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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 12, 1900

A TRANSFORMED FARM HOUSE Marcia stood in the door of the best room surveying it thoughtfully she had graduated from college the week before and was going to teach in the village in the autumn Meanwhile she was expecting a classmate to visit her and she was trying to look at the farm house with anothers eyes The best room was dark Marcia raised the window with difficulty The blinds also stuck as though their hinges had rusted fast but the light streamed in at last Marcia sat down and looked about her Mie saw a mown ingrain carpet a walnut table with a marble top on which reposed the family liible upon a green worsted mat a sofa and six chairs hard and slippery in stiff black haircloth a narrow wood mantel with an ornament of waxen fruit under a glass shade and walls of stainless whiteness on which hung cuts of Washingtons deathbed II rants family a framed wreath of im mortelles from the coffin of her mothers aunt and a couple of chromes Asleep and Awake strange i had forgotten how hideous this room is she murmured but I have really never seen it lighted before And

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 22, 1900

NEWS OF THE WEEK Maine Matters The returns for the November election are practically complete and show McKinleys plurality in Maine to be 26200 McKinleys vote 61048 Bryans 35658 Wooleys 2012 ltebs 713The Maineborn congress men in other States are all reelected by big majorities Alexander of New York Fletcher and Stevens of Minne sota and Roberts of Massachusetts are returned by their constituents and there may be some sons of Maine among the new membersThe shoe business seems to be on the boom in Auburn Nearly all of the companies report a rush of work and say that the orders are coming in faster than they can be filledIt was announced that the new monitor to be launched from the Bath Iron Works the latter part of the month would be christened bv Miss Grace H Boutelle Since that time Miss Boutelle who is at present in Boston with her fatherCongressman Boutellehas decid ed that it would be impossible to accept the invitation of the Bath Iron Works and her sister Miss Annie Boutelle will do the christeningThe population of the cities of Maine and some of the larger towns has just been published by the census bureau In

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 29, 1900

_ Perfectly healthy people have pure rich Bolootl Hoods Sarsaparilla purities and en riches the blood and makes people healthy The DoctorHere I carried that patient through a desperate sickness only to His WifeHave him object to your fee No drop dead when lie saw my bill Life builds up the system puts pure rich blood in the veins makes men and women strong and healthy Burdock Blood Bitters At any drug store He How I envy the man who just sang the solo She Why 1 thought he had an exceptionally poor voice He Oh it isnt his voice I envy its his nerve Tit Bit Cure the cough and save the life Dr Woods Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs and colds down to the very verge of con sumption IptoDate Customer Some crabs please Waiter Shirtwaist or huntin ease Customer What do you mean Waiter Soft or hard shell sir Puck Ive suffered for months from sore throat EclectricOil cured me in twentyfour hours SI S Gist Hawesville Ky His Reply SappingtonYour sister looks sweet enough to eat Little Rodney She does eat Judge Dr Agnews aiarrhal IowderRev AY H Main pastor of the Baptist Emanual church Buffalo

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 31, 1901

You have read of the cures byHoods Sarsa parilla and you should have perfect confi dence in its merit It will do you good One Point of Difference Whats the matter with you asked the sympathetic friend an attack of grip No this isnt grip I havent time to stay at home and send for a doctor This is simply a bad cold Washington Star Dr Agnews i atrrhal Powder has proved a blessing to many a man before the public In eases of hoarseness bad throat tonsilitis and catarrh Some of the most recent evidences of its efficacy comes from a wellknown actor whose home is in New York City He says 1 have never found anything equal to this remedy for quick relief 50 cents Sold by Edmund Wilson and A A Howes A Co09 Made Him CrossButhe didnt call you a liar in set terms did he asked themolli fier He might as well have done so He said 1 had no more regard for the truth than an historical novelist Life Couldut Ksiinmte Its ValueDr Ag news Cure for the Heart never fails It re lieves in 30 minutes it cures It is a bacon light

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1901

NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 7, 1901

TRYING SPRING WEAT0ER __ Is Your System In Shape to Carry You Safely Through The Practice of Taking a Tcnic in the Spring is descended from Our Wise Forefathers and Has Good Medical Endorsement A Few Suggestions Regarding Health The practice of taking a tonic during the inclement weather of early spring is one that has been bequeathi d to us by our fore fathers who lived in the days when a sturdy constitution and vigorous health meant even more than they do today times when brawn and muscle were necessary for advancement in almost any calling The custom has good medical endorsement and the healthiest people are those that follow it Thousands not really ill need a tonic at this season Close confinement in badly ventilated houses offices shops anil schoolrooms during the winter months makes people feel depressed and out of sorts Nature must be assisted in throwing off the poison that has accumulated in the sys tem else people fall an easy prey to disease andare subject to many discomforts from boils eruptions and similar troubles Hr Williams Iink Pills for Pale People are the greatest tonic medicine known these pills comes a cheerful letter the writer

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 21, 1901

LITERARY NEWS AND N0TE8 The New England this month has its usual variety of stories and poems Mr Meads Editors Table is devoted to im pressions of Chicago taking up various phases of the citys life as they appear to a New Englander after some years absence In the March issue of McCalls Mag azine there are given dozens of illustra tions of the most attractive styles accompanied by articles reviewing the latest in dress Much matter bearing upon subjects of interest to the house wife is also given including the follow ing articles Concerning Marketing Make the Best of Yourself About the Newr Shirtwaists Life in a New York Flat How to Make a Good Pud ding and Wedding Anniversaries Miss Ethel Parton contributes a bright paper to the March number of the New England upon Fanny Fern at the Hart ford Female Seminary This famous boardingschool was kept when Sarah Willis afterwards so widely known as Fanny Fern was a student there by Miss Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher a younger sister of the princi pal w as a pupilstudent The relations of the two girls destined to be such famous women were most interesting and Miss Partons

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 28, 1901

A LOVERS QUARREL BY MABEL QUILLERCOUCIL Bob Jamieson stamped around his I room dropped his favorite pipe said j something untranslatable and picked up his cap He paused for want of breath his eyes flashing his nostrils dilating with calm contempt it is to be sup posed I No my dear Holly I daresay you will be expecting me to come and apol j ogize and implore you to come out on I the river with me but youll have to send for me first With which noble display of inde1 pendence Robert Jamieson flung out of liis room and down to the river meta1 phorically patting himself on the way and all the time dreading the blank in his life which he would feel as soon as I his rage should cool down Holly Parsons put on her prettiest white frock and a picturesque sun hat I If Mr Jamieson calls tell him 1 am j out she said to the maid 1 am going on the river She told herself this last piece of in formation was for the benefit of the servant in case she required to know When he comes and finds me gone he will

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 4, 1901

JOURNALISM As a Profession for Young Men and Women A paper read at the Universalist Church Sunday evening March 31st by Charles A Pilsburv I am asked to address you tonight on Journalism as a profession for young men and women Should I accept the great preponderance of opinion on this subject it would only be necessary to say to those of either sex who think of taking up newspaper work what Punch said to those contemplating matrimony dont Men and women who speak from experience tell us that journalism is an arduous profession in which there are few prizes and that the qualities which command success in this line of work would bring greater fame or larger pecuniary reward in other professions or in trade This is perhaps true but journalism has its attractions and its rewards First as to the young woman m journalism I can look back to a time when there were no women employed in regular newspaper work There were women contributors but none who held positions as reporters staff correspond ents or editors Today there is not a newspaper in any of the large cities and this is no doubt true of the smaller

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 4, 1901

LITERARY NEWS AND NOTES The Chinese question is treated briefly from the Chinese point of view by Taw Sein Ko in the leading article in The Living Age for March 30 The leading feature of The Living Age for April 0the day before Easter will be a striking and touching Easter story One of These Little Ones by Princess Volkonski translated from the Bussian East does not mean to the Washing tonian what it means to the New Eng lander says W D Lyman in the April Atlantic Anything the ofher side of the Missouri is East to us A new arrival from Massachusetts was once greeted very cordially in my hearing by a lady who had been here some time and who said I came from the East myself Ah said the New England er From what place From Iowa was the unexpected answer In the Easter Number of The Sat urday Evening Post Forrest Crissev tells of the wonderful work of the Interna tional Sundayschool Lesson Series The Central editorial staff is the Ameri can Lesson Committee and it will bold its next meeting in New York on April 17 1101 Twenty million teachers and pupils simultaneously study

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 25, 1901

JACKS COAT BY LAURA J RITTNHOUSE Jack Turner looked gloomily out of the window his handsome face disfigur ed by a scowl Its always so Just as sure as I have a chance for a good time some obstacle arises to prevent it Howard has a pass for me and my trip south wouldnt cost me a cent if only I had something decent to wear Mrs Turner dropped her work and sighed It does seem hard Jack but I really dont see how to help it If we should buy4kou a summer suit now youd have to wear your old suit again next winter you know she said plaintively Oh I know that well enough mother so it isnt worth while talking about it It seems to me Ive heard of nothing but poverty all my life Were so poor Jobsturkey wouldnt associate with us he said savagely then stalked from the room with the air of a martyr His sister Doris went on darning steadily for awhile Im ever so sorry for poor Jack she said at last a suspicion of tears in her voice I wish 1 could help him some way but Im afraid I cant

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 2, 1901

WEATHER PREDICTIONS Hie Work of the C S Weather Bureau Bruttits to Commerce and Agriculture There is no other subject in which the people throughout the civilized world are so generally interested as they are in the weather and there its noth ing that exerts a greater influence on the affairs of men Although the weather has occupied mens minds to a great extent since the earliest days of the race and much scientific research has been made it is only within a com paratively few years that any systematic attempt has been made to record and diffuse meteorological data or knowl edge Since the work was taken up by the leading commercial nations of the world great advances have been made and great benefit has accrued particu larly to navigation and agriculture and allied branches The early Egyptians studied meteor ology as a branch of astronomy and Aristotle compiled a comprehensive work on the weather from their writ ings and his own observations He dis cussed prognostics of rain wind storms and fair weather but made no attempt to explain any of the phenomena Cicero Virgil and others wrote on the subject but they added little to the knowledge

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 23, 1901

JAKES WESTS AWAKENING I The horse lumpered coming up the hill there was no doubt about that only if the driving had been a little more careful the accident might never have happened But James West and his friend were both marketmerry and upon this occasion the special prov idence that usually attended them was absent for after lumpering the horse started olf leaving the two to pick themselves up from the hard road as best they could James AVest as proprietor of the rapidly vanishing horse and trap was first on his feet Palk AAhere be you to AVe must follow on sharp heres me with a broken shoulder But Palk having less at stake was more bewildered And heres me with me brains beat out I be goin to sit in t hedge But the rneare be gone along I tell you shell be doing herself or some one else a mischief Pick up this cushion aud come along Now Henry Palk was the last man to leave his friend in the lurch and as his senses cleared his wonted energy and goodwill returned Come along then tis you be biden about As to the meare she knows

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 30, 1901

Register of Deep Water Vessels SHIPS Abner Coburn B F Colcoril from New castle N S AV for Honolulu sailed from Sydney March 18 A G Hopes Chapman cleared from New York Jan 10 for Yokahama ar at Anjer prior to May 3 A J Fuller C M Nichols sailed from Fort Townsend April 2 for Cape Town Aryan A T AVhittier arrived at New York May it from San Francisco Bangalore Philadelphia for Nagaski spoken April lat oil N Ion 88 AV F B Sutton J P Butman cleared from New York April 18 for Tsintau Emily F AVhitney A S lendeton sailed from San Francisco April 25 for Kahului Emily Heed sailed from Sydney NSW May 13 for Honolulu Gov Robie F Coleord siled from New castle N S AV April 15 for Honolulu Henry B Hyde A AA Blanchard sailed from Baltimore Jau it for San Francisco Mary L Cushing J N Pendleton sailed from New AAhatcom Wash March 9 for Gape Town Manuel Llaguno 1 C Nichols cleared from New York Feb 28 for Hong Kong Puritan A N Blanchard sailed from San Francisco Nov 2 for Hull Reaper sailed from Port Townsend Oct 2 Port

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 6, 1901

Register of Deep Water Vessels SHIPS AbnOr Coburn B F Colcord arrived at Honolulu May 10 from Newcastle N S W A G Hopes Chapman cleared from New York Jan 10 for Yokanama ar at Anjer prior to May 3 A J Fuller C 51 Nichols sailed from Port Townsend April 2 for Cape Town Aryan A T Whittier arrived at New York 5Iay 9 from Ban Francisco Rangalore Philadelphia for Nagaski spoken April lat 39 N ion 08 W E B Sutton J P Butman cleared from New York April 10 for Tsintau Emily F Whitney A S Pendeton sailed from San Francisco April 25 for Kahului Emily Heed sailed from Sydney N S W May 13 for Honolulu Gov Kobie F Colcord sailed from New castle N S W April 15 for Honolulu Henry B Hyde A W Blanchard sailed from Baltimore Jan 9 for San Francisco Mary L Cushing J N Pendleton sailed from New Whatcom Wash March 0 for Cape Town 5Ianuel Llaguno D C Nichols cleared from New York Feb 28 for Hong Kong Puritan A N Blanchard sailed from San Francisco Nov 2 for Hull Reaper sailed from Port Townsend Oct 2 Port Gamble

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 19, 1901

NEW YORK FASHIONS 11 aj Winter Millinery Plumage Hes inh Hair Fabric Broadcloth Dreus Haking New Silks es in fall and winter millinery nite varied the Continental be veil and several on tlie turban liter a strong contrast to tiaring A peculiar turban sliows a brim ating in a sharp point at thecen the bowl crown which renders it round All tastes may he suit hiring hats or those turning up tic are quite as much in demand e coming down over the face a rge picture hats are from their necessarily black a brim lined hilYon folds and one broad long lilume giving an elegant finish wu white velvet roses under the NEW HAT MATERIAL 1 colors resembling heavy cam clothbut with a satin finishlaid composes many stylish hats or ed in combination with plain or id felt 1 raped trimmings are ivlish with a drooping tendency back and silken scarfs with coils often serve this purpose ace of all kinds or real black lace are used on brims the lat i 1 plain or full and the former d on black taffetta silk or vel d draped on brims LARGE ROSES e in great favor ostrich plumes ver

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 26, 1901

news of the week M viM M atters Hon L T Carle jon 11 O Stanley and lion E E members of the board of lisli and commissioners went to Bar Ilar viMt illtli to give a bearing relative og through the ice at Eagle lake own ot Eden Another matter noon at the same time and place five to the killing of deer in the Eden Mt Desert and Tre Friday the commissioners ring at East Machias relative Fug the number of bass that taken in any one day by any iiiy or boat in the waters of i lakeDr i M Twitched t the Maine Farmer scores the i air management for catering so civ to the sensational part of and makes an allusion to the uses seen at the Bangor fair interesting Dr Twitched We believe a society makes a take in catering so largely to ational and spending so much on startling novelties when a of this sum expended in parades i active yet educative features cad into the State many com and leave a far better feeling visitors The indignation over the cruelty practiced on ng horses put a stop to that a nee after

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 3, 1901

ALMOST A MIRACLE THE WORK OF A STROKE OF LIGHTNING 0 C Peak of Milwaukee Wis Knocked Down While at the Telephone ReceiverA Subsequent Experience Such as Falls to the Lot of Few Strange happenings are constantly being eeorded but it is safe to say few people iu tell of a personal experience as wonder ul as that which fell to the lot of Mr D C 1 yak of Xo 814 Wells street Milwaukee is His miraculous recovery from loco uotor ataxia is attracting widespread at tention throughout the country and has ex ted much comment from the press and Liming physicians Mr Peak is wellknown in railroad circles liroughout the entire State and held an im ortant position with the Chicago Milwau kee St Paul R R Co for a number of ars up to the time he was taken with this rrible affliction He is now well and ex erts within a short time to resume his posi n with the company Iu view of the int oi tance of Mr Peaks case and the talk his n C PEAK has caused a reporter was assigned to k up tlie matter lie went to Mr Peaks Alienee

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