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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

Linvill F. Whitmore of this city, a substitute
carrier in the Waterville postoffice. went to
Waterville yesterday to do substitute work for
a time.
Emma White Barker Tent, D. of ", will
hold their July meeting July 28th instead of
July 23d, as at first planned, and will have a
birthday supper in honor of those whose birth
days occur between April lst and June 3Oth.
DR.. Samuel w johnson was taken ill Friday,
suffering slight shock, and as he gradually
los strength he was taken to the Waldo Coun-
ty hospital Monday for treatment and DIR. c..
B. lott of Liberty was called to see him on
that day His condition has not changed ma
terally since.
The quick work of the fire department with
out doubt saved serious fire last Monday
evening when they responded to a still alarm
for fire started by igniting gasoline in the
Reads garage. In about one and one-half
minutes after the alarm sounded the ose
was coupled to the hydrant and the fire extin-
guished.
Robert P. Chase had narrow escape from
serious injury Wednesday morning while at
Rocky Point cottage, Pitchers pond. He was
on the roof to examine the chimney and fell to
the ground, striking on his head and shoulders.
Dr. Harry L. Kilgore was called and on exami-
nation found no fractures, but the patient is
very lame He came home with the doctor,
and Mrs. Chase came later in the day.
The Christian Endeavor of the Baptist church
will have a social in the church vestry to-mor
row, Friday, evening at o'clock. Vocal and
instrumental music will be enjoyed, chorus
singing, and readings by Miss Alice Simmons
and Miss Helen Brier. Harry Upton OF Water
vile and Bertrand L. Davis, and others will
assist. Ice cream and cake and homemade
CANDY will be on SALE Admission ten cents.
The public is cordially invited.
Miss ENERGY CHM entertained the Once-in-
awhile club Monday afternoon at her home
in Primrose Hill. All the members were pre-
ant and Mrs. N. Louden Page of Beverly,
Mass, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. George
E. Kittredge, was a guest. Att o'clock the
hostess served supper in the dining room, the
guests seated at one large oval table, daintily
appointed. The menu was Strawberries on the
stem, lobster salad, hot rolls, grape sherbert,
cakes and coffee. Mrs. Virgil l.. Hall will be
the next hostess.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

That this country is infested with Ger
man spies and agents is fact establish
ed beyond dispute. Germany has for
years maintained a spy system in all the
leading nations-a part of the prepare
lions for the war she is now waging.
Since this war began, and Germany's re-
sort to measures. that deserve, and have
received, the condemnation of the civil
lied world, she has also attracted to her
service an army of cranks who welcome
the opportunity to kill and destroy in the
name of war. If Horne, the bridge
dynamiter is, as he claims, a German
officer, this and other overt acts commit
ted in her name constitute war against
this country, and the recent German note
has added insult to injury. The attempt
ed assassination Of Mr.. Morgan should
be regarded as warning. The lives Of
President Wilson and his advisors are in
real danger and they should be safe
guarded in every way possible. Our
public buildings, especially those at the
National Capitol, should be strictly
guarded, The Journal does not wish to
appear as an alarmist, but those who
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
THE DEMOCRATIC "WAR TAX.

WASHING TON, D. c., July IL, 1915
Every blunder in statute is gilt edgee
invitation to law suit.
A typical example of one of these invi
tations, SO numerous in practically every
important statute passed by the Demo
cratic Congress, occurs in Schedule B OF
the war tax" law. 1t threatens to vi.
tiate the effectiveness of the entire sche.
dule.
That provision declares that "perfum.
cry, cosmetics, and other similar arti-
cles,' shall be taxed. What are ''cos-
metics?' The ter m is general, not speci-
fic. 1t is not defined in the law, and the
question of what shall be termed COOS.
metic' has been plunged into doubt,
which the courts only canfnaly clear
up. A suit is now pending to determine
it.
From the earliest days of attempts to
enforce this schedule, there has been con-
tinual confusion. Many manufacturers
of articles of this character resisted the
tax, declaring that their goods were not
cosmetics" Revenue collectors were
at sea, and conflicting rulings from
Washington as to specific articles merely
added to the confusion, delay and expense
of administration.
The Internal Revenue Office finally
tried to settle the difficulty by ruling that
manufacturers of certain disputed pro-
ducts would be exempt from taxation if
they changed their advertising.
The levying of the tax was thus made
to depend, not upon the product itself,
but upon the way it was advertised, vir-
tually resolving portion Of Schedule B
of the "war tax" law into special tax
upon advertising rather than upon the
goods under discussion when Congress
enacted the statute.
1t is elementary in law that Inter
probation of law shall not .usurp the
function of legislation" This principle
has been violated in the administration
of the war tax" law. The Democratic
Congress named two conflicting dates as
to the time Schedule. B should take effect,
and the Internal Revenue Office by an
arbitrary ruling had to determine what
Congress intended.
The courts may decide that the same
thing has happened in the rulings as to
the tax OIL cosmetics" In any event
the history of this portion of the war
taxi law Has seryed TO emphasize the
slovenly methods employed by the Dem
ocratic Congress.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
cannot see the danger signals are blind in
deed.

The long-delayed German reply to the
American note of May 10th has been re-
ceived and as advance reports indicated
is not acceptable to the administration
or to the people of this country, with
probably the single exception of William
j. Bryan, who finds it admirable and
thinks that Americans should stay at
home until the Kaiser gets through with
his campaign of murder, lust and pillage.
Taken as whole the German note is a
distinct and final refusal of every de.
mand and request that the United States
has made regarding the methods of sub
marine warfare as carried on by Ger
many. In effect it justifies the mas
sacre of one hundred American citizens
on board the Lusitania. And it lays
down certain regulations under which
Americans may voyage to European
ports with some assurance of safety.
Some newspapers call this note evasive;
others more properly designate it as in
sulting and SO it is when translated from
the language OF diplomacy into the yer
nacular. President Wilson is up against a
hard proposition, but will have the whole
people with him if he maintains the
stand he has taken, let the consequences
be what they may.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

A mean old crouch says some travel
ing man might write book on How to
be Happy Though Married. ''-Atchison
Globe.
A book with this title was published
many years ago. In 1901 party of
Maine people were in bennington, Eng
land, and in a second hand bookstore one
of them happened upon the book en-
titled as above, and it was bought and
presented to young man just gradual
ed from college and promising subject
for matrimony. Not many years later
he was happily married, and when last
h card from had two little children who
were contributing to his happiness. The
''mean old crouch" is evidently not lit
erary person.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

Col. Harvey in the North American
Review: "That Secretary of State of
this Union should have seized upon a
moment which might have been fateful
to emphasize by both words and act an
impression which he must have known
to be false seems even in the face of the
facts incredible. But that is precisely
what Mr.. Bryan did, and he can never
be forgiven and can never again be
tolerated by American citizens who are
not wholly devoid either of intelligence
or of patriotism. Mr.. Bryan's official
career is ended. That he will continue
to exist as a public nuisance must be as
sumed."
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
GET RID OF nuM0Rs
and AVOID SICKNESS

Humors in the blood cause inter-
nal arrangements that affect the
whole system, as well as pimples,
boils and other eruptions, and are
responsible for the readiness with
which many people contract disease.
For forty years Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla has been more successful than
any other medicine in expelling
humors and removing their inward
and outward effects. Get Hood 8.
No other medicine acts like it.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

Col. Alden j. Blethen, who died July
18th in Seattle, Wash, was born in
Knox, Waldo county, and had won both
fame and fortune in journalism. A
sketch of his career was recently given
in The journal in an article on 1.-THE Re-
wards of Journalism Two sons sur
vive him to carry on his paper, the Seat
tie Times, one of the great newspapers
of this country, and for which he was
recently offered one million dollars.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

1t is given out at Washington that the
reply to Germany, now in course of pre-
paration, will be practically an ultima
tum. 1t will simply explain what Amer
lea plans to do in the future, and if our
lights are further violated war may then
be declared. Our government can do no
less under the circumstances, and in TAX
ing this stand the administration will
have the united support of the country,
north and south, east and west.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
why YOU ARE NERVOUS

Orhe nervous system is the alarm system
OF the human body.
In perfect health we hardly realize that
we have a network of nerves, but when
health is ebbing, when strength is declin-
ing, the same nervous system gives the
alarm in headaches, tiredness, dreamfu1
sleep, irritability and unless corrected,
leads straight to breakdown.
To correct nervousness, Scott's Emu1-
sion is exactly what you should take; its
rich nutriment gets into the blood and
rich blood feeds the tiny nerve-ce1ls while
the whole system responds to its refresh
ing tonic force. It is free from alcohol.
. Scott 8. Bovine, Bloomfield. M.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
State of Ohio. City of Toledo.

LUCAS OVuHIy.
Frank j, Cheney makes oath that a- 5 s'na
partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney a o
doing business in the City of Toledo ,sln!
and State aforesaid, and that said a-r 1- y
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS q
each and every case of Catarrh thst a3a13. Y
cured by the use of HALLS CA AkNt lI4
FRANK ]. CHENEI
Sworn to before me and subscribe % 2!
presence, this 9Th day of December. A Y "a
(SeaD A. W. I'll! ASVNr
Notary EuoE
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal! Wv
acts directly upon the blood and mucous W. "
faces of the system. Send for sslm'''A
free.
F. J. CHENEY & co, lQsl0,
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consalat0H'
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

July Sth the government took over tie
Sayville, L. l., wireless station, the
only remaining privately operated d.
rect mea of communication between
the United States and Germany, ard
which has been used as a lie factory in
the interest of the Kaiser.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

The Maine Central had balance at the
close of the fiscal year, June 3Oth, suffi-
Gent to pay 6 per cent and leave $50, 900
for operating, and is the only New Eng
land road to pay dividends.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
Waldo County Pomona Grange a

" afuo NUuHty OH1O1Ia GfdHEt al us .Ne
meeting in Belmont adopted Resolutions 4
ing DR.. L. S. Merrill of the Uniyesa7
Maine Extension Service to appoint "A
demonstration for Waldo county They
asked for the corporation of the Be fast Ba
of Trade in the matter, which was pOnP
granted. Mr.. Edward Evans has rac=w
letter from DR.. Merrill in which add
while nothing can be done this yaa- 40,
d demonstration may be provide t' Va
county next year.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

mo backward step in Maine" was
one of the topics at the National Anti
Saloon League session at Atlantic City
July 7th. At the morning session former
Gov. Foss of Massachusetts told the
delegates that national prohibition was
the only remedy to prevent industrial
decay in this country.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

Bryan back;::.in Nebraska, calls it
Goods country" Next he will be de-
handing "a place in the sun. '-PhilS-
delphia North American.
He probably says the same thing when
at his onion ranch in Texas, his oranl 9
grove in Florida, and-we forget the loca-
ton of his other estate.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

ADVERTISING TERMS. For one square, one
inch length in column, 25 cents for one week
and rs cents for each subsequent insertion.
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In advance, $500 a
year; S1.00 for six months: SO cents for three
months.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
No Referendum on Lobstsr Law

AUGUSTA. July 10. The refersua 5'i
tons bearing on the lobster lic- 8e
canvassed Monday at the office OF the sem
tary of State and it was found that ls rsis
endum would not be invoked i0asnlt- IS u
petitions lacked about 1880 name- .1s o"
essarY 10000
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

There have been many seasons when
everybody has looked and longed for
rain; when the earth was parched and
vegetation withered. We recall one
such drouth when the rain clouds gather
ed nearly every day and emptied their
contents on the other side of the bay,
never more than few tantalizing drops
falling here. Only last season streams
and ponds were unusually low and many
wells dry for months, and farmers had to
haul water for their stock and for domes
tic USE This season we have had sur
plus of rain that threatens a calamity.
Nothing less than a miracle-a late,
warm fall-can save the sweet corn crop.
In the few, and brief, intermissions be.
tween transforms, while high tempera-
lures may have prevailed during the day,
the nights have been cold. We have had
no ''corn weather." The hay crop is
also affected. This is the time for hay.
ing to begin and there has not been suffi-
scient sunshine to mature the grass and
it will shrink largely in the making.
Then, when planting and hoeing had
been deferred by the almost continuous
rain, and the earth was stated with mois.
ture, came last Thursdays storm, culmi-
mating at night in combined gale and
deluge that lodged the grass, played
havoc with the standing GRAIN and
wrecked the flower gardens. The wind
was southeast at first, but shifted to
northeast, and our northeast wind is
nearly as uncomfortable as Boston's east
wind. We know of but one poet who
has good word for the northeaster,
and that is Kingsley, whose poem opens
with these lines:
Welcome, wild Northeastern!
Shame it is to see
Odes to every Zephyr;
Meier a verse to thee.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

First real day of Summer. Boston
Globe.
Don't you mean the first day of real
summer?
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

Heavy. impure blood makes a mullg rng
complexion. headache, nausea. -i.sssi'
Thin blood makes you weak, pa l gi
For pure blood, sound digestian, Use lIJ
Blood Bitters. $1.00 at all stores
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
Political Points.

Enormous collections of corporation
and income taxes on the last day Of the
fiscal year enabled the Treasury Depart
ment to show balance of 1872, OPS, ZIG. O3
on hand June Both. Three days later,
at the close of the week, Saturday, July
Sd, the balance had dropped to SIS, 1874, :
544.7 Is. Two years ago, with Republi-
can laws and policies in force, and when
no special effort was made to make a
showing, the balance made up of the
same assets amounted to Sal, 172, $50. 16.
In three days of the new fiscal year the
ordinary expenditures amounted to $1O,-
1886, 274.67 while the receipts were only
81, 725, 75O.05 leaving deficit of So, &c.
524.63. The new fiscal year began with
a deficit growing at the rate of more
than So, 300, 900 per day.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

For any itching skin trouble, piles, eczema,
salt rheum, hives, itch, scald head, herpes,
scabies. Doan's Ointment is highly recon-
mended. Soc. a box at all stores.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

BIRD May Not Run This Year" is the
caption of news article in the Boston
Globe. Why don't he try flying?
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY

CHARLES A. PILsBuRY, Bu EdjssE Manager Sns
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

repeal, might find an answer from Demo
cratic sources if he would read the argu-
ments of the administration legal de-
partment which is pleading with the Su-
preme Court to declare the per cent re-
bate clause of the tariff bill imperative.
In effect, the Department of Justice
takes the position that the tariff bill au-
thors either did not know what they were
saying or how to say it.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

The Department of Commerce has is
sued statement showing that for the
year ending June 30, 1915, the increase
in population due to immigration was
only IS, 900 as compared with an increase
of no, 900 for the preceding fiscal year.
The decrease was due to the war. 1t
seems perfectly clear, therefore, that if
the war had not interviewed, we would
have had more than 700, 900 persons ad-
ded to the army of unemployed. where
as, in the years of normally prosperous
industrial conditions this country could
absorb the immigration without realiz-
ing that so large number of persons
had been added to our force of workers.
Here is another instance in which the
war relieved the Democratic party of
some of the consequences of its economic
policies
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

The Democratic U. S. Senator who
wanted to know what feature of Demo-
cratic legislation the Repuhlicana would
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

The Democratic press is waxing elo-
quent III commentator of the appoint
ment of Robert Lansing as Secretary of
State, the principal cause for the felici-
tation beng the fact that he is apparent
ly qualified for the job. 1t must be
admitted that the circumstances are such
as to make that member of the cabinet q
fit subject for special encomiums.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

The Democratic ''new era of hops"
which superseded the Republican era of
prosperity, is getting even more hope
full with the advent of the harvest sea-
son which always provides employment
for everyone.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

RooNJ PeN6S oeoLPS ale UclIlS DuL
on the market by Postmaster General
Burleson at the price formerly paid for
stamps of decent texture. A charac-
teristic Democratic method of calking
up the leaks caused by mal-administra-
ton.
Senator Jim Ham Lewis, having be-
come somewhat disguised with Illinois
politics, has crossed over to Indiana and
is now wallowing in the Democratic
slough of despond in that State. 1t is
reported that he is trying to convince
Senator Kern that he, Kern, would look
more dignified in jurist's gown than in
a senatorial toga which has worn pretty
ragged, and it is planned to cut down
Judge Grosscup's robe and make it over
for the Indiana senator. This seems to
be agreeable to Mr.. Kern, who has some
hesitation in facing the cold blasts of
criticism in his present abbreviated gar
ment. Kern snugly provided for, they
will consider putting Tom Taggart in his
place in the U. S. Senate. In the mean
while Taggart must face an indictment
for election frauds in Indiana.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-15

summer?
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Our Washington Letter.

policies
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-22

surgery and medicine and nursing
are not sufficient to cure all Of the
us OF humanity Machinery Is also
being called into service The war
hospitals Of Europe are now using
many mechanical devices to supple
ment the work OF the doctors in re-
storing wounded and sick soldiers TO
health and strength
The soldiers of ancient Rome who
had suffered long exposure had their
stinened joints and sore muscles re-
Ieyed by hand massage usually APP
piled by slaves trained for that pur-
pose. Massage is being given the
soldiers OF modern Europe by means
Of wonderful motordriven machine,
which can be applied to arm, leg or
body with a power regulated care
fully to suit the needs and conditions
Of the patient It is claimed that in
cipient rheumatism is checked in this
manner. The mechanical massage
Is preferred by many men to the
hand massage It is untirtng and
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and regular and can be prolonged
as desired when the periods of treat
ment by a human masseur must be
limited by the number of patients to
be treated.
Exercising machines for strength
ening unused muscles. as well as for
1inberins joints. during GONZALES
cence, are being used to large eS-
tent. a man recovering from a body
wound can lie quietly upon couch
while a motor-contco1led exerciser
raises his arm or leg up and down In
any position calculated to stimulate
circulation and restore the natural
freedom of action By the time his
wound is healed sufficiently for hin,
to be upon As feet, he finds him
self in much Better physical condi-
ton than If he had not had the ad-
vantage of having his limbs eNer-
cfsed- Every exercise is given under
the direction and careful supervision
Of doctors and nurses 50 that all dan
ger OF 1t being applied prematurely
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-22
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