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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
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4 % MAINE STATE HIGHWAY BONDS

By virtue of the authority vested in him
under Chapter 100 of the Public Laws OF 1915
and under the direction of the Governor and
Council. the Treasurer of the State of Maine
offers for sale coupon bonds OF the State OF
Maine in the denominations of $500 and 81 ,OOU
in the aggregate principal amount OF $5oO,oOt
and maturing serially from one to forty years
bearing date of July /, 1914, and interest a,
four per cent per annum, payable semi annual
ly. Said bonds to be denominated Estate hlgn-
way Bonds" $63, 600 of above amount maturing
in 1915 and 1916, and the balance in thirty-elgh,
years. I'll,
No bids for said bonds at less than par will
be received.
No bids for any part of said bonds condi,
toned upon the length of the term they shai
run will be received. :,
In the event of an over subscription Ior saio
bonds by two or more bidders at the same
orice. they being the highest bidders therefor
the bonds will be divided among them in pro
portion to the amount of their respective bids
and in case of such apportionment the amonn'
of the short term bonds received by each bid.
der will be determined by the Treasurer o.
State by lot, unless the several bidders aware
ed such bonds agree.
Bids will be opened at the Office Of the Treas
urer of State on the first day OF July, 1914, al
two o'clock. -,
The Treasurer of State will reserve the right
IN reject anv or ali bids. 2w25
JOSEPH W. SIMPSON.
"a Treasurer of State.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
FROM PRIVATE TO GENERAL.
Frank S. Nickerson the Only New Eng
lander to Enlist as Private in 1861 and
Come Back with a Brigadier's Star.

From the Boston Globe
Gen Frank Stillman Nickerson, the
only New England soldier in the Civil
War to rise from a private to the rank
of brigadier-general in actual service, is
still hale and hearty at the age of SO,
and retains the keenest interest in all
public events. He makes his home with
his son, Jean P Nickerson, at 38l Hyde
Park av, Mt Hope, and is a past COM
mander of GaIen Orr Post of Needham,
G. A. R.
He was born in Swanville, Me-, and
received his education in the schools of
his native town and East Corinth Acad-
envy. He was admitted to the bar at the
age of 81, and appointed collector of
customs the same year, retaining that
position until he answered President
Lincoln's first call for troops in 1861.
He enlisted as private, but at the
election of officers of the company he
became captain. His company, which
formed part of the 4th Maine, estab-
lished outposts near Alexandria. Cap
tain Nickerson participated in the first
battle of Bull Run, and was commended
for his bravery in that engagement by
Gen Oliver O. Howard. He was appoint
ed nt-colonel Dec. 81. 1861, and
resigned that position, having been ap-
pointed colonel of the 18th Maine regi-
ment by Gov. Washburn. His regiment
was ordered to New Orleans under Gen.
Benjamin F. Butler.
Col. Nickerson fought at the battle of
Baton Rouge, and was highly commended
in Gen. Buffers general orders for his
own bravery and the admirable behavior
of his regiment under fire.
Shortly after this battle. on Dec. %
1862, he was promoted to the rank OF
Brigadier General and was active in the
siege of Port Hudson, and tookpart in
manv engagements. He returned to the
North on May 13, 1865.
He Immediately began the practice Of
law in his home town, and was counsel
for the defendant in murder trial In
which the opposing counsel was Thomas
B. Reed.
He left Maine in the early 70s and set
tied in Boston, where he was active II
law practice Till about 10 years ago.
Gen Nickerson was active in politics fol
some time, stumping Massachusetts in
behalf of Gen. Butler in his first cam
paign and the State of Pennsylvania fol-
Horace Greeley in his campaign for the
Presidency. He stumped Southern New
| England for Cleveland in his first cam
paign for President.
On his retirement from active life
Gen. Nickerson removed to Needham,
where he lived quietly till about veal
ago, when he came to Mt Hope to make
his home with his son.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
The SUMMER FEEDING OF
POULTRY
More succulent Food and Less Fat
Forming Food Is Best.
a. Il. HUNTER.

The summer feeding of poultry
should he different from cold weather
feeding. and when the feeding Is right
" done our poultry may be decidedly
nrof,table in summer. 1t is too fire.
ouently an Improbable part of the
farm. The most important change IN
the ration is lessening of the fat
forming food, which will eject low
ering of the animal heat and Increase
the bodily comfort. and we should IN
crease the proportion of succulent Tor
green food.
On most farms the hens are kept
closely confined in summer to prevent
raids upon the garden and growing
CROPS This confinement In hem
house and yard cuts them off from
needed exercise and equally needed
green food. To balance these defects
there should be a widening of the
grain ration, and green food should be
literally supplied. There should be
an increase of wheat bran and mid
dlings in the mash mixture and a cut
ting down of the proportion of whole
Tor cracked) corn that is fed. In ex-
tremely hot weather no corn whatever
should be fed, the whole grains fed
being wheat. oats and little barley.
Provide Plenty Of Shade.
The hens should be as cool as pos
sible in summer, and to that end the
houses should be very much open In
front, so they will be comfortably cool
at night. And there should be shady
loafing places in which the birds may
pass the hotter hours of the day. If
there is no natural shade, as OF fruit
trees. q shed roof 6 by 8 feet in size,
two feet high at the back and three
feet high in front, the roof sloping to
the south should be put up for the
birds to take refuge under. A simple
shelter of this type will pay for itself
over and over again. Abundant green
food must be fed. This may be vege-
table tops or weeds from garden. lawn
mower clippings, etc. There is wide
range of choice, as almost everything
that is fresh and succulent will be
relished by fowls that are confined.
And abundant drink must be sup
piled. They should have all the fresh,
clean water they will drink and may
also be given all the skimmilk they
will drink Milk is best fed sour, but
should be always sweet or always
sour. Milk is good for fowls at all
times and is especially good in warm
weather, but water they must have.
It is best to have two drinking pans
or fountains. one for fresh water and
the other for milk and they must be
kept clean. Then the birds can drink
from either, as they prefer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
TOO MUCH TANGO
CAUSES NEURALGIA

Violent neuralgia of the head generally
attacks overworked women who lack sui
ficient sleep, fresh air and red blood.
With the prevalent craze for dancing
at all times and places it is becoming
noticeable that women whose blood Is
thin-an@mic-b become subject to neu-
ralgic pains when they dance too much
and rob themselves of sleep and open-air
exercise.
The woman who makes great demands
on her strength, either by overworking
or overdancing, must keep her blood in
condition or suffer The pain of neural
gia is simply sign adopted by nature to
show that the nervous system is being
starved because the blood no longer
brings it what it needs. The one great
cause ofneuralgia is debility with anamia
or bloodlessness.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are tonic
for the blood and nerves. They begin at
once to enrich the blood and enable it to
furnish the nerves with the clement they
need to restore them to health. A book
let on the home treatment ofnervous dis
orders that will enable yor to help your
self will be sent free on request by the
DR.. Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady,
NY. Your own druggist can supply
YOU with DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
HELPING OUT PASTURES BY
S0ILING CROPS
JARED VAN wAcENEN. ,n

al
Thoughtful dairymen realize that.
while in northern states cows are in
the field five months, vet there are
only about six weeks or two months
when pasture alone is sufficient to en-
able them to do good work, SO pro-
gressive dairymen are adopting some
plan d experimenting pastures and
thus maintaining a better flow of milk
throughout the year. There are vari-
GUS ways of doing this. Merely feed
ing grain in connection with scanty
pasture is expensive and unsatisfac-
tory. The cost is too great. Besides,
what is needed is some form of fresh,
succulent food rather than dry grain.
It is possible to plan a succession of
soiling crops which maintain con-
slant supply of green food throughout
the summer. He may plan rye sown
in the fall to furnish green rye in
early spring. This may be followed
ten days later by green wheat, which
may be followed by alfalfa. which can
be fed until the first cutting of red
clover. When the clover begins to
harden a plot of peas and oats will
just be coming into head. and if there
have been two or three sowings of
these week or ten days apart they
will last until the early corn is ready
to feed, and the corn-frst the early
and then the later varieties-will last
until frost. 1t would even be possible
to add crop of rape to feed until cold
weather.
Summer SIage Best.
Now, the foregoing is a very fine
theory of cow feeding, but it doesn't
work in practice Some crops may be
partial failures and some may be used
before the next is ready; also, soiling
cows means cutting and drawing
green food every day regardless of
weather conditions or what other
work presses. All these considera-
tons have led the writer to feel that
there is hlst one best way to supple
ment pastures, and that is by feeding
when needed corn silage put in the
previous dutuluu.
There are several reasons why this
is the best way. One is that the pos
sible food production from an acre of
corn is much greater than from these
other crops. Another is. it is possible
to put this corn in the silo just when
1t is at its best. whereas other crops
will frequently be either too green or
too ripe just when we need them.
The difference in labor between 60
ing for load of green oats or throw
ing out supply of silage from a con-
intent sio speaks for itself.
The better dairymen we are the
more we shall feed cows in addition
to pasture and summer silo is the east
est way to provide the needed feed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
MERELY PSYCHOLOGICAL.
From the New York Sun.

From the New YORK oun.
T,tj74o Outofwork, hat in hand, ac-
,,s,ef The professor as he came out of
'srin House: ~ have wife and four
small children"
You only think you have" said the
pr5tessor: your state is merely psyche
logical -
'l haven't had any work for six
months. since the factory"
pie. cried the professor, taking Oft
bis eyeglasses and waving them in wide
gesture Of depreciation; ''don't you know
that endowment is merely psyche
1g1,a
}Ig wife and children are actually
angry
Nonsense, my dear sir; hunger is
merely psychological"
1iv brother has just been fired by
liz I. Y. & z. Railroad; the railroad
people SAID they had to reduce expenses. ~
H5w ridiculous; expenses of railroads
aie merely psychological. So is your
AotLels discharge"
Professor, will you lend me dollar?
When better times"
This Is most unbecoming language.
What times could be better than these!
Tines are merely psychological. So is
?ou. assumed need of dollar. Learn
10 Enow the need of mankind and to find
tat need in yourself. Does mankinc
NEED money? Do you need money? Their
lAi the money in yourself. Everything
olt Colonel House and my Mexican policy
8 merely psychological. Money to vic
I'M Of the merely psychological state call
Cd out of job?' Good-by. l wish you
more psychology and better frame Of
mind y
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
WINTERPORT'S MEMORIAL,

Memorial Day in Winterport was
marked by the usual memorial services
of friendship and love commemorative
of the dead sleeping on the beautiful
hillside overlooking the Penobscot, and
in honor of surviving comrades, who on
many weary march divided the hard
ships and the last ration with the now
sleeping heroes. AS they placed their
garlands at the foot of the tall shaft
marking the graves of III unknown dead
to the solemn music Of the band, their
hearts throb5ed with reverential pride
for that country for which they fought
and for which their comrades fell.
AS usual Commander Dunton had
charge of the services. Comrade Daniel
M. Spencer read the names of all soldiers
enlisted from Winterport.
At the hall, Hon. Ellery Bowden de-
livered an earnest and patriotic address,
holding the attention of the large audi
ence throughout its entire length. He
assured the veterans that when the last
member of the Grand Army should have
..stacked his arms'' and ''ended his
march," the Odd Fellows all over the
broad land had pledged themselves to
ever perpetuate the beautiful services of
Memorial Day.
PRAYER was offered by Rev. A. J. Lock-
heart.
The gifted young orator, Harold Tay-
lor a student of the Winterport High
school, delivered an interesting essay
on Internationalism-a eloquent plea
for peace among the nations. Mr.. Tay-
lor had the honor of winning the Inter
scholastic prize in the prize-speaklng
contest at Orono OH this Grafton short
time since and is a most persuasive and
eloquent speaker.
Prof. Wass of Sangerville rendered
several fine solos that were much en-
joyed by all present.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
sWEETHEAKTS AND WIVES OF '61.
IJohn w. Kennon, in the Boston Globe.1

rJobn w. Kennon, in the Boston Globe.]
At a campfire at the reunion OF the
Blue and Gray last July at gettysburg
after cheering and toastlng their various
commanders, Southern veteran SAD:
"Boys, there is one sentiment want TO
give YOU. In the good time we have had
here, most Of US have thought OF home'
as it Is now and as it was SO years ago
today. You all recall, as you lay on this
ground, waiting to go into battle, Wnae
vonr thoughts were about the folks back
nome. the wife and the baby that you
had kissed goodby so tenderly when you
marched off to the war. 1t was the
memory of the girl left behind me that
kept MANY fellow straight in the path
of duty.
Now, boys, we're nearing the end OF
life. and before l leave l wantFyou to
Join me in tribute to the girls we LETT
behind US so years ago"
Every gray head within sound OF the
sneakers voice was barred. Then the
old man, with trembling voice and up
raised hand, said: ''Some of them lie
in their graves. but some, bless God, are
spared to 20 with us to the last camping
ground. They are bent and gray like US,
hut they're Just as dear to US, as they
were so years ago. Boys of the North
and Of the South, God bless the girls we
left behind US so years ago.
This prompted the following poem:
ask no toast for Blue or Gray,
To comrades lost on land or wave,
At Gettysburg and Mobile Bay,
Or those who fill unknown grave.
Nor drink a toast to Grant or Lee,
To weary hike or night attack,
For Sherman marching to the sea,
To "Mopitor" or '.Merrimac."
drink no toast to those who fell,
To battle lost or victory won
Mid Union Cheer or Rebel Yell,
At Vicksburg. Shiloh or Bull Run.
Nor toast here the Nations braves
Who for their cause like soldiers died,
Above them all Old Glory waves,
On mountain, vale and hill and tide
But comrades drink with me this toast
"Here's to those hearts faithful and kind,
"Here's to those girls we loved the most.
"Sweethearts and wives we left behind,
Those loyal hearts, tender and true.
Will cherished be till life is done,
Who loved the Gray, who loved the Blue,
Sweethearts and wives of Sixty-one.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
SOME SECRETS OF SWEET
CORN
Quality Is What Counts.
p. X, EDWARDS,


Nearly every one plants sweet corn
of some kind in the garden. When
we refer to it. however, we mean
quality sweet corn, that delectabie,
melting feast of sweetness which the
average gardener gets from bis nlii
only two or three times season.
But to have continuous supply OF
the best corn in the best condition one
must know just how to arrange for IT,
when to pick it and how TO COOK II.
Now there are two methods of raising
it. either by repeated paintings at In
tervals of one or two weeks or by
planting several varieties at one time,
selected to mature in succession as
supply for several weeks may be had
from a single planting, so that only
two paintings will be required. Each
plan has it's good points. Where space
ia limited successive planting will, OF
course, be preferable, and the matter
of variety as governing quality is also
important.
New Varieties.
OF the several different kinds the
following varieties have been tried with
success: Golden Rod, Golden Bantam.
Hiawatha. Pocahontas, Early Cham
pion, Crosby's Early. the Henderson,
Country Gentleman and StowelPs Ev-
ergreen. The Golden Rod is cross
between Stowell's Evergreen and Gold
en- Bantam and is a happy comblna-
ton of blending the good qualities OF
both. 1t is one of the "midseason" va
rieties. Henderson's POcahontas is an
extra early variety, and, while not
equal to some of the later kinds, it Is
well worth place in the garden. Sew
eral other familiar varieties-namely
the Golden Bantam and Country Cen
tleman, also have that deservedly not
ed sweet flavor of the Golden Rod and
Hiawatha.
The land for corn should be thor
oughly MANFRED, or lacking manure,
use liberal amount of market garden
brand of commercial fertilizer or
mixture known as 4S-11-that is. 4
per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphor-
ic acid and II per cent potash. In adj
dition to this a good handful of hen
manure in the bottom of each hill,
with little earth spread over it, Is
one of the very best manures for corn,
and at the second hoeing work hand
full of nitrate of soda into the soil
about the hills. Plant the corn in
drills, dropping the seed about nine
inches apart and run the rows east
and west if possible. but do not chill
up for, like other shallow rooted
plants. corn feeds near the surface
and if we keep heaping up the earth
around the stalk the roots, which have
wandered off. are partly uncovered.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
HAVING TIME
Eight Tons an Acre.
JOHN ASHLEY.

1t is said the average crop Of hay per
acre is one ton for the first moving
and if the weather is favorable half
a ton for the second. The selling price
for this amounts to about $27, the cost
of producing and harvesting it.
In contrast to this, there is the case
of man who had small village farm,
devoted to a garden, bit Of lawn, an
acre of grass land and an acre reserv-
ed for crops for his horse and cow.
From the grass land he averaged be-
tween eight and ten tons of hay, and
as his methods Of seeding and care
were very simple and easy to initiate
it may be of interest to know some
thing of them in detail. When the
property was first purchased the new
owner started in to improve 1t, going
over the grass land with double &C.
ton cutaway harrow twice the first
week in half laps and the second time
at right angles to the first. He contin-
ued to do this until August. when the
foul roots remaining were raked out
and burned. An eight foot smoothing
harrow with leveling board attached
was next used until the surface was
true. The land was then plowed with
a twenty -four inch cutaway pillow to
depth of six inches, the disk being set
at considerable angle. Then the sur
face was again trued as before. Final
ly the field was narrowed weekly until
the LIST of September.
Final Preparation.
The land being level, it was left bare
again and sowed to oats to be cut for
hay. When this had been harvested the
field was gone over twice in half laps
with a double action harrow, the second
time at right angles to the first The
second week it was plowed and har-
rowed and after that narrowed weekly
for four weeks, followed by one more
plowings. On Sept fourteen quarts
each of timothy and recleaned redtop
were sown, and before narrowing in
the seed 600 pounds Of the following
mixture of commercial fertilizer were
carefully and evenly broadcasted: Nj
trate of soda. 60 pounds; muriate of
potash, 24O pounds; bonemeal. 300
pounds. The piece was then narrowed
In four directions with a smoothing
harrow. The following April the land
was rolled and $50 pounds of the fol
lowing fertilizer spread: Bone, $50
pounds; potash $50 pounds; nitrate of
soda, 15Opounds The result of this thor
ough preparation and care is evidenced
in the splendid appearance of the grass,
although it has been seeded six years.
Soon after the first crop had been cut
200 pounds of the spring fertilizer were
broadcasted and these two applications
of fertilizer are given annually.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
WHO is HOLDING BUSINESS DOWN?

From the New York Mail.
President Wilson declares that "the
Present depression of business" is "mere-
psychological.
10 other words, the hesitation of in
quslfy and commerce and the hating of
business confidence, at time when the
golntry's material conditions justify
po0mlng prosperity, is due to state of
mnd.
Woo is responsible for this state of
lnnd which has chilled and checked
american enterprise in a season of
ABUNDANT money and bumper crops?
MI Wilson'S analysis of the business
hf.udIlon was in response to petition
%Om Western manufacturers, represent
ns 50 l04 factories, employing 1854, 600
s n; ooS with yearly payroll of $7S2,
,os merely asking that the new and
% so antitrust legislation, COM
ta s 50 close on the heels of the sweeping
s @,tn and currency laws, "be deferred
SsoA Inc business men Of the United
n hats can become acquainted with the
S sr1s laws. of which they are now
'Dsslfey ignorant"
sr 9une OF the most experienced Demo.
5 5a.c leaders in Congress have urged
fs sSn the President the unfortunate eff
v Tsts winch constant radical legislation,
gs ~,3ul any breathing space for business
sSonJlg ent, must have upon what
t maap Otherwise be good and profitable
NJ, Tor IT., the people generally.
uno Mr. Wilson'S answer was to insist
O rSr d hurried completion of his party
tons. 'ne congressman eiee'
pps sae resident says, in explaining the
/ No general depression. that ''there
rea so material condition or substantial
sbon ia why the business of the country
expan u not be in the most prosperous ane
hara lung condition." but nothing wal
hintuu dangerous for business than uncer
hg of d0 an, and what has produced this feel.
ty ill., uncertainty throughout the coun.
s6d t ba' IS so dangerous to business
iering ';eatens to infiict widespread suf
tins Il, ~ the daily lives of the people Al
VI abundant harvests?