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HOLLYHOCKS.

Experiments are continually being
made with pretty we'll every kind of
flower in the production of new varieties,
but in no case are they attended with so
many difficulties and disappointments as
with hollyhocks, says Professor George
Webb in the June Strand. The whole
history of the hollyhock is one long bat
tie with disease 1t is one of our very
oldest garden flowers and, in fact, Its
history is very remote, mention of it
being made over three hundred years
ago. At that time the only two double
varieties were red and purple-the par
ents of all the fifty or so double varieties
that are known today. A shoemaker of
Saffron Walden first made experiments
in crossing these two varieties early in
the last century, and he produced many
shades of a semi-double character. These
were handed on to the late Mr.. William
Chatter, the most famous of hollyhock
growers, and in his hands they took
many new and beautiful forms.
A chapter in the history of the holly
hook now began which touched more
upon the romantic, perhaps, than has
been the case with any other flower.
came increased popularity. The grow
and there was great competition until
the sudden appearance of disease the
cause of which has never to this day been
definitely traced. No means were found
of guarding against it, while its effect
was so sudden and so complete that hum
dreds of plants, just bursting into bloom
or even in their perfection, would wither
and die within three or four hours! New
and beautiful varieties, the result of
careful experiment ard attention, watch
ed over and guarded, nursed to perfec-
ton until the eve of some show where
they were to win honor and fame for
their grower, would appear in perfect
condition overnight, yet in the morning
would be withered and dead.
II is safe to say that many of the
smaller growers were ruined at this time.
Certainly many of the larger growers
suffered great losses. Some abandoned
the hollyhock altogether, and in one
case, believe, the sudden failure of q
new variety from this scourge, on the
eve of an important show, led the disap
pointed grower to take his life.
Competition in the growing of holly
hooks to a large extent ceased, and
curiously enough so did the disease, ant
l think it may be inferred from this tina
it was brought about by overlooking thu
plant-in an effort to obtain extra larg,
blooms for exhibition purposes-witl
undecomposed manure and other gros
materials which caused disease of tn
root. At any rate, no trace of anything
wrong could ever be found on the leave
or stem.
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Pansies and Hollyhocks.
The New Blood-Red Pansy.

1t is fitting time to write of my
favorite flower, says Professor Cuthbert-
son, the famous horticulturist, in the
June Strand. 1t celebrates the centenary
of the beginning of its improvement this
year. 1t was in the year 1872 that
daughter of the then Earl Of Tankerville
transplanted into her garden, from the
hedgerows, plants of the wild heartease,
and gave them good cultivation. She
gathered seeds from the best flowers
every year, and became possessor of
some greatly improved specimens.
This is exactly what all keen growers
of pansies have been doing ever since,
and, by following the process along dis
tinct lines, the pansies of different colors
and shapes have been evolved. The old
pansies are too prim and precise to
please the modern taste. Nowadays
something large and snowy is desired
and such we have got in the class called
fancy pansies. Many of these are
flowers which can be grown to three or
four inches in diameter, and are possess
ed of the most brilliant colorings-v violet,
crimson, rose, bronze, yellow, primrose,
black and white, all these and many
other shades in fantastic combinations.
A really red pansy has long been the
desire of florists, and for twenty-five
years have worked to obtain it, doing
exactly what the daughter of Lord
Tankerville gathering seed every
year from the plants which gave little
more red in their coloring than any of
their thousands of neighbors in the seed
beds. In the year 1898 l obtained a
strain of pansies which were wallflower-
red in color. The process of selection
was not stopped then. 1t has gone on
ever since, and think we have now OBJ
tanned the finest pansy l ever grew.
1t is blood-red in color, of medium size,
nearly round in shape. The blotches in
the center are intensely dark, the little
eyebrows are white, the eye itself being
bright yellow. ga gem of purest ray
serene" Thousands upon thousands of
seedlings were grown before this novelty
was obtained, and there is no more
fascinating department of gardening
than raising seedlings and watching, i.
day by day, the buds of the various
plants open out.
The anticipations and expectations are
always pleasant, and no worthy florists
is ever damped by disappoint-
ment Onward he always goes, hoping |
to realize the aim he has set before him.
1t was one fine summer morning that
the new pansy referred to was dis
covered looming among its nelghbors,
and it was on that account fittlngly
named Sunrise.
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HEALTHFuLNEss OF MOTORING.

A London physician described as "a
West End consultant,'' and apparently
man of experience, observation and judg-
ment, contributes to the Autocar of Lon
don an article on the car as promoter
of good health. He declares that this
''pastime is of the greatest benefit to
our physical and social wellbeing." Ex-
perience has taught him that the car sis
factor of immense remedial value"
He can trace large number of benefits
to it that are beyond question. His own
experience, moreover, is borne out by
that o: other physicians "all over the
civilized world, He says'in detail:
''To generalize, one might rem ark
briefly that motoring is form of fresh
air treatment to which must be added
the unique exhilaration arising from fast
travelling. Moreover, one must not for
get the rapid change of scene nor the
piquancy given to the rapid unfolding of
the panorama, the key to which lies in
the possession of the modern car.
CHOW, i: is easy enough to assert that
swift rush through the air is splendid
energizer of the human frame, but to
grasp the underlying causes needs lit
tie thought. To y mind, the main rea-
son is to be found in the physiological
fact that the circulation is stimulated by
the increased pressure of the wind acting
on the body, the effect being enhanced,
moreover, by variations in it's force,
And the same remark applies equally to
the respiration, as we insensibly breathe
more rapidly.
Equally with massage, this fresh-a air
tonic braces up the system, invigorating
and enthusing us till even our faces bear
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THE CHASE NURSERIES.
Inferred at Clinton.
rs IdUITS1IEU ISOU,
q f n T. Y A, n. ~

Within short period of time tho g.
mains of three professional men Of ~
nobscot county have been brought to Chr
ton for interment, all of whom marr'
their wives in that place. They are Rev
Thomas S. Weeks. D. D., pastor o
Hammond street church, Bangor, "5
married Miss Carrie E. Jaquith, dalE'
ter of Nathaniel Jaquith; Rev. Absr
D. Dodge, pastor of the Free Bapi'
church, East Corinth, who married MIS-
Nellie E. Lamb, daughter of the Ia.
William Lamb; Hon. Forest j, Martin
attorney-at-law of Bangor, who marie
Miss Clara j. Richardson, dadghtef b
Alton Richardson, Railroad street.
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When the campaign of 1864 came
around the Republicans had ready to
hand in the war songs a body of popular
lyrics such as had served no other party.
One of the most popular opened with the
apostrophe:
We're coming, Father Abraham,
Three hundred thousand strong.
One of the most effective Republican
songs, familiar by reason of its tune to
the youth of this generation, is that en-
titled 'The Battle Cry of Freedom" 1t
has genuine fire, though no great poetic
value, and little felicity of rhyme. Its
popularity was enormous, and it was
heard in all loyal assemblies, was rolled
out by thousands at the front, and
whistled upon the streets of many hum
dred cities and towns throughout the
North. Here is part of the song:
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys. we'll rally
once again,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
Well rally from the hillside, we'll rally from
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
The Union forever! Hurrah. boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the star;
Well rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally
once again,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
To such fiery appeals as this, TRAMP,
Tramp, Tramp" and dozen more such,
the Democrats could only oppose their
Mcclellan songs, and some rather cold
versified encomiums upon constitutional
liberty. The song Of Little Mac Upon
the Track" was parody Of ''Tippecanoe
and Tyler Too" but it had no real popu-
larity. The candidate was celebrated in
song as the friend Of the soldier, but the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-05-23

No very happy notes have been struck
by the campaign rhymsters in recent
years, and the songs of the Civil War
period remain by far the best that have
served to hearten patriots or partisans.
1t has been suggested that the current
campaign is to be one of old-fashioned
songs, but the specimens thus early pre-
sented are surely Of kind that can have
no very wide appeal. Missouri's ''dawg"
song will hardly outlast the Baltimore
convention of June. The true and original
song is said to run thus:
Every time come to town
The boys keep kickin' my dawg aroun';
T amt no diff ence if he is houn',
They gotta quit kickin' my dawg aroun'.
In this form the song has been known
to Missouri for seventy years, but local
antiquarian processes to have found a
much earlier form of it in Aristophanes.
The song has already been translated into
German, Morse and Pidgin English, and
Colonel Robert J. Watkins of Birming-
ham has parodied it in the interest of
Mr.. Underwood thus:
When Democrats come to Baltimore town,
A lot of booms will be kicked aroun',
An sho'ly twill be mournful soun
Wuss than the yelping of yellow houn'.
Champ and Woody will both go down,
An the other booms II be kicked aroun'
Except the one that is strong and good
The boom of Oscar Underwood.
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ESCAPES AN AWFUL FATE.

A thousand tongues could not express the
gratitude of Mrs. J. E. Cox of Joliet. ILL.,, for
her wonderful deliverance from an awful fate.
Typhoid pneumonia had left me with dread
full cough" she writes. Sometimes had such
awful coughing spells 1 thought would die. I
could get no help from doctors treatment or
other medicines till used DR.. Kings New
Discovery. But owe my life to this wonder
full remedy for scarcely cough at all now"
Quick and safe, its the most reliable of all
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platform upon which be ran declared the
war for the Union failure, and all the
really popular songs Of the day were
spirited lyrics in praise of the men at the
front and the spirit by which they were
actuated.
Out of the two Cleveland campaigns
came the brief and characteristic lines
heard in the small hours of June 23d,
1892, when Bourke Cochran vainly en-
deavored to stem the tide setting toward
the ex-President. The whole vast crowd
of the Wigwam joined in the song, and
Sam Josephs of Philadelphia, described
as looking like Mr.. Pickwick both in face
and figure, stood on bench with shining
bald head and glistening spectacles, and
beat time for the Pennsylvania delega-
ton. The crowd, 10000 strong, streamed
out of the convention hall as the early
dawn of the long June day was tinting
the sky with pink, and the song, parodied
from one of the lyrics in DeWolf Hop
per's wang" was shouted for the next
half hour in all the streets of the region.
Its catchy movement caught the popular
taste. Here is how it went:
Grover, Grover!
-Four years more of Grover!
In he goes,
Out they go,
Then we'll be in clover.
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HELPS A JUDGE IN BAD FIX.

was plainly worried A bad sore on his leg
had baff1ed several doctors and long resisted all
remedies. 81 thought it was cancer" he
wrote. cat last used Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
and was completely cured.'' Cures burns,
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Rockland Board of Trade.

At the annual meeting of the Rockland Boar
of Trade May 18th new officers were elected 81
follows: Arthur L. Orne, president Ed"atu
F. Glover, vice president; Edward A. Know
ton. secretary treasurer.
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has dwelt in the popular memory, how.
ever, is 'Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, ~
which owes its survival chiefly to its
chorus, a tribute, this, to the persisten,
quality of alliterative verse come down
to us from our Anglo-Saxon ancestors,
and characteristic of popular lyrics fol
fifteen hundred years. The song in CUES
ton is dull and iil-written affair in the
main, originally of local significance in
Ono. 1t appears to have been parody,
and it was often afterward parodied,
especially in the campaign of 1874. II
was sung to the tune of 'Iittle Pigs. ~
Here are few of the many stanzas:
What has caused this great commosion, motion
motion,
Our country through?
1t is the ball a-rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too, for Tippe-
canoe and Tyler too;
And with them We'll beat little Van, Van, Van
Van is a used-up man.
And with them we'll beat little Van.
Like the rushing of mighty waters, waters,
waters,
On it will go,
And IN its course will clear the way
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too (repeat.)
See the Locofoco standard tottering, tottering,
tottering;
Down it must go;
And in its place we'll rear the flag
OF Tippecanoe and Tyler too (repeat.)
Don't you hear from every quarter, quarter,
quarter,
Good news and true?
The swift ball is rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too (repeat.)
Now you hear the Van Jacks talking
Things look quite blue;
For all the world seems turning round
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too (repeat)
Most OF the songs for Clay in the cam
paign Of 1874 were parodies of popular
lyrics, especially those of Burns. There
was "Workingmen's Song" to the
tune of 'There's Nae Luck About the
House." This song gives a stanza to
each OF many occupations, those Of farm
er, blacksmith, halter, cooper and others,
introducing the technical terms of vari-
GUS trades, and declaring that all who
work at them are for Clay. '"The Clay
Banner Song" is set to the tune OF
.'Bruce's Address to His Troops" and
1.-The Little Red Fox" aimed at Van
Buren,, to that of ''Old Dan Tucker"
Another Clay song aimed at Van Buren,
has this stanza:
Then to the rescue once again!
Rend from the Fox his prey;
And shout as home We strike amain
The name of Henry Clay.
Some of the Clay songs were aimed at
Tyler, and written while the struggle
was still going on between the disap-
pointed Wings and the man whom chance
had put into the White House to rob
them of the fruits of their victory. A
song for Clay, written ''by lady," has
prose preface saying that could wom-
en- vote the gallant Harry would be
unanimously elected. 1t opens thus:
If e'er should want to get married,
And, indeed, don't know but may,
The man that give up my hand to
Must be the firm friend of old Clay.
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Baby won't suffer five minutes with Group if
you apply DR.. Thomas Eclectic Oil at once. It
acts like magic.
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There were spirited songs in 1856 and
1860, but it required the passionate patri-
otism of 1876 to produce the fiery war
songs that served the Republicans in the
national campaign of 1864 and the local
campaigns of the war period. A Repub-
lican song of 1860, "We'll Send Buchan-
an Home" set to the haunting tune of
IA Few Days." an old popular melody,
is neither better nor worse than earlier
campaign jingles. 1t is long and dull, SO
that few could have committed it to
memory, though its chorus was hummed
by many thousands. Here is part of the
song:
Old Honest Abe we will elect
In few days "a few days;
The Locofocos we'll reject,
And send Buchanan home
For we will wait no longer
Than few days, few days,
For we wait no longer
To send Buchanan home
Buchanan is in great distress,
These few days-few days;
His grief he scarcely can express,
Because he's going home.
For we can wait no longer, etc.
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Leave Belfast at 500 p. m. for Boston daily,
except Sunday.
For Bangor at $50 a. m. daily, except Mon
day.
day.
Leave Rockland at 515 a. m. (or on arrival
of steamer from Boston) daily, except Monday.
FRED w. POTE, Agent, Belfast, Maine.
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A good live man to sell strictly mgl-.
fully guaranteed nursery stock, both fr4
ornamentals. viii turn over an est
trade on good territory in the State of u
to the right man who wants steady WORK
is a special offer and if you are inter7sJ &c
it, write at once for full particulars.
We will establish any good reliable %.
our local agent if he can only devote
time to the work
The CHASE NURSERIES,
Established 1860,
GENEy N. iY.
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BELFAST
AND
BURNHAM
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On and after October 2, 1911, trains connect.
ing at Burnham and Waterville with through
trains for and from Bangor, Waterville, Port.
land and Boston will run as follows:
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

Maine party forming big amusement cor
poration invites correspondence. Small invest
ment; big profits.
Ais P. o. Box 181, Portland, Maine.
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Like a sub-treasury gentleman.
All of the modern time,

Another rhyme of the Harrison cam
paign is familiarly addressed to Van
Buren,:
Washington telegraph., 1912-02-16

stripes float above it. The ma
iority Of the pupils.are Mexicans.
The teacher is a young lady who
holds a first grade certificate and
they pay her a salary of seventy
dollars perImonth and she teaches
a graded school. The pupils sing
patriotic songs in opening chorus.
The Mexican students speak
Spanish fuently, but are only
beginners in English; they have
Catholic parents. The teacher is
doing her best to pluck up the
thorns of vice and ignorance and
plant the flower of truth and in
telligence.
MRS. T. O. HOLT.
Washington telegraph., 1912-02-16
JUDGE B'SHFRS AT.
TENDING CONVENTION
AT LITTLE ROCK THIS
WEEK
FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENT
Will Seek To Further Improve
Roads Of Hampstead
County
FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENT

County Judge H. L. B'Shers is
in Little Rock this week attend
ing the good roads convention
and getting some dots for future
use in looking after the roads of
Hampstead county.
The Judge believes in good
roads and he will continue to
make every effort to bring the
roads of Hampstead county up
to the standard. Ifhe is re-elect-
ed, and there is no doubt but that
he will be, without opposition, he
will make good use of the infor-
nation he will gain at this con
vention. He may not have much
to say, but the Judge is all ears
and has the horse sense to make
practical use of the information
gained.
Washington telegraph., 1912-02-16

here, having visited his brother
W NJ. Thompson of this place
several yealsoago. Rev. Thomp-
son was native of North Carroll
ma, but has been doing pastorate
work in Virginia. where he was
buried January 27, at Farmer
vile. Besides his brother at
this place, Mr.. Thompson leaves
his brothers, J. o. Thompson Of
Jakajones, Henry H. Thompson
of Memphis, and three sisters,
Mrs. Maggie Whitaker of Lynch
burg, Va, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pick
ard, Burlington, N. c., and Mrs.
Fannie Thurston of Richmond,
Virginia.
Washington telegraph., 1912-02-16
A Warning Against Wet Feet

Wet and chilled feet usually af
feet the mucous membrane of the
nose, throat and lungs, and la
grippe, bronchitis or pneumonia
may result. Watch carefully, par
licularly the childre-, and for the
racking stubborn coughs give
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound.
1t .soo.hes the inhamed membranes.
and heals the cough quickly. Take
no substitute
On sale here at Colds; Barrow
Drug Store, Ozan.
Washington telegraph., 1912-02-16
new MEXICO VIEWS
Interesting Communication from
Telegraph Reader
Mimbres, New Mex, Feb. 10

Mimbres, New Mex, Feb. 10.
Mr.. Editor;-You were kind
enough to publish my first letter,
50 | concluded to write again.
My brother, Mr.. Harris, and
l, walked quite a distance today
and gained some lovely views
from the mesas on his ranch.
The mesas are level table lands.
The soil is fertile and produces
we'll if watered. They lie along
the river but are above the river
bed. He is thinking of buying a
gasoline engine to raise the
water so that they can be irri-
gated. The mountains and
mesas are now dotted with ever
green's, cedar, juniper, miniature
pines and live oak and reminds
one of a large park.
We visited some old ruins, but
there was nothing left totell who
the inhabitants were.
From the top of the mesa we
gainedaview ola pretty bungalow
at the foot of a mountain in
front of which ran the Mimbres
river like silver thread. 1t is
the home Of a wealthy cattle
owner whose wife is in California
where her only child is being ed
ucated. Further down the river is
another wealthy cattle owner who
is an old bachelor and speaks
three languages.
The public school house is in
sight on another mesa. 1t is a
comfortable, roomy adobe house,
nicely furnished. The stars and