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SINCE TAKING PERUNA
I can say my
bowels are much
more regular.
My heart is
stronger.
My appetite is
much better.
My throat is
much better.
Mrs. William H. Hinchliffe, 20 Myrtle St., Beverly, Mass.,
writes: “I h^ve taken four bottles of Peruna, and I can say that
it has done me a great deal of good for catarrh of the head and
throat. I recommend Peruna to all sufferers with catarrh. I do
not think I ever felt much better. I am really surprised at the
work I can do. I do not think too much praise can be said for
Peruna.”
Those who object to fluid medicines can now procure Peruna
Tablets.
Reminiscences ot
Western Travels.
BY HELEN M, TODD.
XXIV.
From Denver to the East.
The so-called "Crystal Park” auto trip
had been planned for the next day, but
when the day came, a drizzling rain,—
"most unusual in Colorado,” came with
it and the trip was necessarily abandon
ed, so that we utilized the time, there
fore, in packing and in purchasing neces
sary photographic supplies. We said a
regretful goodbye to Dr. and Mrs. Bow
ers, who left at noon for the West, via
Salt Lake City, and in the afternoon we
ourselves left for Denver, where we ar
rived at 0.30 after a rather dismal trip
through tne rain. The arch in front of
the railroad station at Denver seemed to
us a rather remarkable affair, proclaim
ing as it did, in huge letters, illuminated
at night, "Welcome” to the arriving
traveller, while the legend "Mizpah” on
the other side, served to speed the de
parting guest.
After a call at the postoffice early
next morning, we turned our steps to
the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific
otherwise known as the Moffat Road
depot, where we purchased excursion
tickets to Corona. After we were well
on our way, the conductor coolly inform
ed us that thirty feet of snow at Corona
made a stop there practically impossible,
and that it would be necessary for us to
buy tickets on to Arrow, the next sta
tion beyond, where the train would stop
for dinner. Why we were not given this
information and a ticket to Arrow in the
first place at the ticket office has ever
remained a mystery.
Aimost immediately after leaving Den
ver we began to climb into the foothills !
ot the Rockies, and soon were high
enough to get some fine views back over
the surrounding country. As the train
began the real mountain climb, however,
the tunnels began to multiply, and grew
so frequent that our position on the ob
servation platform became untenable,
and we were glad to retreat to our Pull
man chairs to escape the stifling air and
the persistent cinders. Our colored por
ter was Kept busy with opening and j
shutting ventilators, following a regular :
jourse uf procedure with each of the j
twenty-nine odd tunnels which followed !
each oiher in close succession.
As the train stopped at Tolland, 47 j
miles from Denver, and nearly 9000 feet i
above sta level, a unique view presented ]
ltseil. Across a DeautiiUi valley, known
as boulder Park, a mountain loomed in
the foreground of the mightier snow-clad
peaks beyond. Around the lesser uioun
ain the ever ascending railroad tracks
made three complete circuits and during
tour station stops we watched the regular
train—which was running ahead of our
special excursion —making its spiral as
cent. Soon we were on the spiral our
selves, and from its highest point could
look down on the tw o track levels below
us.
Two little lakes, Yankee Doodle and
Dixie, lay among the peaks well above
the snow level at 10,000 feet altitude,
scarcely a mile apart. At the latter a
stop was made to allow the tourists the
novelty ot throwing genuine snowballs
in mid-summer. Both lakes, as we saw
them on the 23d of June were encased in
ice, and gave little hint of being the
“beautiful placid mirrors” of the press
agent’s bulletins.
As we mounted higher above the snow
line, snowshedes alternated with the tun
nels and our glimpses of the truly mag
nificent scenery were exceedingly inter
mittent. At Corona, the much-heralded
“Top of the World,” 11,600 feet above
sea level, a brief glimpse of the hotel as
as the train pulled into the station show
ed us only the roof peeping up beyond
the enormous snowdrifts, and we felt
that the conductor’s estimate of the
thirty feet of snow was an exceedingly
mild one. We did not in the least enjoy
our stop here, as the station was in the
middle of a long snowshed and the much
advertised scenery consisted of the
damp, gloomy sheds, with countless lit
tle rivulets dripping everywhere from
the snow that was piled high outside.
The only excitement during the fifteen
minutes’ wait at the station was in hav
ing our notebooks, cards, hatbands—
everything stamp-able in fact—stamped
with Corona’s trademark, “Top of the
World.” However, as we had previous
ly visited at leaBt three other places
' claiming the same proud title, our belief
in its validity in this instance was some
what shaken.
We were glad to descend the other
side of the divide to Arrow, where a
substantial lunch was awaiting us spread
on long tables in the station, and every
one on the train, from conductor to col
ored porter, joined in doing it justice.
The chief excitement'of the homeward
trip was caused by the spreading of the
rails at- one portion of the track. The
section gang were working at the place,
and the train crept over it at a snail’s
pacce, but visions of what might have
happened under such conditions were up
permost in the minds of us all.
We returned to Denver in ample time
for dinner, and later enjoyed a stroll
through one of the city parks, and up to
the State Capitol, from the steps of
which we watched the full moon rise,
and incidentally frightened away a pair
of lovers who had been “spooning” in a
secluded corner behind a friendly stone
pillar.
Next morning a sight-seeing trip about
Denver was in order, and we made it
very enjoyably in a private auto, with
an extremely pleasant chauffeur, who
was guide as well. We were most favor
ably impressed with the city—its pros
perous appearing business district, its
attractive middle-class as well as splen
did millionaires’ residences, its numer
ous and beautiful parks, and above all,
the splendid, bracing air, which is the i
chief asset of its mile-high Jelevation—
combined to make it one of the most at
tractive cities we had visited, and one
that we would be glad to call our home.
From Cheesman pavilion on a com
manding height in one of the parks we
had a splendid view of Denver’s encircl
ing ring of snow-clad mountains, and
when told that some of those in plain
sight were from 150 to 250 miles away,
we found it hard to realize, so deceitful
is the clear, rarined atmosphere to one
accustomed to views at sea-level.
A visit to the Mint was in order before
lunch, from which we brought away an
impression of government slowness—
and from some standpoints, inefficiency—
as well as of an exceedingly grumpy
door-keeper, who had apparently never
heard of the word “politeness.” It was
not nearly so interesting us the Mint at
Philadelphia, which we had both of us
previously visited.
We spent the afternoon in City Park,
where we lour.d much to interest us in
the fine Museum. The Zoo, with its
great number and variety of animals,
was also an interesting place, and we
spent many tedious minutes in front of
the peacock’s pen, hoping that he might
be moved to spread his gorgeous plum
age for our edification. At last our
patience was rewarded and we found
that his magnificence exceeded our fond
est hopes.
A few necessary purchases, and some
last souvenirs bought, and we were
ready for the ten o’clock train for Oma
ha and Chicago. The night in the Pull
man was enlivened by the vigorous and
audible remonstrances of the uitra-Bos
tonese lady across the aisle, who found
that one of the curtains of her berth was
some six inches shorter than she wished,
and thereupon proceeded to give tHe
long suffering porter a piece of her mind
in no uncertain terms.
We had just escaped the heavy rains
which visited the",Middle West so often
last season, but the traces of their
devastating effect were apparent in the
flooded prairies, and the frequent
glimpses of hopelessly mired automo
biles, as the train crossed Nebraska
next morning. A two-hour stop at Om
aha in the afternoon gave us the oppor
tunity of varying our long train ride
with a trolley trip, and incidentally of
gaining l passing glimpse of a Jvery at
tractive city.
Our travelling companions were mcst
pleasant, especially a lady from North
Carolina, who with a young lady from
Virginia, had just completed a tour of
Yellowstone Park by the hotel way, and
we derived much enjoyment from ex
changing snapshots and experiences.
We said goodbye to them at Chicago,
where we arrived at eight o’clock next
morning. A call on a business friend of
Will’s, a visit to Marshall Field’s great
department store, and an afternoon in
Jackson Park, filled the day until the de
parture of our train over the Grand
Trunk at five o’clock. Any lingering
regrets that I might have entertained
that the beautiful Exposition buildings at
San Francisco were so soon destined for
destruction, were dispelled by the sight
of the Field Museum at Jackson Park.
This building, once the splendid Fine
Arts building of the great Chicago
World’s Fair, is now little more than a
crumbling ruin, whose contents are be
ing removed to a more suitable structure
elsewhere.
Our journey through Canada next day
was uncomfortable in the extreme, as
the train was hot and dirty, and the
dust, sifting through every crack and
crevice, was almost too painfully remi
niscent of the Great Mojave Desert.
Our last change came at Montreal, and
we hailed the sleeper for Portland as if
it were an old friend from home. So
impatient were we for the first glimpse
of New England that Will was actually
guilty of awaking me from peaceful
slumber about 2 a. m. as we passed
through Gorham, N. H., for a sight of
good old Mt. Washington—insignificant
perhaps, in comparison with the more
impressive heights we had recently left,
but a dear and familiar sight, and a
grand one to our prejudiced vision. The
peaceful New England scenes through
which we passed next morning seemed
no less dear to us, and when we reached
Portland at an early hour next morning,
and found friends waiting on the station
platform to give us a hearty welcome
home, we were quite ready to declare
that, grand and wonderful as were the
sights we had seen, and greatly as we
had enjoyed our three months’ trip, and
as gladly as we would go again should
opportunity offer—for beauty and charm
and comfort, there is, after all, “nc
place like home. ”
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C., May 8, 1916
Maine people seem to have a lot o
interest these days at the National Capi
tol. They are writing here about a mul
titude of matters. This is evident in th
correspondence that comes to Senato
Burleigh almost daily. He finds tha
hardly ever before in the course of hi
long service at Washington have Main
people been asking about so many matter
of legislation. They also have man;
questions to ask about administrate
affairs in the Departments that affec
conditions in Maine.
Consequently, although Senator Bur
leigh is of the minority party in Con
gress just now, he has had one of th
busiest winters of many years. Ther
are several items of postal legislatioi
that federal employes of the postal ser
vice in the Pine Tree State are coneernei
about. One is a provision to require th
railroad companies, carryinggovernmen
mails, to deliver them into and take then
from the terminal and intermediate post
offices between railroad stations on thei
routes without additional compensation
The Postmaster General has desire:
additional authority in these cases, be
cause of complications that Rometimei
arise over allowing mail pouches to pasi
into the hands of parties not responsibh
for their safe keeping.
Senator Burleigh has been conferring
with his colleagues on the Postuffice
Committee regarding this matter oi
TIRED LOOKING WOMEN
Some women always wear a worn,
tired look. It is the outward sign of
nervousness, neurasthenia perhaps,
with its characteristic symptoms of
worry, headaches and sleeplessness.
Overwork, grief, undue excitement,
the late hours and nervous strain of a
strenuous social season, lack of out-of
door exercise, any or all of these may
be responsible for the trouble but the
most common cause at this season of
the year is the grip.
Whatever the cause, if you feel the
need of more strength try the great
non-alcoholic tonic, Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills. As the nerves gut their nourish
ment from the blood the treatment
must be directed toward building up the
blood. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills aet
directly on the blood and with proper
regulation of the diet have proved of
the greatest benefit in many cases of
neurasthenia. A tendency to anemia,
or bloodlessness, shown by most neu
rasthenic patients, is also corrected by
these tonic pills. Y >nr own druggist
sells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or tlc-y
will be sent by mail on receipt of price,
50 cents per box; six boxes $2.50.
Write for the free booklet, “Diseases
of the Nervous System” and a diet
book. Address: Dr. Williams Medi
cine Co., Schenectady, N, Y,
legis ation. Some of the postal employes
in Maine object to the enactment of the
provision which, it is claimed, would
cause considerable hardship. Senatoi
Burleigh will seek to have it modified.
Many of the rural carriers in Maine are
also writing him about an amendmenl
that Senator Hardwick of Georgia has
proposed, regarding the reorganization
of rural routes. In many of these cases
the reappointment of rural carriers is
involved. The Hardwick amendment
would make it obligatory upon the De
partment to reappoint the veteran carri
ers.
It begins to look as though Congress
would afford some relief to Maine fisher
men from the dogfish pest. For several
years Maine officials and others have been
urging Congress to inaugurate an inves
tigation of these little sharks and now a
good start has been made toward this
legislation. The Senate has passed a bill
appropriating $25,000 for use by the
United States Fish Commission in inves
tigating the best means of exterminat
ing the dogfish. Representative Hinds,
who had/-a similar bill in the last Con
gress, has now had the Senate bill favor
ably reported from the House Committee
on merchant marine and fisheries, ot
which he is a member. The bill is now
on the House calendar. There is no im
mediate prospect of its being reached,
because of the great crush of business,
including a number of very important
measures that the administration is try
ing to get through, But there may be £
chance in the very last days of th<
session, while the House is waiting foi
the Senate to act upon the President’!
legislative programme. In any event it
is-quite probable the bill will be passet
before the expiration of the presenl
Congress.
As is pretty well understood now ir
Maine, the United States Fish Commis
sion will start investigat' jn rather witi
a view to introducing dogfish as an artick
of human food than to utilize it for fer
tilizer, which is the idea that many Maine
people had originally and which was the
idea adopted in certain of the Canadiar
maritime provinces. The Fish Commis
; sion Ithinks the plan to use the fish as
I fertilizer would not be feasible and,
i furthermore, if palatable ways can be
< found to utilize the fish as food, would
be wasteful. Airain, if people of the in
terior States, where the prejudice against
the dogfish does not exist, would use it as
food, the prospect of reducing the prev
alence of the little sharks as a pent
would be materially greater. If legisla
tion worth while is ultimately enacted,
considerable benefit should accrue to
Maine fishermen.
As one of the successful States in the
| production of fine horses Maine will be
I interested in the efforts before Con
I gress to improve the standard of horses
; throughout the country. Senator Pitt
man of Nevada, the one State of the
I union in which wild horses are still found,
| has introduced a bill as an amendment to
| the Ag. icultural bill to provide an ap
propriation of $200,000 for the extension
of the so-called army remount system.
Officers of the War Department, who
are interested in an adequate supply of
good horses in war time, nave had a cen
sus of horses in the United States taken.
Two leading bankers in every county of
the United States, including the several
counties of Maine, were asked to furnish
the Department with a list of horses in
their communities suitable for military
purposes. It is claimed the figures were
quite surprising. For while there are
said to be 24,000,000 horses in the United
States, there are less than 225,000 of
| these that would do for the army. That
would be sufficient in peace times, but
not if the country were forced into war.
this is said to represent a woeful decline
of the animal that, more than all others,
I is the friend of man. It is charged that
i that the indifference of the breeders of
1 horses has been very marked throughout
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the average horse, particularly in the
West, is not as efficient an animal as
: was the case ten years ago.
The Western States are breeding plenty
I of heavy draft horses according to Sena
| tor Pittman, but the breeders there have
I not gi ven attention to a type of horse fit
! for other work than heavy hauling. It is
desired that the scrub stock of this coun
try, millions and millions in number, be
replaced through the use of selected
stallions and sound mares without ex
i pense to the owners of such mares. The
i government now owns 35 selected stal
lions, which have been distributed in
several States and it is the purpose to
vote appropriations for an additional
number.
HALLDALE.
J. P. Downer is doing mason work for
C. V. Stevenson.
The Sunday school was reorganized
Sunday, May 7th.
C. A. Craney, the Raleigh man, was
in this community recently.
Miss Willena Hall of Unity called on
her father, E. P. Hall, May 1st,
Mrs. V. B. Ells, who had been at work
in Unity for several weeks, has returned
home.
C. H. Vose and wife left for New York
April 27th, and were to visit in N. H.
on the way.
The remains of Mrs. Mary W. White
were brought from the tomb in Freedom
and buried in the cemetery here April
25th.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA
PROSPECT FERRY.
Mrs. Alfred Ginn is visiting relatives
in Bucksport.
Mrs. A. A. Ginn entertained the H.
H. club April 27th.
Fred Felker called on friends in San
dypoint April 30th.
Mrs. Jones of Bucksport visited Mrs.
G. W. Silver May 1st.
Miss Marian Perdy o:: Bucksport was a
week-end visitor with Miss Grace Harri
son.
W. D. Harriman and son Evander vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pierce in Sandy
point April 30th.
Mrs. W. C. Harding and daughter
Faustina went to Vinalhaven April 27th
to spend the summer.
1 Harry West has bought a new power
j boat and will use it on logs. He has
several men working for him.
DEAiv’S RHEUMATIC PILLS for Rheuma
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To thoroughly know the virtues of a medi
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proof exists right here in this locality. People
j who testified years ago to relief from backache,
j kidney and urinary disorders, now give con
firmed ‘.estimony—declare the results have
: lasted. Can any Belfast sufferer longer doubt
| the evidence?
! W. C. Sheldon, Brooks, Me., says: “I suffered
1 from pains in my back, some of which were
quite severe. It hurt me to stoop or straighten
and any sudden move or turn 1 made, caused
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OVER SIX YEARS LATER, Mr. Sheldon
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Kidney Pills or any other kidney medicine for
a long time.”
Price 50c at all dealers. Don’t simply ask
for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills
( —the same that Mr. Sheldon has twice pub- j
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Where It Will Earn a Monthly
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and yet you can withdraw it any
time on short notice should you
wish to use it for other purposes.
An independent coal company
has 100.000 tons high grade coal
and at the present wholesale price
will show a profit of $150,000.
On a co-operative basis $1000
would give you a guaranteed income
of $50 every month and a bonus
of five tons of high grade coal at
your railroad or local coal yard
without expense to you; $500
would earn $25 monthly; $200
would earn $10 and coal bonus in
proportion.
For particulars, address A. J. L.,
295 Pearl St., Cambridge, Mass.
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PRESTON’S
Livery, Boarding & Transient Stable
Is situated on Washington street just off Main street. 1 have single and
double hitches, buckboards, etc. Careful drivers if desired. Your patron
age issolicited. Telephones—stable 235-2, house 61-13. Iy28
W. G. PRESTON. Proprietor.
rTTEryosrcROPSDioiDr^
They will tell you to use E. FRANK COE FERTILIZERS. Manufactured
^ in the Best Equipped Factory in the Country at Belfast, Maine.
> JACKSON & HALL BELFAST AMENTS.
| THE COE-MORT1MER COMPANY, NEW YOR
Choice Mixed Sweet Peat
and Nasturtiums
In Bulk and in Packages.
Early Garden Peas
The Best Line and all Kinds of Garden Seed
Grass and Lawn Seed
of all kinds as low as they can he bought elsewhere
Chas. F. Swift, Masonic Temple.
Fresh Food
EVERY DAY AT THE i
Hogan |
Bakery
TRY THEIR
Whole Wheel Breed
DOUGHNUTS
FRIED IN LARD AND ONLY
10c. per doz.
NOTICE.
Guaranteed work In Chiropody, Manlcur'
ig and Shampooing. Also Facial Work
Full line of all kinds of Hair Work at my
larlors over Shiro’s Store, Phcenlx Row.
32tf MISS EVIE HOLMES.
Real Estaf
FOR SALE BY
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D unton &Mo
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1. The Mason farm in VLmtviile,
more or less. For sale or rent.
; 2. The Herbert Flagg farm, ion ;>■
or less, well wooded, excellent tiling*
buildings, water in barn, late fros:
from Camden, 3-4 mile from l.incolnv
ter, beautiful view of lake and mom
3. The Lovett farm near White;
lage, overlooking Penobscot Hiver
to its shores, 100 acres, more or less,
buildings, beautifully located.
4. The Flagg farm in Belmont, ;
! owned by Herbert F lagg, 7 miles fron
ICO acres, more or less,
1 5. Lumber lot at South Liberty, 44
6. The Warren Sheldon wood lot.
more or less, on Moody Mountain, S<
about 8 miles from Camd n,
7. The Monroe pasture and wood
fast, on Lincolnville avenue, about
one-half mile from postoffice.
8. Cottages at the Battery, for sale
9. FOR RENT. Six-room flat. Sprit ,
block, up two flights, steam heat, t
i electric lights.
DUNTON & MORSE,
Savings Bank Building, Belfast, -
FOR SALE
The homestead of the late Phebe A v
on Swan Lake avenue in East Belfast
from Court House; 2|j acres land; orchai
cellent water; fine place for chickens. A
H. S. BULL1.V fl
3wl7 19 S. La Salle St., Chicago