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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-11-21

fHE AMERIc.sS has xi.5scribers at JOG
a. the II5 posi-oGceS in Hancock county;
81 the other papers IN the county COM
5sned do not reach so mann. The AMER
ICAN ~ not the ontu paper printed in
Hancock county. ana has aeuer claimed to
BE, bat u IS the only paper that CON prop
riy De called COUNTY paper; all the
rest are merely local papers. The ciTcula-
Non of IHE AMERICAN. barring the Bar
0drbor Records summer list, 10 larger
thar that Of all the other papers printed
IN Hancock county.
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Pretty Marsh.
The Sunday school and its friends have
purchased new organ for the school
house.
Capt. Edward Rumiil is at home for a
short visit before leaving for a winters
voyage.
B. F. Carter has purchased the Crowley
farm and will move in this week. j. E..
Cooper, who has been living there, has
moved into the F. P. Freeman house.
Valorus Gray has bought a farm at
North Penobscot and will move there this
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COUNTY NEWS.
A- additional County Ne,cs ses other pages
Franklin.

Franklin.
The dinner and supper served by the
ladies in their rooms at the Baptist church
Tuesday, were success financially and
socially. Proceeds go towards painting
the parsonage. The officers of the ladies'
aid society were chosen for year as
follows: President, Mrs G. W. Remission;
vice. president, Mrs. G. II. Rutter; secre-
tary and treasurer, Mrs. 8. A. Card.
Nov 70 j,
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Vest Hancock.
Mrs. Maud Googins is visiting her
brother at Jonesport.
Mrs. Mary r. Butler has gone to her
home in New Bedford, Mass.
Mr.. Hopkins and family who have been
living on the Hosea Phillips place near
tue Junction, have moved to Ellsworth.
The Rev. Herbert Shute, a former resi-
dent OF this place but who has been for
some time preaching in Vermont, is at
home for visit.
Henry Milliken has gone to Hancock,
where he will fill the position OF station
agent: He has been employed at the
Nicoiin station during the past two years.
Nov. IS. SuMAc.
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Vest Sullivan.
f. c. Gordon and wife are i'll.
Henry Forsythe went to Boston Mon
day.
There is very bad dog distemper in
town.
There was housewarming at Fred
Havey's last week.
Frank Springer has just closed long
term of school in Eastbrook.
A football team has been organized.
The boys expect to play the Bar Har Dor
team soon.
Mr.. Littlefield OF Bangor, is expected to
teach a singing school here If sixty pupils
can be secured.
Florence Pease came home from East
brook Saturday, having successfully closed
her first term OF school.
Capt. G. ID. Blake is engaged in repair
ing the damage done to the boats at Sor-
rento during the recent high tides.
Guy Miller and Roscoe Carter have gone
to Georgia to cut stone. Several other
cutters have found employment in the
woods. There is no sign OF a settlement
Of the strike before spring.
Nov 49, q
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Charles sprsgue and wife began house,
keeping Monday in the cottage erected
by Eugene Bunker this summer.
The ladies OF the Baptist circle will
serve their suppers every other Tuesday
night in their rooms the coming winter.
A. L. Fernald and LOWE Bragdon have
returned from North Jay, where they
have been employed cutting stone for the
past three months.
Union Thanksgiving services will be
held at West Franklin church in the
afternoon and continued in the evening
at the Baptist church at the village by a
Thanksgiving jubilee.
The c. Z. rally at West Franklin We'd
nesday was well attended. The question
box was conducted by Rev. II. F. Day.
There was a very interesting address in
the evening by Rev. w. II. PowleslaDd.
G. II. Rutter who went to Lawrence,
Mass, about two weeks ago to visit his
brother and to receive treatment, is said to
be improving. His many friends hope he
may soon ret urn much improved in health.
Mrs. Damon arrived by train Saturday
evening, and joined her husband, DR..
Damon, wi no has been having q successful
practice here this fall. They will begin
housekeeping in the rooms in readiness
in Mrs. BlaisdelFs house.
J. E. Dunn came from Millinocket
Saturday to dispose Of stock here, and
make necessary arrangements to return
| there for the winter. All are glad to
learn that his daughter Clara, who has
been very il! with malarial fever at Mill
| inocket, is out again.
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COUNTY NEWS.

Deer Iste.
Capt. Wits Scott arrived home We'd
nesdsy.
William Dow arrived home from yacht
ing Saturday.
Mrs. Fred w. Beck arrived home from
Portland Wednesday.
Capt. Charles Greeniaw arrived home
Thursday from Merose.
II. Fl. Pressey and daughter Linnie ar
rived home from Boston Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. IL. J. Pickering, who left
town Monday on a trip to Boston, arrived
home Saturday.
Schooner "Hattie Collins, Capt. Jason
Greenlaw, arrived in the har Dor Saturday
to haul up for the winter.
Capt. e. A. Haskell, who has been
spending few days with bis family, left
town Wednesday for Rockland.
Nov. 10. F. j. s.
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week. They will be missed very much.
Best wishes follow them to their new
home.
Nov 10 s.,
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BROOKLYN.
Mrs. T. c. Stanley is much improved in
health.
Sim Goss, of stonington, spent last week
in town.
s. G. Stevens, of Eastport, was in town
last week.
Abel Staples, of North Brooklin, is clerk.
ing in the grange store.
Miss Young, of Bar Harbor, is visiting
at Miss E. A. Mayo's.
Eben Allen spent few days last week
at Pumpkin Island light.
Herbert Berry and wife, of Chelsea,
Mass, are visiting friends In town.
Belle Blake, who has been visiting
friends in Rockland, returned home Sum
day.
Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman, Of Pretty
Marsh, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Nancy
Mayo.
r.. A. Bracy was called home last week
from his work in Lawrence by the illness
OF his wife.
Monday, where she will be employed this
coming winter.
Mrs. Addie Marks went to Boston
Thursday to spend the winter. She was
accompanied by her son Bert.
Faustina Wells entertained number Of
her school friends at her home Tuesday,
Nov. 10, it being her eleventh birthday.
During the squall OF Wednesday morn
ing, the vessel which had the lumber for
Mrs. E. Idella Hills house and stable on
board, went ashore near Herriman's Point
on the rocks, staving large hole in her.
She will prove total wreck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horne, summer visitors OF
this place, were given a surprise party by
friends Friday evening. They have made
many warm friends during their stay here
and many will regret their departure.
They will leave for their home in Lowell.
Mass, Monday.
Nov. 10. UNE FEMME.
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First and foremost in the field of medicine is
Hoods sarsaparilla. IL possesses unequalled
merit and cures all diseases caused or promoted
by impure or impoverished blood, including
rheumatism, dyspepsia, catarrh.
All liver Ills are cured by Hoods Pills. ETC
Advt
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F. J.. s.

Sarah Adele, daug hter of Mr.. and Mrs.
1. u. Pickering, was married last Wed
nesday to Howard Clifton Holden. The
wedding took place at the home of the
bride, Rev. NJ. s. Hartweli officiating.
About thirty relatives and friends were
present After the bride and groom had
received congratulations, refreshments
were served.
Nov
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Best wishes follow them to their new
home.
Nov. 10. s.
surrJ.
Fred Beede IL at home for q short visit
Capt. c. NJ. Coulter came home Satur-
day night.
George W. Allen, who has been failing
In health FOR some time, is now quite low.
Schools commenced last Monday. The
village schools are taught by Miss Bertha
Sprague, OF BsDI O., grammar, and Miss
Mabel Morgan, primary.
The schooner judith Ann, OF Deer
Isle, that went as hore here in the gale, hes
been bought oy Capt. A. c. Curtis and
Harry Wood, and will be repaired.
Nov. 10. g.
sedgwicn.
DIR. r. E. Hagerthy has purchased the
Herrick house, and is having it thoroughly
repaired.
The clam factory here owned by
Twitchell, Champlain & Co, Of Portland,
is running on full time, employing twen-
ty-seven girls and six men.
The new house OF Cheston r. Bridges
on the East side is nearing completion II
will be an ornament to the place. MIR.
Bridges will erect a new stable as soon as
his house is finished.
The storm of last week, augmented by
the high tides, lifted the draw In the
bridge between the two towns and moved
1t three feet no stream. Commissioner
James Gray, OF Brook N, with a crew Of
men, put it back in place Saturday.
Nov. IL. c.
, 1900-11-29
Author of the Law Talks.

Oscar F. G. Day, author of the con-
current primary law, is a newspaper
man by profession, being editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune. In an article
in that paper the day after the prima-
ries, Sept. 10, he said: Every man
who has been even remotely identified
with professional politics in the past
was defeated. Three of the best alder
manic candidates nominated avowed
that they never would have ncoun
tered the cumbersome processes and
devious strategy of a convention, but
would go before the people under the
new primary law.
1T has brought out a class of men
for candidates that would lever run
before. and the success of these men
will bring out a larger number of their
kind at the next primary.
There were polled on this one pri-
mary election 1890 votes, and without
any friction, some district voting al
most the limit of 400 votes allowed by
law to a precinct.
out in the country. where they had
never turned out to caucuses, the farm
ers hitched up their teams and drove
to town and nearly the entire country
vote was polled.
by combining registration and pri-
mary the expense to the people Is not
greatly increased and the $40 which
each candidate pays the county audit
or helps to meet the bills"
1.-TWO state senators have laws
framed to present to the next legisla-
ture which they claim are 'modifca-
tions and improvements pom the
Minnesota direct primary law. They
are copies of other laws, all of them
fake in. their nature, which were
passed in different states to delude
, 1900-11-29
Name the Candidates
When they Register.

The Minnesota primary-election
ystem marks a new era in politics,
Ind is a revolution not even second to
*>he Australian ballot"
= Thus said Senator Washburn Of Min
4~hesota, after he had watched the re-
\ sults of the new direct, concurrent pri-
zmary-election law, used for the first
lime in Hennepin county, Minnesota,
On Sept. Is last.
q Ever since the public has been oper-
hting under a convention system it
mas always been urged that If the peo-
pie would only take an interest in the
primaries and the caucuses there
would not be so many mistakes in the
= election of candidates. If this is true,
Then the most successful primary re-
form is one that will bring out the to-
&fal vote. By the plan of holding a con-
<current primary on registration day,
Hennepin county brought out more
Votes at the primary election than 1t
did at the previous general election.
the percentage being ITO in favor of
the primary law. Therefore, from that
Standpoint alone. it was a success.
After the law was enacted by the
minnesota legislature and before it's
actual test the principle found such
Favor that 1t was made part of Wis
5consin's Republican platform, entered
Unto the party operation of Oregon,
>is being officially inquired into in In
, 1900-11-29

At the recent church congress in
England the bishop of Ripon congrat-
ulated his audience that, during the
century now ending. the adherents of
Christianity had increased from 200,-
OOO, 900 to 500. 900. 900, and that Chris
tian nations now WELD sovereign in
fiuence over 800, 900, 900 out of l 400, 900.
900 OF the earth's population, but, says
the Episcopal Recorder, those who be-
lleve in the necessity of the new birth
of individual souls and their personal
union with Christ will find but little
ground for encouragement in the state
ment, as they ask how many of that
vast multitude Of adherents are true
members of Christ
, 1900-11-29
MEN In POLITICS

people into the belief that they were
direct primaries.
"One of these senator's has a pro-
posed act ready providing that each
party committee car order direct pri-
maries on any day. TO be operated IN
der its personal supervision. That is
the way they will pretend to do away
with the evil of the present law,
which permits any man to vote either
ticket"
There is no doubt. as Mr.. Day indi-
Gates, that many of the politicians are
quietly fighting the present law, but Sd
well did the law take with the masses.
that while the politicians have striven
to secure an organization to repeal it,
the prospective Legislators are afraid
of the public protest that would fol-
low, and instead of a repeal, the law
will in all probability be extended over
the entire state.
In regard to the charge of cumber-
someness mad against the law by ma
chine politicians, its author says: AT
first it was urged thai the law was
cumbersome n its machinery impos-
S1Dle Oh HppllcdtiOu. IL Would require
a ticket twelve feet long. o oven
twenty votes could be polled in an
hour; the vote could not be counted in
a week, and he law was unconstitu-
tional. All these assertions have been
tested by actual trial and have been
shown to be totally without founda-
ton.
THE ticket was eighteen inches
long, the voters voted more rapidly
thar at general elections and the count
was accomplished in a few hours. Ger
tain alleged improvements have been
suggested.
ut has been suggested that a voter
be forced to make affidavit as to his
party and receive but one ballot. That
makes a public ballot and would keep
, 1900-11-29
FREE IF you WRITE AT ONCE.

An Illustrated catalogue of 264 pages,
and $500 engravings. has Just been is
sued which must interest all who read
this notice. 1t is issued by the Mermod
d Jaccard Jewelry Co, Broadway, cor
ner Locust St. st. Louis, and 1t is full
of new and desirable articles suitable for
Christmas gifts, ranging In price from
% cents to $1,000. 1t is so complete that
one cannot buy Christmas goods to ad-
vantage without consulting it, especially
as the house is known by the well-earned
title of THE Lowest Priced. House in
America for Fine Goods" All tina is
new and desirable in diamonds, watches,
silverware. cut glass. clocks, china
wares. umbrellas, art wares, optical
goods, fine stationery. etc, are contained
In this great catalogue. and st, Louis is
brought right to your doors. as the firm
sells at st, Louis prices and pays express
charges to any part of the United States.
To each of the first 10000 who send in
their names and addresses, a copy of
This catalogue will be mailed. postage
paid. Write at once TO insure receiving
, 1900-11-29

An interesting relic of the lake
jewellers of Ireland has just been added
to the Science and Art Museum of
Dublin in the form Of a crannog, or ele-
waited dwelling. 1t was discovered in a
bog-filled lake near Enniskillen and
measures over 100 feet in diameter. On
removing the peat the piles of platform
timbers were laid bare. The piling and
cross-timbering was admirably done,
untrimmed birch trees being chiefly
used for ~crosslaying, while oak was
used for the stouter piles. A large
quantity of broken pottery was found
in it, besides an iron axe of early form,
n fragment of a comb and some bronze
harp pegs.
, 1900-11-29
Imported Ral.in. Are nigh.

Imported raisins will be high this
Christmas. owing to a considerable
shortage in the Malaga crop. A great
storm on September Is swept over the
famous Malaga raisin district doing
great damage not only to the grapes
still Oh the vines, but to those that had
been cut and dried. This heavy storm
was followed by a succession of cloudy
and rainy days, which made is i'm
possible for the grapes to dry properly,
and besides rendered worthless a large
quantity of grapes that were still on
the vines. 1t is now estimated that
the raison crop is short fully 80 per
cent.-Washington letter Brooklyn
Eagle.
, 1900-11-29
Taxing oxford unIyersity.

For many years the municipal author
tiles of Oxford, England. have thought
the valuation put on their university
buildings. for taxation purposes too
low. A new valuation has just been
made. by which the college properties
will be assessed on values raised by no
less a sum than e21,52 ($10i.745).
The university will, of course. resist
this attempt to draw from their cof-
fers. and long and expensive litigation
may be expected.-Joseph H.. Warner.
in Chicago Record.
, 1900-11-29
DEMOCRATIC SPECIMEN BALLOT.

diana and enlisted the services of earn
est men who are W now working
for its adoption in New York. The
Minneapolis object lesson proved the
\ practical nature of the plan and its
Friends from one enc of the country to
THE other are determined that its full
efficacy shall be brought, to bear upon
the business of government.
Attraction for Voters.
The secret of the high merit of the
Paw is that it draws those men who
<have hitherto held aloof from primar-
Hes. conventions and the polls, from
disgust at the time d~ishonored meth
zpds there obtaining, to take part in
the business of government. Under
4he law nominations are not made by
Conventions, but by the people them
selves. direct. 1t destroys the power
of political machines and selfish en-
ployers to influence their dependents
Through open threat or secret terror.
in the voting booth at the direct pri-
mary every voter can vote with secur-
{ty. How he has voted a never be
known unless he should himself choose
- reveal III.
Both parties hold their primaries on
sthe same day, in the same place and
concurrently, where the citizens vote
At regular elections. The regular reg
y stration officers are behind their Ia
1bles and men irrespective of party reg
lister. This double opportunity is one
1pf the magnets that draws. 1t is a
Hime-saver. To hold primaries and
Registration at one time has been
Found in other states an excellent way
.of increasing the vote at primaries.
Having registered, the citizen-Repub-
.lican or Democrat-gets two tickets.
3pne containing Republican and the
pther Democratic nominees who had
been placed on the tickets through pc
titions of not less than 5 per cent of
'the voters casting ballots for the office
On question at the last previous cleo
tion. There may be a dozen candi-
bates on the same party ticket for one
5pffice. The name of each aspirant for
the place appears at the top under des-
, 1900-11-29
ArHReE-YEAR OLD PIANIST.
A Precocious Spanish Baby Plays Before
the Queen,

the Queen.
Mozart and Haydn were musicians at
the age of five, but Madrid has n mu-
steal prodigy, Pepito Rodriguez Ar
riola. three years old. Senior Arriola
and his wife, the parents of this prod
ICY. are wealthy. When only a few
months old this wonderful infant be-
gan to evince a marked liking for GER
tain tunes. His mother would play
to him to amuse him and would let
him thpmp away at the notes to fur
Their take up his attention. Daily the
child evinced a great liking for music.
The piano was his constant resort.
When barely three years old he aston
ished his mother by playing correctly
several of the tunes of which he was
particularly fond.
The newspapers soon got hold of the
story and began to print columns about
his infant phenomenon. At last the
Arriolas were induced to permit the
youthful Pepito Rodriguez to perform
in public. which he did with great sue
cess. His digital deXterity and firm
ness of tone amazed those who expect
ed to hear a poor performance. Span
tional music and Spanish .Zarzuela"
music, which approaches operate arias
in difficulty, We're all played with equal
ease. Pepito's little hands cannot
stretch an octave, but the infant has
his w method of accomplishing the
effect. Pepito has had the honor of
playing before the queen regent and
King Alfonso.
, 1900-11-29

The Cossacks are the arms and legs
of Russia, while the moujik is the
backbone. The Cossacks won Siberia
for Russia when they were the daring
fringe of her population, grown adven-
turous and warlike by their frequent
conflicts with the Tartars who crowd
ed Russia's borders. In them concen-
trated the enterprise and aggressive
ness which the moujik lacks. They cut
the path and the moujiks followed, and
the descendants OF these hardy pio-
neers live throughout Siberia to-day,
forming a hereditary military caste. So
strict are the laws of heredity among
the Cossacks hat it is almost impos-
sible for an officer who was not born
n to obtain a commission in a Cos
sack regiment.
, 1900-11-29
Women and Plain Men,

The queen of Portugal has n private
album of questions, of which one is:
Can women love plain-lOoking mem"
To this the empress of Russia replies:
Yes, If handsome men are not to be
had" Queen Margherita of Italy puts
the case this way: Between fifteen
and thirty women can love none but n
handsome man; after thirty they'll
have a man of any kind" Princess
Henry of Battenberg takes the practi-
cal view that the question is one
which ought to be governed by the
maXim: Handsome is as handsome
does"
, 1900-11-29
she Minnesota Primary Law Increases
their Number,

ignation of Office, in a proportional
number of ballots, the theory being
that no name should have the advan-
tage of appearing at the top on all the
ballots. Should other parties enter the
contest the number of tickets would be
increased, N ticket for each party 60
ing to every voter.
No "Cut-and-Drled"s System.
Each voter marks n ballot only,
returning both ballots pinned togeth-
er as he received them to the judge,
who places them in the box. Later
the crosses on the marked ballot are
credited to the respective candidates
and the unmarked ballot is returned
to the city clerk. II a voter blunder-
ingly marks both ballots, only the one
containing the greater number of
marks is counted. AS a result of the
first primaries held in Minneapolis I'M
der the law, a much higher class of
men became the duly nominated can
didates than ever before. Men who
had refused steadily to be drawn into
the "leg-pulling" quagmire of old
style primaries and conventions now
came to the front and accepted IAN
didacy. A most significant develop
ment was the fact tina every profess
sional office-seeker whose name ap-
peared on the ballot was rejected-a
contamination that never could have
been achieved under machine rule.
In forty-eight hours everybody
knows who is nominated for every Of
fee in the county.
Affords Better Nominees.
Perhaps the most significant COM
, 1900-11-29

Among its many peculiarities South
Africa includes the ~"sneezewood" tree,
which takes it name from the fact that
n cannot cut or saw it without neez-
ing, as the fine dust has exactly the
same effect of SNUFF. Even in planning
the wood it will sometimes cause
sneezing. No insect, worm or barnacle
will touch it. 1t is very bitter to the
taste, and its specific gravity is heavier
than water. The color is light brown,
the grain very close and hard. 1t is a
nice-lookinG wood and takes n good pol
ish. For dock work, piers and jetties
it is a useful timber, lasting a long
while under water.
, 1900-11-29
REPUBLICAN SPECIMEN BALLOT.

away from the polls hundreds of men
who, while not absolutely afraid that
their employers would discharge them
for being of opposite politics, would
rather remain away from the polls and
moi run any risks.
1T has been suggested hal n reg
istration day be for democratic voters.
another day for republican.
THE same objection applies to that.
Both these plans would cut down the
vote and give the party bosses oppor-
tunity to get a list of the party voters
and whip employers into line"
JOHN TALMAN.