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stonington.

stonington.
Ralph Buckminster, who has been at
tending school at Portland, arrived home
saturday.
The seiectmen have appointed s. B..
rhurlow as lmember OF the board Of
health, and Jonathan Colby as sealer OF
weights and measures.
Alice Lane and Gertrude Gross, OF
Oceanyille, went 10 Castine last week to
attend school.
Mrs. fl. 1. Stanley left for Bar HarDor
Saturday.
Mrs. Fred A. Torrey is in Boston for a
few days visit.
The Eastern Stars will hold fair and
sociahle in the opera house Wednesday
afternoon and evening.
Tony Sargent, OF Bluehill, who has
been at work on the quarries here, while
clear ring out hole which had been blown,
got his face blown full OF powder by q
second explosion. He will not lose his
eyesight.
March IS. EUGENE.
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Counterfeits of DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve are liable 10 cause blood poisoning.
Leave them alone The original has the
name DeWitt's upon the box and wrapper.
1t Is harmless and healing salve for skin
diseases. Unequailed for piles. WIGGlN
IL MOORE.
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TNHE subscriber hereby gives notice thas
4 he has been duly appointed adninistra-
tor of the estate of Mary q James
late of Ellsworth, in the county of Hancock,
deceased, and given bonds as the Law directs
All persons having demands against the eS-
tate of said deceased are desired to present
the same for settlement, and all indebted
thereto are requested to make payment i'm
mediately.
March 5, 1901. FRANK r. MCGowN.
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yENHE subscriber hereby gives NOTICE thas
1 he has been duly appointed executor
OF the last win and testament of kben h
Higgins, late of Eden, in the county a
by the terms OF said will. All persons
having demands agai st the estatR
the same for settlement, and all indebted
thereto are requested to make payment i'm
mediately.
March 5, 1901. EBEN NJ. HAMoR.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-03-20

To think is the great business of life;
and to think right, and then act, is the
consummatio ion.
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East OrIand.
Mrs.iHarriet Mason is i'll.

Mrs.iHarriet Mason is i'll.
Ruth Gibbs is visiting her grandparents
at the village.
Aibrs Dnrr arrived home from the hos
piisl Saturday.
Charles Gibbs has gone to Grand Lake
stream for few weeks.
A. j. Long, of Bluehiil, visited T. F.,
Mason Wednesday, on his way home from
Brownville.
Frank Farnham and wife, OF West Pc
nobscot, were the guests OF Mrs. Alice
Gibbs Friday.
March IS. NJ.
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THE INAUGURAL PARADE.

A Glimpse of the Spectacle at Wash
ington on Inauguration Day.
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Ensuranre Statements.

AACHEN a MUNICH FIRE ms 90,
OF AIx-LA-CHAPELLE, GERMANY.
Resident Mgrs., WEED e. KENNEDY. Princi
pal Office in U. S. % 81 Liberty st. N. Y. City.
ASSETS DEC. 81, 1900.
Stocks and bonds, S741, 527.50
Cash in Office and bank, 7o,SS5.74
Agents balances, l,74.6l
Interest and rents, $1,000
Unsolicited premiums, ll3,3S7.9i
Gross assets, 932,u45.7b
Admitted assets, 1882, 9i5.7B
LIABILITIES DEC. 81, 1900.
Net unpaid losses, 54,029.s5
Unearned premiums, 367,7 "A
All other liabilities, 32275.04
Total, S4s40sI 80
Surplus over all liabilities, 47s, Nab
Total liabilities and surplus, 1892 s45.76
GEO. II, GRANT CO., Agents,
ELLSWORTH, ME.
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rTNHE subscriber hereby gives uotice that
4 he has been duly appointed idminis-
TRAITOR of the estate of George l. Gerry,
late of Ellsworth, in the county " hancock,
deceased, and given bonds as the law directs-
All persons having demands against The estate
of said deceased are desired to present the
same for settlement, and all indebted thereto
are requested to make payment Immediately.
TRUMAN G. LoRD.
March 5, 1901. Administrator.
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rEHG subscriber hereby gives notice THAI
traitor of the estate OF John d. Hopkins,
late of Ellsworth, in the county Of Han
cock, deceased and given bonds as trs
law directs. All persons having demands
against the estate OF said deceasea are desired
to present the same for settlement, aud an
indebted thereto are requested to make pay
ment Immediately. CHARLES A, LYON.
March s. 1901
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23
Bombdrding
the Clouds.

These are queer times. The farmer
will have to start a cannon brigade
if he wants to be up to date in the
peaceful pursuits of agriculture. The
fashion comes from France, where
they have rapid-firing, breech load
ing, agricultural cannon, which is
wonder.
In France, where so much of the
wealth of the whole country depends
on the vineyards, there is one enemy
which has hitherto been unconquer-
able. That is the hail. In half an
hour a severe hailstorm could pulver
ize a prospective fortune. In Italy,
also, the hail is a menace to the vine
yards and the vine growers of the two
countries have been making some ex-
ceedingly interesting experiments in
fighting these storms. Fighting is
good term for their methods. They
lombard the clouds. When they do
this, according to their published re-
ports, the movement of a hurricane is
stopped, the lightning and the thunder
cease, rain or melted snow begins to
fall and the clouds soon pass away.
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The Cumberland.

The Cumberland.
At anchor in Hampton Roads We lay,
On board the Cumberland sloop of
war;
And at times from the fortress across
the bay
The alarm of drums swept past
Or bugle blast,
From the camp on shore
Then far away to the south uprose
A little feather of snow-white smoke,
And we knew that the iron ship of our
foes
Was steadily steering its course
To try the force
Of our ribs of oak.
Down upon us heavily runs
Silent and sullen, the floating fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her
guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
We are not idle, but send her straight
Defiance back in a full broadside!
As hail rebounds from roof of state,
Rebounds our heavier hail
From each iron scale
OF the monsters hide.
Strike your hagi" the rebel cries,
In his arrogant old plantation strain,
Never" our gallant Morris replies;
1T is better to sink than
yield!''
And the whole air pealed
With the cheers of our men,
Then like a kraken huge and black,
She crushed our ribs in her iron
grasp,
Down went the Cumberland all
wrack,
With a sudden shudder Of
death,
And the lannon's breath
For her dying gasp.
Next morn, as the sun rose over the
bay,
Still fioated our flag at the main
masthead,
Lord, how beautiful was thy day!
Every watt of the air
Was a whisper of prayer,
Or dirge for the dead.
Hor brave hearts that went down in
the seas,
We at peace in the troubled stream'
Ho! brave land! with hearts like these,
Thy flag that is rent in twain,
Shall be one again,
And without a seam.
Henry w. Longfellow.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23
VINEYARDS PROTECTED
FROM HAILSTORMS BY
MEANS OF CANNON.

This bombarding has had a good trial
and it is said that the vineyards pro-
tected by the cannon were spared,
while those outside the lines were
destroyed by the hail. Several guns
have been invented for this rural war
fare, the most remarkable being the
powderless cannon of an Italian firm.
Acetylene gas mixed with air is used
as the explosive. Of course there is no
charge. 1t is said that the apparatus
can be placed anywhere and left safely
to itself even for years at a time. A
farmer can have say fifty cannon sta
toned at different points of his estate
These are connected by an electric
wire so that single operator can dis
charge the whole fifty guns either SIM
ultaneously or consecutively. This
takes about ten seconds, and then the
whole thing begins over again. The
generator permits the cannon to FIRE
more than 1000 times without reload
ing, and that is supposed to be q suf-
ficient supply to last six months. The
gun is not for sale, but the inventors
intend to begin next year to insure
vine growers against hail.
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have got would easily be worth from
Szo,OUv TO $sU,Uvu, but l couldn't do it
and had to get rid of what did fall
into my hands as quickly as possible.
1 sold nearly $1,000 worth of loot.
l had silver bullion galore, beautiful
and costly furs of all kinds, silk in
abundance and a great variety of pre-
cious stones and jewels, but 1 could
not carry it. so had to dispose of it as
quickly as l could. sold 81 500 worth
of pure bar silver for 5000 Mexican
money, equal to 800 in gold. 1 have
often stated in my palmy days that l
would like to have all the wealth /
could carry and here is a case where
1 have it But it avails me nothing.
as the poor enlisted man gets nothing
out of the affair but bareback and with
but one-fourth rations at that Many
of the officers have secured enough out
of the affair to be wealthy for life and
the higher the rank the more loot they
got. When you read in the papers OF
the Americans not footing you can
just wink the other eye and be wise.
The Americans and the English were
dead in the game and the English got
a trif1e more than the yankS because
they were a trif1e smarter. The ia
panese are the finest soldiers in the
world today anyway you take them,
and any nation wants to think twice
before humping up against them.
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Tnls WILL INTEREST MANY.

purifier 3. B. B. Botanic Blood Balm)
Into new homes, will give away 10000
all blood and skin troubles-ulcers. scro-
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blood poison. affecting throat. bones or
mucous patches, cancer, swellings, per-
sistent pfmp1e wart- B. B. B. makes
the blood pure and rich, heals every sore
eruption, and stops all aches and
pains. Druggists, 81 For free treat
ment, address Blood Balm Co, 81 Mitch
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and free medical advice given until cured.
B. B. B. cures old. deep-seated cases that
refuse to heal under patent medicines or
DOCTORS treatment. 1t costs nothing to
try B. B. B. Medicine sent at once pre-
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ON VERGE OF INSANITY.
. Lady Was In This Serious Con-
dition, but Was Saved.

dition. but Was Saved.
East Randolph, N. Y, March IL
Especial. Mrs. E. A. Deacon of this
town is Vice-President of the local
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
She is lady of splendid capabilities,
and these she has always directed to-
wards the uplifting of humanity. What
Mrs. Deacon says is accepted in East
Randolph without question. No one
has ever doubted her truthfulness or
honesty OF purpose
Mrs. Deacon says: MY attention
was first called to the remarkable cur
alive value of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
through the cure of a literary lady who
was friend of mine, and who from
mental overwork was on the verge of
insanity. After the failure of her ply
stefan to help her, her husband was
advised to have her try Dodd's Kidney
Pills, which she did with gratifying re-
suits. She used five boxes before she
was completely cured. but at the end
of two months treatment, she was her
own happy, brilliant self once more
Feeling 1anguid and worn out my
self, thought they would perhaps be a
help to me, and 1 am very glad to say
that two boxes made a new woman
of me. l feel ten years younger, am in
the very best of health, and appreciate
that it was entirely through the use of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. l give them high
est Endorsement.
These cases are becoming very COM
mon in Cattaraugus County, and many
ladies have had experiences similar to
those of Mrs. Deacon and her friend
What Dodd's Kidney Pills have done
for these suffering women, they will
do for anyone who gives them a fair
trial
They are Soc a box, six boxes for
$3.50. Buy them from your local
druggist if you can. If he cannot sup
ply you, send to the Dodd's Medicine
Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
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His Theology.

His Theology.
..The professor has been a soldier !
notice." said one of the examining
committee, himself an old chaplain OF
the civil war. The committee had met
by appointment to inquire concerning
the professors theological soundness.
The entire seminary was in question,
and there had been some especially
pointed criticism of the new professor
from the west
Yes" replied a member of the
committee, "he went into the army
from college, and quickly rose to the
rank of second lieutenant, though he
was a mere boy
The old chaplain was among the
conservatives, but he had a warm
place in his heart for a comrade. He
resolved, however, that sentiment
should not swerve him. No doubt he
did his duty" he remarked, carelessly-
He won respect for his religion by
his kindness and courage" said the
other member, land he would have ris-
en- higher but for his wound"
Where was he wounded?"
AT Vicksburg, and they thought
fatally. They were bearing him from
the field, and stopped to give his
H.
sword on he said to the surgeon, who
was unbuckling it,
The committee were all giving close
attention, and the old chaplain was Wis
IDLY affected. go on" said he.
The field hospital was close at
hand, out-of-doors. you know, and they
soon did the little that they could do
for him. But when they thought him
nearly gone, he rallied, and in a lull
of the battle began to sing, Jesus,
lover of my SOUL They say his faith
and courage pulled him through. He
was past fighting, but he resumed his
studies, and distinguished himself in
them as he had done on the battle
field
Two or three members of the COM
mittee were wiping their eyes, and
the old chaplain blew his nose hard
Then he said, Gentlemen, patriotism
is one thing and theology another.
and it is theology we are looking af-
ter now. But you can't make me be-
lieve there's any serious heresy in a
man with that kind of religion His
theology is good enough for me-
Youths Companion
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

One need not travel to Monte Carlo
or other gambling resorts to be re-
neved of any superfuous cash, for
there are dozens of places in Sw1tzer-
land, known by the names of kur-
saals, where customer" will be ac-
commodated. Although the play is
limited by law, higher stakes are
winked at, and ones 1osses-for one
invariably loses with an to chance
against at the racehorse game-may
easily run into four figures during the
evening. Some sensational facts have
come to light concerning the kursaal
in Geneva, which is one OF the best
OF its kind in Switzerland The pro-
prietor lately informed a correspondent
that he could not possibly AFFORD to
run his theater and side-shows and
engage well-known artists at huge
salary unless he could recoup him
self from the takings OF the gaming
tabIes.-London Daily Mail.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

A woman reformer recently pulled
from the folds of her gown a soiled
American flag and waved it before
the audience, saying that she had
waved it from public platforms in
every country in Europe. 'More's the
pityi" murmured a much-1oved gen
eral, who had lost his arm in fighting
under that emblem. Those who see in
our flag liberty and justice and mod
Grafton do not necessarily wave it
above their heads; but perhaps they
will sustain it long after those who
every day wrap themselves ostenta-
tiously in its folds have dropped in
the rear.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

STAMPS
Facts About
Their Manufae-
tUre and
Distribution.

for carrying mail matter in Uncle
Sans new oriental archipelago. The
first process in the manufacture OF
stamps at the money mill is to COUNTY
the sheets of blank paper, which are
purchased by contract. This work is
done by women, who, indeed, perform
most of the labor in the bureau of en-
craving and printing, simply because
they have proved themselves more ca
pable than men for business of this
description Each sheet is the proper
size and shape to make 400 printed
stamps, with a small margin. After
they have been counted the sheets are
moistened by laying wet rags between
them at intervals of twenty, and the
following morning, when the rags are
removed, the sheets are ready for
printing. The press for printing post
age stamps in queer-looking machine,
half automatic in it's action 1t is
quite small affair, with four square
steel plates, set horizontally, occupying
the four sides of a horizontal square.
These plates, always horizontal, travel
around the four sides of the square at a
moderate rate of speed, passing in turn
beneath an ink roller. Each of them il
engraved with the faces of 400 stamps,
and after being linked by the roller goez
under a mechanical rubber, which. re-
moves most of the ink. Then the plate
is cleansed of all the rest of the ink
save what is in the craven lines by a
man who rubs it with cloth and his
bare hands, and finally it goes under a
dry, cloth-covered roller, which, sheet
of white paper being interposed, does
the printing All of these processes
are accomplished four times inside OF
half minute. Now comes the gum
ming of the stamps, which is one OF
the most interesting steps in the whole
process The gummed postage stamps
before they are ready for use must be
perforated, so as to be torn apart east
ly, and this process is performed by
machines with rows of small toothed
wheels of brass set parallel to each
other.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

Millions upon millions of new, crisp
currency bills are being turned out by
the bureau of engraving and printing
greenbacks which are constantly COM
ing back into the treasury, to be
eventually ground and smashed up
into pulp. Huge printing presses are
constantly at work in the steel-protect-
ed rooms of the treasury department.
1t is, in fact, safely estimated that by
the close of the present year these
presses will have turned out enough
greenbacks to furnish each of the TO-
100000 inhabitants of this land with
about $40 each. This means that 107,-
100000 of crisp, new bills of various
denominations will be used. In the
matter of postage stamps the figures
are even more enormous, says the
Washington Times. It is estimated
that on an average every man, woman
and child in the United States will use
ifty-three postage stamps during the
year 1901, forty of them being of the
popular 2-cent denomination The
total number consumed will be over
1000, 000,0 900 and nearly 1,000,0O0.000 of
these will be of the 1-cent variety
O1lS pSlSOu OuI VI every tel Will SouQ d
special-delivery letter in the course of
the present year. Cuba, in 1901, will
require about $1,000 900 ordinary
stamps, with 100000 special deliver
ies,' all of which will be turned out at
Uncle Sans money mill in Washing
ton. The Philippines will use up s.
100000 stamps, Porto Rico 100000
and Guam 100000. OF course, Guam,
Porto Rico and the Philippines have no
stamps of their own, properly speak
ing, but are supplied with the ordinary
United States postage stamps, altered
simply by the addition of a word print
ed across the face of each one in I'M
ornamented black letters. Thus all
Guam stamps have the word Guam
marked on them, as if it were for con-
collation., and the word philippines
makes our common stamps serviceable
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Uncle Sans lighthouses.

Few persons know that the United
from some of the largest bathing es-
in America, if not in the
world. The Hot Springs of Arkansas,
which have been a resort for invalids
for many years, are owned by Uncle
Sam and he exacts a payment Of $50 a
tub for the use of the medicated water.
AS there are 534 tubs, the springs
bring him an income from that source
of 5000 a year.
According to tradition the Hot
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

The new Austrian parliament con-
tains no less than twenty-six parties,
with membership ranging from two up
to sixty-four. No party has a major
ity. In elections the Anti-Semites and
the Clerical parties suffered heavily
many of their seats being captured by
Socialists or Nationalist. The Ger
man members outnumber the Poles,
or Czecks, by thirty. 1t is not believed
that any government can long con-
tinue to hold Office
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23
Bill Anthony.s Goodness.

"Bin'' Anthony was one of the bes,
examples that came out of the Spanish
war of the man who can keep his
head when others have lost theirs,
says Richard Harding Davis in Every
body's Magazine. His coolly indir-
ferent announcement to Sigsbee that
the Maine was sinking, either showed
a soul disciplined to the condition of
an automaton, or a spirit which moth
ing could dismay. 1 once asked Cap
tain Sigsbee If the popular version of
Anthony's speech was correct He said
it was, but that Anthony did not sa-
lutte him, as was generally told, nor
preface his speech with Il beg to re-
port, sir I'VE bumped into each
other in the dark Sigsbee said, land
if he had saluted and spoken with that
formality. he would have been think
ing of himself, and of making an eff
feet, and not of his duty What he
really said and did is better without
any of the advantages which came
later"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

The groups of coast-defenders on
duty at life-saying stations are now
having their most trying experiences.
One of the force describes a sentinel
tour along the shore in terrific gale
with binding snow. He was unable
to keep his feet, but crawled to the
outer limit of his beat, and returned
in the same manner. The cold and
fatigue made the night-watching an
exhausting test of endurance and cour-
age. His warning light was happily
not needed, and no vessel came within
the danger line; but the devotion was
ready and the duty faithfully fulfilled.
In the homes of comfort and security,
when darkness and tempest bring no
fear to the householder. let not the
men whose service often means peril
and privation be forgotten. Sympa-
thetic thought, and whatever is needed
to make their lives exempt from un-
necessary suffering. ought to be a glad
offering to the brave and patient men
whose record is an honor to them
selves and to their country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

Springs of Arkansas are the original
fountain of youth of Ponce de Leon
and De Soto. The Indians of Florida
told them that it was toward the set
ting sun and they set out to find 1t.
There is every evidence in history and
tradition that De Soto was there. Tho
earliest Indian legends have associated
with them the idea of the curative vir-
tues of these waters. They surround
every Swallowed valley, mountain nook
and rocky cavern with a halo of ro-
nance that makes the vale OF Va
pOrs' doubly interesting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

The great dam across the Nile at
Assoua, which has just been complet-
ed, is designed to hold back the floods
and provide for a system of regular
irrigation. 1t is expected that some
$4,000 acres of arid land will be made
productive. The dam cost about ST.
100000 and has required two years for
constructions comparatively short
time, when the magnitude of the work
is considered.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-23

In the Georgia legislature a bill has
been introduced to empower the State
Commissioner of Agriculture to in
spect proprietary medicines to see if
they are wholesome or injurious.
When the testers, or "tasters," are in
specting medicines Of an alcoholic ma
ture, it is likely that well-developed
jags will result ere the inspectors will
be qualified to report