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Evening star., 1909-07-11

Rev. William Henry Charming. from 1867
to 1869. The first of these, the noted DIR.
Sparks. had a Unitarian church in Bal
timore when chosen chaplain of the
national House in 1921. and after serving
his term resigned his Baltimore pastorate
and bought the North American Review.
He became professor at Harvard in 1889
and president of that college in 1S49. His
memorial sermon in the House of Rep
resentatives on the death of William
masterpieces of religious oratory ever
heard in the halls OF Congress, and was
printed in 1892.
Thousands of us now have framed upon
our wall the popular motto. My Sym
phony,' which was written by William
Henry Claiming the second of these four
Unitarian chaplains of Congress. He was
the nephew of the Loted clergyman Will
liam Ellery Charming, the leader of the
Unitarian moyemc:-t in this country,
mater of Sparks After being pastor Of
Unitarian churches in .everal American
cities and in Liverpool England, he was
called early in the civil war to the Uni
tartan Church in Washington, whose pull
pit is now occupied by DR.. Pierce. 1t
was while his church was being used as
a military hospital that he was chosen
chaplain of the House of Representa-
tives. He spent his last days in England.
where his elder daughter became the
first wife of Edwin Arnold, the poet, who
later married a japanese.
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On the question of opening prayers In
Congress the fathers of the republic were
divided. On the opening day of the first
Continental Congress Cushing moved that
the session be thus opened. but Jay and
Rutledge objected on the ground that
the colonies were too much divided in
religious sentiment. Samuel Adams,
however, arose at this point and protest
ed that it i'll became men protesting to
be Christians to say that they were of so
wide a difference of belief that they could
not, as one man. bow their knee in prayer
to the Almighty.
He then moved that the Rev. Mr..
Dushe, an Episcopal minister of Phila-
deIphia, should open the next morning s
Evening star., 1909-07-11
Port Arthur IN 1909 and the Japanese War Monument

streets. There was a large garrison.
everything was booming and money and
drink flowed like water. A circus build
ing was erected in which all sorts of
shows were held. and there were famous
cafes and restaurants. Today the cir
Gus has been turned into bazaar, and
about two score japanese women sell all
sorts of goods at the booths within IL.
The soldiers have disappeared. The Japa-
nese have only one regiment here, and
nothing like as many troops are TO be
seen as in the towns of Korea or even
Japan.
AS far as business is concerned, the
city is dead 1t consists OF about 1900
Manchurian Chinese. and the military
and civil officials of the Japanese govern
ment. The Chinese are poor. | see full
grown men going around with baskets
on their shoulders picking up the drop
pings of manure from the streets. When
a mans wages for whole day are equal
TO half bushel of such stuff he must
be poor indeed.
The Chinese do the rough work Of
Port Arthur Many of them are now en-
gagged in getting out the blocks OF stone
with which the Russians sank their mer-
chant vessels when they knew that Port
Arthur must fall. More than thirty
ships were destroyed in that way; some
thousand stone blocks being used for
the purpose. The Japanese are sending
schools One will be erected as monu-
ment in each playground to keep alive
the memory Of the heroes Of Port
Arthur.
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"Will your people continHe to hold
Manchuria and Korea" l asked this
question of high Japanese officer.
YES" was the emphatic reply. I'VE
shall hold on to Korea as long as there
is a bone left in a soldiers ,eg TO stand
upon the soil. We are in Manchuria TO
stay. and we will die before We will
allow either the Chinese 'r Russians
TO drive US away
At the same time. l find kindly feel
ing for the Russians among the Jap
anese They have erected a little gran
ite tcuiple with Greek cross upon its
top as a monument 10 the dead among
their enemies who fell at Port Arthur.
This is situated on a low hill about two
miles from the city and surrounding il
are the graves of thousands OF Russian.
soldiers. There is a brick wall inclosing
several acres about the monument In
this space the officers are buried the
grave of each being marked with
stone or iron cross. Outside on the
slopes of the hill stands thicket OF
white wooden crosses rising to the height
of a mans shoulder. and marking the
graves OF the privates. The inscriptions
on the monument are in japanese and ,
Russian, and they state that the me-
mortal was erected by the Emperor or
Japan in honor of the bravery OF his
great enemy. the Russians.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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building outside the old town. They have
made models of the forts. which show
the devlish ingenuity that both the Japa-
nese and Russians used in destroying
one another There are great coils of the
barbed wire which was scattered over the
hillsdes. The wire was connected with
powerful batteries inside the Notifications,
and such soldiers as blundered against
it in the dark were sure to be killed.
There were twenty kinds of hand gre
nades. filled with nitroglycerin. They
look like miners lamps, but when thrown
they really lit the way to death.
The Japanese had wooden guns. ten or
twelve inches in diameter which they
carried with them into the trenches.
Their projectiles for these were cans of
Shimose powder holding f-cni a Firt to
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one Of the most interesting duties is to
go about among the crew when a ship
is clearing for action and obtain from
each man note containing his last mes
sage to be sent TO his family at home
in case he is killed in the engagement.
The ranking naval chaplain now is Da-
vid Howard Tribou. stationed at the Ma
val Home in Philadelphia. There are but
three other chaplain-captains on the ac-
tive list: Frank Thompson at Portsmouth
navy yard; Roswell r. Hoes. at the Nor
folk yard. and Carroll @. Wright, at the
Philadelphia yard.
In the navy until the twenties some such
petty officer as a captains clerk. purser's
steward, as a reward for good services.
was generally allowed to of1iciate as
chaplain in reading Sabbath and burial
services, generally from the Episcopal
prayer book. for which duty he was
paid a chaplain's salary. But about 1875
there began to be observed rule requir-
ing that only regularly ordained minis
ter should be chosen as chaplain in the
navy.
At each of the big federal peniten-
tiaries, at Atlanta and Fort Leaven-
Evening star., 1909-07-11

the landscape and gathered up every bit
of lead and iron in sight. They even dug
up the shells. Often tEey would find one
which had not been exploded, and would
innocently pound on the cap with pick.
The result was another big hole in the
earth, and the almond-eyed diggers scat
tered over the landscape in pieces.
::
::
Today it is difficult to find large
chunks of she'll although there are in
Vulnerable bits of iron about the forts, as
we'll as all sorts of relics of the Japanese
and Russians. There are army buttons,
torn caps and coats and pieces of the
barbed wire. which. charged with cleo
tricity. entangled the soldiers as they
climbed the hills and burnt them to DEATH
Evening star., 1909-07-11

DR. PIERCE, President
II Taft's Pastor, the Latest
Recruit-Will Receive $1,000
a Year as Chaplain OF the
Senate = The Other Ninety
one Government Preachers
They Receive From $4,000
to $500 Per Annum-Their
Varied Duties in the Army,
Navy and Prisons-Those OF
Mr.. Taft's Faith-Proportion
of Different Denominations
Fathers of Republic Differed
as to Whether Congress
Should Be Opened With
Prayer-Attempt to Gust All
Federal Chaplains in 1854
Some Noted Divines Who
Have Served United States
Some Plucky Ones Who
Serve the Government Now.
tGnn INI frat
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IL ~ ~ tADAA
Presidents pastor,
DR.. Ulysses Grant
Baker Pierce, to
succeed the late
DIR. Edward Ever
EFT Hale as chap
lain Of the Senate
is a graceful COM
pliment to Mr.. Taft
and at the same
time a deserved
recognition of this
eloquent Unitarian
divine
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the sergeant-at-arms and other officers,
and both receive the same salary.
The chaplain of the House, the Rev.
Henry Noble Couden, is a Universalst.
He was born back in Indiana sixty-six
years ago, and when a lad in his teens
entered the civil war, in one of whose
battles he lost the sight of both his eyes.
He now entered the Ohio State School for
the Blind, and after being graduated there
was educated for the Universalst min
istry in the divinity school of st.
Lawrence University. He has been chap
lain of the House since 1895 He Is a
MISUNDERSTANDING man of tall, erect,
slender physique and although his hair is
white looks younger than his years. He
and Senator Gore are daily led to he
Capitol by their faithful wives.
The Senate never had a Unitarian chap
lain prior to DIR. Hale. The House of
Representatives in the earlier years had
two chaplains of that faith-the Rev.
Jared Sparks, from 1921 to 1922, and the
Evening star., 1909-07-11

SPENT this morn
ing on Quail Hill,
where the Japanese
are ere ing a
memorial in honor
of their heroes who
died at Port Ar
thur. This hill is
a saddle-shaped eie-
walton which rises
to a height of a
thousand or more
feet out OF the
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arena of the ampitheater in which Port
Arthur is located. 1t faces the narrow
entrance to the harbor where the japanese
and Russian gunboats showered shells
upon one another, and about 1t may be
seen the hills forming the rim OF the
amphitheater upon which were the. forti-
fications taken one by one by the Japa-
nese during the siege.
Quail Hill from now on will be called
Monument Hill. II is a fitting site to
mark the glorious victory of the soldiers
of the mikado 1t overlooks Golden Hill
AMI The Tigers Tail, which with their
Notifications protect the harbor entrance,
and II is the first elevation 10 be seen
coming in from the sea.
II is right upon its top that the mon
ument is now going up. A great temple
of silver gray granite, II will be about
300 feet high and will cost almost two
hundred thousand dollars. The stone for
it Is coming by the shipload from Shim-
onoseki. Japan. and hundreds of huge
granite blocks are now scattered about
the harbor and at the foot of the hill.
Many of them are large library
table and not few weigh several tons
each. cable road has been constructed
from the harbor TO the site of the monu-
ment. and steam engine drags up the
blocks low cars.
The monument is already about one
third completed. The pedestal has been
finished and the first series OF Ionic
columns erected. The scaffolding about
the structure can be seen for miles around
Port Arthur. and the monument Will com
mand both land and sea. When / visited
IL today 200 Chinese masons were chiSel-
ing at the stones and the great blocks
were rapidly rising into place. The work
is being done BY Manchurian-Chinese
under Japanese overseers.
Evening star., 1909-07-11

DR.. Pierce will receive $1,000 year
from the government for offering the
prayer at the opening of each session OF
the Senate. and this remuneration Will,
Evening star., 1909-07-11

W H E r. E Twenty t wo
/" Thousand Heroes Are
Entombed A Look at the
Battlehelds-The Chinese and
the Live Shells-Some of the
Horrors of War-Live Wires
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Roosevelt Saved the Japanese
"A Boom City Now Busted
Grand Pianos $2s Each
The Mikado's Monument to
the Russian Soldiers.
Evening star., 1909-07-11

two quarts and they caused terrible de-
struction. They had also squares of deal
board which were buried few inches
below the surface. Attached 10 these
were tubes of acids so connected by wires
that they exploded as the troops stepped
on the boards, throwing whole company
into the air.
Evening star., 1909-07-11

The Port Arthur OF Russia was lar diI-
ferent from that Of Japan. In the ca
days there were soldiers everywhere.
Military officers. dressed in big caps ana
long coats, staggered through Inc
Evening star., 1909-07-11

Copyright, 1909 by Frank G. Carpentcr.)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PORT ARTHUR. Manchuria. 1901.
Evening star., 1909-07-11

7 have visited the worlds most famous
monuments from the mighty shaft
TO Washington. which rises from the
base OF the Potomac in our own capital
city and the great sarcophagus of Ma
poleon In Paris. to the gigantic boulders
on the Rhodesian Hills, which mark
the grave of Cecil Rhodes. but l have
seen nothing so impressive as this. At
Evening star., 1909-07-11

1909, by John Elfreth watkins,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-10-14
Contents of Today's Journal.

Personal. North Waldo Pomona.
The Mayors Ditch Doings.. Veter-
ans Meeting in Brooks. Wedding
Bells. The Millinery Openings. .Obit-
uary.. News of the Oranges.
Editorials. Maine Teachers Associa-
ton. Bath Iron Works Scores Again
Wedding Bells. Transfers in Real
Estate. The Races at Unity. Old
Documents. New Dormitory.
Farming Without Labor The Relig-
ious Conventions. Hoping for the
Best (poem). To Teach Bird Value
Fighting Tuberculosis. :. Electric
Flashes.
Editorials. Freedom. The Question
of American Ships. The News OF
Belfast.
The News of Belfast.
The Purser's Story. Newspaper
Questions (poem). -. The Interstellal
Telephone Company. AN Then
She Married J-a-w-n! (story). -.
Pittsfield Personals. =. q. Salvage Laws
for Nations . This is the Bungalow
Age.
Aroostook VS.. Southern Maine.
Literary News and Notes. :. Origin
of wild Apples" -. County Cores
pondence. Maine News Items.
Searsport. Stockton Springs. County
Correspondence Ship News. Born,
Married. Died. Market. The News
Of Brooks.
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NORTH WALDO POMONA.

North Waldo Pomona was entertained b.
Granite grange, North Searsport at the Octo
Der meeting, which was held Wednesday
October 9Th, with goodly attendance. Tn
meeting was called to order by the Master, J
B. Nealley, with nine officers present and sever
| oranges represented. They were reported a
follows: Star of Progress, T. J. Dill: "Ou
grange is prospering, very much alive. takin,
in new members and holding good meetings.
Morning Light, Eda Clement: 81 think we ar,
doing all right as far as know" Granite
Hollis M. Black, Jr.: II think Granite grange i.
in quite good condition, doing well, think, an
not finding any fault" Sunrise, Clara York
Sunrise grange is about the same as usual
We have good meetings and are adding to ou.
membership. I have not had the privilege Of
attending as often as would like, but keep in
close touch with them and they are doing more
work than usual" o. Gardner, May W. Bussey
81 attended the grange last night and to al
appearances it is getting along very well, hav
ing good meetings and good programs right
along" Comet, Fred Webb: "Comet is still
alive. Last Monday evening we had a very
interesting meeting which was well attended
Mrs. Carrie Spaulding in behalf of Granite
grange, gave an excellent address,of welcome
to which G. H. York made fine response.
The following were appointed as committee
on printed programs for 1910: C. C. Clements
Morning Light grange, Monroe: Fred Webb
Comet grange, Swanville; Augusta Stevens
Granite, North Searsport; John Goodwin, Sta,
of Progress. Jackson; Frank W. Burrill Sc
basticook, Burnham.
Remarks for the good of the order by A.
Stinson, Orrin Gray and B. M Eames complet.
ed the forenoon session.
An appetizing dinner was served by the sis
ters of Granite grange in the roomy banquet
hall below the main hall.
After dinner the grange was reconvened and
the following program given: song by the
choir, ''Gather out the Tares;" question, Re-
solved, That the Mail Order Houses are bene-
fit to the Rural Community; opened in the af-
frmative by Clara D. York and in the negative
by Belle ]. Palmer, followed by Annie Clement,
G. H. York, Hollis M. Black, Jr., Harriet Nick
erson, j. B. Neatly, Augusta Stevens; l. P.
Harris, May Bussey, Bertha Neatly, T. J. Dill,
B. M. Eames, Fred Webb W. J. Matthew'S G.
H. Stevens and others. The question being
closed fine program was then presented by
Granite Grange, as follows; piano solo, Harriet
Nickerson, who was encored; humorous read
ing, l. P. Harris, encored; vocal duet, Winni-
fred Matthews and Harriet Nickerson; recita-
tion, Daisy Stevens; select reading, Carrie
Spaulding.
Thanks were extended to Granite grange for
hospitality and entertainment, minutes were
read, grange closed with usual ceremonies, and
another pleasant meeting was over. Next at
Star of Progress, Jackson.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-10-14
Mormon Meeting in Belfast in 1884.

To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL: Among a
lot of old papers recently discovered, having
been laid away and forgotten for many years,
was a placard which had been posted on the
streets of Belfast over three-quarters of a
century ago. To be exact, it was on February
%, 1884, and was undoubtedly one of the origi-
nal posters, as the tack holes appear in it. 1t
may not be known to all our people of the
present day that the truths of Mormonism and
the delights of double or triple blessedness were
expounded to our ancestors so long ago. This
is the notice, as written, and it seems to me
something of curiosity.
CHARLES w. FREDERICK.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-10-14
TERANS' MEETING IN BROOKS.

The Waldo County Veteran Association
NJ with Geo. G. Davis Post, Brooks. October
a and it was gala day for the boys Of '61.
vas 5ne of those October days when Nature
,.ns to say, WELCOME, veterans, to the land
4, fought to save" At an early hour the
es-ans began to gather at the Grand Army
,I on which the Stars and Stripes foated in
/. breeze. At 10 o'clock President L. C. Put
.r called the forenoon meeting to order and
,e secretary read the records of the meeting
freedom and they were adopted. This
.5g tne annual meeting the election of Off
q. zane next in order, and resulted as follows:
Putnum, President; A. Stinson, Secretary
= treasurer
lcrmittee on time and place of next meet
. omrades Tasker, knowlton and A. Stinson.
he dinner call then sounded and recess
4: 5ecared. Never did the good people of
roks furnish better repast, and all seemed
ENJOY the good things set before them.
Aa- inner came the smoke talk, and the old
s7s fought their battles over again.
he afternoon meeting was held in the town
9. and good judges estimated the attendanc
three hundred.
5nmE those present were Dept Commander
'ausin with some of his staff; Col. Cum
.rss Inspector of the Soldiers home at Togus,
q ytaer prominent Grand Army men. The
.stsg opened with singing, followed with
.7er by Rev I. W. Webster State Dept.
,.5ain The secretary reported two COM
aies as having died since the last meeting:
n-ade c. B. Hall of Belfast and Comrade
I q Ritchie of Winterport, and followed
Ii lew appropriate remarks to their mem
b Geo c. Langill of Belfast, was made an
.-ra~l member of the association. The
s "a Brooks furnished fine entertainment
-sst4ag Of songs, recitations and readings.
Is ii.E lord of Brooks, made rousing ad-
T.: o.. Welcome. He said the people of Brooks
f,- always glad to have the Veterans with
f. mrade Trask of Dixmont responded
+ landed manner. He always has some
b. f interest to say. Dept. Commander
/ austin was called for and made rousing
long the line of the events of 81 to '65,
|A-E principally to the battle of Gettys-
f. HEa said that more men were killed in
FE,- minutes when Pickett's charge met
I l-on lines than were killed, wounded and
/. Of llsease in the Spanish American war.
7"aie cummings, of the staff, made a fine
on patriotism, urging the young to
5r Jaeir country and die for it if called
la 9mrade A. E. Nickerson made few
ate remarks and moved rousing vote
@s0ss. by rising, to the good people of
Is Y the entertainment. Closed by sing
!, ls closed another of our pleasant
n Brooks. A. STINsoN, Secy.
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NEWS OF THE ORANGES.

.=,- nifty Grange, Lincolnville, held its
Io- leeting Saturday evening, October
large attendance. Four applications
ership were received. The next
iz7' viii be held October 18th.
-@a by horses and oxen, more closely
'e5 han in former years, furnished ex-
IT for 1900 persons at the Pleasant
-- 'sage fair in Rockland last Thursday
Several towns were represented
% testing teams and the rival factions
terous.
sa,e Master Stetson of the Maine Grange
levpte five days to Knox county this
-,T. During this time he will visit the fol-
@anges: Monday evening, October 18th,
lF.rge grange; Tuesday evening, October
Il Warren grange; Wednesday evening, Oc-
Il -Qth, South Hope Grange; Thursday, Oc-
T. -}st, Pomona Grange, Burkettvilie;
fasy evening, October 21st, Penobscot
4 range, Glencove; Friday evening, Octo-
u 2H3 friendship Grange.
'le range fair held in China October 5th
A-s Of fruits, vegetables and fancy work
$ 70 the town halls and large amount of
Il Stock on the grounds. A band concert
II held IN front of the grange hall. This
n followed by musical program in the
IL hall, in which Mrs. E. E. Weeks, Mrs H.
Il ser-ngton and Miss Ethel Fish appeared
4 =yeaing drama entitled me and Otis"
81 presented by local talent, supported by
a grange orchestra. Dinner and supper
N served in the grange hall.
q ante Grange, North Searsport. has adopt
g sos Glowing resolutions of respect;
4 2e1eas our Order has been called upon to
4 " the loss of a worthy member and be-
brother, Emery Maddocks; therefore, be
g E95ved, That by the death of this brother
ia 's range has lost faithful and respec-
s leHber and although he had been away
Il y he was not forgotten.
NJ Ped, That we as members extend our
81 gt sympathy to the bereaved family.
lived, That as fitting tribute to his
a lr charter be draped for thirty days,
4 a aopy sent to family of the deceased
a sent to The Republican Journal and
II O'lnty Herald.
ii W. j. MATTHEW'S,
III A. STINSoN, Committee.
81 ELIZA J. MATTHEW'S,
ses River Grange, Liberty, held regu-
e9ung Wednesday night, October 9Th,
good attendance and renewed interest
@s tall and winter. The men of the
We Presented an interesting program. In
''Sence of the lecturer an entertainment
ltee was appointed and the following
'e was presented: October 9Th, mems
Ssm IN charge of F. P. Critics. October
LADIES' program, in charge of Mrs. L. C.
october goth, young peoples program,
0eatrice Bennett. October 27th, Pomona
Mrs. Blanche Cram November 3rd,
'snt, Mrs. Ruby Holt. November 10th,
STEW supper. November 18th, Ceres
mrs, Ada Batchelder. November Oath,
'"c program, Hon. L. C. Morse, Decem-
~ election of officers. December 9Th,
night Miss Mary Brown. December 18th.
lsneous program, Mrs. C. M. Aver.
Ne program as arranged we are looking
w TO series of pleasant evenings in the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-10-14
NOTICE.

This is to inform the Citizens of Belfast that
we will present the principles of the Latte,
Day Saints commonly called Mormons before
them in the brick Schoolhouse commencing at
half past o'clock p. m. this evening We in
vite the citizens to attend.
w. WOODRUFF.
]. TOWNSEND.
Feb q. 1884
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-10-14
The Shoe Situation.

There is slight improvement in the foot
wear market, particularly in the call for mems
heavy staples, and jobbers who have held off
from making purchases of these lines owing to
prices, have placed some air-sized orders at
manufacturers terms.-Dun's Review October
9th.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-10-14

Last week Street Commissioner Cunning
ham was summoned by writ of mandamus to
appear before Judge Whitehouse in Bangor,
October 18th, to show cause why he had not
obeyed the order passed by the city govern
ment at its regular meeting, October 4th. and
Mr.. Cunningham left on the train for Bangor,
accompanied by the mayor and city clerk Lit
tlefield. R. F. Dunton, Esq, counsel for Messrs.
Carter and Shuman, also went, accompanied by
Mr. Carter