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Bartleti's Island.

Bartiett's Island.
The rain of Friday has again stopped
farming, until the water drains off.
L. A. LAWYER, OF Southwest Harbor, was
on the island last Sunday, making a short
call on friends.
Schooner dolphin, Capt. Abel Bart
lett, has arrived from Indian Hsr Dor
where Capt. Bartlett is building a weir.
Capt. George Ray ana Oliver Robinson,
of Ellsworth, in the Express, stopped
in the cove over Sunday, and called on
friends here.
Mrs. F. g. Bartlett and son Emery
went to Ellsworth that cold Thursday,
and found that January weather in May
was rather uncomfortable.
May 10. B.
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Surrs.
Aston Milliken, after being confined to
his room by painful illness several
weeks, is able to be out.
Samuel T. kitiield has sold his home
stead and pasture land to Martin A.
Shs pieig b. and moved to Oriand.
While at Ellsworth few days ago, II.
ID. Jordan OF West Surry, had a slight
paralytic shock, and had to be assisted to
MS home. He has not ful recovered,
huG is able to ride cut.
May II. q.
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PORTLAND.
PORTLAND. MAINE.

deep water, the tide being in. One OF the
boys rushed to the house and informed
Mr.. Clark, who hurried to the water,
waded out as far as he could, then swan
to the boys assistance, saving him after
/ e had sunk twice, and in an unconscious
condition. The boy was taken to the
residence of o. W. kittredge and revived.
May q. ii.
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South f,ancocN.

South Eancoek.
John Kelley and family have moved 20
their FORMER hcme in Homer. y
Rev. Mr.. Avery will conduct Memorial
services at the church, sunday morning
at 1890
r. H. YaunS j. taking his first trip Of
the season Is Tmnk pond guide for =
party from Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hefen Crabtree, " 10 resided in
.Roxbury, Mass, during the winter, has
returned 10 her home. She was accom-
panied by her son Howard, who will
spend two weeks here.
May n. w.
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Fremont.
Lest Friday Eben b Clark rescued from
drowning Charles FArley's youngest boy
fhe boy WAS playing on the dyke dan
With some other boys and slipping fell in
The current swept him at once out into
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Lsmotn--
The measles is quite well scattered
around town, but there are no sever.
cases.
Rev. w. P. Richardson, pastor OF the
Baptist church in Enfield, is a guest at
the parsonage. MIR. Richardson occupied
the pulpit Sunday morning and evening.
Mrs. W. II. Rice and daughter Edith
are at their home in Lsmoine. Mr.. Rice
is in Gouldsboro but will join his family
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COUNTY NEWS.
rRIRrrE OF A scHooLMArE.

TRIBUTE OF SCHooLNATE.
Concerning Humphrey Saunders, for
merly OF this place, whose death at Stew
ardson, Ill.,, was reported in THE ANERI-
CAN recently, A. II. Dresser, of 0rlan6,
former schoolmate, writes;
another schoolmate is gone. He and the
writer were natives of North Buehiil where we
lived and grew to manhood within mile of
each other. schoolmates, we almost invariably
sat together in one of the middle back seats of
the well.temembered old schoolhouse where
strugg ed together on the knotty problems in
Grecnliefs National arithmetic
The sea had strong attractions for him and
he made several trips to the Grand Banks. On
his return from the Banks one season, when GO
ing in swimming in Northern bay pond was in
vogue. he Joined the crowd and learned to swim.
saying IS he was going to be on the water so
much, it might be of use to him The very next
season it probably saved his life. AZ he was
going aloft one day ratlin parted. and he went
overheard, but the skill he had acquired the
year before enabled him to swim and get hold
of rope that hung conveniently near. The
vessel was at anchor. but there was no one on
decS at the time, so he saved himself by his own
unaided exertions. He afterward went long
voyages, at one time going up the Mediter
ranean. Later he was wrecked on Silver Bank.
W L., where the crew had to take to the boats In
which they we're several days before being
picked up His wife was with him at this time.
"Up to this time he had been making strong
exertions to qualify himself to go master at the
first convenient opportunity. but this shipwrecs
seemed TO havea discouraging effect. He gave
up the sea. and soon after went West to Illinois
where he became prominent. holding the Office
of high sheriff for some time. He enter
prising. honest and trustworthy. and Is said TO
have left quite a valuable property.
''Ot the large class of the early hfties In school
district Ne. 6. North Bluehili, he was one Of the
II ere handful of schoolmates now remaining"
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soon. He has just closed two years.
pastorate at Larrab bee. Their many
friends are glad to see them once more.
May 81.
East Lanuinr.
Farming is at stsndstiil, owing to
damp weather.
The Rivervlew local union met with the
Y.Ps. {. f. here Wednesday. May is.
Three csrgoes OF hay have been shipped
from here to Bar Efsrbor during the past
week from J. a. reters' farm.
Mr.. Freeman, proprietor of Shore Acres,
arrived Saturday to commence his duties.
All are glad to welcome him again.
May 81. III.
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TIE AMERICAN has subscribers at 100
0 tae Jost-oBiees in Hancock county;
all the faer papers In the county COM
btned do ,.ot reach so many. THE AMIR
lcAN l. Hot the only paper printed in
adncock county. and has nerer claimed to
be, but II IS the only paper that can prop
srty be Gated a COUNTY paper; all the
rest are merely local papers. The circutd-
tson OF THE AMERICAN, barring the Bar
Hurbor Records summer list, Is larger
than thai OF al the other papers printed
IN Hancock county.
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May 10.

Vest Sullivan.
DIR. w. l.. Haskell and Frank Havey
were in Portland last week.
Mrs. Cassie Murch Bunker. OF Franklin,
spent last week with her parents.
X. F. Gerrish left Monday for Eilsw ort h
where he will be employed in h. W.
Dunu's stone shed.
The new station at Waukeag will be a
ch-aeeded and well-appreciaied accom-
modation to the people from this side.
Plans are being made for fitting Memo
mortal Day exercises at Pythisn ball.
Bedford Z. Tracy Will deliver the address,
and the Winter Harbor band will furnish
the music.
May u. @.
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PauDer Notice.

THE undersigned hereby gives nouce that ne
= mas contracted with the City of Ellsworth for
and has made ample provision for their SUPPORT
He therefore forbifs all persons from furnisnino
supplies 70 any Pauper on bis account, as without
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North RrooksNiIie.
Miss Zsdie Green is i'll with the grip.
Mrs. Charles Parker has gone to Port
land to visit her sisters.
Mrs. George Dodge, OF Deer Isle, is he
guest OF John Dodge and wife.
Harry Grindle has returned from Surry,
and moved into one of Everett Douglass
houses.
Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Walter Doyle, May IL, Emily Green, wife
of James Green, aged seventy years. The
funeral was held Sunday, the 18th;
sermon by Rev. J. s. Richards. pastor OF
the Congregational church. In early life
she married Loring Young, of Surry. By
their union ten children we're born, aud
nine survive her. The interment WAS
Surry.
May = A K e.
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West fremont.
L. w. Rumitl is to work on the road
with his team.
Mrs. Zolna 5. Clark has gone to Sea-
wall to visit her sister. Mrs. Myra Had
lock.
Capt. Albion Murphy expects to leave
here TINS week to take charge of his yacht
IN Boston.
Russell LsCount, who has been in the
training station in Newport, r. l., came
home last week.
w. A. Clark, Basil Lunt and Asbury
Lopaus have gone to work in the govern
ment employ on Libby's Island.
Capt. George Murphy spent a week
with his family. While at home he had
some work done ON his house, Edward A.
Lunt doing the work.
Owing to slight accident to the pro-
peller of the steamer "Creedmore", which
carries he herring for the ssrdine factory
OF this place, the fishing sloop "Pilgrim"
emit to Bar Hart Dor for load.
May Il. THELMA.
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Gouidsboro


George Perry is i'll.
Mrs. Anne Handy, who has been Ill, is
improving.
Jacob Mayo, of Southwest Harbor, was
IN town Saturday.
Elmer Gordon has gone to Milbridge to
work in the sardine factory.
The schooner Lizzie and Annie" is in
the bay loading with slaves.
Miss Eta Foss, adopted daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 5. Rolfe, died Sunday
May 20. She has been i'll for more than a
year. Her age was twenty five years and
six months.
The sardine steamer &c. P. Corners,
which has been repaired here, will leave
for Southwest Hsrbor this week. y. H.
Sowle is captain, and Lewis Dicks, Of
Holden. engineer.
May 81. JEN.
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

Pretoria, the Russian strategist says
that its taking would compel the Brit
ish to advance far into the interior,
away from their stores, and the be-
siegers would then become the besieged
and die of hunger; and more troops
would be required for the siege OF the
Iransvaal capital than England can
raise. With the Boer forces estimated
at 10000, England would need more
than the 100000 to be sent, for the At
ricanders in Cape Colony and Natal
would likely join the republicans. In
any event England is in sad plight,
and little sympathy is felt for the pug
nacious bully in Europe or America.
AS John Dillon declared in parliament,
"She stands to-day not in splendid but
in disgraceful isolation" and she can
not get any aid from the United States
She forced this war upon brave peo-
pie for the sake of filthy lucre and it
has so far resulted in her ignominious
defeat. From every point OF view, she
can never overcome the sturdy farmers
Of the veldt.-
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

The Peoria Journal has recently
changed hands and is not so pro-Brit-
ish as it used to be under the former
management. In recent issue it SEN
sibly says: ut is no exaggeration to
say that so far as the war in South AZ
RIGA has progressed the Beers have out
generated and outfought the British.
The fact that the Beers have been ell
trenched, while the British have made
the assaults, has nothing to do with the
truth of this assertion, because the Brit
isll should have fully understood that
this was the situation-that it was I'M
der these conditions that the war must
be carried on. That they provoked the
war and went into it totally unpre-
pared, and that its conduct since has
been of the character that it has been,
has inflicted a blow on the standing of
Great Britain from which it will take
her many years to recover. 1t is not,
therefore, proper under the circum-
stances to assert that the Beers belong
to the medieval age, and that Great
Britain is the progressive factor in the
situation over in South Africa. Judged
by results, of which modern warfare
forms part, this is not the truth"
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

The British navy is obsolete. Some
of the battleships are old and have old
guns which are practically of no use.
One vessel is thirty-four years old and
worthless; eight are thirty years old
and armed with muzzle-loaders; eight
are from twenty to Twenty-Five years
old, armed the same way. Deducting
these seventeen good-for-nothing bat
tleships, there are left only fifty-three
effective ones. The English navy does
not possess single cruiser of twenty
three knots or over, and none is likely
to be ready for three years. The num-
Der of efficient armored cruisers at
England's command is twenty-three.
She has one hundred and sixteen pro-
tective cruisers, sixteen coast defense,
thirty-fve torpedo boats, ninety-seven
torpedo gunboats and one hundred and
eight destroyers. Her navy is not so
formidable as many suppose.
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

The English jingoes continually
boast OF a great navy OF o6o ships, but
what avails it in the war with the
Beers? Naval experts think that Eng
lands navy is no better than its army in
the day OF trial Lord Beresford does
not think highly of it, and he ought to
know. Lecky, the historian, does not
think it invinciblc He says: There
was a time when the naval strength OF
England enabled her to defy the entire
world; but that time has passed for
ever. A coalition OF great powers, a
single unsuccessful battle-a scientific
discovery monopolized by her oppon-
cnts, might destroy her empire of the
seas and leave her coasts open to in
vasion.' We venture to say that in the
event of a war between the United
States and England, her Wanted fleet
would be wiped out OF existence by a
Dewey and Schley. In 1872 her
navy was defeated on ocean and lake
by Perry and Lawrence.
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

The Chicago Chronicle makes sarcas-
tic allusion to Minnesota statesman
in the following manner: 1t is much
to be deplored that the Hon. "Cush"
Davis, the astute and willy dipomat,
who, according to his own admission,
*done up old Sagasta" at Paris, should
have come off second best in an ell
counter with the Hon. Billboard Mason
over The Hague peace treaty. That
the strabismical statesman who bought
a full-hedged instruction on the in
stallment plan should be forced into
corner and practically convicted OF ly-
ing by Col. McWhorter's late opponent
is one of the most depressing circum-
stances developed during the present
session of congress. The Hon. "Cush"
Davis should address himself with re-
doubled energy to the study of the life
and works of the late BENJAMIN F.
Butler, whom he prides himself upon
resembling. "My enemies" declared
Gen. Butler upon one occasion, "have
almost exhausted the vocabulary of
villifcation upon me, but am proud to
say that they have never charged me
with being d-n fool.' There seems
to be some reason to fear that the
Hon. "Cush" Davis will not be able
to repeat upon his own account the
declaration of his chosen model.
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

root of any other real unity. Faith
without works is dead so is unity
without works. Let us wait and see
against whom and what the new policy
OF combat is to be directed.
Two things have to be made clear at
once, No true United Irish Lacquer
has a shadow of personal hostility to
any individual member OF the party
merely because he voted with Mr.. Red
mond or Mr.. Healy or Mr. Dillon in
those tiresome and half-forgotten con-
troversies OF old. Nobody dreams OF
asking any constituency to reject a
man who is now genuinely and cor
daily friend OF unity and discipline,
merely because he took the side of this
leader or that in quarrels that are past
and gone. Constituencies will judge
their members not as Dillonites, Red
mondites, or Healyites, but as men
fitted-or unftted-ior the work Of
loyal and united national service in the
future
But every member Of the party, be
his color or section what it may, will
have to submit himself to the judgment
OF his constituents, not in reference to
the merits of this section or of that sec
ton, but in reference to his own merits
and fitness. Any attempt to force the
country to swallow without question
the whole body OF her present repre-
sentatives-and the remark is equally
true of all sections-wil be sternly re-
sented and put down by the people.
Members will have to be judged one by
one, not as party or a section; and
according as men do or do not display
in action the spirit manifested by Mr..
Redmond between this and the general
election will be the verdict of the con-
stituencies.
Meantime, the one supreme lesson of
the situation is that as the organiza-
ton of the people alone has brought us
thus far, the continuation and redouble-
ment of that organization alone can
bring lis further
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

A British officer of experience writes
to London paper and says that the
class of society from which the army
officers are drawn is distinctly degen-
crate, due to lack of intellectual training
and the dissipation and vice of the ar
istocracy." He suggests as the only
remedy for developed idiots" an inter-
marriage with the healthy middle
classes. And these are the emasculated
fellows that American heiresses have
been marrying for titles.
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17
THE POWER OF THB PEOPLE.

1t is generally understood by Irish
men at home and abroad that the
United Irish League, and not the war
in South Africa, is the instrument by
which unity in the Irish parliamentary
party was brought about. Mr.. VIM.
O. Brien, the founder of the great or
ganization, has the following article in
the latest issue to hand of the Irish
People, which is we'll worthy OF pc
rusal:
The agreement patched up by the
three parliamentary sections is con-
siderable triumph for the United Irish
League, and will stimulate the extern
sion of the organization to every quar-
ter OF the country. Everybody knows
that If the country had remained unor-
gained the agreement, such as it is,
among the parliamentary leaders would
never have come off. Everybody knows
that if that agreement is to be contin-
ued and to have any reality it can only
be by making the organized power of
the people more widespread and more
formidable than ever If Messrs. Dill
Ion, Redmond and Healy have really
settled their quarrels the country will
unfeignedly rejoice. But there is need
of exercising wise caution as we'll as
large charity. The country will re-
quire some guarantee of the sincerity
and the continuance OF the new Treaty
OF Peace. The only real guarantee
available is the presence of an organ
ization OF the people impartial enough
to be independent of all the sections,
and strong enough to impress them all.
The Irish party is not reconstructed
as it was constituted from 1885 to 1890
by the mere passing of resolution.
All that actually happens in conse-
quencc is that nine additional members
join scventy-two members who have
been a nominally United Party and a
nominally pledged party for the last ten
years, but who, VIGOROUSLY and scan
dalously, have been the opposite OF all
that. The country is willing to hope
that the agreement this time may go
deeper than the lips. But that can only
be by the continuance and redouble-
mcnt of popular pressure; and in the
meanwhile, having regard to all that is
past, the country will have to take its
precautions and to maintain its re-
serves.
The essence Of the united Parnellite
party was not eighty men meeting in a
room and conducting themselves de-
Gently under the eye OF the press. That
is well, but it is not all. The strength
and the life OF the united Parnellite
party was definite policy, strict dis
cipline. loyal comradeship, and inces-
SAINT fight; and until we have those
qualities again, not merely protested
but displayed in action, the country
will take leave to reserve its enthusiasm
and go steadily on with its own work
of popular unity, which must be the
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17
mainly true. Among other things he

10 NldliIly true. among Otner tnlnRS ne
says:
"He gets fl, or S. week, with vari-
GUS increases for one thing or another.
His board is paid and his clothes are
made by the government he serves so
well. After his period in training
school he has little to do. One short
drill day in village barracks, where
from four to ten men live, for the po-
lice are scattered through every town
and village in Ireland. He saves
money and helps the old folks. He
comes home now and then and talks
with new accent, reads the paper and
discourses f1uently upon political mat
tiers. He wears kid gloves and silk
hat, whereas had he stuck to the farm
he would be shutting along in frcizc
and hobnails, with giant callouscs on
his palms, or carrying the hod if he
went to America. Yes, it is a good
job, and he likes it. He does not
bother himself about freedom as long
as he is we'll fed and clothed and has
some money laid by"
The Orangeman who writes in that
strain in the St. Louis Republic OF the
loyalty Of the Irish policemen to the
British government does not seem to
realize that in successful revolution
every man of them with Celtic blood in
his veins would cast his lot with his
own kith and kin. The Irish policemen
cannot be trusted when it comes to the
point of shooting down their own
brothers and relatives. The British
government has not yet tested their
loyalty to the full. Only the Orange
portion of them could be trusted in an
emergency wherein there was an even
chance for Ireland to win independ-
ence. That emergency has not arisen
during the existence of the constabu-
larry force. 1t is to the credit of the
Irish policemen that they will not vol
unteer for the South African war.
AS regards Miss Come her revolu-
tionary utterances either at home or in
America should not be taken seriously
at this time. Women have done al
most irreparable injury to the Irish
cause. Derforguill the guilty wife OF
the prince OF Brefny, and Kitty OShea.
the no less guilty wife OF Charles Stew
art Parnell, have brought shame and
sorrow to Erin. Let not Maud Come
be permitted to bring dire disaster on
the suffering isle by precipitating it into
war prematurely. No sensible Irish
man will pay any attention to her ap-
peals i'll behalf OF physical force until
there is better opportunity of not
only Gripping England, but of destroy
ing her power in Ireland forever. An
abortive Instruction is criminal. The
people must be organized and armed
and properly differed before success
can be achieved. Therefore let Maud
Come dismount from her Bucephalus
and restrain her martial impetuosity.
Let her confne herself to a denuncia-
ton OF British rascality in her native
land and keep eloquently silent on rev.
outionary outbreaks while the enemy
is at peace with all the world outside of
South Africa. Hysterical cries for ven
geance on England may elicit applause
from enthusiastic sons and daughters
OF the Green Isle, but they only bring
forth smiles and sneers from the mat
ter-of-fact people OF the United States.
The Irish standard., 1900-02-17

Says the Chicago Tribune, McKin-
ley organ of imperialism, in a burst of
candor: 1T is true that the Repub-
lican party as an organization has got
itself into position where it cannot
express sympathy for the Beers with
out condemning itself. But the rank
and file of the party are not so ham,
pered. Great numbers of them are in
hearty sympathy with those who are
fighting for their political existence in
the two South African republics"