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Allen and dwelling house of Charles +.
Sinclair. The "corner'' WAS black and
desolate.
The lire started in II shed connected
with Mr.. Aliens store. Everything was
dry, and fire progressed rapidly. Soon
the alarm rang out from the Baptist
church. Men and women quickly gat
cred but scarcely anything could be done
to save the contents of the store. Every
thing was lost. The stable just back OF
the store contained several tons of hay
Mr.. Sinclair saved nearly all of his
house hold goods but the house was to-
tai loss.
W hen the church was found to be on
fire despair seemed to be written on every
face 1t could not be seen how those
houses at the westward could be saved.
DR.. Emery's house Was cleared of all
household effects. Others on that side
were stripped. Everything OF value was
taken from the church.
Men and women alike " orhed like mad
to save the property. NO relaxing OF
effort until the fire had done It's work and
property adjacent had been saved. All
honor TO the noble men and women OF
Surry, who did 50 yaliantly to save the
village!
As the flames reached the church men
could but weep and women could net
keep back their tears as 1t seen the
old church must go. This church WAS an
ornament to the village, and an honor to
the town. 1t was pleasantly situated and
a thing of beauty to the eye. 1t was
built IN 1861 by devoted men and women,
ana during all the changes of the decades
has been tnt house OF the Baptist cnurch
and people.
!. was a sad and heart -sickening sight
TO stand ana watch the leaping flames as
they climbed higher aud higher until the
tall belfry and splre were reached. Soon
with crash 1t fell, exposing to view the
sweet toned bell, that had been the pride
of every resident of the village for years.
The timbers weakened, and with heavy
crash the bell fell to the ground.
The western wall is tottering. Long
tim bers are placed against 1t to push 1t
away from DR.. Emery's buildings. For
tunately it fell toward the east, and away
from all other buildings, else sadder
still would have been the recital of the
tiendish work of the fire. Had the night
been other than calm, who can tell the
result?
No words can be stronger than the ex-
preston given to the feelings of many
who said that night and the following
day I'VE must build again" Times are
hard, but already a move is on foot to
have another building at once. Assist
ance, it is hoped, may be received from
outside, but the people here have mind
to work, and it is sincerely hoped that by
Thanksgiving Day other walls will be
erected upon the site of the old one.
No words can express, no pen can write
the desolation and trial of the people at
this time, but II stronger hearted people
never lived than those who by word ana
example are doing so we'll to replace " hat
has been lost.
A large congregation met in the Metho-
dist church Sunday to listen TO the exer-
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Gerry for December Is, on topics chosen
by themselves.
Among visitors to the city during the
! past week We're {. II. Clark, M. Franklin q,
l.. b. Deasy, Fred C.. Lyman, A. p. Alley,
| Henry Eaton, T. +. Moran, c. L. Higgins,
| Il. D. Foster, X. w. Farrin, George w.
Rodick, Nathan Ash, a. II. Pendleton,
| Frank Spratt, Bar IIarbor; o. +. Fellows,
Bucksport S. S. Scammons, Otis Spring
er, l.. +. Springer, franklin; NJ ISIS y. l..
Fowler, F. p. Merrill, Bluehlll; +. ID.
Mayo and wife, >. O. Stevens. Clarence
Hutchings, Brooklin; ID. j. Manchester
and wife, Mort heast Harbor, +. 5. llamor
and wife, Eden; K. S. MacTeer, Winter
| Harbor; l.. F. Benson, Frank II Ben
son, Bass lIarbor; Z. e. Babson, j..
Hamor and wife, Mt. Desert; $. W.
Norwood, w. c. Moore, Southwest Har-
| Dor; james II. Z. Jones, Surry; c. II.
| Hooper, Castine.
| We can vouch for the truth of this sto-
ry. There has been a startling number
of skunks in the vicinity of the Osgood
place on Church street this fall, twelve
having been killed there to date, the
record being three in one night. One
morning ;recently Abi Friend found
skunk in the trap set for them. 1t has
been proved by experience that to take
Il live skunk from trap is too delicate an
operation for frequent repetition, so Mr..
Friend procured his rifle. He did not no.
tice that while one paw of the skunk was
caught i'll the trap, another paw held
partridge prisoner; but when he blazed
away at the skunk partridge huttered
away over an adjoining fence and tell
dead, the bullet having killed bot skunk
and partridge. This story is more remark
able from The fact that a partridge should
be found here in the thiekly y-settled part
of the city.
There Was q carnival of runaways on
Main street Tuesday forenoon, and those
who watched the fun are not through
laug hing yet. For few moments teams
seemed to be going in all directions. The
| fun started at state street, when Arthur
| !. Saunders team swung around the
corner into Martin Lamson's public car
| riage. Lamson's team started, Collided
with \. NJ. Hopkins team in front of his
store, overturning and breaking Mr.. Hop
4 kins' wagon. The Saunders team con-
tinued on its Wild course up Main street.
Teams OF Joseph StackpoIe and George X.
/ Campbell joined in the race up the street
and sought safety nj t..e Abeaaqui5 club
/ In front of Austin II. joys store the
Saunders team eoIlided With Mr.. joys
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cises. Rev. II. +. Day, the pastor of the
Baptist church, in few feeling words
encouraged his people and inspired them
to trust alone in Gods great strength.
Rev, ID. Smith, pastor of the Methodist
church, spoke eloquently anu heipfuiiy.
Mr.. Herrick, colporteur, spoke words of
sympathy. The choir rendered beautiful
anthems, and all felt that -! low
filled their hearts yet Christ had said:
"Let not your heart be trou bledp
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Boston Ideal Ladies' Ouartette.

An appreciative audience enjoyed an
excellent concert given by the Boston
Ideal ladies quartette at Hancock hall
last Thursday evening. The concert was
given under the auspices OF the Unity
club.
The quartette consisted OF Miss Annie
F. Libby, harpist; Miss Ella NJ.
Chamberlain, whistling soloist; NJ ISIS
Susie H. Perley, reader; iss Eleanor b.
MacGregor, pianist and accompanist.
They were assisted by Miss Henrietta d.
Rice, vocalist.
The programme was we'll chosen. Miss
Rice was the favorite of the evening. She
has rich though not powerful contralto
voice, with wide range and superior ex-
preston. Misses Libby and Perley we're
also warmly received, and Miss Chamber
lains wonderful talent was appreciated.
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hurch Notes

Communion of the Lords supper at
the Congregational church next Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. There will be
preparatory lecture at the yestry this
{ " cdnesday) evening at 7.30
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will be given at G. A. r. hail.
Bar IIarbor, on Thursday evening, Nov. I.
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Hoods Pills cure Liver His, Btliou-ness,
Indigestion, Headache. \ pleasant laxative
Al Drnggi-ts.-Adet.
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an excellent showing, the business having
almost doubled.
The schools in districts Nos. / and ?, on
the Nariavile road, No. Is, on the Wal
ham road and No. II, at Boggy Brook,
Will reopen Monday, after a two weeks
vacation, The teachers are the same
except in district No. >, where Marie X.
Maddocks i engaged.
On Sunday morning at the ConErega-
tiunul church the congregation listened
to very fine sermon taken from he para
bic of the wicked husbandman, Matthew,
p 4. Sunday evening ut the people 5
service the subject was "Conversion to The
Christian Faith. y
The second of the travel lectures at the
Congregational vesiry last Friday even
ing was well attended. The subject,
"Our English Cathedrals,' was illustrated
by sixty stereopticon views. The lecture,
read by Miss Eva Aiken, treated The sub
ject thoroughly and interestingly.
County Commissioner Aiken and John
Frank Morrison OF the Falls, left this
"wednesday afternoon for Great Pond,
where, under proper guidance, they Will
disnlav heir kin es sIayers of deer md
partridge County Clerk knoWlton in
tended to accompany the party, but was
detained at the last momept. and VAS
OBLIGED to give M thetrip
Mrand Mrs. !. l.. Hnlman are receiving
congratulations on the birth of daugh-
ter, Monday. Little Miss lalman has
nosed for - ,,hotogranb The result being
cnineptIv satisfaetarv She is probabTv
tho voungast subiact that eyer sat for n
,bctogranh IN th. Pine Tree State
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Admr. notice-E-t. samuel iIerrCk
James I. Cushmau-M Messengers notice.
i \. Peters. ir.-lIuu-e to let
Statemant-t Condition of the Ellsworth Loan
and Butltling Association.
VI Gallcrt Cloak exhibition and sale.
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joel X lIodglun- Caution notice.
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15
WHY PROSPERITY RETURNED.

fortunately for this country the
effects of the panic of 1898 are rapidly
passing away. Money has begun to
flow again in its accustomed channels.
Wheat has risen in price, cotton has
risen in price, iron has risen in price,
industries are reopening everywhere,
wages are increasing, and all this
comes from the fact that the capital
lists of this country who are shrewd,
far-seeing and who watch with keen
eye the doings of every political con.
vention have come to the conclusion
that the free silver sentiment in the
United States is not strong enough
and not powerful enough to force this
country to q silver basis.
'They understand that there is no
free silver sentiment in the East, none
in New England, none in New York,
none in Maryland, New Jersey. Della
ware or Pennsylvania.
''They see that Republicans and
Democrats in the State of Ohio have
pronounced against free silver; that
Republicans and Democrats in the
State of Kentucky have pronounced
sgainst free silver that only part of
the Democrats in the other States of
the West and South are for free silver,
and they are confident. as am, that
the people of the United States, what
ever else may happen, will in 1896
pronounce for the continuance of
sound money, for the parity with gold
of every dollar of silver and of paper
now afoat or to be foated in the
United States Hon. Hilary a. Her.
bert, at Montgomery, Ala.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15

But soon there came serious doubts
and questionings. The advocates of
sound money spread abroad literature
in which the free silver doctrine was
ridiculed as absurd, or denounced as
dangerous. It was pointed out that
merely cheapening the currency could
not increase the wealth of the coun-
try, and that changing silver bullion
into coins would not make it easier
for farmers to get more of it. The
evil effects OF tampering with the
measure of values on which the whole
business interests of the country rest
ed were clearly shown, and the results
of policy which would cause another
financial panic given in plain language.
The men who had blindly swallowed
the free coinage mixture became
alarmed. They began to ask: "Is
it not possible that we are mistaken +?
Will free silver really do what we have
been told about it? Have we been
deluded by the cheap money advo-
cates?" The answers to- these ques-
tions settled the free coinage agitation
in so far as it seriously threatened to
be the controlling political issue.
Once the farmers refused to accept
the silver gospel on faith, the cause of
the silverites was lost.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15

To these men, ignorant OF the real
causes of their poverty, but dimly
feeling that the evils of which they
complained might be cured by laws of
some kind, came the demagogic agents
of the silver mine owners; the cheap
politicians seeking the spoils of Office !;
and the one-idead enthusiast who was
sure that the ills of poverty would
quickly disappear if only the country
was supplied with more and cheaper
money. Glowing word pictures were
painted of wealth in abundance for
all, as soon as a free coinage law
would be adopted and the minis set to
work grinding out grist of silver
dollars. No promise was too extrava-
CANT for the men who talked of riches
without working for them, and in lit
erature and speeches cunningly COM
posed of half-traths and whole false
hoods, vision of unbounded prosper
ity was conjured up before each
farmers eyes.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15
"To prevent the altogether too great

''To prevent the altogether too great
clamor and complaint of dearness, -
prices of 'the most necessary articles,
such as bread. beer and wine," were
once more solemnly and unalterably
fixed in silver, beaver and wampum.
The tun of small beer:
Three guilders in silver.
Four and one.half guilders in
beaver.
Six guilders in wampum.
In spite of the good intentions of
the Director and Council and of their
severe laws. they declared, on Decem-
Der %, 1852, that wan pun had depre-
ciated 'sto the degree that 20, yea,
even by some "a, guilders, are now or
dlnarily paid for one beaver" Never
theless they proceeded to fix ratios and
prices in way that would do credit
to modern "pop" convention.
1t did not dawn upon the minds of
our forefathers that wampum was de.
preciating in value because it was be-
ing produced more AMI more cheaply
and because it was becoming, as com
pared with beaver and silver, poor
standard of value, untitled for cur
rency in the growing and trading
colonies. They thought to stay
natural with artificial laws.
We have but to substitute silver for
wampum and gold for beaver and we
bring the ''be-it-enacted" farce up
to date.
All OF the long-haired aud short
witted statesmen that ever assembled
cannot. for any great length Of time,
force a depreeiated and unpopular
currency upon . civilized country.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15
EXPENSIVE GREENBACKS.
Secretary Carlisle Shows That They
Are Neither Cheap Nor Efficient
as Money.

Secretary Carlisle Shows That The,
as Money.
An impression exists, even in the
minds of many who do not call them.
selves Populists, that United States
notes, known as 'tgreenbacks, form
= cheap and almost ideal currency.
They are not only very costly but
there are many evils and dangers con.
nected with their use as currency. In
fact the opinion is becoming general
among our financial experts and
students that this country will have
no financial repose until the green
backs are retired. The Secretary of
the Treasury is compelled by law to
redeem these notes whenever presented
IN 'coin"-either gold or silver as
demanded. He can not then cancel
them but must reissue them as often
as they are presented. They thus be-
come siphon for drawing gold out of
our Treasury and are undoubtedly
partly responsible for more than one
panic and financial scare. It is to re-
deem them that we maintain a reserve
Of 500, 900. 900 in gold-held idle
and useless except for this purpose.
In his speech at Boston, Mass, on
October 18th, Secretary Carlisle sum-
married. some of the items of cost of
maintaining our greenback currency
as follows:
"The losses already sustained on this
account are almost beyond computa-
ton, and there is no good reason to
believe that the country can escape
further injury in the future if the
policy of the Government is unchanged
IN this respect. The fact that the
soundness of our currency depends, or
IS supposed to depend, upon the
maintenance of a certain fixed reserve
IN the Treasury keeps the business of
country in an almost constant state of
agitation and alarm. and is, from
every point of view, detrimental to
the interest of the people.
Il will not take the time this
evening to discuss the various plans
that have been suggested for the re-
tirement and cancellation of the old
United States notes and the Treasury
notes, my only purpose now being to
assist in directing public attention to
the subject and to express the decided
opinion that this element of weakness
must be eliminated from our system
before We can have any positive assur.
ance of permanent safety.
'After the experience of the last
three years it seems almost incredible
that proposition to retire these notes
should encounter serious opposition,
though there is, of course, room for
vile difference of opinion as to the
manner in which it shall be accom-
plished and as to the character of the
currency that shall be substituted for
them.
'It is sometimes said that, although
these notes constitute part of the
public debt, they bear no interest, and
are therefore the cheapest form of
that can be provided for the
use of the people. A very brief state
ment of the facts will be sufficient to
show how erroneous this conclusion
is, and that the United States note is
the most expensive form of currency
that the people can have.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15
Farmers Significant Vote.

The annual convention of the Amer
lean Bankers Association, which be-.
gan in Atlanta yesterday. will, of
course, have National interest, and
possibly Importance. But SO far as the
silver question is concerned the bank
ers can hope to say nothing more
forcible than was said by the farmers
assembled in National congress in the
same city on Monday last, when they
voted down 16 to free coinage res
olution by a majority of 147, and
clinched their action later in the day
by rejecting u resolution in opposition
to the further issue of bonds. -Phila-
delphia Record.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-15
GOLDEN STAGE OF CIVILIZATION.

Since man become trading animal
and had gumption enough to appre-
ciate the advantages of money over
barter, the form of currency has
everywhere been an indication of the
degree of civilization attained. In
the hunting stage skins and furs, and
sometimes shells, beads and other
substitutes for jewelry were used rs
currency. In the pastoral stage sheep
and cattle were the usual with tusks
and perhaps slaves the unusual,
forms of currency. In the agricul-
tural stage, wheat, barley, Indian
corn, olive oil, tobacco, sugar, ginger,
eggs, dried goldfish, wers some OF the
products used as currency at different
times and places. Cotton cloth, straw
mats, salt, beeswa1, handmade nails
have each served as currency.
By evolution and progress the use
of each of these commodities as cur
rency has been discarded. It was
found that each lacked some essential
quality for use as money. Some were
perishable; others too bulky and hard
to transport; others could not be
easily divided for the purpose of max
ing Change" others we're not uni
form in size; others were easily coun-
terfeited; and nearly all lacked stabil-
ity of value.
The metals being peculiarly adapted
for use as currency most civilized or
half-civilized Nations early recognized
these advantages aud made money of
metals. Iron. lead, tin, copper,
platinum, nickel, silver and gold have
each served as money, especially
among manufacturing and CONNER
cial Nations. The civilized Nations
have practically s5snds ned the use OF
all but silver and d Nd the most
highly civilized l.tSS6s have dis
carded, or are di,scarding, the use of
silver, except for subsidiary coinage.
Gold is undoubtedly the best fitted
of all metals for monetary purposes.
1t is for this reason that it has sur
vived as money aud has become the
standard of value in all leading COM
mercisl Nations. We are now in the
golden stage OF civilization and have
Is surely passed the silver stage as we
have the agricultural aud pastoral
stages. Those wao ara trying to pre-
vent the completion of this process of
evolution are unnecessarily wasting
nerve tissue. They should read what
he Darwins and Hu1leys. who have
studied the history of money, have to
'ay and they will dream less about
gold bugs" aud "Wall street" and
enjoy better health aud make better
citizens of the modern world.