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only for very few days. The ministry
has issued a definite number to the corps,
and these corps are responsible for them
each officer is obliged to return his copy
after the maneuVers. If, therefore, you
wish me to take from it Whate may in
terest you, and hold it afterward al my dis
posal, I will take it. unless you do not want
me to make a copy in eXtenso and address
it to you.
1 am just leaving for the maneuvers.
According to Esterhazy's voluntary
confession, made to a London news
paper, and repeated since then, it was
he and not Dreyfus who wrote this
bordereau. Esterhazy states that he
wrote it at the instigation of his SUI
perior officers, intimating but not say
ing so in so many words that Gen. Mer-
cier, then minister of war, ordered the
bordereau written. In a letter written
to the Steele Mach 25. 1898, Paniz-
zardi, military attache of the Italian
embassy, relates that Count Schwarz-
lzoppen received the articles enumerat-
ed in the bordereau, but was entirely
unaware of the existence of the mem
orandum itself, for it had been stolen
before it reached him.
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DREYFus' PRISON ON DEVILS ISLAND.

MAY, 1S99-M. BaIlot-Beaupre finishes his
report to the court.
JUNE, 1S99-PauI Derou1ede acquitted
Court of cessation decides in favor of
DreyfGs on the revision. Esterhazy con-
fesses having written the bordereau.
JULY, 1S99-Dreyfus returns to France on
the Cd. Governor of DEVILS island dis
missed for cruelty to Dreyfus. Esterhazy
refuses to testify before the new court
martial which is to retry Dreyfus
AUGUST, 1S99.-New trial of Dreyfus be-
gins on the 18th.
August Z, 1899, the court-martial held
its first session. The court was com
posed as follows:
Col. Jouaust, director in the engineer
corps, president.
Lieut.. Col. Brongniart. director of the
school of artillery.
Maj. De Breon. of the Seventh regiment
Of artillery.
Maj. Profllet. of the Tenth regiment of
artillery.
Maj. Merle. of the Seventh regiment of
capt. Parfait. of the Seventh regiment of
Capt. Beauvais. of the Seventh regiment
Of artillery.
Counsel for Dreyfus were Maitres
Labori and Demange-the latter one of
the most celebrated criminal lawyers
in France. Maj. Carriere represented
the government as counsel for the pros
ecution. Early on Monday morning,
August Il, while Maitre Labor, one
of Dreyfus' attorneys. was on his way
to the court, he was shot by an assassin
and seriously wounded.
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pushed in the avenues without uttered
loud and menacing cries against the
prisoner. At exactly nine o'clock the
drums rolled, the troops presented
arms, and the regimental band played a
melancholy tune. The sentence was
read, Dreyfus standing firmly with
head erect, his left hand resting on the
pommel of his sword, and his eyes look
ing squarely in the eyes of Gen. Darras,
who commanded the troops. Then
gigantic sergeant tore the triple band
from the captains cap, the buttons
from his coat, the gold lace from the
collar and sleeves, and the red stripes
from his trousers. AS the sergeant
flung them on the ground Dreyfus
threw up his arms and cried in voice
heard far beyond the limits of the court
yard: you are degrading an innocent
man. Long live France!" A roar of
eXecration answered him: Death to
the traitor!" and the big sergeant
roughly tore the sword belt from him,
wrenched the sword from its scabbard,
broke it across his knee, flung the
fragments on the ground and stamped
upon them. Then, amid bowls from
the mob without, the degraded officer,
grotesque and lamentable figure in
his defaced uniform, was marched
round the hollow square, protesting his
innocence and crying: Long live
France!" while the drums rolled in or
der to drown his voice. Finally, after
being photographed and measured as
criminal, he was driven in the prison
van to La Sante prison, and thence
taken, on January 10, to La Rochelle,
he 70.
boring lie de Re. on which is the prison
wherein convicts sentenced to trans
portation await their embarkation.
NIobs all along the route sought to at
tack him, and the guard of gendarmes
had to struggle hard to keep their pris-
oner from being murdered. He was
eventually taken to the lie du Diable off
the coast of French Guiana
The chronology of this famous case
follows:
OCTOBER, 1Ss4-Gen. MERCER, minister of
war. gives order after an investigation
conducted by Commandant du Patty de
Clam to arrest Capt. Alfred Nreyfus.
This is done by Du Patty de Clam and NJ.
Cochefort, chief of detectives. Capt
Dreyfus is lodged in the Cherchi-Midi
prison by Lieut.. Col. Henry. who delivers
him to Commandant Forzinetti. in charge
of the prison.
NOVEMBER. 1S94-An indictment is found
against Capt. Dreyfus by the officers of
the bureau of information connected
with the general staff.
DECEMBER, 1S9HThe first council of
war, assembled at Cherche-Midi. unani-
mously condemns Capt. Dreyfus to de-
portation for life in an inclosed fortifica-
ton.
JANUARY 4. 1Ss5-Capt. Dreyfus is de-
graded by Gen. Darras in the School of
War.
FEBRUARY. 1Ss5-Dreyfus is taken by the
steamer La Rochelle TO the Island de
+ Re. thence to be embarked for Devils
island.
MAY. 1Ss6-Lieut. Col. Picquart discovers
the petit bleu," successfully attributed
to Coils. Panizzardi. military attache Of
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senate, in the case of Dreyfus, who de-
clares on the 18th to his colleagues in the
Luxembourg palace that he is convinced
of the innocence of Dreyfus.'
OCTOBER, 1S97-M. de Castro, banker, be-
lieves that he recognizes in the fac-simile
of the bordereau, once more published
in the Matin, the handwriting Of Com
mandant Esterhazy. M. Ranc, senator
of the Seine district, carries to the lobby
of the chamber of deputies the speech de-
livered by NJ. Scheurer-Kestner in the
senate. He has, on the Goth, an inter
view upon this subject with Gen. Billot,
minister of war.
NOVEMBER, 1S97-Interview of M Ma
thieu Dreyfus, brother of the condemned,
with M Scheurer-Kestner. Beginning of
the campaign of the Figaro in favor of a
revision. M. Matthew Dreyfus officially ac-
cuses Commandant Esterhazy with being
the author of the bordereau; Esterhazy is
turned over to a council of investigation
Commandant Forzinetti is dismissed be-
cause he stated to NJ. Henri Rochefort
that Dreyfus is innocent. Search of the
home of Lieut.. Col. Picquart in Yron-
ViIlarceau street. Lieut.. Col. Picquart is
recalled from Tunis, where he had been
sent Oh a mission, and is examined by
Gen. PelheuX, commissioner of inVesti-
cation in the Esterhazy matter.
DECEMBER, 1S97-The Dreyfus border
eau, examined in 1894 by the experts Go
bert, Pelletier, CharaVay and CrepiuX-
Janun, is turned over to the papers in the
ES1erhaZy case and IS submitted to
new examination by the experts Bel
homme, Couard and Varinard. Interpret
lation in the chamber of deputies and in
the senate; Gen. BiIlot declares that
''Dreyfus has been justly and legally
condemned" Letter of Emile lola to
the young people of France. The docu-
ments of Lemercier-Picard upon the
factory of forgeries" of a syndicate
documents themselves recognized a S for
geries in the trial. are published in the
Intransigeant. Call for a court-martiaI
by Gen. Saussier to try EsterhaZy.
JANUARY, 1S9S-In consequence of re-
port by Commandant Ravary, Command
ant Esterhazy is acquitted by the court
martial presided over by Gen. LUxer and
leaves the Cherche-Midi prison n the
arm of his friend Mile. Marguerite Pays.
He receives an ovation in the street.
Lieut.. Col. Picquart lodges a complaint
upon the subject Of two kilograms signed
Blanche and 'Speranza,'' addressed
to him at Tunis and intended to compro-
mise him. On the 18th Aurore publishes
Emile Zola's ST accuse letter to the
president of the republic. Lieut.. Col.
Picquart is arrested. The chamber of
deputies votes the order of the day upon
the motion of NJ. de Mein, representative
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of the Morlaix district, accepted by NJ.
Guerin, minister of justice, and demand
ing that the Aurore be prosecuted. The
letter signed "Uhlan,'' produced by Nine
de Boulancy. and work of Commandant
Esterhazy, is delivered to NJ. BertulUs,
examining magistrate. Beginning of pub
lie meetings of the reYisionists in the
Tivoli-Vaux hall. The minister OF war
lodges complaint against NJ. Emile lola
and against the Aurore. AIessrs Zo1a,
author of u accuse and Perreux, pub
Usher of the Aurore, are summoned. NJ.
Jaures address this question to NJ. Neline,
president of the cabinet: Has or has bot
information been given to the courC-mar-
tial of which the defendant knew moth
ing?" NJ. Meline refuses to answer.
1898 = Formation of the
League of Human and Citizens Rights
From the 7th to the 23d first trial of lola
idency of Councillor Delegorgue. NJ.
Labori defends Emile lola, n Albert
Cleaenceau defends NJ. Perreux, and NJ
George Clemenceau defends the Aurore
Zola is sentenced to one year III prison
and a fine of 5000 francs; NJ. Pe-reux to
four months in prison and a fine Of 5000
francs. Lieut.. Col. Picquart IS placed on
the retired list.
MARCH. 1S98-The revisionists provoke an
incident in court during the attempt CT
n. Jules Auffray, who prccIaims in favor
of the lola jury, to make himself heard.
The incident has no consequences. Sui
eide of Lemercier-Pica-d- Duel between
Picquart and Henry. Emile lola and the
Aurore appeal on the 3nth against the
sentence of February g.
APRIL, 1S9S-Annulment of the sentence
against Messrs. Zola and Perreux because
the minister of wac and not the COURT
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IN LFRED DREYFUS, captain in the
AZ Fourteenth regiment of artil-
"A Ia iery in the French army, was at
faehed to the second bureau of the
general staff, where future plans of
mobilization and other military meas
ures of great Importance are discussed,
prepared and drawn up For some time
a constant leakage of these confiden-
fiaI documents had been noticed, de-
tcctives had been employed and Drey-
fus WIS under suspicion. On October
L, 1894, he yeas suddenly detached from
the war Office and appointed to service
IN the Thirty-ninth regiment at the
EcoIe Afilitaire. On October IA he re-
ceived at his luxurious home near the
Trocadero n summons to attend at the
ministry of war, and he went there the
next morning He was received by Maj.
edu Patty de Clam, who said that he was
very busy and asked the captain to
help him by taking down a letter that
HE would dictate. There were other
persons in the room who were strangers
to Dreyf us, and-a circumstance that
only struck him afterward-an ar
rangement of mirrors by which his
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martial, read the text of a dispatch re-
ceived by Count Won Munster-Leyden-
burg. the German ambassador at Paris.
from Prince Hohenlohe, the German
imperial chancellor. which the former
communicated to NJ. Casimir-Perier
during a visit to the Elysee palace.
His majesty. the emperor, having
every confidence in the loyalty of the
president of the republic and the gov
eminent of the republic" it ran, '.begs
your exeellency to tell NJ. Casimir-Per-
Ter that it is proved the German en-
bassy was never implicated in the
Dreyfus affair. His majesty hopes the
government of the republic will not
hesitate to declare so. Without a for
NAL declaration the legend which here
continues to spread regarding the Ger
man embassy would compromise the
position of the representative of Ger
many"
The communication is signed "Ho-
henlohe."
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at the first hint of Dreyfus' denial to
charge the minister with trying to
smother the case because Dreyfus was
a Jew. That added fuel to his flame,
and MERCER became the most rabid
foe of the imperiled captain. The press
rewarded him by declaring him the
paragon of patriots. Yet he knew he
could not crush Dreyfus with the ma
terial at hand, and he must act at once.
He rose at the first court-martial-
minister of war in the republics cabi-
net-and said: Gentlemen, there is
something more. 1 shall read you one
sentence from letter III cipher that
some months ago came into possession
of the ministry. You will comprehend
its source. although L am not permit
ted to present its context: Decidedly
this scoundrel of Dreyfus is becom-
ing too exacting.'" He had wholly,
deliberately changed the sentence, for
the paper from which he read did not
contain the name of Dreyfus, but the
initial Cd" only. On this bit of ir-
regularly submitted, boldly perjured
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every movement and expression could
be seen by everybody present. Du Patty
then dictated to him the memorandum
which afterWard became famous as the
bordereaU- At one point Du Patty sud-
denly asked Dreyfus what was the
matter, and asserted that his hand
shook Dreyfus replied that his hands
were cold Then he was left alone in
the room and found a loaded revolver
lying among some papers on the table
beside him Half an hour later NJ.
Cochefert, head of the detective police,
accompanied by Commander Henry, of
sthe second bureau, entered, and Drey-
7Sus was placed under arrest on the
= charge of high treason and taken to
1the Cherche-Midi prison, all the time
protesting his innocence. The order
committing him was dated October IA,
the day before he was arrested or ex-
amined-
On October IS a hint of the arrest was
conveyed to one of the Paris newspa-
pers and the next day an ambiguous
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THE SECRET DossIER.
Records of the Trial Preserved by the
Department. of war


The secret dossier, which figures so
prominently in the Dreyfus case, is a
collection Of papers belonging to the
war department and collected in con-
nectiOn with the case. These papers
are said to contain proof of Dreyfus'
guilt even beyond the bordereau. The
latter was admittedly written by Ester
hay. During the first Dreyfus trial
this dossier (Which in free transla-
ton would mean record of the CASEY
was submitted to the court-martial in
executive session, not even Dreyfus' at
torneys being permitted to be present
during this examination. There are,
all told, some 400 documents in this col
lection. These papers are examined in
secret session. but Dreyfus' attorneys
are present, so they may be informed
of the record of the charges based upon
these papers. Secrecy is demanded by
the government because it is claimed
that publication would cause compIi-
cations with foreign governments.
The secret dossier has been in exclusive
control of the general staff up to the
present trial, and there is, of course, no
saying what it may contain. So far
the entire nasty Dreyfus mess has
shown so much corruption, conspiracy
and forgery that the value of this Sc
cret dossier is very problematical.
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the Italian embassy. and Schwarzkoppen,
military attache of the German embassy,
and addressed to Commandant Ester
hazy. Lieut.. Col. Picquart comes to the
conclusion that Command2nt Esterhazy
is guilty.
SEPTEMBER. 1S96-The Eclair publishes
the secret document: "Ce canailIe de
D."
OCTOBER, 1S96-M. Barnard-Lazare pub
fishes his first pamphlet tending to show
the innocence of Dreyfus.
NOVEMBER, 1S96-Publicatiol: of the copy
of the bordereau in the Matin. NJ. Cas-
telin, representative from the L'Aisne
district, interpellates Gen. BiIlot, min
lister of war, upon the publication Of
papers connected with the trial.
MAY. 1Ss7-F'irst disputes between Lieut..
Coils. Picquart and Henry.
JUNE. 1SS7-Lieut. Col. Picquart takes
counsel with Nine. Leblois.
JULY, 1S97-Mme. Leblois Interests NJ.
Scheurer-Kestner, vice president of the
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GENESIS OF THE CASE.
How the Web to Catch Capt. Dreyfus
Was Woven.

Gen. MERCER was minister of war
when the French spy at the German
embassy brought to the secret service
of the French army the fragments of
the bordereau. The report was re-
ceived by Col. Patty de Clam, head of
the secret service. He was a violent
Jew-hater. He appealed to Bertillon,
and the man who invented the Bertillon
system for measuring and identifying
criminals, following Paty's suggestion
who in turn reflected Gen. Mercier's
antipathy to the Jews-said it looked
like Dreyfus' handwriting. 1t was re-
ported. MERCER ordered that Dreyfus
be arrested. Patty de Clam tried to
prepare the case against him. 1t was
not strong enough to suit Mercier, and
the minister of war secured a pleader
whose skill was as great as Paty's in
fanny. The anti-Semitic party and
press had doubts of Mercier, and caught
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bit of evidence the judges based a de-
cision they had already formulated.
Furthermore. that scrap of paper in
Gen. Mercier's trembling hand was in
not even the remotest manner con-
nected with the alleged selling of
French army secrets to the Germans.
1t was a fragment from some inter
eepted correspondence, passing be-
tween attaches of different embassies,
and related to matters even more in
famous. more unspeakable, than any
treason of which Dreyfus was accused.
But Gen. Mercier's best efforts could
not keep the truth buried, nor could
his subserviency to the rabble and the
rank alike secure him in his seat as
minister OF war. He has been warned
to leave France, but has chosen to re-
main, at least for the present.
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Upon a Revision of the DreYfus Case)
mote appeared in that journal asking if
It were true that an important military
arrest had recently taken place. This
set everybody talking, for in France
anything concerning the army is con-
sidered of paramount Importance.
Wild stories were afloat, and the excite
nent reached fever heat when the news
was confirmed on November 1, by the
appearance of a brief official communi-
cation in all the papers. Dreyfus was
kept in close confinement until Deem
Der G, when his counsel, NJ. Demange,
was allowed to see him. On December
10 Dreyfus was arraigned before the
court-martiai, which was held in the
Censeilde Guerre building, opposite the
eCherche-Midi prison. Great crowds
gathered to see him cross the street
and shouted: death to the traitor!''
The trial was secret and lasted until
December %, when the court found the
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TIE FAMOUS BoRDEREAu.
Acknowledged to BE the Main Evi
denee Against DreSfus.

90 DC INC EzzILl VI
denee Against DreSfus.
The famous bordereau (memoran-
DUN ist), which is acknowledged to be
the main evidence against Dreyfus. was
discovered in April, 1894, among waste
papers from the German embassy, in
the particular department of Col. Count
Schwarzkoppen. the military attache,
by secret emissaries of the French gov
eminent, who had bribed the janitor
to surrender these papers. 1t is in
translation as follows:
In the absence of any news indicating
your desire to see me. nevertheless send
you, sir. certain information of interest
1. A note on the hydraulic brake of 12C
(method OF operating this piece.
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THE EMPERoR.s DENIAL.

States That Germany Bought no Sc
crefs from Dreyfus.
The enemies of Dreyfus laid partic-
ular stress upon the alleged fact that
the accused officer had sold army Sc
crets to Germany. This charge was
disproved August IL by ex-President
Casimir-Perier who, before the court
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2 A note on the outpost troops a few
notifications will be made by the new
planD
g. a note on notifications of artillery
formation.
4. A note relating to Madagascar.
5. The scheme relative to the manual of
field firing (0darch II, 1920.
This last paper is extremely difficult
to procure. and can have it at my disposal
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1t is very hard to stand idly by and see
our dear ones suffer while awaiting the
arrival of the doctor. An Albany IN. W
dairyman called at a drug store there for a
doctor to come and see his child, then
very sick with Group. Not finding the
doctor in, he left word for him to come at
once on his return. He also bought bot
tie CO Che ~ he-ls:H3's Cough Remedy,
which he hoped would give some relief I'M
til the doctor should arrive. In few hours
he returned, saying the doctor need not
come as the child was much better, The
druggist, Mr.. Otto Scholz, says the family
has since recommended Cham berlain's
Cough Remedy to their neighbors and
friends until he has constant demand for
it from that part of the country. For sale
by GEO. A. PARCHER, Druggist.
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MACONDA COMING
TO ELLSWORTH-WI OTHERS
EQUALLY CELEBRATED.
FINEST ARRAY OF MUSICAL TALENT
EVER HEARD IN THIS CITY TO
BE HERE MAY 49,

! Maconda!
Who of all who heard this brilliant
| songstress in Bangor last fail ever
| dreamed that she would be heard in Ellis
worth? Yet it is to be.
When Prof. Chapman suggested to the
festival chorus last Friday evening that
| it was possible for the Ellsworth chorus
to give concert with Maconda, himself,
GWilym Miles, the famous baritone, and
Hans kronold, the peerless voloncellist,
the chorus thought him crazy. To bring
| such an array of musical talent W =
promptly regarded as an iridescent
dream of man gone music mad.
But Prof. Chapman has dreamed lots OF
such dreams iii Maine within the past
two years, and thousands have witnessed
their futilment.
This proposition OF his to bring Ma
conda and the rest to Ellsworth is no
dream. The date is fixed, the hall is
hired. On
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY Is,
concert will be given in Hancock hall
under the auspices Of the Ellsworth fes-
tival chorus, which will present on that
| occasion to the public of this city and vi
entity an opportunity to hear Madame
Charlotte Maconda, the brilliant soprano
| who 50 electrified all Maine in the fes-
tlval concerts last fall at Bangor and
Portland; Hans Kronold, the famous vo-
loncellist, whose work at the concerts in
'97 was so remarkable; and cit her Gwilym
Miles or Heinrich Meyn, both of whom
have been heard in the festival concerts
or w. Z. Needen, tenor the equal of the
wonderful Williams. And besides all th.
PROF. CHAPMAN HIMSELF,
who will play the accomplishments of the
great soloists, and will conduct the num-
bers that Will be sung by the Ellsworth
festival chorus OF about eighty voices.
This Will undoubtedly be the finest
| musical affair ever given in this city-one
beyond what the most ardent lover of
music has eyer dared to hope for. For it
the enthusiast and bodnesS of the in
defatigable director of the Maine music
festivals-Prof. w. r. Chapman-are re-
sponsibe, and to him credit Is due.
The date of this great event May lis
soon to make this announcement, that
the public may have ample time to realize
its import.
Particulars will be given from time to
time, and the public fully informed of
the rare musical treat that Is in store
for it.
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BORN.

DOE-At Bar IIarbor, March %, to Mr. and Mrs
John W Doe, daughter.
GRA6-At sedgwick, March %, to Mr. and Mrs
Herbert Gray, daughter.
HODGklNS-At Bar Iiarbor March "a, to Mr..
and Mrs Eugene II Ilodgkins, Il daughter.
HAKRIMAN-At Bucksport, March "a, to Mr.
and Mrs Edwin l.. Hartman a daughter.
HODGkINS-At Trenton, March ., to Mr. and
Mrs iiodgkins, a son.
ALLAH Surry, March 81, to Rev
and Mrs n K Macdougal a son.
ORCGTT-At West Brooksvile, March %, to
Mr. and Mrs Fred w circuit, a daughter.
ROBBINS-At Stonington, March p, to Mr. and
Mrs Daniel Robbins, Il daughter.
sNOW-At Bucksport, March Is, to Mr. and
Mrs Ernest G Snow, II daughter
TlloMPSON-At Deer Isle, March - to Mr. and
Mrs Alden Philip Thompson, son.
TlNkER-At Lamoine, March D. to Mr. and
Mrs Norton II Tinker, a daughter.
WALLACE-At Lamoine, March ~ to Mr. and
Mrs w Wallace, a daughter.
NOU&G-At Hancock, March 9, to MIR and Mrs
Calvin Il Young, a son.