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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27
CHAPMAN CONCERT.
Programme for the Great Musical
Event of Next Week.

Programme for the Great Musical
Event of Next Week.
The programme for the Chapman con-
cert next Wednesday evening at Hancock
hall is announced. There has been one
change in the programme originally
pianned-Miss Myrtle b. Randall, So
prano, will appear in place of Miss Blanca
Holley. The other soloists are Miss Olive
Celeste Moore, contralto; Miss Louise
Trusx, whistler; Herr Hans Kronold,
violoncellist. w. r. Chapman will be at
the piano. The programme follows:
PARTI.
a Evening Star. Paraphrase. .......... Wagner
Scherzo.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Goens
Herr Hans Kronold
Hearts Delight. .........-.. Gilchrist
Miss Randall
Waves of the Danube. .............J ivanovico
Miss Truax
Oil for Burst of SonR.............. Aliitsen
Miss Moore
Creole Love Song. .............. Smith
Miss Randall and Miss Truax
Adagio.. Observation-Disclosures. Bargiel
Herr Kronold
PART II.
Tuscan Folk Songs;
When Am Dead Luigi Caraeciolo
Nearest and Dearest...... Luigi Caracciolo
Miss Randall and Miss Moore
Loves Dream after the Ball. ........ Czibulka
Miss Truax
Cradle song. .GodarO
Miss Moore and Herr Kronold
yalse de Concert. .Fitzenhagen
Herr Kronold
Aria-Samson ct Dalila.......,..... Saint-Saens
Miss Randall
Mystery observation-disclosures Chapman
II You and Were Young. Chapman
Singing of You....................C Chapman
Miss Moore
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DIED.

GRAY-At surry. March "a, Rev Andrew Gray,
aged Is years.
HUMPHHEY-ht Eden (Sand Point, March
%. Edwin X Humphrey, formerly of Mdssa-
chusetts. aged IS years, 8 months, l6 days.
REYNOLDS-At Ellsworth, March IS, Austress
ID, widow of Nathan ei keS nolds, aged So
years, months, Is days.
STAPLES-At Rockland, March a. Mrs Mary
Staples, of Deer Isle, aged 40 years, y days.
rRUEWORTHY-At Dedham, March l6, Mrs
John Trueworthy, aged II years.
TURNER-At Watham, March 20, Mrs Louisa
Turner, aged 10 years, months, is days.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27
MARRIED..

BURNS-JELLIsON-At Swans Island, March
%, by Rev Stanley, Miss Gertrude Burns,
of Swans Island, to George Jelison, Of
Spruce Head.
FRIEND-SEALANDE Caribou. March
~, Miss Mae Friend, formerly of Ellsworth,
to Charles Sealander, of Caribou.
HOPKlNS-H0wARD- Lamoine, March 90,
by Rev John s Blair, Mrs Vandalia A Hop
kins to Michael Howard. both of Trenton.
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BANGOR TO BAR HARBoR.

tStop on signal or noticeto Conductor.
These trains connect at Bangor, with through
trains on Main Line to and from Portland. Bos-
ton and st. John.
Tickets for All Points South and West
on sale at the M. c. r. r. ticket office.
Ellsworth.
Passengers are requested to procure Tickets
before entering the train, and especially Ellis.
worth to Falls and Falls to Ellsworth.
GEO. f. EVANS,
Vice-Pres. and Gent Manager.
r. K. BOOTHBY. Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Ag't.
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WdFtHdfH
Mrs. Louisa Turner died at her home
here Saturday, in the eightieth year of
her age. Funeral services were held Tues
day, Rev. A. II. Coar, of the Ellsworth
Unitarian church, officiating.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27

Hancock County Congregationalists.
The annual convention OF the Hancock
county conference of Congreo ationsl
churches has been invited 10 meet with
the church in Bucksport June II and II.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27
MARINE LIST.
Domestic Ports.

BosroN-Ar Mar %. sch A Cobb, Mt Desert
CID Mar %, sch Francis Goodnow, Long Cove
and New York
Sid Mar %, sch Yreka, Calais
Ar Mar 20, sch Fiheman, Stonington
AR Mar 25, sch Geo keene, Mt Desert
CAPE HENRY-Ar Mar 20, sch Hugh Kelley,
Haskell, New York for Fernandina
GEORGETOWN, C-Sld Mar 81, sch Puritan,
Sargent, New York
GLoUcEsrER-Ar Mar 20, sch Davis, Bos-
NEW LONDoN-Sld Mar 90, schs Matte j
Allies, New Yors II j Mccarthy, Brunswick
NEW YoRK-Ar mar q, sch Maud Snare,
Lowell, Baracao
sid Mar p, zen Otronto, for Woods Holl
Ar Mar %, sch Storm Petrol, Bonsey, Provi-
dence
AR Mar "a, sch Matte Allies, Crockett, Prov
idence
Maxwell, Tinker, Georgetown
NORFOLK Cid Mar 81, sch John Booth, EN-
mons, Bridgeport
PAsoAGoULA-Sld Mar 90, sch Annie Rick
erson, Smith, Kingston, ia
Cid Mar %, sch Estelle, hutchinson, Boston
PoRTLAND-Ar Mar %, sch Hattie NJ Mayo,
Murphy, Boston
AR Mar 90, schs Francis X Baird, Sargentville
for New York; Sarah l. Davis, Bucksport for
New York
Ar Mar rs, schs Harvard H Havey, Forsyth,
| Boston; Walter Nj Yonng, Hallowell for Bos-
| ton
Sid Mar %, sch Annie Lewis
| PHILADELPHIA-Sld Mar 20, sch T Rundlett
| for Jacksonville
PoRTsMoUTH-Ar Mar 90 schs Cobb,
Fox Island for Boston; Prince LeBoo, Boston
| for Portland
AR Mar "A, sch Grace Stevens, Portland for
| Boston
| Woodruff, Turks Island for Bucksport
| Passed Mar %. sch Mary Augusta, west
| Sid Mar -, sch Hattie Marsh
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27

Church-Do you believe in wireless tel
egraphy. Gosham-Yes; but | don't
think We'll ever get wireless politics.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27

East Maine Methodist Conference.
The East Maine Methodist conference
will convene at Clinton April "a.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27
To Cure a Cold in one Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
refund the money II it fails to cure.
Il. w. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
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Hancock County Grange.

Hancock county Pomona grange will
meet with Halcyon grange, North Blue
hill, Saturday, April 10. The following
programme is announced:
Address of welcome. Alice Weseott
Response. Nellie Wood
Quotations. by members
Topic-"What Benefit to the Farmers is the
Board of Agriculture of Maine?"
Opened by John Dority
Recess for dinner
Fifth degree
1'opic-"who is the most prominent man in
the history of U. s."
Opened by Bro Grieye
Entertainment by Halcyon grange
Debate Resolved that the women of fifty
years ago were better housekeepers
than those of today." Affirmative, Hat.
tie Harmon; negative, Deborah Dunbar.
Closing grange.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27

Belfast Child Burned to Death.
The ten-yesr- daughter of Capt.
jeremiah Hayes, OF Belfast, was burned
to death Saturday. Her clothing caught
fire from the kitchen stove.
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Notes.

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mar 2S- Sch Arthur 8
Woodruff. from Turks Island for Bucksport,
which arrived here yesterday, was days n of
Hatteras with heavy weather, in which had
decks swept of everything movable and the
cooks galley was washed about the deck, but
the vessel sustained no damage.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-27

Eggemoggin c. E. Local Union.
The next meeting of the Eggemoggin
local union, Y. p. s. @. E., will be held
at South Bluehill. The date will be an
nounced later.
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Foreign Ports.

BUENos AYREs-Passed Mar Is, bark Re-
becca Crowell, Dow. Rosario for Philadelphia
CoL4 sTINE-Sld Mar 81, Bark Julia, Green,
New York
PORT PRAYA-Ar Feb Is, sch Alice j Crab
tree. Crabtree, Brunswick
HAvANA-sld Mar Il. sch Mary A Hall, Has.
kell, Apalachicola
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

ing bin below the floor, the machinery
is started which operates transfer
belt that moves through this receiving
bin. The belt is fitted with cups which
fill themselves as they pass through the
grain. Up mount these cups on the belt
until they reach the top floor of the ele-
vator, perhaps 100 or 10 feet above
the point where they started. Here as
the belt turns in the descent the cups
empty their loads of grain into bins
which are TO hold the cereal but tenn
porarily. With chutes at their bottoms
these temporary bins are connected
with weighing bins on the floor just
below. The weigher, by system Of
levers controlling a cutoff, draws into
the enclosed weighing bin as much
wheat as he pleases When the yard
of the scale rises, indicating that the
amount of grain for which he gauges
the scales has poured into the bin, he
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

movement was so spontaneous and the
numbers Were SO great that Negley's
men We're overwhelmed and Pf.lmer's
men carried back the rails, rolicking
like mad.
The scene was as tumuluCus as
hundred football struggles compressed
into one, and the uproar was terrific.
Negley's men were forming for couH-
ter rush when Generals Palmer and
Negley came on the scene. the one bare
headed, and the other disheveled Neg
ley complained joeularly that it was u
pretty howdy do when he couldn't con
fiscate rails enough to shelter his head
quarters from the rain, without Palmer
turning out from five to ten thousand
men to prevent the confscation. Palm
or replied that he had no rails himself
to lend, but his men ,Aight have ii they
were approached in the right way, nut
by the great horn spoon nobody could
steal the rails which his men had
stolen with infinite trouble two days
before, In this spirit RE AFFAIR was
settled, each General ordering his men
TO quarters, II they could find them. 2
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

traversed by small sharp grooves par
allel TO the axis of the rollers. These
pairs OF rollers are arranged In sets of
three, one above the other, with consid-
cradle Intervals between, so that the
heat produced by the slight crushing
will be counteracted as the product
passes through the air on its way from
one pair of rollers TO the next These
pairs Of rollers are adjusted so that the
crushing effect of any one pair is
slight, and as many as six or seven
sets, making from eighteen to twenty
one pairs of rollers. are necessary to
produce the various grades Of flour.
The process of separating light grains
from heavy, and the foreign seeds,
grains and other impurities from wheat
is interesting, There are two processes:
The one is the process of sitting; the
other that of exposing thin cascade of
FILLING grain to n current of air. The
separation of mustard and cookie and
grass seed from the wheat may easily
be effected by passing the mixed grains
over inclined plates perforated with
holes large enough for the smaller
seeds 10 pass through, but not large
enough for the wheat. The cat grain is
separated by taking advantage of the
elongated form. The mixed oat and
wheat grains are discharged in thin
sheet upon an inclined thin iron plate
perforated with round holes at inter
walls nicely determined by experiment.
abundantly large for the passage of
both the oat and the wheat grains il
presented end foremost perpendicular
ly to the plate. But as the plate is in
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

cnts off the stream and records the
amount which has been weighed.
By another lever the platform of the
scales can be opened and the wheat
dropped into chute which leads to the
floor below. Here a unique contriyance
carries the grain to any of the storage
bins desired. Tive wide rubber belts.
fully three and Lalf feet broad ex-
tend from one end of the long building
to the other The chutes from the va
rious weighing bins depend just above
one or the other of these belts. The
belts are operated on rollers which
curve up in such a way ut their ends
that the belt is made 10 curve up in a
corresponding way at the edges. On
each side of the belt on the surface of
the floor is the rail of track which eX-
tends the full length of the belt. At
various points along the floor are open
ines into the bins below To get the
grain which has been dropped from the
/ weighing bin chutes 10 these flying
belts into the lower bins requires the
use of still another unique device which
runs on this track. This device is re-
ceiver for the grain, and into this re-
ceiver the grain is thrown from the
belt The belt is shortened so that it
reaches only as far as the bin which it
is desired to fill The end of the belt
is then fastened in this receiver, which
is rolled opposite the bin opening. The
river of grain comes flying along, and
as the belt turns under for the return
trip the grain shoots into a receptacle
from which it drops into a chute lead
ing into the storage bin.
After the grain is placed in the stor-
age bin it is examined by elevator ex-
perts TO see If il needs cleaning. If ii
does it is carried again to the first
floor. where are located the great fan
ming and screening mills. Here the air
is filed with the flying dust which es-
capes from the machines. rendering the
place almost unbearable 10 the man
who isn't used TO 1t. After the cleans
ing process is completed the grain is
once more taken by carriers to the stor-
age bins to await transportation. Long
chutes lead from these storage bins to
the places where cars or boats come to
be loaded Each chute is movable, and
each leads from bin to the slip
where the ship is loading.
Minneapolis is tie greatest fiour-mak-
ing center ia the United States. 1t IS
said that 1sGOe, 900 people could be fed
each day with bread made from Min
neapolis flour without increasing the
/ present daily output OF the mills. In
1893 these mills ground ever 10000. 600
bushels of wheat. This represented the
product Of 22,0OO farms Of 1G0 acres
each. the average yield pei. acre being
twenty bushels. The railroads had to
provide over 100000 cars to transport
this -four. The cars if made up into
trains would be sufficient TO make 81
full complement of 1850 trains. These
figures, perhaps, convey to the average
| lay mind a better idea Of the enormous
| Quantity of the worlds staple food that
goes out from this one city than the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

Buffalo is the great transferring point
for the lake trade.
Most of the elevators are situated
where they can be reached by both wa
ter and rail. for while the heavy re
reipts come by rail. the big shipments
go l,y boat When a trainload of grain
arrives at an elevator the cars to be I'M
loaded are lacked into the elevator on
n track that runs down the center of
the building. At frequent intervals
along the door there are trap doors
down which the grain may be emptied
The box car is stopped with its side
door opposite one of these traps. The
car is entered and 4 man with steam
shovel climbs inside. y steam shovel
is made Of boards fastened to-
getI,er. and is about three feet wide by
four in length. Near the top are two
handles by which the workman may
pull it about On the opposite side and
near the bottom of the shovel are fast
ened the two ropes. which by means
of steam power pail the shovel forward
each time q Ger the workman sinks 1t
down into the wheat. As the shovel
lowers the wheat IN the car the work
man removes. one after another, the
side boards which are placed one above
another in the car door to hold in the
wheat while il WIS being transported
IN the car.
AS the wheat Is thus being shOveled
out Of the car and down into receiy-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

elined, each berry must be tipped for
ward in order to enter a hole. An in-
dividual hole is of such diameter that
when the wheat grain, sliding forward,
carries its center of gravity beyond the
support of the upper edge of the hole,
the forward end of the grain has not
reached the lower edge. and Thus the
wheat falls through. The oat grain,
however, being longer, is supported by
the forward edge OF the hole until the
forward end of the grain reaches the
further edge, and thus the oat grain
slides down the plate. Fragments of
straw and chaff pass on with the oats.
The dust, smut and rust which may
cling to the berry are separated by dis
charging the impure grain into the
space between what may be regarded
as a vertical cylinder the surface OF
which is covered with brushes. and a
closely fitting iron case perforated with
numerous Sits or holes which serve the
double purpose OF making the surface
rough and providing an escape for the
separated dust Round seeds are sep
arated by taking advantage of the sp
perior velocity they acquire in rolling
down an inclined plane as compare,
with the long grains, which slide. The
former leap an opening into which the
latter drop.
BY these and kindred processes 1t is
now practicable to obtain good whea
from a sample of spring wheat o.
which not more than one-half is fit fo
making flour Willlamsport Pa) Grit
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VIM pnllei thnt RonaY

our regiment went ont in the fall of
/ 1862. and the first eleven months we
were stationed along the railroad be-
tween Covington and Lexington. Ky.
and had quite soft snap of IT, But in
August, 1863, we started for East Ten
hcssee. We had some lively boys
among us, and there were tricks being
played on some one all the time.
Some Of the boys got off the train to
I'll their canteens and pull some
onions, and the Colonel had the train
started up, and kept them running
about half a mile before he would let
them get on.
We were IN box cars and open cattle
cars aud fiat ears, and the officers were
in a passenger coach at the rear Of the
train. having a jolly time. As we
would pass a water-tank. some of the
boys would catch the rope aud give it
Jerk and wet those in IT,, next ear.
As we were nearing a station. and e
train was slowing up 10 switch of and
let another train pass. l.. y. Hartman.
big fellow, gave the tank rope jerk,
and II stayed there. Just as the train
stopped, the water came pouring into
the officers car their windows being
up. and before they could get the train
started the water had all ran out Of the
tank into the car Such curslng and
swearing, And 80 one knew who
pulled that rope.
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9'(I9ElElL5Fl57s

The emotional and almost hysferieaE
state nf the popular mind throughout
those sections of the West aid South-
vest that have been suffering from a
Total or partial drought Of more than
three weeks duration can be better un-
derstood and appreciated rs city resi-
dents, perhaps, IL the situation he strip
ped of all sentimentality aud presented
in purely business light.
There are vast areas in the Mississippi
and Missouri valleys III which the main
dependence Of the people IL town and
country is corn. Corn means more 10.
them than cotton to the people Of the
South or wheat 10 the people Of the
Northwest, 1t means more to tt y than
all the other products OF their IA put
together. because, in addition TO its mar
net value, corn meets practically every
necessity OF man and beast.
1t answers the purpose. on occasion. OF
wheat. oats barley and rye, and in the
absence of these can be substituted for
them. And il can BIZ put to uses for
which the other grain individually or
collectively are unsp!ted. In the matter
of fodder aud feei for live stock alone,
corn is almost an essential in the cattle
and hog raising and fattening region. :
The city resident h not rs a rule arn
eater Of corn bread or corn mush. Corn
cakes he regards in the light Of a luxury
rather than necessity. He feels that
SO far as he is personally concerned he
could manage TO do without corn alto
gether. Nevertheless corn enters very
largely into his daily diet, for nearly al
| the meat he eats Is corn fed
The total wheat crop Of the United
| States might fail and the pther nations
Of the earth would and could contribute
| toward making the shortage good. When
| the price OF wheat -four in this country
advances beyond certain point the
wheat Of the world is directed toward
| our ports. and if the price remains ex-
cessiye the bread eaters Of the word
turn to corn -four. They have done it
more than once, and their doing Of il has
brought several wheat corners 70 an in
Motious ending. Wheat furnishes staff
of life for man. but corn furnishes q staff
Of life for man and beast
| Although corn will grow IN every State
! and territory IN the Union, the recog-
nized corn belt-that IL, the area in which
| corn is produced ahundantly--is limited.
| The great State Of Maine raises corn, for
example. but in 1899 il produced only
427 A2s bushels. as against 242.249,S4t
bushels raised in Iowa Ten % the States
| fall short Of the 1000, 000bnshel mark;
| thirteen fall short Of the 2,0000 900 bushel
mark While twenty Of them exc
eeed the 10000. 900 bushel mark. some Of
| them rising 10 nearly 1000o000o, only
six of them PASS the latter figure and
only four produce beyond t000n100
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-07-24

The United States raises about 550,-
600 600 bushels of wheat annually,
which is harvested in the p .eire ,cest
States in June, in the Middle and New
England States in July. and ii Central
and Northern Minnesota and the Da-
kotas in August. About cAe-fift-t of our
wheat is exported, and as a consider
able portion of the crop is grown i'll the
Middle and Western States, much of
it has to be moved either by rail or
water to the great market centers. 1t is
impossible in the limits of short arti-
Gle to trace the progress of wheat from
the farm to he elevators, thence to its
destination in the Touring mill and to
its final destination as bread ON the
tables of the people, One of the most
interesting processes of handling is at
the great elevators either at lake ports
or at the shipping points on the Allan
tic coast The method of handling is
worthy a brief description.
The elevators are enormously high
ructures. If they were divided into
noolS 40 oiiiSt buiuiliSS are, tuey
would be fifteen or sixteen stories high.
Most of them have narrow upper see
tions only about half as wide as are the
main portions. These higher portions
are used for machinery and grain
transferring devices, so there is no
need for as great width as the lower
floors, where the grain is stored in bins.
Some of the elevators are large enough
to hold 100000 bushels of wheat, or
1So.000,000 pounds. equal 10 10000
tons. Yet an elevator full of grain is
handled eXpeditiously and easily. since
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bare statement that the daily output of
the mills is about $4,000 barrels. If tie
mills were worked TO their full ca
pacity they could produce about $4,000
barrels a day.
Flour for domestic use is usually
packed in barrels or paper sacks; but
most of the export flour, that which
goes to foreign countries, is packed in
cotton bags, and these bags are in
closed in jute sacks.
The Roller Process.
Nearly everybody is familiar with
the old process of grinding wheat for
-four between upper and neither mill
stones. The new, or roller. process is
now generally used. The process dates
In the United States from experiments
made at Minneapolis in 1878 and 1879.
In this process the millstones are re-
placed by pairs of small horizontal roll
ers, the surfaces of parts of which are