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The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-06-11
HOW STATE DEBT
WILL Be PAID
Under Present System Debt Will
Be Paid Within Next
Forty Years.

state ever had lot or parcel in,
good many people were inclined
to accept the statement with a
grain or so of salt. Without TAX
ing pains to look into the deal
they just figured that 1t was
campaign news or, that if true,
a streak of luck had been hit
somewhere.
1t was neither. 1t was a cold
business proposition carried out
in a business way by first class
business man behind the works
all along.
There should be no disposition
to take any credit away from
Gov. Rye, or the funding board.
But the fact is that the funding
board had very little to do with
funding the state debt. Rye
signed the bill making refunding
possible and then sat at the head
of the table when the bonds were
sold.
The men who did the work
and made the deal possible was
no other than Thomas C.. Ash
croft, of Memphis, chairman of
the finance, ways and means
committee of the Senate, some
times politician when politics
is the word, and always a hard
headed plugger for the best in
terests of the state.
The facts speak for themselves.
Of course, it would be an easy
matter to introduce a refunding
bill if the bill were prepared.
BIT preparing the bill is where
the work came in. The funding
of the state debt so that the prin-
cipal will be wiped out in 40
years was made possible by these
bills. 1t doesn't take a fnancer
to figure out the wholesome re-
suits. Any man can understand
why it is better to remove the
question entirely from politics,
and remove it so completely from
the affairs of the state that after
next year not even a funding
board will be necessary.
By far the most interesting
feature of the funding scheme,
which stands out beyond all
others, is the serial nature of
the bonds. 1t would have been
very easy to float a straight $12-
600, ZOO bond issue running 40
years. The state had floated
this kind of bonds before.
1t would have been easy, too,
to keep the question in politics,
keep the funding board running
and keep the state in the market
to buy up a bond here and there
whenever there was money to
spare.
But there is some interesting
statistical facts about this new
bond issue.
The principal is $11, 781, 900. If
this debt had been fioated on a
straight 40-year plan, the inter-
est at 4.28 per cent would have
totaled in the end 500, 10000.
That is the total the state would
have paid at the end of 40 years
or in 1866, and the same old prin-
cipal would have been left for
the Legislatures of that day and
time to wrangle with.
This serial plan does away with
all this. Now, beginning 1917,
so many bonds are retired each
year. The saved interest will
not amount to much at first, but
a glance shows how it begins to
dwindle as the period runs along.
The total interest that will be
paid under the serial plan is $12-
956, go. And at the end of the
period, in 1866, the principal of
$11, 7S1, 900 will have been gradu-
ally wiped out. This is "a total
of $24, 737, 670 that the state will
appropriate during the next 40
years to take charge of its debt.
The great advantage can thus
easily be seen. If, under the old
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-06-11

America frst'' is good, but
America all the time" is the
slogan for US.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
KINDS OF RHEUMATISM

In popular language the word rheuma.
tism is term that covers multitude OF
ills of which pain is the chief symptom.
Articular rheumatism, infammatory
rheumatism and rheumatic fever are all
names for the same disease Muscular
rheumatism affects the muscles and does
not spread from one spot to another like
inflammatory rheumatism. Lumbago is
form of muscular rheumatism.
Some people have rheumatism every
winter especially those people who in
herit rheumatic tendency. They will
continue to have recurring attacks until
the blood is built up to a strength suf-
ticient to overcome the rheumatic poi
son. External applications and drugs
that simply relieve the pain are useless
DR.. Williams Pink Pills build up the
blood and really correct the trouble.
With the poisons in the blood there is
a continual combat between the health
forces and the disease. When the rheu-
matte poison prevails the blood gets thin
rapidly. When the blood is made rich
and red by Dr. Williams Pink Pills the
poisons are destroyed and expelled.
The free booklet Building Up the
Blood tells the whole story and the diet
book "What to Eat" will be sent on re-
quest by the DR. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y. Your own druggist
sells DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
AROOSTOOK POTATOES.

Potatoes are coming into the Fort
Fairfield market at just fair rate nova
days, and maintain their reputation for
the finest quality going. The price for
several days, as general rule. has
been about $500, although ten cents or
more above that has quite often been
paid. The highest price named on Tues
day was So. IS, which was considerably
above the rule. Some of the buyers are
taking small and Gull potatoes right from
the field at 60 cents barrel, although
probably not all culls could be sold for
that price. 1t is surmised that the best
and soundest ones of these will be sorted
out for seed, the rest being sold a, the
factories for the regular price of IS
cents. Last year even the best potatoes,
large part of the time, would not bring
so much as these culls are bringing now.
Many of the starchfactories are closing,
few of them permanently, and some of
them tor few days in order to get in
the last of the haulings. The high price
of potatoes has indeed put spirit and
boom into Aroostook affairs that is no.
ticeable everywhere. You can see the
smile on a farmers face when he is three
quarters of mile away, with his back
turned; and we all think he has mighty
good reason for smiling, too.-Fort
Fairfield Review Oct. 18th.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
FIRE ON ROCKLAND WATER FRONT

RocKLAND, Me-, Oct. Is. Tug Mer-
curry owned by the Boston Towboat Com
pany, and several other craft. were at
Atlantic Wharf this morning when burn
ing gasoline on the surface of the water
set fire to the automatic coal discharpinp
plant of M. B. & C. o. Perry,
Capt. Aaron Wall and IL members of
the Mercury's crewwere eating breakfast
in the galley, when suddenly the doorway
was filled with roaring flames. So sud-
den was the onslaught that towel in the
cooks hands caught fire before he could
retreat. While part of the crew manned
the fire apparatus, the others cas-. off the
lines and got the towboat safely away
from the confagratlon. Not, however.
until it had been damaged several hun
dred dollars.
The tug John C. Morrison, owned by
the Perrys, also had a narrow escape.
and but for the timely arrival of the tug
Cumberland, the Standard Oil Company's
Delivery II. would have shared the fate
of the Petroolia III, which was locked
at the same place when it exploded this
summer.
M. B. & C. o. Perry lost their coal dis
charging plant, coal shed, and about
400 tons of coal. Their total loss of
$40, 900 is partly insured. The damage to
three boats approximates $500,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
THAT LITTLE DOG OF NINE.

By Lumber Jack"
/ am sitting, sort of thinking of the days that
used to be,
OF the loves, the griefs, the pleasures that my
memory can see;
OF those loved and those who loved me many
years ago,
And wondering if some day I'll meet the ones
fused to know.
And as l sit here whitening, the last leaf on
the vine,
Two honest eyes look up at me-that little dog
of mine.
little tike, my own friend, the kind that you
all know
No pedigree, no ribbons-he can't get in the
show.
He's just little homely dog-a bunch of faith
and love;
But when these earthly clouds roll by and am
called above,
When am at the pearly gates and told to
stand in line,
God grant the first to meet me there will he
that dog Of mine
Maybe there are no pearly gates for either
dogs or men,
Yet we must cross the Great Divide-we
know not how nor when.
And when reach the other side and join the
old bunch there,
With all our lives and all our hopes lust
naturally laid bare,
know I'd feel some lonesome sizing I'D the
sinners line
For I'd only care for heaven with that little
dog of mine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
W. c. 7. U. 1,S45,944.

SEATTLE, WASH, Oct 10. A pledged
m embership of 1,845,944 is reported to
the National Convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in session
here. Those figures, it is stated, applied
to Sunday school membership and include
224, 1874 names added during the last year.
The repor. added that more than 16, 600
entire families are pledged to total absti-
nence. The convention refused to change
the annual meeting time from the closing
three months of the year to spring by
defeating constitutional amendment
providing for such change. The far
Vests delegates pleaded for early con-
ventions in order that the Western repre-
sentatives might secure excursion rates
when the conventions were held in the
East. AS concession to this argument
the constitution was amended so as to
give the official board power to set an
early meeting date when the situation
made the change advisable.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
The Probate Court.

Following is report of the October
term of Waldo County Probate Court
Judge James Libby of Unity presiding:
Petitions for probate of wills were pre-
sented in estates of Josephine A. Fender
CAST, late of Northport; Melnotte F
wentworth, late of Searsport; Alfred E
Nlckerson, late of Swanville; Charles A
Patch, late of Winterport Joseph H
Boulter, late of Knox; Eben C. Clement
late of Winterport.
| PETITIONS for distribution were present
| ed In the estates of Hattie E. Howes
late of Belfast; Jane A. Mcclure, late Of
Searsport.
Petitions for license to sell real estate
We're presented in estates of Curtis E.
Mitchell, late of Unity; Anna M. Nash
late of Belfast.
Petition for change of name of Fannie
and Alec Rubenstein of Belfast to Fan
ME and Alec Goldman OF Belfast was
presented.
Petition for administration was pre-
sented in estate of Solomon Palmer, late
of Montville.
Petitions for probate of will were al
lowed in estates of John H. Gordon, late
OF Brooks; Samuel A. Rendell, late of
Stockton Springs; Charles W. Wilder,
late of Boston.
Account was presented in estate of
Henry G. Barlow, late of Freedom, first
and final.
Petitions for administration were al
lowed in estates of Erwin L. Thompson,
late of Knox; Fields C. Pendeton, late
OF lslesboro; Otis Eugley, late of Lin
colnville; Franklin A. Rhoades, late of
Northport; Henry Crehore, late of Lin
colnville; Charles E. Stevens, late of
Unity; Allen M. Moody, late of Lincoln
vile.
Petition for license to sell personal es-
tate was allowed in estate of David C.
Gilman, late of Liberty.
Petition for license to sell real estate
was allowed in estate of Edward B.
Soule, late of Searsmont.
Petitions in regard to collateral inheri-
lance tax were allowed in estates of Ellen
+. M. Musselman, late of Belfast; Theo-
dore T. Colcord, late of Searsport.
Petition for allowance was allowed in
estate of Edward P. Chase, late of Jack
son.
Accounts were presented in estates of
Charles M. Mari, late of Swanville, sec
ond and final; Mary Ella Emerson, late
CT Frankfort, first and final; Rhoda
rage iate OF Belfast, first and final;
Abbie A. Berry Pinkham, late of Troy,
trst and final; Lydia c. Carver, late of
Searsport, first and final; Manly Foote,
late OF searsport, first; George F. Bag
ley, late of Montville, first and final;
James =. Sprague, late of Frankfort,
hrst and final; Augustus M. Clark. late
OF Wlnterport, first and final
warrants and inventories were return
ed in estates of Theodore P. Colcord,
late OF Searsport; Harland P. Cross,
late OF Knox; Charles E. Thompson,
late OF Montville; Edwin S. Stevens, late
OF Unity; Lois V. Chaples, late of Bel
fast; Ellen A. Small, late of Searsport;
Huldah Wiggin, late of Knox; Helen
W. Crosby, late of Belfast; George S.
Chase, late of Belfast.
There was special hearing Tuesday
on the petition of Edward B. Fletcher
for the adoption of Geraldine Robertson,
daughter of Emma Robertson of Belfast.
The petition was dismissed for lack of
Jurisdiction
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
Maine Federation of Woman's Club.

The completed program for the annual
meeting of the Maine Federation of
Woman's clubs in Biddeford Oct. 26th,
9th and 18th has just been announced.
1t contains much that is interesting
from a literary, and musical and
sociological standpoint, and indeed is
one of the finest programs arranged for
such an event in recent years. Many
speakers of prominence are to be heard
in the course of the gatherings. Among
them are Miss Nora Archibald Smith,
sister of Mrs. Kate Douglass Wiggin,
Mrs. Georgia Pulsifer Porter and Mrs.
J. Frank Rich, State editor of magazine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21

For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears ~
A $4,000, 10000 superdreadnaughr.

NEW YORK, Oct. IA. The keel of the
SIS, 600, 900 superdreadnought California
was laid today at the Brooklyn navy
yard. Secretary Daniels, in speech
concluding the brief ceremony attending
the beginning of actual work on the fight
ing craft SAID the California will make
the most advanced step taken IN naval
engineering in many years. The super
dreadnouRht will be the first large war
vessel to be propelled entirely by cleo
tricity. The California is expected to
be launched within Is months.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
Eastern Steamship Lines
ALL THE WAY BY WATER.
FALL SCHEDULE.
BANGOR LINE

BANGOR LINE
Turbine Steel Steamships Belfast and Cam.
den.
Leave Belfast Mondays, Wednesdays, Thurs
Rockland and Boston. Leave Belfast Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30 a.
M, for Searsport, Bucksport Winterport and
Bangor.
Returning: Leave India Wharf, Boston, Mon
days. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 500
p. m.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
S. S. North Land and North Star
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, Tuesday
Thursday and Saturday at 500 pm.
FRED W. POTE, Agent,
Belfast, Maine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
in MEMORY

OF Hon. A. E. Nickerson and Charles
Thompson.
In the hush of early morning!
And after dawn next day,
Came a swift-winged Silent Messenger,
And bore age and youth away.
A sick, feeble, tired veteran,
Over three score years and ten,
Passed out from the little village
To the land beyond our ken,
But the youth, SO well and happy
At his task in the morning sun,
Was hurled into Eternity!
"His will, not thine, be done'
Take courage, We who sorrow,
Lift your hearts to Him on high,
The Supreme. who governs all things
While we live, and when we die.
CELIA MABEL NICKERsoN.
Swanville, Maine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
TRUCKING

lam prepared.to do all kinds of trucking.
Furniture and piano moving speciality.
Leave orders at the staDie. corner of Main
and Cross streets, and they will receive
prompt attention. Telephone connection,
w. w. BLAZO,
rae Waldo Avenue, Belfast,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
Camden Wooden Mills BUSY.

Work in all the wooden mills in town is
excellent and most all the mills are put
ting in lots of overtime work. There il
. nice outlook for plenty of work ali win
ter which is very pleasing to the town.
a greater part of the work is made up
OF "war orders. camden Herald.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-01

WAeso he u q - woman viOOs
vim be the most difncult.-
After dinner. then. since you know
some Of his haunts. There 10 . ~
ward
Jones siaushed shortly. keep II
yoursel,. sir. Mr.. Hargreave would
willingly double whatever this reward
IL TO eliminate these despicable crsa-
lures from his affairs"
Thanks"
While this conversation was taking
place Norton idled about: and feeling
the cravings for a cigarette. prepared
to roll one, only to find that he hadn't
the "makings." SO fate urged him to
step into the nearest tobacconist's.
He asked for his favorite brand and
passed over the silver.
Braine and his companions saw Nor
ton enter the shop. It agreed with
their plans perfectly. The tobacconist
happened to be affiliated with the or
der. So they hurried into the shop
Jim instantly realized that he was In
q trap.
"How can I get out Of herer he
whispered to the tobacconist.
The latter smiled. II have to obey
these gentlemen. l don't know what
they want you for: but II made q
move to help you I should find my
own throat cut without saving yours"
THE devil!"
Jim made dash for the rear door.
to find 1t locked. Even as he fumbled
with the key; Braine and his COM
panions flung themselves upon the re-
porter and overpowered him.
"Ah. my friend Braine!" he said.
my friend Norton!" jeered the VIC
tor.
"And what do you want; some
peaches?"
"A paper, my friend, little secret
Of paper with invisible writing on 1t.
We promise to give you something In
exchange for It,"
"What?" asked Jim with as much
nonchalance as he could assume.
Life"
Search" said Jim. you won't OBJ
ject to my smoking?" He began to
roll cigarette while they passed over
him. He struck match; the pleas
ant aroma of tobacco foated about his
head.
Hes got It on him somewher,
saw him take It. He's got his nerve
with him."
The cigarette glowed. Jim smoked
hurriedly.
Through every pocket they went
The contents of his wallet lay scat
tered at his feet; his watch dangled
from the chain. The cigarette grew
shorter and shorter. Suddenly one OF
the men stretched out q hand and
whisked the cigarette from Jim's lips
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-01
TOOK THE CREDIT, ANYWAY
Man Who Had Intended to Disregard
Wife's Advice Made Her Think {
Otherwise.

When am going to be extravagant
! always like the encouragement OF
my wife. and usually get 1t, writes
A. Edward Newton in the Atlantic
Monthly. I determined to talk over
with her a proposed purchase. Her
prophetic instinct in this instance was
against 1t. She reminded me that the
business outlook was not good when
we left home and that the reports
received since were anything but en-
couraging.
THAT amount OF money" she said.
may be useful when you get home"
Tie advice was good. indeed, her argu-
ments were SO unanswerable that
determined not to discuss 1t further,
but to buy anyhow and say nothing.
Early the next morning went back
and to my great disappointment found
that someone more forehanded than
I had taken the treasure. My regrets
for time were keen, but upon my re-
turn to this country found myself
in the height OF the 1907 panic. Secu-
rifles seemed almost worthless and
actual money unobtainable. Then
congratulated my wife on her wisdom,
and pointed out what a fine fellow !
had been to follow her advice. !
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-01
Made Point for Defense.

OF Sir Thomas Egerton, who was
gifted with quick perception. this story
Is told: "A poor woman had been in
trusted with the care of large sum
Of money by three farmers. who told
her to keep 1t safely until they ap-
peared together to claim It. Shortly
afterward one Of them went to her
and, representing that he came at the
direction Of the other two. he received
the money and forthwith disappeared.
The other two brought action to re
cover the whole deposit. Egerton hap
pened to be in court during the trial.
In which an intimate friend defended
the woman. Seeing that the case was
going against his friend. Egerton vol-
unteered to speak AZ amicus curiae.
Permission was granted. Emphasiz-
ing the condition on which the money
was left In the woman's care, Eyer
ton said: 1T. II clear that the plain
tits cannot recover, because II IL to
the three appearing together that the
defendant agreed to deliver the money.
Where II the thirdf Let him be pro-
duced," Thus Egerton saved the day
for his friend.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-01
QUEER USE OF oRAMoPHoMEI
That Instrument 10 Not Designed
Merely for Amusement Has
oeen Proved. /,

The gramophone b sometimes pud
TO strange uses. The leader Of IN Az
rican hunting expedition. who set out
on = motor trip from the Cape to Cairo.
recently used II a. . decoy for tigers
and hippopotamL In tiger hunting II
10 usual to tether = lamb TO . tree:
it, bleatings attract the tiger within
reach OF the hunters. Before leav-
ing England. the explorer had some
records made by bleating lambs. and.
says q writer In Answers. he tried
them on the unsuspecting tigers OF the
African jungle with considerable sue
cess.
The record makers gained one OF
their greatest triumphs when they sue
ceeded in getting good nightingale
and blackbird records. The chief diff
ficulty was the objection that the
birds had to the sounds OF the re-
cording machine. The clever men got
round that by setting up dummy
recording machine. in the horn Of
which they put some Of the BIRDS Ia
vorite food.
When q bird entered the horn to-
get the food the clockwork was set
in motion. The little creatures soon.
grew accustomed to the sound. and
so. after much tedious and discour-
aging labor successful records were
made. These records are selling In
thousands all over the world.
The gramophone IL also Of service
In more serious and more scientific
undertakings. Records of all dialects
and languages spoken in Great Britain
have been made and preserved in the
British museum for the benefit Of
posterity. The people of the thir-
tieth century will know by the help
of these records just how Manx and
Gaelic sounded. and how the cockney
lingo differs from braid Scots" Sew
eral of the universities also have coll
lections Of the same kind.-Youth's
Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-01

tssod Susan avly. yonss addressed
yIorsnce gravely.
Il am going out and % - Mr.. Mo-.
ton. DO not leave the house; not
even II you have . telephone call from
me or Norton. Both Of NJ viii return:
20 don't let anything bother or con
fuse you"
7 promise said Florence. strus-
Cling with . sob.
Jones went downstairs again. paused
BY window - II cogitating. and sud
denly threw II up and looked abroad.
A rustic among the lilacs caused .
smile to nit across his face. So they
had sent some one to learn the effect
Of the poisoni Or to follow him
should he leave the housed He re-
tired to the kitchen and gave some
explicit orders to tho chef. orders
which did not in any way refer to
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-05-01

mot the least doubt Of It in my
mind. Olga. old girl. It does look a. II
my star was growing dim. Wen never
get our hands on that million. feel
It In my bones. SO let's settle down
to Q campaign Of revenge, without any
furbelows. want to twist Har-
greave's heart before the game winds
up"
you wish really to injure herr"
II do not wish to injure her. Far
from It," he replied. smiling evilly.
You want her -. deadf"
whispered Olga, paling.
Exactly. I want her dead. And
30 II all my efforts here come to moth
ing. so shall Hargreave's. His mill
lions will become waste paper to him.
That's revenge. The Persian peach
method"
Poison? You shall not! You shall
not kill her!" vehemently.
Tender heartedf'
mo. II must In the end go to
prison. so be It: but refuse to die In
the chair"
Every well. then. We shan't kill
her. but we1l make her wish she was
dead. l was only trying to see how
far you would go. The basket of
peaches Is In the hallway. Every
peach Is poisoned. No man In the
country knows more about subtle pol
sons than do. Have not written
books on the subjectf" ironically.
And they will trace 1t back to you
In straight line" she warned. Il
will not have it,"
II can 60 elsewhere" he replied
coldly.
you would leave mel"
"The moment you Cross my win. |"
emphatically.
It became her turn to pace. Torn
between her love Of the man and the
danger which stared her In the face.