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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
Wolfe Tone.

desultory and enormous reader of
plays and novels, with an impish hui
NOR and a facility and felicity of quo
tation which never deserted him under
the most terrific circumstances, Wolfe
Tones style is throughout literary and
In that sense artificial, but be had a
passion for facts and healthy deter
mination to see things as they really
We're. He was perfectly free from every
kind of illusion, delusion and humbug.
He was very much alive TO the humor-
GUS side of all things, including him
self. The diaries are full of entries like
this:
II cannot help this morning thinking
of Gil Bias when he was secretary to
the Duke of Lerma. Yesterday l dined
with Carnot. Today | should be puz-
zled to raise a guinea"
Wolfe Tone at the bottom of his
heart was grave enough. His death is
warrant for this. But he belonged by
the order of his mind to the Knockers,
Tones widow, though she had doubt
less good deal to put up with, mourn
ed her husbands loss for seventeen
years. when she married one who shar-
ed her yeneration for Tones memory,
His son grew up to be proud of his
fathers sufferings in what he was
taught to believe was q good cause.
Ireland has never forgotten Tone ana
probably never will.-Contemporary
Review.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

They were talking about the intelli-
gence of dogs, and after each man in
the group had cracked up his own the
Mount Airy man said: II have fox
terrier named Troubles who not only
seems to understand everything that is
said TO him. but who even takes in con-
versation of general character that
isn't addressed to him. Our servant
girl has been suffering from bad cold,
and the other day. when she went out
into the yard to hang up clothes, my
wife noticed that the ground was very
damp. Mary, you ought to have rub
bers on out there she called from a
window. Now, Troubles happened to
overhear this remark, and what do you
suppose that dog did? He ran to the
hall. picked up rubber shoe, hustled
out into the yard and dropped 1t at the
girls feet Then he hurried back and
repeated the performance with the 9th
or shoe. Don't tell me dogs don't un-
derstand the English language. Phil
adelphia Record.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
INC STANDARDIZATION Of ana Tip.

Progress Is largely the mnit plying OF
Devices FOR prosiding man with what he
wants without obllgipg him to ask for Il.
Il Is the Bringing Of comfort With
saving OF mental and physical effort, says
TIE Saturday Erenfng Post.
AL things considois d. progress has done
very we'll. II has done III mainly in It's
OVERRIDING. For progress Is like ambition
~ hen 1t overleaps itsolf II falls on the
other side In much unbappiness. Per-
nsps Ia no respect has II Wanted its ex-
cts-fs With more deplorabie consequences
Tor the human race than In it's overreach-
ing esgerness 10 add items to the bill-of-
fare.
In great cities nowadays II Is easy to
get any, hing you want except just what
you really do want. fhe overloaded
menu Is the cause. Man attacks 1t with
ave and throws Il down in desperation.
Every day it becomes more hateful to
him. From every meal hs arises with
conviction that be should be happy II he
could return to another age when there
we're not 50 many things to eat.
II Is really delight in the mystifica-
tions OF the menu to find waiter
who will take the responsibility Of
the selection and place upon the table
simple repast that did not have to be
laboriousiy selected from the card. There
les. indeed, future ready to hand for the
humble waiter who will study bis patrons
a. doctors study their patients and pre-
scribe for them.
For this man there must be reward,
and II be will only keey up his good work
be msy succeed Ia robbing the tipping
evil OF all It's shame and making the sill
YER left upon the plate shining proof Of
mans proper appreciation.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

The Black Watch distinguished itself
at Fontenoy by mode of warfare
which at the time surprised both friend
and foe, but has since become a recog-
nized maneuyer. Unable to get at the
French infantry, who were strongly
intrenched, and being therefore in
capable of using their formidable
broadswords with effect, the Forty-sec-
ond highlanders, after marching to
the ground TO the music Of their own
hagplpes to take up position, fired a
volley and then ''clapped down at full
length on the ground to let the enc
my's shots pass over them The only
exception to this prone attitude was
the colonel. Sir RobeFt Monro, who was
so fat and unwieldy that, had he lain
down. it would have required lever
to lift him again.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
WEATHER AT THE FAIR.
Cool Nights and Delightful Days to
lie Expected at st. Louis.

Usually the warmest month OF the
year, July proved TO be one Of the most
pleasant of the Worlds Fair season.
the average temperature being 81 de.
grees. record lower than that made
By either Boston, New York. Phiiadel.
phia. Cincinnati or Chicago. The
weather bureau records show that the
temperatures in ST. Louis during July
were just between the extremes re.
corded at New Orleans and st. Paul.
cities located at great variance.
August in st. Louis is month of
cool nights. and September and octo-
Der are the most delightful months of
the year. lt is that period known as
Indian summer. when the foliage and
birds Iinger to challenge the coming
winter. Nowhere on the American con-
tinent is there spot more delightful
than the Worlds Fair city. garden
Of blooming flowers and spraying foun-
tains.
st. Louis. like all cities. experienced
several hot days during July. but her
highest temperature recorded was SO
Gt'eEttS HNdAUst u ue-feSS EtEAsteItu
by the thermometer Mt Chicago. On
the same day the mercury rose to 90
degrees In Philadelphia. and scores of
heat prostrations wcrs reported from
New York and Boston.
The relative humidity shows st.
Louis TO be about normal. Assuming
absolutely no moisture in the atmos-
phere to be zero and absolute wetness to
be 100. tue relative huinidities for July.
taken from tie records of more than
twenty years, Boston shows FOG, New
York I'D, Philadelphia CSC, Cincln-
natl GIG. Chicago G6.9 and st. Louis
6G.3. The same degree of heat in two
places. with different degrees of hui
nudity. would cause II TO seem the
hotter at the point Of greater density.
St Louis may therefore rightly claim
to he n summer resort this summer.
positively one Of the most comfortable
AMI delightful p!aces on the map.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
REPRESENTATIVE MEN
F, the Worlds Fair a. "a Educa-
tIona1 Institution.

The public 'utteranccs Of distinguish
I'd men who have r@slied the worlds
fair have but one note. and that Of
emphatic praise Here are some Of
their comments:
Hon John Hay secretary Of state; -
have never sren nor heard o. anything o.
hnes
Hon Leslie = shaw. secrs.s-v 81 The
treasury "Any fatsar - brieh. boy can
afford 70 send hm To she Pair aaa8iy O.
study any enc " az Ieaat a thousand *
hIblts"
Hon. Charles II. Grosvenor of Oaio. -
visit 81 ten days ~ man OF o7aia1ry
aptuess and appreclative capacity 70 the
Fair lie almost equal to pastgfaauate
course IN a university"
Hon. Benjamin Il odeu. governor or
New York: st. Lou-s has been badly mis-
represented By accounts which say that
her weather Is unbearable The Fair Is
wonderful"
Hon. George c. Pardee. governor Of Cali
fornia; "The governor Of the Golden State
who has spent all his life within her bor-
ders. finds that he knew only a little
about his state until he came 20 the Fair
and saw all her varied products assembled
together"
Hon. Albert D. Cummins. governor Of
Iowa: The Louisiana Purchase Exposi.
tion is on the grandest scale Of any expo
sition the world has ever seen"
Hon. Richard Yates. governor OF III
nois: 1.-THE more l see of the Exposition
the more | enjoy it,"
Hon. Fennimorc Chntterton, governor Of
Wyoming: Il wish the Fair the greatest
success IL certainly deserves il.
Hon. Franklin Murphy. governor Of New
Jersey: ut Is We'll worth coming from
New Jersey 70 see even small part OF
this Fair
Hon. A. Il. White. governor Of West
Virginia: Il cannot speak too strongly OF
the greatness of this Fair"
Hon. William ]. Bryan: THE Exposi-
ton is an unparalleled wonder"
Hon. John Sharp Williams. member OF
congress from Mississippi: 1.-The most
wonderful thing Of its kind
Hon. Hoke Smith of Georgia. formerly
secretary OF interior under President
Cleveland: Il am highly pleased with the
Exposition and believe 1t to be one OF tht
trIumphs of modern civilization"
Hon. Perry Belmont of New York: "Iu
magnitude and beauty the Fair is wonder
ful. 1t is worth coming a long distance
to see"
Hon Daniel ]. Campau, chairman of the
national convention at st. Louis; 1T is
positively sinful for parents to fail TO
bring their children to see the Fair"
NJ. Paul Dupuy, editor Of LIE Petit Pari-
sien of Paris. France: 81 admire the Ex-
position for its irnmensty. its spirit of the
sublime. its general beauty and its com
pleteness."
Prince George of Bavaria: II have never
seen anything prettier than the ST. Louis
Worlds Fair buildings when outlined at
night with their millions of electric
lights"
Hon Louis E. McComas of Maryland;
THE greatest Fair in the world
Hon. John f, Dryden of New Jersey:
1.-THE people have no idea of the greatness
of the Exposition. Every American should
see it."
r P. Shants, president of the Clover
Leaf route of Chicago: 1.-The Fair is big
success and will continue to become
greater success as it progresses
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
1890 my.ns.

japanese believe in more mythical
creatures than any other people ON the
globe civilized or sSvagc. Among these
are serpents 500 feet long and large
enough TO swallow an elephant, foxes
with eight legs. monkeys with four
ears and fishes with ten heads attached
to one body. They also believe in the
existence Of crane which, after il has
lived for 600 years, has no need Of any
sustenance except water.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

Little Rodney-Papa, what is the
difference between climate and wealth
er? Mr.. Wayout (of Dismalhurst-on-
the Blink)-Climate, my son, is what
a locality has when you are buying n
home there, and weather is what it has
afterward.-Puck.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
TaIleyrand,s sharp Tongue.

When Nine de Stael published her
celebrated novel, 'Delphine," she was
supposed 10 have painted herself in the
person of the heroine, and NJ. Talley-
rand in that of an elderly lady, who is
one of the principal characters. They
tell me-" said he, the first time he met
her, that we are both of us in your
novel in the disguise of women"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14
ola English Tracts.

English tracts and sermons OF the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
are interesting ON account of the
strange phraseology- kind of re-
ligious slang which they reveal. Their
titles exemplify this slang well, and
the following are few of them:
'srhe Spiritual Mustard Pot, to Make
the Soul sneeze With Devotion"
"The Shutters of Divine Love"
Crumbs OF Comfort For Hungry
Hoseis.p
biscuits Baked In the Oven of
Charity, Carefully Conserved For
Chickens Of the Church. Sparrows of
the Spirit and Sweet Swallows Of Sal
Yation."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

The man who Is miserable and makes
a bluff at happiness is a benefactor for
keeping his sorrows to himself.-Baltf-
more American.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

Brown just discovered what it is that
destroys mans memory completely.
Greep-What is it-alcohol or tobacco;
Browu-Neither; It's doing him a favor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

For forty years DIR. FowleI's Extract of WIND
Strawberry has been curing summer complaint.
dysentery. diarrh@a, bloody hux. pain in the
stomsch, and IT has never yet failed to do every
thing claimed for it.-Advt.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

Don't let the lille ones suffer from eczema or
other torturing skin diseases. No need for It..
Doan's Ointment cures. Can't harm the most
delicate skin. At any drug store, so CENTS
-Adpf
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

Van X.-Why are you going into the
soap business? De Q.-To clean up
some money, of course.-Detroit Free
Press.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

Johnny-Pa. what is a debt of honor?
Pa-It is a debt that Is incurred in a
5ishonorable way, Johnny. - Boston
Transcript.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-14

IL don't want TO speak to you again
about your reckless expenditure OF
money! said the stern parent. "Ali
right, dad ;" replied the incorrigible youth.
thereafter 1t will be Up to you to hand
out the coin and say nothing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
chicago's Millennium.
.>T1h, Nta~x.;fk, nrivar

The day is coming when In all Chi
cago there will not be found one sa
loon or gambling house-not even III
Chicago, at once the best city and the
worst city in the world The day Is
coming when a self-respecting press
Will no longer be bribed or cajoled into
being yellow" promoting crime by
giving it's methods and achievements
wings In every edition. regular and ex-
ira, multiplying and inspiring criml-
nails by making the criminal notorious
reportorially, pictorially and editor
tally; promoting gambling by pub
fishing tables, schedules and reports
not unfrequently in extra editions;
promoting drunkenness and drunkard
making by pandering for pelf to the
drunkard- maker; putting limttless
space at the command of the brewec
the distiller, and the schooner; pro-
noting smuggling and other brutalities
by pandering, in broadsides and who's
editions, to the basest passions of the
basest elements OF the basest dives and
retreats OF both city and country, and
promoting the deadliest gangrene Ia
both civil and official life by reck-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
THE BLOSSOM OF A CENTURY.

AT noon today a century after the
purchase of Louisiana by Thomas JEFF
ferson, third president OF the United
States. President Roosevelt the twen-
ty-flfth chief executive from his place
IN the White House gave the signal for
the actual opening of the great expo
sition which is to celebrate the CEN
tennial OF the Louisiana Purchase
Perhaps the wrath of the sage of Mon
ticello stood by the side of the rough
rider and pressed with shadowy fin
ger the electric button that Jefferson
living had never KNOWN to the open
ing of an exposition more magnificent
than he had even imagined. of the mar
vicious development OF an empire of
winch To purchaser had never dreamed,
Fifty years after Jefferson had stretch
ed his presidential prerogative until 1t
cracked" in the acquisition of this great
territory there Were hardly 100000
people in the region west of the Miss
issfppi river. According to the census
of 1900, the population was 21,034,654.
In fifty years the aggregate popula-
ton had increased 957 per cent. The
percentage Of native born Americans is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
TOPICS OF i EtE
TIMES = = =

Carrie Nation is in dime museum
in Chicago. 1t costs the price Oh TWO
beers to see Carrie now.
Rerimental politics is credited with
having caused the mastering out OF the
uamnton company of the ]. n. q. An
ATTEMPT Is likely to be made toward
the formation of a new company there
and ask admission into the Fifty-thlrd
regiment
The Carroll Sentinel has been forced
ia discontinue its monthly magazine
thru a ruling of the postoffice depart
ment. which has declined to admit the
magazine to the mails as second class
matter. The decision is signed by Ed
win c. Madden, third assistant post
master general. and says: 1T Is held
that this publication is not, as q. matter
of fact issued from the known office
of publication. 1t is also held that 1T
is designed primarily for advertising
purposes
McClure's Magazine for May prints
a most interesting excerpt from letter
written by President Roosevelt to Ray
Stannard Baker, commenting on his
discussion of Great Labor Conflicts"
in that magazine. in which the presi-
dent defines his attitude toward CAPT
tai and labor as follows: Il believe In
7 mol in do
Both have come to stay and are ne
cessities in our present industrial sys-
tenn But where III either one or the
other there develops corruption or mere
brutal indifference to the rights of 9TH
ers. and short sighted refusal to look
beyond the moments gain, then the Of
nder, whether union CT corporation
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30

parties and we would better shut up
shop and place the democratic party in
the hands OF a receiver
The Hampton Recorder SAYS that
"the average boy who graduates from
our high school at the age of nineteen
or twenty. is a 'misfit,' unless he is de-
signed for a profession, and his parents
have three to five thousand dollars to
spend in putting him thru four years
OF college and three or four years of a
professional school afterwards. The fact
is continues the Recorder that the
boy who is to be a farmer, a mechanic
or a merchant, ought at sixteen 10 be,
especially in the summer, either on a
farm, at work, or in a shop learning his
trade. or getting the education behind
the counter to fit him for the occupa-
ton that he is to follow"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
MEMORIAL nay BASE BALL.

In we'll timed and moderate arti-
Gle the Atlanta Journal pleads for the
suspension of base bah on Memorial
day, and for a quiet and thoughtful
celebration of the sacred holiday.
set aside to the memory of patriotism
and self-abnegation. The Journal
urges that:
The children of confederate parents
should be taught the lessons of sober
duty on memorial days. It Is not
claimed that the hours should be
spent in vainglorious declarations OF
undue laudation; but the lessons of the
civil war should be taught in q spirit
OF meekness and thankfulness over
the ashes of the dead, who gave up
life and all that mortal existence rep
resents at the .call OF their country IN
d hopeless struggle. We must teach
these young people that heroism
courage. bravery. with patriotism, arc
the worldly qualifications OF a citizen
Y No better time can be selected to Ut
ter such words of truth and soberness
than on Memorial day. When a ma
tion forgets to honor the worthy and
set in.
To devote Memorial day to rude and
noisy games is manifestly a perversion
! Of the spirit in which the holiday was
conceived and should be kept. 1t Is
a day for flowers and shade and touch
ing memories. not for boisterous eele
bration. The objection Of the Journal
is made with propriety. Memorial day
is for sentiment. not for sport
But the Journal is wrong when II
forecasts the ,decadence of true patriot
ism and courage, because the boys
play BAH on the thirtieth of May. There
is no Intentional disrespect to the
memories Of dead patriots in Memorial
day athletics. The young man goes to
the ball ground rather than the cene
than in sentiment His muscles cry
louder than his memory. The young
are not given to sentimental reflection
Still, when the necessity arises and
the call comes, the Memorial day ath-
1ete Is ready and in the first rank Of his
conntry's defenders. There has been nc
decadence of his patriotism or his BRAY
cry. He is as ready to fight for the
flag, as quick to offer himself as sac
Gifice, as any OF the men whose hero
Ism is the foundation of the holiday
the abstract beauty and significance Of
which he fails to see and feel.
Let us not make the manner Of
Memorial day observance a test OF
yalor and patriotism, such a criterion
IS manifestly unfair and misleading
but let US all, athletes and Others alike
preserve the quiet beauty OF our ten
derest holiday by eliminating, SO far as
possible. all rude and boisterous sports
from the observance of day
which should be kept quietly and ever
sorrowfully.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
DOSING AND DRINKING.
The Ladies Home Journal Ina

The Ladies' Home Journal has sprung
\ list of patent medicina prapara-
tions containing alcohol with the per
centage of alcohol contained in each.
The list is somewhat of an eye opener
and thousands of men and women will
DE Mortified to learn that the eomfor-
table feeling that follows dose of
their favorite patent prescription is
precisely similar to that felt by the
sbooze fighter" who absorbs four fin
gers of red liquor before the bar of the
saioon. Ladies who favor Mrs. Pink
ham's celebrated compound may be in
terested in knowing that one fifth of
the preparation is alcohol. Ayers sar-
saparilla goes Mrs. Pinl1hams COM
pound six per cent better on alcohol.
The list OF medicines quoted by the
Journal runs from twelve per esnt TO
forty seven per cent of alcohol.
Hereafter when the warm pervading
sensation spreads from the stomach of
the patent medicine patient until It
brings hope to the heart and a smile to
the lips It will be easy of analysis. Mr..
Box proves that 1t is only an incipient
jag, an eInbryotic form of the red eyed
and HILARIOUS hurrah One hundred
dusss, one dollar, properly divided
means simply ten drinks at 10 cents.
No wonder Mrs. PinaSham's picture
wears the smile that won't come off.
Perhaps she took her own medicine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
40 Ee11A~@s
Aliens.

Some must take and others pay.
Some until the judgment day
Solitary. waiting stay
Thus the world unchanging way
Since the world began.
Men there are who never sip
Warm, red wine Of fellowship.
Fearing let the cup pass by
While another drains 1t dry,
Gayly uses, gayly breaks
What his brothers heart blood makes
Thus the worlds unchanging way
Since the world began.
Men there are with songs unsung.
Strains that ne'er escape the tongue:
Broken aims and dreams that lie
Hidden from the careless eye:
Secret passionate, deep enshrined,
Undeveloped, thwarted, blind
Thus the worlds unchanging way
Since the world began.
Shall such some day rise and take
Need denied by earth's mistake?
No more waiting. spurned of fate
Shall they come, though 1t be late.
And by strange paths to their own;
No more despised failures known
On some other kindlier shore,
Aliens nercrmorc?
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