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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
ARVY DOCTORS.
Their Great Services to the World and
to Medicine.

Their Great Services to the World and
to Medicine.
Wal. has always had great influence
on medicine, first developing the priest
physician, then the barber surgeon and
later the army medical officer. In war
time Pare devised the hgature for ar
teries, although he was not the first to
employ it.
Napoleon. who was often at a loss to
supply his army with food, made
awards, which, from an empiric and
practical standpoint, developed can
ming and the preservation of food be
fore bacteria We're known.
The American medical profession
will ever be under obligation to our
army medical officers for their services
to the world in the discoveries of nu-
merous diseases, their causes and pre-
vention, said Dr. Charles II. Mayo in
an address reported in the New York
Medical Journal.
Our army medical officers stand pre-
eminent in science. To Beaumont we
are indebted for the first report on di-
gestion, digestive fluids and gastric
movement from direct observation of a
patient with gastric fistula. To Sur
geon General William Hammond we
are indebted for the development of
the army medical museum.
Surgeon j. s. Billings fostered the
second largest and the best medical
library in the world. Surgeon General
Sternberg discovered the pneumococ-
Gus and founded the army medical
school and the government laboratories
of bacteriology and hygiene. Under
Sternberg's administration Major Wal
ter Reed, with James Carroll, Jesse w.
Lazear and Aristide Agramonte, proved
the mosquito to be the agent transmit
ting yellow fever.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
(June 25, 1861

(June Is, 1861
BY ERNEST McGAFFEY.
Beside the lone river
That idly lay dreaming,
Flashed sudden the cleaning
OF sabre and gun
In the light of the sun,
AS over the hillside the soldiers came
streaming.
One peal of the bugle,
In stiffness unbroken,
That sounded token
Of sOul-stirring strife,
Savage war to the knife.
Then silence that seemed like defiance
unspoken.
But out of an ambush
Came warriors riding,
Swift ponies bestriding,
Shook rattles and shells
With discord of yells,
That fired the hearts of their comrades
in hiding
Then fierce on the wigwams
The soldiers descended
And madly were blended,
The red man and white,
In hand-to-hand fight,
With the Indian village assailed and de-
Tended.
And there through the passage
OF battle-to spaces,
From dark lurking places
With blood curdling cry
And their knives held on high,
Rushed Amazon women with wild, paint
ed faces.
Then swung the keen sabres,
And flashed the sure rifles
Their message that STILES
The shout in red threats,
While the reckless bluecoats
Laughed on mid the fray as men laugh
over trifles.
Grim cavalry troopers,
Unshorn and unshaven,
And never a craven
In ambuscade caught,
How like demons they fought
Round the knoll on the prairie that mark
ed their last haven,
But the Sioux circled nearer,
The shrill war-whoop crying,
And death-hail was flying,
Yet still they fought on
Till the last shot was gone,
And all that remained were the dead and
the dying.
A song for their death, and
No black plumes of sorrow
This recompense borrow,
Like heroes they died,
Man to man-side by side;
We lost them today, we shall meet them
tomorrow.
And on the lone river
Has faded the seeming
Of bright armor cleaning,
But there by the shore
With the ghosts of no-more
The shades of the dead through the ages
lie dreaming.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
A Typewritinq Tip.

Having occasion to measure a cir
conference that figured out to tenths
Of an inch and not having a rule mark
ed to these divisions, says ]. Claude
Crews in the Popular Science Monthly,
l tried the following means of over
coming the difficulty: Going to a type
writer, 1 made row of periods, with
each tenth one a comma to show full
inches. This gave me rule marked
in tenths, also one that could be bent
around shafting, collars, etc. AS near
ly all typewrters make ten spaces to
an inch, it Is an easy matter to accom-
plish what seems to be difficult job.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23

For Infants and Children
I'm Use For Over 80 Years
Always bears ~ ----
s,xna sns q AaxNzA7<zsx
AN ASTONISHING STATEMENT.

Fifty-two million bushels of barley, AZ
million bushels of corn, and IL million
bushels of rice are yearly used in the
manufacture of alcoholic liquors in the
United States. At the average yield per
acre, the land required to yield these
cereals is about 3 million acres.
The average flow of water over Mag
ara Falls is 231, 900 cubic feet per second,
or about IL million gallons per second.
The total amount of alcohol drinks manu-
featured in the United States is about 2
billion gallons year. Thus, if the stream
of this gigantic cataract were turned to
liquor, it would require about 600 seconds,
or 10 minutes, at this prodigious rate, to
flow over the brink at Niagara, which is
four-fifths of a mile wide.
Broadway, New York, IA miles long,
and Fifth avenue, seven miles long, have
together about 5000 street entrances of
houses that are numbered. AS there are
200, 900 saloons in America, if every door
way on Fifth avenue and Broadway were
the entrance to bar, and all the bars
were on these streets, these thorough
fares would have to be respectively $50
miles long and ITS miles long.
biles sold in this country in the year
1856, valued at about one billion dol
lars, if converted into cash would produce
about 200 million dollars less than enough
money to buy out the stock and equip
ment of the American liquor trade.
Four million people could live for 100
days on the rye now used for drinkables.
Sc, 600, 600 people could live for 100 days
on the cornmeal so used.
10000, 900 people gould live for 100 days
on the rice so used
10000, 600 people could thus be kept
from starvation for 100 days on these
three cereals alone.
That is, the population of England
could subsist on these food supplies for
nearly six months.
The population of France could subsist
for nearly seven months.
In other words, the saving from these
three cereals alone could conceivably win
the war for the Allies.-The Worlds
Work.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
AMERICAN PROGRESS.

Scores of articles which contributed to
our comfort or actual needs, have been
reaching us for years in steadily increas-
ing quantities. 1t was so much cheaper
or easier to have these things brought in
ships, we paid little attention to what
might happen to that supply. Of late we
have been prospecting our mountains and
valleys, plains and ocean beds, and are
rapidly bringing to light undreamed of
resources. Our factories are already
manufacturing articles which three years
ago they could not produce. A few in
stances will suffice to illustrate the wide
spread effort, and afford great encourage
ment for the future.
For years our iron furnaces depended
on Germany for certain kind of clay
indispensable to their operation. So far
as anyone knew there was no clay equally
good in this country. A call was sent
out and 1900 samples were sent in. On
a supposedly worthless farm in southern
Illinois was found a vast deposit of clay
even superior to the imported. For months
past two steam shovels have been load
ing into cars this vital commodity, which
has proved it's ability to withstand sew
eral hundred degrees more heat than the
imported article
Chemists glassware, such as bowls, re-
torts, etc, has for years all been i'm
ported, and largely from Germany. That
supply also ceased abruptly. In response
to the dire necessities of our chemists,
some American glass makers were in
duced to try their hand with the result
that at the end of a year some startling
results have been achieved. Not only
has our homemade product been brought
up to the standard of the articles former
ly imported, but is even great deal bet
ter. One industrial chemist who operates
a large laboratory ordered a years sup
ply of the American product. Now, after
eight months use, he finds that at the
average rate of breakage the quantity
he has been buying every IL months is
going to last 90 months; or five years
life for the American product against one
year life for the foreign.
The same encouraging reports come
from many other directions A scientific
measuring instrument requiring very
great accuracy, the manufacture of which
has never been attempted here, is now
! made at home with results in every re-
spect equal to the imported article.
Whether our ability to do some things
| quicker than is done abroad will offset
| the difference in the cost of labor there
i and here, and so enable our manufactur-
ers to compete after the close of the war;
| remains to be seen.
The Diamond Match Co. has, at an ex-
| penditure of $4,000 erected plants by
which for the first time in this country
| high-grade muriate of potash is now pro-
| duced in commercial quantities. On &C
count of the higher cost of labor here, its
cost is more than that of the formerly
imported article. The young industrial
chemist never before had so promising a
future as here and now-Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
WAR TIME DRESSES IN FASHION.
The fashion editor of the Woman's
Home Companion says in the September

The fashion editor of the Woman's
Home Companion says in the September
issue:
The new one-piece dresses introduce
many novelties. Sometimes there are
long side tunics which give the effect of
a coat dress. Sometimes the loose hang
ing belt is replaced by row Of buttons
little above the normal waistline Then
again the dress may be plain to military
severeness, and have as it's only novelty
the belt. Such dress of khaki gabar-
dine has the belt starting from the left
shoulder, coming down over the bust,
and fastening toward the right Just above
the normal waist line.
combinations of fabrics will be speci-
ally seen this fall. In these wearable
one-piece dresses duvetyn with broad
cloth finish will be combined with crepe
de chene, plaid velour with black satin,
and Jersey cloth with broadcloth. The
collars are much smaller and lie flat
"Sleeves are, of course, long, and are
apt to be of a contrasting material.
When they are of crepe or chiffon cloth
new touch is to band them with the cloth
of the dress-one band buttoned at the
wrist and one diagonally strapping the
upper arm.
''The chemise dress is another model
which will be worn again this fall. Here
Madame Fashion suggests very narrow
underskirt. You see, she can't get away
from her real nature. No matter how
hard she tries to be good, she must be a
little bad. So now she advocates the
one-and-one-half-y underskirt
for the chemise dress. There's where
the wink comes in! The average busy
woman, however, will keep her skirt
about two yards wide or wider"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
ORDEAL OF GRAMMAR.
How Il Came to Be inflicted Upon an
Unoffendinq Public.

OuOu0u0tu9
The world reached its highest known
stage of intelligence before grammar
was even invented, much less studied.
have had some curiosity to lind out
where and how so great blight upon
young life first came into being and
why it ever became school study,
and l find that the Greeks knew 1t
not; that their triumphant literature
and their matchless oratory came to
flower before grammar was dreamed
of; that it was not in any sense one
of the great arts which they wrought
out and with which they armed the
human race.
l find that after Greece had declined
a barbarous Macedonian made himself
the owner of all Egypt, and in order to
surround himself with the most spec
tacular form of ostentation OF which
his vain mind could conceive he set to
collecting not only all the rare and
precious objects and books and manu-
scripts there were in the world, but he
capped it all by making a collection Of
the living men of the world who had
any reputation anywhere for knowing
and thinking Taking them from their
homes where they had some relation
to the daily necessities Of human be-
ings and had really been Of some use,
he shut them up for life in one Of his
palaces at Alexandria, which the folks
there were in the habit of calling ''the
hencoOp Of the muses." and out of
sheer desperation, since they could do
nothing better to amuse themselves,
they counted the words in the books
which real men had written and pre-
pared tables of the forms and endings
which the users Of words employed.
The lifeless dregs of books which
their distilling left we now call gram
mar and study instead of books and
even speech itself. In their lowest
depth of Indifference to the moving,
pulsing life of man not even the Alex
andrians sank so low as that.-Ernest
c. Moore in Yale Review.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
PEAT IN MAINE.

Name mas its proportionate supply of
4 and il is of fully as high quality as
'olnd elsewhere, according to the
Dual report of Freeman F. Burr of
4at, the State geologist, which has
70 .iled with the governor and council.
So far as is KNOWN" states Mr.. Burr
OILS report, little attempt has been
ode to utilize the supply, and therefore,
@cally nothing is known by direct
2tIlment within the State in regard
,ae profit to be expected from its
EoJatlon
The great majority of the deposits
are large enough to warrant expect
Nls OF commercial use are in the less
waited portions of the State, and it is
aod0Ie that practically all of the peat
Z Will be considered for commercial
SpoSes IN the immediate future lies be-
'"3 the coast and line drawn across
Siate from Houlton to the Rangeley
STs Large peaty areas exist north OF
-He bat most of those seen were
guy wooded and very wet. The great
,,a,Western area of the State, north
" tom Moosehead Lake and Mt. ka-
..@ Is we'll supplied with lakes and
SAPs, and should afford peat in con-
S.aolf beds. 1t is, however, practi-
!. without transportation facilities,
- " Was considered too inaccessible
NaaetlcaI exploration in the limited
y, allowed for the present work. The
I, ~'iy close to the ST. John river shows
~, nat is promising.
b. ae most valuable peat beds at present
. ~a0le he in Androscoggin, Aroostook
.usrn part Cumberland, Kennebec,
by Lincoln, Penobscot and Washing
o1ntles, with subordinate supplies in
c NY O. Plscataquis, Waldo and York.
NJ, Tue total peat area examined is esti-
w.. ~. at about so square miles, with an
@see depth of eight feet. This gives
@,oSImately $4,000, 900 short tons as
'0Ssible yield of air dried peat.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
sHIpBUILDING.

s,i5 that in addition to the hulls
4 srnment ships to be built by E. S.
,f Bath in the old Southland ship
y, Richmond, Mr.. Crosby will also
+mo schooners on his own account.
~ far the vessels has been stumb-
InrL the plans. 1t was known
lsrge mount of splendid oak was
! ..rs on The Capt. George H. Theobald
' w The lower end of Swan island
~ # Perkins, in the Kennebec oppo.
4 p,rRmond, but the "busyhodies"
i hat the price would be prohibitive,
4. c,ntain would sell at all. But
Y, Nr Crosby and Capt. Theobald got
5,,,sr II was a simple matter. Said
."+ George: eff you'll build a couple OF
amer, m Richmond, go ahead and get
ms Wen agree all right on the
/. And the craft will be built, at
.s5 east of 5000, 900 which certainly
IL, fine outlay of money for this
famous Shipbuilding village.
sr.ts S Pendleton of New York, who
..g'y purchased the William 7. Donnell
,r,r5 AT Bath, was in that city on Sat
IN and announced his intention OF
INN 5eeiuning work on two good sized
smers The prospects of shipbulldlng
Fan during the coming year are very
I'm and something will be doing at all
] ards.
.I07m,tIng has actually commenced at
3raon Springs, where keel has been
Famed end frames for big four-master
rDg put in place, for the first time
aver az Years. The master-bullder
\ tsy working about the old yard
-tt asst craft was launched. Pre-
gons are going on at Standpoint
l. traftng loft, blacksmith shop and
rb.Iiings are under way and side
Ia fum the Seaport division of the
l.or a Aroostook is being built. 1t is
fscted that the first of several keels to
wetched will be an event of the late
Of early spring. In both places 1t
ascase Of beginning with not YES
! fof The Old yards left.
Lumber has commenced to arrive from
vata to be used in the construction
Toe wooden ships that will be built in
Portland Ship Ceiling Co.'S yard in
N was formerly East Deering for the
gd States government. Now that
lumber IS in the yard the keel for the
Uoat VIII be laid at once and the
d of instruction fastened as fast as
i3bs as he contract calls for the de-
cry Il the first ship in six months from
pint Of he arrival of the lumber, the
a bre= ships to follow at intervals
fHtays
al the contemplated shipyards be-
be assured facts it is difficult to see
s.ae the necessary mechanics to run
"a can be secured. One of the most
s-saols shlpbuilding plants lately start
mat at Newlngton, N. H., where II
famed 10 lay eight ways to allow fol
Construction of eight ships at one time.
l1gorS Of the grading and clearing the
gong on, and contracts are said to
le been placed for As, 900, 900 feet Of
s@!sa pine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23

decided to try bottle of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It worked
from the first bottle, so I took a'second
and a third, also bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham' 3 Blood Purifier, and now am
just as well as any other woman. l ad-
wise every woman, single. or married,
who is troubled with any of the afore-
said ailments, to try your wonderful
Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier
and am sure they will help her to get
rid of her troubles as they did me. -
Mrs. ELSIE J. VAN DER SANDE, 36 No.
York St., Paterson, N. j.
Write the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., (confdential) Lynn, Mass, if you
need special advice.
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RIiaafuI Qccupation.

The little boy had told little girl
that he loved her, and the teacher Or
dered him to write Il love Bessie on
the blackboard 100 times.
"But that was no punishment" said
the teacher later. "He would cheer
fully have written it 1000 times."-
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
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actIess.

'Is Mr.. Flubdub busy?" asked the
diffident customer.
''Mr. Flubdub Is always busy" re-
piled the pompous attendant.
"Well, let him stay busy" And that's
how Mr. Flubdub lost big order
Louisville Courier Journal
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Hard Ones Too.

Little withdrawals the name of
the Teller what calls on yer sister,
Little JOHNNY don't know yet. Pop
calls him something different every
lime he comes.-Exchange
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He EXPLAINS.

How did you get rid of all your
money!"
"Some of it l was touched for and
some of it l was tagged for.'-Louis-
Vile Courier-.Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23

nave maze me well
and healthy. Some
time ago I felt SO
run down, had pains
in my back and side,
was very irregular,
tired, nervous, had
such b ad dreams,
did not feel like eat
ing and had short
breath. I read your
advertisement in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
BELFAST AND BURNHAM,

On and after June Is. 1917. trains connecting
at Burnnam and Waterville with through trains
for and from Bangor, Waterville, Portland and
Boston, will run daily. except Sunday, fol-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
||FNA QUICKLY
ENDS INDIGESTION

h not continue to suffer with heart,
dizziness, after dinner distress,
is "sAe, biliousness, pain in the bowels
! W. and gassy stomach. Get relief at
In, ouy today-a SOC. box of Mi-o-na
s,t; They quickly and surely end in
rs s.io4 and stomach distress-or money
vO' A. A. Howes & Co. can sup
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23
Cosmopoiitan.

Head Barber-Have you any particu-
lar choice in shaving mugs? First As
sistant-Not bit. l shave them all.
Puck.
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THE NEW SEIIPYARD.

/
Great Master Builder Of the Universe.
we feel to lift our hearts in thanks to
Thee, ''> y
Whene'er we view the changes which
| have come
| To this New England village hv the can,
The Shipyard which for many years has
lain ~ .'
IN sad and melancholy "desuetude,"
NOW rings again with hammer. axe and
saw;
And oh! the sound of it to us is good!
how much we owe the small but earnest
OF faithful workers in this enterpriseI
How much the Master-Builder, who has
come
To work SO tireless, meath his cold
home" skies!
And, too, the woman, whose great love
of home,
Brought the shipbuilding thought to life
Her name should grace the vessel when
she leaps
So proudly out into the waiting main.
A staunch, brave vessel bounding from
the ways,
We had not thought 'twould be our low
to see!
1t brings the promise of the olden DAYS
To our beloved -by-the-Sea.
And when the day for launching yet
shall come,
And we shall see her proudly take the
sea,
Great Master, we shall lift our hearts
again,
In joyful praise and gratitude to Thee!
HARRIET D. HICHBORN,
Stockton, Maine, August 9, 1917.
sci was named, and was not published
earlier on account of lack of room in our
columns last week.
The following poem WAS written inst
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WOMAN NOW IN
PERFECT HEALTH
What Came From Reading
a Pinkham Adver-
tisement.

Paterson, N. J. -"I thank you for
the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies as they
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-23

The following poem was written Just
after General Custer and his entire COM
mand had been killed in battle with the
Indians.
LITTLE BIG HORN.
The Washington times., 1917-10-08
Every Woman Needs
These WearableS

Daily necessities to the woman
who prides herself of being a good
homekeeper:
Bungalow Aprons, 75c
Made Of neat figured or plain pink
and blue percale-- Trimmed with rich-
rach braid. Other styles at $3.50.
Genuine Amoskeag Gingham House
Dresses, $1.50
In plain colors, neat stripes and
checks; some with pipinEs on body, and
pockets of plain colors- Also few reg
ulation striped and plain blue uniforms
among the lot.
Flannelette Nightgowns, 81
Special values In this assortment Of
plain colorS and stripes. with or without
collars; scalloped or silk stitched trim
mings. Regular and extra sizes
Flannelette Petticoats, Soc
In neat stripes, plain tucked hens or
scalloped French band.
Heatherbloom Petticoats, Special,
$1.50
The only rival Of real silk skirts IN
black. rose, green. tan and other favored
color8 Neat tailored f1ounce; elastic
waist. Other styles, to 50
Palais ROyaHThird FloOr.
The Washington times., 1917-10-08
Ch1dren'S Goats and
Other WearableS

Particularly select stocks Of new au-
tumn wearables for children to years
are featured for Tuesday. although the
juniors department abounds with special
values In new things.
Values to $3.50 Coats, $5.9S
OF ZIbelene, Chinchilla, plush. velvet
and novelty fabrics. Beautiful styles. In
black and colors- Values to $3.50. at t5.sS.
Sizes to 6.
Infants Dresses, 81
Long and short-of finest nainsook
and longcloth; made with dainty yokes;
tucked shocked, embroidered or feather
stitched; some with lace and embroidery
on skirts
Wonderful Dresses, $1.9S
Remarkable styles in India Linen,
Madras and LInene dresses; daintily
shocked, with cute little pockets trim
med in rose, green, blue and Gretchen.
Sizes I to years. CHiEh waist-line
models)
Sleeping Garments at 59c
For infants and to years. Made OF
white daisy cloth: some finished with
neat braid; loose or draw-string bottoms.
Teddy Bear Blankets, 81
In big variety-those warm Beacon
Blankets IN new patterns; pink. blue and
white; extra large sizes-
PaIaIs RoyaI-Third FIoor.
The Washington times., 1917-10-08

IS inches wide; q soft,
sIlken weave, for Milady's
undergarments. Unexcelled
qualities, in white, Alice.
resedA, silver. rose and
kings blue.