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The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
Stories by Kate Rose
THE COLD DAY

I'm going to tell you what happened
one day. Pm butterfly and almost a
fairy; it happened because Pm almost a
fairy, Well, it was colder day than
had thought it would be and | was numb
there on pansy. Out from the great
wooden thing humans call house, little
human came She had fluffy black hair
and eyes, and such red lips! She picked
three pansies and then she said to the doll
she had brought out with her, Nov
Mary, l want to pick the pansy with the
butterfly on it, for want to show him to
Mother" | wrung my wings the way
humans do their hands. | was so cold
that before l could move, she had cover
ed me with her little hands and was car
rying me into house. l wrung my wings
again was so frightened; but she put me
in box with cloth over the top, and a
bunch of pansies, so | could get my din
ner. After she had done that, she showed
me to her mother but before that she had
said, "Now butterfly darling, | am your
mother and my mother is your grandma. !"
But still l wanted to get away so flap
ped my wings and wrung my wings, and
then she let me 60 | mean little Helen
did, for that was her name. So got my
dinner without any work, and now have
experience.
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
Ask Gran'ma, She Knows.

Our grandmothers knows that millions
OF people, children and adults, have
worms, either in stomach or bowels. This
trouble is lust as frequent now as it ever
was but people don't know it. Ask Grand
ma-she knows!
A Roxbury, Mass, Grandmother writes
to Or. j. F. True & Co, Auburn, Maine,
saying: II have always used your Dr.
True's Elixir for my children and thew
are all healthy and well today.
II put great faith in your medicine and
one OF my children was dying. The doc
tor SAID she could not live until morning
and ran out to the drug store, got bot
tie OF Irue's Elixir, was so excited gave
her the half of the bottle at once and at
night gave her the other half. thought
us either Kill or cure for the doctor saws
she is dying anyway, but she did not die.
She went to sleep, the first sleep for a
week and the next morning she passed
Two worms, red in color, six inches long.
Inc doctor came to see if she was dead
but ne ran out pretty quick as she was
sitting IN her chair eating a bowl of oat-
meal and milk. That was twenty four
years ago and now she has a baby girl of
her own, seven months old, who is also
using the Elixir
Take DR., True's Elixir-give it to your
children-The Great Family laxative and
Worm Expeller.i
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
CAPTURING A GERM AN COLONEL

AS the troopships have come into the
Port of New York in recent months, !
could not help but remember while
watching the soldiers on board make
game of the pompous municipal officials
and other formal greeters on the Patrol,
the words of a solemn English army officer
as he described these same American
boys in the thick of war
'StraordinaryP' drawled the English
man. Il mean to say, your American
soldiers do not take even war and death
seriously. Now, when one of our Tom
mics arrives back of the lines with pris-
oners he may have bit of grin on his
face. The poilu is a very solemn looking
chap as he escorts his German prisoners
rearward. But your American boys-my
word! Eve seen them come into French
village walking Just behind most furi
GUS Hun colonel colonel, mark you'll
and laughing uproariously as they prod
the colonel, harmlessly and playfully,
with the tip of bayonet. And while
this Hun colonel chap protested vigor-
ously the American boys continued to
spool their prisoner while proddiDg him
along. Make it snappy, kid!' Step
lively-plenty of room in the forward
part of the carr Officer, he's in againP
Hey. Jimmy! Lookut this perfectly
good colonel-the cat dragged inP'-all
that sort of tommy-rot. "-"When the
Troopshlps Come In" in the March Red
Cross Magazine.
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
1.-THE S'PRISE PARTY THAT
STAYEDo

AS Betty sat looking out of the window
her mother came into the room.
whats the matter, Betty2" asked her
mother.
'Well, Mother, l wish we weren't SO
poor; want birthday present or party. :"
"Well we are poor; all we have is garb-
age;' and away her mother went.
Betty Stitches still sat looking out the
window; it was warm and cosy in the
little cabin, but they were poor, oh very
poor, and that's what Betty thought
about Suddenly something fitted across
the expanse of white snow dotted here
and there with trees. Betty looked again !;
the shadow took the form of mother cat
and her kittens; they came to the door of
the little cabin. Betty jumped up and
ran to the door to let them in.
'Oh, | hope we can keep them," she
thought.
All three were beautiful gray. On
the mother cats collar tag was pinned
which said in pink and gilt letters, 81
don't know who you are, but I am a
s'prise party for you. Will you please
keep me and my babies?"
Betty took them to her mother, who
said, "Well, since we have lots of 9arb-
age you can keep them
So Betty kept them, and she called
them the rs prise Party That Stayed"
To be Continued.
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
Notice of Foreclosure

Whereas, Daniel F. Walton of Caribou,
IN the County of Aroosto0h and State of
Maine, by his mortgage deed dated the
fifteenth day of November, A. D. 1914,
and recorded in Waldo Registry of Deeds,
Book 305, Page 297, conveyed to me-, the
undersigned, certain parcel of real es-
tate, situate in Unity, in the County of
Waldo and State of Maine, and bounded
and described as follows, to wit: A GER
tain lot or parcel of land, together with
the buildings thereon situate, located in
the town of Unity, in said County of
Waldo and State Of Maine, and bounded
and described as follows, to wit: On the
northerly SIDE by land owned or occupied
by Alonzo Bacon, November Is, 1914; on
the easterly side by lands owned or occu-
pied by Torrey MCGEE. November Is,
1874, and Jane Stevens, a part of the land
herein described as the easterly boundary,
having formerly been owned by one Rob-
ert Cornforth; on the southerly side by
the road leading from Thorndike to Jones'
Corner; and on the westerly side by the
road leading from Unity Village to Jones'
Corner; being the same premises convey
ed to said Daniel F. Walton by Isadore and
Horace Graves; and whereas the condi-
ton OF said mortgage has been broken,
now therefore, by reason of the breach of
the condition thereof claim foreclosure
of said mortgage
Dated the eighteenth day of February,
A. d. 1919. NICHOLAS WALTON.
D. M. 3w8
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
Income Tax Due.
Returns Must be Filed on or Befor. M..,
18th. Bill Provides Heavy Penalties.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. a. Work
on the collection of Sc, 900, OOO, 600 has
been begun by the Bureau of Internai
Revenue. This is the estimated Weld Of
the new revenue bill. The income tax
provisions of the act reach the pocket.
book of every single person in the United
States whose net income for 1919 was
81, 900, or more, and of every married
person whose net income was So. OO(l or
more. Persons whose net income email
led or exceeded these amounts, ACCORDING
to their marital status, must file a return
of income with the collector of internal
revenue for the district in which thew
live on or before March 18TH
Here is what will happen to them if
they don't; for failure to file a return on
time, fine of not more than 81, 900 and
an additional assessment of Is per cent
of the amount of tax due
For "wilfully refusing" to make a re-
turn on time a fine not exceeding $40. =
600, or not exceeding one years impris-
onment, or both.
For making a false or fraudulent re-
turn, fine of not more than $4,000, or
Imprisonment for not more than one
year, or both, together with an addition
al assessment of so per cent of the amount
of tax evaded.
For failure to pay the tax on time,
fine of not more than 81, 900 and an addi-
tional assessment of per cent of the
amount of tax unpaid, plus | per cent in
terest for each full month during which
it remains unpaid.
In addition to the 81, 900 and So, 900 per-
sonal exemptions, taxpayers are allowed
an exemption of $500 for each person de-
pendent upon them for chief support if
such person is under eighteen years of
age and incapable of self support Under
the 1917 act, this exemption was allowed
only for each dependent "child." The
head of a family-one who supports one
or more persons closely connected with
him by blood relationship, relationship
by marriage, or by adoptlon-ls entitled
to all exemptions allowed a married per-
son.
The normal rate of tax under the new
act is per cent of the first So, 900 OF net
income above the exemptions, and IL per
cent of the net income in excess OF 81, =
900. Incomes in excess of S5,0O0 are
subject also to a surtax ranging from l
per cent of the amount of the net IN
come between IS, 600 and Sc, 900 to % per
CeuI Oh tie net lhCoiho dpo'c ~i'o'o, wv
Payment of the tax may be made IN
full al the time of filing return or IN four
instaiments, on or before March 10Th,
on or before June 18th, on or before Sep
TENDER 18TH and on or before December
18th
Revenue officers will visit every coun-
ty in the United States to aid taxpayers
in making out their returns. The date
of their arrival and the location OF their
offices may be ascertained by lnqulrlng
at offices of collectors of internal reVe-
nue., post offices and banks. Failure to
see these officers. however, does not re-
lieve the taxpayer of his Obligation to
file his return and pay his tax within the
time specified by law. In this case tax
payers must seek the Government, not
the Government the taxpayer.
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
TRANSFERS IN REAL ESTATE.

The following transfers of real estate
were recorded in Waldo County Registry
OF Deeds for the week ending Feb. "a, 1919.
Dora P. Shute ct ais, Stockton Springs,
to Dora P. Shute, do, trustee for Nellie
G. Shute; land and buildings in Stockton
Springs.
Louis DeLemos, Belfast, to Abbie De-
Lemos, do; land and buildings in Stock
ton Springs.
Walter j. Cochran, Frankfort, to Geo.
c. Ward, do; land in Frankfort.
James A. Pierce, Jr, Stockton Springs,
to Charles Robert Wright, do; land and
buildings in Stockton Springs.
j. E. Stoddard, New York, N. Y, to
Osborn H. Wade, LincolnviIle; land and
buildings in Lincolnville.
Arthur M. McNaIly, Burnham, to Joseph
Arnold, DO; land and buildings in Burn
ham.
Wilbert S. York, Belfast, to Walter D.
Lowe, Frankfort; land in Frankfort
Mary A. Floyd, Belfast, to Margaret
Clements, do; land and buildings in Bel
fast.
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
WANT U. S. TO BUY COTTON.

WASHINGTON. One of the features
of the last days of this session is a be-
lated attempt of the Southern Demo
Gratis to conduct raid on the public
Treasury Of wholesale proportions, North
ern members of Congress say.
Evidence of the intention of the DEM
ocrats to get their share while the getting
is good is seen in three legislative pro-
posals now before the Congress. These
are:
1. The $1,000, 900, 900 wheat bill, which
the Southern members insist should be
amended to have the Government buy
the cotton crop at the war price of 80
cents pound
Z. The public buildings bill shortly to
be reported by Chairman Frank Clark of
Florida, containing an appropriation for
almost every Congressional district in
the South.
g. The rivers and harbors bill as re-
ported to the Senate by Chairman Fetch
er OF Florida containing among others ap-
preparations for some Florida works never
heard of before by many of he members.
The Republican journal., 1919-02-27
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used in the back lines, as was the old
Oregon in this war, but after that they
are principally useful to look at. When
they become obsolete they are liability
and not an asset. A modern ship can
hold position Just outside the range of
an old one and pound her to pieces with
no more danger to herself than if she
were attending Sunday-school picnic.
At the Battle of Santiago the New York
Just was not in the fight at miles away.
Admiral Plunkett told our committee that
the l4-inch naval guns he took aboard
could drop shells on Germans % miles
off, and those shells were Just as trouble
some after they arrived as if they had
only travelled mile. To be sure they
were fired on land, but our sea ranges
have increased greatly in 20 years.
We propose, then, to substitute for %
battleships by that time obsolete. 10 bat
tleships of the best we can build-and
that means the best in the world. We
shall have put out of the line total of
308, lao tons and put in 420. 600 | ask
you if that SO far is an unbusinessike or
an improper thing to dog
The rest of the program is 10 scout
cruisers. They do not take the place of
anything, but there is an urgent indie
pendent reason for them We have been
deficient in these vessels for some time.
We have three small ones, of only about
% or "a knot speed, and practically obso-
lete.
The lessons of this war have strongly
impressed naval men with the Importance
of these vessels. They are the eyes of
the fleet, and to make it most efficient
we must have them if nothing else is
done. They add only 70, 900 tons to the
Navy, but they are highly important tons
on account of the speed with which our
American ingenuity will be able to carry
them through the water.
So long as we have Navy it should be
we'll balanced. We got top-heavy with
destroyers during this war. | do not count
Eagle boats, which Mr.. Ford was to build
and which, | understand will not float, or
some little matter of that sort, but good,
reliable American destroyers, such as we
produced in record time to meet this
emergency. These vessels did magniti-
cent service and we want to keep them.
| was told in Queenstown last summer
that rs of our destroyers were admitted
by British officers to be equal to 80 of
theirs. Incidentally we were shown as
American destroyer in the harbor of
Queenstown which was said to be the
best destroyer ever built, and | am proud
to say that she was built and launched in
record time at Bath, Me. Useful vessels
like this, new and effective, we want to
keep. When heavy vessels are built it is
necessary to provide lot of small ones
to go with them. In this case we will
not have to. The Navy will be rounded
out better by having these heavier ships.