned and
f1ared in the sun. and the mother ele-
plants, solicitous of the welfare of
the young, kept them as near as pos
sible to them and even admired them
for playing pranks on each other,
which they did on every opportunity,
for they did not realize the strange
danger that threatened them. They
seemed no less human than human
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tone. like discordant band, coming
from the distance. l heard the tramp
of the trumping elephants.
Slaughter of the Herd.
1t was now early morning The cold
chill OF the night had passed and the
solar heat that crept through the
choking smoke called my blood to life.
The east grew gray. violet and red in
quick succession and the sun rose out
of the hills east of Lake Kivn and lit
the world. What a sight met my
eyes. sight never shall forget, for
it is pressed indelibly on the film of
my memory.
To the north Of my watching place,
forming a rough circle of at least
three-quarters of mile in diameter,
stood an irresolute mob of elephants,
each family forming its own cluster,
the fighters on the outer edge. The
hundreds of backs shining like pol
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-07

me with revulsion. l hated them and
almost wished was an elephant. so
that could fall on them and crush
them.
The fire crept in and the elephants
on the outer edge screeched i'll pain
as it burnt them. A shot rang out and
then a yolley from the laundering
fiintlocks. Assegaes and buzzina ar
rows filled the air and fell like rain
from the sky. With frightful screeches
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death by the charging elephants. The
bloody spirit of war had seized them,
and they rushed into destruction to
kill or be killed with the lightness of
heart of children playing tag.
AS the fire crept on the smell of
burning flesh added to the horrible
reality, An old bull elephant, driven
mad by fear and trumping in anguish,
charged over the fire and came rush
ing down towards my tree. AS OF one
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of pain, the elephants, in chaotic con-
sternation, rushed to the edge of the
advancing fire and then in their fear
retreatel. One after another fell un-
der the terrible onslaught, their huge
bodies ouivering as they bled to death
from the frightful wounds of the asse-
gaes.
The cries of the natives were, If
anything, worse than the screeches
of the elephants. Here and there
amongst the wounded and dead NAM
moths lay the PROSTATE form Of a
cannibal who had received an arrow
that was meant for an elephant.
Hunters Also Meet Death.
Everywhere 1 could see the canni-
balls rushing in amongst the infuri-
ated elephants and stabbing right and
left like fiends reveiing in carnival
of death. One after another the ma
tives were tusked and crushed to
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Jungle Animals Flee in Panic.

SdttStS rtttiiCAio tSS ttt CtitSs
Through the smoky atmosphere
could see the sun like a gigantic ball
Of FURNISHED copper sink behind the
gray blue mountains beyond the for
est. The short tropical twilight lin
gered over the land and then all of
sudden darkness. with startling con-
trast. enveloped weld and forest
Far of, north, south. east and west,
glared and danced the red spear
pointed flames above the advancing
fire ranks, first galloping this way and
then that at the caprice of the whip
ping winds.
Slowly advanced the fire and small
er and more brilliant grew the ter
rible, livid circle Outside the inner
ring of fire, which grew smaller ev-
cry minute. there was another travel
ing in the opposite direction and
growing larger. for the fire was burn
ing through the high grass towards a
center and away from it.
About midnight, when the smoke
had become suffocating. animals Of ev-
cry description. fastened by fear, bolt
ed past the tree In which / was
perched. Here and there rhinoc-
eros, grunting in its exertions and
showing its young ahead; then crowds
of woodhogs. Glands. quaggos, wilde
beest, kudn, gemsbok, everything,
went laundering by like wild cav
airy charge, which lasted well towards
morning.
Lions and leopards skulked past,
their eyes flaming with the reflected
light from the fire. which had made a
lake of red in the somber sky. The
! sight fascinated me; 1t was terrible,
brutal. I felt like a flend watching
destruction in some long past epoch,
and then my heart swelled and a sad
ness almost fearful filled my being
when / thought Of the horrific brutal
ity of it all.
was deep in contemplation of the
scene, almost forgetting it in the
chaos Of the thoughts 1t excited, when
hand touched me on the shoulder
l started, and turning saw the red
eyes and cleaning teeth Of my faith
full boy" "The chief says you must
come away from here, as this tree
may be torn down by the charge of
the elephants, which are making this
way" NO." ! answered, II will risk
1t and stay here; I want to see." "Ill
stay too," said the boy, who would
have been willing to be burned alive
with me. should it have been my fate.
The circle was now very small. The
loud cracking Of the burning grass
and the roar Of the flames was deafen-
Ing. Above the fires frightful mono.
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NE Of the greatest
elephant hunts 1
ever witnessed 1
participated in in
the northeast CEN
trail region OF the
Congo Free State,
between Senga, a
Belgian travelling
port. and Lake
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witch doctors praying for successful
hunt to a hideous fetish that was set
up not far from my hut.
At sunrise my boy" woke me and
after hearty meal of biltong (dried
,meat) made my way to the lookout
platform at the edge Of the forest.
An extraordinary sight greeted my
vision. AS far as my eye could reach
the huge forms of elephants. which
looked really stately In their sur
roundings. could be seen. strolling
carelessly through the high brown
withered grass. Through my glasses
could see them Tapping their huge
ears and swinging their trunks to
keep away the numberless insects
that attack every living thing in that
region. Not sign could / detect of
the native hunters.
The sun had passed the zenith and
was sliding down the heavens to the
west when, at q rough estimate,
could see with the aid of my glasses
at least from 500 to 1000 elephants
before me on the weld, yet no sign of
the native hunters.
The day was three-quarters gone
when a slight breeze sprung up and
rocked the golden grass tops to and fro
Far away in every direction, curling
towards the blue sky, circle of sill
yer smoke ascended This was the
first sign of the attack. The fires de-
scribed circle of perhaps five miles
in diameter. In half-hour the smoke
on the horizon increased to clouds
and l could plainly see the fire eat
ing its way through the dry infiam-
mable grass.
The elephants nearest the fiery cir
cumference commenced to show signs
Of alarm and with increased pace
moved towards the center OF the
slowly narrowing circle.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
MT. DESERT CORRESPONDENCE.

MANsET, January 9, 1909. Orrin Fernald,
our barber, leaves next Monday for the Maine
General Hospital, Portland, for surgical
operation. 80. VIM. H. Ward has just received
another cargo of hard coal =. Fred Fernald,
Elmer Stanley and Henry Squirting have just
returned from weeks stop in Boston,. -. DR..
j. D. Phillips left this week for Colorado and
California for a six weeks stop. He has an
interest in mine in Colorado. Sewall Hop
kins, who has been laid up with a very serious
injury to his knee received Some time ago, and
which has puzzled the doctors, left for the
Maine General Hospital Monday, accompanied
by DIR. T. S. Tapley of Bass Harbor. Steamer
Pemaquid made landing at Bass Harbor last
Monday on her trip to Rockland to take on
board Mrs Israel Colt, who was bound to the
Maine General Hospital for treatment and was
not able to ride to Southwest Harbor to take
the boat. Henry Smith and his young bride
of New York are visiting his parents here, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Smith.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
LIBERTY AND THE TROLLEY
From an Exchange.

The tidal wave of excitement has
struck this place owing to the informa-
ton that Washington will in all probabll
ity have an electric road. A man here
who is in position to know says the
next electric road built in Maine will be
from Togus to Union through Washing
ton Mills and inside of two years the con-
struction will begin This surely is
good news for this place All the freight
and express to and from this place would
go that way instead of to Belfast as it now
does. The Walker tannery would alone
furnish enough freight and express to
give the road large amount OF work
and there are several others that would
furnish an enormous amount OF freight.
There is already large summer resort
here around Georges lake that would
furnish large passenger traffic. The
old fair grounds would again be opened
and several industries now closed would
be opened and this already prosperous
town would be much more so. This town
and Palermo and Appleton would -, be
greatly benefited by this road. This
town alone would furnish large passen-
ger traffic that would surprise the skep-
teal Every business man here is inter,
ested and this place surely has good
cause to be interested as it would give us
the much needed outlet to the outside
world
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
FOIEYSllONLEII,Ii [ A<b. e AR
for children; safe, sure. NO opiates
THE JOURNALS S1st BIRTHDAY.

The Belfast Journal has entered upon
its 81st year, its reputation as one of the
best weeklies in New England undimmed,
and respected by everybody. -Rockland
Courier-Gazette.
The Belfast Republican Journal COM
menced its 81st year last week. 1t has
always been good paper and under the
editorial management of Charles A. Pills
bury easily stands at the head of the
weekly papers published in Maine. Pts
cataquis Observer.
The Republican Journal, Belfast, has
just entered upon it's 81st year and vol
ume. 1t is model family, local, weekly
newspaper, with an editor who brings
the richness of the past in Journalism
into the throbbing, palpitatlng life of the
present. somerset Reporter.
The Belfast Journal is 80 years old this
month, the same as the Reporter ournal
is SIS. We have always had hope that
the Reporter Journal might be as good a
paper as the other Journal, but have
about abandoned it. The Belfast paper
is model weekly paper, and we hope
Bro. Pilsbury will be able to stay with it
until it is hundred years old. Gardiner
eporter-J Journal.
With this weeks issue the Belfast
Journal enters upon its 81st year. This
is one of the best of our Maine weeklies,
in appearance, in contents, in tone and
in general enterprise. Only few papers
in the State are older than our Belfast
contemporary-the Kennebec Journal is
its senior by exactly three years and we
all join in congratulations and good
wishes. -Kennebec Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
SAVE THIS ANYWAY.
Put it in Some Safe Place, for it May
Come in Handy Some Day.

Put it in Some Safe Place, for it May
Come in Handy Some Day.
Here is simple home made mixture as given
by an eminent authority Kidney diseases,
who makes the statement that it will relieve
almost any case of Kidney trouble if taken
before the stage of Bright's disease. He
states that such symptoms as lame back, pain
in the side, frequent desire to urinate, espe-
cially at night; painful and dscolored urination,
are readily overcome. Here is the recipe.
Try it:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce;
Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound
Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Take
teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime.
A well-known druggist here in town is au-
thority that these ingredients are all harmless
and easily mixed at home by shaking well in
bottle. This mixture has peculiar healing
and soothing effect upon the entire Kidney and
Urinary structure, and often overcomes the
worst forms of rheumatism in just little
while. This mixture is said to remove all
blood disorders and cure the Rheumatism by
forcing the Kidneys to filter and strain from
the blood and system all uric acid and foul,
decomposed waste matter which cause these
Affections. Try it if you aren't we'll Save the
description.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
"a 5Fo RIA,
Bears the n1he Kind You Have Always Bought
S's' at &<NAzzzx
A BIRTHDAY SERVICE

In the M. E. Church of Slingerlands, N Y
We have received the order of services
for Sunday morning, January 9th, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Singer
lands, N. Y, Of which Rev. ]. E. C.
Sawyer is pastor. The service included
the presentation of birthday offerings,
an address by the pastor, and the follow
ing poems:
THE PASSING AND THE PERMANENT
Hid by dim clouds the mighty mountains stand
Close swathed with storm, their glory all con
cealed;
2 No stately summit is to sight revealed
No grassy slope, nor rocky rampant grand
Wan melancholy broods DER all the land,
Whose gloom is broken by no glowing ray;
No brightness cheers the waning, lonely day
The chilling msts prevail on every hand
Thus doubt doth veil the heights and hide the
Doubt not Believed The mountains aye en-
Unmoved they stand, eternal, changeless
pure;
Loves splendor smiles when clouds their race
have run;
Truths peaks abide, though yelled by doubt
and fear;
Loves light survives the saddest day or year
james E. c. Sawyer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
The Heart Can't Stand
Rheumatic Acid
Poisoning
The Uric-O Treatment Expels the Poison
from the Blood.

Those sharp, shooting pains through the
chest around the region of the heart mean
that poisonous uric and rheumatic acid are
there ready to spring and grip tightly the
muscles controlling the hearts action. Don't
neglect these warnings. You must neutralize
and drive these poisons from the system, or
sooner or later they will overcome you.
The only true way to cure Rheumatism is to
get at it from the inside with Uric-O. It acts
with marvellous swiftness upon the muscles,
kidneys and blood. Cleans out the sand-like
deposits in the muscles, forces the kidneys to
perform those duties for which they were de-
signed and neutralizes the acid within the
blood
Uric-O is liquid taken internally, times
daily, and does not contain any morphine,
opium or other so-caled pain deadners.'
Sciatica, Muscular, Infammatory and Articular
Rheumatism all yield readily to uric-O.
1t sells for 75c and 81. 90 the bottle or you can
obtain trial bottle free by writing to The
Smith Drug Co., 245 Smith Bldg, Syracuse,
N Y 2w3
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

Or have them punched and ravaged by
stray beasts, and fence all gardens and
orchards or have them ravaged by a
neighbours hens, and the highways must
be kept lined with snow gathering fences
to make our winter roads expensive and
dangerous to travel, and the would be
beautiful front lawns are about all nip
ped in the bud, all Of which contribute to
the uncultivated appearance of country
life, because of the stray beast and fowl
nuisance. Many other real needs might
be mentioned. c. S. GRIFFIN.
s"Revised Statutes, Chap. "a, Sec 81 In all
contracts for labor, ten hours of actual labor
are legal days work, unless the contract
stipulates for a longer time; but this rule does
not apply to monthly labor or to agricultural
employments.' The result of the above law
is that for farm hand there is no legal limit
to days work. The legal end of his day is
where the boss says ''quit" and legally begins
where the boss says turn out" The boss must
fix it between two midnights. The law provides
for the hand no legal time of his own. He
sleeps on the boss time at the boss discre-
ton. c. S. G.
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OUR PEACE IN GODS WILL.
In la sua voluntate nostra pace.
Paradise TIT 81

In la sua vountate nostra pace.
Paradise III. IS.
Our peace is in His will So sing the saints
Above, the happy, holy, shining throng
Of sinless souls; in joyous, endless song,
With gladness full, and free from all restraints.
"Our peace is in His will In earth's COM
plants,
In exile, want and torture, under wrong;
Great hearts have learned to suffer and be
strong;
Gods will makes firm the weakest soul that
faints.
To all who love His will He doth impart
Sweet peace that fills their loyal souls with
praise,
Songs in the night and strength for weary
days.
"Our peace is in His will o, may my heart,
Too often like the wild rebellous sea,
That song we'll learn and be from tumdlts free.
james E. c. Sawyer
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
|xIIRSF USES FATHER JOHNS
MEDICINE BY DOCTORS ORDER
., Of Good Results Miss Wood Recommends 1t to Her
a'' Friends for Throat and Lung Troubles

and honest medicine, beneficial to both old and
young, when taken as directed for specified
troubles. You are at liberty to affix my name
and vocation to this testimony" (Signed) Ella
M. Wood, nurse, Guilford, Conn.
Because of its pure and wholesome ingredi-
ents, which nourish and build up the body,
Father Johns Medicine so strengthens the sys-
TEN that it is able to ward off attacks of dis
ease. Cures colds, coughs, throat and lung
troubles without the use of alcohol or danger
GUS drugs--not patent medicine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

Al Wood, professional nurse of
ssi fl' tals an interesting and con-
j].1liord' her experiences, in the follow
Hgas nar,ng the years l have engaged
a sc1's ,..u sed Father Johns Medicine
,slsiI4 10 '.sss by order of the attending
. -ane-olS - have witnessed its bene-
IIresG an1 y, hing. throat and kindred dis
v, fesillS ,9stjfied in recommending it
.~7t,;, ie1 -sTsf advice by friends. con-
10 sss5l i9bn Medicine safe, reliable
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

The bean crop has not received the at
tention it should from our farmers, and
not what it will in the future. The de-
mand is steadily increasing and sure
market faces the man who grows by
later methods, giving sharp attention to
his crop. 1t takes time to break from
old-time habits and the thought of max
ing beans cash crop has, with the great
majority, been of recent development.
In 1904 Boston spent about So, 247, 842 for
beans before they were baked. There
We're 6S, 900 barrels received in the city,
which, on the weight basis, was Is, 900
pounds more than were used in 1903.
Each year consumption has been steadi-
ly increasing, until 1908 will find the
bean bill of the Hub close to the ten mil
lion mark. On the basis Of about 600, 900
population this is an average of about
thirty-seven quarts to an individual. DIR.
Twitchell in the Maine Farmer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
University of Maine Notes.

The basket ball season opened Satur.
day, January 9th, when the Varsity
team, composed almost entirely of vet
eran players, met and easily defeated
Dexter High by score of Al to 10. The
game was very quiet throughout and nc
doubt the Dexter boys were at disad-
vantage in playing on so large floor.
The U. of M. team is made up as follows:
Captain, F. G. Wadsworth; Forward, N.
N. Scales; Center, w. M. Black; Guards,
Marshall Zone Of last seasons men) and
Stuart, Captain of the team two years
ago.
The Sophomore hop committee has de-
cided to hold the dance Friday evening,
April 10Th. This will bring it out of Lent
and about a month before the Junior
promenade.
Special services were held in Chapel
Sunday, January 10th at 3 P. M, in MEM
ory of the late Prof. Estabrooke. Rev.
J. M. Brooke of Orono read selections of
scripture and talks were given by DR..
Fernald, representing the faculty, and by
Rev. H. O. Howard, who represented the
student body. Letters were read by
Pres. Fellows from Pres. Roberts of
Colby, and Prof. Chapman of Bowdoin,
who found it impossible to be present at
the services.
The Deutscher Verein met Wednesday,
January 18th, at o'clock at the Delta
Tau Delta house. Prof. Carr discussed
Gerhart Hauptmann, whose masterpiece,
''The Sunken Bell, Prof. Rudolf Tombs,
Jr., is to lecture on when he visits the
University, February 24th.
The dedicatory exercises of the Hall
of Agriculture at the University were
held Wednesday, January goth at 2 P.
NJ, in the Chapel. The exercises con-
sisted Of the presentation of the building
to the State by the president of the
board of trustees, Hon. E. B. Winslow of
Portland. Gov. Bert M. Fernald ac-
cepted the building in behalf of the State.
DR.. Eugene Davenport, dean Of the Col
lege Of Agriculture of the University of
Illinois, delivered the dedicatory address.
Hon. Payson Smith, State Superintend-
ent Of Schools, Hon. A. W. Gilman, Com
missioner of Agriculture, and Hon. c. S.
Stetson, Master Of the State Grange,
also took part in the program. The
members OF the legislature were invited
to attend and many of them took this
opportunity to visit the University.
The Annual Catalogue of Bowdoin Col
lege contains number of radical
changes over those of preceding years.
1t contains many features of interest,
possibly, the most interesting being the
exchange lectures on the classics. Dur
ing the second semester of 1908 '09, Geo,
D. Chase, Phi. D., Prof of Latin at the
University of Maine, will give series Of
II lectures on ''Roman Numismatics. .
A course of lectures of similar extent or
Virgil and His Literary Influence" will
be given at the University of Maine by
Kenneth c. Stills, M. A., Prof. of Latir
at Bowdoin College.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
The CITY NATIONAL BANK, BELFAST

The annual meeting of the stockholders Of
the City National Bank for the choice of di
rectors and the transaction of any other bust.
ness that may legally come before them, will b.
held at their banking rooms on Tuesday, Janu
airy 26, 1909, at 10 o'clock a. m.
c. w. WESCOTT, Cashier,
Belfast, December &c, 19O8.-4w53
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders, laborers
rely on DR.. Thomas Electric Oil. Takes the
sting out of cuts, burns or bruises at once
Pain cannot stay where it is used.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
CABBAGES AND BEANS.

A well-known physician in central
Maine can be excused his jubilant feel
ings as he rehearses the sale of 27O tons
of cabbage at $50 per ton. Being oblig-
ed to pay for every item he knows the
cost, which he places at $40 ton.
Twenty-seven hundred dollars cost and
thirteen thousand five hundred realized.
This is the record from twenty two
acres. Surely this will make the potato
growers sit up and take notice. Such
conditions may be abnormal, but it's the
farmers opportunity this year. The
other fellow has had his innings when
cabbages sold for $40 to sl2 ton. Now
let the farmers laugh and grow fat.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner? Tongue
coated? Bitter taste? Complexion sallow?
Liver needs walking up. Doan's Regulets
cure bilious attacks. rs cents at any drug
store.