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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 1, 1907

Mrs blooms Evanescent bonnet Miss La Fields millineryshop stood a little back frpm the main street in Dorset It held itself aloof as it were from the tinsmiths on one side and the Vienna bakery on the other both of which stood vulgarly close to the walk and to the curious eyes of the passers by But this only lent additional charm a certain mystery to the trim shop be tween them with its gay bonnets look ing demurely from the windows There was a certain delicious French iness about the place that went to the heart of every Dorset womanfrom the La before the little milliners name to the inimitable twist she could give a bow the spirit of France breathed forth As Mrs Bloom said Its like hevin a foreign native livin right long with us But truth must out There was nothing French about Miss La Field in fact it was well known that her father came from a small island west oi England whose inhabitants do not love the English and her mothers maiden name was OConnor the apos trophe being added when she came to the shtates How the La came was no mystery It

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1907

THE BEST TIMBER TREES How the Government Studies Them for thi Benefit of Forest Owners and the Public Timber owners and manufacturer will be interested in the results of thi detailed studies of commercial timbei trees which the Forest Service of thi V S Department of Agriculture ii making These studies are not confined exclusively to the wellknown trees oi recognized value but owing to thf rapid decrease in the supply of oui valuable woods include those cheapei woods whose properties are imperfect ly known Such studies of the tupelc gum and western hemlock have done much to overcome the common preju dice against these species and have add ea materially to their commercial im portance Commercial tree studies begin with the tree in the forest and follow it all the way to the finished product in the market The intermediate steps are many and complex but a little expla nation of them may not be amiss since they typify the field methods of a forest investigation The selection of a suitable place is the first step in this the aim is to ob tain average conditions as far as pos sible When the range of the species to be

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 29, 1907

MY MISSION I live for those who love me Whose hearts are kind and true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit too For all human ties that bind me For the task my God assigned me For the bright hopes left behind me And the good that I can do 1 live to learn their story Who suffered for my sake To emulate their glory And follow in their wake liards patriots martyrs sages The noble of all ages Whose deeds crown historys pages And times great volume make 1 live to hold communion With all that is divine To feel there is a union Twixt natures heart and mine To profit by affliction Reap truth from fields of fiction Grow wiser from conviction And fulfil each graud design I live to hail that season By gifted minds foretold When man shall live by reason And not alone by gold When man to man united And every wrong thing righted The whole world shall be lighted As Eden was of old I live for those who love me For those who know me true For the heaven that smiles above me And awaits my spirit

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 19, 1907

Across the Isthmus in 45 Reminiscences of the Trip of Hon A G Jewett and His Family en route to Peru Of an early number of the Pine Tree Magazine the Journal said that every issue contained something of local in terest to Maine peoplereminiscent historical or descriptiveand the mag azine continues to maintain its repu tation in this respect The August is sue contains an artiele entitled A Maine Mans Trip Across the Isthmus in 1845 A Personal Experience in the Canai Zone which aside from its his torical value will interest the many in this section who knew the Hon A G Jewett his daughter Mrs Harris and her family The author of the article is Jane W Harris a granddaughter of Mr Jew ett After some interesting remarks concerning the Panama canal now in course of construction Miss Harris says In 1845 the execrable seddorethe cursed thirst for gold bad not settled upon our country Four years later in 1849 thousands were making their way across the Isthmus to California under tremendous hardships moved by that greatest drawing power on earth the chance however uncertain of be coming rich but in 1845 the Isthmus was a practically

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 26, 1907

Maines Vital Statistics 16003 Children Born in 1905 i6f Twin Births and One Triple Birth Three Men and One Woman Martied the Filth Time lr A G Young registrar of vital statistics tuts submitted bis last annual report that tor 1905 The number of children born in the State in 1905 was 10005 of which 15294 were living and 11 stillbirths Of the living children of which the sex was certified 7794 were males and 7483 females For each 100 girls born there were 1041 boys The birth rate in the cities per 1000 population was 2058 as compared with 2182 the birth rate of the rest of the State As it has invariably been since regis tration beguu in the State the birth rate was the highest in Aroostook county 3400 and the lowest in Waldo 1452 Of the total births 0008 per cent were of native parents 2079 of foreign parentage and 1799 of parents one of whom was foreign Lincoln county had the largest percentage of nativeborn parents 9101 per cent and only 058 percent in which both parents were foreign born High percentages of foreign horn parents were found in Androscoggin county 3960 and in York

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 3, 1907

FAR WEST FARMER Bruce 6 Eaton and Bis Farm of 23000 Acres A visitor from the west came to Springfield the other day and has gout away with the impression that the Con neticut valley is the prettiest place that he has ever seen This man was Bruce G Eaton theownerof a little farm in Colorado near the town ol Greeley which is in the center of one of the richest farming sections of the state and thanks to irrigation one ol the best of the country Mr Eatons little farm comprises at present 23000 acres of which 1300 are under cultivation and Mr Eaton is making preparations to till about 500C more the coming year Mr Eaton is the son of one of the pioneers of that section who crossed the plains in 1850 Mr Eaton was married about 1C years ago his wife being a native ol Colorado bat also a graduate of Mt Holyoke college so that they have a tie with the east The town in which they live is Greeley named after Hor ace Greeley and it is a beautiful town about 52 miles north of Denver The homestead was but the begin ning of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 17, 1907

THE FARM HOME MAKER The Importance of Good Citizenship on the Farm President Roosevelt at Keokuk Iowa You in Iowa have many mauutac taring centers but you remain aiul I hope you will always remain a great agricultural State I hope that the means of transporting your com modities to market will be steadily im proved but this will be of no use un less you keep producing the commodi ties and in the long run this will large ly depend upon your being able to keep on the farm a high type of citizenship The effort must be to make farm life not only remunerative but attractive so that the best young men and girls will feel inclined to stay on the farm and not to go to the city Nothing is more important to thiscountry than the perpetuation of our system of mediumsized farms worked by their owners We do not want to see our farmers sink to ttie condition of the peasants of the Old World harelv able to live on their small holdings lior do we want to see their places taken by wealthy men owning enormous estates which they work purely by tenants and hired

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 24, 1907

AT VALLEY EORGE Dedication of Memorial Tablet to Maine Soldiers Valley Forge Pa Oct 17 In i the presence of a large assemblage of men prominent in Maine and Pennsyl t vania a monument to the memories of soldiers from the State of Maine who were at Valley Forge in the winter of 17771778 wasunveiled this afternoon at the historic camp George E Fellows president of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution presided at the exercises Governor Cobb of Maine presented the monument to the Valley Forge Park commission and it was accepted by W H Sayen a member of the com mission Gov Cobb spoke as follows Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen The whole country owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who justly proud of their ancestry have done so much to perpetuate the deeds and memories of those who participat ed in the struggle for independence and constitutional liberty in America A definite motive inspired the great commonwealth upon whose soil we stand today and whose guests in a sense we are to set aside to care for and to consecrate forever to a reverent patriotism this hallowed and historic

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 31, 1907

Literary News and Notes In their November issue the editors of Modules have more than justified the recent raise in the price of the magazine The articles are varied and vital and there is a new note of dis tinction in the fiction George Keu uaus article on criminal government should arouse the public conscience It tells of conditions which every citi zen of this democracy should know a gang of criminals in municipal con trol fostered vice as a moneymaking scheme debauching the social and business life of a great city beginning with prominent ard respectable citi zens from whom bribes were exacted and ending with the street children who dropptd a penny in the slot and saw indescribable vicious pictures li censed by the robber government The gifted Kate Douglass Wiggin in The Old Peabody Pew which she has just written has shown an understand ing of the hearts of honest countrybred God fearing folk It is a love story with a happy ending in which the auth or pictures life iu a New England ham let where plain living high thinking and the gossiping habit struggle for su premacy No story will more quickly turn the reader

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 21, 1907

NATION MAY BE DRY Hovember Elections Help to Swell the Roll of Prohibition States The temperance people who are light ing the saloon and the saloon influ ences in politics have reason to feel elated over the result of the November elections Democrats and Republicans lost and won but the returns show a steady gain for the cause of prohibition Following is a statement of actual con ditions in all the States up to date as compiled and issued by the Chicago RecordHerald AlabamaFortyone counties have voted to stop the sale of liquor entirely and the same result is said to be cer tain in nine others where arrange ments have been made for elections These nine include Montgomery the third largest in the State This will make titty out of sixtyseven against whiskey Four of the seventeen left have dispensaries that cannot be dis turbed for two years yet It is well established that the incoming legisla ture will make all the State prohibition ArkansasFivesevenths of the pop ulation live in dry territory License majority of 52000 in 1894 has changed to an aggregate majority of 10000 for prohibition in 1900 CaliforniaFour dry counties and much dry territory in

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 28, 1907

WEDDING BELLS ClementChilds In the presence of immediate relatives Mary Adeline only daughter of Mrs Hiram Veazey Childs of East Hampdeu was mar ried to Irving Owen Clement of Seal Harbor Ale at the home of the bride on Bevin Hill at 6 p m Aov 14th Rev Hugh E Brown pastor of the Congre gational church of which the bride is a member performed the ceremony the Episcopal service being used the bride being given in marriage by her mother The v marriage took piace beneath a bower of hemlock smilax and yellow chrysanthemums in the drawing room to which the bridal party proceeded from the rooms above coming down through the hall which together with the other rooms below was prettily decorated with laurel ferns aud chrys anthemums the color scheme being yellow and green Professor aud Mrs R R Cone played the weddiug march from Lohengrin as the bridal party moved forward also playing during the evening The order was as follows Rev Hugh E Brown the groom ac companied by the best man his cousin John C Clement of Belfast Me ma tron of honor Mrs Edward C Childs of Manset Me sisterinlaw of the bride

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1907

Literary News and Notes Holman Day the well known Maine author is getting out a new book en tilled King Spruce which is to be published by Harper Bros The story w liich is appearing serially in the New England Magazine is a most interest ing one and deals with life and doings in the Maine wools and in the opinion of the writer is the best sustained and the highest iu literary quality of any of Mr Days novels The December issue of the Atlantic is a peculiarly interesting magazine There are seven important articles each very brilliant of its kind The leader is entitled The Future of our Navigable Waters and is written by John L Mathews who has been mak iug a special study of the subject An Art Museum for the People by Frank Jewett Mather treats of the best practical arrangement of exhibi tions for public use Agnes Deans Cameron writes on Wheat the Wiz ard of the North a striking article telling of the enormous immigration to the newly utilized fields of western Canada There is abundant fiction of the usual high Atlantic standard and the poetry is of a strictly Christmas character One

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 19, 1907

WILLIAMS KIDNEY PILLS Have you neglected your Kidneys Have you overworked your nervous system anc caused trouble with your kidneys anc bladder Have yon paius in loins side back groins and bladder Have you a llabby appearance of tbe face especially under the eyes Too frequent a desire tc pass urine If so Williams Kidney Pills w ill cure youat Druggist Price 60c Williams Slfg Co Props Cleveland 0 Miss VioletHow do you give your dog gie exercise Miss Rose 1 speak kindly to him and he wags lits tailChips For Over Sixty Tears An Old and WellTried Remedy Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup has beer used for over sixty years by tuillious ol mothers for their children while teething with perfect success It soothes the child softens the gums allays all pain cures ind colie and is the best remedy for Diar i lima Is pleasant to the taste Sold by druggists in every part of the world twentyfive cents a bottle Its value is iu calculable Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act June t0th 1906 Serial November 1098 HeWhat do you think dear 1 have ad my salary raised 6 a month sheHow nice Now we can have

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 26, 1907

Heres Good Advice 0 S Woolever oue of the best kiin 1 merchants of Le Raysville N Y g If you are ever troubled with piles apniJ Buck leus Arnica Salve It cured me of them for good 20 years ago Cures everv sore wound burn or abrasion 25e at r H Moodys drug store An old Georgia negro having told a f that he had been in three wars was asked to name them when he replied I wu2 cook in de Confedit war an after freedom broke out 1 was married two times n You know as well as any one when you need something to regulate your system your bowels are sluggish your food di tresses you your kidneys paiu take Hollis ters Rocky Mountain Tea It always re lieves 35 cents Tea or Tablets R II Moody HeYou know if you worry about everv little thing its bound to affect your health His ifeYes I know Thats one of the things I worry aboutTown aud Country lhis is the season of decay and weaken ed vitality good health is hard to retain If youd retain yours fortify your system with Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea the surest

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 2, 1908

irroTsiitFT F nii ani WellThird Remedy Winslows Soothing Syrup has been c over sixty years by millions of r Uieir children while teething J it success It soothes the child V the gums allays all pain cures and is the best remedy tor Diar uPeasant to the taste Sold by m every part of the world rents a bottle Its value is iu tiuarauteed under the Food 7 ct June 30th 1906 Serial mber 1098 I tor religious weeklyA funny to my head anil 1 made a joke 1 II 1 print it in Chief serenely ertamly not wmll he extremely undignified for jokes When you want to print tealemX Y Weekly Hank Foolishness attacked by a cough or a cold or i throat is sore it is rank foolish any other medicine than lr v Discovery says C 0 El npire Ga I have used New seven years ami I know it is the jv on earth for coughs and colds all throat and lung troubles in are subject to croup but New t quickly cures every attack the world over as the King of 1 lung remedies Sold under guar 11 slnodys drug store 60c and II ial

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 23, 1908

JOHN B GOUGH An Address in the Onion Church Brooks by M J Dow Esq In accordance with the arrangements of the National Christian Endeavor or ganization Sunday evening April 12th was observed as the John B Gough night at the Union church in Brooks The meeting was opened with the usual praise service followed by introductory remarks by the pastor Rev J W Vaughan An anthem was then pre sented by Messrs Jones Morrill Brown and Merritt with Mrs W S Jones as accompanist M J Dow then gave an address upon the life and character of John B Gough followed by a solo by W S Jones Remarks were then made by Rev David Brackett and further remarks by the pastor After some what extended remarks upon the life of Mr Gough Mr Dow closed his ad dress as follows John B Gough stands out in bold re lief in the early history of the temper ance reform work of this country as a striking and unique iigure Ilis influ ence in the development of a moral sentiment against the use of intoxicat ing drinks was a powerful one He drew people to him by his attractive personality

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 30, 1908

6 _ VASI UMPfRANCE WAVE It Threatens to Engulf Some Congressmen Correspondence of the Boston Transcript Washington April 8th The tem perance question will not down in Con gress A week ago the liquor interests were confident they had won their fight to prevent legislation of any sort at tins session inimical to their business to day they see indications which lead them to fear the temperance forces will get about all they ask for before the session ends It is the word from home that is bringing about the change Both senators and representa tives are receiving letters from consti tuents saying that unless they take their stand witli the temperance forces they will he punished in the coming campaign Members of the House of Representatives who are candidates tor re election are particular solieitious about the outlook Without being told by their constituents they know some thing of the temperance wave that is sweeping over the country and they do not want to he caught on the wrong side Senators who are up for reelec tion have received warnings that mem bers of State Legislatures are to he chosen this year with special reference to the liquor traffic

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 7, 1908

third District Republicans Henominate Congressman Edwin C Bur leigh by Acclamatien Nomination Speeches Applauded Orlando E Prost of Belfast Stirs the Convention to Cheers The Republican convention of the 3d Maine Congressional district was held at City Hall Waterville April 29th and an enthusiastic and loyal gathering of workers from Kennebec Somerset Hancock and Waldo counties met there in force to enter upon the work of the 190 campaign The convention was marked by absolute harmony and its business was disposed of in business like fashion The convention was called to order at 11 a m by J W Black of Searsport chairman of the district com mittee and after prayer by Rev George Dana Saunders of Waterville the call for the convention as read by Hon W II Wildes of Skowhegan Hon Ellery Bowden of Winterport was elected tem porary chairman and after taking the chair made an able address in which among other things lie said The Republican party during most of the past half century lias enacted the laws which have shaped and mould ed the destinies of this country The periods since 1S61 when the Democratic party was in control were illustrious principally for laws which

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