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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-09-16
Harold Grindle has fractured a rib.

Harold Grindle has fractured rib.
MAJ nard Biaisdell, of surry, is in town.
Ray Carter has gone to Hebron to
Aechool.
9sfienry Powers, of Boston, is the guest
OF Mrs. Georgia Foley.
Mrs Dora Dodge, of Boston, is visiting
her brother, Henry Flye.
Mrs. Nellie Stanley and daughter Mae
leave to day for Fitchburg, Mass.
e. K Hopkins and s. q. Stevens, of
Ellsworth, were in town last week.
Miss Lena Cousins went to Castine
Monday to attend the normal school.
Miss Carrie Freethey left Friday for
Providence, r. l., where she will teach. !
Miss Laura Stewart returned Friday
to Providence, r. l., where she is at
school. II
Miss Mary Herrick leaves to-day fer
BluehiIi, where she Will attend school at
the academy.
Mrs. Lima Bartlett Cunningham, of Bar
Harbor, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Hiram Bartlett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fielding, of Portland,
were the guests of Mrs. Herrick's father,
Amos Herrick, last week.
ii. NJ. Pease, Lester Nutter and E. IL.
Bridges came home last week from Booth
bay, where they have been employed.
Mrs. Eugene Kane returned Tuesday
from Beverly, Mass, where she has been
faftf Q
wife. -
Harry IngersolI and Helen Storms, of
Providence, X. l., who have been spend
ing the summer with their grsndmother
Mrs. Rachel Well, returned home last
week. ~
Schools began to- day in the several pre-
cincts-North BROOKLYN, Mrs. Alens Fiye
Corner, Mrs. Nellie Hagerthy, OF Surry (;
Cole precinct, Miss Jennie Cole; Naskeag,
Miss Mary Nelson; Haven, Miss Kate
Coombs, of West Brooksvile; West
BROOKLYN, Miss Musa Doilard. The
schools st No. I and the Bay open next
Ionday with Miss Gertrude Parker and
.. L. Flye teachers.
Mrs. Sarah L. Closson, formerly of tits
place, died in Arlington, Mass, a the
home of her daughter, Mrs. T. W. Talco t.,
Sept 8, in the eighty ninth year OF her
age. Mrs! Closson vas born at Mt
Desert; she was lhs oldest member of
the woman's relief corps of Maine. For
the past nine years she hsd lived with her
daughter in Arlington. She wes stricken
with paralysis ON Aug. 80. Up to that
time sns had been well. and able to go
about the house, dong much sewing on
quiire and fancy work. She leaves four
dau9h nj RS and two sons Mrs. Frank
Go. -op, of South Buehill, Mrs. It. w
Ta,ctpt, of Arlington, Mass, Mrs. Joseph
Borsey, OF Bucksport, Mrs. Matilda
Alb G. OF West fremont; Serino Closson,
of ii ooro, Mass, and John A. Closson,
of Rhode Island. The floral tributes
were many and beautiful. Interment was
at Nat. Pleasant cemetery, Arlington, by
the side of her SON Orrin.
Sept. IA. UNE FEMME.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-09-16
COUNTY NEWS.
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Mrs. LYDIA Hoegsins is visiting relatives
in Waltham.
Lamoine grange has resumed its regular
weekly meetings.
Miss Cordie King is home from her sea-
sons employment.
Miss Vera Berry is visiting her sister at
Northe Harbor.
John and Clarence King have resumed
their studies at Hebron academy.
Miss Ethel Haynes, VINO has been at
Capt. Charles Hodgkins' during the sea-
son, has eturned home.
Mrs. Charles Cushing and daughter
Winifred, who have been spending the
summer with Mrs. Cushing's father, Capt.
g. B. Hodgk!ns, returned to their home
in Waltham yesterday.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-09-16
MARLBORO.
Sept. IA.

Mrs. Colman Hodgkins is in Boston.
DR.. A. l.. Douglass, wife and child, OF
Woonsocket, are visiting his father, john
Douglass.
Mrs. Frank Closson and Miss Margery
CIosson, of Bayside, spent few days last
week with friends here.
Mrs. Warren Weatherbee and children,
of Bangor, spent last week with her
cousin, Mrs. s. H. Remick. William
Weatherbee, of Bangor, is the guest of
Mr.. Remick and family.
Sept. IA. ARE.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-09-16
ARE.
NORTH LAMoINE.

Mrs. Jabez Trip is visiting her son
Alton at the corner.
Jack Christie and his sister Hannah have
returned from Bar Harbor, where they
have been employed.
Sept. IA. Y.
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COUNTY EWS.
BROOKLYN.

.'.e aaasfsorss. COUNTY News - othe+ papsa
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

Remove the fat from a thick piece
Of rump steak weighing about three
pounds and with a sharp knife make
a slit on one side, passing it through
the meat, but without severing the
edges. Fill the opening with savory
stufing, then press it together and tie
it at each end; brush it over with
warm butter, -four it, cover it with a
thick piece of CREASED paper, and cook
the meat in a baking tin containing
some hot dripping in a moderate oven.
1t must be basted frequently, and
about - minutes before 1T is taken
from the oven the paper must be re-
moved for the meat to brown Serve
the meat surrounded by mushroom
sauce and garnish the dish with large
mushrooms (Which have been cooked
in butter), with little heap Of grated
horSeradish on each. - Detroit Free
Press.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
cloua. without DIT.

For 20 years the assertion Of Dr..
Aitken, based on a series Of beautiful
experiments, that clouds cannot form
in the air without dust particles to
serve as nuclei for condensation, has
been accepted, but now DR.. Aitken him
self has made little sensation by dis
proving his own previous statement
he has found that certain gases, such
- hydrogen peroxide, sulphureted ny
urogen and chlorine, when present in
the atmosphere, are converted by the
sction Of sunlight into nuclei, upon
which cloudy condensation can take
place Accordingly, although dust is
ordinarily necessary for cloud forma-
ton, yet clouds may form in dustIess
air miles above the earth. It should
be added that when his original conclu-
sion was published DR.. Aitken admit
ted the possibility that sunshine might
Great gaseous nuclei, but he has only
recently established the fact that it
dOes.-Science.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

An eccentric old gentleman named
Chapelin lately died at MOnhoudou, in
the department Of Sarthe, who had
caused a monumental tomb to be
built on a piece of land adjoining the
cemetery. In this tomb he had for 20
years past spent several hours a day,
often sleeping there, in order, as be
said, TO get used to his future dwelling
place. At his house he kept the coffin
in which he was to be buried, and used
it as a bed, while he invariably had his
winding sheet or shrOud laid on the
table in the dining-roOm in lieu of
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
PortraIt. On Toabstonss.

Marble dealers are taking . keen
interest in an enterprise, which had
fits origin in Denmark, for reproducing
the pictures of dead persons on their
tombstones. They say that 1t IL very
probable that the movement win
spread to America in q short time.
The Observation-Disclosures craze
started among the Danes as q result of
the use Of artificial marble. A Danish
master builder succeeded In producing
q stone of such delicate tints that II
was impossible to distinguish it from
the natural product. The imitation
of the more expensive species was
found to cost far less than the natural,
and 10 made in any form desired-col-
umns, plain or huted, and capitals-as
readily as fat slabs. The durability is
said to be Is great as that Of the gen
uine marble. It was found that II
was possible to reproduce, by carving,
Q picture Of the deceased person, in
the imitation marble, much easier and
far cheaper than the work could be
done with the genuine Grticle--Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

The Incidence of the people and
TIE lack Of non-enforcemsnt of sani-
tary lava" said . recent arrival from
the West Indies, makes some Of the
Jamaica towns candidates for first
class garbage service. There is one
creature which attracts attention from
the visitor when he first lands on the
Island. Il q q bird called John Crow.
So highly n he honored that . range
Of mountains In the eastern part of
Portland parish has been named after
lin. Here, Ike the maroons, John
Crow has his own domain. Black of
coat, ragged Of wing, red a. TO head,
looking e. IL he had just emerged
second best from a fight, he has been
miEnamed vulture, but John Crow is
protected by the law as a scavenger.
BE IL always overhead, or in the
street, backyard or stable-in fact,
everywhere where filth abounds, and
he clears It away by q gastronomic
process peculiarly his own. John
Crow fears no man and he offers no
indignity to q passer-by, with the ex-
ception that John Crow has q very
loud breath he sleeps on backyard
fences, In trees and about houses. he
rises with the sun and begins his
sanitary duties for the health of those
about him.-Baltimore Sun.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Me1Ico's Mining Indu.try.

Over 10000 men are engaged in
mining in Mexico, whose salaries
place in circulation daily at least
100000. The production of the
mines of Mexico is reported to be.
and pays taxes on, $4,000, 900, part
of which is exported in bars and part
coined, according to fiscal statistics.
Add to this the production of coal
and iron and the gold which crosses
the frontier without going through
the customs houses, and it may nat
urally be presumed that the total
production of minerals is not less
than S15O,OOO, 900 per annum.-N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
spsetaeIea In Germany.

The German emperor has entered
upon a new phase of his development,
II we are to believe the statement
that he was lately seen reading the
newspapers in a railway train with the
help of a pince-nez. Nor is this to be
wondered at when we remember the
lament once made by the kaiser him
self, who, speaking of his school days
at Cassel, remarked that out of a class
of 20 mo fewer than IS of his fellow
pupils wore spectacles, while two Of
these, with their glasses on, could not
even see the length of the table" As
compared with other nations, the
Germans may be described as a spec
tacle-wearing people, and there can
be no doubt that the main cause of
their defective sight is the peculiar
character of their type, which is most
trying to the eyes. The present en-
peror, no less than Bismarck, has al
ways protested on patriotic grounds
against the substitution Of the Roman
for the Teutonic, or black letter, char
acter in print, and both have had to
suffer equally for their Chauvinism.-
London Chronicle.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
aonethInr About Jelly Fiah.

The bay of Naples, Italy, abOunds
in dusea, or jellyfsh, often growing
as large as two feet in diameter and
weighing so or 60 pounds. Some Of
them shine at night with q greenish
light, and are known as "nOctiluca"
might lanterns) by the natives. The
jellyhsh sometimes move in great
groups, sometimes so large and -
thick as to nearly stop the cOurss
Of vessels. like the floating plants
in the sargasso sea of the tropics.
The shoals of jellyfsh are sometimes
so dense that a piece Of timber
plunged in among them will be held
upright, as if stuck in the mud, and
ordinary rowbOats cannot force their
way among them. The reason for
their moving about has never been
explained; they are irregular, and
occur at no particular season of the
year and under no particular inhu-
ence.-BrOOklyn Eagle.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
ABridre ofCOmns.

Engineers, as most of us know, are
famous for their ready resources in
emergencies. During the recent Chi
nese war it was necessary to get q
number of troops across a river in .
great hurry, to prevent the enemy
taking an important position. There
was no bridge and there were no
boats. An engineer took a detach-
ment to a village near by, raided it
and came back with a number Of
coolies, each carrying one of these
large painted collins which every
Chlnaman keeps in his house. With
these as pontoons a bridge was inn
Provised, and the men got across in
time, thereby saving the loss Of
much time, ammunition and, per-
haPs, valuable lives.-N. Y. Sun.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

Everyone has heard of Astrakhan
fur, but how many have heard Of
"breitschwantz?" Yet it is also As
trakhan fur, though not exactly the
kind Of fur that is usually worn. It
is obtained, not from living animals,
but from those which have not vet
been born, and ii naturally follows
that in order to obtain it the mothers
must first be killed. According to for
eign journals, "breitschwantz" fur is
in great demand at present, and, as
It is not easily procured, it is unusual
" costly. The name fur" is hardly ap-
plicsble to it, as there are only faint
traces of hair on the tender Skin.-De-
troit Free Press.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Big Crown Land.

Among the great ground landlords
in London the crown is one of the
greatest, owning properties in vari-
Gus parts of the capital yielding in
ground rents R46O,OOO per annum.
Fifteen years ago the estates pro-
duce e25O,OOO only; but many leases
have fallen in within that time, and
the increased rents have been ex-
acted for renewal fines or for new
leases. The Carlton hotel is a strik-
ing instance of the increased value
of ground in London. Formerly the
site on which the hotel stands was
held from the crown for a ground
rent of e763 per annum; now e4,-
200 yearly has to be paid.-LOndon
Express
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
WOaoa Hsu CaErIsns.

II Is discovered that nearly Is
women are serving as rural delivery
mail carriers. No women are Gp-
pointed Is mail carriers in the cities
and the post ONCE department Is OPP
posed 70 women doing such work
anywhere, 1t being deemed too severe
for them. The appointments in the
rural free delivery service would not
have been made II It had been known
that the candidates were women. OF
the $500 rural free delivery routes
in operation June 90 last Iowa led
With III. The other states having
the largest number Of routes were:
Ohio, IA; Illinois, 766; Indiana, 654.
The average number Of pieces Of
ma1 handled on each Of the routes
each day was 1s2.-Detroit Free
Press.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
AneIent Doh Cnnnhnr.

The governor of the ancient citadel
Of Aquila, contemplating repairs in
the subterrRnean arrangements of
the old pile, a wall was broken
through, WhereupOn an ancient death
chamber was discovered full of bodies
Of men and women, many of them
wearing uniforms and fine dresses.
The bodies being shut OF from air,
were perfectly preserved; there were
no cohins. Some of the corpses leaned
against the walls, others lay in heaps
on the floor. Investigation showed
that the dead were prisoners Of war
during the French invasion Of 1875, and
that they were murdered by the gar
risOn or by the French when the
citadel was taken. Many of the
bodies show stab and shot wounds;
others had knives and stilettos stick
ing in their throat or breast. One
hundred and forty-five bodies were re-
covered, among them many belonging
to noble Italian families, according to
papers found in their clothes.-Lon-
don News.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
conere for PoIIesRsa.

There Is q poIiceman's college in
st. Petersburg to train applicants for
the force. There 81 Q museum CON-
bined with the school where the pu-
pills make themselves familiar with
the tools Of criminals, jtmmies, drills,
chisels and contriVsneeS for robbing
collection boxes, q special field of
Russian thieves. The Russian pass
port system Is studied IN detail The
duties Of the dVornilZs, q sort Of as
Eistsnt police, are taught. They keep
watch On the residences, report on
the HABITS Of tenants, their ViEitors,
examine the papers Of newcomers
and direct them to report themselves
ct the police station The members
Of such q clever and complicated Eys-
ten need careful instruction.-N. Y.
Tribune.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
d - % II Enpreasien.


In q rear green car moving along
Ehe avenue toward the capitol the
other afternoon sat q pretty and hand
somely gowned woman Of 50 or 50.
Occasionally her eyes wandered to
the back platform, upon which . cou-
pie Of men were standing, enjoying
their cigars. One Of them was . big,
MISUNDERSTANDING chap The ear
Was about ct Sixth street, when .
pretty woman In the car caught the
eve Of the big fellow on the rear plat
form. She screwed her left optic into
4 most mischieVous wink and smiled
q hin. he smiled back ct her.
"WeIl, you're all right, beau" ioVi-
ally remarked the man standing next
20 the big fellow on the platform, who
had observed the pretty Womsn's wink
and smile. THAT queens yours, al
right"
well, 1 hope 90, pal" gOod-nA-
turedly replied the big chap, grin
ming and throwing away his cigar
butt. I've been married TO her for
eight years now"
Then he went into the car and
Joined his wife, while the man who
remained on the rear platform
looked foolish.-Washington Post
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Telegraph Faets.

Every day that u telegraph operator
works at three minutes before II there
is only one man in the whole country
from San Francisco to New York that
is privileged to use his key. That man
is the operator at Washington. In
those three minutes every key is open
and all operators wait for three min
utes' ticking which tells them the cor
rect time. From that ticking every tel
egraph cOmpany's clock is set. There
are at least 10000 operators at work.
Taking three minutes from every one
of them equals $4,000 minutes idled
away with every day. 1t would take
one man 125 years to do the listening
of all these men for those few min
utes. At the rate of $50 a month, and
working for the required number of
years, this man would receive $751;
900. This is what the companies pay
to their men a year for just listen
ing.-Boston journal.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

The king Of Greece has an aid Dc
camp who reiOices in the name Of
PappadiHmAntopOulOs. In the ordi-
nary course Of things, the gallant
colonel would accompany his Hellenic
majesty on his travels abroad every
summer, but his name was found to
leave . train of diElocated jaws in
the royal wake; moreover, IL was
charged 90 two words In kilograms
and was mutilsted BY tslegraphists
beyond al recognition; 80 he il now
left ct home, and . gentleman Of the
name Of ThOn takes his place IN at
tendance on King George on his an
nual vista to Aix-les-Bains and Paris.
Even SOuthey's Russian general
terrible man with = terrible name"
would have paled his Intellectual fires
in the presence Of PappadiamantO-
poalosl-WestminEter Gazette.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

Constituent-''Ar. Pullman, have
read that speech you delivered the
other day on the question Of public
ownership, and there's one thing 1
can't understand about IL. What did
you say so much about aluminium
for2 You spoke about it so times in
the course Of your remarks, and 1
couldn't see that it had any conneo-
ton with the rest Of the speech
Eminent Citizen mortified and in
6ignant)-Aluminium? Good hesyensl
The ignoramus that copied the speech
for publication must have got It
wrong. The word used % much wa
'altruismI' Chicago Tribune.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

Prisoner" said the Judge, 'the
sentence Of this court il that you be
confined in the state Penitentiary
for Eve years, at hard labor, and
take occasion to express the hope
that at the expiration Of that time
you viii so far have reformed that
you win no longer try to make q Nv
ing without work..
"Your honor" said the convicted
wretch, Hudhing with Indignation, 'if
you think IL sin't no work TO 90 out
ct two o'clock in the mornin' when
it's down below zero, and akin up
steep porches with the root al COW
cred With NOV, you ort % try It
oncoI"-Chicago Tribune.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Her Mefhod.

They were just concluding a series
of first aid to the injured" lessons
in one Of the settlements, and the
worker in charge thought it might
be a good idea to have a written
test. Among other questions she
wrote:
How would you restore conscious
ness to a person who had been res
cued from drowning?"
In answer to this a maiden with an
affection for pOlysyllables wrote:
when the resuscitatiOn Of anima-
ton is complete plump the person on
a barrel till he is thoroughly ex-
hausted. IN. Y. Times.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Deerease Of Bettipr.

Early in the last century men bet
ted on every conceivable sport and
pastime. Nearly every cricket match
of which record exists was for 500
or sometimes 1000 guineas a side. At
every cock fight there was a great
deal Of wagering; people backed
horses e. they do now Except, as it
appears, usually for much larger
sums than are now betted), and very
often odds were laid and taken about
the result of q days shOoting.-Bad-
mintoD Magazine.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
SIN ReIIIrereIt.

Miss Peacemaker-Come now, why
don't you and Miss oldun become
friends again?
Miss snaPpe-Oh, 1 don't see the
sense Of going TO all that trouble for
her.
But II isn't any more trouble for
you to make up than it is for her."
Don't you believe it. She's used to
making up, for she's been doing it for
years."-PhiladelPhia Press.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Generous.

If could only get bite to eat, " he
whined.
why don't you wOrk?" she asked.
"Nothin' doin' in my line" he an
swered. "Tm a dime museum glass
eater, an they're gettin' too COM
mon"
Poor mani" she said, sympatheti-
caIly. "COme right in, and you can
have the two goblets and the glass
dish the girl broke this morning.
Chicago Post.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

The French ariEtOcrats before the
revolution were not conspicuous for
morality, but they were probably the
most highly civilized, witty and In
tsIlectual ariEtocracy the world has
ever seen AsSuredly they would
have looked on these eard-plsying,
betting and hunting contemporaries
Of ours e. des ruEtres. Does one
wonder that q reaction took place
some years ago, and that the Society
Of Souls came into being?-LOndon
Ladies' Fiald.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Tnn Mueh TAX.

On one occasion when . boarder
had deVoured everything satable on
the table within his reach, and when
the landlsdy had supplied until her
strength and patience were we'll
nigh exhausted, abe suddenly broke
out with: II shall certainly have to
raise the price of your board!"
Don't think of doing such q thing, /"
he replied, cit is nearly killing me
now to eat al pay for, and should
you raise my board and compel me
to eat more it viii be the death of
Chicago Chronicle.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Her Husbands UnIform.

At the Paris pawn house about
$1,000 watches and 10000 wedding
rings are deposited every year. The
oldest objects there in 1900 was a
suit of clothes on which five francs
had been advanced in 1869 1t be-
lorged to a soldier who fell in the
war of 1870, and whose widow paid
her annual due on it Cor over 30
years in the hope of being able some
day to redeem it.-BroOklyn Eagle.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Score one fer JENNY.

Msmms-JOhnny, did you wipe
your feet on the mat WhSn you
came INF
JOHNNY couldn't get my shoe
strings united; they were in . hard
knot.
"But what have shOestrings to do
with it2"
81 couldn't wipe my feet without
taking on my shoes, could IF'-BOs-
ton Transcript.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31
Mama InhumanIty to Man.

First Detective-How did you man.
age to get a confession from that des-
perado?
Second Detective-Wen, you see we
travelled together by rail for 200 miles.
But what had that to do with his
confession?"
81 bought a cigar of the train boy
and gave it to him. After smoking it
he thought he was going to die, so he
told me everything."-Oakland Trib-
une.
The broad ax., 1903-01-31

Along the line of the Trenton-New
Brunswick railroad, between Mill
town and Dayton, is a ramshackle old
barn, at the end of which are a wind
mill tower and a windmill that look
like a piece out of Dutch landscape.
The natives tell wonderful stories of
the mills history-hOw il was brought
from Holland in sections many years
ago and erected by the then owner
of the farm, a worthy descendant of a
line of burghers with an ancestry that
would give him the seat of honor at a
reunion of the Holland society. AS a
matter of fact, however, the mill is
only about 20 years old, and it was
buih by an Irish carpenter, who was
employed by the Scotchman who oc-
cupied the farm, renting it from
Frenchman who then held title to the
property. But il makes an interest
ing, though a spurious, antique, and
it is a veritable treasure trove for
small army of water cOlorists, sketch
ers and amateur photographer
New Brunswick News.