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Keep TN a Fishin'.

Suppose the fsh don't bite at fu2t,
What be yew goin tur dew
Chuck down yewr pole, throw cut yewr bait,
An say ycwr hshin threw
Nv course yewr hatn't ycwr gotn tur hsh'
An fish, an fish. an wait
Until ycw've ketehcd yewr basket full,
An used up all yewr bait.
suppose success don't come at fust.
What he yew going tur dew
Throw up the sponge an kick yewrsclf,
An 20 tur feelin blew
" course view hain't, yewr goin tur fish.
An bait, an halt, agin.
Bimeby success Will lite yewr hook,
And ycw will pull him in.
BOSTON sunday Courier
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

Marlboro.
Alfred Hodgklns is still in very poor
health.
Nahum Hodgkins has his new shed
completed.
Some long-needed repairs have been
made on our roads.
Mrs. Susan Hodgkins, an aged lady of
this place. is just recovering from; the
measles.
Mrs. Lizzie Ford's buildings look well
in new coat of paint. a. L. Young, OF
South Hancock, has been doing the work
Wesley Ford came home from Seal
lIarbor Saturday, accompanied by tine
measles, hieh he has been obliged TO en-
terrain the past few days.
n Mrs. Agnes Stanley and little daug
Maud. who are.!visiting Mrs Stanley's
father. y. Hodgkins, have been in Ban
gor the past week.
1t seems 10 be quite common thing 10
see young foxes tied at peoples doors as
YOU pass their houses. We hope they
will keep them tied for the sake OF the
hen, and chickens.
Some OF the farmers are preparing for
having. having their old hay pressed to
make room for the new. If 1t continues
dry not much Of q crop Is expected. KAN
j very much needed for both hay and
vegetables.
Most of our young people have. gone
,,,.,,. - bnir Summer work There are
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
~nlithY will.

~mithYill..
Melvin CIeaves and wife, OF Sorrento,
spent sunday IN town.
Mrs Henry CIeaves niece, Miss W walker
IS spending the summer months with
her.
Gertrude smith, after a years absence,
returned home Tuesday. She has been
teaching at Ashland.
Lizzie Smith, accompanied by friend,
came home Saturday night. She has
been teaching at Hull's Cove.
Mrs. Clara Smith Cleaves, Of Bar Har-
Dor. and Mrs Josephine Clark smith, OF
Jonesport, have been spending te"
days with their parents.
June Il.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
June17.

CastIne.
Prof. Keener, of New York, has opened
his cottage for the summer
Fred and Freeman Hooper returned
from Boston to spend Sunday at home,
The graduation exercises of the high
school were held at the town hall, Wed
nesday evening. The parts were as fol-
lows: Salutatory, Helen Norton; poem,
Josephine Dunbar; fnis corondt opus,
Elizabeth Perkins; class history, Ger
trude Gray; valedictory, Henry Cham Der
lain. The class ode was written by Helen
Norton.
June Il.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

west i'hhhiiI'
FREEWIIL BAPTIST QUARTERLY MEETING.
The Ellsworth quarterly meeting OF
Freewin Baptist churches, convened with
the church at West Franklin on Tuesday
afternoon, June Il. The session was
called to order by the clerk, Dea. How
ard Dunn. Of Ellsworth. A. P. Bunker,
M Fasthroak. was chosen moderator and
presided throughout the series, which
concluded Thursday evening. Letters
were received from almost all the
churches. These We're OF a helpful char
actcr, showing that where faith was ac-
COMMANDED with good works, conversions
resulted. Several churches have added to
their nun bers by baptism and others eX-
poet to do 80 soon.
Within the limits of the quarterly
meeting ! broad and inviting field for
missionary enterprise This fact recog
nfzed. Rex. Mr.. Nsckerson, Of Bow doin-
ham. was invited. and has accepted the
invitation, to work With the pastorless
and destitute among u.
There was large audience at every
meeting \ quiet but deep devotional
interest and earnestness We're manifest
throughout The social and preaching
services were we'll calculated 70 edlty and
inspire, and those present, from the be
ginning to the end, could truiMully say
with the saint OF old, "L'rd, il i good
for US TO be here.
The next session Will b. held in sep
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
White the Wbeelman's Color.

Bicycle clothing for summer should be
a very light shade, in order not to attract
and retain heat White fabrics exposed to
the sunlight receive only 100 degrees OF
heat, while black is capable of receiving
2OS degrees.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
My Maryland.

Maryland, Ny Maryland was the
work of James Ryder Randall. a native Of
Baltimore. The song Was written by him
in April 1861, while he Wis engaged on
newspaper in New Orleans The melody
is a German folk song. 20 Ianuenhaum.
1t is also found, nearly in its present form,
in an interlude in Mozart 5 . First Mass. -
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
The Matter of Gear on Your Bicycle

Some riders like a high -geared wheel for
instance, sixty-six or more inches. that
is to say, one in which every full turn of
the pedal is equivalent to the revolution of
wheel sixty-six or more inches in
diameter. The higher the gear, Of course,
the more power required at the pedal, for
which reason he low gears, not exceeding
sixty-three inches, are best for all-day
work in touring. With a very high gear
hill-climbing is out of the question.
-Scribner.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

Beechams pills for consti-
patton Zoe and 25a. Get the
book at your druggists and
60 by it.
Annual sales NOR. than 100000 boxes.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
THE STRANGE HOUSE.

800 - ,,l,,rdor
stE,.o,., hons, holds its mystery, he be-
e,op tritr,v
TN, 10 +,ld tho story of tho bouse on
W. rror+h 9, rnc+ not far from Fifth ave
- aoo,,l5 nor snecifv more particu
III. h., 5ocla7nd
~ WIS detailed to watch it" he went
..l,ocarsa tbnrn was something odd
abo,,, H.. f,,,,,nt \ most respeetahle house
=, . most r..-rectable neirbborhood. 1t had
80, e,,tIot r.. ON. William smith. n small
dorl, ,,3,, ,,;+b a foreign accent.
ell h,d Maid eix months rent in ad.
xo,,ai, =, I;a,i ~ refrrenee and as the dull
s+,,, -, se.l., vas coming ON the agent
bad 49,. l,n,Ih1nd over his SLIGHT viola
, ,i'la ''G If t.. rjIc recurring references
VI, .,,,,,,, ,yh,+#bfs trade no one
.o,,1d s,,. The rent had been naid in Eng
-
49, :. j, 49,. ~. c,,i.b had moved in-he
.o,,,.,a f,~,,ish,,a-tbn stranre proeeediDgs
bnr,,, which attracted the neighhors at
-, ~ -, ftnr shutdown unified men
~, -, o,,r,cs, ~ tbr door which would
-, ra,.naIir,, Tho dinlz lit hall Tho
,,isi+or c,,+rr.d Now the peculiar feature
- tia co.. vas +b,t NJ, owe ever came out
I'LL NJ smith existed af,narpntly iulc-
,,a,,,1,,,t If M. butcher md baker If ven
-, ~ ,,,.,,snr,,,t simYIv# told Won
80 - ,,.,s ,,nt IN Bnt other per
60. .,,il,,,tr,. found him, in Three or
Fo,,. ,,,r.,,,. ,,.spd that threshold daily.
800 ., ra,,.,,.,, ever II OF course the
tgri,,, .,.,.,ar,ts WHISPERED marvellous
- ~ 49,. If ylr ,yan- and scanned
tbn faces Of hose who entered. vou found
tben m m, a-narcnt1v gentlemen. with
-. ',+.I,<...,'.'l e.
t4Gai,,,,,, tho stems tbe visitor world
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

Goods cheap they never were any cheaper. Seventy
five cents buys many goods in our line dollar did
last year But the fact still remains you buy pudding
the price OF bread good reliable and fashionable
goods the price OF trash Between prices and those Of
other there difference; although goods bet
and up the times sell them cheap YOU pay
trash in other places II you good and reliable goods
which of date, you get them of
We offer the following leaders in several different depart
mcnts, commencing IN
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
Self slaughter In Franee.

During the last four years 20, GOO persons
in France have put an end 10 their own
lives
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR.

Particular attention is called wearing qualities OF our
Boys and Chidrcns Hose We make specially OF these
they being fast coors and very durable Prices from 10
IS
II you want satisfactory Ladies Hose, either black OF
colors, ask for our Hose IS cents.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
SHIRT WAISTS
AND EMBROIDERIES

In large quantities and every style, to suit taste
In PASSEMENTERIES and all kinds of DRESS TRIM
MINGS and DRESS LININGS are headquarters
All departments complete with large assortment
to select FROM OUR PRICES ARE LOW, and there is no
who will sell you goods cheaper than we do; neither
there anyone shows better assortment of goods than W"
do.
Samples in Wooden Carpets sent on application
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

scars are merely the tracks of expert
enpp
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
COUNTY NEWS.

For additional County Ne,cs see other pages
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labor. But suppose instead of a perfumery-
bottle a brandy-bottle were made. Sup
pose a young man had bought it and
drunk its contents to satisfy an abnormal
thirst. Suppose the drinking had made
him crazy drunk, and that while in that
condition he had committed a crime.
Back of his deed there would have been
that productive labor-unreproductive as
to final good, but awfully productive of i'll.
1t may be that the cause of temperance
can be served by making it responsible for
such nonsense as this, but the proposition
is to say the least doubtful one. At a
time when the world is anxiously seeking
solutions to our various social reforms we
are in need of teachers, not of blind leaders
of the blind. This is no time for the warp
ing of the principles and facts of political
science, such as we have it, to meet the
ends OF special reformers. The man who
does this must be intensely ignorant or a
chartelan. No end is in itself sufficiently
commendable to justify this sort of liter
airy humbuggery and juggling with scien-
tife phraseology. New York: Funk &
Wagnalls1
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Caring for Babies.

An American medical student writes
from Leipzig description OF the fashion
of caring for babies in Germany which
confirms the current opinion that Ameri-
can children have the most devoted and
intelligent care Of any babes on earth.
French and English babies are largely
given into the hands of nurses for care.
French mothers, even those IN quite COM
Portable circumstances, think nothing of
sending their babies away from home to be
cared for by professional baby-tenders,
who are unfortunately far from scientific
in their methods.
In Germany, we are told the infant
death rate is out of all proportion and
seems to be due to maternal mismanage-
ment.
German mothers believe flannel too hard
for the infants tender skin, and the little
ones are clad in cotton or linen. The pill
low, or "bettehen," upon which the child
lies for the first four or five months of its
existence, would be thought by an Ameri-
can mother most unwholesome contrl-
vance thick feather pillow is put into
an deliberately beruffted case, which has an
extra length that is also decorated with
lace, rufies, or embroidery. The pill
low, with sheet of rubber cloth
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
books and Gsaga
z ;s =OOkJndker5

A few, it is to be feared only few, read
ers of the CALL will remember little gray
book of poems that appeared six months
or so ago bearing the imprint of a San
Francisco publisher and calling itself
GA Light Through the Storm"
The little gray book proved, in most in
stances, hard nut for the reviewers to
crack. 1t was difficult to know just what
to say about the meat it contained. I'm
questionably it was meat, the content, but
the shell was hard; here and there the
husk adhered; here and there the nut
seemed altogether unlovely and undesira-
BILE. 1t looked doubtful whether there
would be found meat enough to repay the
cracker for his trouble.
But to drop the metaphor the little gray
book is full of promise of what we may yet
look for from the young singer, Charles A.
Keller.
Mr.. Keller is yet very young man,
scarcely "a, but aside from what he has
done in making way, aside from a
musical gift with which alone he might
win distinction, he has already achieved
in the realm of science much to which an
older man might point with iustifiable
pride. Charles A. Keller was born in Mil
waukee some twenty-four years ago, but
removed with his parents to Berkeley in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05

omy in their application to the presen
problems of labor, law and the liquor
traffic" The author is Alphonso A. Hop
kins, Ph.D., professor of political econ
omy in the American Temperance Uni
versity. He has designed his book as a
textbook, and the chapters are subjected
to topical and sub-topical arrangement,
which, while it may possibly be of assist
ance to an occasional special student, is
very irritating to the general reader. Six
different faces of type on single 8vo page
are enough to discourage any one but de-
termined seeker for arguments in support of
prohibition. Such arguments DR.. Hop
kins' work is especially designed to fur
nish,' and to meet the writer's ends ac-
copied theories of political economy are
often bent into queer forms. To the two
classes of industry, productive and unpro-
ductive, usually given by economists, he
adds two others which he styles reproduc-
tive and unreproductive. His detinl-
tons, or rather illustrations, Of these
two classes of labor are very subtle.
For instance, perfumery bottle is
product of skilled labor 1T was
made in factory which labor built; it
grew from pile of sand that labor trans
muted. 1t could be again melted and re-
made into saucedish if the glassblower
should please. There is long and possible
reproduction in that fruit of productive
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
Pioneers of Prosneritx.

GA Story of a Public Awakening" the
author, David II. Walker, calls the little
book which he has just published, and
which he dedicates to George K. Fitch, late
editor of the Bulletin. 1t is an interesting
document, dealing with the rise of pro-
gressive spirit in California. 1t chronicles
the rafting of dry bones that took place
three or four years ago when the Armida
sailed through the Golden Gate laden with
American goods that had been shipped
from New York to Europe and thence
around the Horn to San Francisco, navi-
CATION of half the globe to save freight
rates. The story follows up this first evil
dence of public awakening in California
through the successive steps that have led
to competing road and an opening era of
prosperity for the State. The little book
tells the unvarnished truth about num-
Der of matters and people of whom it has
been customary heretofore in California to
speak yelvetly, and in various chapters
make interesting reading.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
A New Local Periodical.

From Murdoch & Co.'s press comes this
week periodical that must pass as unique,
even in this fin de steele epoch of the weird,
the genre the unusual. We have the pc
riodical of yellowness, of greenness, OF the
minute and of the medieval, but in the
Lar k San Francisco has certainly struck a
new note. The Lark is miniature monthly
edited by Bruce Porter and Gelett Burgess.
1t processes no more serious intention than
to be gay-to sing song, to tell a story. 1t
proposes to sing within doors when so in
cllned, but if spring calls or the road in
vites then its readers must follow it afeld,
where they may hear the birds calling and
see trees blowing and know the great con-
tent of earth. Despite the protests of the
editors it will be difficult for acertain or
der of mind to believe that the Lark is not
intended as satire on the literature OF
decadence. 1t is quite true, as is
claimed for it, that the projectors have no
motive in view save the apostleship of
joyousness-of optimism, of that in life
which is healthy and clean and mirth-
inspiring. Life is bigger thing than
art" say the editors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05

gagged to disease are guilty of nothing short
of cruel and objectionable sin.
Do give this wee dependent the care of a
never forgetting his helplessness and your
responsibility for his health ard comfort.
Do not imagine that your time is more
urgently needed for other things than
baby-tending, and that your duty is done
when good nurse is provided. You may
pay your social calls, take your trips,
attend your meetings, your lectures, your
plays, and do your embrolderlng, your
painting and such things-au these things
you may do now, or you may put them all
off for years, and they will not spoil
for the waiting. 1t is not so with
the baby. Never again will he need
the tender mother love, the watchful care
that he needs now. Put him off now and
when he grows up verify he will not come
back to YOU. You will not be all in all to
your boy unless you begin by being so to
your baby. 1t is sweeter to hear baby
voice say any mamma" than to see your
name printed dozens of times in fashion
and literary papers.
Don't, if you love your baby, don't take
him to lectures, to plays, to plcn1cs, or
even to hear the finest sermon that was
ever preached. If you cannot possibly stay
at home with him yourself, leave him at
home with some trustworthy person, even
if you have to impose the charge on some
kind aunt or sister. If your own pleasure
must come first with you, it is better to
inconvenience grown people than your
helpless babe. There is nothing more OBJ
noxious to the little one than any kind OF a
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Inc hildboodSRta|n)

these are unobtainable, the children will
be entertained by potato forms. When
frozen in such shape the molds are pow
dered with cocoa before the ere am is put
in, to carry out the deception. The table
decorations, even if very pretty, will not
especially appeal to the children unless
some feature which they can understand is
combined with it.
The bonbons may be in little crepe paper
bags, tied with ribbon and form center
piece on the table. Flowers may be used
with these, adding to the decorative effect,
and let. the top be crowned with the dude
Brownie. Ribbon or flower garlands or a
combination of both may outline the table,
held before each place by a Brownie. The
Brownies may be obtained clothed in gay
er colors than their national costume if de-
sired, but will not add materially to the
decorations. Pink is the prettiest color
for childs party, as it gives light and
life and will be especially good with the dec
orations suggested.-Table Talk.
Dorothy and Dolly,
Now, Miss Dolly, you can just come
right straight here to me, and let me put
on YOUR very worstest old dress.
We're goin' to clean house hard to-day
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goin' to carry all the things out of my
house out on the front porch. I'll play
this place is front porch, so that old bad
lady what lives cross the street an has a old
carriage to ride In can see how much bigger
an prettier all our things is than all her
old things. I'm most sorry for you, dolly,
cause your house has to be all cleanded
up, cause when it gets all fixed little girls
can't hardly stay anywhere, nor do most
anything. An most all your nice old
dolly rags and all your dishes that is
braked an your old shoes an things has
got to be frowed away. | some sorry for
your papa too, dolly, dear, cause when he
comes home an wants his old coat an
his raggedy slippers they'll be all selled
to the ragman. An sides, the cuttings
will be so clean that anybody can't smoke,
an the pipes will be all frowed away, cause
they is filthy. Papas amt bit glad bout
a pretty new chair what you can't sit down
into unless it will break, an sometimes you
can hear your papa talkin' awful loud
bout goin' somewhere out In the woods,
an you most hope you're goin', too. But
if you hurry an run to hear what they is
all sayin' about, they most always stops
before you can tell, an when you asks
questions they tells you to stopi
When they gets things fixed up, then
Mrs. Fixem an Aunt Sara will come to
call, an they will look found an be just
'stonished cause everything is so clean !;
an nobody can't stay in the house much
an muss it up, SO we can play in the barn
an have fun. An papa will have to eat
on the back steps when he comes home,
an guess he'll say about how anybody
could take tent an live on vacant lot
an have more fun an not cost hardly
any money. An I wish we could
do 1t, cause 1 just love to not
have to be careful so much, an
houses an things is just mostly to make
other folks feel bad cause theirs is hitler,
or else they have not got any carpets an
nice velvet chairs what you mustn't sit
down in 'less'n you've company. Now.
am goin' to get you some dinner.
you bad, old, cross dolly, and you're in
my way just awful to-day. You can't
have anything to eat 'cept those shoe
buttons, Dolly, an old paper napkin
An if you cry an fuss I am Just goin' to
spank you awful, cause I'm SO busy
amt got no time to stop an tend to you
/ Just only want you to know that / are
got something more portant to see about
than stopping around to see to bad,
'bominable dolly what gets in my way
most every minute and goes way off where
| can't see her and don't know where she
is. an am most worried to death, an can't
stand it one single bit longer So there,
now
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an you must be all ready SO when any
body rings the bell you en- jest run to the
door and tell naughty story about your
mamma is not at home. Course it won't
be a really naughty story because your
mamma told you to say it, and that makes
it not be naughty. 1t means something
else but what it sounds, but 1 am too busy
to 'splain that to you now, so you must
run away an play till you is more older,
an then you can know your own self that
when big folks says things that amt so it s
cause they means something that you is
too little to understand, an little girls
must MT ask silly questions.
Now, you can help to do work, an am
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partly covering it, receives the baby,
and the extra length is pulled
up over it after the fashion of counter
pane. The cover is tied firmly in place
with bows and bands of bright ribbons,
and the child becomes, as it were, an APP
purtenance fthe pretty pillow, decorative,
but assuredly often uncomfortable. The
baby wears only tiny shirt Of linen and
a little white waist abundantly trimmed.
It's limbs are tightly wrapped in swad-
dling-clothes, so disposed that the child
cannot disarrange them by kicking, and
pins.
The child is as helpless as the little
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-05
THE OREGON D0CKED.
She Is Taken From the Ways and Is
Ready to Receive Her
Armor.

The new battleship Oregon is at the
docks of the Union Iron Works in as clean
a condition as ship can be after being
thoroughly scraped on drydock by a
gang of men working four days.
Yesterday morning the word was given
and the tugs Sea Queen and Edna pulled
on their haw sers and the big battleship
slid from the coffin in which she had
rested for the past week without even as
much as scratch being made upon her
sides.
The Oregon was towed alongside the
wharf at the iron works and is awaiting
the mounting of the armor-plate now on
the way here from the East. 1t will be
several months before the protection has
all been put in place.