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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07

SALARY
tune of their own on which to fall
back experience difficulties in making
ends meet
Recently it became known that Wal
ter II Page would have been unable to
accept the post of American ambas-
sador to the court of st. James had
not the publishing firm to which he
belongs decided it to be a sort of
patriotic duty to continue his salary
throughout his stay in England. With
out it his stipend of $l15tW per arnuln
would be insufficient to enable him to
live with his family in London as the
representative of his native land.
Now we have the principal! member
of President Wilson'S administration.
William J. Bryan. announcing that lie
is forced to lecture to supplement the
salary Of Sl2,eN" a wear winch he re
ceiyeS from the government
The United StatcS PAYS members of
the presidents cabinet $4,000 a YEAR
$1,000 a month. All cabinet officers in
America get the same salary
Lloyd-George's salary lis chancellor
of the British exchequer is So 900 an
nually. with a furnished house in
Downing street. next door to that OF
the prime minister. who likewise gets
$4,000
The secretaries of state for foreign
affairs, for home affairs, for the colo
MES, for war and for India each re
ceive $4,000 year The secretary
for Ireland has $4,000 a year. with
fully furnished official residences in
London and in Dublin. Winston
Churchill has, as first lord of the adj
miralty, $4,000 year and an official
residence. of which he. however, does
not make use; and two years ago the
salaries Of the president Of the board
of trade the department Of commerce)
and of the local government board
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by other great powers to their serv-
ants-this, too, despite the fact that
the cost Of living in the United States
is much higher than abroad. where
money goes much further.
Indeed the rate of remuneration con
coded by the United States, which is
one of the richest governments in the
world, is so inadequate as to make
an almost insuperable bar to office to
those who are not possessed of large
private means. Those who have no for
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07

Majority Leader Oscar w. Underwood
of the House has denounced Martin M.
Mulhall, alleged lobbyist for the National
Association of Manufacturers, as ''liar
and blackmailer. Mr.. Underwood ap-
peared before the Senate lobby commit
tee to deny that Mulhall had ever talked
to him about legislation before Congress.
After one look at the witness, he said:
Il never saw him before in my life
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07
England and Germany Es-
peciaI|y Liberal With
Salaries.

R. BRYAN'S lecture engage
ments have once more called
attention to the fact that
the official SalarieS in this
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07

ONE-PIECE DRESSES.
For girls under fourteen, one-piece
dresses are preferred. and the older girls
wear them as modishly, though among
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07
Children Crv
FOR FLETCHER'S
CA . ToRIA
ELECTRIC SPARKS.

Merrill. Wisconsion, has a new track
less trolley bus line.
The islands of the West Indies are to be
connected by wireless.
Indirect electric lighting is now extern
sively used in large buildings
The lead and zinc mines of the middle
west are adopting electric power.
Electricity has been found the cleanest
and best power for large packing houses.
The steam roads of Berlin will be
electrified owing to rapid increase of
traffic.
Fourteen steel plants in this country
are equipped with electric smelling fur
naces.
Auto factories are said to be healthful
places for workmen because of electricity
employed.
Hamilton, Ontario, proposes an electric
sign a mile long and about 100 fit. high
advertising the city.
Recent experiments demonstrate that
it squite impossible to produce miniature
diamonds in an electric furnace.
1t is estin ated that more than two and
halt billion dollars are invested in the
electrical supply stations in this country.
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were raised by parliament from $1O-
600 to $4,000 per annum
The president Of the board Of trade
IL John Burns. former mechanic, who
drst achieved distinction in parliament
a. Labor member. The attorney gen
eral receives $4,000 a year and as
much more from fees His official In
come Of some $4,000 a year is not
however. regarded as extravagant
Finally there comes the lord high
chancellor. who. although by no means
the most important member Of the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07

After hearty meal, take Doan's Regulets
and assist yonr stomach, liver and bowels
Regulets are "a mild laxative. 25c at all stores
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-07

Many ills come from impure blood. Can't
have pure blood with faulty digestion, lazy
liver and sluggish bowels. Burdock Blood
Bitters is recommended for strengthening
stomach. bowels and liver and purifying the
blood.
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Many ills come from impure blood.
Can't have pure blood with faulty diges-
ton, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters is recommended for
strengthening stomach, bowels and liver
and purifying the blood. adv
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4EE1

He says it means, clearinghouse won.
an chasing-Jesse galloping-home
dead finish"
And some of it is worse!
] dare not accuse my dear man of
being narrow-minded. / have no
doubt that he is quite satisfied in his
intense antipathy to niggers, dagos
and chinks-indeed. he will not allow
my Chinese servant on the ranch. But
If | wished to uncork a choice vint
age of stories, l alluded to his preju
dice against the word grizzly as
applied to his pet bear.
Now thar's whar yo're dead
wrong" He threw a log Of cedar
upon our camp altar, making fresh in.
cense to the wild gods. 1.-THE land
lords a silver-tip, fat as butter. Down
in the low country, whar feed is mean
and Britishers around, the bars is
poor, and called grizzlies. I'd be
ashamed to have a grizzly on my
ranch"
why is the landlord called Eph?"
christian name Most bars is
Ephraim, but he's Ephrata which
means be open l tried to get him
to be open with me instead of steal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-07-30

There, Tn dead sick of writing this
letter. and my wrist Is all toothache.
JESSE.
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CHAPTER ~.
The Landlord


Rates Ndrrative.
Of his life before he reached this
province Jesse will so far tell me
nothing, yet his speech betrays him.
for under the vivid dialect of the
stock range, there is a streak of sail.
or, and beneath that I detect traces
of brogue which may be native per
haps to Labrador. Out of chaos Of
books he has pecked words which
pleased him, pronounced, Of course,
to suit himself, and used in some
sense which would shock any die
tionary.
His manners and customs, too, are
a field for research. OF course one
expects him to be professional with
rope, gun, and ak, but how did he
learn the rest? I wanted lantern
he made one; my boot was torn-he
made one; my waterproof coat was
ruined-he made one; and if l
asked for a sewing machine, he would
refuse to move camp until he had one
finished. If his name were not Smith
I could prove him directly descended
from the Swiss family Robinson. If
a project sounds risky, | have to as
sumo that 1t is something unusually
SAFE as the only way to keep him out
of danger. If | should ever wish to
be widow, have only to doubt his
power to ay without wings.
Guided by his uncanny woodcraft,
I began to- meet the parishioners,
mountain sheep and goats, the elk
and caribou, eagles, bears, wolverines,
and certainly l shared something of
Jesse's untiring delight in all wild
creatures. Even when we needed
meat in camp and some plump goose
or mallard wss at the mercy of his
gun, Jesse would sometimes beg the
victim off, and catch more trout so
long as they don't hunt U.s., he would
say I'D rather tote your camera than
my gun. But thar's that dog-gone
beaver down the crick, he tried to
bite me yesterday again. If he don't
tame himself, I'll slap his face. Thinks
he's editor.
Were there no clouds, would we
realize that the sky is blue? If no
little misunderstanding had risen
above our horizon, would Jesse and
have realized our welded happiness?
How should l know when l read his
pocket diary, what was meant by lone
night out. Took Matilda" or MA
tilda and Pussy tonight" or marched
with Harem!" Matilda and Pussy
If you please, are blankets, and the
Harem is his winter camp equipment.
What would you think if you found
this in book?
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Were you in dificulties?"

Were you In dlfhcult1es!
"Eph was. Them canneries down
to salt water, had fished the Fraser
out, and the hatchery didn't get to
its work until the fourth year. when
the new spawn come back to their
home river. Yes, and the sarvis Der
ries failed So when the salmon and
berries went back on him, he sort
. of petered out. He come to the cabin
and said, plain as talk, he was nigh
quitting business"
4 'But, Jesse! A starving gr-T mean
bar. Weren't you afraid even them"
4 "Why for? My pardner attends to
his business, and don't interfere with
my hawss ranch. He owns the grubs,
berries, salmon, wild honey and fix.
ings. I owns the grass, stock, chick.
ems, and garden sass. When we dis,
agreed about them cabbages, I shot
holes in his ears until he allowed
they was mine. His ears is still sort
of untidy. AS to his eating Sarah,
wall, warned her not to tempt poor
Eph too much"
K "Sarah?"
Jones foal. Being a fool runs in
her family. Wall, Sarah died, and
cabbages was gettin' seldom, and Epb
was losing confidence in my aim, al.
though l told him I'm tough as sea
beef"
HE did attack you them"
mot exactly. His acts might have
been misunderstood, though. Seemed
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ION rolling boulders steep as roof and
all .a-slither. l got Swift sidewise up
the bank to grass, raced past the
mare, then threw Swift in front of
Jones. Down went the mare Just as
her load capsized, SO that she and the
lady, Swift and I, were all mixed up
in heap.
My little dog Mick was Ticking my
: scalp when woke, and it seemed to
me at first that something must have,
gone wrong. My head was between
two boulders, with the mares shout
3 der pressing my nose, my legs were
under water, and somewhere close
around were roaring rapids. Swift
was scrambling for a footholdy and
Mrs. Trevor shouting for all she was
worth I waited till Swift cleared out,
and the lady quit for breath.
Eyes, ma'am," says I.
"Oh, say you're not dead, Jesse!"'
"Only in parts" said 1, land how
are your"
I'm cutting the ropes, but oh, this,
knife's so blunt"
Don't spoil your knife. Will you
do what l say?"
"Of course l will"
Reach out then on the off side of
the load. The end of that lashing's
fast to the after-basket line"
When I'd explained that two or
three times, 81 have it," she answered.
<'Loose!"
Pull on the fore line of the dia-
mond."
Right. Oh, Jesse, I'm free!"
"Kneel on the mares head, reach
under the pannier. find the latego, and
cast off,"
She fumbled awhile, and then re-
ported all clear.
Get off the mare"
In another moment Jones was
standing up to shake herself, knee
deep in the river, and with a slap l
sent her off to join Swift at the top
OF the bank. Mrs. Trevor was sitting
on a boulder, staring out over the
rapids, her eyes set on something
coming down mid-stream. Her face
was all gray, and she clutched my
hand, holding like grim death. AS for
me, I'd never reckoned that even a
madman would try to swim the Fraser
In clothes and boots.
'T can't bear it," she cried, turning
her face away. Tell me-"
81 guess" said l, feeling mighty
grave, you're due to become a
widow"
The rapids got Trevor, and ]
watched.
"You are a widow" says l, at last
She tainted.
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o me it was time to survey the pas
ure, and see how much in the way
II grub could be spared to a poor
vidower. These people eats meat, but
hey like it butchered for EN-, and
ipened Down at the south end, l
spared Eph family Of wolverines,
me at a time, to make the rations
hold out. He began to get encour.
ICED. Then this place was just hum
ming with rattlesnakes, so Eph and
ne just went around together so long
IS the hunting was worth the trouble
! doubt if there's any left"
AT that l breathed a sigh of relief.
Then Eph gets sassy, wanting
iquir'ls and chipmunks. Now thar
vas firm. Every striped varmint of
sm may rob my oat sacks, every
squir'l may set up and cuss all day.
tut they won't get hurt. Though they
las enemies-foxes, mink, skunk,
Eeasel, l fed that lot to Eph, saving
lie foxes. Tell you, Kate, the land
ord began to get so proud he wouldn't
NOV me.
"Your great eagles, Jesse; they
iii squirrels, too"
FThats fact. If l shot the eagles,
nem squir'ls would get too joyful
Bagles acks as a sort of religion to
auir'ls, or they'd forget their prayers
The next proposition was cougars"
oh, I'm glad you killed them. At
he old ranch l was so terrified I'd
Te awake all night"
I'm sort OF sorry. Many's the
tme, camped on your bench land.
Thich l own is a good place for cou-
ars, I'd set up half the night to
Isten. They sang love songs, big
rar songs, and all kinds of music.
fancy you bein' scaredl
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Now I thought I'd arranged Mrs.
Trevor and Mr.. Trevor and Mr..
Brown, apd added up the sum so that
old Geometry himself couldn't have
figured it better. Whereas I'd left out
the fact that Browns bunk was nailed
careless to the wall of his cabin. AS
Trevor struggled, the pegs came
adrift, the bed capsized, the rope
Stacked, and the polecat, breaking
loose, found Browns rifle. I'd led
the ponies out of the punt, and was
instructing Brown, when the polecat
let drive at me from across the river.
With all his faults he could shoot
good, for his first grazed my scalp,
half binding me. At that the lady
attracted attention by screaming, so
the third shot stampeded poor Jones.
amt religious, being only thirty.
and not due to reform this side of
rheumatism, but all the sins I've en-
joyed was punished sudden and COM
plete in that one minute. Blind with
blood, half stunned, and Keeling sick,
heard the mare as she plunged along
the bank dispensing boulders. No
top-heavy cargo was going to stand
that strain without coming over, so
the woman l loved-yes, l knew that
now for fact-was going to be
dragged until her brains were kicked
out by the mare. 1t seemed to me
ages before I could rouse my senses,
wipe my eyes, and mount the gelding.
When sight and sense came back.
was riding as I had never dared to
ride in all my life, galloped Mr.. Swift
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Kill them7 They're hard to see
as ghosts, and every time you fire
they just get absent. That amt the
reason though, for If the landlord
wanted cats meat, I'd like to see the
fight"
"The'd' never dare to fight that
giant bear!"
II dunno. Eph amt lost no cougars.
He treats them as total strangers.
''But the real reason fed no noun.
tain-lions to Eph is mostly connected
with sheep. Cougars does right
smart business In sheep, specially
Surly Browns Sheep is meaner'n
snakes, sheepmen Is meaner'n sheep,
and IL the herders disagrees with the
cougars give me the cougars. Sheep.
men is dirt
There spoke the unregenerate COW.
boy!
but, Jesse dear, are you sure that
Eph won't expect me to be spared
next time he's hungry"
why, no. He was raised respect.
able, and there's a proper etiquette
for bars on meeting a lady. It's
sort of first dance-movements;-
eral slide, pass the cloak-room, and
whar's my little homer"
JeSseS Note.
N. B.-Kate and me agrees thet the
next chapter has to be cut out, being
dull. It's all about the barn-raising
after we got home to the ranch. The
neighbors put us up a fine big cabin
connecting to The old one by a GOV.
cred porch of cedar shakes. That's
where the fire-wood lives, the water.
butt, the grindstone, which Kate says
is exactly like my singing voice. like.
wise the ak and saw.
OF course our house-raiBing was a
celebration, with dance, campfire
water-butt full of punch, and head,
aches. bet five dollars l was the
only semaphore signaler in our dis.
trict, and lost it to Iron Dale, who
learned signaling five years ago dur
Ing the Riel rebellion. Cap Taylor
put up signal system for our use,
of fires by night or big smokes by day
One means a celebration, two means
help, and three means war.
After the celebration we settled for
the winter, and l put all the ponies
except Jones and the sleigh team
down in the canyon pasture. That
made the ranch sort of lonesome, but
we're short Of hay on account of the
wedding-trip. We're broke.
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Another Case.

Esmond, R. I.-"I write to tell you
how much good your medicine has done
me and to let other women know that
there is help for them. I suffered with
bearing down pains, headache, was ir-
regular and felt blue and depressed all
the time. [ took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and commenced to
gain in short time and am we'll wo-
man today. l am on my feet from early
morning until late at night running
boarding house and do all my own work.
l hope that many suffering women will
try your medicine 1t makes happier
wives and mothers. Mrs. ANNA HAM
SEN, Esmond, Rhode Island.
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Blue and
DISCOURAGED
Mrs. Hamilton Tells How She
Finally Found Health in
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.
Warren. Ind. was bothered ter
ribly with female weakness. ! had pains

anu was iloC regular,
my head ached all
the time,I had bear
ing down pains and
my back hurt me the
biggest part of the
time, I was dizzy
and had weak feel
ings when 1 would
stoop over, it hurt
me to walk any dis
lance and L felt blue
and discouraged.
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81 began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and am now in
good health. If it had not been for
that medicine I would have been in my
grave long time ago. Mrs. ARTIE E.
HAMILTON, r. Ed. No. 6. Warren, Ind.
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ana it was there In the forest that we
ate our wedding breakfast. We drank
the healths in champagne from tin
cups, and then, saddling up, Jesse
and I rode away alone into the soil
tudes.
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CHAPTER v.
The lIlustrious Salvador.
Letter.

JeSSe'S Letter.
Mother, I'm married. [ thought II
got bliss by the horns, but seems I've
not roped what l throwed for, anc
what I've caught is trouble. wish
| you weren't in Heaven, which feels
| kind of cold and distant when fel
| lows lonesome. Nobody loves me
and the mosquitoes has mistook me
for a greenhorn.
I can't smoke In the Iadys home
and when It's forty below zero out
side, q pipe clogs with ice from your
breath. Chewing is worse, because
she cried. She don't need my guns
saddles, and me, or any sort of litter
whar she beds down, and my table
manners belongs under the table
Men, she says, feeds sitting down, sc
they won't be mistook for animals
which stand up.
l jest moved back into the old cabin
with Mick,-he's wagging himself by
the tail between my legs to say as
this writing habit is a vice. If 70
only bottle of whisky now I'd be
good, but as it's eighty miles to re
freshments, he's got to put up with
vice.
Mrs. Trevors husband was an opera
singer which mislaid his vocal cords
so settled here to be on his romantic
lonesome, and spite his wife He
went loco, and mistook her for a
bear; she broke her ankle stamped.
ing; and | took an interest, he shoot.
ing me up considerable until he met
with an accident. Then his widow
married me, and I'm plumb disheart
ened.
[ was cooking slapjacks, which
gives quick satisfaction for the time
invested, when Iron Dale rolled in Old
his way home. Says my high-grade
slapjacks is such stuff as dreams are
made of. With him quoting Scripture
like that, l got suspicious about his
coming around by this ranch, instead
Of hitting straight for Skyline. Or
that he owns up to something dam
curious and disturbing to my fur
Thar's a stranger at Hundred Mile
House, claiming he's come from Lon
don, England, to find my wife.
On the stage sleigh from Ashcroft
this person got froze, which mostly
happens to a teRderfoot. who'd rather
freeze like a man than run behind
like a dog. So of course he comes in
handy for poor Doc MCGEE. He's got |
q sort of puppy piano along, which |
grieves me to think our settlers must |
be getting out of date with such lat |
est improvements, and other settle |
ments liable to throw dirt in our |
face. Seems it's called harpsecord, |
and this person plays it night and |
day, so that the ranch hands is quit |
ting, and Cap Taylor charges him |
double money for board. l wonder
what he wants with my wife, anyhow.
The missus wants me to take the
sleigh and collect him. l dunno but |
seems to my dim intellecks that would
be meeting trouble halfway, besides
robbing the doctor and Capt. Taylor
who done me no harm.
III.
This morning after rigging a life
line to the stable because of this
blizzard, 1 went to the
lady's home. She showed me a letter
Dale brought, in eytalian, which says
the swine proposes to kiss her feet,
and wallow in divine song, etc. His
name is Salvador, so he's dago. She,
being white, can't have any truck
with such, so that's all right. Seems
The puppy piano is for her from her
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ZooIooicaIIy Mixed.

A little boy near here was given d
pair of white rats, and when they had
their first litter of young ones he took
his little sister to the cellar to see
them. She came running upstairs all
excited and called to her mother:
Mamma! Mamma! Come quicki
The hen rat has nine kittens"