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BRANDED YOUNG HALIBUT.
From the Lewiston Journal.)

remarkable incident happened dur
ing the recent trip Of the schooner
Avalon, which arrived in Gloucester,
Mass. the other day from halibuting
there being included in the crafts catch
a small halibut which bore "a distinction
very much out OF the ordinary. Two
years ago one of the crew OF the Avalon
brought up a baby halibut on his trawl
while fishing on Green bank The fish
weighed about IL pounds and was
thrown overheard Before releasing the
fish, however, the fishermen cut the mi
tials. 81 II" plainly upon its back ant
nothing more was thought of the Incl
dent A few weeks ago. while fishing OF
Western bank. some OF the crew wer'
surprised when a halibut was hoisted OF
board bearing the familiar initials, 81
r." Instantly some Of the crew recalles
the incident OF two years ago, which
nearly had been forgotten. and, singular
~ enough, the fish had been caugh
again by the crew Of the same craft. II
give an idea how fast halibut viii
grow. the baby l5-pounder of two years
ago had grown to four times his forme
size, tipping the scales n. 10 pounds.
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LIQUOR CASES IN COURT.
l.. j. Nichols Fined $500 and Fred la
bellies hail Increased.

States Attorney II. b. Shaw gave short
shift Friday in county to per-
sons charged with violating the liquor
law. The first man up, ON charge of
illegal selling. was Louis ]. Nichols
proprietor of the Vermo. I'm at Malletts
Bay. Nichols pleaded guilty and was
fined $500 and costs, which he paid. Next
came Graham Wilson, who furnished new
bail in new information filed against
him. charging illegal selling. Wilson al
ready had one information against him
but this was mol pressed and new COM
plant filed
The limit of Mr.. Shaw's patience ap-
pearcd to be reached late in the after
noon when Fred Iabelle, charged with
selling to minor. kept the court and at
torneys waiting three-quarters of an
hour while he tried to decide whether or
not he would plead guilty. The States
attorney finally informed the court that
he wished to call the case Attorney i.
| G. Webster was comforting with the re-
| spondcnt in the ante-room and Sheriff
Allen called the respondent to the court
room He did not appear Immediately
and the court sat and waited.
call the respondent" ordered Judge
Taylor peremptorly.
L.abelle entered and took his place OF
the prisoners bench. Clerk Russell read
the charge and asked Labello If he wishod
to plead guilty or not guilty.
MAY ! make a statement?' asked
Labelle.
'"he court remarked that it was not
customary To receive statement unit
a plea had been made.
How 10 you plead, guilty or not
guilty. asked Clerk Russell
"Gentlenen' faltered Lahelle, Il jus
can't plead guilty. AS God Is my iudg,
am not guilty"
Il make II request that this mans bal
be increased from 5000 to Sl.O0,' said Mr.
Shaw. Il have two counts against this
respondent and | think the bail shouls
be increased"
Mr.. WeDr-er objected on the ground
that the bad already was as large as l.
required In such cases and that the bal
was perfectly good.
I'VE have had one case already thi
week" said Mr., Shaw. rcferring to tn
BraNton case "where the respondent wa
not here when the case was called. This maj
has played fast and loose with the nj
torneys and the court. ! propose to tr,
this case and | propose To convict tn
respondent of two offenses If not more
want the bail fixed at substantial
sum"
The court thercupon Increased til
amount If the bail to $500 in view of III
fact thai there are two offenses charged,
Carolina sumner, who was convicted /
. city court on August = of open and gros
! | l.,,l IA TnN 1.
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STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK
General Secretary Reports That
All Counties Are Fully Organized.
strong Denominations should Aid the
weaker Ones Declares DR.. Pearce
~ the International Associa-
tion-Omcers Elected.

vermont" said DIR. W. c. Pearse OF
Chicago at the SUNDAY school convention
here Thursday. us the only state in the
union that has its saloons graded. FIRST
class drunks, sccond-cass DRINKS, ;h'rn-
class drunks-certainly you are peculiar
reople. Some day you will put all drunks
IN one class And some time | am going
to deliver the funeral Grafton Of the iaS'
saloon" The sneaker touched this SUD-
iect casually in the course of his AFTER
roon address. his remarks receiving
hearty applause from 400 workers ana
delegates present.
For the second consecutive year me
state Sunday school convention 'pched
in the First Church Thursday morning
Complete arrangements mad been maze 10
hold I, in Barre this year, but the closing
Of that city to all public gatherings on ac-
count of SMALLPOX made necessary an
eleventh-hour change of Plan fartN ne
cause OF the lateness of the emergency
preventing the leaders from ARRANGING
for the entertainment OF visitors in homes
here the program, designed originally 10
cover three days, was condensed into one
day.
The report OF the executive commlttee'
presented by Chairman +. 5. Pease OF TINS
CITY. was a resume OF the Year. The N
county organizations. said he. comprise
o6 unpaid but devoted workers The
field secretary, Miss Edith NJ Balch, and
the general secretary, the Rev. II.
a. Durfee have toured the state
ror the third time. Their figures
show 1876 towns represented In convention
and district institute; 66 Sundays IN the
field; o. schools addressed. in addition to
addresses given at regular church serN-
ices, a total Of 355 addresses. with trips
to solicit financial aid for the WORK.
total Of 1929 miles of travel has beer
necessary. The entire amount needed &c
meet all the items is si72. Tho genera
secretary has served in exchange in the
Massachusetts field. and is expected &c
have part In the Connecticut convention.
GENERAL. SECRETARY's REPORT.
The general secretary reported al
counties fully organized. two being sun
divided. Intensive methods have heen fol
lowed. each county being suhdivided int
districts, large or smaller, according tc
local needs. The organized adult class IL
making steady, but too deliberate prog
ress. The whole problem centeis II
reaching the men and women of INT
hour. The department of teacher train
ing has not come to its best in the mat
ter of completed courses. OF the worl
in Brazil, Indiana, he said, leaders ar
in dead earnest. Teachers 20 afte
scholars and find them. They study in
dividuals. although classes are large
and more than half the population
in Sunday school. In Vermont the ma
chinery Is in shape. but we are CROWN
too slowly The need OF the maChin
is for power to run 1t.
HOME DEPARTMENT WORK.
Miss Edith NJ. Balch reported for II
home department and home Visitation
During the year the towns OF Cavendis
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+. A. Gerry, SO Bellevue street. Lowell
Mass express messenger for American
Express company. says THE constant
1olting on trains is very hard on the kid
neys. as all railroad men know. I suf-
fered kidney breakdown which did not
mend under the most skillful treatment.
] had Il dun pain over my hips and back
SO severe at times / could hardly work.
| started using Foley Kidney Pills and
right here | say that there is nothihS
equals them for prompt and lasting relief.
! am glad to say that now am a strong.
well man and recommend Foley Kidney
Pills. J. W. O'Sullivan. "A Church street
(AdV.)
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SAFETY OF TRAVEL At NIGHT.
frron tho Northfeld NewsD

The bill requiring all vehicles on public
roads, to carry lights after dark. Is n
most sensible one and ought not to fall
of passage. There is much danger now
to public traffic. and there is just az
good reason why vehicles should carry
lights as that automobiles should. and
If there is to be safety to travel in these
days of automobiles and motor cycles
there must of necessity be some such
regulation as this.
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Rcvolvers have been taken away from
Riley before, at least once here and twice
In Essex Junction. He told an officer a
short time ago that he couldn't keep a
gun for they kept taking them away from
him.
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the EAPLAN ALTON.

tfrom the ST Louis Post Dispatch
All the Mormon States are conceded u
Taft Mormon. with ave or SIX wives
To support him. doesn't give "A whoop
out West what the cost of living IN
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Origin of the Alphabet

From the London Cor New York Sun.
I'll a lecture at the Royal institute Prof.
Flinders Petrie has attacked the long-ac-
Cepted theory that the origin of the alpha
bet is to be found in Phoenicia, whence
It came from Egyptian hieroglyphics.
According to Prof. Petrie the researches
of the last 90 years have shown that signs
were earlier than pictures and that 1t was
the sign that survived TO become the
alpha and beta of one civilization and the
A B of another
Just as the philologist had discovered
one entire system of languages, so the
alphabetarian had discovered in the
diversity of alphabats an original proto-
type of all. In Prof. Petrie's words, The
Phoenicians are people of yesterday COM
pared with those who wrote the signs that
are the origin of all alphabets."
1t was to pottery, said the professor,
that Psychologists and others were in
debted for these signs, and their develop
ment was worked out on these lines.
Flatnose made a pot and put a mark on
II to show that 1t was his. In time. be-
cause 1t was his mark the sign stood for
Flatnose himself, and then the sign be-
came attached to a sound Irrespective of
the thing itself Gradually the wearing
down went on until the sign stood, not for
n sound, but a syllable, and then for a
letter.
The signs, of course were not an alpha
bet; that did not arrive until perhaps 1000
B.. c., whereas signs were to found in
early prehistoric Egypt, probably 70Ot
b. c. Proofs of this common origin were
plentiful, for the signs spread by trade
far north and south, and appeared SIM
ilarly In Runic, Iberian and Harlan and
yet were unknown in Phoenician.
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/ Star and very far inferior to the nearby
star Regulus, which a few months ago
1t far exceeded In brilliance.
But the most striking object in the
evenings is undoubtedly the great planet
Jupiter, which shines out brilliantly in
the south, almost the center of the con-
stelation OF the Scorpion. This world,
which has proceeded so little in its de-
velopment that it is still a great ball of
heated vapors nearly 10000 miles through.
is seen even in a small telescope to be
covered with the most beautiful markings
and landings By watching these we
can see how very rapidly the world Is
turning, for a marking rises at one edge,
is carried completely around the planet
and disappears at the other in less than
five hours. The four bright moons, as
they continually move around the heated
ball sometimes passing behind the disc
times entering or leaving the planets
most interesting objects of study. For ex-
ample, on July 16 at hours, 81 minutes,
second .. M, eastern standard time),
the third moon will disappear in eclipse,
emerging again from the shadow at IL
hours, AZ minutes, seconds On the same
evening the second moon will move onto
the planets disc at 10 hours, 56 minutes,
not emerging from 1t until l hour. 30
minutes, the next morning. Similarly on
July 2, and Is. interesting OSCILLATIONS
or transits may be observed
Saturn is now in the morning sky, and
ii each morning will be seen rising ear
lier and mounting higher in the heavens
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form the head of the Serpent. From
here a quite definite winding line of
stars leads downward nearly to the Bal
ances, and then, turning eastward, passes
the whole length of Scorpio to the star
at N. Figure /, after which the Serpent s
body extends northward along almost
the exact center of the Milky Way until
the tip of the tail Is finally reached at
the bright star, K, in the constellation of
the Eagle.
The stars at A, B, and C are re-
garded as belonging. not to the Serpent,
but to the Serpent-holder Ophiuchus, and
this great constellation includes nearly
all of the remaining stars in this region
of the sky between Scorpio and Hercules.
The star C is easily seen with the naked
eye to be a pair of stars, and these mark
hand grasping the Serpent at the pair OF
stars A and b.
These two star groups are among the
oldest of the considerations No less than
four of the brightest new stars of his
toric times appeared in Ophiuchus, one of
which, known as the celebrated Kepler's
Star, shone out near the star at L, Figure
/. All of the stars marked X are
double stars, though some of them
may only be seen double with a moderate
~ large telescope. But this region is
particularly remarkable for the large
number of star clusters which it contains
One of these will be found at II, little
below and to the right of the star NJ;
still larger one is at r, nearly midway
between the stars n and o, and there are
a great many others. most of which re-
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that as the sun is then highest In the
heavens, the moon is necessarily lowest
But the moon does not follow exactly
the same path among the stars as that
pursued by the sun; the latter is the path
YUM. Figure /, and at present the moons
path lies nearly five degrees below this
line in the region of Antares and the
star at l.. Consequently, although the
full moons of June and July are always
very low In the sky. those which occur
this year are even much lower than usual.
In its monthly journey around the
heavens the moon will again pass over
Antares on the morning of July "a, but
unfortunately this will occur at about
o'clock a. M, after the moon has set to
all observers in the United States. And
on July 10 the nearly new moon will pass
over the Pleiades hiding its principal
star, Alcyone. and great number of the
other stars of the cluster from our view.
This is always an interesting and long
anticipated astronomical event, but this
occultation will also unfortunately not be
visible to u.s. for 1t will occur In the early
evening when the moon has set, but while
the sun is still shining in the skies.
ERIC DOOLITTLE.
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A Sermnnette

From the Osborn (Kan.) Farmer.
When I was a kid they used TO tell me
that If | would go to the end of the rain
bow l would find bag Of gold be-
lieved it. and used TO always be on the
lookout for the path that would take me
there. After while I learned that the
rainbow story vas only a pretty fairy
tale. But as I wander about the town
now I frequently run across men who
are still looking for that magical path.
They go about day after day with no
other thought In their mind that eventual
ly that path would be revealed to them
and they will get the promised bag of
gold. They refuse to get down to hard
pan of fact and see that they must take
the path themselves. They must grub
out the stumps and lay the bricks with
their own hands. Their neighbors about
them plod on faithfully in their humble
ways. making a path instead of looking
for one. But the man with the vision sits
throughout the long day anxiously peer
ing into the mists to catch a glimpse of
the shining way. He fails to find 1t to-
day, but goes TO sleep confident that the
morrow will reveal it. So the years Of
his natural life fit by, and in the end
the neighbors find him not as "a fall
ure."
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by the time of sunrise, but 1t will be
many months before we will see it in
our evening sky. On July 1 il rises two
and one-half hours before sunrise, which
time is heightened to four and one-half
hours by the end of the month. The planet
is now in. the constellation Taurus, just
west of the Hyades; il VIII remain in
nearly this same position throughout the
year, so that when by next autumn the
changing seasons have brought this beau
tiful group of stars into our evening sky.
the constellation of Taurus will present a
region of unusual interest.
Uranus is just on the borders of our
map, but is still very low down in the
southeast
Neptune is passed by the sun on July
IL at a. m. SO that it is wholly invisi-
Bile to us throughout the month.
The Motion of the Moon
The reader who observed the beautiful
occultation OF Antares on the 26th of last
month was doubtless struck by the ex-
tremely low position of the nearly full
moon in the sky. 1t is at this TIME of the
year that the full moon is always very
low in the heavens, because our satellite
when full always lies in the opposite
region Of the heavens from the SUM- 20
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The whole heavens are now filled with
the typical summer groups of stars Elk
actly overhead there stretches out the
great Hercules; in the north the Dragon
has reached its highest position in the
sky; the Northern Cross the Eagle and
the Archer are well up in the eastern
heavens. while exactly south there shine
out the stars of the bright Scorpion, which
is the most striking SUNNI sr group of ALL
The July Stars
Filling the whole region of the sky be-
tween Hercules, the Grown and Bootes
on the north and the Scorpion on the
south are the two intermingled groups
of the Serpent and the Serpent-h holder,
which, though they are marked by
no very bright stars, contain innumera-
hle objects of interest and which at no
time are IN better position for tracing
out than at present. If the observer
will face toward the south, he will have
no difficulty in finding rather striking
group of five little stars a short dis
lance to the left of Arcturus and directly
below the Grown, and these five stars fof
which three are shown at d, Figure u,
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and many will be interested to watch the
process of damask court train In green
and gold. the silk being the warp and
the metal the weft, ordered by the
queen and to be completed during the
fortnight of the exhibition. There is a
remarkable adaptation of dragon design
from an old Chinese hanging, probably
used for the interior decoration of man.
darins house, very striking in color and
affording a highly favorable illustration
of modern skill. China is regarded as the
original source of silk-weaving and her
ancient methods are practically the same
as those in use on the handlooms of to-
day, except that the pattern Is rendered
permanent on the card, now substituted
for the drawboy of the loom. Some nota-
BILE examples also, are shown of the
great advance in the artistic embroidery
of silken fabrics. The varieties of shot
tafsetas and satins, b.ocaded crepe, soft
glaces and duchess satins, aid the gen.
eral impression of thoroughness and eff
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est distance east of the sun on July .
and for a few evenings before and aftei
this rate may be seen shining low In thf
twilight glow, a little north of the west
point of the horizon, for about an houi
after sunset
Venus passes from the west to the easi
of the sun on July at p. m, but al
though by the end of the month 1t will
have moved SO far into our evening SKY
that it will not set until one-half houi
after sunset, 1t will not even. by that time
have drawn so far from the suns rays
that 1t can be well observed. This planet
Is now beyond the sun, at'its exereme dis
tance from the earth.
Mars is moving so very rapidly east
ward that during the month it passes
almost entirely across the constellation OF
Leo; 1t Is moving eastward almost as
rapidly as the sun itself and therefore II
remains continually visible in our evening
sky. It will not be finally overtaken by
the sun and so become a morning star
until next November T. The planet Is
now however. very far away from Us
and in a very nnfavorable position for
observation. Tt. in fact, now shines only
as star of the second magnitude; that
is, is but little brighter than the North
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quire a large telescope for their obser-
walton. But so seen, they are remarka-
BILE and wonderful objects. Each is COM
posed of hundreds or thousands of stars,
gathered together into approximately
spherical ball, though whether each par
ticle of the cloud is a sun SO great as
our own we do not yet know.
Besides these two important consteila-
tons, there are many other interesting
groups which can best be studied at this
time of year. Turning TO the east. the
strange little figure known as the Dolphin,
or Jobs Coffin, will be seen about one
third of the way TO the zenith, while
above this is a line of six little stars form
ing the Arrow, which is speeding eastward
from Hercules to Stay the Eagle of Jove.
Turning northward we see the great
Dragon swinging high above the Pole, a
constellation which in early times was
even longer than now and enclosed. both
of the Bears in its fold. The head Of the
Dragon is conspicuous and easily found
ngure this. with the nearby star at Il,
Figu.e was called by the early Arabians
the FIVE Dronedares. II may be added
that the head of the Serpent al d. Figure
], is from its figure sometimes called
Saint Andrews Cross.
The planet Mercury reaches its great