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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11

an effective wash, as fsh-oil soap, at the
rate of one pound to the gallon of water.
or heavy whitewash. or wash made Of
one pint of crude carbolic acid and one
gallon of soft fish-oil soap dissolved in 8
gallons of water. Washes should be
thoroughly applied to the trunk and
larger limbs. In the case of apple, pear
and other trees which do not exude gum
to any extent, it is question of iudg-
ment whether it will be possible to save
trees attacked by this insect. If the in
festation is rather severe. it usually in
dicates that the tree is beyond hope of
saving. Individual branches on trees
may often show attack by this insect
and should be promptly removed and
burned to prevent its further increase
and spread.
During pruning operations in winter
particular attention should be given to
cutting out the injured branches, since
these are usually so weakened that they
will not support any considerable crop of
fruit. u. 5. Department of Agriculture.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
RECOVERY FROM GRIP

The form Of influenza popularity called
grip lasts but short time, is seldom fatal
but causes suffering and misery out of all
proportion to its Importance.
The reason is this. When the acute
stage OF the grip is passed there often re-
mains neurasthenia that persists for
months if not properly corrected. The
patient is moody, in poor spirits, suffers
lack OF appetite and yigor and feels in
disposed to work or even to enjoy life.
Warmth and quiet alone give comfort
and these not for long at time. Sleep
Is restless and does not refresh the nerves
which are always at high tension.
The best way to correct this after-efect
OF the grip is to build up the blood and
there is no better blood builder than DR..
Williams Pink Pills.
Assoon as the revitalized blood courses
through the system you are aware of it's
soothing influence. Gradually the color
returns to the pale cheeks, appetite and
digestion improve and you are on the
road to health.
The free book Building Up the Blood'
contains chapter on the after effects of
the grip. Send now for copy to the
Or. Williams Medicine Co.. Schenectady,
n. Y. You can get DIR. Williams Pink
Pills at the nearest drug store or by mail
on receipt of price, SO cents per box; six
boxes $2.5
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
AN OLD LANDMARK DESTROYED.

Crosby warehouse In HamT den Burned.
Thursday morning, Nov. 4tb, the 80
called Crosby warehouse in Hampden
near the head of Long Wharf, was
totally destroyed by fire. The money
loss is not great-about $500, but m any
will regret that famous his torical land.
mark has been obliter ated.
The fire was discovered at 30 o'clock
and soon gained great Roadway the flames
eating with wonderful speed through the
dry. oil-soaked floors and ceilings. Hamp-
den has no fire department, and the eff
forts OF a bucket brigade were unavail
ing. A motor truck and steamer were
sent from Bangor, but when they arrived
nothing except the walls emained.
The building was owned by j. Norman
Towle OF Bangor and the Josiah C. Towle
estate. 1t was of brick, three stories
high, and was located at the top of a
hill overlooking Sowadabscook stream.
about five miles from Bangor. Because
OF this commanding position the fire
was great spectacular show-the leap.
ing flames being reflected for miles and
giving the impression that half of Hamp-
den was burning. Telephone and tele-
graph wires were damaged, but were re-
paired before daylight.
The building was erected in 1909 by
General John Crosby, an East Indian
trader, who came to Hampden from
Woolwich in ITS, and for a time it was
the finest building in the Penobscot val.
ley. In TIA it was used by the British
as a prison, and many Americans were
confined there.
Several years ago, the Bangor His
torical Society decided to eventually pur-
chase this building, if possible, and a
committee was chosen to inspire interest
and raise funds. Had the purchase been
consummated, it was the purpose of the
society to renovate the building and es-
tablish therein an historical museum,
filled with valuable Maine relics.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
PROFITABLE CROP ROTATION.

The most profitable crop rotation does
not consist merely in changing the crops
around from year to year, regardless of
the relation Of the crops to each other.
The central aim in all crop-rotation sys-
TENS should be to leave each field in a
better state of cultivation, better ply
steal condition, and reasonably free from
pests at the end of each rotation cycle.
No hard and fast rotation system can
be laid down for any community, but the
most profitable system must be worked
out for each farm and, indeed, for each
field. There are certain general princi-
pies, however, that sh ouId be borne in
mind in this connection in order to &C.
complish the most satisfactory results.
For soil improvement there should be at
least one leguminous crop in each rota-
ton cycle. To this class of plants be-
long the clovers, alfalfa, peas, beans, etc.
There should be also sufficient quantity
of live stock, especially mich cows, on
each farm to utilize the roughage and to
supply the desired quantity Of stable
manure, which, in addition to green crops
plowed Under, will furnish the necessary
amount of humus to the SOIL The con-
ditions resulting from this treatment, if
the soil is properly handled, will make
the succeeding crops more vigorous and
capable OF offsetting, in some measure
at least, the effects of any pests that
may appear. Again, the successive crops
in any rotation should be SO selected and
arranged that no two upon which the
same pest may thrive will be grown in
succession. The principles of disease
control by means of crop rotation are
based upon the fact that certain pests
can thrive only on certain kinds of plants.
Therefore, when the crops are changed
and the food supply thereby cut off, the
pests must perish or be greatly reduced
in number. u. S. Dept. of Agriculture
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
The Poet Bryant's Birthday.

Wednesday evening, Nov. Sd, in Port
land, at the birthplace of our own ia
nous New England poet, Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, the birthday of Will
lam Cullen Bryant was celebrated with
appropriate exercises. Marion Long,
fellow, niece of the poet, read Bryant's
beautiful ''Thanatopsis'' which is SO fire.
quently recalled on occasions of this ma
ture, and arthur c. Jackson, president
of the International Longfellow society,
gave a brief sketch of the life of Bry
ant. A group of prominent members of
the Longfellow society was in attend
ance.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
The Shoe Situation.

Improvement in footwear extends through
out the market. current reports rejecting the
best conditions and prospects in fully year
Many supplementary orders are received for
reasonable lines and contracts for spring goods
are developing steadily, while strong tone is
manifest in all directions. Retail business has
been rather less active because of the vagaries
of the weather, but this is regarded as tenn
porary drawback and does not impair conf
dence. 1t is a sign of the times that many
leather concerns are reporting much larger
sales than year ago. though this statement is
somewhat qualified by the fact that the situa-
ton in the earlier period was decidedly quiet.
-Dun's Review, Nov. 9Th.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
Brain Blooa-Supply Must Be Good.

The Importance Of having pure blood is per-
haps never more deeply impressed on us than
when we are told by Psychologists that if the
brain is supplied with impure blood nervous
and bilious headache, confusion of ideas, loss
OF memory !, impaired intellect, dimness of
vision,and dullness of hearing, are experienced,
and in time the brain becomes disorganized and
the brittle thread of life is broken.
The more we learn of the usefulness of the
great blood purifier, Hoods Sarsaparilla, the
more grateful, we are for this old and sue
cessful family medicine, which has accom-
plished so much in removing scrofula, rheu-
matism and catarrh and other blood diseases
and correcting rundown conditions of the
system. If you need blood purifier, get
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
State OF Trade.

Activity widening. Lines hitherto tagging
liven up. Warm weather restraints retail de-
mand Jobbing trade active. Rush work on
recorders Industry more active. War demand
not only stimulus. Peak points reached in iron
and steel, clearings, railway tonnage and ex-
port trade. Grain exports heavy. Canadian
grain in large volume. Wheat in better de-
mand. Cotton, easing, slows down southern
trade at few points. Building active. Failures
dropping off from year ago-Bradstreets
Nov. 9Th.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
WHAT KIND OF A GOOSE?

F. L. Greene, while coming up from
Wednesday, shot bird of the
goose specie which no one hereabouts
seems able to correctly classify. 1t is
perfectly white, five feet four inches
from its bill to the end of its tail, which
is thick but short, and its wings meas
ured when spread seven feet eleven
inches from Tip to tip. The bird was
shipped to Bangor to be mounted. Deer
Isle Messenger.
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Il MeauoQe
10 %z>zem
Those of Middle Age Especially

When you have found no remedy for the horrors that
Cypress you during change of life when through the long
hours OF the day seems though your back would break
when your head aches constantly you are nervous de-
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don't forget that Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable COMPOUND
the safest and surest remedy and has carried hundreds
OF women safely through this critical PERIOD
Read what these three women saw:
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Camden WOOlens

Vl1E CAN SAVE YOU MONEY on dress ma
w terials and suitihgs for Men. Women and
Children, direct from the Camden Wooden Mill.
Write for samples. F. A. PACKARD,
Manager Retail Department,
3m34 Box B, Camden, Maine
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-11
ELECTRICAL INDUS TRY TOTALS Bill.
LIONS.

Although the electrical industry is but
few years old it certainly is a lusty in
FAINT, as IS evidenced by the census re-
turns for 1914.
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The Change of Life.
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
oILING AND MOSQUITO REDUCTION
$500 Rids Roanoke Rapids, S. c., Of Ma
laria

During the summer OF 1914, according
to recent bulletin OF the L. :. public
health service, six and one half miles Of
streams near Roanoke Rapids, \. G.,
were oiled at cost of $500. Three
thousand gallons OF oil were used in the
process The mill owners Of Roanoke
Rapids are SO satisfied with the reduction
Of malaria prevalence among their en-
ployes that they will repeat the process
during the coming year. Local conditions
made drainage impracticable and too eN-
pensive therefore pools. ponds and other
bodies OF stagnant water which were
acting rs mosquito breeders, were oiled.
The bulletin referred "a points out that
kerosene. or some other agent which will
kill the mosquito larvae, may be substi-
tuted for drainage under certain eondi-
tious. but oiling as an anti-mosquito
measure must be 40 satisfactorily per-
formed at all times that no chance Is
afforded mosquito larvae to reach ma
mrity
The 4. :. public health service j. a..
lively pushing a propaganda Of mosquito
eradication for the control Of mslarial
fever. Many state and municipal health
authorities are cooperating In this work
Malaris Is = wholly preventahle disease
causing enormous economic loss every
year in MANY parts Of the United States
and educational bulletins such as the one
quoted above are doing much - make
chills and fever a thing Of the past
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
PLAN FOR
FARM CREDITS
Democrats in Congress En-
deavor to Agree on
a Bill
MEASURE HAS
BECOME BIG ISSUE
Sen. Hollis of New Hamp-
shire Moving for an
Agreement

Washington, Feb. 81 Rural credits
has leaped in night into an issue OF
the first order, with the unexpected
adoption by the Senate OF the McCum-
Der rural credits bill as an amendment
to the agricultural appropriation bill
this action has given Senator Hollis
of New Hampshire chance to do some
thing with the Hollis Buckley bill, which
had been abandoned for the session and
the Granite state Senator is moving
heaven and earth to secure an agree
ment between the two factions of the
banking and currency committee of both
branches which will enable the confer
ence committee to substitute the Hollis
bill for that of Senator McCumber A
meeting of the Senate banking and
currency committee was called hurried
ly yesterday, following a talk of SEN
ator Hollis with President Wilson, and
ing displayed. The president objects to
section 30 Of the Hollis bill providing
for federal aid and it is understood that
yielding to White House influence at
the last moment, Senator Hills may
sacrifice this, his pet proposition.
In the House a movement is afoot to
accept the McCumber amendment, which
if it succeeded would make the amend
ment law except Tor the signature Of
the president. Another faction will try
10 have the amendment rejected and
the matter disposed of in conference.
Representative Bathrick of Ohio, Dem
lation and has telegraphed the officers
lation and has telegrapher the officers
of the National grange to come to Wash
ington at once.
The McCumber bill embodies the sim
pie proposition that the government loan
not exceeding Sl0000,000, to farmers on
not exceeding fifty per cent OF the value
Of the land, the notes to run ten years
at five per cent, the government to issue
Az per cent bonds with the mortgage
notes as security to secure return of its
money. Senator McCumber contends that
farmers do not want longterm loans
and that they insist that they shall have
the privilege OF cancelling their mort
cages before maturity if they so desire.
Congress is anxious as a matter of poll
itics 10 pass a rural credits bill, and
while the outlook is not promising, al
most anything might slip by in the
haste and stress Of the moment.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
Enrn. q nrop. o. Water.

II seems almost incredible that so
small a thins as a drop OF rain should
iniure the propeller Of an aeroplane.
hut such Is the case. AT 50 great a
speed does the propeller yolve-l.2OO
revolutions a minute as a matter OF
fact-that rain drop hits q with such
enormous force as 20 chip piece OF
The wood away Some idea OF the
bsrdships entailed by hying through
the rain 90 sixty miles an hour may
be gathered from the fact that an avis
tor who recently went through such an
experience. alighted with the edge Of
hts propeller fretted as though Il had
been gnaWcd ~ rats. The rain drops
had Clipped pieces GOT Of the blades
and also bruised the aviators face.
owing 20 the force with which they
ht against bis hesh. London spectn-
Fa=
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
HUMILIATES ENGLISHMEN.
To Think That Union Jack Was Hauled
Down on Ships.

London, Feb. 81 Following an edi-
torial on the humiliating aspect Of the
Lusitania flag incident from the view
point of British national pride. the Daily
Express, conservative in politics and in
tensely British in policy, has asked its
readers, 'What is wrong with the Union
Jack ?"
Among the replies, Sir Robert Pur-
Wis says
For a British merchantmen to hoist
neutral colors to avoid capture by a
German armed vessel is allowable if he
thinks fit to do so. But for the British
government solemnly to intimate to the
mercantile marine on Sunday night
like news of stricken battle TO strike
the Union Jack, seems uncalled for, hui
initiating and indecent. 1t is a step
down. and also gives occasion to the
enemy, when we denouncc his wars, to
charge us with hypocrisy of Mr.. Peck
sniff"
Another Englishman writes:
"When ] read the other day Of the
German accusation against ms of author
izing the use Of a neutral flag to protect
our shipping, | at once called it anoth-
er German lie Imagine my horrors,
then. to find such an action has taken
place. and under the authority Of our
foreign Office
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
WHEAT PRICES
AGAIN TUMBLE
Prospect of Release of Russian Crop
Through Dardanelles Causes
Drop.

Chicago, Feb. 27.--Selling that bordered
on panicky nature swept the wheat
market down more than five cents a
bushel yesterday The critical situa-
ton regarding the possible opening 81
the Dardanelles was chiefly responsible
May wheat sold as low rs Sl.4Sh at
the opening, as against $685. at the
close Thursday night.
July wheat dropped four cents. Sup
port from those who believe that the
straits are still a long way from being
open TO the shipments of grain was
Forthcoming AZ the decline. May sold mp
10 81 .4g4 and July. which had touched
sI2lH, advanced TO 1922 within the
first ten minutes OF trading.
Feverish unloading followed. and the
market soon smashed two cents below
the undermost price at the start, but
rallied again. though not 80 strongly as
before. On the second wave Of selling,
MAY dropped 10 ~ 40 a fail Of az cents
compared with Thursday night. The ex-
treme setback for July, meanwhile, was
five cents, 20 sl.20h.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
BELGIUM THANKFUL
TO GREAT AMERICA"
100000 Belgians Telegraph Gratitude on
Washington's Birth
dav

London, Feb. 81 Herbert c. Hoover,
chairman OF the American Belgian Re-
lief committee has received 4 telegram
from Belgium asking him TO express the
thanks of that country 90 the United
States for American assistance in Bel
gums extremity. The message, which
is from the provincial committee OF
Liegc, reads as follows:
Representatives of 100000 Belgians
IN the province Of Liegc who have met
together on the anniversary OF the birth
of George Washington send their eX-
pressions of their most likely gratitude
for the sympathy and the admirable
generosity which you and members of
the relief committee for Belgium have
shown them, They beg you to communi-
cate this expression for them to Presi-
dent Wilson, and TO send the heartfelt
thanks of little Belgium to Great Amer
lea"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
SENATOR SMO0T
SAYS AMERICA MUST
PREPARE FOR WAR
Reasonable to Suppose, He Says, That
Conflict Over World Trade May
Follow Present Conflict.

Washington. D. G., Feb. o. Senator
Smoot preciptated a short war debate
yesterday by offering bis amendment for
50 sea-going submarines and % for coast
defense. senator Norris asked If Mr..
Smoot considered the United States in
danger of war. senator Smoot replied
that il Is reasonable TO suppose that,
following the present war, another might
soon be fought TO control the trade Of
the world.
III tie greatest war in history, said
he, "can be prccipitated by the mere
casting aside Of a piece OF paper, what Is
TO prevent another war in the near flu
ture over control OF the worlds tradet
II that happens, | want our country 20
be prepared TO defend itself against any
foe"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
HOOKING A SHARK.
IT'S an Exciting Sport Even II One
Doesn't See tho Fish.

Doesn't See the Fish.
Fishing for sharks off the pier at
Palm Beach is Brobdingnagian sport.
You fish with clotheslines and hook
the size of split anchor. Half of
some great fish is slipped on your hook
for bait. You throw 1t off the pier and
fasten the end of the line to the railing
and then take out your detective story
and read.
Sometimes you get bite; sometimes
you don't. At evening the colored gem
tleman in charge of the shark fishing
on the pier goes around and takes in
the lines That in itself is on rare oc-
casions an exciting sport.
Once a New York vacationist was
standing on the pier enjoying the sun
set after days fruitless angling when
he heard shout from the colored gen
tIeman, who had discovered shark on
one OF the lines that had been left out.
The coored gentleman was having
trouble in handling the beast, so the
New Yorker went to his assistance.
Together they pulled and hauled at the
line In vain. Another man on the pier
Joined in. and then the three braced
their feet against the rail and tugged
for all they were worth. But in spite
OF all they could do the line slipped
gradually through their fingers.
Finally all the slack was used up,
and the rope. coming taut against the
rail. snapped like thread. The New
Yorker has always wished he could
have had just one look at that shark
New York Post.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-27
playground ana Il, chnd.

@The proper playground SAYS Wiz
liam Merriman Rouse in the March is-
sue 81 The Countryside Magazine. ~
one Instrument ~ means of which TIE
ustafal insfiults Of TIE child. in them
asIras us.thar rnod nor Rad. are directed
into channels tbat lead % the hest re-
srHa far ~ Ada hiusrlf snd for ths
community Of ufieh - e. rnenher a
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