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COUNTY GOSSIP.

The schooner "Julis Ann, built at
Amee bury, Mass, in 1919, is one OF West
Franklin's distinguished visitors this
week.
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SHA% L-Dark brown on one side, i light gray
- on the other, Taken by mistake or IN
tentionally al town hall, Waltham, on the
night of the dance. March q. Possessor may
or to the Waltham or MariayiIle postoftce.
Mrs. GILMAN JORDAN.
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Nothing appears in business or in
money markets to prevent continu-
ance of the heaviest trade ever trans
acted at good profits, says DAMS Re
q,ielr
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Our Great Pond correspondent writes:
"Cow moose have been seen at Alligator
Axe, and near Rift pond this week. Some
OF the hunters are wishing for close time
on moose in this county for few years"
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The Erenjag Courier is the name of
lewiston; new penny democratic
daily, which made its Initial appear
ance Monday. 1t is a seven column
folio, neat and newsy.
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PRICE, $3.50.

The book may be obtained OF the author. DIR.
H. W. SMALL, Atlantic, Me.. or Of the pub
fishers, THE HANCOCK CouSrY PuBL1sHISG
Co., Ellsworth. Me.
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south Bluehill.
Allen Henderson has gone te Black Is
land to work.
Rev. A. R. McDougsll. OF Surry. occu-
pies the pulpit here every other Sunday.
stephen Weber has moved to Black Is
land, where he is employed carpentering.
A. w. Eaton is adding another story to
his house, and making other improve
ments.
Willis Candage has moved to Goose
Cove, " here he is employed in the cam
ming factory.
Miss Althea Eaton, of Little Deer Isle,
died at the home of Dea. :. J. Candage
very suddenly.
The entertainment given by the village
improvement society passed off very
pleasantly. About 80 was Melted.
April "a. d.
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INHE subscribers hereby give public notice
L to all concerned that they have been
duly appointed and have taken upon them
selves the trust of executors OF the iast WI
and testament of Calvin Frost, late Of Pee
skill, in the state OF New York, deceased. bY
giving bonds as the law directs; they there
lore request all persons who are indebted t.
the said deceased's estate to make immedi late
payment, and those who have any immediate
demands thereon to exhibit the same for set
tiement Luere b. Deasy, whose address Is Bar
Harbor, Hancock county, Maine, Is appointed
agent Tor the purposes set forth in revised
statutes OF Maine, chapter Ga, section Al.
ANToINETTE r. STOUT,
NJ. A. FROST.
April D, 1889. CLARENCE II. FROST.
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south Gouidsboro.
Mrs. Damon Sargent has returned from
West Sullivan.
Miss Lucy Bunker has gone to West
Gouldsboro to teach.
Fred Hamilton has moved his family
from Prospect Har Dor TO this place.
School commences this morning, taught
by Geneva Pettee, of East Sullivan.
{. W. Sargent, wife and daughter Ruth,
OF West Sullivan, visited Dir. Sargeut's
parents Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Hooper has returned from
West and East Sullivan, where she has
been spending the winter with her
daughters, Mrs. Ida Gordon and Mrs
Lillian Fenton.
April "a. 5. NJ. s.
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Bucksport seminary students enjoyed
themselves in an old fashioned way one
evening last week. In the morning q
bedsheet fioated from the flag staff, all
the settles were piled up on the campus,
the bell refused to call to morning deyo-
tions, the doors OF the building were bar
ricaded by eordwood, and the janitor's
jigger had been dissected and spirited
away.
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Two relics from the bsttleship Maine
have been added to THE AMERICANA
collection OF curios. They were brought
home from Havana by Coleman A. Crab
tree, whose letters from Cuba a few week ks
ago interested many OF The AMERICAN
readers. Mr.. Crabiree was in Ellswort h
last Thursday. and during call at THE
AMERICAN office, left the relics which he
had taken from the wreck OF the Maine
IN Havana bar Dor.
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FEAuBsCoT -. Court of County Comm
sioUcr-, pril term, \. d lst,l.
Upon the foregoing petition It l. considered
by the commissioners that The petitioners arr r.
sponsible, and that they ought to bt l,-lzl
touching the matter set forth in their itt.t.Ha.
aud therefore order that tie county commits
rioueF- meet Nt the -chuolhuGsc nearest the rc-t
dencs OF W Lttletieid. In the town OF t,rrsr.
hcId, III the county OF Fcnoo-cut. on riday Tic
fourteenth day Of july. u. l>lt4, at 10 o'cldls
in the forenoon and thence proceed 10 steW
the route mentioned Ia -ad petition, }rH--
hlateiy after which view hearing ot tb1 part =f-
ana witnesses Will be had At some CouErIl,-t
place IN the vicinity, and such further ur--
tAheh In the premises as the commissioners -.s
Judge proper. And ii l. further
Ordered That notice uf the time. plarr la-.
purpose Of the commits -iouer-' mrctit = aloFt
hc given To All persons and corporatirr- Inter
e-tei, by serving an atte-ted copy OF d, pc
utlJh ana I'M, order thereon, upon the rlcre OF;
the town OF Greenfield, In laid btnuH-cot gH-t
: dha 10y posting UP atte-tcd copies Jas af ara
said In three public places In said Town, ttirf
DAYS AT least before the time appointed teE
1uCb VI ", and also by publis hing thu peftf.a
ana ordcr thereon, -tN weeks -ucct-,IFgll ST. ifr
bangor y eek :! courier, 4 new paper abtl- ..ei
~ hanSor' IN said fenebscot county, ari tH
the fil-Worth American, a new paper paAll-i,zt
In Ellsworth, ia the county OF lIaEluek M4.l,,
ahG III the ktnuehec journal, the state paptr 3
new paper published In Augusta, IN the ca-ut
81 hthhebec, Maine, the Last publication g. B.
tiift4 dAys al least before the time 81 saiH view
Anu i ! further ordered that an affected cops
OF said petition and OF this order bee served
upon the chairman OF the county commissioner
OIL Hancock county, Maine, at least thlrty dag
beiore The time appointed for such e ", tNI- Z
persons and corporations Interested may at
tchd aud he heard II they think III.
Attest ,-tHA r. SWIFT. CLERK
true copy of the petition aud order thereon
Attest --jHAs. r. SWEET, JlefA
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MONEY TO LOAN.
Local Notltts.
STATE OF MAINE.

To the Honorable Commissioners OF PeuaH-
scot county, GEEETINs-
NOGR petitioners respectfully represent
1 that common convenience and necess-i y
require the opening OF a new highway lead
ing from the the county road in the town II
Greenfield, in said Penobscot county, at the
point where the town road starts which leads
10 the W. II. Littlebeld residence, so-caliest.
thence on said town road point near thv
said Littieheld residence where there is way
used going to and from Hancock tanner So.
called. situated in township 81, Hanco5k
county: thence 10 the town line of said Greasl-
field and said township 80 in Hancock coua;y
along the aforeme ntIoned way; thence from
said town line of Greenfield along the ainr--
mentioned way in said township SO. Hancotx
county TO the Hancock tannery above ms L.
toned
Your petitioners further pray that If Won
are satisfied that they, the petitioners, are tc-
Sponsible. that you may call a meeting Of thu
commissioners Of the county Of Hancock and
after proper notice a hearing on this petition
may be had.
The county Of Hancock being the only otht,
county through which the said road " Ill pass
BUELL. & RICE TASSISG Co
j. II. Rice. CLERK
John II. Rice.
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Fast Day tomorrow.
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II OUSE-On Bridge hill. Inquire Of Mn
L L ;. b. WOODWARD, Ellsworth. Me.
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Gl,antto.

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DANTS AND VEST MAKER Apply at
L W. R. PARKER CLOTHING Co.'S store
cor. Main and Franklin sts., Ellsworth
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". 7. MOOR, PAPER HANGER.

have just received a lue line of sample Wall
Paper, BORDERS and Ceilings to match, which
Will sell very low. : l do my own hanging |
can give satisfaction
Gail and examine or drop postal, and Will
Drlhg samples w. T. MOOR.
Fourth St, Ellsworth Me.
ES-Iwo nice tenements to let on Fourth ST.
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For salt.

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HOUSE AND LOT in Penobscot with
i young orchard VIII be sold at bar
gain. SARAH C. SPRAGUE. Peuobscot, Me.
HHAMBER SETS. 2. and a wooden carpet
y In good condition. Inquire of Mas. y
A. SALISBURY, Hancock street. Ellsworth.
INARM-The Joseph VI. KIngman farm al
Il Waltham can be purchased az very rea-
sonable rate for cash; good buildings: an ex-
cellent orchard with grated fruit, good water,
tilIage and pasture, with $500 or $500 worth OF
timber on the place. Contains 1iila acres;
title perfect. Inquire of Aryilla {. Kingmaa
Nit. Desert Ferry, or A. +. Burnham, ELS
worth. for particulars, ARyILLA = kIS6N4N
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-01-28
Food Wrapped in Paper.

1t is n very common practice to put
away food that comes from the shop
in the brown paper in which the
dealer wraps it. While this may be
convenient, it certainly is open to
serious objection on the score of health
and cleanliness. Most of the cheap
papers are made from materials hardly
up to the standard of the housekeep-
er's ideas of npatness; and althou 5h
a certain degree of heat is employed
in their preparation it is by no means
sufficient to destroy all the disease
germs with which the raw material
may be filled.
When it is taken into consideration
that waste papers of all sorts, and
those used for all purposes, are gath
cred up and worked over into new
paper. it behooves the housewife who
cares for the health of her family to
see to it that articles of food remain
in contact with such wrapping the
very shortest possible time.
1t is not unusual to see tue meat,
butter. cheese and other extremely
susceptible articles put away in the
very cheapest, commonest brown pa
per.
Immediately upon the receipt Of
soft groceries or fruits, they should
be put into earthen dishes, and under
no circumstances should they be al
lowed TO remain in the papers in
which they are delivered.
1t is useless to expect that better
class of paper will he employed, AMI
so we may as well make up our mind:
to guard against trouble by shifting
all articles of food to some dish tina
is absolutely free from communicating
elements. -Pearson's Weekly.
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An Extra VACANT Dinner.

Victor Smith. appointed collector of
customs at Port Townsend, Washing
ton Territory, by Secretary Chase.
succeeded in inducing the government
to move the custom-house from that
point to Port Angeles, where lie MAIN
tanned himself for time in semi
barbaric proprietorship. He once in
vited the officers of the revenue cutter
Shubrick to dine at his house; and the
officers arraycd themselves in full
dress, and went ashore in state to wait
upon Collector Smith at his mansion.
which was then in an unfinished con
dition. In due course OF time the
collector, assisted by his wife, brought
ont two carpenters saw horses, on
which was placed board covered with
wrapping paper. The repast was then
set forth; Smith taking from his
pocket three big apples, gave one to
each of the three Ulcers, with small
forked stick, remarking: "Iou'll have
to roast your own apples.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-01-28

She could not see his face as he
knelt and asked her to be his.
She was glad of that, for she did not
wish to know how much suffering her
refusal caused him.
She told him as gently as she could
that their lives could not be linked to-
geiher, and although she admired him
and esteemed him she felt that it would
be isking his future as we'll n. her
own to consent to Il union when she
was 1e 40 affinity existed. 1T was
tor, hin ; speech, and she threw so
much hel into it that she did not OBJ
serve th!t h, was taking notes i'll
shorthand. When she had concluded
he rose and put his notebook in his
pocket. Extending his hand, he re-
marked genially:
"l'm ever and ever so much obliged
to you.'
"o.i-r-r-r-r!
"iou did it ever so nicely, and I'm
under thousand obligations. I'm
writing novel, and / have scene in
which girl refuses to marry mao. |
was anxious to avoid the ste.eotyped
style OF depicting such incidents and
make it realistic. You're the seventh
gill | have proposed o,aad every one
of the others accepted me. If you
had said yes | think ] should have
been completely discouraged. -
Pearson's Weekly.
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The scene in the streets Of Ediu-
Lur5h when the Co"ton Hghlanders
ar. iNcd there fron India, recall the
return of the same gallant re giment to
".4uld IeeAic" from the Waterloo
canl align. HetSecn the Black Watch
aud the Go!lon' there had always
been friendly rivalry. The I: Il had
catered Edinburgh some time before,
and one OF their number lan.ering' v
c.liel out to the 92l that the ii OF
the crowd was as nothing to that
which had welcomed them (the 1. d..
I've could hardly make way through
the crowd he adde !, to which IL 92d
man proml thy returned, lyon should
have sent for us, th5u. to clear the
way for you, as we have often done
before 1t was fitting that on the
present occasion the Gordons should
have been played into Edinburgh by
the band of the Sco,s Greys, with
whom they had fought side by side ut
Waterloo.-Londen Chron Gle.
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OuCer Friends.

Adolph Schmitt, a farmer at Beech
woods, Sullivan County, N. Y, on 60
ing to his hogpen one cold morning
recently was surprised to find large
rat perched on the back of one of his
hogs. The rat made no movement
when Mr.. Schmitt appeared, and the
hog being apparently satisfied, Mr.
Schmitt did not interfere.
The rat spends most of its time on
the hogs back and strange friend
ship has grown up between the two
animals. The hog is restless when
the rat is not on it. Several times it
has angrily defended its friend when
other hogs have snapped at it.
The rat in return for the hogs pro.
lection scratches it's friends bristly
back and nibbles lovingly at its ears.
These attentions seem to afford the
hog boundless pleasure, for the more
active the rat the more hearty are its
grunts OF satisfaction. New York
Press.
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a Me ;GIn of I.OVp.

OF all the bashful Young men in
Detroit, the most bashful on record
lives in the northwestern part of the
city. There is Il certain young lady
on whom his affections had been cen
tired for two wears, but he could nevel
screw his courage TO the proposing,
point. Time and again he left home
with fixed determination to put hi
fate to the test, but his bravery all
oozed out when in her presence. After
defeat had followed defeat he sat down
to write he'. but language tiel from
him. a Gnire of paper and half n
night were wasted, leaving him II
nerve shaken, disroasolate lover.
The next morning Ii, took IL strong
cup of COTE, and further b: acel him
self by throwing ont his chest, talking
loud to the rest of his family and tell
ing them that he had about decided
to 60 into business for himself. Thus
stimulated, lie went to the telephone.
called her up, and made one of the
most direct proposals in all the varied
annals of love. But before she could
reply he was seized With Il horrible fit
of bashfulness and dropped the re-
ceiyer as though it were red hot.
Twenty minutes later when he
slipped back on tip toes to learn if
there might lie any lingering echoes
ON the wire, she was still scolding the
telephone girl because they had been
cut Off
Here | am, my angs H." he too k
courage and shouted.
YES" she c0oed back.
Then the hashful youth filled the
house with war dances and wild
whooping. Detroit Free Press.
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Ventilation Very BAD.

A high army officer, whose fad was
ventilation, was one day making an
Inspection of II frontier post which was
We y much in need of replir. In some
places the roof showed the blue sky
overhead, and the walls were orna-
mented WITH gals.
The hrig,dier-general was escorted
through the binding by the colonel in
cha &c, sergeant going on before, as
is the Gus tom, to warn the men to
sand at attention in honor OF the gen
cra.
As,hey proceeded the genera asked:
"Anl how is the ventilation, col
onel?
Before the colonel could reply, the
old sergeant, with II familiarity born
OF long service. said:
",iure, general, an the ventilation
is bad, soir, vera bad, sorr. The
place is all full OF holes, soIr.'
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long. She had always got quickly
acquainted with the few new "girls'
who had moved into Bridgeport dur.
ing her lifetime. She saw no reason
why city people should take any
longer to perform like ceremony.
And she was more than ready to meet
them half way.
But the boys and girls who went to
the public school and the Sunday
school which Marcia attended in Chi
cago already knew lots of other boys
and girls, and, especially as the
stranger entered into the class work
rather late in the term, they were
quite fully occupied with their own
interests. So when Marcia had been
going to the Hammond school regu-
larly every day for thee months she
was still very lonely.
"They don't mean to be unkind, I
can see that" she told her mother, for
Marcia was as just as she was sensi-
tive, and intuitively realized the true
reason of this apparent neglect upon
the part of her classmates, "bnt
they're all so busy and so happy and
they know so many people that I
don't believe they ever think OF
strangers at all. L feel as if I was just
sick for some other girl to talk to
whenever Pm not studying"
But something happened very soon
after Marcia thus fretted to her
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mother, which, while it deepened her
loneliness for time, brought matters
out all right in the end.
Staying late at school one evening,
in order to glance over book in the
school library, she found, when re-
moving the dust from her fingers
afterward, beautiful ring lying on
the edge of the dressing groom basin.
She knew whose ring it was imme-
diately. She had often watched the
diamond in it's flashing from the fin.
ger of Evelyn Gorton, the girl who sat
next to her in school. Girl like, Mar.
cia, who had never owned ring, had
often envied Evelyn the possession OF
this one. Now she amused herself for
some moments by slipping it on and
off her own finger and watching the
light play about tho handsome stone.
Then she went in search Of the ianltol
and offered the ring to him.
''No," said the ianitor, who did moi
care for the trouble of returning the
trinket nor to keep so valuable an ar
ticlo over night. 81 don't want to take
it. Give it to the principal or keep il
until tomorrow morning"
But the principal had gone home
some time before, and both the JAM.
tor and Marcia had forgotten that, the
day being Friday, there would be nc
school session tomorrow. So Marcia,
girlishly willing, if not glad, to veal
the lovely thing home and to keep il
overnight, was sorely troubled upon
reaching home to remember that she
must either retain it until Monday OF
find some means Of getting it to its
owner.
On Saturday night Marcia, afte,
having tired herself ont by unavailina
efforts to find Evelyn, was compelled
to return home with the ring still il
her possession. Next morning she
awoke to find her mother very i'll will
diphthcritic sore throat. Three
weeks later, almost before the mother
was able to sit up, Marcia herself
came down with the same disease
so it was nearly two months before
she eutcfcu tue Hduuluuu Scuoo
again, and in all that time she hat
hardly thought of the diamond ring a
all. When she had remembered it
during the intervals of her own ant
her mothers illness, she had intended
to write letter to the principal of thu
school suggesting that Evelyn CONF
after the ring, but this she had neg
lected to do, being overworked ant
weary, until she was so nearly read.
to return to school that such course
seemed unnecessary. Finally she re
solved that tho simplest plan of al
would be to retain the ring until abl
to return it personally.
Evelyn Gorton, meanwhile, had no
missed tho ring until some time afte
reaching home that afternoon, an,
had not then remembered where sh,
had lost it. Advertisements askin
for its return and promising rewar
for this action were inserted in all til
papers by her father, but these, n
Marcia never saw them, were of IL
avail. At last she gave up the rim
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The Way II Ended,

He was n new man in newspaper
Office. He thought he knew the world
and was little cynical. SO when the
old reporters in the office came to him
to borrow dollar he complied but
remarked shrewdly to himself that that
dollar was gone. But the dollar was
paid to him again, very prom tly.
This kind of thing went on for some
time, and soon his confidence grew
firm in the ingrained tendency of men
to pay their debts.
Then the older men began to bor-
row larger sums, and soon the sums
were very large for the young fellows
pocket. And now the older men be-
gan to forget to pay back. They all
forgot to pay at once. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
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Still women fish deep.
The less you know about woman
the more you ARE bound to like her.
Either girl is in love or else a man
looks funny when he proposes.
Love never begins to come home to
Il man till he begins to come home to
love.
A real love generally gives more
than it has, and receives less than it
had to give.
A woman should find all men in her
hus band, and man should find no
other woman in his wife.
The average woman doesn't want
her husband to be Just; what she
wants is for him to love her.
BY the time man has heard all
on, woman knows about another
woman he is generally sure that he
likes the other best.
If there are women who can make
fool of every man, there are other
women who can make man of every
fool.
No woman can ever put down car
pet when there is another woman
there. because she has to hold the
tacEs in her mouth.
When man feels in danger of fall
ing in love with woman he can res
cue himself by getting her to talk on
international arbitration.
Fefore man falls in love he won
ders how II woman would suit him for
dcrS how he won d suit woman for q
husband.
Every man would get MARI led if lie
thought he had money enough, and
every woman would get married if
sone man thought she hal brains
enough. New York Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-01-28

Whitefield's famous tabernacle, in
Tottenham Court road, London, is be-
ing rebuilt for the third time. The
Foundation stone, which was origi-
nally placed in position by Whiteiel
himself in 1151, was rclaid on the 9th
of October, at Il unique gathering,and
with elaborate ceremonies. The new
building will replace the one referred
to in 1881 as 'the largest place of
worship in the Kingdom 1t was
condemned by the authorities several
years ago, torn down and temporary
structure of corrugated iron was
erected in its place. The new struc-
ture will be not only larger than the
original one, but of more imposing
design, by Mr.. Rowland Plum, II cele.
brated architect.