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UANCOCK'S WOMAN SOLDIER.
Mrs. LaGros, of Bucksport, II Private
in the Union Army.

in the Union Army.
There WAS 10 more interesting figure at
the recent national encampment of the
u. A. X. at Chicago than AIRS. Nancy NJ i.
LaGros, OF Bucksport.
Mrs. LaGros is the only woman private
soldier in Maine, aud one OF he very few
In the whore country. She enlisted in the
Sixth Maine regiment ut the beginning
OF he Rebellion, but in a few months she
was transferred to the Second Maine,
| where she served with distinction aud
gallantry until the close OF the war. She
draws pension from the government in
| her own name, which was granted her in
1890 by special act OF Congress in recog-
milton OF her splendid services among the
| wounded on the battlefield and in the
| field hospitals.
| 1t was at Fort Cochran early in the war
that Mrs. LaGros, then a widow, Mrs.
Nancy Atwood, first met Simeon P. La
Gros, whose wife she now is, wounded
| and suffering in a hospital. The story Of
their courtship and marriage reads like a
romance, aud is stranger by far than q
large proportion of fiction.
At the opening Of the war Nancy At
wood was working in Bucksport with a
| friend, Mrs. Mary Mcdonald. She was
the granddaughter of John verplast, who
served valiantiy In the war OF 1872, and
| thus her desire for active service was
| hereditary.
| Let's go to Bangor and enlist" she
said to her friend. "There will be plenty
| OF need for nurses at the 'front.'"
| Sure enough, a few weeks later Mrs. At
wood was busiIy engaged among the
| sick and wounded at Fort Cochran, near
| Washington, and it was here that she
| first saw, writhing on bed of pain, the
man who at the close OF the war was to
| lead her to the altar.
When the news that the flag had been
| fired upon at Fort Sumter reached
| Bangor, Simeon p. LsGros was working
in the carriage shop OF Henry B. Tooms.
He was among the first men to enlist in
| Capt. Emerson's company in the old Sec
ond Maine, which was the first regiment
| to leave the state for the front after
President Lncoin's call for troops to put
down the Rebellion. The regiment got
! into the thick of the fight at Bull Run
almost before they realized that they
were on active duty. Color Serg't Dean,
OF Bangor, was shot and the colors fell
into the hands OF the enemy. LaGros
and others of the regiment distinguished
themselves by recapturing them. 1t was
later, at Fort Cochran, that LaGros was
wounded and sent to the hospital. 1t
was here that he and Mrs. Nancy At
wood met for the first time. She was
| nursing a wounded man only few feet
away from his cot, and many time dur
ing the long, weary hours she cast her
eyes toward the sufferer, tossing on his
couch. Finally LaGros recovered and
was returned to active duty.
The next time they met was at Halls
hill several months later. LaGros was a
mail-carrier, and his route for fifteen miles
led through country infested by BUSH
wackers and other dangers. Mrs. Atwood
recognized LaGros as the man she had SO
admired for his fortitude in the hospital
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rlNHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
i he has been duly appointed executor of
gent, late of Sedgwick, in the county of Han
cock, deceased, and given bonds as the law
directs. All persons having demands against
the estate of said deceased are desired to
present the same for settlement and all in
debted thereto are requested to make pay
ment Immediately. HENRY w. SARGENT.
Sent A. a. d. 1900
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vNHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
tratrix of the estate of Gil+s j. Weber,
late Of Brooklin. in the county of Hancock.
deceased and given bonds as the law directs.
All persons having demands against the
estate of said deceased are desired to present
the same for settlement, and all indebted
thereto requested to make payment i'm
medately. GRACE Z. WEBER.
Sc pt. A. a. d. 1900.
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rINHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
traitor of the p estate eu OF Anna 8. HinckIey
late of Bluehill, in the county. of Han
cock, deceased, and given bonds the
law directs. All persons having demands
against the estate of said deceased are desired
to present the same for settlement, and al
indebted thereto are requested to make pay
meut Immediately. ARTHUR 9. HINcKLEY.
Sept. 4, a. d. 1900.
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BUCHANAN. MICH, May q

fenesee Pure Food Co.. lie Roy. ". Y:
Gentlemen My mamma has been a great
nee ,drinker and has found It very Injurious.
IhA!N-O, the drink that takes the place OF cot
1 y, she finds 1t much better for herself and for
children to drink. She has given up coffee
mixing entirely. We use a package of Grain-o
Eery week. am ten years old.
Tours respectfully, FANNIE WILLIAMS.
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Use Boiled Water Only If Necessary

Use Boiled Water Only If Necessary.
Boiled water or distilled water should
not be used, either by grown people or
children, unless there is danger from con-
tamination from the water in ordinary
use. Pure cold water is preferable. A
child may be given glass OF cool (never
ice) water the first thing In the morning
say half an hour before breakfast; and
nay also take glass on retiring.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
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''Mrs. Blimber is very nervous about
there being thirteen at the table to-
night" "Does she think something I'M
pleasant will happen?" eyes; she only
has dozen knives and forks"
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DeWitt's Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for liver and bowel troubles
Never gripe. WIGGIN q MOORE.
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"You women," said the stingy man,
"don't know what 1t is to get money by
working for it," ooh, l don't know
replied the stingy mans wife; "it's pretty
hard work for me to get any,"
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mfnieaI.

menieaI.
Lots More Like. it.
Plenty More Like This and all From
Ellsworth People.
No chance for argument
No better proof can be had.
What an Ellsworth man says
Is the ibest of evidence for Ellsw orth
people.
Read this case
We have lots more like it.
Veteran J. G. Gray, of East Surry, whose
better half is postmistress of the village,
says: sit is miserable thing to have SO
bad back that you are afraid to stoop or
lift anything for fear of twinges. have
UCCA up Will Iuluc Ill Uu0 way from
day to eight weeks, and have taken a great
many medicines and SPENT a lot of
money looking for a cure. Doan's Kid
ney Pills were my last attempt, and be-
lieye they did me more good in short
time than any or all the medicines that l
ever used. got them at Virgins drug
store in Ellsworth when in town one day,
and the change the first box made was
surprising to me- Doan's Kidney Pills,
certainly did me good, and think them a
great remedy"
For sale by all dealers; price so cents
box. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N
Y, sole agents for the U. S.
Remember the name, Doan's, and take
DO Their.
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CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
THE MAGIC STRING.

hAV' j VU 3ENy NTIUEH 4 W. 1AyS0HHS-
ing Tricks With 1t.
The boy or girl who can perform vari-
ous little tricks with matches, string, etc,
is generally very popular and much in
demand. Here is description Of the
marvellous ring trick. which the writer
has not seen described since he was a
child, quite a good many years ago.
Having tied the ends OF your string to-
gether, pass it double through q finger
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the ring to the string without removing
the ends from his fingers. Pass the
string, as in the first trick. around one
of his fingers, and in drawing the loop.
as before. toward the other hand. slip it
through the ring as shown at d; then
pass the loop over the finger, this time
leaving it near the end, as at C; with
your two forefngers catch up the string
which was first upon the fingers, and
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Hancock sat- probate court held at
Bluehil, in and for said county of Hancock,
on the fourth day of Septemb-r, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.
A CERTAIN instrument PUrp 5rUiug to be
"A the last will and testamt mt aad codcils
thereto of l.. Taylor Dickson, late of the city
and county of Philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA,
deceased, and of the probate thereof, i'll the
state of Pennsylvania, ouly authenticated,
having been presented to the Judge Of pro-
bate for our said county of Hancock, for the
purpose of being allowed, filed and recorded
in the probate court of our said COUNTY OF
Hancock.
Ordered: That notice thereof be given to
all persons inro rested therein, by publishing
copy of this order three weeks successfully
in the Ellsworth American, d newspaper
cock, prior to the second day OF October,
a. d. 1900, that they may appear at
probate court then to be held AZ Ellsworth.
in and for said county of Hancock, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, and SHOW cause, il
any they have, against the same
o. P. CUNNINGHAM, Judge of Probate.
true copy of original order Of c00r'
Attest:-CHAS.tP. D0&R Register.
THE subscribers hereby give notice that
l. they have been duly appointed tXecu-
B. Wescott, late of Castine, in the county
of Hancock, deceased, no bonds being re-
quired by the terms of said will. All persons
having demands against the estate OF fsaid
deceased are desired to prese a tne same for
settlement, and all indebted thereto are re-
quested to make payment Immediately.
FLORA ADELE WEsCoTT.
ELIZA p. WEsCoTT.
Sept. 4, a. d. 1900.
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MISSIONARY TELLS STORY.
"Matters Grow Darker and Darker
All Around U.s." She Writes.

New York, July 9.-Miss Jennie Evans,
for twenty-five years. a missionary ior
the Presbyterian church in China, writes
to her sister. Mrs. II s. Il. Webster. OF
Brooklyn, from TunG Chow. May 18TH.
3Oth and Slst, in part as follows:
Matters grow darker and darker az
about us. Word conses today thdt one oI
the railroad depotS just out of Pekin iliie
Pekln terlnini for the roads arc not az
lowed inside the city) was burned yeSteF-
day by the boxers. ana the other Is 10 DC
burned TO-DAY. cars are not running from
Tien Tsin TO Pekln or Pau Ting tu TO
Peldn, and so there are no mails one OF
the Methodist outstationS mad three
houses destroyed and nine persons kliied.
We hear LoLoon missions sulleieu AT one
of their outstatIons. AT the rallro&q sta
ton We hear OF no foreigner being Killed
A trenchman got into Pekin with a knife
cut In the back of thu neck. Foreign
soldiers are being sent for. but what can
they do when tnis thing has spread all
over the north? We DO not know When
our turn may come. We can hardly eX-
pect our college viii escape; certainly not
il we leave, and even if we wished 10 co.
where could we 60, or. now the cars nave
stopped. how get aNayf Inc OLD way oy
boat would be very dangerous. No, We
must stay ana pray God 10 keep US. Some
of The gentlemen have gone INTO the city
to have our highest officials send guard
of soldiers for both cur places inside ana
outside the city.
May 30th.-Such an anxious day as this
has been. aud yet nothing has come. Inc
promised soldiers do not cOme-a lew VINO
did not look like soldiers came, but with
out guns. Now We md the Tao TAI mas
none here--we rely alone upon God. Just
after breakfast a number OF US thought
10 walk into the city 10 attend a prayer
meeting, when the report came that the
city was full of boxers, and thai they
We're coming cut TO loot our premises.
"One of the worst anu-forelgn com
manderS has his troops stationed from the
city gate out to the railroad station. The
soldiers say they are not going TO hSht
boxers. but prevent any foreign soldiers
from entering the city. j guess Il Is
pretty evident that the empress dOWager
Is at the bottom Of this
May 3lst.-All quiet during the night,
and today We hear fewer rumOrs than we
did ycsterdi y. A letter from our minister
this noon comforts us. II necessary. when
the fifty marines get to Pekin, he Will
try to send us a few-COcs not certainly
promise. but he says he will send down
TO the gunbCat and see If he can get US
some guns-Says he has not so much as 4
pistol at the legation-not being as well
off as we are here one thing the boxers
wish to do Is to do away With everything
foreign, and so they have gone back to
their old arms, a gun carried by two men
There are no new startling reports
from pekin today. Mr. Conger advises us
TO press our Tao Tai. and II he does not
send help. send word. and he will report
at high court in Pekin-he wants to help
us all he can"
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death by this time. I cannot convince
myself that American ingenuity, COM
bined with that of the representatives of
the foreign powers, would fail to invent
some means of communication with the
outside world during this long period of
silence. If any of them We're alive Neces-
sity is the mother of invention and | can
not help believing that our representa-
uves and their allies. if alive, would have
found some means of getting word 10 n.
at home. In my Judgment, this Chinese
question is more terrible to contemplate
than any other question we have to dol
with. OF course. ii can cut no figure in
the coming political campaign except that
II Will continue to overShadow in the puh-
lie interest any subject that may be sug-
gested by either of the political parties
Even now tidiEgs from China are beinV
d. discussed throughout the land to the ex,
cluslon of all other topics and the news
papers are relegating national politics
wav to Chinese news VA
In this connection IL was suggested
10 General Grosvenor that a striking and
starting contrast might be drawn be-
tween the present personal surroundings
oI Mr. ConSer, our minister 10 the
United States. The Chinese minister iS
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cossAcKs FIGHT THE BOXERS.
Captured Six Krupp Guns and Put the
Enemy 20 Flight.

London. July I4.-The scanty cable as
matches received today add nothing TO the
Inovv1e,Is,. in London az the Chinese SIT
uatiou. IL is stated positively from Iah-
ton that Ii IIung Chang Viii remain theIe
,,utu tbs allied troops have ceIca'-u
Prince Tuan's forces ard viii then 50
north 10 IsI.d hls powerful aid IN affeh5
in terms cf peace. cooperating Win
Prince Ching. NuuE Lu and other pr
foreign v,ceroys- For the present l.
I5urr chang considers that he can best
control and direct the vlcsroys from I'.h-
ton and also keep In check the '1EDu'Nii'
province of kwang TunS-
All the foreigners and missionaries nave
evacuated Wen Chau and have arrived al
Nirr 10. Iarce bodies of boxers appear c.
Al Wen Ch1u and threatened 10 eN'er-
inmate the foreigners and Christians
They aiso distributed banners. badges and
fufianmatory anti-fOreign appea.s
The TIeu-Isiu coEEeSpon0enl 81 ne - -
pres tee Era aphing uu1er date 81 Suis -
ass.rts that the Chinese are daily dtlNihs
Al th. allies They have mounted, sslg >
th. correspondent. twelve iresh guns IN
advantageous positions. with MhiSh uieg
are -wsaulTE the streets ut the i9i'ibl
settlement the incesS1nt ire rehugIih
ruSf-ion after position quite untenanle-
The Daily Nails St. Petersburg
correspondent says that in the last
six hours battle outside OF Tien Tsin
the Cossacks captured six Krupr
guns and killei numbers Of fleeing
boxers. The Chinese lost 5000, in
ciuding General Jek.
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when he returns he expects to have his
prediction faculties in good working or
der for Mckinley.
General Grosvenor says the political
outlook is not causing him as much con-
Germ as the terrible conditions existing In
China. His long personal association
with Minister Conger and the dread that
the latter has met an untimely end at
barbarous hands. is forced upon him by
the conflicting and unsatisfactory reports
coming from the far cast.
II apprehend," said General Grosve-
nor. that Minister Conger and all the
foreieners in Pekin have been put to
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ARTILLERY DUEL WITH BOXERS
British and American Allies Fail To
Take q Gun.

Tien Tsin. July 6, via Shanghai. July
14.-(Copyright, 1900, by the Associated
Press.)-At noon today the British ana
American allies unsuccessfully attempted
TO capture Chinese fiftecn-pounder
mounted last night, which was on the ad-
vanced position of the allies. From to
O'Clock In the morning an artillery duel
or eleven guns took place, the Chinese
sheliing the battlements from the native
city. The British and japanese guns
shelled the forts from the viceroy's and
the yomen's city gates. Che practice was
good, the British siencing two OF the guns
of the Chinese. The fire of the enemy
burned one of Mackenzjes wool godown
warehouses. The loss is over 10000 tacls.
1t is estimated that over 900 shells fell
In the settlement, wrecking practically
many OF the buildings. Undoubtedly spies
ere informing the enemy of the condl-
tion or the troops and of the situation In
the quarters of the allies and especially
after a bomba rdment has taken place.
The Chinese trainel one naval gun on the
allies. Efforts were made to capture
siienced gun and a tremendous lire was
encountered. Todays casualties were as
follows:
killed-Two blue ia :kets and two MEM
bers of one of tho Chinese regiments.
Wounded-Three officers. two marines
and five members of the Chinese regi-
ment.
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THINK CoNGER is A VICTIM.
Distressing Rumors Are Circulated
in WASHINGTON.

4
| Washington. July 13.--Distressing ru-
mors concerning the fate OF foreigners
in Pekin have been In circulation here
| today. At the state department the only
| official information received was n brief
| dispatch from Consul General Goodnow.
Of Shanghai. stating that the governor
| Of Shang Tung wires that the boxers and
soldiers were bombarding the legations
| for final attack upon the 7th of July
| He is extremely anxious for the safety
| of tho ministers and our Chinese friends
| I'm Pekin. The consul adds that fears of
| the worst are generally entertained. This
| dispatch coupled with information from
| London that all the Europeans In Pekin
| were massacred July 9Th. had very de-
| pressing effect here. Department officials
| have long suspected that the various
veports emanating from Shanghai, in
each case from a Chinese source, have
been preparing the way for the formal
announcement of the determination of the
foreign ministers and all the hapless peo-
pie who were cooped up in Pekln.
The greatest anxiety prevails In diplo
matte circles concerning the latest re-
port. and the representatives of China,
Japan, Russia and France were at the
state department today seeking informa-
ton. They were shown the dispatch of
Consul Goodnow. which was not ercour.
aging.
Representative Grosvenor. OF Ohio, ar
rived here today from home on his way
to New York TO take brief trip to
Europe He says while the prelimina-
ries of the coming campaign are being
arranged. he proposes to take an ocean
voyage to rest up. preparatory TO en-
gaging actively in the approaching con-
test He realized snug sum from his
journalistic and literary work during the
Philadelphia convention and he proposes
to spend 1t I'm much-needed sea Trip
He might have continued his journals
tic labors at Kansas City at the rate OF
500 per day, but he declined the PROPOSE
ton. He will be absent a month and
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METHODIST MINISTERS SAFE
Father Frederick Brown Cables from
Che Foo.

New York. July 1.-The Methodist Mis-
siOnary Society received a telegram to-
day from the Rev. Father Frederick
Brown at Che Foo in response TO repeated
Inquiries by cable IL is the most cheer
fns. news received lately. Mr.. Brown ca
blsd simply the word safe" followed by
the list OF names OF various missionaries
Those designated. with their stations. are
as follows
Rev. Fred Brown. Pekin: Miss Hopkins.
MD. Tang shan: Rev. J. y Pyke. Iieil
Tsin: J. v. Martin. Tien Tsin; Rev !;
= HlynOr. Tsun Hua; Edward anu
George " Lowrey. Pekin. Rev and MIS-.
II. n. King Pekin. and the Rev. u. w.
1Ierrfty. shan Tung.
Of women sent out by the Momaus For
sfEn Missionary Society of the Metnodlst
Episcopal church They are Ella T. 6ioN-
e.. Pekin: Mary r Shockley. 11en Isln'
Miranda Crevcher. TsGn Hua: Ida ~
Stevenson. Md. Ten Tsin: kacnaei H.
Benn. MD. Ticn Tsin. and Mrs NJ L.
Barrow. shan Tung-
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daily seen riding through the streets of
the national capital on bicycle accom-
panied by his ten-year-old son and several
American children residing in the vicin-
ity of the Chinese legation. He enjoys
the utmost freedom. receives the kind
est treatment Snd respect. officially and
socially. and is at liberty TO carry on un-
restricted and unceDSured commuuica-
ton with all parts of the world. On IN.
other hand no one seems prepared to
state officially what the fate of Minister
Conger has been or whether at this mo-
ment he Is in existence.
AS General GroSvenOr remarked ~
Minister Conger is still alive the so-called
imperial edict might have cleared UP the
mystery and there ere numerous other
ways by which the anxiety of the civlliz-
ed world might be relieved by those IN
authority at the Chinese capital.
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rs SPREADING TO MANcHUR1A
Governor of Moukden Orders All
Russians To Leave,

st. Petersburg. July 13-The latest ofi-
cial advices here regarding the spread or
the revolutionary movements in Manchu-
ria, add bat little material information.
on June 24th an edict of the emperor or
China was intercepted. ordering the chi
nese troops TO unite with the boxers.
Subsequently the governor of Moukden
Informed the chief engineers that the rail-
road line must be handed over to the
Chinese and that all Russians must per-
manently leave Manchuria. The engineers
protest and urging that the government
ask for the assistance of the Russians at
Port Arthur to annihilate the boxers did
not avail. and the Chinese troops con-
tinued TO mass until the rising culmi-
mated In the murders and attack ON the
railroad towns already reported.
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A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

All druggists are authorized by the manufao-
lures OF PAZO OINTMENT to refund { nc
money where II fails to cure any case OF piles
no matter of how long standing. Cures ordi-
rary cases In six days tho worst cases IN four
teen days one application gives ease and rest
RelieN es itching instantly.
This Is new discovery and is the only pile
remedy sold on positive guarantee no cure
pay. Price so cents.
If you- druggist don't keep II in stock send
so cents in postage stamps and we Will for
ward same BY mail.
Manufactured by Paris Medicine Co.. ST.
Ion
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WILL BE HARD TO CONQUER
Tx-surgeon in Chinese Army Says
Fight Will Be a Long One.


Kansas CITY. Julv f3.-pr- = W Lusch-
o. who sDeut several wears in China as
q surgeon IN th- Chinese army. and IS
familiar with the country aud people.
& quoted as saying that The WAY In north
China. particularly IN the fall and win
ter will se much more serious. II The
war lasts till then. than Americans gen
orally suppose. from the fact that win
ters there are much more severe than In
this portion - the United States. Con
tluuiug Dr. Luscher says.
The sources of weakness % the Chiness
army are that Trey nave no confidence
H. each other and that there are no lead
srs- Ai-u who rank high enough TO DC
ufiicrrS won't drill their men They are
too srt~tocrasfc- There WON'T be big arm
Is for the Americans 20 fight. but hurdfs
a. diS1rranizesi fanatics who ar- not
Efraid to attempt anything which viii
larraSs tn. whites The Europeans can
whin their armies. bur won't suppress
China They might - q-irted ~ their
leaders were IN captivity. but starving
them is mora likely 20 bring results.
japan can whip China's armies. but It's
Tahhie Will &c a difficult thing 90 dead
with