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H. M. STANLEY.

agine a happy union of the best quail ties of each you would go near finding popular likeness of the Bismarck we know and just the personality we re- quire for England's needs at the pres ent time. Prince Bismarck was a man who knew exactly what he wanted and directed his course straight ahead. What a world of meaning lies in that. If were to fill pages l could not con- vey to you the whole of my admiration for Bismarck. AS a leader of men he was above all living men. AS a man he was altogether lovable for his direct ness, his honesty and simplicity. If we could only compress some of his moral strength and courage into a bottle and could hearten our statesmen with minim or so of the wonderful extract, we should soon have reason to be proud of them. As there Is no likelihood of our being able to follow up this truly African idea-we must walt until some one will make a textbook of his char acter for the special benefit of weak kneed and degenerate statesmen-then we may hope that Britain may begin to reap some of the advantages that have made Germany universally re- spected.'
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nent for full thirty years. In it reputa- tions withered and powers waned, small men grew great and nations were ere ated The Hapsburgers were thrust aside and the Bonapartes were de- throned The laurels of the Metternichs and the Schwarzenbergs died away and the Gagerns, Manteuffels and Camp hausens were forgotten. Mere assCcia- tion with him, mere opposition to him was fame, and the names of Crispi, Gortschakoff. Kalnoky, Andrassy and Giers were known to all the world. His heavy hand was felt in every cabinet and court. His life became the history of modern Europe"
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NEW YORK HERALD.

ship no man
 approac e d NEW YORK HERALD m.
 idle to com pare Glad stone with him. Gladstone created nothing, destroyed much and would have broken up the United Kingdom if England had not shaken off his rule. He was a man of words. Bismarck a man of deeds Yet neither had the lat ter his equal in diplomacy.
 He was an expert in statecraft as well as in statesmanship. He knew how to make a king do his will. He knew how to inspire in the souls Of a great but divided people that sentiment of unity without which no German em- pire was possible. He crushed Particu larism. He taught Bavaria to look to Prussia as her natural leader. He made Catholic and Protestant lie down together. Not merely the German em- pire, but Germany Is the creation of this single will. Before his time she was, like Italy, only geographical ex- pression. To-day she is nation. and as nation she mourns for him who out of some fifty-odd powers and prin brought the German nation and Ger man national life into being.
 No higher eulogy than that is pos sible. but 1t Is the simple verdict Of history. Yet there is still something to add He has been tremendous in fiuence not in Germany only, not in Europe only, but throughout Christen- dom. He set himself like rock against the advancing flood of Socialism and of all those lawless forces which all the world over seek to disturb the existing order of things. There has grown up of late,' said Bismarck at Jena, a notion that the world can be governed from below. That can not be- He found the kingly principle in Germany the efficient principle of government anc he strengthened it and left 1t so He found the principle of authority, of liberty regulated by law, the basis of modern society. His example has made 1t stronger. The world owes him much as well as Germany"
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\ north pole dances at lively rate.
 \ Of course the earth does not twist
 so as to cause this phenomenon, nor
 does the axis of the earth move.
 But the center line of revolution does. so that the effect is the same.
 In reality what takes place is similar to what would happen If needle were pushed through an apple so that the fruit could spin around. The needle would be the axis and as long as it re- mained in the one place it would cor respond to the earth if the north pole were fixed. But if the needle were moved ever so little to one side of it's position there would be a change in the center of rotation. This Is the oretically what has been happening at the north pole ever since the world be- gan.
 The pole Is dancing around and con- stantly causing a change in lines of latitude.
 In the year 1890 the change was so great that if people had bought their front yards according to latitude and longitude on January l by June l they would have been living on their neigh bors property. In this year the pole shifted around over a curve of nearly ninety feet. This, of course, made big change in all reckoning of latitude and longitude, but not enough to change the position of large island on map.
 This movement of the north pole has been known for some time, but just how 1t moved and how much has only just been ascertained.
 To find out this one fact occupied seven years and the work of hundreds of men and millions of dollars worth of astronomical instruments. The re- suits of the work have been compiled by Theodore Albrecht of Berlin and pub lished under the title of investigations Concerning Variations of Latitude"
 The report just issued Is one of the publications of the Interna- tional Geodetic Society. Dr. Albrecht gives the results of observations made ct twenty different observatories in diff ferent parts of the world, determines their relative position and combines them so as to deduce a curve showing the motion of the north pole of the earth's axis from January 1, 1890. to July l, 1897. In the accompanying figure this curve Is shown, 900 being the point for January l, 1890, while 9O.5
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NEW YORK TIMES

stone was a Liberal and Bismarck a Tory. The one steadily sought to broaden the basis of governmental power by the extension of the suffrage and the gradual abolition of privilege
 The other yielded to the people only the rights he dared not withhold and
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c. w. SMALLEY.

C. w. SMALLEY. nous phrase
 Bismarck ever used. which passes for being the most sinister also, is described In a way which throws new light on its meaning:
 This invocation was made at time when the national Liberals, who to- day proStrate themselves before him, dune obeisance de cadavre,' sought to prevent his reforming the army, while asking him all the same to effect the union of Germany. The man who felt the far-off thunder of Sadowa and of Sedan even then shaking his own soul flung at these rhetoricians the challenge he has since but too well made good: It is not by speechmaking that you will bring about the unity of Germany. That unity is to come by blood and iron.
 I know not who will attempt to write Prince Bismarck's life, nor when it will be possible to write it. Some of the necessary materials for it are state papers not accessible nor likely to be accessible, at least during the present Emperor's life, to any biographer or to any friend of the Minister whom ne dismissed. He dismissed him-I Will repeat what I said before-With rather less ceremony than a gentleman wouId use in discharging his servant. he was jealous of him, and he wanted 10 gov ern Germany in his own way ana 10 carry out a foreign policy of his own.
 He has had to readopt almost every one of the measures of domestic policy he discarded because they were BIS marck's, and to reverse hls Iorelgn policy on those vital points Tn Whlcn ne departed from Bismarck's. Of course he does not like him the better. Of course, also, he will not be apt to put into anybody's hands the means Of proving by public documents what the course of events and the known facts of both careers sufficiently prove al- ready. Bismarck has held his peace. But he has ordered it to be inscribed on his tomb that he was the faithful servant of William the First"
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HHRPER'S WEEKLY.

Bismarck. He vas sc typical a Ger man and he avoided so many of the de- fects that commonly go with the Ger man qualities He was under no illu- sions, sentimental or otherwise, about the world he lived in. He knew the levers that move men, and he knew how to operate them. His direct, prac- tical businesslike methods were rather English than German. Not since Fred erick the Great has there appeared a German in high place who showed so perfect an adaptation of means to ends.
 Nobody has thought or will think of praising Bismarck as a friend of hu- manity. He himself would have been the first to reject such a pretension. The epitaph he composed for his own tombstone shows in what light his life appeared to himself He was a faith ful German" That he was a patriotic German according to his lights, can not be doubted. His lifelong desire was that his Prussia should be aggrandized and the great work of his life was the bringing of all Protestant Germany, in cluding even some States which are not nominally Protestant. into one power full confederation under the primacy of Prussia.
 Even now, looking back over gen. eration, 1t is hard to see how the union could have been brought about if Bis marck had not been. The dreams of
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than the forces of which Bismarck so superbly availed himself. but we must see that the work of Bismarck, which we can imagine no other man doing. was essential and was tremendous. The German nation he called into being, the people to whom he gave unity, will in due time take their rights and achieve the destiny for which their great quail ties fit them. They will not forget, they will just be proud to remember the wonderful man who made possible the first great stage of advancement"
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NEW YORK SUN.

He conquered France and founded the German empire. His shadow lay over the states and statesmen of the cOnti-
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"B i S m arck was neither a Cromwell nor a Pitt, but if XOu could inn
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"B TO a d ly speaking, and in terms of English poli- tics, Clad
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Bis m a rck humbled Aus tria and made the North Ger nnnn Hninn
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W. T. STEAD.

distrust of Prince Bismarck. A very
 big man, no doubt he once exclaimed, hut Very unScrupulOus' It WAS a
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pion of reaction is not a great man. He is only "big fellow"
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T IS now a settled fact that the
 north pole dances at a lively rate.
 Of course the earth does not twist
 so as to cause this phenomenon, nor does the axis of the earth move.
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end, l have used those within my reach for want of others.'"
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RINCE BISMARCK. the builder of the German Empire. died on July 30, in the eighty-fourth year of his age He was born in Schonhausen in 1915, a few months before the battle of
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, The origin of
 the most fa- nous phras S e Bismarck ever
 used. Whic h
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MT. Glad stone, his only rival, never concealed his d 1 c 1 k Q and
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Nobody will dispute tn a t the Germ a II s have a right to be proud of
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of statesman ship no man approa c h e d h i m. It i s idle to com D are Glad
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-05-11

South Surry.
Frank Coggins and wife, Of BIuehill,
spent Sunday with his parents here.
/ Mrs. Lydia Treworgy is visiting her
daug hters in Massachusetts this week
Miss Mercy Bartlett, who has been
housekeeping for F. II. Harden he past
eighteen years, and who has been quite
i'll recently. has gone 10 her home on
Bartlet's Island.
The schools iii town commenced May
?. Miss Roberts is teaching the gram
mar school at the village, Miss Billings,
Miss Emma Love, M ISIS Lizzie Gray, Miss
Ella Jarvis, Miss Laura Treworgy, Miss
Lila Meader, Miss Nellie Alley and
Hollis Smith have charge of the other
schools.
1t is much regretted that Mrs. Asenath
Curtis is seriously ill., She has been
spending The winter with her daughter,
Mrs. SWEET, in Ellsworth, and came here
last week to attend the funeral Of her
brother, Capt. Clark. On the day of the
funeral she took a severe cold, which
developed into pneumonia.
W. d. Leland and wife, P. L. Leland
and wife, Ralph Leland and sisters, OF
Trenton, U. ID. Curtis and wife, Charles
Curtis and wife, OF Bluehill, K. S. Hamor
and wife, OF Eden, came to attend the
funeral OF their relative, Capt. c. G. Clark,
which took place on Tuesday Of last
week. Charles Haynes, Walter Clark,
and several Others from Ellsworth, were
also in attendance.
Mpy9
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-05-11

TIE AMERICAN has subscribers at I06
Of the TI6 post-of,ces in Hancock county;
all the other papers in the county COM
jean is not the only paper printed in
Hancock county, and has nerer claimed to
be, but it is the only paper that can prop
erly be called a COUNTY paper; all the
rest are merely local papers. The eirculo-
ton of THE AMERICAN, barring the Bar
Harbor Records summer list, is larger
than that of all the other papers printed
in Hancock county.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-05-11
COUNTY NEWS.

Penobscot.
John Gray recently sold his house to
George A Leach and has moved into
the Willard Lunt house.
Several flags were flung to he breeze at
the bay on confirmation of the Manila
victory.
Burley Leach has made considerable
repairs on his store, now occupied by
Walter Dreamer.
A sudden fall in the alewife market from
two to one cent each on Friday gives
hope of returning peace.
Will Gray has been repairing school
houses for some time. In this respect we
are not keeping pace with some neig h Dor
ing towns.
There is quite demand for potato
and Undoubtedly there will not be more
than two-thirds the usual acreage planted,
partly on account of the high price and
scarcity of seed.
George Marks left town this week for
his new home in Searsport He was one
Of the oldest citizens of North Peno bscot,
and will be missed by the church and
community there.
A few have done some farming, but up
to this writing the weather has been too
cold, and the soil too heavy for vegetation.
So far as We can see grass lands have sui
fered little damage from the effect OF
winter.
All of the schools commenced last Mon
day. The first week in May has been the
time fixed upon for opening The spring
school since the town system was estab-
lished. All but two or three of our schools
are to be taught by home teachers. The EN-
ployment of home teachers seems to be an
especial feature of the town system. Rev.
Mr.. Bailey, the school superintendent, has
been returned to this charge, contrary to
the fears of some, and will, no doubt,
render good service to both the cause of
education and religion.
May !. II.
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COUNTY NEWS.


BartIett's Island.
Emery Bartlett has been to Seal Harbor.
LuelIa Bartlett has returned to Dan
vers, Mass.
School is Taught by Miss Mac Somes, of
Somesvile.
Fred Bartlett has gone to Northeast
llarhor tur the summer.
Mrs. Til belts, who has been in Somes-
willie for about two weeks, has returned
home
Little Carrie Ralph, of Southwest Har-
hor, is stopping with her grandfather,
Capt. John DIX.
MIR. and Mrs f. G.. Bartlett have been
on VISIT To Ellsworth and Trenton, and
returned last Wednesday
May 3. b.
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South Bluehill.
Mary Day is improving.
Dennis Merritt, Of Rockland, is clerk
ing for l. L. Chatto.
Oscar Bowden is adding a piazza to
Charles Ferrin's cottage.
Mrs. Sarah Eaton and Mrs. Ada Can
dage are both on the sick-list.
Mrs. Nancy Gray, of North Bluehill, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Pierce Conary.
Capt. Stephen Weber has gone fishing.
George Bickford, Will Eaton and John
Morrison of this place and Henry Morse,
OF Sedgwick, have gone with him.
May 6. ID.
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North I.anoiHe.

North IamoiHe.
Emma Ray, who has been employed
with Mrs. E. d. Bragdon, has gone to
Trenton.
Capt. A. e. Holt went to Providence, r.
l., on Friday to join his vessel, the "Helen
G. Moseley", which recently arrived at
that port.
Mays. ".
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Bar UarDor.
The Mt. Desert nurseries have been or
gained at Eden for the purpose OF grow
ing and dealing in nursery stock, with
$50, 900 capital stock, OF which 1900 is paid
in. The officers are: President, George B.
Dorr, Bar Harbor; treasurer, NJ. G. Dorr
Bar liar Dor.
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Oceanyille.

Oceanville.
Schools commence here on Monday.
Rev. MIR. Written preached there last
Sunday.
Rev. S. o. Written and family left
for Swans Island Monday.
Wallace Gross is driving at the stable of
Frank Greenlaw at Deer Isle.
Mrs. j. c. Harmon, OF Stonington, was
home last week visiting her parents.
Alonzo Clark has purchased a farm
horse of Henry Eaton, of Stonington.
Schooner "a. H. Whltmore'' has had
steam works put in her at Rockland dur
ing the past week.
James Thomas is tearing down the old
Buckminster house and will build a new
one on the same site.
George Thurston is painting and paper
ing the house owned by Seth & c. H. s.
Webb on Thurlow's hill, Stonington.
1t is reported that we are to have tele-
phone line connecting us with all parts Of
the island. Oh, that we had 1t during this
war!
Eben Hutchinson has arrived home,
being out of a job since ''Uncle Sam"
has purchased the yacht which he was
employed on, the "Penelope".
May. EUGENE.
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MariavIIIe.
Lucy Davis is visiting relatives in town.
Rev. d. B. Smith, OF FRANKLIN, held a
meeting here in district No 3 on Sunday
forenoon and evening.
Welded IN THE WEST.
The correspondent received a copy OF
the Tacoma Washington Neus, con-
tanning an account OF the marriage OF one
of the former residents of this town, Mrs.
Ella F. Hill, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Moses l.. Carr. The report will be of
interest to many OF THE AMERICANS
readers:
One Of the most charming weddings of
the season took place in Tacoma at the
residence of Mrs. DR.. Mccoy at high
well-known business man of Olympia,
and Mrs. Ella f. Hill, of Tacoma, for
| merly of Maine, beautiful brunette and
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-05-11

West Sullivan.
Charles Dwelley & Son, OF franklin, are
painting in town.
Herman Joy has a crew of men and
teams at work on the road.
Rev. j. T. Moore has returned for his
third year as pastor Of this charge.
A large amount Of nursery stock has
been delivered here during the past week ,
and all will be planted by Arbor Day.
West Sullivan has one boy in the State
militia. Louis Crosby is wearing the
blue, as did his father, Abner Crosby,
before him.
Several vessels were loaded last week in
spite Of the war. Business remains about
the same, except a rise Oh -four and some
staple articles.
Rev. j. a. Weed, who was pastor here
for five years, paid US II brief visit last
week, and was warmly welcomed. Mr.
Weed'- charge is at Clinton this year.
May 9. G.
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Amhersi.
Mrs. |. w. Haslam, who has been i'll 30
long, is convaiescent.
Ezra kelliher, OF Bangor, was in town
Saturday and Sunday.
The marriage OF Mrs. Dora E. Giles and
Rev. Archibald CulIens has been an
nounced.
II. F. Jewett and wife, who have been
living at Ellsworth Falls, have moved up
here. They reside with Mrs. Jewett's pa
rents at present.
Mrs. John Clark, OF Bangor, is visiting
relatives and friends here. She will leave
her children with relatives and go on the
road with her husband for a while.
Mays. BELLE.
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Sound.
Miss Ada Higgins has returned from
Bar iiarbor.
Mrs. Sidney Higgins is teaching school
at Indian Point.
Frank Condor, OF Brooksville, is call
ing on friends here.
Robert Higgins has moved home from
Southwest Hsrbor.
School is in session. taught by Miss
Cora Parker, of Somesville
John Dorr and family have moved to
Seal ilsrbor for the summer
George Slower, OF Bar Harbor. has pun
chased and moved into the house known
as the mili-house.
Lewis Dorr and family, who have been
living at Northeast Harbor the past win
ter, moved home Saturday.
May 9. Is.
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Surry.
J. E. Gott, who has been i'll for some
time, is still suffering from nervous pros
tration.
Rev. f. W. Belcher and family left for
North Abingdon, Mass, Tuesday Mr..
Belcher being still quite feeble, F.
l.. Jordan accompanied them to Bangor
and saw them safely on the train for
Boston. Their household goods went
two days later.
Bay View Sunday school convention
will be held at the Baptist church Mon
day, May 16. The convention has been
invited to meet at Surry by the Metho-
dist Sunday school, but through the
courtesy of the Baptist Sunday school in
Offering the use of its church it will be
held there, it being nearer the Methodist
chapel, where all are invited to assemble
with their lunch baskets at the dinner
hour and be provided with tea and coffee
by the ladies OF the society. Rev. George
H. Archibald, of Montreal, is expected to
be present.
May 8. G.
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West GouldsbOro.
Mrs. S. D. Sargent is at Prospect Har-
Dor this week with millinery.
Miss Eliza Written isl at home from
Prospect Harbor, where she has been
visiting.
Mrs. James Hill returned from Bar
Harbor Wednesday, where she has been
visiting.
Arthur Young and wife, of Hancock,
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs.
Ioung's parents, j. B. Wright and wife.
May 8. n.
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south Deer Isle.
Some of our boys are talking OF enlist
ing, and one or two have already gone
from Stonington.
Spring is surely here-bumble bees and
peddlers have appeared in force, and a
few early blossoms have been seen. F.
Peirce has good-sized radishes, raised
under glass.
Rev. Mr.. Garland returnedafrom con-
ference Tuesday, being reappointed here,
to the great satisfaction OF his .lchurch.
In his absence on Sunday there twas a So
ciai meeting instead OF the regular preach
ing service. Much regret was felt at
Stonington that MIR. Folsom could not
remain there this year, but his health Is
so poor that he is obliged to rest.
May. EGO.
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society woman, were united in marriage
by the Rev. F. II. Church, rector of
St. Luke church. The bride was given
away by her son, Carl X. Hill. The
brides costume was an exquisite creation
OF gold coored novelty silk thickiy WOW
en- with threads of gold and pale green
adorned with green silk and ornaments OF
gold and cut steel, with hat to match. She
tions. The bride was the recipient OF
many costly and handsome presents from
friends.
The home was tastefully decorated.
After the ceremony the bridal party par
took of an elaborate lunch. MIR. end
Mrs. Neager will make their future home
in olympia.
May 9. l..
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Dedhan.
Maurice Moore and wife left for Massa-
chusetts Tuesday.
Mrs. Jane Carr, OF Ellsworth, is visiting
her brother, o. c. Pinkham.
Mrs. Mary Esther Mitchell is stopping
with her sister, Mrs. George 2. Goodwin.
Walter E. Burrill, of Minneapolis, is
visiting his parents and other relatives
here.
William Phillips, lately returned from
California, called upon relatives here the
past week.
Mrs. Mary Turner, who spent the past
year with her daughter in Madison, has
returned home.
May 4. B.