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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-11-29
SCANDALIZED THE DEACON
Pomp shorter Punished for Disturb.
ing the Thanksgiving Dinner.

ing the thanksgiving Dinner
Among the papers of the late ex-state
Senator Guy c. Stoddard. of the town OF
Ledysrd, was found a few DAYS ago an old
newspaper clipping containing a quaint
account Of an old colonial Thsnksgiy
service and dinner. 1t was written in
the year l71i by the Rev. Lawrence
Consnt, of the old South parish in
Danvers, Mass, and runs thus:
''Ee governor was in We house and her
maiesty's commissioners of We customs,
and they sat together in high seat of We
pulpit stairs. Ye governor appears very
devout and attentive, although he favors
Episcopscy and tolerates We Quakers and
Baptists.
''He was dressed in a black velvet coat
bordered with gold lace, and buff
breeches, with gold buckles at We knees,
and white silk stockings.
There was a disturbance in ye gal
leries, where it was filled with divers
negroes, muIattoes and Indians. and a
negro called Pomp Shorter, belonging to
Mr.. Gardner, was called forth and put in
We broad isle. " here he was reproyed with
great carefulness and solemnity.
He was then put in We deacons' seat
between two deseons in view OF We whole
by Mr.. Prescott to take him out because
OF his leyity and strange contortion of
countenance giving grave scandal TO We
grave deacons) and put him in We lobby
under We stairs Some children and a
mulatto woman were reprimanded for
laughing at Pomp Shorter. Hartford
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Sign, OF ThanksgiS ing

All gtttiH cool an cooiah.
Frost comm ia De night
Htckauut- an va Hut- faiffu.
POs-um keepiu out Oh sight,
Tu'key -truttIn 10 de Aa'uyd'd-
Nary step "a proud 81 hi--
ktep on -trutfiu, NJ tab Iu .kcE-
o. do know whut time IL =
Cidau press commence a--queaktu.
Eatiu apples -to'ed aWat.
Chillin swa'min rouu LAX hornets
Huntin aigs emong de hay.
Mi-tah Turkey, keep a -at hin
At lie geese a-hyin =ouf,
Umpn, dat bird do know whut'- comm,
III he did, he'd -het hi mouf.
Pumpkin gittin good an yallah-
Make me open up nay eve-.
seems lax IT, a-lookin at me
.Je-' Ain der sayln Pics
Tu'key gobbler gwln roun BLOWN,
Gwine roun gibbin his sass an SLACK
Keep on talkin, Mi-tah Turkey,
70 amt seed no almanac.
Palmer walkin threo de ba'nya'd
>eein how thing i coming on,
Sees Il all DO foN + i .2t'.in-
Good times comm -ho'- yo' bon.
Heals dat tn key gohbler braggin,
D,B his face break IA smile
<ehAah min. yog -a--E ra-Ca4.
He'- zwine nab yo' after while.
Chopin -uet Ia de Kitchen.
>tonin rai-in- in dc hall.
Beef cookiu 70 lie miuce meat,
spices ground ! smell en- al.
LoDh hrah, turkey, stop dat goblin,
! OF amt lArHed dc -en-e oF feah
y ole fool, y6' uaik'- in 6af Erah,
Do yp' know thauk-Gt eAiu.- heah
-Dct-pi. Fre' Pres
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be assisted to
my. feet when
arising from a
chair.
=" My head
Nhirled, and
back acl1ed,
but worst of
all Was that
crow ding
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-11-29
Thank giving All the Year

once year there Genes a day,
In the chill November weather,
When from near and far away
Loving kindred meet together
Round the old hearth~tone they meet,
Young and old, in union tender,
To renew their greetings sweet
And their mutual love to render.
Thanks are given that once again
They whom distance separated,
With their hearts all free from pain,
Gather there with hearts elated
Yet, through all the changing year.
We for giving thanks have reason
For the blessings that appear,
That we find in every season.
Thanks for shelter from the storm,
Thanks because no ills confOund u,
Thanks for hearts that e'er are warm,
Thanks for loving friends around US,
Thanks for health, that day by day
With fresh pleasure comes attended,
Thanks for sorrow passed away,
Thanks for troubles that are ended.
SO, for blessings we receive,
Making our lives worth the living.
Every day of JOY we live
should he to u thanksg iying.
--Neic York Ledgt
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Now all was ready. Mr.. Jones smiling
at each one in turn As he mentally sized
up MS dressings, took the neau 81 the
table and Mrs. Jones the foot All the
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Boil the giblets heart, liver and glz-
zard-soft, chop fine, and add to he brown
gravy you usually make. Fried or escal-
Hoped oysters may be served with the
turkey. Either is better than oyster stuff
ing, as long cooking spoils the flavor Of
the oyster.
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THE THIEF'> tt RkEl.

Well, my dear, We are sure at least OF
our turkey" said he minister a. he fas-
tened about his throat the long worsted
comforter that old Mrs. Lummy had knit
for him. and which he wore in spite Of
its gaudy purple and yellow hues, that
hurt his artistic sense every time he
looked at il. rather than wound the feel
ings OF that dimeyed, kindly old soul
And We viii eat it with a cheerful
thankful heart, and not repine that the
good Lord has seen fit 10 send US no
more"
His wife glanced lovingly up into the
thin, gentle face with its honest, tender
eyes and at the scant gray hair, and her
heart smote her al he sight Of his unfalt-
ering piety. The children that gathered
about their board were many and their
wants so numerous that it seemed always
a blank wall ahead to meet them. True,
there did open up way generally, but ii
was such narrow way, and Mrs. Jones
found that in squeezing through she lost
her youth and beauty.
But for all his cheerlness before his
wife " hose burdens he bore II sympathy
or a. many IA she let hin dream OF the
parsOn was little heavy hearted That
40, i,, \ - L.. . a.. .-,,,i.,,t
ehil'' Dlea'N - Oh '''zi N"S - -, -
doRn the hill toward The tiny yiilase nes-
Ting al it, foot. There had been light
f.tI.-,f .-.z..,. ,t=r..===
grown steAdly to44ef, ana tHt 9tets ia"
formed a solid, gIisteu-ng sheet over tae
whole, so that the parson found it hard to
heeP Hi9 t'o'ii - AZ g" ~ a ''i'
twinkle III rs eSe>, he thre& eli the ae-
preston thai Was clogging hl= feet and
4.3t; So. -, sz5 ..=z-..-..= ,.=-f,.5,
GINNING is 1e,-''
down the NIL following the example OF d
crowd OF bows fartae f. wy H. y,eat,
oo+,b;,,,, his br.at ~ at 4;re- al. g, he Lnit.-
i4he a4i 81 uSh hi'ii' ~ AK W. 'o7'
and smiling. La - he 4.g,T-4 the
bottom, of the hin he SAW a man telling
"P ~
Look OUT shouted the parson' Get
out OF my way, II you please, SIR, as can
not get out OF yours.
The man glanced up, his small, deep set
eyes taking III the ~ .lg figure but not
IN time to avoid II, ana IN another
moment the KEY. iillam Jones mad
taken header INTO the person OF the
stranger.
please excuse me, SAID the parson,
laughing and rlghtlng hlhie-II a soon rs
ne couia ana men hoIu1hs OUT hanu TO
a7 5s t ne o'nef , 20 IIst ma Of hin, o
ne iaot tnae ~ a. iiIaIl ~ !,
dlsagreeaoIe one Win inc cuilh!hg' 5hiItv
eyes oi an uaehsy ronscifmcI' ny " iu o'
poets every moment To be overtaken by
the treachery Itself practices, ana tnt
mean Iittle features maj speak aegra op@
go tba ,pa o,,l,' 1,ii,,ttd
ges shG man ohy 6 hrea an and Vent
,sit bont hackwaro to"s me nar.0n
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WE md
a The goods Ia itndthc e-rt
Special offer Of 90 Ladies Goats, last goods. $500
lhlS sons Goats and CaIes from IS to 2j.0u.
Fur (al"S, o
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Ii had been no trouble to remember his
Wife's short order for he potatoes were
all they could afford nov. There had
been that 500 Brot her Joe had written
for. and without which he would nave
lost his little farm and which the poor
minister mas spared him-the " hole OF his
humble savings-and which had left them
with next to nothing for the rest OF the
year. He had even had to borrow hall OF
it. and hat debt must be paid, come
hat would, next June.
Brot her Joe had written first for it to
rich Aunt Jane down in Grandvllle, but
she had replied that she feared that
Joe's extravaganza had resulted in this,
and that to suffer for it would be
wholesome lesson to him and sally, so,
smiling a little over the idea of Joe's
being extrayagant on the pittance his
rocky little farm furnished, the parson
had sent the money. But Aunt Jane WAS
muniticent in her way. Once year, at
. Thanksgiving, she sent each OF the
brothers turkey, well stuffed and ready
to be put right into the oven. and with
this entirely disc harged the duties OF
relative and philanthropist.
We'll have that at least. had said he
minister and before he started home he
called al the express office for the annual
box. But it had not come. 20 he went on,
thinking that il would surely be there in
the morning, and as he trudged on up
Potatoes and turkey are feast, com
pared 10 the dinners to which thousands
viii 1t down tomorrow. / am thankful,
l am thankful, l am thankful.
In the meantime the man who had
taken B!ackpool cottage went on his
way, stopping every now and then to
read the dirty scrawl he has received that
afternoon al the post-otfice
(uri9usly enough his had been adj
dressed to William Jones, esq, though
the inside read:
DEER BoB-The cops are after US SO
hard That am Trade to move. Ii 10
tell You hare Frum Me: but a. you say
you Neede yore sheer The booDl.e send
it TOO you now the Notes that ware In
the safe or y. 500 that malks yore
SheEr with min And Kits takln Out just
$4,000 as things is | am Trade to trust
1t out so too The Express SO send Il in
Tore TrUe paRd JIMMY.
He'd better send it" muttered the
man, setting his lips grimly. Il didn't
mix myself up IN that there bank bust
ness to git done out OF my share, and
slim Jimmy knows l kin hang him any
day, so / guess he'll come up square
D-n il all! Here | am shut up in this
hole not daring TO make a move With
that devil, young Ross, after me so close
But ! thlnk I've rather left him his time,
and il stay here quiet for month or so.
can get away after that. He lost the
scent last week.
80. congratulatIug himself that he had
eIudcd he officers by coming to this obs
scure village. the man let himself into
the gloomy cottage ne mad chosen on the
shores Of pool OF murkN water. That It
had great wooden shutters and Oaken
doors had recommended il te the hunted
thief He al down before the hearth
nd Il
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Receipts for making restaurant chicken salad
should begin First catch your lf."-Terds
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-11-29
ADVERTISEMENTS.
"Eemale Sufferers,
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Hear me!
81 was discouraged, broken
hearted. | was 50 i'll with
female trouble | could not
walk or stand, and had to
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down feeling in my abdomen.
y friend told me of L1azc
L. PlHIHam's Ife5Ia5h Corr
b1H4a; her faith won mine.
ard now | am well. Oh. how
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" EIeryWoman troubledWith
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will them. - Mrs. kerhaugh,
Juniata St, NicetOWn, Penn.
This great medicine destroys
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system, strengthens the womb,
and corrects all irregularities.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13

ningsen the young Emperor NAV fad
that there is as much sense as poetry in the
line Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown" But the new leaders must be
men Of practical common-sense who &C.
uulesce in conditions which they canuot
overthrow, and only undertake reforms
which they can accomplish, who learn
their policy from history and not from doe
trinal theory. aad who understand the dis
repute into which bloody revolution has
fallen. Whenever such men come to the
front quiet but resistless pressure will be
brought to bear upon the throne which will
compel it either to modernze its policy or
TO appeal to the sword. and in either event
the cause of autocracy will be lost. 1t is
singular that Germany. which leads the
world 10 so many sciences, should be so
backward in the most important of all
political science. But Americans need not
be told that the work of reform Is often
hating, and that abuses sometimes lasl
for years after their abatement has been
written 10 the book of fate.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13
ELECTION RETURNS.
DECEMBER, 1894.

The explanation of Attorney M. NJ.
Foote as t. the reasons why certain cleo
ton officers refused to attach their names
TO returns as the law requires opens
broad field for inquiry. These election
officers, Mr.. FOote said. were un willing to
sign returns for the reason that they be-
lieved that gross frauds had been CON-
mltted in marking the votes. This belief
was strengthened by the returns from one
precinct in which Candidate MeNab was
credited with but one vote cut of total of
176. Ruddick, the boss candidate, got
nearly all the remaining 175 votes. Now
it seems very strange that an election off,
GER who was not a party to the fraud
should be Ia doubt whether or not in such
case fraud had been committed. The fact
that a candidate who came within about
1000 votes of being elected should receive
but one vote in an average precinct would
naturally cause remark. Was the caller
allowed to call McNab's votes for Ruddick
during the whole time of the count with
out interruption? The remarks of Mr..
Foote convey the idea that the election
officers in whose behalf he was speaking
were apprehensive that fraud had been
committed, though not parties 20 it. There
seems to be a case here for the Citizens
Defense Association. Ii reputable voters
to the number of dozen or more should
testify that they voted In that precinct for
McNab the election officers would have
some hard questions to answer.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13
AGAINST GREENBACKs.

A common feature of all the plans for q
change In the present currency system is
the retirement and cancellation of green
backs. Carisle's plan, Eckels' plan, Hor-
ace Whites plan and all other plans that
have secured hearing. with the single ex-
ception of ST. Johns plan, insist upon the
substitution of national bank notes for
greenbacks and treasury notes. There are
differences of opinion as to the basis upon
which national bank circulation should
rest, but no difference among bankers,
with the exception named, as to the wis
dom of getting national bank notes in to
the place now held in our currency system
by Government notes. The singular spec
tacle is thus presented of debtor who in
ssts upon converting all his liabilities into
interest bearing q otes at time when his
creditors are perfectly satisfied with de-
mand notes bearing no interest whatever
II is little odd also that the only parties
who are interested in the conversion of
non-in terest- bearing notes into interest
bearing notes are the parties who propose
TO supply the nOn-interest-beariDg notes
which it is proposed to retire.
The Government now keeps non-interest-
bearing notes to the amount of about $780,
100000 in circulation. A portion of these
are known as green back or legal tender.
another portion are known as treasury
notes or Sherman notes. The former were
issued during the war. the latter at various
dates since 1890. These $3.50. OO0,0 900 of
notes have cos the Government the inter-
est on the colo held in the treasury to re-.
deem such notes with as might be pre-
sented. The redemption fund has one
year with another amounted to about
one-fifth of the currency in circulation.
There has never been a better circulating
medium in any country in the world. No
one has lost dollar by it, nor been DELAYED
in getting coin when coin was wanted
One proposition is to Withdraw this per-
feet currency from circulation and Issue
TO take its place national bank notes based
upon the capital stock OF the banks issuing
il. Another proposition is that the Gov
eminent should issue $3.50, 100000 on 21b
per cent interest bearing bonds TO be ex-
changed for greenbacks and treasury
notes. The banks would then buy the 500 :
900. 600 of greenbacks and treasury notes
deposit them in the treasury, issue their
own notes upon which they would draw
current rates Of in terest, while at the same
time drawing interest on bonds in the
treasury. The real animus of the hostility
to greenbacks becomes apparent as this
scheme is studied.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13
WILL BEAR WATCHING.

A Washington dispatch says that there is
a well-defned movement on The part of the
democratic side of the Senate to subor-
dinate the Nicaragua canal bill to pnpgun
tariff bills. 1t has always been the fate of
the Nicaragua bill to be subordinate to
some other project of comparatively little
national importance. The movement at
tributed to Senators Vest and Berry to
push the sugar bill ahead of the Nicaragua
BILLS in fact means Of defeating the lat
ter bill. The President and the Secretary
of the Treasury agree that for time at
least the treasury needs the revenue the
duty on sugar will provide. No one sup
poses free sugar bill can be passed this
sess ion, but one may be so handled as to
defeat the Nicaragua bill.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13
LET US KEEP FAITH.

The Examiner is evidently not sure of
It's position in respect to the effect of the
proposed japanese treaty on Japanese i'm
migration. 1t says that ''no treaty can re-
strict the power of Congress to pass such
laws as it may consider needful. though it
might make law in breach of faith"
The constitutional right of Congress to
pass law in contraventiOn Of the terms
of treaty is admitted. but no nation be-
comes a party TO a treaty with an inten-
ton of abrogatinG its provisions by law.
Legislative enactments which modify ex-
listing treaties are justified only when
unlooked-for conditions render the enact
ment of such laws essential to the welfare
of the nation making such enactment. In
the case Of the Chinese treaty, which was
partially abrOgated by the exclusion act
OF 1888, the justification was offered that
Chinese subjects had persistently evaded
laws passed TO restrict Chinese immigra-
ton in accordance with the terms OF the
treaty. We had made two laws designed
to restrict. but the Chinese evaded them
so successfully that the provisions Of the
treaty were not carried out The third
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

There recently appeared In this city physi.
clan who made his headquarters at one of the
leading hotels and who stated his intention OF
practicing here. he was a graduate of Bellevue
College, New York, and for this reason was eX
tended many cOurtesies by members OF the pro.
fession, both here and in Oakland who were
also graduated from that institution. Suddenly
the person referred to branched out as mag
netlc healer-a boy phenomenon, as he Was
termed-and the advertising columns OF the
newspapers were filled with accounts OF the
cures which he was ready 10 perform. Patients
in large numbers visited his rooms, the major
portion OF them being from the rural DISTRICTS
and after the financial harvest was ripe the
doctor quietly packed his belongings and hied
him to another portion Of the State. Incurable
cases. it's now charged, where the patient was
known to possess means. were invariably en-
couraged to take treatment, and the physicians
who benefited and aided the newcomer when
he first arrived are now said TO be preparing a
warm reception for him IL he ventures to return
to this city.
Ex.Asslstant Postmaster General John s..
Clarkson of Des Moines Iowa, is In the city,
the guest of his friend, Colonel Isaac Trumbo.
His visit is partially one of pleasure and
partially for business, as he has some mining
interests here, and is also identified with the
Terminal railroad extending from Pasadena TO
San Pedro. which was originally designed to
afford terminal facilities for new lines OF road
entering California from the East.
G. o. Wullrp of Chicago, who is the manager
of the Land of Sunshine Company's interests
in MERGED, started for Chicago yesterday. The
gentlemen with whom he is associated have
several very important enterprises on hand,
which promise great results to not only Mer ced
County but The whole State
William II. Mills lett the city yesterday to
join the excursion OF California editors at Sac.
ramento. trip TO Virginia City and sleigh
ride at Truckee are among the attractions
offered the editors this year.
J. II. Hebron OF the State Board OF Equaliza.
ton stopped over in the city while en- route TO
his home In Salinas from Sacramento where
the board has been preparing its report to the
Legislature.
Rev. Robert Mackenzie. pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church. will leave for New York
next week, accompanied by his wife, and will
| be absent until January 5.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-13
A GAME TWO CAN PLAY AT.

The Chicago Herald credits the Southern
Pacific Company with purpose to SO ar
range matters that little harm will result
to the company in case the Government
forecloses on the Central Pacific The
plan the Herald outlines ia to reduce
freights on the Southern or Sunset route
to point so far below the Central Pacific
rates that the latter road will have little or
nothing to do. The Southern Pacific
makes water connection with New York
at New Orleans and is consequently en-
abled TO fix through rates without consulta-
ton with other lines 1t is quite likely the
Southern Pacific has thought over some
such plan as this. 1t is a pretty plan on
pa er and has the melodramatic quality of
getting even. But its success depends en-
tirely upon the assumption that the Gov
eminent will play second fiddle to the
Southern Pacific If the Government fore
closes on the road and then makes such
use of it as to leave the Southern Pacific
at liberty to fix rates for both roads the
Central Pacific would become a poor piece
OF property. But If the Government puts
the Central Pacific on an independent pay
ing basis, charging for freight and pas
seuger travel only enough to cover operat-
ing expenses and interest on bonds, the
Southern Pacific will invite insolvency by
a persis tent effor; to take from the Central
business which by location belongs to it.
There is space of territory between the
two roads large enough to supply two or
three competing roads with business when
the State Is half developed and conse-
Quently each may work on its own territory
subject only to the,general laws Of bust
ness.
The Herald assumes that these plans of
the Southern Pacific warrant the belief
that the managers of that system either
care nothing whatever what action the
Government takes in regard TO the Central
Pacific or are prepared 10 meet any kind
OF adverse action. The managers of the
Southern Pacific have often shown dis
position to impress Congress tn the idea
that its interests would not be promoted
by the enactment of funding bill But
it has been observed that when opportunity
offers the Southern Pacific is ready to
employ its forces in removing obstacles to
the refunding scheme. The managers nod
occasionally, as If they were overcome witt
fatigue, but are pretty wide awake to
what is going on. That their purpose
would be served by creating an impression
that the Central Pacific would be a kind
of white elephant on the hands of the
Government is quito probable. II they
can convince Congress that they can take
all the business of the Cen trail to their
Southern route they will doubtless do so.
And one of their favorite means of work
ing upon public and Congressional opinion
is through the use of such widely eircu-
lated journals throughout the country as
can be induced TO open their columns to
Sou hern Pacific correspondents at Wash
lngton and e!sewbe