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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

In discussing the recent Democratic
conference in Chicago, Harper's Weekly
says: The only declaration which we
find Objectionable is the one calling for
universal election of United States SEN
ators by the people" 1t says further:
Each State should and does now have
tull liberty to select its Senators in any
way it sees fit. The mandate of the Con-
stitution that the StateLegislatures shall
certify choice enjoins no more than the
performance of a perfunctory act to in
sure regularity and eligibility. Any COM
monwealth desiring to select Senator
by popular vote after the usual manner
of nominations by conventions and eX-
pressiors of opinion at the polls may do so
now. Several have already adopted this
method, to greater or less apparent adj
vantage The others can whenever they
please. and in that event their Legisla-
lures, like those of Oregon and Michi-
gan. will register the decree of the voters
invariably. But it is no part of the bust
ness OF New York or Massachusetts or of
both or Of forty-fve States combined to
dictate a method to Arkansas or any other
commonwealth. Such proceeding would
be distinct violation Of the principle of
home rule, and is, of course, utterly un-
Democratic
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

sive trial. 1t has apparently not made
much progress yet in New England, but
there is need of it here as much as in the
cotton fields of the South or the wheat
fields of the West. This section should
not be regarded as agriculturally a
negligible quantity, even if in recent
years it has not cut large figure in com
parison with the more expansive land of
the newly opened regions. There are
still large potential values in the New
England soil and many instances could be
cited where they have been discovered
and developed, but for the most part we
are still in the dim dawn of scientific
farming
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30
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Every Sufferer from Debility Will
Be Interested in the Cure
Of This Rhode Island
Woman.

Some women recover their strength
very slowly after an acute illness, after
childbirth and other conditions of ex-
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Debilitated persons are very liable to
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ceptable to the most delicate stomach.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills have been
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women. A recent case is that of Mrs
J. R. Campbell, of No. 20 Union street,
Lonsdale, R. l., who says:
CATER the birth Of my little girl was
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suffered terribly. My leg was swollen
and I was just a skeleton. My stomach
was so weak that / could not retain
more than a quarter of a teaspoonful of
beef tea at time. grew weaker and
weaker and my life hung in the balance
for ten weeks with the doctor trying to
bring back some strength.
"My husband at last asked me to try
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for the doctor
seemed to have done all he could for
me. I started taking the pills after I
had been i'll bed for ten weeks. began
to gain almost Immediately and after a
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and walk. I recovered my health and
strength and praise the pills highly"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are the great
est discovery of modern times for suffer
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boxes for $3.50, by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
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FOIEYSHONEYl As6IAR
Cures Colds. Prevents Pneumonia
CORN FOR THE SILO.
Shall it be Eureka or Yellow Corn

Shall it be Eureka or Yellow Corn?
Turf, Farm and Home.]
Mr.. George Fred Terry is just harvest
ing ID or Is acres of corn for his silo, and
wants some one to tell him which is the
most profitable for him to raise in the
end He has two acres of Sanford, an
acre of proved yellow, that has been
grown on the farm of Mr.. George Bow
man in Sidney for years, two acres of
Lee1ning and nine acres of Eureka, the
seed for which came from Ross Brothers
of Worcester. The Eureka corn grows
anywhere from ten to twelve feet, and if
it had been good season no one knows
where it would have gone. Leeming is
also good heighth, but not quite equal
to the Eureka, but the Bowman corn
makes up what it lacks in height in the
large, yellow ears, about two to the
stalk. 1t is certainly the best ensilage
we ever saw go into silo. Mr.. Terry
wants some one to tell him which is going
to make the most milk per acre, the great
bulk of Eureka corn or the rich ears Of
the yellow corn that has such small cob
and such long, plump, thick kernels. We
insisted on telling him that the latter
would, but he says that it would take Is
acres VI IIldL KIM Ol GOTH W III d single
silo, while nine acres of Eureka will
nearly or quite fill the same space. We
shall have to ask some of the expert corn
men to tell Mr.. Terry the difference, for
we certainly have not the data to advise
him accurately. This particular proved
yellow corn, known as the Bowman corn,
often runs to 16 rows, but never less than
II. Mr.. Terry obtained his seed from
Calvin Gray, one of the good farmers of
Sidney, he having had his seed originally
from Mr.. Bowman, as above.
Mr.. Terry has good piece Of potatoes
which he has kept green all the season by
frequent use of the cultivator. He says
that fertility and cultivation is going to
be responsible for lot Of good potatoes
this fall, while starvation and neglect
will be the cause of many defeats. Mr..
James Bellows of Winslow is doing the
work for Mr.. Terry, and he has grand
new outfit in harvester, corn cutter and
gasoline engine. They are all new and
in prime order, and do the work most ex-
peditiously. 1t is certainly a fine way to
store fodder for future use Mr.. Terry
keeps three men and big maui in the
silo all the time, and gets it just as COM
pact as he possibly can. The corn stalks
and all are cut an inch in length.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30
CYRUS CURTIS, THE PUBLISHER.
A Summer Resident of Camden, Me.

"A Summer Resident OF Camden, Me.
There is no more interesting figure in
publishing circles today than Cyrus H.
K. Curtis, of the Curtis Publishing Com
pany. Samuel G. Blythe, writing in the
October American Magazine, of Mr.. Cur
tbs, says:
''Mr Curtis was born in Maine, and
! went to Boston when a lad. He moved
from Boston to Philadelphia when he
needed wider field, not even hesitating
in New York, and in twenty-five years
he has built up in that city The Curtis
Publishing Company, Of which he is Pres
ident and principal owner, which pub
fishes the Saturday Evening Post, with
more than million a week circulation,
and The Ladies' Home Journal, with
more than million month. He start
ed with small publication called the
Farmer and Tribune, in which there was
a woman's department. When he and
his partners separated, Curtis took the
woman's department for his share and
from that evolved the Ladies' Home
Journal, as a monthly. Always, in his
heart, he had believed in the high-class
weekly, although it was the nearly -unan-
the weekly had had its day. He bought
day Evening Post, and backed it with an
advertising campaign that was wonder,
combined with an editorial policy that
! demanded the best.
''This enterprise cost great sums.
| Everybody advised him to quit and be
content with his very profitable monthly.
He listened, said nothing, and went to
| the banks next morning and borrowed
/ $50, 900, which he Immediately spent in
| further advertising to the horror of his
/ advisers, who prophesied ruin. That
: took the kind of nerve Cyrus Curtis has.
! He plunged and he won.
| combined with his business ability
is a keen editorial judgment and an un,
erring facility of picking the right mer
for his executives, not only in the bust.
ness ends, but for the editorial rooms.
Once he has the right man he gives him
full sway. He has the right men every
where, it may be said.
'tMr. Curtis is in the late fifties, E
quiet, modest, unassuming man, many
times a millionaire. He lives at Wyn
cote, Pennsylvania, and gets his subsid
larry fun out of life by travelling abroad
and in cruising in Atlantic Waters in his
steam yacht, and his real fun in planning
and carrying out advertising campaigns
and a charming companion, soft-spoken
mild-mannered, widely-informed; bu
back of the soft speech and the mild man
ners there is a cold chilled nerve, thu
nerve Of the man who, knowing his plal
is sound, will force it to victory regard
less Of the cost"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30
Toronto, September II.

THE SUBSTANCE OF a UNIVERSITY.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir: If
each of those who have intellectually
profited by and delighted in Mr.. Mayo w.
Hazeltine's book reviews should add one
pebble to the pile he would have a monu-
ment that would tower to the sky. Ever
since I'M. w. H." became the sign of
breadth, thoroughness and remarkable
penetration into literature in your pages
I have benefited by his labors. His
ability to select and compress has saved
me much reading in detail. A student
of his reviews in The Sun alone had in
them the substance of a perpetual uni
versity course. Young E. ALLISON.
Louisville; KY, September 16.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30
A READERS REGRET.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:
Permit one of your readers to share in
your regret at the death of Mayo w.
Hazeltine, The Suns late book reviewer.
His writings gave me many pleasant and
delightful hours, combined with instruc-
ton and knowledge; and not being
wealthy enough to purchase the books
he dissected, have treasured many of
his reviews in a scrap book. He must
indeed have been man of great learn
ing and research, for his work showed
him to be as familiar with the different
subjects under review as the authors
themselves. WILLIAM L. DooLEY..
Brooklyn, September 16.
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GOODWIN SMITHS OPINION.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: l
have read with entire agreement and
perfect sympathy your words on the
death of one whom l am proud to call
my friend and the loss of whom as deep
ly as you l deplore. Mayo Hazeltine
was all that you have said he was. He
did bring to his task store of learning
and knowledge of mankind almost in
credible. His personal qualities were
what you describe them as having been.
would add that the impartiality of his
judgment was complete. Not to The
Sun alone, but to our whole world of let
tiers, the loss is irreparable.
GOODWIN SMITH,
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In vain, in vain, beneath his feet we flung
The reddening roses! All in vain we poured
The golden wine, and round the shining
board
Sent the toast circling till the rafters rung
With the thrice -tripled honors of the FEAST
Scarce the buds wilted and the voices ceased
Ere the pure light that sparkled in his eyes,
Bright as auroral fires in southern skies,
Faded and faded; and the brave young heart
That the relentless Arctic wind had robbed
Of all its vital heat, in that long quest
For the lost Captain, now within his breast
More and more family throbbed.
His was the victory; but as his grasp
Closed on the laurel crown with eager clasp,
Death launched whistling dart;
And ere the thunders of applause were done
His bright eyes closed forever on the sum-
Too late, too late, the splendid prize he won
In the Olympic race of science and of art!
".
Like to some shattered berg that, pale and
lone,
Drifts from the white north to tropic zone,
And in the burning day
Wastes peak by peak away,
Till on some rosy even
1t dies with sunlight blessing it; so he
TRANQUILITY f1oated to southern sea,
And melted into heaven!
He needs no tears, who lived noble life!
We will not weep for him who died so we'll;
But we will gather round the hearth and tell
The story of his strife.
Such homage suits him well;
Better than funeral pomp, or passing bell
VI.
What tale of peril and self-sacrifce!
Prisoned amid the Businesses of ice,
With hunger bowling DER the wastes of
snow!
Night frightening into months; the ravenous
Crunching the massive ships, as the white
bear
Crunches his prey; the insufficient share
Of loathsome food;
The lethargy of famine; the despair
| Urging to labor, nervelessly pursued;
Toll done with skinny arms, and faces hued
Like pallid masks, while dolefully behind
Glimmered the fading embers of mind;
| That awful hour, when through the PROSTATE
Delirium stalked, laying its burning hand
Upon the CHASTITY forehead Of the crew.
The whispers of rebellion, faint and few
At first, but deepening ever till they grew
Into black thoughts of murder,-such the
throng
Of horrows round the Hero. High the song
Should be that hymns the noble part he played
Sinking himself, yet ministering aid
To all around him: by a mighty will
Living defiant of the wants that kill,
Because his death would seal his comrades
fate;
Cheering with ceaseless and inventive skill
Those polar winters, dark and desolate.
Equal to every trial, every fate
He stands, until spring, tardy with relief
Unlocks the icy gate
And the pale prisoners thread the world once
| more,
To the steep cliffs of Greenland's pastoral
| shore,
| Bearing their dying chief!
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

Time was when he should gain his spurs of
gold
From royal hands, who wooed the knightly
state;
The knell of old formalities is toled
And the worlds knights are now self -conse-
crate.
No grander episode doth chivalry hold
In all it's annals, back to Charlemagne,
Than that long vigil of unceasing pain,
Faithfully kept, through hunger and through
cold,
By the good Christian knight, Elisha Kane!
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30
ILLUMINATING CRITICISM.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir:
Allow me to express the sense of person
al loss and regret of one long and con-
slant reader of The Sun at the death of
Mayo W. Hazeltine. During the many
years that he has written his illuminat-
ing criticisms of books l have found him
trustworthy and indispensable guide, a
writer of peculiar charm, and his essays
on books are calculated to make a further
acquaintance with them a thing to be
longed for. E. G. BLAIsDELL.
Camden, N. j., September 16.
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O'BRIEN'S "ELECY ON KANE. :"

10 THE EDITOR OF THE SPRINGFIELD
REPUBLICAN,: In the hope of comforting
a favor upon your readers, | have spent
an hour in copying from Poems and
Stories of Fitz James O'Brien" collect
ed and elited, with sketch of the au-
hor, BY William Winter, and published
at Boston by Osgood in 1881, his ''Elegy
on Kane" which first appeared in Har-
per's Weekly of March IA, 1857 (vol. l.,
D. 261), and which has been commended
by competent critics as the best of all his
poems. The author received his death
wound in Virginia, at the age of IS,
while serving as aid on the staff of Gen.
F. W. Lander February, 1852, who
was Mcclellan s right-hand man until he,
too, lost his life in that first winter of
the civil war. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane
was born February 20, 1920, at Philadel-
phia, and died February 16, 1857 at
Havana, as the result of hardships incur
red while commander of the second Grin
nell expedition in search for Sir John
Franklin, 1886. The recent astonish-
ing reports from the frozen north will
doubtless impel some of our present-day
poets to attempt proper metrical eel
ebration of our latest living victors of
the Arctic; but those poets will need an
unusual amount of inspiration and liter
airy skill before they can expect to build
a rhyme lofty enough to rank with this
memorable ode written by Fitz-James
O'Brien two and fifty years ago.
L. H. B.
West Springfield, September T. 1909.
KANE: DIED 18th FEBRUARY, 1857.
hIoff ,o1J b,ca
Which, scalped by keen winds that defend
the pole,
Gazes with dead face on the seas that roll
Around the secret of the mystic zone,
A mighty nations tar-bespangled flag
Flutters alone:
And underneath upon the lfeless front
Of that drear cliff, a simple name is traced!
Fit type of him, who, furnishing and gaunt,
But with lofty purpose in his soul.
Breasted the gathering SHOWS,
Chung to the drifting foes,
By want beleaPuered and by winter chased,
Seeking the brother lost amid that frozen
waste.
Not many months ago we greeted him,
Crowned with the icy honors of the North,
Across the land his hard-won fame went
forth,
And Names deep woods were shaken limb by
limb.
His own mild Keystone State, sedate and prim,
Burst from its decorous quiet as he came,
Hot southern lips, with eloquence aflame,
Sounded his triumph. Texas wild and grim,
Proffered its horny hand. The large-lunged
West
From out its giant breast
Yelled its frank welcome. And from main to
main,
Jubilant to the sky,
Thundered the mighty cry
Honor to Kane!
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

Inc increased interest IN agriculture is
shown by the large amount of space de-
voted 10 II by the magazines and daily
newspapers. 1t was a leading theme at
the recert meeting Of the American
Banker Association in Chicago. James
] Hill. chairman of the board of Great
Northern railway, delivered an address
before this association in which he
sought 70 impress upon the banker dele
gates that future prosperity is to come
in the development of agriculture rather
than Ii an extension of foreign markets
for manufactured goods. With present
conditions he said that within ten years,
possibly less, we are likely to become
wheat importing nation; that the farm is
our main reliance and that every other
activity depends on that. His address
was received with marked attention by
the delegates. James S. Sherman, Vice
president of the United States, said:
Mr.. Hill made strong speech, but if l
were to talk l would add that, while
Eastern farm lands have unquestionably
lessened in value, the farm lands of the
West, opened up by the railroads of the
country, have increased wonderfully in
value
That Maine is fully awake to the i'm
portance Of this movement for the up
lifting Of the agricultural interests of the
country is shown by the quotations in The
journal of last week from the repo-
rts Of two of our State oficials-the Com
missioner of Agriculture and the State
S superintendent of schools. Their sugges-
tions and Recommendation are in line with
the general movement throughout the
country and should receive attention. In
this connection the Boston Transcript
says:
The farmers of the country need to be
lifted out of the old ruts or the old fur
rows and shown how to conduct their
operations on more intelligent basis
The Government has preached this and
the Department of Agriculture has taken
steps to bring it about, through the
agency of the Farmers Cooperative
Demonstration Work, organized under
the Bureau of Plant Industry. The or
ganization consists of one director and
assistants, ten State agents and 1873
local and district agents, practical farm
ers who have been carefully coached as
to their duties. The work begins in Oc-
tober by calling public meetings in each
district to be worked, where the advant-
ages of increased production and how to
bring it about are discussed. But the
academic phase of farming does not go
far among the majority of those.engaged
in it. They require visible evidences,
and it is by persuading them to engage
in demonstration work that the desired
results are secured. Each month in
structions are sent to the demonstrating
farmer and he receives visits, counsel
and encouragement from the local agent.
This has been in operation long enough
to commend itself to those sections
where it has been given the most extern
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

Suffered day and night the torment of
itching piles. Nothing helped me until used
Doans Ointment. 1t cured me permanently"
Hon. John R. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

DR.. Abernethy, the great English physician,
said, Watch your kidneys. When they are af-
fected, life is in danger" Foley's Kidney
Remedy makes healthy kidneys, corrects
urinary Irregularities, and tones up the whole
system.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

In his address at Chicago President
Taft said that the administration of
criminal law in this country is disgrace
to our civilization, and that the prevail
ence of crime and fraud is due largely
to the failure of the law and it's admins
traitors to bring criminals to justice.
Nowhere else in this country has this
failure been so conspicuous as in Chicago,
where convicted criminals have had little
difficulty in escaping punishment, to
continue their crooked careers elsewhere.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

With last weeks issue B. F. W. Thorpe
concluded his work as editor of the Maine
Farmer and has gone to Cornell Univer-
sity to take up special course advanced
work in the College of Agriculture. In
taking leave of his readers and the scene
of his labors Mr.. Thorpe says:
l shall ever have an abiding interest in
the welfare of Maine and particularly in
her agricultural future. No other State
of our great country has within its con-
fines greater or more substantial natural
resources to insure a successful future,
all things considered. All that is re-
quired is systematic and energetic work
to make these possibilities come to fru-
itiOn.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

1t is a common saying that if you can
buy q person at his real value and sell
him at his own valuation an enormous
profit is assured. But that does not al
ways hold good. There are persons who
sell themselves for petty office, a tin
badge or d row Of brass buttons, and for
that insignificant, but no doubt sufficient
price, they viii eat dirt, prevaricate and
aivest themselves Of all the attributes of
true manhood. This is pitiable, but true.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-09-30

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Arizona republican., 1909-03-12
THE DEMANDS DENIED
 NOF ANTHRACITE WORKERS
The Operators Say That Wages are Already at the Limit.

Philadelphia, March 11.-Anthracite coal operators have refused all the demands of the United Mine Work CTS and made a counter proposition that the present. agreement be con- tinued for another three years. The conference adjourned until tomorrow. The mine workers officials expect ed this decision.
 Thomas Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, declined, however, Ito comment on the outcome beyond stating that he and the committeeman would discuss it before taking action. The miners and operators will meet again to- morrow.
 A statement for the public, agreed on by both sides says: The oper- ators declined to accede to the de- mands The chief reason offered for the rejection was that an increase in the cost of production would necessi- tate an advance in the price of coal and that such all advance was inn practicable The operators said that wages in the anthracite mining in dustry were already at high level and could not be increased"