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Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
THE BUSINESS MEMS VOTE.
Reasons Why II Should he Given to
Republican Candidates.

In the presidential elections of 1896
and 1900 the business men of the coun-
try exercised more decisive Influence than
In any other two national elections In our
history. They voted in greater numbers
than ever before. and their vote was al
most solid in favor OF sound money, pro-
lection of home markets, and the extern
sion OF foreign trade. IL is hardly too
much TO say that the conservative busi-
ness vote of the country turned the scale
in 1896 and 1900 For this the business
men may well congratulate themselves
and enjoy the consciousness OF having
done their duty and rendered great ser
vice TO the country
But how about the coming election :?
The money question in its various phases
OF the gold standard, the currency and
the national banks is still threatened by
one wing Of the Democratic party. while
the protection OF home markets aud the
opening OF foreign ones is as important
| as ever. The Democratic platform is si.
lent on the money question. Judge Par
ker says the gold standard is ''irreyoca-
bly, fixed" but the Democratic party has
not said so. That party has been wrong
on every phase Of the financial question
from the Civil War 10 the present time
Can II be trusted nowY
Speaker Cannon, In his notification
speech to Mr.. Roosevelt, said that IL
Judge Parker's vote and support of his
party's candidate in 1896 and 1900 had
been decisive, I'VE would now have the
silver standard" There is something for
business men to think about. Judge Par
ker claims TO have repented and the par
ty promises reform. Can they be trust
edl
The question Of protecting home mar
kets and extending foreign markets is
one OF vital Importance TO business men.
From business point Of view II is
question of life or death. The Demo
cratic party favors a tariff policy that
would be fatal to both home and foreign
markets. 1t Is no more worthy OF the
support of business men now than it was
in 1896 or In 1900.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
DAVIS SAYS. YES.

There was gloom In the committee and
with voices low and Sad
They diScourSed upon the troubles and
the worrimeniS they had.
What's the news from West Virginia r
they would SIT around and Say.
Have they Sent the message telling
Uncle INsnry GaSSaway
That the peSSmi$tic leaders have but
little to expect
II we haven't his assurance that the
fighting Shall be checkedf'
So they Sat about in Silence, thinking OF
their chances Slim,
Guessing whether he would tumble IL a
brick house fell on him;
And the ones who were best posted told
in whispers Soft and low
What a swatbe they might bs SlaShing
IL he only would let go.
And from time to time they Started when
whistle blithe and gay
Made them think there was a message
from good Henry GaSSaway.
stiil the moments grew to hours and the
clock Seemed almost Stopped.
And In diS$appointmcnt'S Shadow all the
hearts So anxious dropped:
Till to cheer the waiting watchers one
who'd Seen the wondrouS place
Told them not to grow deSpondent-it
was not a hopeless case:
That while Henry Ga$$away was not so
$pry and Swift and young,
Still he knew his barrel wasn't any use
without a bung.
Then at last there came the answer to
the message they had Sent
And their happiness long Stided in an
instant was unpent,
And the peS$imiStic PERSONS turned to
optimistic thoughts
For the Short. decisive Sentence bright
ened all the gloomy Spots.
Just Short. SententiouS Sentence Served
the glad news to express :.
1t was Soulfully Set forth thus: mister
Davis answers Yes"
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
TRIBULATl0NS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.
EIkins. W. Va. Aug. 70. ieo4

Elkins, W. va, Aug. 70. 1904
Dear Sonny:
Have Just finished readin your speech Of
acceptance for the third time and find IL
tough chewin' for my unprotected gums
My new teeth have gone to the dentists
for gold film. TO match new views.
and my boy Steve tElkinsl has borrowed
the old set got the year Washington
crossed the Delaware. to make q mask Of
Roosevelt for his grandchildren.
Can you tell me why people who do
things always have teeth. while those who
don't. have Done-only earsr
AS I was sayin'. what bothers me is, II
you wrote that speech Of acceptance who
wrote your dispatch to Sheehan; and II you
wrote the dispatch what dodgnsted blum
derbuss wrote your Esdpus speech?
I've just finished rcadIn' 4 new memoir
of Andrew Jackson. and 1t set me thinkln'
how he could stand on the St Louis plat
form without pnfting his foot through ev-
cry paragraph Andy was Ike that young
ster In the White House-he had teeth and
did things and didn't care who wrote the
platforms long as he didn't have to
stand on them.
What do you think Andy would have
done In Cuba, or In the Philippines, or Mt
Panama? | guess he'd have got there first
and consulted the consent of the governed
afterwards.
Speaking Of anuexin' things. where do
you suppose I'd have got the spondulicks to
put mp for our campaign fund II | hadn't
Of set up nights annexin' everything In
sight?
Take my advice and stop takin' to the
water every mornin' before breakfast. 1t
will hurt the ticket on the East Side Of
New York and In Kentucky.
Little Steve has Just come in from a
Roosevelt and Fairbanks rally on my front
lawn. and says our ticket reminds him of
brindle pup, because 1t has more wag
In its tall than In Its head What do you
suppose he meansf Yours till November,
GRANDPA.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
Hint for Democratic spcIIbipd.r,

When Democratic speIlbinders GO be-
fore the people this year they should
conclude their speeches with the words
of the Litany: 1--WE have erred and stray
ed like lost sheep. We have followed
too much the devices of our own hearts.
We have done those things which we
ought not to have done, and we have left
undone those things which we ought to
have done, and there is no health in us.
The Lord have mercy upon us. miserable
sipners." The only reason why the
party has not done more mischief is lack
of opportunity.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10

The Republican party was not obliged
to dodge the money question in its plat
form, and its candidate did not have TO
insert an extemporized plank of his own.
Having convictions and being harmonious
on this as upon all vital issues, the party
and its candidate came before the coun-
try with q solid front
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10

"what We really need in this country
II to treat the tariff as . business
proposition from the stand point of the
interests of the country as a whole,
and not from the stand point of the
temporary necls of any political
party. But neither our nation
nor any other can stand the ruiuous
policy of readjusting Its business to
radical changes in the tariff At short
intervals.'' = From R osevet's speech ut
LogAnsport, Ind. September z3rd. 1904
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
How Republican Policies Work.

During the first three years of the
second Cleveland administration our ex-
cess of exports over imports was S6T9,-
000,O0O; during the first three years of
the Mckinley administration the excess
of exports over imports was 81 80 i .O00.-
600. showing a net gain OF Ss52. 900, 600
as the result OF wise tariff law and the
pronounced position Of the Republican
party on the money question.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
Senator Elkins has recently rcportel

Senator Elkins has recently reported
that his father-in-law's State. West Vir-
ginia. is as safe for the Republican
ticket as Pennsylvania. Henry CASA
way should warn his son-in-law that II
is bad form to tell family secrets. Judge
Parkefs son-in-law is more discreet
or perhaps the clam policy that prevails
at Rosemouut az to public affairs is as
uncomnunicative as ever when the shut
ters are closed and the bolts shot.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10

an the ballot box our liberties are
compounded. Zee to it that IL gives
truo expression to the public will.
Preserve it from poiiutionI protect
AMI Il dcfeni IL as YOU wouid the Ark of
the Covenant, for 1t hns been pur-
cha ,ed by the priceless, blood of
countless heroes upon the battle ficfds
of the repnbiic."- Hon. @. W. Fairbanks,
at baldwin, kas., June 2, 1901.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
Bryan a. Party Dictator,

The tariff plank in the Democratic
platform, as reported by the committee,
declared in favor OF "a wise, conserya-
tive and businessHke revision of the
tariff. At William ]. Bryan'A dictation
all the qualifying words were stricken
out, and the plank was adopted in that
form. He did not want the revision to
be wise, conservative and businesslike."
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10

Wage-earners continue to prosper. not
withstanding the advance in cost of liv-
ing. Carroll ID. Wright. Commissioner
of Labor in recent report, shows that
the increase of wages since 1896 has
been 1G per cent, while the expenses of
living have not increased in excess Of Is
Der cent
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
CHOICE OF YOUNG MEN.
President Roosevelt Represents Cour-
age, Man1iness and Independence.

To the younger citizens of the United
States, those who will cast their first
vote for President at the coming election
it would appear that Roosevelt should
appeal almost entirely. He represents
courage, and strength, and independence.
and all the tendencies of those who are
ready to dare and do and work for the
betterment of everything American He
is no trimming, vascillating conservative
with any degree of respectable. craft in
his composition affecting his course be-
cause of the opinions and desires of 9TH
ers. He is not the selected representa-
tive Of q group, but is the American
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10

II st. Clair McKelway, of the Brook
lyn Eagles visit to Esopus. results in
his engagement to edit Judge ParkerA
speeches it will add to the after-dinuer
gayety of the campaign. if not to the
calculation Of its issues.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
Overheard at Elkins:

Grandpa what is EsopusT
Esopus. my child, is Greek for hole
in the ground into which a candidate can
retire and pull his opinions on all sub
jeets after him."
Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-10
AIt.uB,, Pb;Io.ophy.

Who was Il said, "Tbere are things
about which it is possible to have no
opinion and to keep an untroubled
mind?"
Alton B. -
Not on your life. II was that old
and wary philosopher, Marcus Aurelius.
who never sent a dispatch to st. Louis
or posed for the Presidency in BATH
ing suit under David b. Hills umbrella.
Alton BIS philosophy runs Keep your
mouth shut and you need not have an
opinion about anything That is how
the owl which is the stupidest Of birds"
got its reputation for wisdom.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-05-25
LAKEWOOD.

Mrs Alice g. Rinn, of orono, spent san.
day With relatives here.
Granville Tate, of Bayside, was here
last Sunday.
Miss Josie Garland is home from
Brewer. whore she has been visiting her
sister. Mrs. Herbert Moore.
Mrs Scott Moore who has been in the
Bangor hospital for treatment Is home.
Her many friends are glad to know that
she Is rapidly recovering.
John Moore died at his home last
Thursday night. He had been IN poor
health nearly a year. SIR. Moore wss
citizen who was respected by all. be was
an earnest worker 80 the church. He is
survived by i've ehiIdren-w Wellington,
OF this place, Reuben, OF Maehias, Erss-
tus, OF Lamoine, LoEin, OF Washington,
and Mrs. Mark Humphrey. OF Otis. He
was eigkty-seyen years old.
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HISTORIC ARLINGTON.
Largest of the National Cemeterie'
Maintained by che Government

Largest of the National Cemeteries
Maintained by che Government
Arlington is the foremost among the
national cemeteries Of tae country. On
the LIST of July. 1902, there were
buried there the bodies of 1882 sol
diers of the civil war. OF these graves
14,35i were marked with the names
of Their occupants, while L6I1 were
unknown. This number OF graves is
over 1900 greater than is found IN
any other national cemetery in the
country. the next largest being at
NicA burg. Miss. where l6,TtS somiers
are inferred. In tie eighty three Ia
uonsd cemeteries there are buried over
34l.U.0 soiiierS aud sailors. nearly l52,
oeo Of tie graves being unknown,
and sAUua OF them beng the graves q!
Comcdcrates.
1t is toward the gates Of beautiful
Arlington. then, THAI Tie old boys IN
blue lend their steps 10 assist once
again in the deeply touching ceremony
OF strewing with flowers the graves
of these WHO fell on the battlefields of
Virginia. some Of which are almost
within view of this lovely spot
The Arlington estate was famous fer
its beauty and as being the home OF
the Gusts and Lee families long be
fore it became the home Of the army
of the dead As is we'll known. II
was Inherited by the Gusts children,
and under the prudent care OF Wash.
luEton tie value of tile estate was
greatly enhanced. Upon the marriage
Of young Gusts and his departure
from Mount Vernon ne took possession
of The estate and there erected tie
fine old mansion that crowns the hill
on the south bank Of tie Potomac and
commands magnificent view Of the
Potomac. the Washington monument
and all OF the principal bindings of
the Capital City. Gusts lived here
happily until his death In 1857, soon
after which his only surviving child,
Mary Randolph Gusts. became the
wife OF her old time playmate, Robert
Edward Lee. They lived ON the estate
until tie breaking out of the civil
war.
Two hundred Of the 1900 acres have
been set aside as Il national cemetery.
the grounds being surrounded by Il
low wall with entrances through four
gates, the Mcclellan. the Fort MyeT.
the Ord and Weitzel, and the main
(Sheridam gates Near by Is the new
grave of General Lawton. a hero Of
the Spanish-AmeTican war. West Of
the mansion are the graves of the white
soldiers. and east of ii are those OF
the colored soldiers who fought In the
ranks of the Union army. In another
part Of the grounds lie the sailors from
the wrecked Maine. and the spot
where 49, victims Of the Spanish
American war lie is marked by beau
tiful mersorial-Leslie's Weekly.
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AD Apir7al Story For
Lille Folks
The Ambitious Cow

There is water in this milk" said
Mrs. Slipperslopper sharply to the
milkman.
perhaps the girl put it in" he sug-
gested.
Nonsense. You put it in yourself.
"Never, madam; never"
"Then your farm hands did"
'No. ma'am. They don't handle the
milk"
"Then it leaked in the cans
Impossible. assure you. They are
water tight
"wen. there's just this about it; II
this watering the milk does not stop
/ shall have to get milk from some one
else"
Every well. ma'am," said the milk
man. bowling. but he made mp his mind
TO find out who watered the milk.
That evening when he had MIXED
the cows and set the milk TO cool by
the pump in the barnyard he took his
seat behind the cornerib and watched.
Pretty soon he saw Miss Daisy, the
brindle COW. coming out slowly and
carefully from behind the barn,
"Ah," said Daisy to herself. He said
that Spot gave more milk than |, did
he? The horrid man. III never let that
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-05-25
DOLLY.

DIR. Samuel johnson married Mrs.
Porter Of Birmingham. That lady's
daughter thus described the doctors
wooing: Ills appearance was very
forbidding. He was then lean and
lank. so that his immense structure
u bones was hideously striking TO the
eye. and the scars Of the scrofula were
deeply visible. He also wore his hair.
which was straight and sim. and sepa-
rated behind, and be often had. seem
Ingly. conyulsive starts and odd SEES
aculations, which tended TO excite at
once surprise and ridicuie. Mrs. Por-
ter was so much engaged by his con-
Yersarion that she overlooked all these
external disadvantages and said to her
daughter. This IS the most sensible
man that ] ever saw in my life
Mrs. Porter, who was twice Johnson's
age, was not easily won. Urged by
her learned lover TO say why she still
refused him. she said an uncle OF
hers had been hung and she did not
wish 10 bring disgrace on him. is
that allg" said johnson. why, though
/ have never had an uncle hung, have
two or three uncles who deserve it, s.
let's get married and say no mors
about that"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-05-25

Bring them home. the nattoa's dead:
Bring them home to Arlington.
Softly through the green aisles tread.
There mute sorrows tribute shed.
There let low voiced prayers be said.
There In sunny Arlington,
Some in ciyu strife were slain.
Sleep they now In Arlington,
Martyrs of the good ship Maine.
Fallen sorRe on tropic plain
Bring. oh. bring them home agalnl
Let them rest IN Arlington,
Lavish there a nations pride.
sun and sacred Arlington
There cnshrouded side by side.
Pulseless forms fore'er abide.
Brave men who for country died.
Meath the sod Of Arlington!
Meet IL is that they should rest
There in tranquil Arlington,
Naught they know when duty pressed.
But to die a; her behest-
Now meath skies they loved the best
Comrades meet In Arlington!
And today let bugie sound
Through the shades of Ariingtonl
Strew with blooms each grassy mound.
Let the roses red bound
And the stars and -Sripes around,
Float fOre'er. sweet Arlington
Beatrice Clayton In Philadelphi
Ledger,
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orIs.
HN I've " II
Msy24
NJ.

whfred BlassdeIl has moved to Els
worth.
Jonn Warren broke his arm while al
play last Friday.
School began MondPy With Miss Crock
EFT, OF Hsmpdeu, teacher.
orln Salisbury visited his sou Harry, oil
Brewer, last Saturday.
Granville JeHirou, " DO Is employed a,
Bar Hsrhor, came home ever Sunday.
Cherries Kenney and wife, OF Edoing-
on, visited Mrs. Kenney'r home Sunday
wallsce Tlbbetts aud wife entertained
many people from Bangor over Saturday
and Sunday.
John Grover aud whe, OF Brewer. Wis.
tied their brother, f. L Grover, last sun
day.
Willie F. Warren and wife, of Edding-
ton Bend, visited his uncle, George War
rem, last Sunday.
The remains of little Dorothy, dsug hter
OF Willis Salisbury aud wife, were
brought here for burial last Monday.
Master Avery Warren, accompanied by
his fat her, Irving Carr, of Marisvilie, Wis.
tied the Edgcnmb farm in Otis, the place
being OF interest, as 1t was the girlbood
home OF his great grandmother, Mrs
George Warren.
May "a DAVIS.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-05-25
DANGEROUS KIDNEY
DISEASES CURED
Pe-runa Creating a National
Sensation I'm the Cure OF
Chronic Ailments of
The Kidneys.

Fred r. Pennell, Pianist, Grand Opera
House, Hot Springs, Ark, writes;
1.-TWO years ago came to Hot Springs
to take the baths and be treated for
bladder and kidney trouble. After
spending two months here under the
care OF one of the most prominent ply
sicians and receiving little or no benefit,
| was persuaded TO try Peruna. / had
little faith in IL, but after using one bot
tie / noticed . marked Improvement.
Three bottles entirely cured me. can
eheerfully recommend Peruna TO any one
afflicted as ! was."-Fred X. Pennell.
Thomas NJ. Hicks, 1871 18th ST., Louis
vile, Ky, writes: vs
Neglected colds, irregular habits and
overwork brought on serious kidney
and bladder troible. Ny blood seemed
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LITTLE DEER ISLE.
DAVIS.
Maya

John E. Hardy is home from New York,
II. w. Hardy. of winterpori, is the
guest OF Fl. G. Eaton this week.
Eldridge Shepherd and wife, of Butler
Island, visited reistiyes here this week.
NJ. d. Snowman Is having his house
pllstered. Joshua Dow is doing the work.
Miss Ethel Small, of North Deer Isle,
has been the guest of Mrs. Maud Billings.
Miss Carrie Blsstow returned Tuesday
from Castine, where she has attended the
e. S. Ne.
Davis II. Weed went to Boothbsy Har-
Dor Friday to join the schooner Hannah
F. Carleton as mate.
Miss Lucy Wescott has returned to Cas-
tine after spending three weeks with her
sister, Mrs. John <. Billings.
May 3. E.
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SWANS ISLAND.

l. Z. Joyce has ]. A. Smiths house well
under way. II is up aud boarded.
The V. /. society met with Mrs r. w.
Kent Msy .. 1t WIS decided to postpone
these meetings until tall.
C. j. Halls family came last week.
They will occupy Prof. Lindsey's cottage
for the summer.
Schooner Radiant, Capt. Hardy, has
been engaged TO help build an extension
to the head of the NJ. Baird Contracting
Co.'S. wharf. TIE work Is to be done ont
OF heavy stone
May q DAVID.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-05-25

Latest Gossip of the River Town
Republican Caucus.

Latest Gossip of the River Town
Republican Caucus.
Arthur Erskine Is home from q trip to
Porto Rico.
e. p. McCauider and wife are in town
for the summer.
John Pell, of New York, is visiting the
family OF w. o. Buck.
George Il. Grant, of Ellsworth, has been
In town the past week.
Charles c. Jocylen has been spending
the eek Ia Boston on business.
A. b. Ames, supervisor of the A. o. U.
W. district, is on an eastern trip this week.
Miss Gertrude Buck has gone to Boston
where she has position as stenographer.
Mrs. H. T. Dorr aud Miss Mary S. Dors
have gone to Bass Harbor for the summer
John Q. Wood and wife are expected
In town SHORTLY, having arrived In New
York.
| Mrs. Frank s. Pierce and Master Frank
| s. Pierce, it,, have been spending a week
IN Boston.
|
| nobscot river salmon at thirty-iye cents
aposnd.
| HoB. o. +. Fellows will deliver the
NJ amoriai Day address before James <.
Hall post q. A X.
william Mckay, night operator ON the
B. & &. r. r., has been in town on vis {
during the past week.
Guy Smith has gone to Pittsdsld, where
be will be engineer in the laundry of his
brother, Fred w. Smith.
The South Carolina Jubilee singers win
appear IN town next Thursday eyeaiug
in the Frsnklin street yestry.
The Stubs cottage at Verona Park hiss
been leased for the summer TO Herbert
Standing, OF London, England.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. II. Davis and Mrs.
Marion Marston viii occupy the Darling
homestead on Main street this summer.
The (. VI. {. S. team defeated the Uni.
yeEsity of Maine Laws school on the sem
mary grounds. Saturday, by a score of II
toe.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wentworth, and Miss
Wentworth, of New York, are visiting
Mrs. wentwosth's sister, Mrs. Jennie
Marks.
Raymond Fellows is now editor in chief
Of the Bueksport Times, F. L. Temple be
ing obliged TO resign on account OF other
business.
Josh Robinson, the Bueksport baseball
| piayer "a doing 0OnH wnrk us,h ths
Worcssters. the leaders of the Connec,i-
cut lsague.
John n. STszey. formerly cashier OF
the Buekspors national bank, IL head
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TAKING THE PUMP HANDLE N HER
TEETH


black and white COW give more than |
To think that have been here 50 long.
and now she claims TO give fifteen
quarts. and they say can only give
twelve. But I shall fix that all right.
Let me see Which can did he put
my milk in? Spot. Clover Brownie
--ah, here il is-'Daisy.' Now let him
say that Spot gave more than l.
Then Farmer Jones saw a sight tina;
made him strain his eyes. for Daisy
went to the can containing her own
milk, pushed IL under the pump spout
and. taking the pump handle in her
teeth, began TO work it up and down.
filing the can 10 the top. Then she
turned and. swinging her tail in tri-
umph. walked back to the barn.
"waal. swews' said Farmer Jones.
too astonished for many words. Next
day there was no water in the milk
left at Mrs, Slipperslopper's and there
was no Daisy in the barn, for she was
going sadly to the town al the end of
q rope, whose other end was held by
the butchers boy.
"Ah,'' she sighed IF had not been
% ambitious, so jealous, so deceitfulv'
st Louis Post-Dispatch.