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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-03

,a4,r4s Ihe SONS " seeIaHs
es s1''osS ar, The News of Brooks. The
T,g. Of belfast
IN. News Of Belfast
q 7 a Magazines. Collector of
- -respondence. Gettysburg
3 s'-- A frying Voyage from
Nq.ue and Blaine.
.r ockton Springs. Mar
Il ' Married, Died. News
..aGes Ship News.
TnpI,l Murder and Suicide
., murders and four attempt
'' 'Ss..a... uys IS the startling and
~" g--.... .4-~ u Waldo county. In
gu n..+ vas actually committed
~ alY followed. One at
W 1....s-v.- Danging, another by
-s-.e. poison. Rum was
''-' o-r oue of these cases,
w.. .g- -4.. Isy seem to have
'..,-Da. .rierer and suicide.
''..-,.. ...- ... lay, ana Belfast the
.as . M We trust it may be
.,.e. About 30 p. m. the peo-
,.,,. ,obl.,- .ea on Main street wait
:. no Bsa. rapers were startled by
....- sr= 4~a a woman's screams
..-- s.e q, ra5W Of room over the
AZ Thompson Il Co., occupied by
n. as-ra.r-a What had happened, as
+ NJ, ! .lrz and others, was as follows:
T,a- spg a,r sister, Mrs. Efie Went
IT.. aesr va, sud when entering her
,P-feat 95 tsirs were confronted
.-,rr rs aaa VINO fred three shots
,a-a.r-- tt yer at Miss Young at
ns7. s. teii headlong into the
DE- . s,lt through the woman's
,s.s. g1. her neck, and the third
srr-5a 81. . E-t shoulder. AS soon
.,,s-e1 l ne shock she ran to
r5rv 80. .4ei ipr help. Mrs. Went
,s-. f NsHg would shoot her
t.s usaa ilre IN another room.
-to alrss go l4e scene found Mank
ne 10 ta. ..-. unconscious, with the
fr rgr- lie lI ty Marshal knowlton
s-s lsu we're summoned by tele-
sa u ponded. Dr's Elmer
I'D s N also came, one taking
gs.rg rome of her brother,
sYsa4 " street, and the other
7 Nm ae jail. After Miss
4gl -sl lressed both physi-
-sa -a and finally restored
.o--Iess. He was at first
f. 4. -1lself, hut on exami-
n 0.4 t- fuund, and search
5s-l ,e4led a small package
AZ .- s supposed to have
2a- r before the shooting,
a5 ." eBding his own life
N -0i merry iiSeu III
Last ABOUT year
'- az 'ousiy ehi-
Nf''7'' u ny MS ehl-
''lle'A " MISS 1ouhg'
& ..'' @na they were sup
-s - 10 thae lhefe
4'-' "enta and the truth will
aat at the trial. Miss
--s7' III hoteis and res
.seu emp 'oyed IN Bos-
-' .1 months but gave up
~" -o9H the boat last Fri
ieYed with the inten-
4eung and ending his
'A '4f- the municipal court
= -aa with assault. with
oFdelIa Young. He
'A - Buzzell as council
ara waived the reading
''F.. l.e --=t witness was Miss
7. at she had lived in
l-ars and gave an ac-
mat varied in some
a. spaper reports sum-
-- =aii: The cause was
'auted TO leave him."
WAL Aank, but was not
ey' Dr, Elmer Small
D.. .eerhed as to conditions
=, -'e court then adjourned
/, tsTn9on Sheriff Cushman,
h. 7saa and City Marshal
'4 '7'i..t" lltHy as to conditions in
"a 'as'e .se -aastng took place. The
~lga- ah. va. ono of tho &C.. A.
''i lie l-:ence His test;nonv hro,nh+
" VI ll r41- fs.,+z I'll
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-03

- lost the ends of two middle
1"'-i N a saw in his steam
T. 4l'ernoon. He was attend
arson, assisted by DR. o. S.
90 ge SIX young men hunting
o'arded at Mrs. Ella Little
D. 1l lays Miss Annie Paul
tafmlngton Normal school
I@il -9Isl week with her parents,
VII, iaef' Paul. Roy Paul of
> ,s,. out home Sunday....Mr.
I.e, ee,uHHhlngham o. of Belfast visit
NJ ,@9' T., sunday. u, Mr.. R. B. Smith
yi,,' m harles Woods of Belfast.
Jt ,aip. sod his farm at Poor's
9 u Wilson of Searsmont.
i Nc %p PARTIES will occupy their
a 40, NAY lst,.. The Ladies' Aid
at Mrs. Linda Hatch's to-
ss neV' d. B. Phelan of Belfast
Ar n mon last Sunday. He will
Ijffo.nae ,ne second Sunday in April.
lndoI' ou OF Brewer occupies the
sne; Mr. Delbert Paul has
pbipH' ~ oi schools for the ensuing
\ N " Gross is spending the
yn',b ~ Boston, Mrs. Nellie B.
''ie Murch have been poorly
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-03

Guy Merton Knowlton died early Thursday
morning, March 9th, at his home with his
parents, Judge Wayland and Linda N. Vent
worth Knowlton. He was born in Belfast and
had always lived here. For several years he
had been i'll with tuberculosis and everything
possible was done for his comfort and relief.
He was fond of out door sports. particularly
of the water, and was encouraged in them and
had boats provided for his use. hoping thus to
stay the inroads of the dread disease. As
long as he was able to work he was emploved
in the shoe factory of Leonard & Barrows.
and last summer he had team which kent
him employed out of doors in pleasant wealth
er. But after winter set in the disease got be-
yond control and he failed gradually until the
end. He was an exemplary young man, quiet
and unassuming, and the family have the sym
pathy of many friends in their bereavement.
He is survived by his parents; by his wife.
formerly Miss Emma Roberts of Belfast: bv
one brother, Marshall Knowlton, and bv two
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-03

the Lindsey House, and after the death of his
father William remained there for a while in
company with Benjamin Severance. Retiring
from tnat business he became member Of
the police force, and at one time was a promi
nent candidate for city marshal. Since leaving
the force he had been employed as TRAVELLING
salesman. first for Thorndke & Hix, then for
Portland firm. and finally for the Rockland
Produce Co. He possessed qualities that won
HIM many staunch friends, and by his death
Rockland loses good citizen Mr.. Hills was
q member of Aurora Lodge, F. A. M, Knox
Lodge, l. o. o. F., Rockand Emcampment and
Canton Lafayette. Knox Lodge will have
charge of the funeral services this, FRIDAY.
afternoon. The deceased is survived by his
wife, formerly Francena Sanborn; and two
sisters. Mrs. Roscoe Staples and Mrs, Edw
Brock, both of Rockland.--Courier-Ga Gazette.
Ethel M, wife of Stephen Howard of Rock
lane, died at the Knox hospital, Rockland, March
44th, after being operated upon for tumor q
week previous. Mrs. Howard had made her home
1or the past year or two with her sister, Mrs.
'Llda Butler of East Warren, where she will be
greatly missed. Mrs. Butler watched over her
with untiring interest during her brief illness
and did all that loving hands could do to save
her life. Mrs. Howard also leaves two other
sisters. Mrs Gertrude York of Rockland and
Mrs. Mildred jenkins of New York City. The
lnterment was in the family lot in Belfast
Mrs. Mary Harper. one of Castine's Oldest
and most respected citizens, died March 18th
at At the home of her daughter. Mrs. Rodney
Gray. Mrs. Harper was born in Castine 81
years ago. Later she moved to Penobscot
where she lived for many years. after which
she s lived in Waltham for several years and
then returned to Castine where her last days
were spent. She had been failing in health
the past few months. She leaves two daueh-
ters: Mrs. Rodney Gray of Castine and Mrs.
David Haskell. Of Rockland; and one son. VIII
liam, Of Castine.
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however the London society of compost
tors gave notice that IL would move ut
the next Trade Union congress resolu-
ton in favor of simultaneous action to
secure an-inerease of S. % a week for all
grades of time and piece work in both
private and public employment
The employees of the London and north
western railway company, one of the
biggest railway systems in the country.
have passed resolution declaring that
after September / they will refuse all
extra duty until their wages are advanced
to such a point as will enable them ito
obtain the bare necessities of life"
More than 5000 railway men met in
Hyde park, London couple of days ago
and in spite of the opposition of their
leaders passed resolutions in favor of
repudiating the present agreements with
the railway companies and insisting on
higher wages all round
An interesting side issue is the effect
of the present high prices on the liberal
government. OF course Asquith and
Lloyd-George had no more to do with the
rise of prices in England than. for in
stance. the Kaiser, but they are blamed
for it. To some extent this is natudal.
for when they came into office they
held out glowing promises of a golden age
for labor. SO far these promises have
only materialized I'm the insurance act,
which exacts a weekly contribution from
all the workers and gives real benefits
in return The worhingmen. however, real
ize only that they have to pay and don't
think of the benefits, They know that
their wages do not buy as much now as
they used to, and they are ready to vent
their anger on those in power. They are
turning, too, on their own leaders whom
they blame for over subserviency to the
liberal government
In these circumstances it would not
be at all surprising II England should see
a series of great strikes during the latter
part OF this year or the beginning of
next year. and If they come. the strikers
Will not be SO ready to accept the me-
diation of highly placed politicians as
they were few years ago.
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These figures are all the more signifi-
cant when 1t is remembered that the
poorer class of British workmen seldom
taste beef or mutton, and certainly never
British beef or mutton. Their staple food
consists Of bacon, potatoes and bread
Bacon, 1t will be noticed, is UP over 32
per cent. potatoes over 46 percent, and
bread over IS ped cent. 1t would be no
exaggeration then to say that the cost
of food to the poorest families of the
United Kingdom is up third and that
there are no more wages coming in to
meet the advonce. What this means to
a population living on the verge of desti-
tuition and even at the best Of times
habitually underfed can readily be i'm
agined.
An extraordinary feature OF the report
Is that in a small country like this. with
highly organized means of communica-
ton. prices for the same articles should
vary SO enormously. For instance, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
Royal Dollar Is No1v Worth But IS Cents

and are most nourishing food. In how
many households do You see porridge? ?
And yet oatmeal is only cents a pound.
'''rhe fact is we have dropped into abb
surdly. narrow grooves in our choice OF
food. We all want the same few things
at the same time and the demand fol
them outrun the supply and prices &c
kiteing
The report has given a great impetus
to the advocates of co-operativef house
keeping. This has been tried on small
scale in some of the garden cities
where long-haired vegetarians form the
bulk of the population, and they have
seized on this opportunity of pointing out
that one woman can coog beans for q
families far more easily and at less cost
than 20 women. The trouble is. however
that the workingman's wife hasn't q CO.
operative kitchen and probably would
insist on her individual "kipper" OF
''rasher" if she had one. The life of the
cooperative cook under such circum-
stances would not be bed Of roses
Local custom 1t appears has a good deal
to do with high prices in certain districts
Food that would be unsalable in one
town is delicacy in another London
for instance. eats Danish bacon. while the
north or midlands won't look at 1t and
demand the product of the American hog
Lancashire and Yorkshire insist on Irish
bacon, and except in London, which likes
its bacon smoked, Englishmen as a rule
insist on the unsmoked variety. In the
north the bacon must be rolled. while
London and the South won't have it rolled
at any price.
Canadian cheese is the most popular
and has almost ousted the American va
riety froms4the market, although in the
midlands 1t Is preferred to any. other
Irish, colonial and Danish butter sell
freely except in the north. where the
working class insist on unsalted English
butter
One immediate effect of the publication
of the report is series of demands for
higher wages. Workingmen felt the pinch
before. but did not realize how bad il
was. Two days after the report appeared
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following table shows the variation IN
the rise of prices:
7 per cent. ......................6 towns
10 to IL per cent. London and q towns
10. to Is per cent. twons
Is to IS pen cent 20 towns
10 to 20 per cent.................. towns
The cheapest town In the. kingdom is
Portsmouth in the south of England
where the rise in prices averages only Z
per cent; while the dearest is Stockport
in the industrial district of the north,
where the increase was 20 per cent. In
other words the dollar of 1905 was worth
SO cents in Portsmouth in 1912 while in
Stockport it was worth only 80 cents
The same variation is noted with re-
gard to rents. Thus In 45 districts rents
increased from 1 to 1s per cent, in 26 they
fell from l to 10 per cent, while in II dis
tricts they remained stationary.
The government reports contents itself
with setting forth the fact of the rise
in the cost of living in cold figures and
does not concern itself with the causes,
but naturally the subject has attracted
an enormous amount of attention in Eng
land, and has set all the experts and
would-be experts discussing the situation.
A popular theory seems to be that the
incompetence of the modern housewife is
slargely responsible for the situation. In
the old days the house mother understood
food values and was able to make the
most of cheap materials which even the
workingman's wife today scorns. There
is also the tendency to buy timed and
preserved foods which require little cook
ing and give little trouble in preparation
for the table. ~
"The poorer the housekeeper the more
she pays for her food, said the head of
one of the largest London provision
houses the other day. "She buys chops
and steaks instead of the cheaper and
more noirishing cuts of meat She buys
two rashes of bacon at time. when
bacon Is the dearest food in the market.
She does not know what stock pot
is. and she Won't look at lentis which
can be bought at Z pounds for % cents
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ing day she was able to behold her
child and fold him to her heart with
all the fullness of the mother-love,
she knew the doctor had spoken
truth. He was a dandy little fellow.
And two years later, when he was
able to toddle about on strong little
legs and murmur a wVrd or two that
noIse savs the mother could under
stand he was still a dandy little fell
low, with his roguish eyes, and his
waving brown hair, and his laughing
mouth, and his four sharp teeth.
In the third year the father died.
The mother lifted the boy in order
that he might see the face of the man
and get his first insight into the great
mystery Of life and death.
mot tears of understanding, but tears
not tears of understanding, but tears
OF knowledge that something was
wrong-the mother clasped him fran
rtically to her breast-and held him
there.
In that moment he became her man
OF the future. this little boy, her man
to take in after years his fathers
place; Hnis little fellow, on whom now
she lavished her mother-love.
$50
And in trice it seemed-for 1t is
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Copyright. 1913. by Curtis Brown, !,

Vopyrlgnts lSl5, py curtis Brown.)
ONDON, September M-Special. -
THE sovereign Of 1905 has become
- lin 1913" This statement, which
is equivalent to saying that the dollar of
1905 has become s5 cents this year, is the
summing up of a report which has just
been issued by the British Board of Trade
giving the result of an investigation Of
working class rents and retail prices and
which shows that England. like every
other country in the world, is suffering
from the increased cost of living. In
England, too. unlike some other coun-
tries, the rise in wages has been in no
way commensurate with the rise In
prices.
The report which deals with SO of the
most important cities and towns in, the
United Kingdom shows the following
changes:
Increase
Rents ..................,..... Ls per cent.
Food and coal ............. 1877 per cent.
Rents and prices combined 1l.a per cent.
No general conclusion Is possible. the
report declares, on the price of clothing.
although 1t certainly has risen. 1t is
hard to say how much because 1t Is SO
easy for manufacturers, apparently, to
avoid increasing prices by reducing quail
ity.
Against these large increases in the cost
Of the necessities Of life only small in
,creases Of wages are recorded. In the
building trades. for instance, the wages
of skilled men have gone up 10 per cent.
in the engineering trades 5.5 per cent
and in the printing trade Al per cent.
but in the great majority Of skilled trades
and among unslxilled workers there has
been no advance at all or none worth
mentioning.
Putting the increase IN wages against
the rise in prices, we find that the en-
gineering workman's wife is out 80 cents
on every s. she spends as compared with
eight years ago. the compositors wife is
s cents short. and the bricklayers wife
Sc cents.
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winged feet that youth moves on
her boy was grown, passed through
the age of the truant at school, the
elf of mischief, the reckless. careless
period, cunning, attractive period, the
very spring time and sun-time of life
At once, beholding the boy a grown
man, the heart of the mother bounded
in pride, and-almost was still in the
knowledge that the lad was gone, that
there was to be no more the little fell
low at her knee in the evening, the
little fellow with that sense of child
ish helplessness which made him soul
to her.
A prophetic sense whispered like a
taurting devil, 'He Is gone, your little
boy!"
1t was true.
But she hugged her sorrow and
smothered her sorrow, hoping all the
time against hopeless hope. and all
the time smiling as mother smiles
And the time came-afi, how she re-
members-when the knowledge sprout-
ed In the soil of her soul that her boy
was bad, when that knowledge, de-
spite her efforts to extirpate the roots
of it. grew frmer, stronger, day by
day, until its evil branches extended
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A hopeless hope?
No. For in the fifth year letter
came.
Il am leaving Oklahoma he wrote.
for the gold fields of Nevada. My
luck will change and you shall come
to me.
All this came back in the vision that
night, that long night through which
she passed with unelosed lids.
And when the restless breeze brought
tidines that a new day was to be.
she left her couch. and stood silent
at the window.
aIn another year-just one year
more-he might return"
And again she thought:
"fIe would come directly here.
Perhaps the little house would be
torn away There would be no trace
of me in all the land, And then
there would surely be no hope
but a certainty that | would never
see him. hold him, again"
The thought sealed her DOOM At
breakfast she was very calm. but very
firm.
Il will stay, she said.
And the daughter went her way out
in the world.
Tho year passed without bringing
back the son.
Every morning she met the postman.
and every afternoon. He always
smiled shook his head, and answered
low
"You will hear tomorrow. am
sure.
The old lady sewed throughout the
'day. sewed sewed. Occasionally her
dreams would stop her fingers. And
then with a start she would raise her
head again, sigh. perhaps wipe away
tear, and resume her work.
The old postman who understood
failed to come one morning. A new
one came. lie knew nothing of the
story. He simply passed the woman
and her house. and in after years
sometimes wondered why she met him
every da.. and why the letter she ex-
pected never came.
But he was silent, and simply passed
along.
Another year and she could sew no
more.
And this is why she washes clothes.
this old lady, the victim of the
mother-love.
But each morning at o'clock, when
the postnan passes, she is standing
at the gate, and each afternoon at 2.
The postman passes, wondering. but
not knowing.
She smiles and keeps her hope alive
and will be faithful unto death.
You don't have to go very far TO
find stories out of real life which for
heart interest rival the masterpieces
of fiction. Right here in Birmingham.
where wells up the triumphant song
of prosperous. happy people, an old
lady is washing clothes, hoping all the
time her boy will return.
The boy2
Perhaps he Is so Injured to the cuffs
of the world that he tries no more.
Perhaps he has failed so often that
his pride has gone, and with his pride,
his regard for-even his mother Per-
haps in a broil he has received an
other bullet wound, and without the
nerve-givins mother-love ever present
to sustain him, has yielded up his life.
No one knows.
But the mother is watching.
waiting, hoping, praying.
And the nother-love. that which
surpa sses all understanding. that
which endures when even hope is
dead. that which proves that there is
good somewhere. somewhere spark
of divinity-shines out in the world
of substance like startling flash OF
Gods own light.
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He was gone
It was in the late afternoon Of a
dreary November 1t was fitting that
all-engulfng night should have fallen
then. How dark it was in the world
and in the mothers heart. She looked
from her easement out upon the town
where lights were flickering feebly in
the fog, and from where there came
the unbroken rumble of the tread of
business, that business so ignorant Of
her grief, so unmindful of the grief
of ALL
She grew fearful of the world so
hapless and all alone was she, and so
old
Later she tried and could not sleep.
The following morning she met the
postman. He smiled, but shook his
head. Each morning thereafter he
smiled and shook his head A year
passed. Another followed.
The hair of the mother was gray,
and deep lines We're eating themselves
into her face. Her foot was not so
steady Her smile was sad little
smile, the smile that told a story. But
the mother-love hugged her sorrow,
smothered her sorrow and hopea all
the time against a hopeless hope.
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spark Of life anywhere, he opened

a spark of life anywhere, he opened
his eyes.
The mother was there. the smiling
mother with the mother-love.
Always sheswas there for six long,
gloom-fled weeks Always she was
smiling, and hopeful and hope-inspir-
ing. Always she was courage giving,
lighting with all her strength and all
her passion, and urging her son to
fight.
And finally the dark angel with .he
fatal draught withdrew-a shadow dis
persed by the full sun of the mother
love.
And when all was well. and the boy
strong again, he came to her.
IT must go away he said. Every
body has his hand uplifted against
me here. l must 60"
Again the struggle.
But finally the mother-love dried her
tears, and she told him to go-it was
best to go.
But, boy, write to your mother
she whispered. "The hours with you
away will be as days. the days as
weeks, months as years"
He promised.
"And I will send fof YOU" he said
when | have made my fortune in a
new world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

One of the most striking set of figures
given in the report deals with the in
crease In the cost of food and coal. The
figures are based on the retail prices
actually paid in working class districts
In 1905 and 1912 and gives the percentage
of increase in each case with the present
money value OF the 1905 sovereign ($O
II spent on the article in question. The
table is as follows:
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everywhere with their overwhelming
breath of truth.
BIZ the mother-love, like the flame
stifed moment with its sudden bur-
den of coal, stubbornly fights its pas
sage through. inch by inch gaining.
headway, until it glows and makes the
furnace glow fed on this knowledge.
became boundless, infinite, in its scope,
so strong that naught could stand
against it. And the mother with the
secret of her heart buried deep in her
heart. with head erect, with courage
steeled-with that love which no one
understands-faced the world.
And how she hoped against her
fears, and how, in the silence of her
chamber, she prayed for hope.
The blow came.
1t was like the bolt from the clear
sky, or the quick flash of light in the
night 1t was cruel, like the claw Of
a tiger.
They brought him home with bullet
wound. He was pale and cold and
very still
But far in the night, when the doc
tor had gone and the world was numb,
and only the metallic ticking of the
clock and a stifled sob or two bespoke