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and we consider it a great advantage.
The matter will be presented to the com
mittee this winter in the most practical
manner possible, and we hope some de-
sirable result may be reached.-Secre-
tary.
VERONA applied Bordeaux mixture
three times during season. First about
twentieth of July, but as the season was
showery and foggy in this vicinity it
didn't last very long. July 20 first no.
ticed blight on potatoes, Immediately
applied Bordeaux mixture, and ! noticed
checked the blight, and in about week
| applied another dose to larger part of
them. ! applied the mixture with p.
c. Lewis spray pump and bucket hold
ing about three gallons; one level table
spoonful Of Paris green to each bucket OF
mixture completely ridded the vines OF
bugs, old beetles and all, and didn't burn
the tops. The vines held green remark
ably after applying the mixture and it is
my candid opinion it increased the yield
twenty per cent; while my neighbors'
potatoes rotted badly, didn't find over
e-half bushel affected potatoes in 200
bushels. The spray pump | have isn't
very good for that purpose. 1t is I'M
handy and don't do thorough work, and
it uses too much mixture. | think a
knapsack would be must better l am
growing and have on trial nine different
varieties, viz: Beauty of Hebron, Early
Vermont, Crown Jewel, Burpee's Early,
Toronto Queen, New Queen, Stray Beauty,
Rural New Yorker No. 2, and the much
lauded Freeman. The Crown Jewel,
Burpee's Early and Toronto Queen look
very nearly like Hebron, but Crown
Jewel is better quality though not so good
yielder, having more small tubers. To-
ronto Queen is later grower and bet
ter yielder; very few small potatoes
quality full as good. Burpee's Early l
consider inferior to Hebron every way,
and shall discard it. Stray Beauty is fair
to good quality, and the best yielder |
have From one bushel of seed aug 1884
bushels assorted, and three bushels small
potatoes. Early Vermont consider very
good quality, and yielded nearly as we'll
a. stray Beauty. Rural New Yorker No.
2 WAS about number three in regard to
yield, but | consider it little off in
quality. The New Queen yields about
like Hebron, hut ! consider it poorer
quality, and think it is more liable to
rot than any variety have. | shall dis
card it, This is my first trial with Free
man. 1t set lots OF tubers, but they We're
mostly small; probably With very rich
soil il would do Well. The Rural New
Yorker No. . was the only variety that
didn't show any signs of blight, and was
the most vigorous. In regard to NigoT,
the Early Vermont was next to them,
then Toronto Queen and stray Beauty,
rest about alike. grow potatoes mostly
with fertilizer and prefer level Cor nearby
culture; could see no difference between
applying fertilizer over or under; i'll the
future shall apply all fertilizer over seed
| prefer the Nrench system and scatter
fertilizer all over trench after seed has
been lightly covered.
WILLIAM II. PATTERSON.
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HA.,cocK, ss:-At a court of probate holden
at Ellsworth, within and for said county, on
the second Wednesday of October. 4. d. ls9i
4 CERTAIN instrument purporting to be
~ a copy of the last will and testament OF
james w. Paige, late of Boston, in the coun-
tv Of suffolk, and Commonwealth OF AaSsa-
chHsctts, deceased and Of the probate there
of in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
duly authenticated, having been presented to
the Judge of probate for our said county Of
Hancock for the purpose of being allowed,
filed and recorded in the probate court for
our said county of Hancock.
ordered, That notice thereof be given to
all persons interested therein, by publishing
a copy Of this order three weeks successfully
in the Ellsworth American, 4 newspaper
printed at Ellsworth, in said county OF Han
cock. the first publication to be thirty days,
at least, prior to the second Wednesday of
December a. d. 1894 that they may appear at
IA probate court then to be held at Bucks
port within and for said county of Hancock,
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, and show
cause, if any they have. against the same.
o. p. CUNNINGHAM, Judge of Probate.
4 true copy, AtteSt:-CHAS. p. DORR, Register.
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NEW YORK, l07 EAST 18TH ST.
Nav is. 1868,

DEAR AD; | got your letter before |
lett Boston some weeks ago. You see
am now located in New York. | have
taken Putnams house (the publisher)
furnished for six months, during which
time | shall busy myself looking for a
permanent home while on earth; some
thing can leave my child in case of my
departing, which God grant may not
occur until | have become worthy of
being united with her. W lille
Mary was here was shut up i'll her deyo-
ton | never dreamed that she could be
taken from meas | ever have lived, SO
live / now within; you would not think
| ever suffer We're you here with me; nor
would have YOU think that | do suffer
constantly. 1t is only at times, as now.
When | wrote you last, it seemed ! was
hopeful and patient; now | am torn
Will all sorts of hateful fancies; yet but
an hour ago l might have written you a
far different letter. Believe in one great
truth, Ad-God is. And as surely as you
and / are flesh and bones and blood, so
are we also spirits eternal. | believe ii
beyond doubt, and | believe, too, hat
she who sat beside me only few weeks
ago is living, and is near me now. This
should make me happy, should it not2
But it does not. Ad, never knew
how much ] loved her. | do not, per-
haps, fully realize ii yet; if did, the loss
of my Aidenn might kin me. God is
" Use and just and good in this, in ali
things. tell YOU, Adj it is not we'll TO
f5i1,! God in aef Hr'SrVTitN; VT DO POO.
when we are sinking.
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Days.

What is the message of days what is the
thought they bring
Days that darken to winter, days that sweeten
to spring?
Is there a lore to learn? Is there truth to be
told?
Hath the dawn a ray that never flashed
from the old2
Day that deepens to night, night that broadens
to day,
What is the meaning of all? What is the word
they say?
silence for aye and aye, and the heart beats
never cease
Till toll ami life and the day are the night and
death and peace.
John Han Ingrdhdm, in October ScribRer.
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HANCoCK, ss:-lAt a court of probate holden az
Ellsworth, within and for said county. on
the second Wednesday of October, a. d. 1894.
4 CERTAIN instrument purportlng to be a
n copy of the last will and testament of
Ellen W. Rollins, late of Concord, in the coun-
tv of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire,
deceased. and of the probate thereof in said
state of New Hampshire duly authenticated,
having been presented to the Judge of probate
for our said county of Hancock for the pur-
pose of being allowed, filed and recorded in
the probate court fer our said county OF Han
cock.
Ordered, That notice thereof be given to
all persons interested therein, by publishing
Il copy of this order three weeks successfully
in the Ellsworth American, newspaper
printed at Ellsworth, in said county of Han
cock, the first publication to be thirty days,
at least, prior to the second Wednesday OF
December a. d. 1891, that they may appear at
a probate court then to be held at Bucksport,
within and for said county, at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon, and show cause, il any they
have, against the same.
o. p. CJ-NNINtIIAM Judge of Probate.
\ true copy. AtteSt:-C Hts. p. DORR, Register.
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To the Honorable Judge of Probate within
and fer the county of Hancock.
YyNnE petition and representation of George
i VI. Warren, guardian of Josie Bowden,
Grace Bowden. Chester Clement and Maggie
Clement, all of Penobscot, in the county of
Hancock, minors, respectfully shews, that
the said minors are seized and possessed of
certain real estate situate in said Penobscot
Ten undivided sixteenth parts of the follow
ing described real estate to wit: Bounded
on the west by Penobscot river; on the north
by land of William Clough on the east by
land of the heirs of Elisha Hutchins and on
the south by land of the late Elijah Heath,
the whole of said tract of land containing
about one hundred acres. being land of the
late Joseph Bowdcn, subject to the widows
dover therein: that said estate is unproduc-
tive of any benefit to said minors and that it
will be for the interest of said minors that
the SAINT should be sold and the proceeds put
out and secured on interest; he therefore
prays Xout hattor that he may be authorized
and empowered agrecably to law to sell at
public private sale above described real
estate, or such part of it in your opinion
may he expedicnt. All which is respectfully
submitted. GEORGE NJ. WARRES,
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>orIcr OF FORECLOSURE.

NIvHEREAS EVIIena 4 cousins aHd I'd
w ward w. Cousins, of SurrY, Hancock
county, Maine by their mortgage deed dated
MAY IS 1892 and recorded in Hancock County
Registry of Deeds in book 26o, page $50, con-
veved to the undersigned. }. +, Manning, n
surry, aforesaid, and bounded and de
scribed as follows, to Wit Beginning AT a
stake ON the stage road to Bluehill; thence
south 70 east by the line of the Andrew Flood
lot six rods and eight links; thence north So
east two rods; thence north Il west passing
said lot, at the centre of the front door;
thence westerly to the starting point Mean
ing the westerly half of the so-calied Barrett
stand in Surry village. See Grautor's deed,
vol. ls2, folio l29; and whereas the condition
of said mortgage has been broken, now there
fore, by reason of the breach of the condition
thereof, | claim foreclosure of said mort
gage, j. +. MANNING.
Ellsworth, Oct. 6, 1894.
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OCTOBER CROPS.
WHAT SECRETARY MCKEEN SAYS
IN HIS LAST BULLETIN.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS AND PERT =
NENT ANSWERS-WHAT HANCOCK
COUNTY FARMERS SAY.

agriculture is doing great work with his |
monthly bulletins, and he is gradually |
securing the cooperation of all the
progressive farmers of the State.
His October report is brim full of in
terest, and as much as we have space for
is reproduced below for the special bene- |
fit OF those of Hancock countys farmers
who do not see the bulletin
SIN the beginning of the season, says
the secretary, I'VE found our farmers
with an abundant supply of hay and
other fodder to carry their stock well out
to pasture, with fields in fine condition,
not having been at all injured by the
winter. The prospects for fruit were
never better, and the amount of land
planted and sown was seldom equalled.
"These favorable prospects continued
through the spring months, and he first
indications OF any reverses was when the
apples began to fall in some places, and
corn failed to come in others, but with
the continued fine weather of the sum
mer and early fall We are able to announce
an abundant harvest of nearly all crops.
No severe drouths have prevailed, and no
s.ver. winds or storms over any great ex-
tent.
THE hay crop is again abundant, and
except in sections where rains were fire.
quent in the early part of July, has been
stored i'll fine condition. Grain suffered
slightly from rust and is somewhat
lighter than usual but there is an abund-
tai,
,t,ortha 6r.taf Irlv o,d Tho ,i4id hoth
,,.,,,at n,,a ,.z1Tz.,., f. Ear .f,.aa ~ tho
- a.
average io'a'ees ''"I''' Wen :" ''''
spring ana nave maze " e'i'Iiu'"9
growth, unaffected by depredRt IONS from
rust or beetles.
"More advanced met hod, have been re
ported from all section, of the State, and
il il afe TO -ay that farmers are now bet
ter supplied with the crops usually grown
upon our farms than in any previous sea-
sea. The large quantity OF corn fodder
has been stored largely in silOs, ana " hen
fed with the mixed grains will materially
increase our stock folders. In order to
get at condition of the crops at this time,
the following list OF questions ~as sent
out:
|. Yield of sweet and yellow corn u, com
t4red with last year
Apy damage dom by carly fan frost.
j. Yield Of retatoe- a. compared with lat
year
/ Any serious damage reported ife" r"i
-, -.
TIA. tb, rr.f affected tine ,otttoc- Ia any
Great extent. and If % IL, what varieties
Il If Won hay = known of the t-,.of EHrlrauN
o55<tur, rn-t preventive. please raporf fun
results. Including. if possible. the effect oil the
yield,
. '"h'iH"h- au' gH''''F ~ num- IL ''''
f'''''' " ''' an a u A. ''"l
''', .,l.. 60. '..,-.'
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or to LOTHIAN :. BUNKER,
-. Ii o
October, 10. A. D. 1891.

yIyHE subscribers hereby give public notice
toall concerned, ) hat they have been duly
appointed and have ia kenupon themselves the
trust of executors of the last will and tesla
ment of krastuS Redman, late of Ellsworth,
in the county of Hancock, deceased, by giving
bond as the law directs; they therefore
quest all persons who are indebted TO said de-
Ceased's estate to make immediate payment,
and those who have any immediate demands
thereon to exhibit the same for settlement.
joins Is. REDMAS.
ERAsTrs f. REDMAN.
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AMERICAN FOLK SPEECH
OLD ENGLISH WORDS APPEAR
IN NEW GUISE HERE.
MOST ANCIENT AND LEAST MUTABLE
PART OF LANGUAGE Is THE FOLK
SPEECH-LOWELL'S ADVICE.

SPEECH-LOWELL'S ADVICE.
Edward Eggeston has done excellent
service by his careful study of American
fokspeech. A second paper by him on
this subject is printed i'll the October
number of The Century. Mr.. Eggle-
ston says:
The English of book-reading Ameri
cans differs from that of educated Eng
lish people only in those superficial traits
that are the unavoidable result of a diff
ferent environment and the fluctuations
of fashion. But along the shore of
stream the current moves more slowly,
and suffers eddies and back-sets. Much
old English of the days OF Cromwell,
some that goes back further even than to
"Queen Marie's daies," will be found in
the dialect speech of rustic neighbor-
hoods in America.
There are facts in the history of Eng
lish words that will never be known I'M
til some OF the younger American
philologists go afield in search of the liv-
ing forms that grow in the soil about
them, and that are not less instructive
than the dialects of England assiduously
gathered by multitude of observers, or
the patois of the French country to
which Lttre was not above paying his
respects. Disavowing any pretension to
be a pathological expert, | propose to
write here as an observer of American
folk-speeeh.
On that portion of the history of the
English language which has to do with
its conditions and change III this
country, and on that alone. | may claim
to speak with some authority, if the life
long habit of studying the peoples
speech, exceptional opportunities for OBJ
serving it in many Widely-separated dis
tricts, and an extensive acquaintance
with writings of all sorts printed and
manuscript, of the colonial period. can
give authority.
English travellers very early mention
the differences between colonial speech
and that of the mother country. ms
arose partly from the great number OF
new objects and processes that must have
names, and partly from English pro
vinciGl words adopted into general speech
in America. For example, swamp,
with far-reaching scandinavian an
cestry. and no doubt long provincial
dse in England, had to be explained TO
English readers, though its use appears
to have been general in the American
colonies. BY 1915 it had passed into Il
verb in common use in Massachusetts,:
thus Ninigret, the Indian chief, Is said to
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vTHE subscriber hereby gives public notice
to all concerned, that he has been duly
appointed and has taken upon himself the
trust of an administrator of the estate of Has
kell W. Gray, late of Brooksyille, in the
county of Hancock deceased, by giving bond
as the law directs; he therefore requests all
persons who are indebted To the said deceased's
estate, to make immediate payment, and those
who have any demands thereon to exhibit the
same for settlement.
MELv1,; d. CHArro.
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The districts We're reduced in number
and enlarged in the number of lodges,
and more power was given the deputies.
The officers of the Grand Lodge, elected
at the meeting last week are as follows:
Samuel Adams, Belfast, Grand Master;
Clarence NJ. Watson, Deputy Grand
Master; Arthur y. j. Loveioy, Augusta.
Grand Warden; Joshua Davis. Portland
grand secretary; VIM. +. Plummer, Port
land grand treasurer; Ruel Robinson,
Camden, grand representative.
The grand secretary reported 1,956
brothers relieved, 50 widows families
relieved, 227 brothers buried, IS ,560 weeks
sickness. Total amount of relief 81 ,05l.
The receipts for the year We're s139, 6l3.
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Iesal Nutirrs.

IINHE subscriber hereby gives public no.
/ tice to all concerned, that he has been
duly appointed, ard has taken upon himself
the trust of an administrator of the estate of
sarah Bunker, late of Eastbrook, in the
county OF Hancock. deceased. by giving
bond the law directs, and has appointed
Joth ham = Bunker OF Eastbrook, as attorney
in the State of Maine; he therefore
quests all persons who indebted to the
said dcceascd's estate. to make immediate
payment, and those who have any demands
thereon T. exhibit the same fu. set lenent 10
SHELDON {. IRELAND,
OF Cambridge port, Mass,
Administrators.
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NroaI Nntirfs.

1-@-~~-~--~~~~~~O~0O0~ NONO0~N~COO~N~0~N~0IN~@
To the Hon. Judge of Probate within and for
the county of Hancock.
NNHE UNDERSIGNED, Joanna V. Butler,
i of Hancock, in the county of Hancock
Butler and Helen L. Butler, minor heirs of
James H. Butler late of said Hancock,
deceased, that said minors are seized and
possessed of certain real estate situated in
said county of Hancock in the town of Han
cock, and bounded and described as follows:
First lot. Beginning at the southwest cor
ner OF land of NJ. G. Austin at stake and
stones; thence south twenty degrees west
following the line of land of John York sixty
eight rods to land formerly owned by Mr..
Corn, now by NJ. c. Austin, at stake and
stones; thence north fifty-fve degrees west
forty rods to stake and stones; thence south
forty degrees west to stake and stones in
line of lot No. 2 of the Nathan Butler estate;
thence following the east line of lot No. of
said Butler estate, north five degrees west
ninety rods to a bunch of spotted birch trees;
thence south eighty-five degrees east to land
of NJ. c. Austin; thence south on said Austins
line twenty-four rods to the place OF be
ginning, containing twenty-seyen acres more
or less.
Second lot. Beginning the new road
leading from the county road to NJ c. Austin
at a large spruce tree standing on the west
side of said road in line Of land of John York;
thence north sixty degrees west following
Austin; thence east on said Austin's line
sixty-four rods to said road; thence by the said
road to the place of beginning, containing
twelve acres more or less; that said estate is
unproductive of any benefit to said minors
and that it will be for the interest of said
minors that the same should be sold and the
proceeds used for the benefit of said minors
in their support or secured on interest.
Therefore prays your honor that she may be
authorized and empowered agreeably to law
to sell the whole of each of said minors in
terest in the above described premises at
public private sale, and that she be au-
thorized to convey the interest of said minors
in both of said described lots in one deed.
JOANNA V. BUTLER, Guardian
October 10, 1894.
STATE OF MAINE.
HANCOCK, ss:-At a court of probate held at
Ellsworth, the second Wednesday OF
October, A. d. 1894.
On the petition aforesaid ordered:-That
notice be given by publishing copy of said
petition, with this order thereon, three weeks
successfully in the Ellsworth American,
a newspaper printed in Ellsworth, that all
persons interested may attend on the second
Wednesday of November next, at court of
probate to be holden in Ellsworth, and show
cause. if any, why the prayer of said petition
should not be granted. Such notice. to be
given before said court.
O. P. CUNNINGHAM, Judge.
Attest:-CHAs. p. DoRR, Register
true copy. Attest:-CHAs. P. DoRR, Register.
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ODD FELLOWS OFFICERS.
Grand Master Samuel Adams Makes
His Appointments.

Grand Master Samuel Adams Of the
Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows, has made
tAe follow ing appointments of subordin-
ate officers:
Grand Marsh Russell g. Dyer
Grand Conductor Walter +. Bisbte,
Camden.
Grand Chaplain Rev. Samuel H..
Emery, Saco.
Grand Guardian Edwin Lord, Bangor.
Grand Herald-Joseph 5, Buchanan,
Passport.
The following are the new district
deputy grand masters
Dist. &c. NJ. Watson, Biddeford, tex
officio).
2-Charles f. jackson, Portland.
3-Byron Kimball, Bridgeton.
IA. l.. F. Pike, Norway.
5-George w. Goss, Lewiston.
6Jos. r. Remick, Bath,
7-Rue Robinson. Camden.
S-W. X. keene, Belfast.
ga. \. j. LovejGv, Augusta Tex
officio(.
10 Elbridge Gerry, Mt. Vernon.
lie. o. Small, Madison.
12-Frank A. knowlton, Fairfield.
l3-Frank +. Monroe, Milo.
14-Frank S. Aiken, Brewer
15-Joseph Wood, Bar Harbor.
16-E. W. Conant, Oidtown.
l7-John +. Oliver, Calais.
Nicholas Fessenden, Fl. Fair
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To the Honorable Judge of probate for the

county Of Hancock.
YINHE UNDERSIGNED Theo. H. Smith.
l executor of the last will and testament
of Alonzo Colby late of Bucks port, in said
county, deceased, respectfully represents
that the goods and chattels, rights and cred
its of said deceased are not sufficient to pay
his Just debts and charges of administration
by the sum of two hundred dollars (esti-
mated: wherefore your petitioner prays
YOUR honor to grant him a license to SELL to
accept an advantageous offer therefor of seven
hundred dollars and convey the following
described real estate, consisting of lot of
land with wharf and buildings thereon viz:
4 certain lot or parcel of land situated in
said Bucksport, and bounded northerly by
Main street; easterly by land of Zenas
Homer; southerly by the Penobscot river and
westerly by land of L. c. Homer and Parker
Spofford: of the real estate of the deceased
including the reversion of the widows dow
or thereinl to satisfy said debts and charges
of administration. THEo. ii. SMITH.
Rmcksn mort. Oct s. 1891
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STATE OF MAINE.

o. P. CUNNINGHAM, Judge.
Attest:-CHAs. p DoRR, Register.
true copy. AtteSt:-CHAS. p. DoRR, Register.
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NoTE The question was mlsunder-
stood. Am glad to have our attention
called to H. We are on record as claim
ing there should be a guarantee of
material from which we obtain our
nitrogen and phosphorie acid at least,
and possibly the potash. The State
grange chemicals nave this guarantee,
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BROOKLYN As far as can | can learn
there is good crop of apples IN this To-
cality, both fall and winter, especially
Baldwin trees loaded and very fe"
wormy ones and very few have fallen as
yet Hear of some cases of potato rot.
General complaint of potatoes being
small Selling at 80 cents. H. II. HALE.
BLCEHILI.-I am not quite satisfied
with the answer to my question i'll the
last bulletin What J want to know is
this: Can't we have a law regulating the
sale of commercial fertilizers so that We
can know what materials are used in
their manufacture? For instance, if We
buy fertilizer containing certain per-
centage of nitrogen, we want to know
W het her it is present in the form OF
nitrate OF soda or leather scraps. And IN
buying phosphoric acid it Is interesting
to know whether we are buying south
Carolina rock or ground bone.