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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-26

the two were face to face with very real
the deep water of Baffin's bay southerly
and piled it on the edge Of the far-reaching
land ice that stretches from Bylot's. Island
to the west. Also the strong current which
sets out of Lancaster sound carried with it
miles and miles of what they call pack ice,
rough ice that has not frozen into fields:
and this pack was bombarding the foe at
the me time that the swell and heave of
the storm-worked sea was weakening and
undermining it, What Kotuko and the girl
had been listening to were the faint echoes
of that fight thirty or forty miles away.
while the little rod quivered to the shock
of it.
Now. as the mutt say. when the ice once
wakes after its long winter sleep there Is
no knowing what may happen, for solid
foe ice changes shape swiftly
cloud The gale as evidently a spring
gale sent out Of time, and anything was
possible.
Yet the two were happier in their minds
than before. If the foe broke up there
would be no more waiting and suffering.
Spirits. COLLINS and witch people We're NOV
ing about on the racking ice, and they
| might find themselves stepping into Sedna's
country side by side with all sorts of wild
| things. the flush of excitement still on
them Wien they left the hut after the
gale the noise On the horizon was steadily
growing and the tough ice moaned and
buzzed all around them.
rs it still waiting?" said Kotuko.
CHAPTER ".
On the top of a hummCck sat or crouched
the eight-legged thing that they had seen
three days before. and Il howled horribly.
Let us follow" said the girl. at may
know some way that does not lead to Sed-
na," but she reeled from weakness as she
took the pulling rope. The thing moved off
slowly and clumsily across the ridges,
heading always toward the westward and
the land, and they followed while the
growing thunder at the edge of the foe
rolled nearer and nearer. The foes lip
was split and cracked in every direction
for three or four miles inland, and great
pans of ten-foot thick ice, from few yards
to twenty acres square, were jolting and
ducking and surging into one another and
into the yet unbroken foe as the heavy
| swell took and shook and spouted between
them. The battering-ram ice was so to
| speak. the first army that the sea was
fiinging against the foe. The incessant
crash and jar Of these cakes almost
drowned the ripping sound of sheets of
pack ice being driven bodily under the foe
as cards are hastily pushed under table
CLOTH Where the water was shallow these
sheets would be piled one atop of another
till the bottommost touched mud fifty feet
the muddy ice till the increasing pressure
| drove all forward again. The many shall
lows and sand banks on the northeast coast
of Bylots Island made 1t impossible 10
foretell the course of the rushing ice. For
instance, i'll addition to the foe and the pack
Ice, the gale and the currents were bringing
down true bergs, sailing mountains of ice,
side of the water or the north shore of Mel
vile bay. They pounded in solemnly from
the ofing, the waves breaking white round
them, and advanced on the foe like an old
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Putting a Friend on HI. Feet.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Zigsby-"I have put a friend of mine on
his feet three times in the last two years"
Perksby-'That's nothing. I put friend
of mine on his feet fourteen times last
night"
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sas. The Dame Wood colt was sold to
John X. Gentry and J. +. Ramey Of
fuSheSvlile, Mo, before he was , years
Old and was named John II. Gentry.
Ramey developed and brought him out
as a 3-year- old in 1892 winning five races
III Missouri and Kansas with the young
ster without losing d single heat. He
paced IN 2:l312 i'll a race and lowered the
mark to 2:l3 in a tilt against time Gen
Try ulu not start as Agar old, but in
1884 nc turned up unheraldcd at Detroit,
and defeated the speedy NaSsar and doz-
en- others in straight heats, lowering his
mark to 2:O9t2. At Buffalo the same wear
he was sold TO l.. 3. Holt and J. +. Scott
OF Graham, n. c., for so. 600, passing
into the stable of NJ. II. McHenry just be-
lore he lost his first race to Joe Patchen
ON Aug. II. 1t was said that Gentry was
not just right when he paced this race. BE
this as it may. he went on to Tcrre Hauto
and won handily in 2:10 from Reflector
aud others. At Chicago he upset the tai
eut again by taking the mcasure of the
much talked of Hal Braden in 2:07II.
2:07A, 2:0S1%.
After this race Gentry Went through the
western southern circuit, defeating every
thing he met, until Nashville was reached
in October aud a special race was arranged
between him and Robert j. The first heat
was battle royal, the two PAGERS going
Tapped all tho way, but at the wire Gentry
beat the champion a short head in 2:04
The judges blundered, calling it a dead
heat, however, and as the stallion struck
% leg, cutting himself in dangerous fash
ion so that he had to be withdrawn, Robert
j won the race by default
Early in November the pair met again
in a hippOdromo race at Philadelphia, but
the stallion had not fully recovered from
the Nashyillemishap, and Robert j sim
ply played with him in slow time. Gen
try's first race this year was paced at Free
port, July "a, when ne defeated Joe Patch
en- iii three heats, the latter having lost 4
shoe in each of the first two heats
1t is worthy Of note, observes the New
York Sun, that Robert J, John Il. Gentry
and Joe Patchen all made their records on
the same day and on the Same course. At
Terro Haute, Sept IA, 1892, John H. Gen
try won the second heat of the free for all
III 2:0324, Hal Bradcn forcing him out. A
couple of hours later Joe Patchen, who had
been drawn from this race that he might
go against time in an effort to capture the
stallion record, paced in 2:04, and soon
afterward Robert J, starting against his
Indianapolis record Of 2;02@, paced the
mile in 2:G1R. Another notable thing i'll
connection with the trio of champions is
this: Since Robert j reached his estate. in
1893, no horse except Joe Patchen has ever
been able to beat him. Joe Patchcn, in
turn, has not been defeated by any horse
except Robert j and John r. Gcntry,
while Gentry is in like position, the de.
feats in his turf career having come from
Joe Patchen and Robert j.
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Dexter Grange will hold its 18th ann ual
fair Wednesday and Thursday, Oct and
10.
East Dover Grange will hold its annual
fair at Grange hall in that town, Sept. IS.
1t will be open to the public afternoon
and evening.
The annual fair of Garland Grange will
occur Oct. aud 8. A chicken pie din
ner will be served the second day Ar
rangements are being made for a success
full meeting.
Dirigo Grange of Freedom will hold q
fair at its hall, Sept, IS. The entertain
ments given by this grange in the past
have been very successful, and the forth
coming fair will probably be no exception
to the ott ers
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ALL SORTS OF SPORTS.

1t is said that Jockey Fred Taral has de-
veloped into quite boxer.
Ex-Captain Frank Hinkey will coach
the Yale football team this season.
Ex-Governor William f. Russell of Mas
sachusctts is very fond of lawn tennis and
plays with considerable skill
One Of James j. Corbett's friends says
the champion cleared $40, 900 last season
from his pugilistic and theatrical enter
prises.
The University of Chicago football team
VIII have the arduous pleasure of playing
Eale's great eleven this fall if Stages
men show enough strength to warrant an
eastern trip.
The Ladies' Chess club of London re-
Gently gave dinner to Pillsbury, Steinitz
and Tschigorin. After the dinner Pills
bury played games with II ladies simulta-
neously. He won II, lost two and drew
one
Lamplighter has won in purses and
stakes 800, 000. AS ia 2-year-old he was sold
Tor $4,000. When Pierre Lorillard sold
ais stable Lampiighter brought $50, 600,
md at a recent sale the famous horse only
Drought $1,000.
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Teaching Washing.

1t has come to be recognized principle
that whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing well. Specialists and trained
workers are crow 6'n out amateurs every
where. Schools ys ben opened for train
ing in every depart ..aea Of labor, and tho
standard of work has gone up correspond
ingfy. In connection with the School of
Domestic Economy in Edinburgh there is
full laundry course consisting of 40 les
sons-four courses of ten lessons each, each
lesson being two hours long. The work is
taught in two ways-by demonstration
and by practice. In a demonstration
lesson" the teacher does the work, explain
ing and instructing as she goes on. The
pupils have note books, as at n lecture in
Greek history or a demonstration in phys
les. At the ''practice lesson" the pupil
does the work, tho teacher overseeing and
lending q hand when necessary. Many
pupils comefor special lessons in fine iron
ing, lace washing, etc.-Exchange.
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CHANGES IN ELECTRICAL SCIENCE.
Nikola Tesla Is the Foremost Figure IN
tho Era Now Begun.

Skobeleff, the great Russian general,
once said Of the political conditions in
central Asia that thoy changed every
moment; hence the necessity for vigilance,
no less the price of empire than of liberty.
Thus changeful also, is the aspect of that
vast new electrical domain which tho
thought and invention of our ago have
subdued. They who would inform them
selves cxpertly about it, in whatever re-
spoCt, must ever keep up an attitude Of
strained attention. Its theoretical prob
lens assume novel phases daily. Its old
appliances ceaselessly give way to succes-
sors. Its methods of production, distribu-
ton and utilization vary from year to
year Its influence on the times is ever
deeper yet ono can never be quitG:uro into
what part of the social or industrial sys-
TEN it is next to thr;tt Il revolutionary
force It's fanCiful dreams Of yesterday are
the magnificent triumphs of tomorrow,
and its advance toward domination in the
twentieth century is as Irresistible as that
OF steam in the nineteenth.
Throughout this change there has pre-
vailed a consistency OF purpose, a steady
aim has been lovelcd at definite goals,
while useful arts in multitude attest the
solidity of the work done. If, therefore,
we find q tremendous outburst of activity
at the very moment when, after 20 years
of superlatiyo productivcness, electricians
were ready, with the reforming English
statesman, to rest and be thankful, we
may safely assume that electricity has
reached another of those crucial points at
which it bocomSs worth the while Of the
. ni.ea,R-ap n fflanpp q NVl 4
is going ON. TO the timid and the conserv-
alive, even to many initiated, these new
departures have indeed become cXasperat-
ing. They demand the unloarning of es-
tablishcd facts and insist on right about
faces that disregard philosophical dignity.
Tho sensations of "A dog attempting to
drink sea water after lifetime spent on
inland lakes are feeble compared with
those of men who discover that electricity
is quito other than the fluid which they
have believed it to bo from their youth up,
and that actually there is no such thing as
electricity or an electric current
Electricity has indeed taken distinctive
" new ground of late years and its pres
ent state Of unrCst-unsurpassed perhaps
in Other regions Of research--is due to re-
cent theory and practice, blended in a
striking manner in tho discoveries of Mr.,
Nikola Tesla, who, though not altogether
alone, has come to be foremost and typ
ical figure of the era now begun. He in
yites attention today, whothes for pro
found Investigations into the nature OF
electricity, or for beautiful inventions in
which is offered a concrete embodiment OF
the latest means for attaining the ends
most sought after in tho distribution of
light, heat and power, and in the distant
communication Of intelligence. Thomas
Commerford Martin in Century.
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One Gun Starts In English Yachting.

The one gun start is the rule at all Eng
fish yacht races. That means that instead
of allowing the boats in any one class five
minutes in which to cross the line, as is
usually done here, each yacht being timed
when she actually crosses the line within
that period, they are all timed at gun fire
and the skipper who gets his boat over the
line first gets the benefit of the superior
skill and Judgment that have enabled him
to do it. This system adds something to
the danger of yacht racing but it adds
greatly to the excitement of the sport, in
creases the interest in it from a spectators
point of view and affords the best kind of
practice in the handling of a yacht 1t is
gradually coming into vogue here.
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A Mediumistic Drama.

The next thing on the carpet is modi-
um drama. This ought to be fun. One Of
the new plays advance notices reads
Miracula, a spiritualistic drama by
BARLEY Campbell through the hand Of l.
Ransom Sanford, is the title Of a now play
which is TO be produced in this city with
in a month. The piece is in four acts, and
the principal parts are to be taken by me
diums Of national reputation. During the
action of the play four seanccs viii be pre-
sented and a full form naturalization by
Mrs. Mabel Abcr The new play prom
ises TO create sensation in religious spir-
itualistic theatrical CIRCLES.
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grace dar0lng ana Emma Mantor. spent
the Sabbath with friends at Madison. =
Miss Edie n. Grant has been visiting
friends at Madison.-Mr. & Mrs. G. W.
Hall have been visiting his brother in
Cornville Sabbath school sociable
was held at Mrs. Eugene Lawerence's $.
the evening Of Sept. Goth.
Waldo.
BURNHAM
Sunday was one of the hottest DAYS
OF the season, 10l degrees in the shade
The drouth IS severe; wells are failing in
every direction. Stock is suffering in
some places. Pastures are very short OF
feed.-Frank Whitney Of Augusta, and
his mother, spent the Sabbath in Burn.
han.-Rev. MIR. Erwin Of Clinton,
preached, Sunday. one of the ablest ser
mons ever heard in this church, subject,
THE Trinity He illustrated his sub.
ject by chart of his own designing.-W.
L. Shaw has visitors from Massachusetts.
LIBERTY
Miss Blanche Moody is teaching a class
consisting of Mr.. Fletcher the school
teacher. W. n. Cargill Sadie +. Murray
and Mildred Norton, in French.-It is
very dry in this vicinity and crops are
suffering badly, many of the wells are
falling TO furnish water.-Sunday was the
hottest day ever known here for the time
OF year, the Thermometer registering l0O
degrees in the shaGe.-Mrs. Mason, widow
of the late Gil Mason of Montville died,
Sept. 90 aged So years.
CENTER MONTVILLE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Harrington of
WestbOro, Mass, have been at d. w. Ben
nett's for weekly. D. Tasker's chances
are good for the bean leadership as he has
harvested a crop of % bushels Mrs.
Sarah Clement IS visiting Job Clement in
Halldslc.-F. L. Watcrhouse is getting
along finely with the schoolhouse he is
building at North Searsm0nt-Mr W.
H. Churchill has been visiting friends in
Clinton and Monson. George l.. Ed
munds will 90 to Pittsficld to learn the
blacksmith's trade. 1t is reported that
George A. Gordon will take charge of Mr.
Edmunds farm during his absence. Mrs
f. A, Cushman has been quite ill.--C. A
Swift is moving from the Ramsey place
TO Clarcntlne Porters.
HALLDALE
The next meeting of the Ladies' Circle
will be at Nathaniel Halls, Tuesday
Oct. 1.-Water is becoming very scarce.
Many wells have already gone dry and
Others can hold out but short time
longer unless there is rain.-Mrs. s. s.
Emery and Mrs E. p Hoole Of Lowell,
Mass, are visiting relatives here.-Rev
W. H. Littlefleld of Vinalhaven, was in
town, last week-Rev. J. Washburn is
here at present and will preach at the
Vose schoolhouse, next Sunday John
Choate of Amesbury, Mass, is visiting
friends here,-Rev Joseph Nickerson of
Bowdoinham, attended the quarterly
meeting here, last week.-Frank Wyman
of Providence, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
f. d. Raynes.-Miss Achsah Hall Of
Lowell, Mass. is visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. +. g. Hall
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In response to query as toSthe value
of salt as manure the Country Gentle
man says:
This question presents difficult prob
lem. but one of great interest. The use of
salt on cultivated fields has long been
practiced. In Piiny's time it was we'll.
known manure; while the Chinese have
| used it from time immemorial Notwith-
standing all this, opinions differ widely as
to its actions and merits. This rises from
the fact that its action is indirect and ex-
tremely complicated. Salt is of universal
occurrence in the soil 1t is not "A neces-
| sary plant-food, or at least only in very
minute quantities Salt may in very
limited degree take the place of soda,
although even this is doubted by many.
The effect of salt is almost as likely to be
| detrimental as beneficial if applied in lib
eral quantities. 1t produces best results
when applied at the rate of from 100 to 200
ID. per acre, though 500 to 600 h. may be
>NN '-NASN'' >NS"NA Ing pAdIlS ~ ID Oil
| antiseptic and germicide. and therefore ar
rests while lime promotes) decomposition.
1t may be advaptagcously used to prevent
manures from too rapid decomposition and
flrefanging. Salt may have mechanical
action on the soil, and usually gives best
results on light lands or those having an
excessive quantity Of vegetable matter.
1t tends to decompose and make available
the mineral constituents of the soil by act
ing on the double silicates. but its action
as an antiseptic rctsrds notification, which
may or may not be beneficial and tends to
prevent overgrowth. 1t will be seen that
while salt may make the mineral constitu-
ents OF plant-food more available it tends
to make the heterogeneous ones less availa-
Bile. This double action results. in the &C.
reals, in producing lighter, sitter straw
usually accompanied by plumper grains
than would be the case if no salt were ap-
piled" 1t will thus be seen that the nat
ure of the soil must determine as to the
wisdom of using salt
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An Ant InscrjDtiou.

On the front of an old house known by
the curious name of Wise in Time" at
Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, and which in
years past had the reputation of being
haunted, were these words inscribed in
Latin, "As the body is to the mind SO is
the house to the body, and upon each pi-
laster of the porch of West Harptrce manor
house, Somersctshire, is this singular in
scription, Altogether vanity" This
house and estate now belonging to the
duchy of Cornwall, was probably the resi-
dencc of Ralph BucklanG. the famous
Puritan in the time of JaAies who left
behind him the reputation Of having been
"a parson who went beyond all of his time
for fervent devotion. London Standard
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All Free.

Those who have used Dr. Kings New
Discovery know its value, and those wht
have not, have now the opportunity to try
it Free. Call ON the advertised Druggist
and get Trial Bottle, Free. Send you,
name and address to H. f Bucklen s
Co. Chicago, and get sample box OF DR..
Kings New Life Pills Free, as well as +
copy of Guide to Health and Household
Instructor, Free All of which is guar
anteed to do you good and cost you moth
ing. Chas. X Partridge's Drugstore.
Sept23dM, W&F&wfolrm
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TIE PAGER JOHN R. GENTRY.
Not King Yet, but Worthy Foe Tor
Patchen and Robert j.

Like his greater rival, Joe Patchen, the
famous PAGER John r. Gentry was bred
in Kansas and by a strange coincidence
both were also bred the same year in the
very same county. Gentry was reared by
II. g. Toler of Wichita, who owned his
sire, Ashland Wilkes, as well as his dam,
Dame Wood. Ashland Wilkes is a son OF
Red Wilkes Dame Wood was bred by
John S Clark of New Brunswick, \. J.,
and was by Wedgewood, 2:19, one of the
gamest trotters ON the turf Is years ago.
She was IA fast natural trotter, but was
blind in one eye, and her dams breeding
being then in doubt Mr.. Clark got rid of
her 1T auction, and she was taken to Kan
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Misplaced Metaphors,

Editor-Did you see the complimentary
notice gave you yesterday?
Grocer-Ies, and don t want another
Ire man who says I've got plenty of sand
that the milk sell is Of the first water
that there are no flies on my sugar, and
that my butter is the strongest in the mar
kct, may mean well, but he is not the man
want to fatter me a second time.-Bos-
ton Beacon.
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Mean.

Julia-Do you consider Mr. Nippy a
mean man?
Aeilie-Mean? Not only mean, but cow
ardly. Why, he never will take seat in a
street car for fear he will have to give it
up TO some woman-Boston Transcript
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PenDbscot.
NEWPORT.


The continued drought and intense heat
have completely dried up the ground and
parched the vegetation in this vicinity.
The dust in the highways is three inches
deep and during the day is driven along
in great clouds that are almost sutfocating
to the travelling public-Fires were set
Monday forenoon by the NJ. G. X. K.
trains on the large bog east of this village,
and are burning tiercely, and cannot
be put cut without rain. Fortunately
the wind Is nearly west which carries the
smoke and cindcr5 away from this village.
Cooper Brothers (millmen) have nearly
completed two new and fine residences on
High street and will move into them the
first of next month. The location is fine.
overlooking Lake Sebasticook and is the
most desirable in this village The fish
ing season Is not yet over and the catch OF
pickcrel and white perch continues the
largest Of the season. This is unusual,
and is attributed to tie fact that the
water in the lake is extremely low
Newport Water Company are making ex-
tensive repairs on their reservoir three
miles from the village and have also CON
nected the water mains with the large
force pump Of the East Pond Wooden
Company, which gives them moro force
and the people additional security.-The
corn canning season is over and the result
is 365, coo cans of first quality corn. The
largest day 5 work was 80, 000 cans II hou-
sands Of stacks of beans dot the bill sides
W hcrover you go, indicating that the crop
of this season is above the average. Pota-
toes have rotted badly, cutting the crop
down one half from last season. Apples
will come in light at the harvesting hut
the quality is good. AS whole the
farmers of this section are well satisfied
with the result.
CORINNA.
Wells are drying up and some people
have to carry their supply of water
long distance Tuesday, Sept. ~ the
academy schools begin The school board
has placed the new model seats in the
grammar schoolroom al this village
| The cutting of corn at Moses factory,
closed Friday, after very successful ran
If IS days in which beans, apples and
1925. 900 cans of corn were put up. Label
ing will begin, Monday.
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Nandykc the refined painter Of elegant
Portraits, had the aspect of a dandy. He
wore his hair curled on his forehead, and
pointed beard, Of which he was quite
fain.
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The unusually large crop of corn to be
harvested this fall is indicative of CON
clusion on the part Of the farmers TO raise
the grain their cattle eat instead of ship
ping it from the West
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Many colcred ribbons were worn on the
hair OF ladies from 1426 to 1900.