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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-01-25
AT sPoRTsMEN's SHOW.
Maine to be Well Represented at
Madison Square Garden.

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Maine to be Well Represented at
Madison Square Garden.
II all plans work out successfully-and
there is every reason to believe that they
wiil-Maine will this year have a genu-
inely fine and typical exhibit of her woods
and water resources at the New York
sportsmen's show. This annual event,
important to sportsmen throughout the
United States, will be held this year at
Madison square garden from Feb. 21 to
March 8, and the fact that Names vaca-
tion interests are to be exploited in most
unique, most attractive and yet most
practical manner Is good news to all who
are interested in the States welfare, and
would like to see the good old State given
big handsome representation of the
right sort.
Heretofore he exhibit for Maine at the
New York sportsmen's show has never
been success as an exhibit because the
men who have Gathered" the affairs have
not only been hampered by lack of funds,
but have not had sufficient encourage
ment along other lines from the railroads,
hotel and camp owners, guides or others
whose business in entirely or in part de-
pendent on sportsmen and general vaca-
tion interests.
This year, Harry A. Chapman, OF Ben
gor, who has sole and exclusive control Of
the Maine exhibits for 1905, proposes to go
at it in the right way he has already laid
plans for an elaborate and proper repre-
seutation of Names WOODS scenes, and be
assure to put the whole idea through to
perfection.
One OF the most prominent features OF
the Maine exhibit will be large and
ndsomely-constructed birch bark
cabin, measuring 1ohx14k feet, and hav-
ing walls seven feet high. This cabin,
which has already been erected, is covered
inside and out with great sheets OF birch
bark, fastened with strips of split cedar.
The door latch, hinges, etc., have also
been fashioned out OF wood in strict
keeping with the ingenious makeshifts
which are always in evidence about the
abode of typical Maine woodsman.
There are two large windows on each side
of the cabin, and door at each end, the
frames of each betng appropriately fash
Toned and trimmed in split cedar.
Among the interior decorations and
furnishings already completed are four
tables being covered with broad birch
bark strips. This unique and really hand
some cabin has been built and equipped
throughout by Granville M. Gray, OF
Bangor, and the fact that he is q thorough
woodsman, ingenious as we'll as skilled
and exp, rienced, Is given evidence in this
bin and its equipment.
Several other excellent features have
been worked up for the exhibit, includ-
ing couple of tent scenes, real woods
fireplace, and many minor yet quite i'm
portant attractions.
An important advertising feature Of
the Maine exhibit will be sportsmen's
official handbook, which Mr.. Chapman Is
to issue in an edition OF 10000 copies for
free distribution at the show. This book,
which will be attractively gotten up, will
contain printed list of the Maine hotels
camps and relia BILE registered guides, and
large amount OF other valuabl infor-
nation for sportsmen and vacationists.
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David displayed his wisdom by saying:
"All men are liars" instead of picking
out one man and saying it to him.
Wife-Just the same, you never hear of
a woman using her religion as cloak.
Husband-Oi course not, my dear. Relig
ion Is too inexpensive.
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ELLSWORTH MARKETS.

WEDNESDAY, January %, 1905.
MAINE LAW REGARDING WEIGHTS AND MEAsusEs
bushel of Liverpool salt shall weigh 60
pounds, and bushel Of Turks Island salt snail
weigh 10 pounds.
The standard weight of a bushei of potatoes
of apples, a pounds.
The standard weight of a bushel of beans In
good order and fit for shipping, Is 50 pounds.
OF wheat beets. ruta-bas. turnips and peas, 60
pounds; of corn, Sc pounds; Of onions. 80
pounds; of carrots. English turnips, rye and
Indian meal, so pounds; of parsnips, 45 pounds;
of barley ana buckwheat, 4S pounds; of oats,
80 pounds, or even measure as by agreement.
The prices quoted below are the retail prices
at Ellsworth. Farmers can easily reckon from
these what they are likely to receive in trade
or cash for their products.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
ENGlISHMEN WHO GET
TRIMMED ON OCEAN STEAMERS

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We'll. If you want to put it that way"
said the Englishman. And worse still.
the man got my guineas at my own game.
If 1t had been poker now, 1 wouldn't have
minded so much, for l never could master
that peculiar game, y'know, and l don't
believe there's much in 1t, anyhow. But
nap, Chap beat me clean at nap. that I've
been playing since l was a shaver at Har-
row. Odd, too. that l beat him easily at
first, and had all the luck, and was prob
ably fifty guineas ahead of him. Then sud
denly the luck shifted. ysee, and
The American smiled
What the deuce are you grinning at?'
inquired the Englishman. The luck
changed, as l say, and, by Jove. the chap
pawsitively couldn't lose. If my daughter
hadn't become III on the second day out,
requiring my attention, I dare say l might
have dropped quite a bit of money, but"
"Cnquestionably you would have" said
the American. so that in one respect
your daughters illness-which l trust was
not serious-was sort of saver for you.
1t S queer that no sea-voyaging Englishman
is ever able TO perceive that when he Is
engaged at cards with a stranger who per-
| mlts him to win easily and heavily at first,
then is the time for him to take his more
| or less cordial leave of the stranger and
proceed TO enjoy a constitutional on the main
| deck, henceforth abjuring cards with the
aforesaid stranger. Now, an American is
| able TO see through that game instantly.
| If he is playing with a friend, and the
| friend is n winner from the go-ofr, as we
! say over here, all well and good. But when
! he gets into a game with a stranger and
| the stranger simply shoves money from the
outset to his side of the table-well do you
know what the up-to-snuff American of to-
day does under those circumstances? He
simply awaits the arrival of the psychology
| cal moment when the luck begins to change.
| and then he suddenly remembers that he
| has an imperative appointment with his
| wife in the cabin, or that he has arranged
| to be shaved by the ships barber at just
| that particular moment"
Fancy, now" said the Englishman, mus
| irgly. IF / had Only been aware of that
/ could have"
| But you didn't know" said the Ameri-
can, in spite of all the running about the
| world you have accomplished and I have
| yet to meet the giobe-trotting Englishman
who ever mastered the fact. Why. the sea-
| voyaging card sharpers have become SO
| well aware of this shrewd little habit OF
| American passengers whom they rope into
| a game that of late years they have all but
| abandoned that old. old trick of permitting
| their victims to win with ease at the out
| set They only work that trick nowadays
| on Englishmen. Fact u.s. / think there
| ought TO be rule on all transatlantic
| steamships, English and American. abso-
lutely prohibiting English subjects from
playing cards at all on board ship, or, at
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK, April 81. 1905.
An Englishman of some note as traveller
became slightly querulous at one of the
New York clubs the other evening In his
generalizatons on the subject of the card
sharpers who address themselves exclu-
sively 10 the ocean steamers.
ITS marvel to me-" he complained,
that the American steamship people, or
the police, or somebody. can't drive these
sharks off the American ships. It's nothing
short OF disgraceful Must be something
wrong somewhere. Think I'll have 10 write
TO the London Times about it. y'know.
Hore there isn't what you call collision be
tween the steamship people and the
"Oh. come now, stow that. mate" put in
an American OF the group who does a bit
OF deep-water voyaging himself. IF the
short card players are not worse. and
more Of them on the British transatlan-
tic steamers I'll Astorize myself. turn Brit
lsh subject, take the kings shilling. put on
q red coat. make war on Hottentots and
Kaffrs, and"
stop that bally humbug," said the Eng
lsht-au. we don't make on blacks
Just organize punitive expeditions against
them, y'know. Stick to the point-these
Gard sharpers on the American ships. Why,
It's simply barbaTOuS to permit them TO
miugle with gentlemen as they do. And
the battling part of ii is, the blacklegs get
themselves up like gentlemen. so how's a
man TO know"
Must have been a bit hit yourself COM
ing over this time, Ell, old mang' sug-
g. sted the American
The Englishman Redeemed. as some Eng
Hshmen VIII when coIraled in CONVERSE
LCEaI cul de sac.
Wei, yes, l did" he gamely admitted.
Not very hard, though. l think about
twenty guineas would about cover it. But
II wasn't the money much. 1t was the
way the thing was done. PawsitiveIy
beastly, l call 1t. Man was introduced TO
me Oh sailing day on the other side by an
American ! knew quite well. Good fell
low, too, that American. Man had been
introduced to him by somebody else; and
1t would take n Scotland Yard man to
trace those intrOductions back to the orig
fnai one. Worst OF IL was, l myself pre-
scented tho chap to any number of fellows
knew on the ship, and all OF them got
BIT more or less. Consequently, all of them
locked at me with reproach in their eyes
when n came out after we landed that the
chap was a sharper, just as / looked re-
proachfully at the man who"
Sort of an endless chain of reproachful
gazes, eh?' put in the American, amusedly.
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played poker with him, because that's my
business. But didn't have to play crooked
and | don't admit that | ever did play
crooked, Understandable get his money.
We'll, at any rate young Abingdon and
Barnwel started the two-handed game on
the first day out, and kept it going almost
until the steamer approached FIRE lSlano
Barnwel, Of course, shredded Abingdon
right along. He made no effort to permit
Abii gdon to win at first. He simply
played poker and raked in the rapid young
Englshman's guineas and checks. A lot
Of board knew all about Barnwell,
and those among us who had met young
Abingdon in England got him aside on the
second day out and automatically put 1t to
him that he was engaged IN pretty diff
cult game; that in brief, Barnwell was a
professional card player. For our pains
we were told that we were too blooming
officious. Young Mr.. Abingdon remarked,
in addition, that he was more than seven
years of age and something over foot
high, knew what he about, and that
sort of thing-you know the blustery talk
of quite young man in wine; and this
young Englishman was flushed with wine
through it all, you understand.
However when the steamer was drawing
nigh this shore Abingdon decided that he'd
had enough. and, moreover he had to make
pl operations to land Several of us were
| in the card room when the last hand was
| played Barnwel raked in that final pot,
and Abingdon scrubbed check on his New
York banker for the amount he had lost
at the maj sitting. Then he looked up at
Barnwell for a moment, and said
" Some of my friends on board estimate
| you bit unkndly, Mr.. Barnwell.'
"a How's thatT inquired Barnwell, coolly
| he was a man who never betrayed sur
| prise
well. said Abingdon they maintain
! that your skill at cards affords you some
thing better than mere means Of diver
SION.
"I never denied that replied Barnwell,
| calmly
i" In playing with me on this voyage you
| have employed skill alone? said Abingdon
" At your suggestion. responded Barn
well, with careful emphasis. I have played
draw poker with you for a number of days.
1 understand the game of draw poker, and
l have nearly two thousand pounds of your
! money. Do you want it back?
That of course, was simply splendid
bluff on Barnwelfs part. for the young Eng
lishman, he perfectly well know, would
never crawfish soueal.
:" oh, If you choose TO put me in that
whimpering light said Abingdon, flush
| ing holly, and he rose from the card table
and went out on deck
| We'll, a couple of elderly Englishmen on
beard, who knew Abingdon and his father
| before him, went to the young chap and
told him that 1t would be perfectly proper
and right for him to stop payment on the
checks he had given Barnwell, who, they
| repeated, was swindler.
:" Mind your own blooming business said
Abingdon. I'll do nothing of the sort and
| that was the end of 1t. 1t must be adj
| mitted that you Britishers have wonder
fully game fashion OF putting up with a
| bad job without complaint. 1t may be
| simple bullheadedness, and maybe It's plain
| vanity
| s.Barnwell made many successful trans
atlantic voyage after that, before Ls de-
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csded to try the Pacific steamers. They
couldn't keep him off the steamers 1t is
simply a plain statement of fact that the
steamship companies have found and prob
ably always will find, it impossible to keen
the card sharks from voyaging on their
Slips. The companies have frequently tried
II. Ihey tried 1t on one occasion that 1
particularly well remember. The New York
agent of one of the big American steam
snip companies informed Frank Colbert. the
Nestor of the steamship sharpers that he
would henceforth be denied permission to
ride on the vessels of that line.
That so? said Colbert with perfect
complaisance. 1t sounds good. But how
are you going to fix it?'
Refuse to sell you passage said the
agent.
Well said Colbert calmly, I'd rather
like to have you do that. I'd wiring enough
damages out Of your company to make it
unnecessary for me to ever touch a card
again as long as l live
Now. that sounded like a bit of bounce
didn't it? But Colbert's position was per-
fectly sound. and he knew 1t, and the
agent OF the line found it out upon investi-
cation. A steamship line, you understand,
is not regulator of the habits or censor
OF the morals of it's steamers passengers
&c the passengers don't know any better
tnan to play cards with strangers that is
their own lookout. A steamship company
cannot refuse to sell passage to a man he
cause 1t knows he Is a short card PLAYER
l. devoives upon the company to prove that
tS iiiS'ii 10 a Siidi per III d SUIT Tor damages,
and the steamship people know that 1t is
all but impossible to do this, for no man
who is trimmed at cards by one of these
Voyaging sharks is going to admit such a
thing in court of law-he can't even be
dragged to the court of law The fear
alone of being guyed by his friend would
deter him. just the fear of ridicule
deters the victims of the cheerful green
goods and gold brick workers from emit
ting loud and prolonged walls over their
losses
How the deuce do you know all this?,
inquired the Englishman
Well you may be pretty certain that I
haven't dreamed it," said the American.
Besides, / figured that you needed some
consolation for the loss of your twenty
guineas. Didn't you?"
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any rate, from playing any other card
games than casino, or old maid, or euchre,
Or
'Humbug!' snorted the Englishman.
Not so humbuggish you might mag
ine,' said the American. 'Of course. /
don't mean that literally, and yet l don't
know but what after ALL 1t might be a
good thing. l have made thirty-seven
round trips on the bosom of the Atlantic,
and suppose that on those voyages | have
seen perhaps thousand men plucked at
cards. / will venture to assert that 10 per
cent of these plucked ones were British
subjects.
I've seen some smart Engllshmen badly
zone by the an-going card sharks, too.
DO you remember the time that that
mcney-burning young countryman of yours,
Squire Abingdon, son of the English iron
king, first came to this country with a
bunch of British pugilists his favorite
sociates? Now, Abingdon wasn't any fool,
even if he did at that period of his life,
stand. in need of a guardian with a heavy
gnarled club.
well, amid the newspaper talk that en-
sued over Abingdons landing In this coun
try with his assortment of prize fighters
from the tight little island, the fact didn't
come out that Abingdon had been plucked
of something like $4,000 on the trip over
by George Barnwell, one of the most sue
cessful of the older clique of steamship
card sharks-Barnwell died only a few
months ago in Australia, read. But 1t was
fact, all the same. l was not only on
one of a number of men who endeavored
to pound some sense into young Abingdon s
head while the plucking was going on.
But Abingdon was a stubborn young
chap, and would listen to nobody. and
even when he became quite convinced that
BarnWell was sharper. at the end of the
voyage, he stood for his stable loss like
a little man, and became genuinely angry
at some of his English companions who adj
vised him TO stop payment on the checks
he had given BarnweH to cover the greater
part of the amount involved In the pluck
ing
II have no doubt that Barnwell had it in
mind to trim young abingdon when he got
aboard at Liverpool. Barnwell had been
working the ships for two decades, in spite
of the efforts of the steamship companies
TO keep him off their vessels, and at this
time he was a man verging upon fifty.
Abingdon-rest his ashes, for he wasn't half
a bad chap. bad start and poor finish as he
ala make OF twas more than liberal in
| the use of wine. and 1t was at the buffet
that Barnwell, who a fine-looking
agreeable, and uncommonly accomplished
fellow, found young Abingdon on sailing
| day. The two men struck up an acuuaint-
arceship at the bar. and 1t was Abingdon
himself who first suggested as he after
ward aekEowledged-for he was a manly
| chap-t1e game of draw.
Abingdon had only learned his first few
lessons at poker short time before, and
| ne had the poker novice's enthusiasm for
| the game to an exaggerated extent.
Before proceeding, / ought to say that
| Barnwell always maintained afterward that
| his play with Abingdon was perfectly
| sgt are.
| - The young fellow asked me to play
poker wsah him., was Barnwelps way of
| expressing It, and he couldn't play poker
any more than l could play water polo.
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was placed on the coffin by a member Of the
Masonic order. After the burial this seed
ling plant was brought to Washington and
was subsequently planted In It's present
location, where 1t has thrived from the
first. Near this tree the opposite side
of the walk an acacia tree has been plant
ed a memorial to the late Gen. Albert
Pike.
The Crittenden tree, an Overcup oak was
planted in 1863 by former Senator Critten-
den of Kentucky, south of the eastern gate
way entrance to the gardens. The acorns
for this tree were brought here from
Kentucky by Robert Mallory, a warm per
sonal friends of Senator Crittenden. The
Mallory tree was planted on what was
formerly the tow path of the old Washing
ton canal.
There is also in the gardens a specimen
Of Chinese oak tree which has a novel
history. Many years ago a friend of the
late Charles A. Dana while travelling in
China picked up a number of acorns under
a tree shading the grave of Confucus and
brought them to America, giving them to
Mr.. Dana, who planted several in his
grounds. One Of the saplings grown from
these acorns sent to the botanic gar
dens and planted south of the green
houses near Maryland avenue and I'd street
southwest, where 1t is still growing
Among the other memorial trees in the
gardens are the following:
The Beck memorial tree, American
elm. planted by the late Senator Beck of
Kentucky, south of the east gateway en-
trance to the gardens. 1t was propagated
from the roots of the Washington elm
that was removed when the Capitol ground
improvements were in progress. The Alex
ander Shepherd memorial tree, an Amer!-
can elm, located near the Beck tree; the
J. W. Forney and Edwin Forrest trees,
two cypress trees near the southern en-
trance to the gardens; the Conger tree,
planted by the late Senator Conger of
Michigan, south of the east entrance; the
Hayes me'n )cfal tree. q, rare native oak,
planted near the western gate by Mr..
Hayes when he was a member OF Congress !;
the Palmer memorial tree, Japanese wal
nut planted by Mr.. Palmer the public
printer near the western gate; the Bing-
bordering the south walk between LIST and
"a streets; the Hoar and Evarts memorial
trees, two handsome specimens of the
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Use Of Both Hands.
e by Sir James Sawyer.

Lecture by Sir James Sawyer
We should form the habit of using each of
our hands In turn in our one handed activi-
ties In few months we might attain to
fair ambidexterity, in a few years to the
fun use of each hand. For this object the
best exercise is writing with the neglected
hand. II man learned to write well with
either hand almost all the other uni-manual
graces would be added unto him. There are
many other uni-manual activities in which
by changing the hand employed In them
carrying a stick or umbrella, in fencing
with a foil, in counting money, in Changing
our watch-pocket from side to side. in
changing the parting of our hair In the
use of spoon In taking soup. in domestic
carpentry, and in many other usual activi-
ties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
To Remove 4 Tight Ring
From Medical Talk.

fFOIn MeulcaI IaIk.
II you happen to get ring on your finger
that fits so tight you cannot remove It, a
very easy way to get 1t off is as follows:
Take a piece of cord or wrapping thread
and push one end of It under the ring Then.
beginning just above the ring. wind the
cord very tightly round and round the fin
ger clear up to the tip of the finger Now
take hold of the end of the cord that was
slipped under the ring and unwind the cord
AS the string unwinds the ring viii be car
ried along with it and removed without any
difficulty.