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NICOLlN CLUB.
Annual meeting-Henry f.. Davis tn,
New President,
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Annual meeting -1etlfy r.. DAVIS tne
New President.
The annual meeting and election of
officers of the Nicolin club took place at
the club house on the shore of Branch
pond last Tuesday evening, January IA
Mem bers to the number of tWenty-siX
were present, and they had the novel and
not very agreeable experience of driving
out on wheels, there being as yet not
sufficient snow for sleighing.
supper was served at 7, and Immediate
ly after that always interesting event,
Capt. JOY, the president, called the meet
ing to order. Secretary Drummey record
ed.
The first business was the election of
officers. Capt. ii. j. JOY, the genial and
efficient president of the club for the past
four years, positively declined to serve
longer. Henry f. Davis was elected.
IL. f. Hamlin, president, also de-
clned to serve longer, and F. w. Rollins
was elected to the office.
Nj. S. Smith WAS reelected treasurer
and Charles Ii. Drummey secretary.
The president, ice-president and treas
urer constitute, under the bylaws, a
board OF trustees. Several amendments
to the bylaws were offered, all of which,
under the rules, lie on the table for two
weeks.
The report of the treasurer shows the
club to be entirely out of debt.
The meeting adjourned to meet for
action on the proposed amendments on
Tuesday evening, Jan. IS, at the club
house.
Two new applications for membership
were received.
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BORN

FARLEY-At Bar IIarbor, Dec 8, to Mr. and
Mrs James Farley, son.
GREENLAW At Deer Isle. Jan II, to Mr. and
Mr.. Frederick Greenlaw a son.
GRlNDLE-At Wal ham, Jan 6, to Mr. and Mrs
Thomas w Grndle, a son.
HIGGINS-At North Ellsworth, Jan. l3, to Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Higgins, son.
JOYCE-At Swans Island, Jan g. to Mr. and
Mrs Walter Joyce, a daughter
JOHNSON--At Hancock Jan IL, to Mr. and Mrs
Henry W johnson, II son.
PERKINS-At Penobscot. Jan. 6 to Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis II. Perkins, n daughter.
ROBINSDN-At fremont, Jan s, to Mr. and Mrs
Fred p Robinson, a daughter.
SCAMMON-At sullivan Dec. 81. to Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry }. Scammon, a daughter.
SMlTH-At Bar Harbor. Dec Il, to Mr. and Mrs
Forest Lincoln Smith, a daughter.
YOUNG-At Hancock, Jan. 3 to Mr.. and Mrs.
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COUNTY NEWS.

Hancock.
DIR. G. r. Hagerthy was in town Mon
day.
c. b. Young and wife are receiving CON
CALCULATIONS upon the birth of son.
Mrs. A. 3. Crabtree was called to Pitts
field Monday by the illness of her daugh-
ter Ethel, who is student at the in
stitute.
The reading club will meet Friday
evening with Mrs. o. l.. Crabtree. The
programme is miscellaneous and consists
of the following topics: 1.-The Original
Inhabitants of America" "a Sketch of
Napoleon's Life" can Outline of the
Lives of Americas Prominent Divines -
Life of Capt. Isaac Bassett;" "a History
of the Original Constitution of the L.
s." "Current Topics of the Week -
"History of the Town of Hancock; =
readings.
At the annual meeting of stock holders
Of Pamela grange store company, Satur-
day evening, Jan. 4, the following officers
were chosen for the year: President,
Luther Haven; secretary, c. II. Wooster;
treasurer, J. N. Stratton; directors, C..
H. Wooster, ]. N. Stratton, Louis Jordan,
Nelson Stewart, Luther Haven. The
amount Of trade for the year 1895 was
s16,997, exceeding that Of the previous
year S2,3S2. A dividend of &c per cent.
was declared and there remains surplus
of 81 SIS. The services of c. H. Wooster
boy haou for and
with this Efficient agent to conduct the
business the outlook is bright.
Jan. 10. NJ.
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Is it ''overwork" that has filled this
country with nervous dyspeptics?-that
takes the flesh off their bones, the vital
ity from their blood. and makes them
feeble, emaciated and inefficient? No.
1t is bad cooking, overeating of indiges-
tible stuff, and other Understanding
habits.
The remedy is an artificially digested
food such as the Shaker Digestive Cordial.
Instead of irritating he already infiamed
stomach the cordial gives it a chance to
rest by nourishing the system itself and
digesting other food taken with it. So
flesh and strength return. Is not the
idea rational? The cordial is palatabe
and relieves Immediately. No money
risked to decide on its value. A 10-cent
trial bottle does that.
LAXOL is he best medicine for chill
dren. Doctors recommend it in place of
Castor Oil.
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IN INSOLVENCY.
Naflce nG Second MI eeliny

STATE OF MAINE, HANCOCK, ss.:-Court OF
insolvency.
In the case of Charles w. Jordan, of Eden,
in said county, insolvent debtor.
THIS is to give notice that pursuant to an
1 order of court therefor, second meet
ing of the creditors of said insovent debtor,
will be held at the probate court room in
Bucksport, in said county, on Wednesday, the
twelfth day of February, a. d. 1895, at eleven
O'Clock in the forenoon, for the purposes
named in chapter seventy of the revised stat
utes of the state of Maine, with amendments
thereof and additions thereto.
Attest:-CHAs. p. DoRR,
Register of said court
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and threatened with fever. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. d. w. Fifeld, has been caring
for her.
Mrs. Mary Gray, of this place, is max
ing worsted quilt W hich promises to take
the premium over any around here. Every
stitch in the working ID so evenly placed
that it looks like stamping and the colors
are very beautiful. Her daughter Tina
also has an elegant silk quilt just COM
pleted.
The annual meeting Of the Phenix Ii
brary association was held Wednesday
evening, Jan. 9, at the home Of the libra
rian, Mrs. May Robbins. The board Of
officers was unanimously reelected. The
library comprises 346 volumes, including
works by the best standard authors. 1t
was established about thirty-three years
ago, starting with voluntary contribu-
tions amounting to go, which purchased
sixty books. An annual tax is required
Of the members, which is expended in
new books, thus keeping up with the
times.
Jan. 10. ECO.
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south Deer Isle.

south Deer Isle.
There was Sunday school Christmas
concert at the church here Dec. 20,
which was very satisfactory every way.
Quite congregation assembled. The
choir rendered some choice selections and
the Sunday school pupils gave a number
of fine Rotations. There was motto
exercise by fourteen of the scholars,
with singing appropriate to the motto at
its close. Four tiny girls gave Rotations
and another little miss recited, and also
read selection. There were two duets.
Near he close the pastor made a few re-
marks as to the object of the concert,
which was to raise money for the Sun
day school library, for which a collection
was taken.
Jan. 2. EGO.
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria

THE AMERICAN prints more uital sta
tistics-births, marriages ana deaths
than all the other papers printed in the
county combined, and most of them it
prints from one to t,oo ,peeks ahead of its
cOpten Doruries
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At Ellsworth, in the county of Hancock, and
State of Maine, t. ninth day of January,
a. d. 1896
yINHE undersigned hereby gives notice of
i his appointment as assignee OF the es-
tate of Charles W Jordan, of Eden, in
said county of Hancock insolvent de btor, who
has been declared an insolvent upon his
own petition, by the court of insolvency Tor
said county of Hancock.
GEORGE j. STAFFORD, Assignee.
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BroOkIin.
1. O. O, F. INSTALLATION.

The officers of Brooklin lodge, No. 1873,
|. 0, Q. f., were installed Saturday even
ing by P. N. G.. Rodney S. Osgood, as
sisted by P. N. G. Irving II. Harding, of
Bluehil lodge, as follows: John j. Nc
Donnell, N. g.; Frank A. Watson, V. g.;
Erastus j. Carter, R. S.. G. Il. Allen, P.
s.; Webster P. Mcfarland, treasurer;
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P. 8.

perhaps II l were to boil it down."
suggested the space writer. "Wouldn't
do any good" said the obdurate editor.
Take gallon OF water and boil it down
to pint, and it would still be nothing
but water"
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OLD PEOPLE OFTEN have trouble
some and persistent coughs. Sometimes
you can cure them and sometimes you
can't. But Adamson's Botanic Cough
Balsam always soothes and relieves the
patient old folks.
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North Deer Isle.
Mrs. William Powers is very ill.
There was sociable in the school house
last week.
Capt. George Holden has arrived home
for the winter.
William Kenney is boarding at Collins
Powers this winter.
Capt. Roland Lowe, who came home i'll
sometime ago, is better.
School in this place is taught by Byron
ID. Tracy, Of Green's Landing.
Collins Powers, Capt. Prescott Powers
and Arthur Powers arrived home Satur-
day.
Jan. 10. JOSH.
Oceanville.
Maggie Greenlaw is home for the
winter.
George Eaton is visiting at Samuel
Annis'.
E. T. Colomy's pile driver went adrift
during the high tide of last week.
The "boys' are having a dancing school
in Crockett's hall. w. B. Peakes, teacher.
The young people have organized a
Iyceum here, and will give an entertain
ment at the school-house every Saturday
evening until further notice. Samuel
Ackley is president.
Jan. 6. EUGENE.
The boys and girls have enjoyed them
selves skating.
The dancing school, taught by Prof. W.
B. Peakes, opened Thursday evening.
Steamer "Florence' could not make a
landing here on Thursday, on account of
ice.
Seth & c. II. S. Webb sold a valuable
pair of oxen to Brooksville parties last
week.
The "Misery club has changed its
night of meeting from Saturday to Fri
day night.
Jan. 10. EUGENE.
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Sunset.
Clarence Day has moved into a tene
ment of Seth Hatch, of Deer Isle.
A. T. Small and wife spent the holidays
witt their son, II. w. Small, at Swans
Island.
Mrs. Pearl Stinson is at Green's Land
ing, caring for her daughter, Mrs. Simeon
Dow, who is quite i'll.
Jan. 6. ;.
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dbe kine's Daughters.

This department Is conducted by the Hand
In Hand circle of the Kings Daughters Of Ellis.
worth. Headquarters at Rooms II and Is Man.
ming Block, Main street, Ellsworth.
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Business Notices.

If ALI cted with scalp diseases, hair falling
out, and premature badness do not use grease
OF alcohol preparations, but apply Halls Hair
Remover
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JAM. 10.

Special evangelical services were held
in the vestry from Dec. 26 to Jan. 10, Rev.
Mr.. Richards being assisted by Rev. Mr..
Belcher, and on two evenings by Mr..
Aprahamian. There was a good attend
ance, but no hearty cooperation by the
church, and no conversions.
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Charles Warren has been quite ill the
past week with tonsilitis.
Mrs. Rebecca Bryant has been quite i'll,
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These trains connect at Bangor, with through
trains on Main Line to and from Portland Bos-
ton and st. John.
Passengers requested to procure tckets
before entering the train, and especially Ellis.
worth to Falls and Falls to Ellsworth.
Tickets for All Points South and West
on sale at the M c. r R. ticket Office,
Ellsworth, C. F. GREENE, Agent.
PAYSON TUCKER,
Vice Pres. and Gent Manager.
F. +. BOOTHBI, Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agt.
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Thursday evening, Jan. %, Odd Fellows
hall Party by the Village Improvement
society. Refreshments. Tickets, 80 cents
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Thursday, Jan. 16, at Congregational
church-Concert and stereopticon lecture.
Subject: Through Palestine, from
Jerusalem to the Sea of Ga!ilee" Tick
cts, Is cents.
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EUGENE.

MOuntainville.
The new mission hall that has been
finished here for Sunday school and re-
ligious meetings, is completed so far as
there are funds to do with. Something
more than 800 has been expended. The
room is finished and seated, but there are
needed paint for the woodwork inside, a
stove and pipe, and platform outside to
make the entrance easier, which will cost
about so. meeting is to be held in the
room Wednesday evening to see if the
people can furnish this amount. The
room cannot be dedicated and used until
these necessary things are provided.
Jan. IA. S.
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STATE OF MAINE.

HANCOCK,
WHEREAS Hathon ]. smith, formerly of
w Orland, said county and state, now
residing without the State, on the fifth day of
March, a. d. 1890 mortgaged to Richard Is.
Gott, of said Orland, now deceased, three
eighths of the schooner "Mentora' of said
Orla.d, together with three-eghths of the
masts bowsprit, sails, boats, anchors. cables,
tackles furniture, and all other necessaries
thereunto appertaining and belonging to said
schooner, to secure payment of four hundred
and fifty dollars. which mortgage is recorded
in the custom house at Castine, said county
and State, in book 81, page 95 and whereas
the conditions of said mortgage have been
broken, now, therefore, notice is hereby gwen
of nv intention to foreclose said mortgage
for breach of its conditions.
FRANK w. GROSS. administrator
OF the estate of said Richard Is. Colt.
January / a
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mfniraI.
Only Hoods

SarsaparIIia Than Of All Others.
Woodward Bros. have been in the drug
business at AZ Main Street, Ellsworth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-17
THE DIVORCE EVIL,
From the Detroit Tribune.

From the Detroit Tribune.
The fact is that the institution of IL
vorce as it is being administered is de-
feating its own purpose in n very great
degree. The legal dissolution of the mar
riagc relations was ordained with but one
end i'll view, and that to decrease the sun,
total Of human unhappncss. 1t was in
tended that where marriage had brought
actual misery, the mischief should be un-
done. The effect of our manner of going
about 1t has been to vastly increase human
misery. The more we loose the mar
riage bond which is CALLING the oftencr
the calling marriage bond makes its APP
pearance.
Unhappiness Is n peculiar thing, any
way. 1t is the irksome condition from
which we think we may escape by strug-
Cling that mostly makes us unhappy. The
inevitable speedily becomes tolerable, as
instances without number prove. Very
rarely is it the fact that conditions con-
tinue to oppress seriously after it becomes
thoroughly certain tina. they cannot he
avoided Every day we see human beings
living in circumstances that seem to us
intolerable. For example we observe a
hopeless paralytic who cannot raise
his hand to feed himself, and we do not
find him necessarily unhappy. We are
more likely to find that person reconciled
TO his state, and virtually as happy as
anybody.
Thus it comes about that lot of what
we call marital infclicity would never be
infelicity at all but for the freedom with
which we grant divorces. There is not
one domestic quarrel in a thousand which
could not be accommodated. but for the
assurance held before the eyes Of married
people that the law does not require them
to he very indulgent and forbear.ng after
all and that they don't have to get along
with each other unless 1t is entirely con-
venicnt.
OF course there Is such thing as pro-
per divorce, a divorce that ought to be
granted for the good of society, for there
is such thing as a hopelessly immoral
marriage. But such divorce Is far less fire.
quent than our professediy humane legis-
lators seem to think. There is no serious
doubt in anybody's mind that marriage Is
the most important social institution, ana
that the future of the race depends upon
It. With the welfare of unborn genera
tions In our keeping we ought to proceed.
it would SEEM with less regard for the
mere comfort and convenience of the
present generation.
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MIR. POWDERLY,s GOOD POINT.
From the Allentown Chronicle.

From the Allentown Chronicle.
Mr.. Powderly put the tariff question in
in a nutshell when he said in his New
York speech at sounds beautiful to say
that the world Is my country and all men
my brothers. but sef-preservation is the
first law of nations as well as of nature"
1t is necessary that nations, in order to
exist, shall have money to pay their eX-
penses, and the law of preservation
mpels them to procure that money in the
easiest way possible, which Is by means OF
a tariff on imports. 1t would be possible
to raise 1t by direct tax on the people
themselves but that method has never
been popular, even with the most devoted
adhercnts of free trade. Even they will
not acknowledge the power of brotherly
love to such an extent as that, and the
same rule applies to nations as to indiVi-
duals. As n matter of fact. there are no
free trade nations. The one which breaches
the doctrine most strenuously does not
practice It. If 1t did, the traveller landing
in England would not find every port
guarded by a custom house Free trade
is an rridescent dream, which can Ecver
be realized until men become much more
brotherly and self-sacfifcing than they
are now.
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haul of a hundred miles to market. in
which days were consumed and look
around and see the farmer of today dis
posing of his surplus almost at his door
for money good the world over and then
tell us, If you please, who suffered the
hardship?
The farmer may just now get only 40
cents for his wheat, but the latter will not
have cost him half as much as it cost the
farmer fifty years ago, and the money
will buy him far more of both the neces-
saries and the luxuries of life. AS it is with
the farmers so it is with the workingmen.
The wages of all classes Of workingmen
have doubled and trebled since 1S4O while
money will buy three times as much as 1t
did then.
Why, then, should not all men Of COM
mon sense who work in various employ
ments desire the best money that is go
ing? Instead Of cheap money being a
blessing it is q curse to nations, COM
munties and individuals. 1t is the sign
and index of a low civilization. 1t is de-
generacy not Improvement, retrogression,
not progress-in 4 word, 1t Is un-American.
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Masses and Classes.

MIR. Bryan asserts that under free
coinage the price of silver will rise to
an equality with gold. If that be so the
gold standard will still prevail and all
those evils incident to that standard,
which Mr.. Bryan pictures with such a
glowing imagination, will continue to
atlict the country! But it is not possi-
BILE under free coinage for silver to be
maintained at par with gold. When
the government made its large pur-
chases under the acts of 1873 and 1890
the price Of silver steadily declined,
though those purchases amounted to
very nearly the whole of the annual pro-
duction of silver in the United States.
The admission Of silver to free COIN
age is in no sense a purchase of silver
He who takes his silver bullion to the
mint will, under free coinage, have it
stamped, and 1t, or its equivalent, de-
livered to him with full legal tender
quality, but with no guarantee by the
government that it shall be maintained
at a par with gold, and, therefore, with
no value for purchasing purposes other
than that which can be based upon it's
bullion value. If there is to be an un-
limited issue of legal tender silver dol
lars. gold will inevitably be driven out
of circulation. The gold standard will
inevitably be abandoned and all debts
and all wages will be payable in depre-
ciated currency. Mr.. Bryan explained
that his course. while beneficial to those
whom he calls the masses, is opposed to
the interest of those whom he some
times calls the holders of fixed invest
ments' and those whom he at other
times calls the idle holders of idle cap
ital.'
Does he know that the idle holders
Of idle capital are the 5,OOO.OOO of saving
fund depositors, whose deposits amount
to 81 800, ,O0O,O 900 invested in mortgages
to the amount of more than 81 900 900, 600
and in corporate bonds to a nearly equal
amount? Does he realize that among
idle holders of idle capital are the g.
900, 900 members of building and loan
associations. whose mortgages amount
to more than $3.50, ,OOO 200? Does he re-
alize that among the idle holders of idle
capital are the owners of policies Of
life insurance to the amount of nearly
$4,000, 100000, and the holders of fire in
surance policies to the amount of s16,-
O0O,OOO.OOO? What Is the wealth of the
so-called rich men of the country as
compared with the aggregate wealth Of
those representatives of the prudent
and thrifty American citizens? Mr..
Bryan has much to say in condemna-
ton of the creditor class Does he real
ize that, with the exception of very
few people whom the accidents Of for.
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The Silver Craze in Canada.

In a mild way the silver question
has also broken out in Canada. Some
one in Tilsonburg has dropped into the
Bryan notion that the fall in certain
commodities is due rather to an ap-
probation in the value of gold than to
cheapened processes of production and
the overrunning of available markets.
This gentleman writes to the Toronto
Globe concerning a certain Canadian
bank which holds large mortgage on
lumber plant. When the lumber
company borrowed from the bank it
was getting S. a thousand for stand
ing timber. Today lumber in that To-
dressed, delivered and sawed. The Til
sonburg man wants to know If the bank
ought not to be forced to take cheaper
dollars in payment Of its mortgage, in
view of the decline in values which has
been forced on the lumber firm.
The fallacy Of this question isn't very
difficult to detect, but the Toronto paper
entertaningly exposes it when it re-
marks that "a debt must be an obliga-
tion to deliver something of value at a
future time, and as the value of every
thing huctuates every debt contains an
element of uncertainty. Whether the
obligation Is to deliver carats Of pre-
cious stones. yards of cloth, dollars of
gold. tons of coal, toices of stone. cords
of wood, quintals of fish or bushels OF
potatoes, there will be fluctuations in
payment of the debt. Ifthe thing to be de-
livered becomes more valuable the deb
tor loses what the creditor gains. If it
becomes less valuable the debtor gains
what the creditor loses"
In the cited case the lumber firm con-
tracted to rSpay to the loaning bank
within certain time a sum of money
of a certain standard value, say $500. .000
in gold or it's equivalent. 1t took it's
chances on the speculation in lumber.
If lumber had gone up in price instead
of down. the bank wouldn't have tried
to force the firm to pay it more Than
$500, 900; nor can the firm. now that the
speculation went against 1t, honestly
try to force the bank to take less in
cancellation of the debt. The price of
lumber fell because science invented
great steam saws which do ten times
the work at one-.enth the cost of the
old system. The gold standard had
nothing to do with it, and any attempt
to cheaper the dollar SO as to avoid
the full payment Of debts is nothing
less than an attempt to misuse the
law for purposes of spoliation.