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The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02
POINT RIcHMoND aEAL EsrATr

YOU viii pay as much FOR one front foot few
years from As ask FOR lot today.
Don't mention this to your children then CT
might cause remarks Santa Re tract center
OF Richmond: s. per month buys a lot send
for maps sIcEWEN BROS 40 Pine ST.
ST r. T. Shannan. rep.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

Cottage Of rooms and bath. in pink Of con
ditlon lot 10 feet front. $50 54th 81 near
Grove; it's a dandy
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

One Of the prettisst room cottages IN the
Santa Fe Tract: SD ST. near Key Route de-
pot $3.50 down. balance $50 month.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

2 pretty Httls new oats near shattu'E AZ
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02
San RAFAEL REAL Estate
REAL EsTArE DO ExcHANeE

WILL exchange good income property in Ala
media for building lots unineumbered. ". c.
DAVIS. 406 First National Bank building,
Oakland
sF you want to exchange your property Tor 5
and 10 acre apple orchards. with fine income
correspond with owner. box pa Watsonvllle
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02
Ross VALLEY REAL EsrATE-

b.aRGAIN at <10.000-Thls beautiful home muss
be seen to be appreciated. Telephone Kearng
90 and Get particulars
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

. rooms. suitable for 2 hats- on 18th and
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

MAX
81 .400-Fine building lot. 4Oxl04. on electric
line near Key Route: al street work dnished
easy walk to Idora park: worth 81 500; good for
home or investment: location insures continu-
ally increasing value; prize made low to erect
quick sale: $3.50 can remain at per cent net
FITZ COMPANY SO 10th st. nr. Washington,
Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02
PARTNERS WANTED

with best Of recommends
tion TO act as cashier in an old established
optical business: experience not necessary as
there two registered optometrists and
opticians employed; splendid opportunity; cash
annual business $4,000: cash required S5, 600.
Address box 1851 Call office.
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02
FRUIrvALE REAL EsTATn

BEAUTIFUL home in FruitvaIe: half cash bal
ance on mortgage; or viii trade. no agents.
See owner 7O4 Humboldt Bank bldg or 2625
FruitvaIe av-. Fruitvale
FOR sale or rents room bungalow modern.
5Ox12J. corner. 260l PeraIta av. see owner
$3.Io0-
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

ss.sso-Beautiful home, SD and Grove; lot
- double frontage
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

ESQ acres grain land suitable for orchard or vine
yards; good orange land adjoining properties
have pumping plants and plenty Of water q
bargain; S35 per acre.
plenty OF water timber enough to pay for the
land; owner made fortune on this ranch; 81
per acre buys it,
by F. L. DARROW. manager OF Coast Car
riage Co.. corner 18th and Jackson sts.. Oak
land. Cal
The San Francisco call., 1909-08-02

We have 1900 acresAour own estate. Join
our excursion next Saturday-low cost Return
Sunday evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-18
QUEER GARDENING.

Secretary Wilson Of the Department Of Agri-
culture said the other day of a certain farmer:
He is now profjins by the departments adj
vice. but he very stupid at the beginning.
He farmed a Philadelphia woman, spring
season, planted her garden.
The womans husband came home and found
her porting over seed catalogue. She had q
long list Of seeds written a sheet of paper
Cd" This is list. my dear she said that
want you TO buy for me tomorrow at the seed
mans
Her husband looked at the list. Then he
laughed loud and long.
You want these flowers to bloom this sum-
mer, don't you said he.
YES, of course
well. those you have put down here don't
bloom till the second summer
"'Oh that's all right, the lady said, easily
"'AIl right? How is 1t all right
u making up my list she explained.
from a last years catalogue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-18

citizen of the United States. In the Carolina dis
trict after the Lincoln centenary exercises
were held one of the teachers found little
Porto Rican girl sobbing over her desk as if her
heart would break What is the trouble?"
asked the teacher.
oh, I'm sorry that poor Senior Lincoln
was shot" the child replied.
The moral of Lincoln's industrious life had
most telling effect. The impression it made was
illustrated one day when Superintendent Mayo
visited school in Rio Piedras. This school
should have been dismissed at $ o'clock 1t
was , O'Clock when the superintendent arrived
and he did expect to find any of the pupils
there He was surprised, however, to find the
teacher in the midst OF d lesson, with every
pupil present
You working overtime. aren't you?' in
quired the superintendent.
'"Yes" was the response. 1T rained hard this
morning and d number of the boys and girls
were late getting to school 1t was / o'clock
when we began, and did not want to lose
the two hours, so We have kept on"
The teacher Of this rural school was more
than forty years old. and had been teaching in
the same school for nearly twenty years. Up
to the time the new system was introduced he
plugged along contentedly under the sleepy old
Spanish regime Now he takes as lively an in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-18

tereSt and works with much enthusiasm as
teacher fresh from college.
How to make the rural teachers who had be-
come accustomed to the lax methods of the
Spanish system appreciate the Importance Of
sanitary arrangements has been one of the
hardest problems for the superintendent and his
lieutenants to solve. More than half of the
teachers in the rural schools heritages from
the old system, and the truth of the old
that it is not easy to teach old dogs new tricks
has been excmplifed tire and again in efforts
to get the old teachers to assmate IDEAS
Those who are not deadencd utterly to
inspirations are beginnine to respond. One in
stance which Superintendent Mayo gave wa1
not PERHAPS typical. but it showed what
be done when the seed is well The
teacher of a rural school situated at the top OF
d hill, at the foot of which flowed river, de-
cided that the children who went barefoot
should wipe the red and yellow mud collected
the journey TO school from their feet. 1t was
flying in the face OF a time hOnored tradition
He suggested to the boys that out CT school
hours they bring stones large and small, from
the bed Of the river up the hill to the school
house These piled up conveniently foI
a standing place. Meany. he. he had urged tht
children to save their pennies and place then.
in his keeping. When the fund had GROVE
large enough he suggested buying two or thre<
large buckets to the depostors of the pennies.
They agreed. Towels were brought from their
homes, and now before the children enter the
sohoolhouse they dip their feet in the buckets
Of water. step to the stones, use the towels and
go in TO their studies with the yellow mud
washed off
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-18

eyes she inquired: What you doing here?
Haven't you been homer" The little fellow be
gan TO cry, and between his sobs he explained
that his parents had forbidden him to go to
school any more. so he had stolen away in the
night to be at the schoolhouse when it opened
in the morning. These instances illustrate the
Unborn thirst for knowledge of the average
Porto Rican child.
The study of American heroes is one of alb
sorbing interest TO the Porto Rican children.
They follow the careers of Washington. John
Paul Jones and Ethan Allen with a delight
which is a source of inspiration for the teach
ers. The Tooth anniversary of Lincoln's Birth
day was celebrated throughout the island. 1t
was a sort of gala day, in which the children
took part gleefully. The schoolhouses were
banked with palm branches and tropical flowers
Tots whose fathers and mothers have little or
no knowledge of English rected verses on Lin
coin.
In each school the teacher read brief accounts
of I-incoln's life. The children listened with
amazement to the history of this great AmeTi-
can statesman who to fame from humble
log cabin The democratic thread of the story
struck new chord in their nature, ard for the
first time in their lives thousands Of school chill
dren in the island gained a con, option of the
possibilities and opportunities that come to a
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

Miss L. Grace Chadwick, have several bright
farces under consideration. The next meeting
of the Guild will be with Miss Margaret n
Hazeltine on Monday evening, January 31st
Letters of thanks were read from Captain F.
l. Morrow, U. S. A., secretary, and from Col.
F. E. Boothby, treasurer, of the State of Maine
branch of the Red Cross Society, for the
check for $101 sent the Maine headquarters.
Col. Boothby said, in part: 81 cannot have
the incident close without saying how nobly 1
think the Young Ladies' Guild of the North
Congregational church, assisted by the Union
OF the First Parish and by ladies of every other
church in the city, did their work, and that
such good results should obtain is certainly
matter for congratulation." In expressing his
thanks, Capt. Morrow said: "It is splendid
contribution and thoroughly indicative of the
humane and deeply Christian spirit of Belfast
people,"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

in the common schools, supplemented by a
hort term at the Waterville Classical Insti-
tute He taught school successfully for sew
nalism and shortly after his marriage he went
to Rockland and with his brother Edwin for
years published the Democrat and Free Press,
of which Alden was the political editor He
began his political life as Democrat, but the
meanderings of his party from the landmarks
tude, sent him into the ranks of the young and
vigorous Republican party, where he ever after
remained In May, 1868, he removed with his
family to Augusta, and with Howard Owen and
Charles E. Nash bought of Stevens & Sayward
the Kennebec Journal, and started the daily on
the first of January, 1870 Mr.. Sprague was
the political editor of the paper, succeeding
Mr.. Blaine and John L. Stevens. The death
of Mr.. Sprague and Mr.. Nash leaves Howard
Owen the only living member of the old firm.
His surviving partner says of Mr.. Sprague
that 'he was of the very best New England
type" and that is fitting tribute. That may
also be said of Capt. Nash, whose record in
war and in peace calls for the highest COM
mendation. Of the surviving member of this
firm we can only say, may he long be with us.
January 18th Joseph A. Homan, Augustus
Oldest newspaper man, observed his 93d birth
day. He is one of the few surviving charter
members of the Maine Press Association, and
many who were his juniors have also passed
away. Until recent years he was a regular
attendant at the annual meetings and seldom
missed the summer excursions. He reads the
newspapers daily without glasses and enjoys
his three meals daily, but has not been out
doors since last September, when he went to
the polls in an automobile to cast his vote for
Governor Fernald He cast his first vote for
Governor in 1888 for Edward Kent, the Whig
candidate, and has voted at every State cleo
ton since then, always casting his vote for the
w hlg or Republican candidate. He has shaken
hands with every Governor of Maine from
Governor Kent to Governor Fernald.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

other went for Sheriff Carleton. On opening
the barrel it was found to contain 48 quart
bottles of whiskey and True G. Trundy, pro-
prletor of the Phoenix, appearing on the scene
ABOUT that time he was invited to appear at
the police court at o'clock that afternoon
The trial resulted in a sentence of fine of
$lOO and costs and 60 days in Jail, from which
Irundy appealed and gave bail in the sum of
$2oo for his appearance at the April term of
the s. J. Court
MARSHALL VS.. STATE OF MAINE. In the case
OF W. R. Marshall, Admir-, vs. the State of
Maine, in which decision was recently hand
ed down by the Law Court, the opinion sus-
tains the contention of the late Hon. William
Z. Marshall that his term as State Assessor
was cut short. The first board of State asses
sors was elected on April l, 1891, for terms of
SIX, four and two years SUCCESSFULLY Owing
to the fact that the person in office at the ex-
piration of each term succeeded himself the
exact duration of the term was never called in
question until 1901, when Mr. Marshall was
succeeded by Hon. F. M. Simpson Mr.. Simp-
son was elected with the other State officers
at the beginning of the legislative session and
was sworn in on February 2, 1901 Mr.. Mar
shall claimed that his own term did not expire
until April l, 1901. The matter was referred
to the Governor and Council and by them to
Attorney General Scidcrs, whose opinion was
that Mr.. MarshalPs term ended with the quail
flcation of his successor. Acting upon this
opinion the Governor and Council and the leg
lslature refused to consider Mr. Marshall's
claims. AS sovereign State cannot be sued
by citizen without its consent this ended the
matter until, through the efforts of Hon. R. F.
Dunton while a member of the legislature of
1907, resolve authorizing such suit was
passed. The decision just rendered holds that
Mr.. MarshalPs term OF office did not expire
until April l, 1901, and his estate is conse-
quently entitled to recover two months salary
williamson & Burleigh of Augusta appeared
for the plaintiff and Attorney General Phil
brook for the State.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
Today's Journal. ..4s

Indicial Court. Men and
AugqShta Gharcbes praalTfa Tse v %eMe sne
NiJPslfast Woman's Hospital Ald' .
fFi'S ..ks Farm Thorndike. County
Ss9',is'ys.spondence Winterportx;, Japan Japan
eor's 3. Against FAMINE. Another
gDI5o 5aI. County Man
"''', ,,.,,ners Need. .. "A Birthday
Nha. ,la,.i,s at Liberty and the Trolley;
ssfy'g' Nations Game Bag. Cab
10 y'r5 '',5 Beans. Mt. Desert Core
baE' r.s University of Maine
sg The Journals 8lst Birthday.
N'' l News of the Oranges.
E9.r''@re st5re Capital. Meeting of Wal
,.rartv Grange.
. a. p News Of Belfast
5-i' sogg Harbor, General Bridge
}3a' r6I Farmers Happy Lot.
B' 7,rrs from Everybody's. Our
5l,5 ,5.,oaa Bonfre Bill. Literary News
As.,." Vast Wealth in Forests.
-.. -.t from the Law Court.
.-as-s g5m Brooksville.
rre Hasted Schooners The
i-l5, feaiing Stuffs. Statistics of
,I4,~ Divorced at Rockland.
nov Agencies. Newspaper
W.. Inc Lincoln Centenary.
2+. ir wing in Hancock. County
spaaIouce The News of
Frak
,..,-t stockton Springs. .Obitu-
e--S'r.- -sara Societies, Ship News
T-... Ern Married Died.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
Men and Things at Augusta.

Waldo county is well represented at Angus
ta- One of its leading and most progressive
citizens, Hon. Charles S. Hichborn, was born in
Stockton. He is now president OF the First
National Bank of Augusta, with which he has
been connected for more than a quarter of a
century; has served the city in various capaci-
ties, including one term as mayor, and is presi-
dent of the Augusta Board of Trade and also
President of the State Board of Trade. For
many years he has been the treasurer of the
Republican State committee He is an elo-
quent and forceful speaker and is often heard
at the State conventions. Of the many local
institutions and associations to which he gives
much valuable time and attention the corpo-
ration which built the new Augusta House,
and of which he is the president, is specially
worthy of mention. In raising the necessary
funds, 100000 in the planning and erection of
the building and in its management since its
doors were open to the public, he has had and
has prominent part. That his efforts in this
direction and those of the public spirited citi-
zens associated with him, are fully appreciated
by the people of Augusta there can be no
in Belfast. Here certain publc-sprited citi-
zens invested $4,000 in hotel that was
credit to the city and boon to the travelling
public. 1t could never have made any returns to
its stockholders but it filled long felt want and
was great benefit to the city in many ways.
Yet the matter of abating the taxes was made
a political issue by which to get into office and
a feeling was created against the men whose
money built this hotel and against the hotel
itself that has put a bar to any like enterprise
since. When the hotel burned down as it did
under the administration of the man who instl-
gated this feeling, people began to realize
what loss it was to our city. The summer
visitors who each season of its existence filled
the Crosby Inn to overiowing left good deal
of money here besides that paid to the hotel,
which went to the grocers, the marketmen
and the farmers for supplies. 1t brought here
such associations as the State Grange, the
State Board of Trade, the Maine Press Asso-
citation and others, and it enabled many former
residents to return home for few weeks or
months. Today, the greatest need of Belfast
is modern hotel.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
CEN TER MONTvILLE.

J. W. Wentworth cut his left hand badly
with an adze Thursday. C. A. Gordon il,
suffering from sprained knee... Mrs. D. C.
Cain has been visiting her sister. Mrs Austin
Wentworth, in South Montville. {. {. Miss Nan
Sprowl was recent guest of Miss Phoebe
Cross in Morrill,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

But to return to the Waldo county people at
the State Capital. Here we find Joseph VIII
hanson, Esq, of the law firm of Williamson &
Bureigh, holding prominent position in
bar that in point of ability is second to none in
the State. Mr.. Williamson was born a Demo-
crat and unfortunately has never gotten over
it, and he might have had the Democratic
nomination for mayor had he cared to accept
it. When his partner who is son of Cover
nor Burleigh and Republican, gave up the
Office Of city clerk at the incoming of Demo
cratic administration, Mr.. Williamson took it,
so that the city business continued at the
same stand. But his profession evidently has
more attractions for him than political life
We should have said at the start that Mr.
Williamson was born in Belfast and his early
life spent in this city. He also began
practice here.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

The home of the present Secretary of State,
Hon. Arthur l. Brown is in Belfast, and you
will notice that he is pretty sure to be at home
about election time. His office is perhaps
next in Importance to that of Governor, and
its conduct calls for good deal of executive as
well as al-around ability and it will be gener-
ally admitted that Mr.. Brown fills the bill.
Whenever Waldo county man or woman
visits the State House their objective point is
the Secretary of States office, where desired
information is always tap and where you
may leave your wraps and feel that they are
as safe as if you had entrusted them to State
Treasurer Gilmore.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21

Mention was made in these notes last week
of the crowded condition at the State House.
January 18th Representative Rounds of Port
land presented resolve in the House in favor
of the enlargement of the State House the
erection of a suitable State office building ad-
jacent thereto. This has naturally caused con-
siderable discussion, and some have proposed
tearing down the present building and erect
ing new one 1t may be old fogyish, but we
hope that will not be done. There are too
many associations connected with the present
building to permit of its destruction or even
to materially change its main features. The
old rotunda with it's battle flags and its por-
traits should at least be permitted to remain
undisturbed. If it is not practicable to build a
further extension at the rear, separate office
building, but connected with the State House
by covered way, would seem to be the best
way out of the difficulty.
AS might be supposed from his previous
experience Representative Morse of Belfast
was soon very much at home here. He was
well placed on committees and will make good.
He has presented two local matters: An act
to extend the charter of the Waldo Street
Railway Co., and resolve in favor of the
Waldo County General Hospital.
The recent death in. Los Angeles, California,
where he had resided for many years, of Alden
Sprague, removes man who was leading
factor in the daily life of Augusta genera
tion ago, and who for nearly 20 years was the
chief owner and editorial head of the Kenne-
bee Journal. He was born in Appleton in 1926
and was married to Miss Lavinia P Mansfield
children, Charles and Caro- Sprague of Los An
geles, and Mrs. Charles S. Hichborn of Augusta,
survive. Mr.. Sprague received his education
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-10-09
Every fair-minded man knows that

Every fair-minded man knows that
an officer is responsible for the safety
and delivery 81 his prisi oners, and If
these men had determined to run, my
warrant did not allow me to forciblY
hinder them. wanted the race track
incident thoroughly probed, hence !
brought back the two Witnesses TOR
the State, Just what the holes did
not want. The detectives stayed in
Jail eleven or twelve days. and we're
fed three meals a day from the Lee
doux Hotel, fer which / paid out Of
my own pocket. They we're unbidden
guests, but the holies did not pay
the bill, but On the contrary, saw that
the detectives got one hundred and
seventy-fve dollars, half of three hum
dred and fifty dollars that two young
white men who had families and work
ed for low wages, and three darkiea,
who under q compact had plead guilty
before the City Judge the prohibition
law.
In addition to the splendid meals
put ND by our friend Ledoux. some of
the kind ladies' Of this city carried TO
the young heroes cakes. pies, and
other dainties, which the chivalrous
gentlemen would not eat until the
taller had nartaken thereof, and until
they found that the food did not
poison the iailer. To requit the kind
and gentle spirit that prompted the
ladies to sooth and ameliorate their
hard lot, one Of them, Glover, IN an
interview stated that one OF the
noblest Of God had given him a pistol!
Some Of the gentlemen in this holy
war sit on the front pew and sing the
longest song, pray the longest prayer
and hand the bread and vine il then
Holy Sacrement, and then proceed
to the Temple Of Justice armed with
d deadly weapon to do bodily harm 60 3
fellow being who had oft times extend
ed a helping hand, and who never refus-
Cd when called Oh to aid the helpless,
build 81 maintain d church Of what
ever denomination, help the schools
ef the city and parish. and who con-
tribused more money during bis term
than perhaps, with d few exceptions,
the entire Law and Order League of
the entire parish.
Some Of the gentlemen may be
actuated BY q high and noble purpose.
but | submit to any fair mind that
poor old 0peIousas has suffered a
blow from the free advertising that
would seem 10 place her outside the
pale of civilization. When the ter
rible scourge through which she has
just passed was shown TO be greatly ex-
aggsrated in parts and totally false in
others, not a word went out from the
Law and Order League or sympathi-
zers. to correct ID the newspapers Of
this State this un~rnarranted condition.
When the sheriff is posted on the
glass door Of the news depot, and on
the inside by blue pencil marks, and
chooses not to take the insult, an
other cry goes up: and this, Too,