The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-04-27

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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Republican Journal Publishing Go.
CHARLES A. PILsBURY, pu Ed,tor M ana
The Maine State Grange is for prohi-
bition. Are you?
License-We don't want it in Maine.
The Lisbon Enterprise.
Cutting your own throat to please an
enemy is one way Of being polite.
Mackerel are reported to be coming
north and would be welcomed in Penob-
scot bay.
Ellsworth is to have an Old-Home week
beginning August 9Th. Belfast should
do likewise
1t is sometimes necessary to eat crow,
but We never heard any one say that
they liked it.
Wouldbe gardeners this spring have
had to lay down the shovel and the hoe
and take up the crowbar and the pickaxe
The New York Herald says that Presi-
dent Taft is sitting on the safety valve.
Well, he ought to be able to hold it down.
The presidential boom for Governor
Hudson II 1a,,pobol ~
tional Capitol April 21st. But can the
Democracy be Harmonized?
Il am not a candidate for the presi-
dency. And my real friends will do me
a cruel injustice if they seek to make me
such. Theodore Roosevelt.
The Portland Socialists have demanded
Of President Taft an explanation of his
action in sending troops to the Mexican
border. This reminds one of the three
1aiIors of Tooey street.
Bradstreet's for the week ending April
22nd reports the state of trade as quiet
80 iall; weather, crop, prices and tariff,
uncertainties; spring season backward;
Easter trade not up to expectations
According to recent statistics the peo-
ple Of this country spent S25, 900, 900 last
year Tor chewing gum, the candy bill in
the same time aggregated S79, 900, 900,
and $40 coo, 600 was spent for soda water.
One 81 the sayings of VIM. H. SimL-
son that appeared in The Journal every
spring for many years was that "when
the leaves on the maple trees are as
large as your thumb nail it is time to go
trout fishing"
We agree with the Bangor CONNER
elal that 1T does rot appear that Maine
has gained anything by changing from
Fast Day to Patriots Day." So far as
its observance is concerned it might be
called by either name.
The New Hampshire Legislature has
enacted law for the protection of horn
pouts. There is a crying need for law
for the protection of suckers, the prey
Of the get-rich-quick sharpers, fiimfam-
rners and fake medicine schemers.
The editor of the Old Town Enterprise
exhibits big crust by printing his
picture on the first page of his paper,-
Rumford Falls Times
How about the editor who exhibits his
picture every week?
The National Magazine says it has
been demonstrated by high scientific
au thority that spark may be emitted
from mans body and set fire to gaso-
lene can. This should admonish those
who go ''sparking" to be sure there is
no gaSolene can in the room.
The Washington Star warns congress
men that the old way of securing popu-
larity by distributing free garden seeds
Is no longer considered absolutely reliass
Ole. -Biddeford Journal.
And Congressman Gould has already
begun distributing seed in the third dis
trlct. But that is better than sowing
tares in Washington.
Owensville, Indiana that an ordinance
was introduced in the town council pro-
hibiting the practice. A story is told of
two Yankees who were cast away on a
de sert island. One had jackknife and
the other fifty cents and they snapped
anti they had So. 50 apiece.
The Rockland Opinion claims that the
re appointment of Judge Whitehouse
sh ows that Gov Plaisted did not act on
partisan reasons;;" but as Judge White
house can only serve one year before he
will have to retire on account of the age
limit imposed by the last legislature, and
the Governor will then have the appoint
ment of his successor, it is not a very
striking evidence of -partisanship.
The papers have had a good deal to say
sabout monster lobster" brought into
Portland recently, that weighed 7
pounds Time was when lobster of
tn at size would have attracted no atten-
fior Can't Henry d Gilman brOupht