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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 20, 1908

v __ Early Incidents Of the Civil War THE STORY OF THE FRIGATE CUMBERLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN O JOHNSON OF LIBERTY ME To the Editor of The Journal A few years ago 1 wrote a series of ar ticles relative to the U S Navy which were published in The Journal and which I have reason to believe were well received by the intelligent read ers of your valuable paper Many who read those articles are like Pip in Dick ens Great Expectations continual ly calling tor more and this is my ex cuse for again troubling you to read my poor manuscript and to correct the bad spells Though 1 have not the personal knowledge of the events I am about to describe that 1 had in relation to those of which I have previously written yet circumstances made me very conversant with my present sub ject which is the old US Frigate Cum berland a sailing ship that was very much in evidence before and at the be ginning of the war of the rebellion and which was sunk by the rebel ram Merri mac at Newport News April 8 1802 Since that time she seems to be

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1908

Early Incidents Of the Civil War _ i the story of the frigate CUMBERLAND BY CAPTAIN JOHN O JOHNSON OF LIBERTY ME Continued It was le desire to conciliate Virgin ia and no the fear of the rebel troops that led to this hesitating conduct on the part of Commodore McCauley and his refusal to permit Lieut Selfridge to go down and guard the mouth of the Elizabeth river Indeed he was pecu larly circumstanced He was surrouud ed on every hand by officers high in rank in thenavy most of them looked up to as the best officers in the service and all or nearly all of them rebels at heart But this fact was unknown to the commandant and was not mis trusted by him until later The only loval officers at this station at that time were the commandant commo dores or captains as there was no rank of commodore in our navy the senior officer in command of a squadron had that honorary title Morrison and Pen dergrastLieutenants Self ridge and Mur ray and Lieutenant of Mariues Hay wood But they all knew that Govern or Letcher of Virginia had forbidden the pilots of Virginia taking

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 1, 1908

POLITICAL POINTS Mr Bryan declares that President Roosevelts letter indorsing Mr Taft is irrelevant and immaterial That is what a tioubled lawyer always says of hostile testimony which he cannot refute Mr Bryan dodged the cameras in Baltimore for fear that the photographer would catch him without his victory ex pression He clearly realizes that his victory expression wont pass at its lace value in Maryland Mr Taft believes in revising the tariff with judgment Bryan proposes to re vise it with a bludgeon Being scared to death and overconfident at the same time is the condition ascrib ed to Chairman Frank H Hitchcock by Bryan organs Those who have known Hitchcock any length of time have never known him to be either Even though Mr Taft were not to come to California there is no doubt that Cal ifornia will go to him Los Angeles Times Now that Theodore Roosevelt Jr has reached his majority Taft has two votes in the Roosevelt family not counting Nicholas Lingworths Bryan is going to visit Judge Parker and Dave Hill Once before in a Presi dential campaign Bryan visited the Sage of Wolforts Roost but nothing happen ed Out in Missouri there

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 22, 1908

The First Maine Cavalry A Regiment With a Fighting Record The annual reunion of Co D First Maine Cavalry Veteran Association was overlooked at the time it was held in Ellsworth but it is worth recalling now in connection with the history of this famous regiment The only representa tive present for Waldo county was Abner K Gray of Prospect The meeting was held in Grand Army hail which was dec orated for the occasion with flags and cards bearing the names of 108 battles and engagements which Co D had the proud distinction of being in The First Maine Cavalry saw more fighting than any other cavalry regiment in the service The regiment was organized in the fall of 1861 It was a State regiment the com panies being appointed among the differ ent counties the larger counties being al lowed a company each while of the smaller counties two were allowed a com pany Company D was raised in Wash ington and Hancock counties The reg iment went into camp at Augusta where it spent the long severe winter of 18612 living in Sibley tents banked with snow and heated only by a little stove hung on a

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 29, 1908

Literary News and Notes President Roosevelt has signed a con tract with The Outlook to act as an asso ciate editor after his retirement from the Presidency in March next This is made subject to the existing contract to write the story of his African travels tor Charles Scribners Sons His work in connection with the Outlook is to cover political and economic topics William Dean Howells Mary E Wil kins Freeman John Kendrick Bangs Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Mary StewartCutting Alice Brown Henry van Dyke Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Elizabeth Jordan Edith Wyatt Mary Heaton Vorse and Henry James have written a composite novel The story is entitled The Whole Family and will be published next week after having run as a serial in Harpers Bazar where the puzzle was to find which author wrote what chapter The plot hinges on the engagement of pretty Peggy the daugh ter of the house to a fickle youth who is in love with her aunt and the whole family gets delightfully tangled up about it As a literary device this book is bound to create a pleasant little stir The November Everybodys is an elec tion number That is three out of

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), November 5, 1908

Naval Events in Hampton Roads Continuation of the Story of the Cumber land and the Merrimac By Oapt John O Johnson of Liberty In my last I left the Cumberland sunk the Congress on fire and the Merrimac having accomplished her work of de struction for that day and flushed with victoryhad retired behind Sewells Point with the intention of completing on the morrow the entire destruction of the Union fleet What wild excitement what grief what anxiety what terrible forebodings for the morrow possessed the Union fleet when night fell on that ever to be remembered 8th day of March 1862 can never be described On shore and afloat all was panic confusion and consternation It was by all odds the darkest night for the Union cause during the war of the Rebellion The Minnesota hastening to the relief of the Cumberland and to participate in the fight against the Merrimac had grounded within two miles of Newport News remaining a helpless spectator of the sinking of that noble ship and the burning of the Congress The frigate St Lawrence eager to succor her con sort had also grounded near the Minne sota The Roanoke like the others on

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 17, 1908

THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 24, 1908

u 1 Wealth By The Billions Tears Farm Products Worth 7 778000000 Washington December 14th After twelve years of service as head of the Department the Secretary of Agricul ture in his twelfth annual report to the President issued today renders a com prehensive account of his stewardship and presents a review of the progress of agriculture in the United States during this period Concerning the farm pro duction of 1908 he says that the farmer has created wealth by the billions Pro duction has been above the average of recent years with few exceptions and while some prices have fallen others have risen The farm value of all farm products ot 1908 reaches the most extraordinary total in the nations history7778000000 This is about four times the value of the products of the mines including mineral oils and precious metals The gain in value of farm products in 1908 over 1907 is 290000000 and would have been much larger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low Greatest of all crops is Indian corn whose production this year is 2543090000 bushels The value of this crop is 1015000000 It seems likely that the cotton crop is one

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 31, 1908

MRS BLAINE S LETTERS Edited by Her Daughter Mrs Harriet S Blaine Beal Mesgrs Duffield Co published last Saturday The Letters of Mrs James G Blaine edited by her daughter Mrs Harriet S Blaine Beal As excerpts from familiar letters that passed be tween the wife of one of the great his torical characters of America and her children and relatives and friends they have a peculiar and intimate charm For Mrs Blaine as this book proves was an excellent letter writer vivacious keen wilted and humorous She draws excel lent little vignettes of Mr Blames fa mous contemporaries his friends and his enemies She makes passing allusions to the great events of the day which are full of insight and acumen Unfortunately she and all her family were in Augusta dur ing Mr Blaines successful candidacy for the Republican nomination in 1884 and the unsuccessful campaign for the presidency that Vilowed Consequently this exciting period goes unchronicled There is very little about Benjaman Har rison that little only indicating that she did not like him The letters begin in 1871 when Blaine was at the height of his popularity as the Speaker of the House and end in 1899

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Library of Congress1909

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 18, 1909

Nearly Three Centuries Of Temperance Agitation and Legislation in Maine16361909 BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 5 At the Grand Lodge session of the Maine Good Templars in Bangor in the spring of 1875 Mr George E Brackett of Belfast was elected Grand Secretary and he served the Grand Lodge in this capacity something over thirty years and at the time he retired from this office two years ago was the oldest Grand Secretary in point of service in the world Bro Brackett was one of the ablest and most popular Grand Secre taries the order has ever had in Maine and his name is widely known and hon ored For many years he has published the Maine Temperance Record and in all his noble work for our order and the cause of temperance he has been ably assisted by his wife In 1881 Hon T R Simonton of Cam den was elected Grand Chief Templar and as he was an able speaker his ser vices were in much demand throughout the State in addressing public meetings in the interest of the order Then came Mr B C Torsey of Winthrop who made a very excellent officer He was also a

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 25, 1909

Nearly Three Centuries Of Temperance Agitation and Legislation in Maine16361909 BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 6 In 1891 the Peoples Prohibitory En forcement League of Maine was organ ized and incorporated by the legislature Although this organization was rather shortlived yet it did much good in strengthening our prohibitory law and aiding in a more rigid enforcement of the law Dr John C Stewart of York was president of this organization and John W Mitchell of Freedom was its secretary Both gentlemen were promi nent members of the Good Templar or der and the best of feeling and harmony existed between these temperance or ganizations Dr Stewart is still living and only the past winter I met him at the State House in Augusta He is the same earnest and zealous champion of prohibition as in the days when he was an active Good Templar and a power as a debater in our grand lodge John W Mitchell the able secretary of the En forcement League was one of the most fearless temperance workers we have ever had in the State of Maine and his sad ar d tragic death by drowning in the Kennebec at Augusta in 1894 brought

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 22, 1909

THE REPUBLICAN JlURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 22 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A BILSBUKY BuStSnager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion MAINES LITERARY OUTPUT Maine has many claims to distinction If it may no longer be called the Pine Tree State we can take the spruce as an emblem or adopt Miss Sarah Orne Jewetts designation The Land of the Pointed Firs We no longer build ships but they are not built elsewhere and until this class of shipping went into decadence Maine held her supremacy both in ships and their commanders Un til the advent of the artificial ice plant and the Morse ice trust our ice crop furnished employment to hundreds of men and horses in the winter months and when the rivers opened our vessels carried the ice to market Maine is be coming the summer playground of the nation and the mecca of sportsmen dur ing the fishing and big game seasons Lumber and granite are important fac

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 29, 1909

THE REPUBLICAN JOURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 29 1909 __it_ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A PILSBURY Editor and Business Manager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 1 00 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion THAT SURPLUS REVENUE The question was recently asked in a Maine paper as to the amount per capita received by this State in 1838 from the surplus money under the Jackson ad ministration It was referred to in a sketch of the life of the late Mrs Salome Sellers of Deer Isle and at that time the enquiry was made as to amount dis tributed It was given by one person as 100 per capita while others united in the opinion that it wjs less than 10 The latter conclusion we believe to be cor rect although we have not been able to ascertain the exact amount The history in brief of this distribution of money by the national government is as follows The distribution of the treasury sur plus among the States in preference to

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Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 6, 1909

THE REPUBLICAN JOURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY MAY 6 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A PILSBUKY Editor and Business Manager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a ear 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion The report that the Pattangall co teriewhy not say ring instead of coterieis trying to shelve Obadiah Gardner finds confirmation in the attacks upon the late Democratic leader because of his course at Augusta as chairman of the Grange legislative committee We should have more sympathy for Brother Gardner if he had not faced two ways on the liquor question As a candidate for Master of the State Grange he was an ardent prohibitionist while as the Demo cratic candidate for governor he was for resubmission as a stepping stone to li cense or free rum In one respect how ever lie is entitled to sympathy With i uti gan tongue anu pen against mm he is robe pitied And to make a bad mat ter fT Gardnerworse Oliver Otis has irawy his sniekersee and taken the war

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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 17, 1910

TO FIGHT A WORM dollars has been contributed 1 Rockefeller for the exter t the HookWorm have now proven that the condition and listless inani rt ds of thousands of South s caused by an intestinal Worm is only one of fifty W ms that are known to in intestines Many cases ubles blood impoverish ral debility and weakness Worms True of Auburn Me in advance of his time this in 1851 and gave to Trues Elixir which posi Worms axative is needed Dr 1 ould be taken It is not Tonic Laxative ever devis hitclr pvtipU all animal om the system Worms here Dr Trues Elixir is is syrups or carthartic t take Dr Trues Elixir thing that is asked of a also insures the expulsion tern of all pernicious ani exists there specially are frequently and fretful from no other rms Dr Trues Elixir althy strong and well finds himself listless and v does not know what is ith him Cannot seem to into the days work has tew days treatment with ir will correct these con RENTISS FARM IN TROY Hxpert Says of the Stock the beautiful stallion Mars red on the Dolloff Farm itr and bought

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 21, 1910

mmm Frank W Cowen of Waterville author o The Queen of the Kennebec etc and a prominent Good Templar The Queen of the Kennebec Or The Last of The Wamparoags BY FRANK W GOWEN NO 10 The n ght before Arnoldleft Fort Wes ton with his army to proceed up the river to Quebec Jacataque slept none too well She laid awake thinking of her lover and of the dangers and perils of the coming invasion She knew that she was taking desperate chances but life was not sweeter to her than her love for Burr and she would go forward Naturally her mind reverted to Swan Island and to her friends in Bermuda Would she ever return to the beautiful island in the Ken nebec or meet her friends in Bermuda on earth again But she soon tried to banish all such thoughts from her mind and gain some needed rest Occasional ly the tread of a sentry reached her ears through her open chamber window7 and once she heard voices of some sleepy soldiers not far away It was late in the night when she fell asleep and late the next morning when she awoke She rubbed her

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 5, 1910

Missouri Matters The Growth of Springfield Elections and OfficeSeeking The Agricultural Outlook Correspondence of The Journal Springfield Mo April 30 1910 The weather for the past winter and the spring to the present time has been de lightful The fall months are uniformly pleasant in this latitude The winter weather is often far from pleasant changing frequently from cool to warm with quite a percentage of cloudy and rainy days The spring weather is apt to be tedious warmer and cooler The past seasons however have been an ex ception The winter months set in dry and cool and so continued for an unusual ly long period Late in February the weather began to get warmer and up to the present writing we have had no seri ous or sudden changes All kinds of fruit trees have been full of blossoms which fortunately have not been subject to either freezing weather or cold rains so that at the present time the prospects for a large fruit crop are excellent Two or three weeks ago the blossoms on the trees presented a beautiful picture One of the most beautiful of the blossoms is the peach and one of the most fragrant

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 30, 1910

County Correspondence SOUTH MONTV1LLE Miss Gertrude Peavey of Brook i visiting her aunt Mr G F Randall Mrs John Goodell of Howard R 1 is visiting her broth er O W Ripley Mrs Kate Rich of Win throp Mass has been spending a few days with her brother G W Prescott Mrs Ed ward Ramsey and son Lawns of North port were guest of her niece Mrs 1 S Bartlett last week Mrs E A LMnslow is in Camden fora few days visiting her sister Mrs 0 P Fuller NORTH SEARSMONT Miss Grace Proctor of Medtield Mass is spending her vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs F 0 Proctor Miss Edith Wilson who has been teaching in Gardiner Me is at home for s short vacation Fourteen mem ber from VNtor Grange attended Pomona held in Lincolnvilie June 21st Miss Margie Poland spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother in Montville Mrs Hattie Poland spent the weekend with her sister Mrs C G Heminway in the village Miss Mildred Wentworth and Clarence Paul of Morrill spent Sunday in AppletonMiss Amy Wilson of Belfast spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs M C Wilson FREEDOM Mr and Mrs Charles Denico have

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