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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-11-30
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
SEw ApvERrIsEmENrs rms WEEK.


Winter Harbor Gas & Light Co--Legislative
notice.
james w Bunker ct als--Legis notice.
Clara y Eldritge- Libelfar divorce.
Hancock County Railway Co-Legislatiye no.
Tive notice = Application TO extend
5f Ellsworth street Railway Co.
L Wiggin, Edward q Moore-Dissolu-
ton of plrtuership.
Hancocs nall-trescelle, the hypnotist.
Floyd u IL ynes--Tea.
Parcher-A pOtheeary.
staples, smith s. Moody Musical instru-
ments.
A Clark-Greenhouse.
Charles II Leland--Fruit and confectionery.
F Stockbridee--Con
Whiting Bros Meats, groceries, vegetables,
flour. dry goods, etc.
w Morang-Meats, turkeys, vegetables, etc
A W Greedy -Jeweler.
Reliable Clothing Co-ClothiDg.
BUcKsPoRT:
Walter SDowman--Sherif's sale.
AUGUSTA, ME:
Home Supply Co.
SPRlSGFIELD, MASS:
q & G Merriam Co-Webster's International
Dictionary.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-11-30
COMING EVENTS.

Week beginning Monday, Dec. 5, al
Hancock ba!l-Prescelle, the hypnotist.
Prices, TO- 20 and 30c.
Wednesd4y, Dec. IA at Unitarian ves-
try - Annual fair, sale and supper BY
members VI society.
Friday, DEC. 16, at Odd Fellows bali
Fair, entertainment and supper of Sun-
rise council, ID OF l..
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-11-30
CHURCH NOTES.
NNrnoDlsr EPISCOPAL.

8ETnoDlsf EPISCOPAL.
Rer. J. r sirioiton, pastor.
Friday, d c. 2-Prayer meeting at 30.
Sunday, Dec. = Morning service at
1879 Sunday schJoi al 1145. Preaching
at Up m
Bayside Preaching Sunday at 2.31 p. m.
Mr.. Simontou.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-11-30
SCHEDULE OF MAILS
AT ELLSWORTH POST OFFICE.
In effect October 10, 1904


MAILS RECEIVED.
FROM wEsT-+7.l6 a m and 6.l3 pm.
FROM EAsr-It.s6 a m. 5.35 and BAT m.
MAIL CLOSES AT Posr0FFICE.
GOING WEsT-li 20 a m, 10 and pm.
GOING EAST q m and $50 N.
sDaIly, Sunday included. SUNDAY, $50 p m
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
Storm Cannons.

The storm cannons now in use along
the southern side Of the Alps, where
damage from hailstorms during har-
vest time Is imminent, look like huge
megaphone, such as boat-crew coaches
use, and they are set, with their wide
mouths gaping skywand, beside little
houses that look like sentry boxes.
When they are fired they boom like
"sure enough" cannons, and send re-
verberating, echoing, boom-booms car
roming about among the hillsides; but
instead of ball or shell, or other sim
liar projectile, they emit ring of
smoke which grows larger and larger
as it ascends, until at last, before 1t
breaks, it is big enough to surround a
ten-acre field What the effect Of a
smoke ring upon mischievously in
tent cloud is cannot exactly say, but
instead Of hail, only rain falls when
the guns are used, and damage to
crops is prevented.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
PLAN TO EXCHANGE BABIES.
Clearing House by Which Differen
NatiOnalities Are Traded.

Clearing House by Which Different
Nationa1ities Are Traded.
One of the curious things run across
in Europe is the scheme of French
man named Michael Breal, preached as
long ago as 1886, and which is being
again taken up.
1t consists of a wholesale exchange,
a swapping of children from one fam
lily to another.
Here is Partisan father in modest
estate, with son. This man has an
ambition that his child shall have a
thorough knowledge of German. The
proper thing would be to place the
child in some German family for a
while. But the difficulty for the father
is to discover just the right sort of
family-one who would receive the
child, land, above all, one who had a
child to swap. The Partisan father
would be spending no extra money in
housing the German child and teach
ing it French, while his own was eat
ing at a German table. Meanwhile
two nations were understanding each
other better. 1t was splendid scheme,
if only it could be carried out.
What was needed was a baby bro
ker, as it were, an exchange, a clear
ing house for children. an agency to
keep tab of families willing to swap
children and to engineer the swap. A
man named Toni Matthew saw the
chance, and improved it during the va
cation period last year. He had pre-
JUDGES to overcome. After a deal Of
letter writing he won the indispensa-
I BILE, not to say inevitable, sanction of
college professors, Of great authors,
prominent lawyers and members of
Parliament He even succeeded in
placing an order for five children on
tricl. He devoted a whole year to
booming the enterprise. And it was
heart-breaking work. He would win
the approval Of a lot of English or
German or Scandinavian families, only
to find in his own land nG readiness to
trade. And yet, in spite of every
thing, he has succeedea IL, q measure.
The scheme is working and Mr.. Ma
thieu has decided to fuu4d a society
and push the idea for all ii is worth.
An elaborate system of correspond
ence has been drawn up already. There
Is a precautionary exchange of photo
graphs first and severe cross-exaH-
NATION of all concerned. The closing
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
CANADA'S OLDEST HOUSE.
structure Was Erected Three Cen
turtles Ago Of Historic Interest.

structure Was Crested Three Gem
turtles Ago Of Historic Interest.
What changes are suggested by the
Item OF news from Montreal printed
last week, stating that the Oldest build
ing III Canada, a dwelling house in
Longueuil, opposite Montreal. had
been burned, and adding that the
structure was erected three centuries
ago, land there is some evidence that
It antedates this period by at least
ftty years.' Leaving out the extra
half century, which almost certainly
is due to local pride and not to history,
the house was old enough, for it's ex-
1stence covered practically the MAX
ing, not only of Canada, but the Unit
ed States, with the exception of Flori-
da. says the Toronto Mail and Ex-
press.
When the house was built Canada
was young. Cartier and Roberval had
explored it somewhat and had gone up
the st. Lawrence to Hochelaga. where
Montreal is now, but had made no per.
manent settlements. In 1904 Cham
plain planted the first colony in Area
Ola, and in 1908 founded Quebec. It is
said that the old house was built some
years before the Notifications at Lon
gueuil, which were erected in 1912 to
protect the infant settlement at Mon
treal If SO, it was indeed an outpost
Of civilization. Since it was built the
new world has grown up, the colonies
once divided by France and England
have been united under British rule,
and again have separated into the Do
minion Of Canada and the United
States of America; the rest of the
world has undergone changes rs great.
From it's windows watchers could
have seen attacks by Indians-perhaps
the house itself was at times a fort
and echoed to war whoops-cOuld have
seen excursions by French and 1ndi-
ans against the colonies to the south
and incursions Of English from those
settlements; could have watched the
English succeed the French as mas
tiers of New France; have seen the
Americans in possession of Montreal.
Not far to the southwark the Unit
ed States has come into being For
eight-score Of years the house was on
the frontier, with an enemy constant
ly near at hand. Then the enemy be-
came friend and has stayed so; how
good a friend perhaps those in whose
possession the house has remained do
not yet know The building. was not
on the main line. of traffic, either actu-
ally or theoretically. Most of the great
events of North American history have
occurred at a distance from Montreal
and Longueull, but through all the
years of fighting and of peace the old
house stood. We in America have not
so many old buildings of any sort that
we can afford to lose even farm
house that has existed from the be-
ginning Of our history.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
LIVING RENT FREE IN LONDON.
INSCRIPTIONS Persons Who Take Adj
vantage of the Laws Delay.

Inscriptions Persons Who Take Adj
vantage of the Laws Delay.
Many people in London make a bust
Incredible" said the head of a large
firm Of house agents the other day,
"the number of persons who never pay
rent from one years end to another.
"The method is, either by bogus ref
erences or by impressing a sense of
their good faith on a house agent, to
obtain the lease of house, most fire.
quently over ESQ year in rent, and
when the landlord applies for his rent
to defy him. When he attempts to
eject them by legal process they stay
until the very last day the law allows,
and then clear out bag and baggage,
and start the same operation elsewhere
AS they always furnish on the hire sys-
tenn, distraint is of no service to the
landlord.
''Their object of taking houses of a
rental over ESQ is to get above the jur-
isdiction Of the County Court, which
is more summary in its methods than
the high court"
To smaller extent the delay in
volved in ejectment by County Court
action is also taken advantage Of by
exploiters Of the laws delays, but these
methods are not SO impudent as that
of jumping" house, which is some
times adopted.
Not long ago a house owner, on look
ing through his morning paper, OBJ
served that man who had been charg-
ed with assault was reported to live at
one of his houses, which he had sup
posed to have been vacant for twelve
months. On investigation he found that
it was occupied by a tenant, who re-
fused to clear out.
The usual legal form had to be gone
through, and it was a month before the
landlord got possession. Similar cases
have happened where the Jumper has
gone the length Of taking in dodgers, or
even of selling the house.
Landlords sometimes prefer to buy a
tenant out rather than invoke legal
process, and a quicker procedure for
election than the courts allow would be
welcomed by landlords and house
agents.-London Express.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
WHAT ROME THINKS
THE P0PE'S PHYSICIAN ENDORSES
AN AMERICAN REMEDY.

DR.. Lapponi Uses DIR. Williams Pink Pills
In His Practice Because Results
Meet His Expectations.
Dr. Lapponi, the famous physician to
the Vatican, whose name has recently
come so greatly to the front on account
OF his unremitting attention to His
Holiness, the late Pope Leo XIII, and
the high esteem and confidence with
which he is regarded by the present
Pope, His Holiness Plus x, is man of
commanding genius. He is more than
a mere man Of science he is a man of
original and independent mind. Un-
tramlneled by the etiquette of the
medical profession and having used Or.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People in
his practice. with good results, he freely
Rvows the. facts aid endorses the value
Of this relredy with. al authority Which
no one will venture to q1estion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
Oldest Tree in the World.

It is said that the Oldest tree in the
world is a DO tree at Adnuradhapura,
Ceylon, which was planted close to a
Buddhist shrine in 245 B. c., and is
therefore 2,149 years old Legend has
it that this tree sprang from branch
which severed itself by miraculous
power from the sacred tree under
which Gautama became Buddha, the
enlightened one
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

Theirs u nothing better to hang on
sne's study wall than fine picture Of
some grand scene Of nature. Niagara
Falls Is probably the grandest sight on
earth, and one Of the finest pictures Of
the cataract Is the water color Of Chas.
Graham, This has been reproduced by
lithography in twelve colors, 15x24 In,
on heavy plate paper, and will be sent
to any postoffice in the world on receipt
of fifty cents, In stamps or silver. Ad-
dress o. w. Ruggles, G.. p. & T. A.,
Michigan Central r. R.. Chicago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
popula<fs Sience.


All recent meeting of the Camera
Club in London, DR.. e. f. Gruen de-
scrlbed his new fluid lens, designed
especially for making photographs
with short exposures in ordinary night
illumination. Fluid lenses were orig
lnally employed to overcome the diff
Guilty OF chromatic alteration before
the combination of flint and crown
glass was invented DR.. Gruen en-
ploys them for their Photographic ra-
pidity.' They also possess extraordin-
airy depth of focus. Good results were
obtained with snapshots in various
theaters with the ordinary stage illu-
mnation, and even linematograph pic
lures OF stage scenes were made with
out special lighting. 1t is hoped that
lenses of this description will greatly
widen the field o.. photography.
According to writer in Mines and
Minerals, there are in use in some
dep mines wire ropes, or cables, only
q few inches in diameter and "a mile
buckets, or platforms, by which miners
are let down into or hoisted from the
bowels of the. earth with speed
greater than that of the average rail
road train. In many cases these long
cables form the only means of commu-
nication between the bottom of the
mine and the surface Of the earth. In
some cases the weight of the cable
greatly exceeds that of the material
to be carried, and the problem of MAX
ing it sufficiently flexible to be wound
Oh drums requires the highest skill for
its solution. Long cables are made
tapering, SO that the cross-section III.
creases with the amount wound off.
The recent German South Polar ex-
petition added much to our knowledge
of the antarctic continent. 1t showed
that the westerly shore of that mys-
FERROUS land descends steeply into a
deep sea, and that it is occupied by a
volcanic formation The inland ice
covering the continent is regarded as
without doubt the most extensive gla-
cial area now in existence on the
earth. 1t presents picture of the ice
age which once prevailed in northern
America and Europe Evidence was
found that in former times the antarc-
tic ice extended even farther than it
does to-day Large marine mammals
and focks of rare birds were found
frequenting the coasts, and German
scientific enthusiasm found grati(ica-
ton in the study even Of the micro
scopic bacteria dwelling in that far
cold land
The earnestness with which the
problem of mechanical fight is being
attacked is attested by the elaborate
equipment of the Laboratory of aero
dynamics" recently erected at the
Catholic University of America. Among
the apparatus is a wooden tunnel
fifty feet long with a cross-section Of
six square feet. in which wind Of
any desired speed can be generated
by means of a suction-fan placed at
one end Of the tunnel. In the wind
current thus developed are placed OBJ
jects of a great variety of kinds and
shapes, whose resistances, lift, drift,
surface friction, ETC., are to be deter
mined. A pressure gauge that can be
read to less than one ten-millionth Of
an atmosphere is used to determine
the pressure at all points in the stream
of air. The object is to furnish trust
worthy data for calculations in aero
nautics.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

friend advised me to try Doanls Kid
ney Pills. Within a week after l be-
gan using them l was so much better
that | decided to keep up the treat
ment, and when had used a little over
two boxes / was entirely well. I have
now enjoyed the best Of health for
more than four months, and words can
but poorly express my gratitude"
For sale by all dealers. Price 30
cents. erMilburn Co., Buffalo,,
n. Y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
A Good Match.

Old Lady-Then you are not married
Modern Miss-No, indeed. am one
Of the bachelor girls you hear about SO
much nowadays-have a profession,
rooms Of my own, and dine at the club,
you know.
Old Lady-Ah, 1 see. You must let
me introduce you to my dear son, who
lives with me- He is one Of the old
maid men, you know.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
DisgracinR Herself.

Mrs. Smartset-For mercy's sake,
don't let me hear you talk about books
In society again.
Cultured Daughter-Dear me! Why
not?
Mrs. Smartset-Strangers will think
you have been cash girl In a book
store,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

" I suffered
for three years
with g e V e r g
backache. The
doctors told me
my k | d n e y s
were affected,
and prescribed
medicines for
me, but I found
t h a t It was
Only b waste OIL
time andmoney
to take them,
and began to
f ca r tn at 1
would n.ey e. r
get well. A
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE.

Mrs. S. w. Marine, of Colorado Springs,
Began to Fear the Worst-Doan's Kid
ney Pills Saved Her.
Mrs. Sarah Marine of 42S st. Urain
street, Colorado Springs, Colo, writes:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

You are not expected to know values
of funeral goods, but if you know that
the National Casket Co. make The
Best you should ask the Undertaken
to furnish that kind.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
All Mothers Are lnreresred.

In another column Of this paper will
be found the advertisement of the phoe-
nix Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis, in
which are set forth the merits Of the
Baby Walking Chair" which will be Of
interest to all mothers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

details OF the railroad journey, under
suitable escorts in the case of girls.
are easily looked after by the ex-
change
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

Lewis "Single Binder straight 5,
cigar. The highest. price &c cigar to til,
dealer and the highest qualify for TIL
smoker. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
Took a Rest.

Housekeener (angrily)-Why~ didn't
you come around yesterday?
Ice Man (wearily)-Toe hot
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

When a mother has all her work
done up and sits down to rest, the baby
discovers it and wakes and cries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

Ont of Town, Hut.

Friend-Your wife is out of town for
the summer, Ell?
Gayboy-Yes. How did you know?
Friend saw her coming out Of a
detective agency a few days ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

II certify that I have used DR..
Williams Pink Pills III four cases
of the simple an8mia of develop
ment. After few weeks of treat
ment, the result came fully up to my
expectations. For that reason I
shall not fail in the future to extend
the use of this laudable preparation
not only in the treatment of other
forms of the category of an@mia or
chlorosis, but also in cases Of neuras-
thenia and the like"
(Signed) GIUSEPPE LAPPoNI,
Via del Gracchi 1872, Rome.
The "simple an@mia of Development,
referred to by DR.. LappOni, is of course,
that tired, languid condition Of young
girls, whose development to womanhood
is tardy and whose health, at that period,
is SO often imperiled. His opinion of
the value Of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
Tor Pale People at that time is of the
highest scientific authority, and it con-
firms the many published cases in which
and other diseases of the blood,
as well as nervous diseases such as ner-
vous prostration, neuralgia, St. Vitus'
dance, paralysis and locomotor ataxia
hare been cured by these pills. They
are commended to the public for their
efficiency i'll making new blood and
strengthening weak nerves. After
such al endorsement they will be ac-
cepted by the medical and scientific
world at their full value.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12
Her Mothers Representations

He-Why does your mother insist on
your having an elaborate church we'd
ding?
She-She says it's the last chance I'll
ever have to show off in good clothes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-12

A jolly good fellow is the one who
footS the bill
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-20
a Strenuous Wooino,

Kokomo, Ind, April 20.-In the trial
of Samuel Michaels, indicted for burn
ing the home of Aaron Shock, near
Burlington, in November last L. E.
Collier, agent for the Farmers Insur-
ance company, testified that Michaels
confessed to him that he gave John
Bowen S. with which to buy dynamite
to be used in wrecking the Shock
home, and Michaels asserted to Bowen
that he did it in order that Eula Burns,
a domestic in the Shock family, might
lose her position and be forced to take
service with him. Michaels told Bow
en- that he loved the girl and wanted
her near him. Michaels is sixty years
old and the girl nineteen.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-20
Decision In Apportionment
Contest Awaited With
Interest.
LAWYERS ARE DIVIDED
If the Present Act Is Declared I'm
constitutional the State Will
Revert to the Act of 1897.
This, 1t Is Held by Many, Would Be
Like Jumping From Frying
Pan Into Fire.

indianapolis, April 20.-An early de-
cision is expected in the cases before
the supreme court to test the constitu-
tionality of the legislative reapportion-
ment act of 1908. 1t has developed
since the oral argument yesterday that
among the Republican leaders there is
a feeling that after all the constitution
ality of the act may be established.
Addison c. Harris and Attorney Cen
eral Charles w. Miller advanced a new
idea: That is that if the present act
should be declared unconstitutional
and if the act Of 1897 should be revert
ed to that greater hardship would be
worked on many counties than under
the one the Democrats are trying to
have declared void. Harris and Mill er
took the position and gave figures to
support their claims, that the growth
of population since the act of 1897 has
been so disproportionate that more
counties will be unfairly treated than
under the new act. In this county, for
instance, there would be nearly $4,000
people deprived Of representation IL
the old act should be revived. With
| out making much attempt to justify
the act of 1908, the attorneys for the
, Republican see are holding that it
would be worse lnan jumping from the
frying-pan into the fire to go back to
the old act. The Democratic attor-
neys easily produced figures showing
by comparison how poorly construct
! ed the act was and how unfair it is to
| MANY districts A ma iOrity Of the mar
! ty leaders believe the act will be set
aside, but there is a well-grounded feel
| ing that between the two acts it will
be hard to say which is the greater
, evil.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-20
Operators Refuse Conference.

Denver, Col, April 20.-President
John Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers of America, who is attending
the quarterly meeting of the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor, denied the report that any ne
gotiations are in progress in reference
to settlement of the Southern Colorado
coal miners strike. The strikers have
been at all times willing to confer
with the operators, but the coal COM
panies still refuse to meet any repre-
sentatives of the unions.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-20
MADE AN ASSIGNMENT
Mccoys Turn Over Property to Their
Creditors,

Rensselaer,, Ind, April 20. - The
banking house of A. Mccoy & Co. has
made an assignment for the benefit Of
their creditors, and named w. A. Rine-
hart assignee. Some $500 acres of
land, the bank building, valued at $685.
900, and other small parcels of land
were conveyed in the trust deed to the
assignee.
A. Mccoy, president, stated that if
the creditors would use judgment in
not forcing the sale of the land at a
sacrifice there would be plenty of
available funds to pay every dollar of
Indebtedness and leave good margin
for owners of the bank. There seems
to be some dissatisfaction on the part
of the creditors, but large majority
of them are in favor of giving the Nc
Coys a reasonable opportunity to set
tie. There is no disposition on the
part of depositors of other banks to
stat a run, and it can be truthfully
said there is no panicky feeling what
ever. The authority for this state
ment comes from officers of other
banks.