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UNITARIAN.
Req. a. II. Codr, pastor.

Req. A. II. Codr, pastor.
Thursday afternoon at O'Clock, meet.
ing Of Woman's alliance in the vestry.
meeting at home OF Mrs. s. d. Wiggin.
Subject: "Hebrew Church Histories"
Saturday evening al 7.3o, half hour song
service In the vestry.
Sunday, Nov. 25-Morning service at
1870. Sermon by the pastor. Sunday
school rhsnksgl wing service at Has.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Rer. J. NJ. Adams, pastor.
Meeting for prayer and bible study
Friday evening at 730. Special subject
The Sermon on the Mount"
Sunday, Nov. 25-Morning service at
1890. Sermon by the pastor. Sunday
school in the chapel at 1145. Evening
service at 7oclock.
The ladies' sewing circle will meet
Thursday afternoon at O'Clock. Supper
will be served at 6 o'clock.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Rer. J. p. Simonton, pastor.
Friday evening at 7.3o, Epworth league
meeting.
Sunday, Nov. 25-Morning service at
1920, with temperance sermon by pastor.
Sunday school at IL As, Junior league at
3 p. IN. Evening service at p m.
Tuesday evening at 730, class meeting
oUT-oF-rowN SERVICES.
NORTH ELLswoRTH-Rev. G. II. Hef-
hop, pastor at Ellsworth Falls, will preach
Sunday at $50 p. m.
WEST HANCOCK Service Thursday
evening and Sunday at 10 IN. Rev.
George III. SaIley.
TRENTON Preaching by Rev. j. P.
Simonton, OF the Methodist church, at
2 30 d. IN.
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CHURCH NOTES.
FREE BAPTIST.

Rer. George II. Saiiey, pastor.
Friday evening, at 7 80, prayer meeting.
Sunday, Nov. 25-Preaching service at
2 90 p. m. Sunday school at BIS p. m.
Social service at p. m.
Tuesday, $50 p. M, Y. P. s. {. Z.
UNION coNG'L, ELLSWORTH FALLS.
Rer. G. II. He6ioa, pastor.
Friday, 80 p. m, church prayer meet
ing.
Sunday, Nov. Extracting service at
10 80 a. IN. Sunday school at II. As. Even
ing service at Z 80.
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Thursday, the 2sth Day of Noyem
Der, A. D. 1900.

as day of general Thanksgiving, to be Oh
served by all good citizens In a manner beat-
ting Christian and God fearing State. Let no
one fail to rememoer On that day, with charity
and benevolenee. the poor and unfortunate.
Given at the Executive Chamber, in Augusta,
this thirtieth day Of october. 10 the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
the independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and twenty.
fifth.
LLEWELLYN POWERS.
By the Governor.
BYRON BOYD, Secretary Of State.
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T.. W. Groves signature Is on each box. sc.
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Bounn.

hoRf-The schooner "Margarett Leonard
- picked up adrift about is miles east of
Desert Rock one dory, I5 foot. dark yellow,
painted on them. also letter A painted on
thwarts OF dory. Owner can have same by
applying to CAPT. WILLIS BUNKER, Cranberry
Isles, Me.
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flor SaIf.

DiANO-Second- hand square piano for sale
4 cheap. Apply to MRS. ELMER L. RowE.
IL Pine ST., Ellsworth.
RIC1CLE-A frst-class, brand new wheel
- 1900 model. List at eco. Will be sold al
al great bargain. Inquire at The AMKRIcAN
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SCHOOL BOYS

Serve Is Baromoters OF the Weather for
Their Teacher.
Philadelphia Inquirer: It looked like
rain, and naturally he had on a pair
Of light shoes and carried no umbrella.
The a stopped on the far side Of Cir
ard venue and a young lady got in.
She bowed, and sat down beside the
Saunterer, who recognized ia her a
school teacher friend. What do you
think of this beastly weather." querled
he, disgruntedly. "Is II going to rain.
or isn't it," Il can't tell you today"
answered the young lady, smiling an
acceptance Of whatever might come.
IF 1t were a school day, and you were
willing to ONE to school with me, I
could tell you In a very few minutes
with absolute certainty. TIN sound
funny to you, but it's true. I have no.
ticed that you can always tell what the
weather is going to do by the children.
They're regular barometers. II there's
going to be a storm they get restless,
and / have the hardest kind Of work to
control them. Particularly the boys.
The girls aren't 80 bad. but there seems
to be some mysterious quality about
approaching rain that always effects
the former. I've got so now / don't
blame them, because ! don't believe
they can help II. So you see" she
concluded, as she got on at Chestnut
street, children have their uses, after
all"
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not a Q~uarTolsomo family. On the
contrary. they INDUCED in q good deal
Of horse play and laughter. The COM
sequence was that passors-by heard
riotous outlaws proceeding from the
Fenning house, and remarked disap-
provingly that some folks didn't worry
n they did 60 hungry. LEWIS downward.
droop OF the corners OF bis eyes, his
pensivo expression. and air Of settled
sadness as he walked down the road
were a great argument for him. HIS
role met with the approval Of his
neighbors and they we're entirely tax
en- IN by the perfection OF HIS acting.
They never dreamed that the loudest
Of the laughter that proceeded from
the walls Of the Cultured house belong
ed 10 the man whom they imagined 70
be wrapt in sorrow.
Now the whole truth Ot the matter
was that Lew was an astute creature,
and It occurred to him that he would
have t. make some strenuous eh0Ft
or he would lose his reputation for IN
dustry. This effort he did not wish 70
be commonplace. Lew was not COM
monplace. He was histrionic-thougn
he didn't know the word, perhaps. But
he confessed that he liked to have
folks talking about him. He kneW ne
enjoyed the pity and the kindly hattery
that the neighbors bestowed upon MIN.
Wandering over a strip Of barrens
that lay to the south. Lew had ire
quently stopped to talk with Jacob ana
Liza Inglehart. They we're brother
and sister, and we're little dark, silent
creatures, shy and hardworking, VINO
we're making a good farm in the midst
Of the charred pine trunks. Without
funds they were forging a livelihood
for themselves from ground that other
men considered to be mere waste. They
worked like pillow horses early and late,
and they went nowhere, spent no
money except for n~ecessaries, and
spoke to few.
Lew saw his chance for a dramatic
and prudential stroke. He made violent
love to the amazed Liza, o her con-
sent to a marriage, and was installed in
the forbidding shack occupied by the
Ingleharts.
What a dark. wretched little thing
Liza is" all Of Lewis sisters made
plant. as they sat around, handsome
and disheveied in their rags. But Liza
wore no rags. She made herself gay
little calico frocks, in which she look
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Of life, while the wood furnishes the
framework of their dome-shaped huts.
BY M

1t Has Become = Common Practice in
Aristocratic London Cafes.
while / was in London last
month" said a New Orleans broker
who has just returned from a trip
across the big pond, Il was greatly
surprised at the number of women
saw smoking in public. OF course, n
can always see that sort Of thing in
the bohemiat resorts and the cafes
patronized c8iehy by folks from the
continent, bh it was something Of a
shock to bump into it at such estab-
lishments as the Savoy and the Hotel
Cecil. In both places, and three or
foul other 9 9ally aristocratic, l saw
society women putting cigarettes as
coolly as chaRpies at a roof garden. The
-saeatasleAs saARan-thgt It has
ceased to attract any attention, and
it was tolerably evident that the ladies
who were indulging did so because
they liked it, and not merely to be
eccentric. / dropped into the Cafe Roy
al one evening with a London friend
and we were shown to seats in the
large public dining room not far from
what vas evidently a theater party Of
eight or nine people. They were just
concluding a late supper, and one Of
the ladies, who was the picture Of ell
egant refinement, and by no means In
her first youth, produced a jeweled
cigarette case and passed it around.
In a moment everybody wal smok-
ing. The lady was the American wife
Of a somewhat noted London club man,
and was formerly a conspicuous figure
in Philadelphia society. l mention the
incident merely to illustrate the prev
alence Of the habit, which reminds me,
by the way, chat the London of to-day
is very different from the London Of
eight or ten years ago. There is every
where a marked accession of gayety
and sprightliness; n notices 1t in the
shop displays, the theaters, The restau-
rants. and the aspects Of the crowds
at night. and the city in general has
much more the air and manner Of
the great capitals Of the continent.
The change is particularly noticeable
to an i%nfrequent visitor like myself
New Orleans Times-D Democrat.
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ed uglier than in more somber gar
ments. She shaved and did not mind
the Shaving. And Lew followed her
about with a hoe in his hand and look
ed loving and melancholy.
The comedy ended merrily. The Fem
nings at the parental home continued
to lose caste. Their laziness became a
byword and a scomng, and at last they
were suspected OF asslmulating the
chickens from their neighbours yards.
But as they continued to laugh as loud
as ever, 1t must be inferred that they
did not suner the pangs Of remorse.
But down at the Inglehart farm in
the barrens all went well. Lew had
taste and he made suggestions, and the
two little earth worms, dark and dour,
his wife and her brother, followed
these suggestions faithfully. He was
a sort Of necromaneer whom they. evil
worms OF the soil. were under obliga-
lions to obey. Paint appeared upon
the shack. vines elamored up its sides,
curtains -draped the windows. Lew,
who could drive m~agnihcently with one
hand, swelled into town on a green
wagon, drawn by two big roans-Which
belonged to Jacob Inglehart. The bank
account was kept in Lewis name. Lew
Joined the church. and sat we'll up in
front, holding his head high. Jacob
and Liza dropped shyly beside him,
apologize and WOrk-Worn. But Lew
never ceased to look melancholy.
He was stili pitied as he walkd
about the fields at his wife's heels.
holding his hoe in his hand.
Lew Fenning has executive abil-
ity," decided the n~eighbors. seeing how
he prospered. Hes brought himself
and the Ingleharts right up In the
world. Just think what he might have
made Of himself II he'd only had a fair
chancei"
But Pa Fenning and all the brothers
Fenning roared with great roars Of
laughter.
Lew knew what he was about when
he lost his arm" they would say. II
vas a perennial joke. OF which they
never tired. what II Lew had had
two handsl He'd have been OK no
more account than the rest Of us.
Now-why. now, they talk OF running
him for pathmasterl"
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oIvEN ovER 10 DRuNKENNEss

Frenohmen Consume More Ardent
Spirits Than Any other People.
From the New York Press: Among
the many signs of %decadence in France
is the fact that the nation whose pee
pie used to be held up to all others
as an example Of abstemiousness-
and still is by the uninformed-is the
~drunkenest on earth, or, at least, Of
record. Mr.. Bloch, in investigating
the fitness of the various European
powers for future war, collated the
figures and found that while thirty-six
'Austrians, forty Germans, f0fly-six-
Englishmen, forty-seven Italians and
fifty Russians to the million die from
the effects Of drink, the number OF
Frenchmen was ninety-fve. OF almost
twice that of any other nationality.
The only approach to the alcoholic ex-
cess Of the Gaul was that Of his broth
er the Belgian, whom drink kills at
the rate Of se~venty-six to the million.
Moreover, in the consumption Of spir-
its these closely related nations were
the only ones to show an increase in
the consumption in a period Of twenty
years. MI. Bloch found that 100 Rus
SLAMS drank thirty-hve vedra, each
vedra equaling 2.70 gallons, Of spirits
in 1868 and twenty-nine in 1883, every
100 Austrians thirty-two in 1868 and
twenty-nine in 1888, every 100 Ger
mans thirty-four and thirty-three in
the respective years and every 100
Englishmen twenty-four and twenty
two. But the France which was stiIl
abstemious in the last days Of the en-
pire fairly took to besotting itself un-
der the republic. Its consumption rose
from twenty vedra a 100, the lowest in
Europe, to thirty-one, almost the high
est. simultaneously the Belgian con-
sumption rose from the moderate rate
Of twenty-five to thirty-eight, the very
highest.
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nut milk, or from bracklsh springs.
This probably accounts for the drink
ing restrictions applied to King TUT.
The largest cocoanuts Of the world
are grown on Manua island, according
TO A. b. Sternberger, who once visited
It as special agent in behalf Of the
state department. The great shells are
used as water vessels. The natives.
although Ch~ristlanized like their ruler.
are very primitive and have little in
tercourse with the outer world. They
carry oil and copra In open boats 10
Apia or Page Page for barter.
All Of these new possessions are free
from dangerous animals. In the
mountains exist a few wild dogs. be-
lieved to be descendants Of domestic
species left by visiting sailors. Wild
hogs also roam in herds In the forests,
and the natives say that they antedato
the hrst white visitors. Other fauna
r the vampire bat. the dying fox.
sometimes four feet from tip 70 tip
Of wings. and the remarkable tooth
bin pigeon, with three teeth upon each
side Of is lower mandible. The prin-
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and they assiduously hired them-even
against their will.

and they assiduously hired them-even
against their viii.
Lew Fenning alone escaped the stig-
ma Of confirmed laziness. But this was
not because Lew did anything. Not
at all. He did less than the rest.
But he was possessed Of only one arm,
having lost the other in a thrashing
machine. The fact that he lost it in
that manner was a great triumph for
the Jennings, as a family Of deserters
would feel itself indicated by a victim
Of the battle front. so the lazy Fen
nings plumed themselves upon this dis
aster. incurred in the days work. Nay.
more. they secretly regarded it as a
sort of warning. They opined that II
was indeed a dull man who failed to
recognize the penalties attached to in
dustry.
The Jennings, as has been said, were
all Of good stature. but Lew was larger
than the average, and when he leaned
against a fence rail. or ~squatted upon
the ground. watching other men at
their toll, his face wore a melancholy
expression.
I'D like to help you out II / could,
BiXby," he would say to one Of his
prosperous neighbors. Nothing would
give me more pleasure than to help you
in with them potatoes"
Il know It. Lew" Farmer Bixby
would reply, feelingly. Il know just
how you feel. and sympathize with
you"
Not infrequently Lew took a job Of
hoeing potatoes. or raking up leaves,
OF pruning trees. or pulling weeds. For
some Of these tasks only one hand
would have been employed even by a
man with the full equipment, but this
was forgotten by Lewis sympathizers.
They saw only the pathos Of his con-
dition.
There goes a mar that would have
made something Of himself" the farm
ers would say nights as Lew left them
to trudge down the sandy road TO his
home, III only he could have had a
fair show"
At home the great bare living-r0om
was thronged with smoking men. PA
Fenning smoked where he lay in bed.
aud an his stalwart sons smoked and
the women chewed gum. They were
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been corrupted by Mohammedanism.
Though C%hristianized by persistent
missionaries since 1880, they retain
their crude beliefs in NEUROLOGICAL
history. The greater number are
P~resbyterlans, a few Wesleyans and a
few Roman Catholics.
Women are equal to men, except In
government. The father aids the
mother IN the care Of children and the
preparation Of food. We may have q
little trouble stamping out polygamy,
still practiced to some extent on the
ely. although no man lives with nor
than one wife az a time. When he
tires OF one spouse he calmly packs
her on 10 her mother and takes an
other. Although the Tutuilans can
build barricaded war canoes, holding
two hundred men, can throw up earth
works and use firearms. they can be
kept IN order by a small garrison IN
time Of threatening trouble. The re-
puted savagery and blOodthirstlnesB OF
these people caused their island until
late years 30 be always avoided BY
ships going 10 Samoa. Information
ooIsctod BY the missionaries, however,
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MEN HELP TO NURSE M COOK IN SAMOA.

a travelling party Of natives from Upo-
lou. The place is still known as Mas
sacre bay, and the Tutuilans have al
ways received credit for the crime.
The Samoan partition added to our
list Of p%otentate subjects a real live
king, who will probably be treated
with the same policy as applied to the
sultan Of Sulu. This king, TUT Manua,
rules over the island of Manua, or
Tau, as it is often called, the largest Of
a small group of three islands, sixty
miles east of Tutuila. Although Ma
nua was classed among the Samoan
group, the native subjects Of King
TUT have always made their own laws
and have kept to themselves.
Their p%otentate, although a Chris
tian, is not permitted to walk, to drink
water, nor battle in the sea. Were he
to violate this rule some dire misfor-
tAne would be sure to befall his people.
1T is ysaidathat the royal families OF
Samoa on hEffy sprung front MguOaE
ing TUT therefore prides himself on
HIS blue blood. Manua is one hundred
square miles in area, or less than half
the size of Tutuila. Tau, the residence
Of his majesty, is situated on the west
coast. Manua rises like a great dome
to an elevation Of 1000 feet, but is
skirted by a belt of fiat land covered
with %cocoanuts, while the mountains
are prolific in b~readfruit trees and
bananas. There being no fresh water
on the island the people drink cocoa
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
This is what the boy wrote about the
~dachshund: The ~dockshound is a dog
Notwithstanding appeerencis. He has
fore legs, two in front an two behind.
an they amt on speekin' terms. /
wunst made a dockshound out Of a
cowcumber an fore matchis, an It
lookt as. nacheral as life. Dockshounds
is farely intelligent %considerin' thare
shaip. Thare brains bein' so far away
from thare tales it bothers them sum
to wag the lattur. 1 wunst moo a
dOckshound who wuz too impashunt
to waite till he Good signal the hole
length Of his boldly when he wanted
to wag his tale. so he maid it up with
his tale thet when he wanted It to
wag he would shake his rite ear, an
when the tale seen 1t shake It wood
wag. But as fer me, gimme a bull pup
with a peddygree."
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-
ounta's Inspiration wa His rative
roit-sonrs and Danos-Hhythma
Russian music Is the s%trangest para
dor-it owes more TO the music OF
other countries than any other school,
vet no music IS more thoroughly indie
vidual and u~nmistakable. says the Con-
temporary Review. Il clothes itself
after the form and fashion Of its neigh
bors. but beneath it's sarb peeps out
a p~hysiognomy Individually Slavonic.
Sixty years ago there was no Russian
school Of music, properly speaking;
then suddenly Il sprang into being.
The man who first turned with serious
intent to the pent-up musical resources
Of his own country was Michael Ivano-
witch Glinka Q804-185D. He had suf-
fcient strength of purpose 10 carry out
his designs-he became the founder Of
the modern Russian school Of music
and the father Of Russian opera. In
spite Of all apparent contradictions
and anomalies, Gllnka's life work and
tendencies were the natural results Of
events; his course was directed by the
tide Of circumstances, as a brief study
of Russian history will show. He
did for Russian music what his con
temporary, Pouschkin, did for Russian
literature, each in his W department
representing a national movement
Perhaps it is not too far-fetched a
theory to trace this movement to the
momentous date Of 1912, when It fell
to the lot Of Russia to administer the
first check to Napoleon's triumphant
career. To have repulsed a Napoleon
was a mighty deed, which could reveal
to the Russians Of what stun they
we're made. Glinka, Pouschkin and
their followers sought no foreign aid;
they represent a Russian renaissance.
They were content, indeed, to abide by
the forms universally adopted else
where, but the spirit of their art man
Hesitation was Russian to its II In
literature, P~ouschkin and Gogol were
never weary Of delineating their COM
patriots in every grade Of Slavonic So
ciety, while Glinka took his musical
inspirations from his native folk-sOngs
and dance-rhythms-from the historic
chronicles of his country or it's legend
airy lore. In reality, the foreign infu-
ences and environment with which he
came SO continuously in contact served
more and more to convince him that
Russia in her turn had as great a mis-
sion in music as any other nation. For
thirty years the idea was gradually
gaining strength in his mind. Il want"
he said to a friend, Ito write an essen
TALLY national opera ola Vie pour lie
Tsar), both as regards subject and
music; something which no foreigner
can possibly accuse Of being borrowed,
and which shall come home to my
compatriots as a part Of themselves"
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THE JENNINGS.

There were ten Of the Jennings
counting pa and ma. Pa. unhapplly.
was bedridden. and the nature Of his
complaint can be best described as a
chronio disinciination to getting up.
Some hours were too early, and then
again some hours were too late. II
simplided matters to lie stlil and let
the sun attend to its own business. II
knew how to get up and 10 so down
without n concern on the part OF
Pa Fenning.
Ma fleming kept more abreast with
the times-knew when to get break
fast, could approximate the dinner
hour, and knew at what season Of the
year Il was best to set hens. Her Ave
sons and three daughters had grown
up around her-an inadvertence on
their parts which necessitated the bak-
ing Of sixteen loaves at a time in
stead Of ten, which was the require
ment when they we're younger. Where
the Jennings got the -four for the
baking was a mystery the neighbor-
hood over, for when It came to common
toll the Jennings assumed the airs Of
a privileged class. II the times we're
hurried it was nj fault Of theirs. II
the labor market was o~verstocked they
were not to blame. A medieval peace
rested upon their spirits.
They argued that 1t was not worth
while to raise fruit, because that didn't
pay, and the country was poor for
wheat and not good for orr. Vege-
tables we're well enough for garden
sauce" for the family, but not worth
carting to market. So agriculture was
looked at askance by them. as for
the trades. who does not know that
the ranks are full? The professions
but the Jennings knew nothing about
the professions.
Physically they were all well devel-
oped. and though they moved slowly
they gave the impression Of remarka-
BILE strength. Sometimes they had Civ
en- evidences Of this strength in wrest-
ling bouts at county fairs; and now
and then on a wager at barn movings
or something Of that sort.
The Jennings hired out reluctantly
to do small Jobs about the neighbor-
hood, and their laziness was a by
word. But the neighbors disliked the
ideG of having any one starve to death,