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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
.Anecdote of Hawthorne.

A very good story relating to Nathan
lei Hawthorne is being told. At one time
the famous author WAS the United States
consul at Liverpool. During this period
there walked into his office one day a
young man who desired assistance. He
was Yankee, he said, and had left home to
make a fortune in foreign fields, but had
failed. md now tired OF the struggle in
strange land, and heartily homesick as
we'll. he wanted the consul to provide
him with money enough to pay his way
back TO America.
The chief clerk regarding the lad with
suspicion, and feeling that his story WAS
cooked up for the sion, informed him
that Mr.. Hawt horne could not be seen,
but the boy was persistent, and finally
carried his point. The clerk yielded to
his solicitation, and went into Mir. HaW-
thorne's private Office.
There's a boy out there who insists
upon seeing you, he said. He says hes
an American, but dom believe IT,.
IN see him. said the consul, and
walking out into the main office, he said :
''WelI my lad, " hat do you want?'
The boy told him his story.
Nv hat part of America do YOU come
trom?''
limited States =
IN hat states?
New Hampshire sir.
Nv hat town.
Exeter
Hawthorne looked at the boy steadily
fer a moment. Then he said. Exeter
eh?"
YES. sir. replied the boy
~ no sold the best apples in your
town asked Hawthorne.
"Skim milk Folsom, sir, returned the
boy.
.:He's all right said Hawthorne, with
smile TO he clerk. Give him his pas
sage. -Harper' Young People.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
Correspondence.
Card Playing.
BLUEHILL, April l, l

BLUEHlLL. Aprl l, 1870.
To the Editor Of the american:
read with a great deal of interest the
article on card playing in your last ISSUE
by Prof +. II. Slower. would like to
thank him for speaking his mind so fear
lessly on subject. If old, on which so
much needs to be said.
have always contended, sometimes
against great odds, that the handling OF
cards is decidedly injurious in its effect
on the character OF the young of either
sex. The fact that know nothing OF cards
myself owe wholly to the kind and care
full training Of Christian parents, and
when grew up, married, and went to a
home OF my own, | made one strong res
olution: my house should never be the
resort of card players, and to that resolu-
ton have faithfully adhered. Although
my hus band could play game of euchre.
he agreed with me that cards should not
become part of our household goods,
and we have both had cause TO be thank
full in later years for the resolution
formed almost a quarter OF a century ago.
Ne have two sons, one having already at
tanned his majority. another just verg-
ing on manhood; both have gone from
home and are subject TO temptations
every day but ! believe them to he
morally stronger and purer, better fitted
fer the battle of life, better fitted to
Withstand temptation, than young men
brought M in home where card play
ing and ali is attendant evils are com
mon, everyday occurrences. ~ MIR.
Stover says, other evils follow. How
often has simple game 81 eaehre, begun
10 pass away the time, ended in bit
ter quarrel and, perhaps. murder, with
the help.of a black bottle
On eur statute books i a strict law
prohibiting gambling. ana have often
thought Il strange that IN such small
place a. cur own little village, where We
have two churches and so many good,
faithful, law abiding citizens. the vice
OF gambling should be carried on SO
openly. Ii Is high time We were swaklng
from our let hsrgy, causing our laws to
be enforced, and making mighty effort
TO stamp out such a fearful evil. NJ.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
Junior Committees.

In small Junior societies it has some
times been found best not to divide the
society into committees, but to appoint
simply the chairmen of the usual com
mittees, requesting each CHAPMAN to
consider the entire society his commit
tee fer the accomplishment Of the work
ordinarily assigned 10 him. When the
missionary committee, for example,
would have work to do, the chairman Of
that committee calls meeting Of the
entire society, and so with all the 9TH
er committees. Exchange
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
EASTER PLANTS.
How to Care for Lilies, Azaleas. Hya-
ciuths and Pansies.


The custom Of using growing plant az
an Easter gift has become almost univer-
sal and has largely increased the florists
Easter trade. Some Of the favorites seem
difficult TO care for. among them the Der
muda or Easter lily. Their culture is said
to be easy, provided the plants are not
forced Let the Easter lily bloom until ii
Is through blooming, then axe il out Of the
pot. remove the young shoots and plant the
old one in rich soil where 1t will get both
sun and shade. 1t may, II it has not been
forced, bloom oil summer. Keep IL well
watered. Put the young plants into pots
and set in n closet or cellar, without wa
ter. for the season. In the fail bring out
and care for as usual. This makes winter
boomers In the same way young plants
may be kept al! the winter in the dark
for summer blooming
After azalea> are done blooming, II they
look stunted, repot them in we'll drained
pots Water sparingly until the plant
begins to grow, then abundantly. Lesstn
the supply Of water as the new shoots
harden. Take into the house II the carly
fall is wet Water in the house as little
as possible until the plant buds Then
give it lots Of water syringe the foliage
often
Hyaeinths are real Easter time plants.
When the flowers begin to die, cut of the
stalks and stop watering, letting the plant
get so dry that the bulbs shrivel in the
earth Lift out old and new bulbs and
put away, labelling with oolor Of flower
fer convenience. II for gardens, plant
in rich loan in the fall leaving three
inches OF earth over bulbs. Cover ground
with mulch If straw, hay or leaves, re-
moving il when shoots appear. The old
bulbs die out in a few years and VIII not
bloom. The young ones ought not To
bloom the first year. II SO, pinch of buds.
For house growing put into pots about
January, with water and sun in album
dance. Rich soil, good drainage and plen-
ty Of air ard sunlight ought TO bring them
into blossom for the next Easter. They
can also be grown in water in hynciuth
glasses. The water is kept sweet by a few
bits Of charcoal.
Keep Easter pausies until May indoors,
then set ou. in good, well drained soil,
in southeast exposure il possible, Hot
sun is bad for the pansy; also earth that
dries quickly. Sandy loan, mixed with
leaf mold and rotten manure, Is best. Keep
plants we'll watered, Young plants give
larger blooms than old ones Pansie, can
be multiplied by pegging down new shoots
that i. fastening them under thu earth
by a wire or pegs and covering the place
with sand. TIE tops project When grow
ing well separate from cid plant. Seeds
can be sown in fall for winter blooming
and in April for summer blooming,
l. W
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
Loral to the Church.

The editor Of The Lutheran Evangel-
ist takes occasion, in a recent number,
to praise in high terms the loyalty Of
his Endeavorers to the church to which
he ministers. A larger per cent Of
them" he says, sustain the second
service on the Lords day and the mid
week service than Of the older church
mem bers -
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
En- blem of the Resurrection.

The Easter egg is in Germany a ma
tional institution, an inheritance from
the heather Teutons, sanctioned by Mar
tin Luther, who pronounced the egg an
emblem Of the rising up out Of the grave
Of our Lord Jesus Christ"
In the same manner as the chick, en-
tombed- as ii Were in the egg, is in due
time brau hit 10 life so did our Lord arise
from tt re to give Us life" said the
great rei,.- r.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
Topic for the Week Beginning April
1I-Comment by Rev. S. II. Doyle.

Topic for the Week Beginning April
14-Comment by Rev. 5. II. Doyle.
ToPIC.-Risen with Christ-from WHAT
Rom. vi lip; o-22 (An Easter meeting.)
The practical lessons from the resur,
rection of Christ ara many and impor-
tart. In this twelfth chapter of Ro-
mans Paul deals principally with the
question Of holiness. Of sanctitcation, IL
Illustrating and enforcing the necessity
of dying unto sin and living unto God,
bv the resurrection of Christ who died
unto sin and now ever more hveth unto
God. The topical references emphasize
two ideas-first, that with Christ we die
unto sin, and, second, with him we live
unto God
l. With Christ we die unto sin. In
that he died, He died unto sim (verse
LEI. Christ died unto sin. This may
mean several thiuCs-that He died for
the destruction Of sin; that He died for
its expiration or on account Of sin In
any sense it means that Christ separated
Himself. ty His death. for the burden
of mans SIN. which He had Willingly
assumed. With Christ believers also die
to sin. but in an entirely different sin.
lt Is personal l1e'N ett4iia 81 u "14t.--
they die or rom men 'HeH set!'1 ave
themselves. But Christ net only died 10
SIN put olea 10 II gi.Se 1eE ~ pi MS
deata i15 S-'-e" ca ,-'s ''i.'..Ai - 80
forever % 'I' ms '''-i L. - '4e l'''e
Tor al = s}N, 4ieEe MIS- - no fe' u !
or 10 ee-li i. ''t-'-e - 81 ''1'e1 Il', <
once separated o''-St.-N = - Gu IL - -
troe 9hat 'le greet. tt5s "a s-'s sI'''1e1
Is the SF'''@ q GOO u III It. 'i','
YET we are '2' ~ ~ '-''' et'>e my
the mere ao, ~---, Il Ss'.i..ss ee - =
sell con1raalc'9LE' be','1 anu 114' Az
antaSonlst1S' anu therefore II we ,'Ie
dead 70 slA we ''.Het u ,.ti' : ~ 81
10 i've IN SIN would &c therefore al
eFlaenee 'hAt we H"N { le' N'eU " s-H
with Shr!s1,
Mlth Shrlst We I'VE unto goa, i in
tha0 he ANe'h' he 4iNe'A ul'o you
verse I'D. others VINO were raised lioiii
the grave arose 10 ave as be1ore' Out
Christ arose 10 I'VE unto Goo' not,
though. that he haa not ii'ea unto goa
before his death IN alln 'he oeIle'e
also rises TO i've unto goa. AlAe"ise
reckon ye also yourselves 10 De aeao III
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

O dear,-t bloom the seasons know,
Flowers If thu resurrection blow,
our hop and faith restore.
And tartr1sh the bitst rnes> q death
And los and ~1rr5w breathe . breath
q llfe forever.nore,
The thought q love immortal blends
With fpud 7, membranes If friends;
II Yea. o sacred flowers,
BY human love made doubly sweet.
Thu heavenly and the earthly meet,
The heart Of Christ and OURS.
Whittier
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

the sea Of glass that surrounds the throne Of
God Do not our hearts thrill with an lntenSer
Joy as we come from the gloom # the p!-ce
where they laid him, 10 stand with his beloved
ones, looking on the empty sepulcher, or See
ing, with Mary, the stately. gentle and be-
nignant form Of the risen CArlsit-T. DE Witt
Talmage.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
Easter Chickens.

oh, what pretty chickensr' exclaimed
Mabel, looking at some whose fluffy feath-
ers bad been dyed different colors.
Yes. explained 7-year-old Madge
They were Matched out OF Easter eggs"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

Dess Ia sun dance ea Fastar days,
As the Old faiths dtercszl:
An no: IN vary ius moods and ways,
With blue skies or with c1aud,i rays
Now golden bright, now ye,led aud chill.
Now black with storm, he comes, hut still
The Lord is risen indeed.
Susan Coolidge.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

desst- IsUtVulc cUSdesS q >pTinc mas o. 4 .llI
away in the mus. l.u. 10, thoSe many years, hut
the festival. beautifully consccratvd 10 Aol!er
ideas, We keep God bless the barbarian, then,
-Rotert j Burdttre.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
II. q. q. II. Column.

The w. c. T. L. of willimantic, Conn,
has for three years carried on boys
reading room, which is visited by an aver
age of fifty boys day.
Miss Jessie A. Ackermann has gone to
England for rest until completely re-
| stored to health She will be the guest OF
Lady Henry Somerset much Of the time.
Waldoboro union has sent 500 to
Maine W. {. T. l. as a birthday Offering;
Calais ana Bangor unions, S5.o0esch; Penn
| broke. seventy cents. We are glad to
| learn that other unions are planning to
send offerings in the near future.
Premier Reid, of New South Wales, has
pledged himself to woman suffrage.
Judge Henry +. Edmunds, of st. Louis,
has adopted rule requiring that all for
eigners who wish to be naturalized in his
court must be able to intelligently under
stand and speak the English language.
Ii Is to be hoped such rule will be uni
yersally adopted by those holding such
| power. 1t would do much to relieve
American politics of the ignorant foreign
vote and its often peruieious influences.
Tennessee legislature will be petitioned
for a scientific temperance instruction
law, and TO extend the benefits of the
fourmile law to incorporated towns
Four thousand girls were last year
sheltered in the Anchorage mission al
Chicago, and three hundred placed in
good positions.
Any person found eattirafing the to-
hgeea plant in EgSFf viii. henceforth,
be fined $1,000. TEc khedIye has re-
Gently issued decree prohibiting the
f culture OF this noXioas Weed.
The w c. T. [. # Alabama, Is work
ing fer the passage Of 4 general prohibi-
tiun law.
4 woman suffrage amendment has been
submitted by the California legislature.
Twenty-Five newspapers in Kansas are
edited by women.
II cant take my religion into my
politics, then the devil was right in
claiming he kingdoms of this world and
! the power Of them.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

\ woman suffrage amendment has been
submitted by he California legislature.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

The W. {. T. I. # Alabama, is work
ing fer the passage Of general prohibi-
tiun law.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

Nd now comes Eas-
ter morning What
does it mean Do
you not sect Every
old guess and dream
and hope becomes
suddenly lighted up
with certainty. Lo,
tits truel Death is
not the end Of all
th!ngs.-P h illips
Brooks.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

Twenty-Five newspapers in Kansas are
edited by women.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

II cant take my religion into my
politics, then the devil was right in
claiming the Kingdoms of this world and
the power OF them.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
Premier Reid, OF New South Wales, has
pledged himself to woman suffrage.

Four thousand girls were last year
sheltered in the Anchorage mission al
Chicago. and three hundred placed in
good positions.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

The W. c. T. L. of Willimantic, Conn,
has for three years carried on boy s
reading room, which is visited by an aver
age of fifty boys day.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

JIU-E N0i..I-s. r :. WI. nor Is,L
XVI. 10; Math, xxi. 81, 80; Luke XIX,
81, IS; Rom. VII. 1t; viii, Il; l Cor.
Vi, Ia; XIV. 1870; II Cor. xiii, 4;
Gal il, 20; Eph. ii, 4-6; Phil. iii,
l0-l4; Col. ii, -; Ill, Ia; I Thess- ",
Is, Il; II Tim. II, II. Il; John iii, ,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11

Miss Jessie A. Ackermann has gone to
England for rest until completely re-
stored to health. She will be the guest OF
Lady Henry Somerset much of the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-01
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIc-HoRN.
II You Kill one of These You May CAN
Yourself a Sportsman.

Yourself q Sportsman.
At last we have reached that gallant
fellow, the mountain sheep or big-horn.
A true cliff-dweller is he. Born under
the shelving rocks of a beetling cliff,
sometimes actually Graded in the snow,
and reared in the stormy atmosphere
of high attitudes, he is a typical noun
taineer. Wherever you find him at
home, depend upon it that you will also
find the finest scenery of the district.
This animal loves birds-eye view of a
mountain landscape as we'll as does any
member of the geological survey. A
steep descent, with a narrow, level val
ley and a thread-like river spread like
a relief map three thousand feet before
him, is his delight. In former times he
was ventureSome, and often wandered
miles away from his mountain home to
explore tempting tracts Of bad lands;
and, being unmolested, he sometimes
took up a permanent residence in such
places. But the venturesome inhab-
Itants of low, isolated mountains and
shelterless bad lands have paid with
their lives for their pioneering, and now
a mountain sheep is rarely found else
where than amid mountains worthy OF
the name. Kill one fine old mountain
ram by your own efforts in climbing and
stalking, and we will call you sports
man, with a capital S-provided you
save his head for mounting, and his
flesh for the platter. But no ewes, mind
you! Ewes and lambs count against
you, rather than to your credit. Can
ever forget how I once Travelled all the
way from Washington to wyoming,
killed just one superb mountain ram
amidst grand scenery preserved him,
carried his saddle to Washington,
and called my pleasure trip a complete
success? Hardly. Even the recollec-
ton of it is worth four times the money
1t cost That particular mountain sheep
stood four feet three inches in height at
the shoulders. He was four feet ten
inches in length of head and body, and
his girth was three feet eight inches.
He leaped off a low ridge of bare rock,
fell dead on a foot of snow in the head
of a rock-walled gulch. and oh! boys,
how fine he was! Up in the mountain
park he had been paving through the
snow to get at the spears of dry grass
that were there obtainable; and in spite
of the difficulty of the process, and the
pitiful scantiness of the grazing, 1 was
astonished beyond measure at finding
that his stomach contained fully half
bushel of that same grass. He was not
only in good flesh, but positively Fat;
and from the fact that to save our lives
Gleming, the packer, and I, both muscu-
lar men, could not l0t him upon mule
to carry him to our camp, and for other
reasons am certain that he weighed
at least three hundred pounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-01
Too MANY Pictures.

Are the works of the best modern lit
erary artists improved by illustration?
Can an artist with his brush or pen add
anything to the well developed charac-
terization of our successful novelist?
In other words, is it not the literary art
of a master amply sufficient to portray
all in his book that is charming or
thrilling or pathetic or humorous? I
believe that it is, and also that it is a
literary crime for the average illustra-
ton to inject into the pages of a great
work of fiction, of whose creative forces
he can know no more than the reader.
Some of this sort of illustration is
amazingly clever, but most of it is just
the opposite. To distinguish the picto-
rial opportunity in nook manuscript
is a work requiring rare distinction, and
too many of our illustrators, with the
approval of the publishers, take their
cue for picture from such inadequate
and puerile suggestion as that conveyed
in the familiar climax of love stories
And she fell on his breast and wept
tears of unutterable joy.'-Sidney Fair
field, in Lippincott's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-01
WALLER IN CHATEAU DIE.
COIOred Monte CrIstO of Madagascar Rub
Der Won't Get Out for Some Years.

COIOred Monte CrIstO of Madagascar Rub
Der Won't Get Out for Some Years.
WASHINGTON, July lit is not at all
likely that John Waller, the colored
Kansan, will be released from his i'm
prisonment in Chateau D. If for several
years.
Information has reached the state de-
partment. coming from an attache of the
United States legation in Paris, that the
showing made by the French against
Waller will prevent the United States
from coming to his aid It is whispered
that this private information is to the
effect that Waller connived with the
natives of Madagascar against the
French, who had declared martial
law over the island, and that
the proceedings were regular and le-
gal, and hence, as soon as this fact is ad-
mitted by the United States, the Waller
rubber grant on the island reverts to the
local government, and this gives to the
French the grant, which is the point
sought in the first place, according to
those looking after Walters interests. 1t
is suggested that in the course of four or
i've years, after the rubber grant to Wal
Ter is utilized by the French, should Mr..
Waller promise and agree in writing
with the French government that he will
never again visit Madagascar, and should
the United States request the French
government to release Waller, it is posi-
BILE that he will BIZ let out of prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-01
N. YORK'S DRYEST SUNDAY.
It Was Next to Impossible to Got Liquor
Yesterday.

NEW YORK, July 1.-Since the iuau-
guration of Mayor Strong it was almost
impossible in many sections of the
city to procure liquor Cd Sunday
The climax of "dry Sundays"
was reached yesterday, however. The
police officials Saturday night through
out the city warned the saloon keepers
that not even ''side doors" would be toler-
ated
Many of the liquor dealers were fright
ened and made no attempts to open their
establishments Those who were daring
enough to offend the excise laws by sell
ing liquors were generally arrested with
out delay.
Police Commissioner Andrews, accom-
panied by his wife, traversed Eighth
avenue at night, peered through
the windows of the saloons, vain
Iy endeavoring to find a place
where liquor could be purchased
in violation of the law. Commissioner
Andrews is of the opinion that yesterday
was the ''dryest" Sunday ever expert
enced in New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-01
NO TIN IN THIS COUNTRY.
None Is Being Produced and Occurrences
of 1t are Few.

None Is Being Produced and Occurrences
of 1t are Few.
WASHINGTON, July In a report on
the subject of occurrences and produc-
ton of tin throughout the world, c. NJ.
Rolker. special agent of the geological
survey, discusses the tin situation in the
United States. He says: mo tin is being
produced in the United States and the
tin occurrences of this country are so far
only of geological or meteorological in
terest, with indications of prospective
value in few instances"
The Martha Cash tin mines, situated
on the western slope of the Blue Ridge
in Virginia, are promising in appear
ance and have been well opened up, but
the property is in litigation and will not
produce until these difficulties are set
tied.
The value of the Harvey's Peak and
other Black Hills mines in South Dakota
has not yet been demonstrated. They
have not been accurately tested as yet,
and their management have met with
many checks. They are now in the
hands of a receiver