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There il no effort for the improve
ment Of the people that has taken a
more prominent form than that show
ing itself in the establishment and
maintenance of public libraries. The
multiplicity OF books, their low cost
and the natural love there is OF reading
have led TO the popuIarizing OF pub
lie libraries until few villages OF any
respectable size are without collections
Of books to which the people have free
access. Men of wealth have devoted
their money TO the establishment of
large Libraries and two Of the very best
Of these in this country are in Chica-
60, the gifts of public-spirited citizens
who left their wealth for that purpose.
States generally have provided for
the support Of public libraries, al
though the average state legislator has
about as much use for books as a duck
has for an umbrella. or all the states
Minnesota has exhibited the best j~ig-
ment in its laws relating to libraries.
There is an annual appropriation made
ment OF public school collections OF
books. The law provides that 500 shall
be given the first year and $40 annually
thereafter TO any school that raises an
equal or a greater sum for a library,
the stimulus Of which donation has
resulted in a large excess of individual
giving over the amount donated by the
state This plan has been in operation
for the last ten years and since it be-
gan over 1900 public school libraries
have been established, having an aver
age OF sixty-five volumes each, making
a total Of more than III, 900 volumes.
This number OF books, large as II is,
is not so significant OF public interest
in the plan as the fact that the growth
OF each library is continuous, while the
number Of them is steadily increasing.
The plan pursued in the state is not
to purchase books at random or &C
cording to the whims of any one indiv-
idual but to purchase a years quota OF
so that the result is the formation OF a
library especially adapted to reference
purposes, which supplements the edu-
cational work of the school proper.
While popular works OF romance anS
travels are not omitted the body Oh
the books may be considered as sup
elementary to the text books and the
work OF the teachers.
1t is not probable that any equiva-
lent sum appropriated for any other
purpose brings the state of Minnesota
so large a return as the SIC, 900 donated
to the purchase Of books for the pub
lie school libraries and the example
of that state might profitably be fol-
lowed by any other, especially at the
west, where large cities are infre-
quent and technical Libraries are rare
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HANNAH CHARD-

out ner hand. He came up, smelt the
hand, licked il, and lay down beside
her. The man inside. having let out
the dog, waited to see what would
happen. As he heard nothing more,
he was sure that no human being was
there. II there had been the dog
would surely have torn it to pieces; so
he left the dog out for further security
and went to bed. Meantime the big
dog was keeping the little girl warm
in the porch. He nestled close to her.
and the tired child slept In the
morning. when the man of the house
came out. he was astonished to find
his savage dog keeping guard over a
little shivering girl at his door. He
did not share the dogs disposition to
adopt her, however, nor did he, on the
other hand, restore her to her unkind
able institution near by. and thence
she was bound out" to a Quaker fam
iIy who lived on a farm on the battle
ground Of the Brandywine. In those
DAYS binding out" meant a solid SER
yitude until the child's majority. In
Hannah's case, 1t meant helping in
the work Of the kitchen. In caring for
the pigs and poultry; 1t meant ris-
ing early in the morning and going
To bed early at night; 1t meant wear
ing coarse, linsey-woolsey clothes and
sleeping in an attic; it meant very lit
tie schooling. but it also meant a larg-
or measure of happiness than she had
ever enjoyed before. One Of her pleas
ures was the ranging Of the battle
ground of the Brandywine, where she
often picked up bullets and other relics
of the fght-sometimes CHASTITY ones.
whose full meaning she did not know.
hut which greatly impressed her i'm
a9ination. At the age Of twenty-five
Hannah married a young man named
william Chard. Though her life had
begun so hardly. as II some fate had
turned its hand against her, she found
NOW that heaven could be kind as well
az severe. With the husband of her
vouth she lived happily and sereuely
for seventy years. William Chard was
ninety-one years old wher he died.
ana though his wife mourned him
deeply, and with reason. she had two
GOOD sons. William and Joel. with
whom she spent her remaining years.
She celebrated one more birthday AZ
Car the one which came . century after
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The production OF aluminium In the
United States during the year 1896 was
1900, 900 pounds, as against 900, 900
pounds in 1885, showing gain OF 400,-
900 pounds. or A per cent. AS has been
the case for several years past the en-
tire domestic output came from a single
producer, the Pittsburg Reduction
Company, the plant Of which at Nj
agara Falls has been enlarged and has
been working at nearly full capacity.
1t Is interesting to note in this connec-
tion that the United States has up to
the present time produced more than
one-third Of all the aluminium manu-
featured in the world. The principal
European producer is the Aluminium
Industrie Gesellschaft. with works at
Neuhausen, Switzerland, and control
ling the Societe Observation-Disclosures
de France, with works at Froges, in
France.
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There are many ways Of keeping the
great dead in perpetual remembrance.
A magnificent tomb, a monument, .
statue was the ancient way. To erect
memorials that will bless mankind,
while recalling a name that deserves
the honor Of posterity. is a modern
idea. One OF the pleasantest and most
merited tributes Of this sort is the
setting apart of Elmwood, the home
stead Of James Russell Lowell, in Cam
bridge, as a public park. The project
bids fair to succeed; and until degen-
crate age shall dispose of the land for
money, the public pleasure ground will
be perpetual reminder of Americas
poet. statesman and scholar
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her runaway. and was very near 70
celebrating her one-hunaIeo-An
ninth: for IL was on the 2SG o: Aaren.
1897. that she died. All her oirtsnSys
after her one-hundredth were realiy
celebrations. She vas always reaoy
to relate the incidents Of her eniidisn
life In the time which seems nov 70
belong to an age long past-and par
ticularIy did she like to tell about INC
strange and gruesome things she FOUND
On the battle-ground Of the BRANDY
wine.
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what the Law Decides.

Al lh5ul duCc COMPANY WHICH uuucI
its contract elects to repair and fails
to do 30 is held, in Henderson VS.. Cres-
cent insurance company Qa.), 30. L.
r. A. SS5, to be liable for the cost OF
the repairs without reference to the
amount Of the insurance, IL the as
sured completes the repairs.
The right of bank to set OF the
unmatuTed note Of an insolvent deposit
tor against the deposit is held. in
Thomas VS.. Exchange Bank OF Angus
Qowa), 35 L. r. A. 37s, to be superior
to the rights Of the drawee OF a check
on the deposit, of which the bank had
no notice until after II learned Of the
depositor's insolvency.
Applying the doctrine that a loss or
injury is due to the act of God where it
is oecasioned exclusively by natural
causes such as could not be prevented
By human care, skill and foresight. it
Is held, in Valid VS.. Pittsburg, CincIn-
natl, Chicago & st. Louis railroad COM
pany Q1l), IS L. r. A. 356, that an I'M
precedented flood by reason Of which
the baggage Of a passenger is swept
away is an act of God; but that where
unnecessary delay Of a carrier made
the loss of the property by such flood
possible the carrier is liable.
A trust under a will to dispose of
property among the charitable and
benevolent institutions of a city as the
trustees shall choose and In such sums
and proportions as he shall deem prop
en- IL held, in People VS.. Powers On. ",
IS L r. A. 500, to be unenforceable
because Of the failure to designate or
describe the class or kind OF benefi-
Charles to whom distribution is prac-
ticable. or who can with reasonable
certainty be identified. The New York
laws Of 1898, chapter 701, Is held inap-
plicable to such a trust previously Gre
ated under which the rights Of prop
erty had become vested.
The existence of an unpaid assess
ment against the shares Of stock in a
corporation IL held, in Craig VS.. Hes
peria Land and Water company (CaI.),
IS L. r. A. 306, insufficient to justify
refusal to transfer the stock upon its
books into the name Of another owner.
The right Of the owners of a major
fly Of the stock In a corporation to
agree to be bound by the will Of a
majority of themselves in voting the
stock for q term Of five years 30 as to
keep the control Of the corporation
from passing to other persons is held.
In Smith vs.. San Francisco & Northern
Pacific railroad company (Cal), 35 L.
r. A. 3oe. to be valid when II was made
BY persons who united in purchasing a
block Of stock.
In order to render a newly organized
corporation liable at common law for
the debts OF an established corpora
ton OF firm to whose business and
property It has succeeded 1t is held, in
Austin Va. Tecumseh national bank
CNeb), IS L r. A. IA. that II should,
In the absence Of special agreement,
afirmatively appear that the transae-
tson IL fraudulent as to creditors OF
the old corporation. or that the new
corporation is in effect a mere con-
t!nuatfon Of the former.
Overdrafts Of a corporation which
was entirely owned by one member of
q banking firm are held. in Potts vs.
Schumacher (Nd.). IS l. R. A. ss2. tr
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A remarkable discovery has been
made In Connecticut By an error In
the statutes It is almost impossible to
punish q man for bigzmy. 1t is not q
crime for a man to be married to more
than one woman 80 long as he does not
live with his wives. Who knows but
the members of the legislature intended
to have the law read just as 1t does?
OF course, the women will see that it IL
repealed.
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At the unwilling Of the monument
to mis- grandfather at Cologne, the
Emperor William referred to the sym
bolioal figure thereon as Neptune and
his trident" As a matter OF fact. the
sculptor had struggled to represent
rather Rhine" and garlanded vines
and this was his reward. Our repub-
lican eyes make odd mistakes with
some of our statues, and the imperial
eye may fairly be pardoned their arts
tie astigmatism.
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Irony of Fate.

Guest-"Who is that pale, frail look
ing man with spectacles who comes
here every evening and drinks bottle
Of Apollinaris?" Bartender-"Why,
that's the man who writes those lively
drinking songs that the students like
so."-Jugend.
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the French republic from all future
dangers Of this kind will be Of timely
interest The general belief that the
French president is constantly attend
ed BY q corps Of policemen and detect
ives In uniform Is erroneous. On the
contrary, few such persons accompany
him on his daily journeys. Still. let
hand be raised against him. and from
all quarters paid agents would rush to
his assistance OF course, the Elysee
palace IL constantly guarded by sold
iers. and policemen are regularly on
duty wherever the president may hap
pen to be. Not so much on them, how
ever. do the authorities rely as on the
detectives, whom very few see and
hardly any one recognizes. Twenty
such detectives are constantly al the
Elysee, their chief being NJ. Gourdot.
These twenty are divided into two
brigades, each Of which In on duty
every second day. These men are care
fully selected by the chief OF police.
and they receive their instructions
from the oficer In charge of the presi-
dents residence.
When the president leaves Paris
eleven of these detectives go with him
and nine remain at the Elysee. The
eleven receive each a salary Of 10
frarcs daily. which is paid to them
through the minister OF the interior.
Ten Of them are divided into two
brigades, and the eleventh acts as a
sort of watchdog for the presidents
carriage. being assisted by five special
guardians. who walk on each side OF
the carriage, two on the left and three
on the right. the latter being the side
on which the president always sits.
These special guardians are expected
to take care Of the presidents person.
When he makes tour through France
he is attended by twenty-five or thirty
Of them.
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before. She had never been
sorry for II, she declared; and
few persons who run away In
ehildhoCd are able to say as much, az
ter hundred years! Aunt Hannah
on this occasion. was celebrating her
one hundred and seventh birthday.
She was born in New York in lISS.
and was the daughter Of a German
sailor named Miltenberger. who died
In her infancy. Her mother was mar
ried again 10 a man who treated the
child cruelty. The family removed TO
philadelphia: and when she was
seven Years old. on a spring day when
the belated snow covered the ground.
little Hannah. though in bare feet and
very thinly clad. ran away and wan
dered alone about the open region to
the southwark of the city. Night came
on. Cold and hungry. Hannah crept
into the porch OF a house that stood
near the road. covering her half frozen
feet with her scanty skirts. This did
not warm them. and fearing that they
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against the floor OF the porch. Then
she heard a hoarse voice from within
call:
Who's there?"
She trembled. and kept quiet. The
call was not repeated; but after time
her feet again became so cold that sht
could not help knocking them against
the threshold. Again came the voice:
Who's there, | say? II you don't
answer. I'll shoot through the door"
This did not brighten her much, for
she was so cold. so hungry and so IN
happy that she did not care IL she were
shot to death. She did not go away.
but crouched in silence. almost hold
ing her breath; and then something
else happened, for around the corner
Of the house came an enormous ami
NAL growing threateRingly. Hannah's
heart stood still an instant, and then
she saw that the animal was not a
wolf nor a bear, but a dog. This re-
assured her. for so far in her short
life it was among dogs she
had found her only friends.
She spoke to the big animal, and held
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as Joaquin Miller sees it" IL the
headline over the poets letter from
the ALASKAN gold fields And when you
Rad the letter you know Mr.. Miller
~ Il through q dictionary.
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Even the Chicago grand Jury IL
tainted with bribery. and the public
eye seeks In vain for q pure object
connected with the administration of
Justice. Lawyers wriggle their clients
out Of trouble with the bold help of
courts. and there appears to be little
or no chance Of . square deal in be-
half Of the vast honest majority of the
people.
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Reflections

Every man has his price," said the
mar with the bald head and the wor-
ried air, but 1t is a sad state Of at-
fairs when he marries and does not
get it."-Exchange.
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Prof Gleason. She plays the most
dinacult music from memory. She WOE
New York musicians with her per-
Torrance of Beethoven's concerto In @
which she played with the Thomas or
chestra three years ago. She has late
~ turned her mind to composition
Her first piece. "A Romanza" for violin
and piano. was published in Germany
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give no rights TO the trustee Of the IN
solvent bank to share in the assets
Of tie corporation until after the ereS-
itorV a the corporation have been paid
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HEN Aunt Han
nah Chard OF Fer
rell, New Jersey.
C ele brated her
birthday on the
10th of April. 1895.
she told the peo-
pie who came to
congratulate her
how she ran away
from home just
one hundred years
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The New Wizard.

Young Guglielmo MaTconi. ths 5el-
ian electrician, has been attracting Sc
tention in the scientific world for se--
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II Germany gets too rolliekIng Uncle
Sam may compel her to bury all Linz
burger cheese that has died at hons
and been shipped over here
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Borgess. has untold wealth" -Hov
do you known" Il Just saw the tar
assessor coming lrom his house
Cleveland Leader
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GUARDING MIR. FAURE
PREcAUTIoNs TO PROTECT
THE FREAcH PRESIDENT.
~saey l. spest Rrsely-DeteettSes and
Special Agsuts AecomP4ay Him On
An His Jo.raeu-Eer7 Clsrsr Police
EeeoA

n VIEW Of the re-
cent assassination
of Senior CanoVas.
also the murderous
attacks on the king
Of Italy and Presi-
dent Faure Of
France, q clear &C
count Of the pre-
cautions which are
being taken to pre-
serve the head OF
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SHE LIVED 1O7 YEARS.
LONGEVITY OF
MRS. HANNAH cHARD.

shs Rss Away from Home when bot
Little Tot and Never Regretted
Her Aet-saSed from Death By .
watch Dog
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Entered at PosssHce as secOnd-cIsss matter.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-07-15
1t won't do any good to confess Won,
sins unless you are willing to iorssks
them.

The strength which comes to us from
eating nourishing food ia better this,
stimulation, because it ia neic strength.
The health which belongs to a strop.
body, well nourished by proper ,ood
properly digested), is the only health
that is lasting.
The difference between Shaker Dires.
tive Cordial and other medicines is sim.
ply that 1t helps nature to make strength
1t does not profess to cure sickness ey.
cept as that sickness Is result Of weak.
ness caused by food not properly digested
Shaker Digestive Cordial will relieve
the pangs OF indigestion, and make thin
sick, weak people as well as II their stous.
aehs had never been out OF order.
1t is a gentle aid to the digestion o, ma.
lures strength maker, food.
At druggists. Trial bottle 10 cents.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-07-15

TIE MOAN has subscribers at IO6
Of the fI6 post-o1aces in Hancock county;
all the other papers IN the county COM
btned do not reach so many. THE AMER
1cAN il not the only paper printed in
RGneoes ecl Y, aud has nerer claimed to
be, but II IS the only paper that can prop
erly BE- caAea a COUNTY paper; all the
rest n-e "'sre., local papers. The circ,ala-
ton oj Idz AMERICAN, barring the Bar
HGr5or Records summer list, is lcreer
than that ~ al the other papers printed
IN HGaco,S ,ct,nty.
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COUNTY NEWS.
Atlantic

Atlantic.
Mrs. Parker, OF BROOKLYN, is visiting
her son, Addison Parker.
Reuben Stewart and wife, of Sedgwick,
are visiting relatives here.
Roscoe Joyce, who has been very i'll
with peritonitis, is out again.
Miss Ida Morse. who has been attend
ing school in Gorhsm, is home.
a family OF Pssssmaquoddy Indians i
camped al Fir point for the summer.
Mr.. Herrick, the photographer. has
pitched his tent near Alfred Joyce :
house.
Charles Shaw and wife left Monday to
be in Portland during the X. OF F. cele-
brstion.
Philip Small, who has been visiting his
brother, DIR. Small. returned to Deer Isle
Monday.
The Methodist society held dinner
and supper at the Epworth League hall
July 5. Proceeds, about $50.
Monday night steamer "Vinslhsyenn
took an excursion from here to Stoning-
ton, and returned after the dance.
Steamer "Ninalhaven" will take an
excursion from this place to Bar Hsr Dor
while the white squadron is there.
Among those who left on Mondays
boat were Mrs. Sarah Wharton and dsugh h.
ter, Emery Barbour and wife, Philip
Small and Mrs. May Barbour.
Matthew Baird has about fifty men at
work on his quarry and is in want OF
more paving breakers. This is the only
quarry now in operation on the island
Schools closed Friday. Atlantic school
was taught by Miss Mary Keys, OF Cas-
tine, who left for her home Saturday
Harry Turner taught the grammar and
Miss Lillian Colony the primary. No. /
was taught by Miss Evelyn Bridges.
July 10. ;.
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tions OF patriotic sentiment, instru-
mental and vocal music, solos, duets and
choruses, q "doll drill" and other class
exercises by the children, all very fitting
for the day and occasion, being pitched
to the key of liberty and patriotism.
a mong these, the reading of "The indie
pendence Bell, by Mrs. Gott, and the
vocal solo by Mr.. Ewing, which was en-
Enthusiastically encored, might be men
toned as especially fine.
After the entertainment another hour
was devoted to social intercourse, during
which cake and ice-cream were disposed
OF.
On counting up the proceeds Of the day
it was found that something more than
$50 had been secured for a good cause;
and We cannot but think that for lasting
influence and real helpfulness the day WAS
more profitsbly spent than it could have
been in attending any amount OF horse
trots, base ball games and circuses With
their usual accom- paninents.
July 10. An APPREcIATIvE VISITOR.
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Great Pond.
j. F. Haynes was In Ellsworth one day
this week.
Lewis Shuman has returned from a
short visit to LAGRANGE.
Flbridre Chick. OF Clifton. has been
visiting his sister. Mrs. John LaughIin.
NJ r;nio Do. =, r,s,,,.o, Il
80 -. =, ,o-,. ~. u,ar,1o-d
- - ivy - nv ''''' = ~
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East Surry.


The sad news Of the death OF Mrs.
Hannah, wife Of Isaac Colt, of Hancock,
was received here by telephone this morn
ing, Capt Colt and wife lived at Brook
lin until one year ago. Her death was
very sudden; she died while sitting in
her chair. She leaves husband and one
son, William.
On July l about thirty ncighbors met
at the home of Amass Young TO do hom-
age to his aged mother, vino on that day
ran the completion OF ninety-one years.
She is yet hale and hearty, has as Keen an
interest in the affairs of lite as she ever
did, walks without the aid of cane,
reads without the aid OF glasses. Among
the guests were several past seventy and
one or more past eighty. Surry is noted
for its large number OF smart old people.
July u. c.
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Salisbury Cove,
July u.

Salisbury Cove.
ECbaries Scrlbner, OF Charleston,T is Wis
iting friends here..;
& Miss NJ. K. Rich spent last week at Bar
Harbor with Mrs. w. X. Jordan.
II. X. Hamor and family are at their
cottage, The Ovens, for the summer.
Mr.. Giliey and family are occupying
the Goodridge house for the summer.
Miss Halle Clement, of Bar Har Dor,
visited Miss Arethusa Young few days
OF this week, at Locust Lane.
Quite a number OF summer boarders
are at the Ingleslde cottage. Among them
are Mrs. Putnam, Miss Dorothy and
Eleanor Putnam, Miss Torrey, OF Jamaica
PAIN, Mass.
July - Il.