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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-05-23

Dedr Friends Of the Column;
1t IS Monday morning and my washing
waits while write. but IN take time to make
my mark, at least, as ! see letters to the col
umn are growing few. suppose most of the
sisters are busy identifying their homes and
making their lawns and flower beds tidy and
ready for summer. have scarcely begun in
that direction yet; in fact, am becoming al
most attached to my dirt, and hate TO disturb
il. feel something like the little girl whose
aunt was endeavoring TO get her to take a
bath by explaining that she had never heard
her tthe aunt fussing over such a thing. "Oh
well, auntie," the child replied, "you like to
be clean and cold; I'd rather be warm and
dirty"
Such cold, backward weather as we have
had all the spring. Yet, few brave blossoms
have come to us, arbutns, violet, blue. yellow
and white hepaticas and trilliums i have
seen. / have been to see Aunt Maria. She IL
gaining slowly and can now get about little,
and is anxious to get strong enough to begin
on her garden. can stop no longer this time.
Janet, what has become Of your good reso-
iutions9 ESTHER
Welcome, Esther. We are glad to hear
from you, and also to learn that Aunt
Maria is better. Meb, tried your recipe
for doughnuts with very good results.
AUNT MADGE.
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Of you have had your outings, and enjoyed
them. have been shut in all winter; hayt
been out Of my own dosryard but once since
the FIRST OF last November.
Did you know that Grandma G. had been
81. she is still quite feeble. Her son writes
that she doesn't gain strength as she thinks
she ought to. ! think from what hear tina,
she must have been pretty III for while.
Erne slime, may have one OF those pic
lures, or are they only for those who were a,
the reuniong would very much like 70 have
one Of them. SADIE.
can answer for one on the houseciean-
ing question not quite half through. Am
sorry TO hear Grandma G. has been i'll.
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ID. q. q. u. 0olumn.

The editor invites secretaries of local unions
of the W. Q. I. U. In Hancock county, and
white ribboners generally. TO contribute TO this
column reports Of meetings or items that will be
Of interest to workers In other parts Of the
county. We would like this TO be a live column,
but IL needs come effort on the part of W. c. T.
q. women to make IL so. Ii is a column of their
and are, of course. subject TO approval of the
editor.l
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tHfoial.
Ever Watchful.
A Little Care viii Save Many Ellis
worth Readers Future Trouble.

Watch the kidney sccretions.
See that they have the amber hue of
health;
The discharges not excessive or infre-
quent;
Contain no "brick- dust like" sediment
Doan's Kidney Pills will do this for YOU
They watch the kidneys and cure them
when they're sick.
Mrs. John C. Meader, living at West Ellis
worth, Me-, says: ~ was so well pleased
with the benefits derived from the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills in the spring of 1902
that gave testimonial at that time re-
commencing them. For several years my
back was weak and sore and found pains
in my kidneys at times that felt like
thrusts of a knife, and the pains often ex-
tended up through my shoulders. There
was irregular action of the seceetions
which caused much Inconvenience, and
though doctored and used different med
icines, nothing did much good until got
Doan's Kidney Pills at E. G. Moore's drug
store. 1t required but short use OF this
remedy to free me from the pain and to
correct the other difficulties. Ny daugh-
ter complained of having pains in her
back, and as i had some Doan's Kidney
Pills in the house at that time, gave her
some. She, like myself, received much
benefit. l can say that in my case the
cure was permanent, as have not required
the use of any kidney remedy during the
two and half years which have elapsed
since used them"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80 cents.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and take
no other.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-05-23

SOMETHING EACH DAY.
Something each day-a smile,
It is not too much to give.
And the little gifts of life
Make sweet the days we live.
The world has wesry hearts
That can bless and cheer,
And smile for every day
Makes sunshine all the year.
Something each aay--a word.
We cannot know its power.
1t grows in fruitfulness
Az grows the gentle flower.
What comfort it may bring,
Where all is dark and drearl
For kind word every day
Makes pleasant all the year.
Something each day-a thought,
Unselhsh. good and true,
That aids another's need
While we our way pursuei
That seeks to tighten hearts.
That leads TO pathways clear;
For helpful thought each day.
Makes happy all the year.
Something each day-a deed
OF Kindness and of good,
To link In closer bonds
All human brotherhood.
Oh, thus the heavenly viii
We all may do while here;
For good deed every day
Makes blessed all the year.
The Presbyterian Banns
by Sadie
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steamer J r Morse leaves Bar narbor daiiy'
except Sunday, At i.3o p IN for Seal hAfDot
Nort.east Harbor Southwest Haibor, BrooAhg,
sedgwick. Deer Isle, sargentvlile and DarA
Hsrbor. connecting NJ Rockland with steamer
for Borton.
Steamer Monaghan leaves Bar Harhor Mon.
days and Thursdays for Seal Harb0r, N0rtheAsss
Hsrbor. Southwest IIarbor, stouiDgt0n snl
Roekland. leaving Rockland az ? n, for Fof.,
land. For Prospect Harbor. Miihridge an"
Jonesport Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Steamer leaves Binehiil daily. except sundAy;
at p IN. for South Bluehlil, sioninston ~
North Haven. connecting at RoeEland WIN
steamer for Boston.
RETURNING
From Boston daily. except sunday, at p NJ
From kocklAnd at $50 m, daily. except SUI
day. via way landings. "a
From Portland Tuesdays and Fridays ~ ~
p nj, koekland Wednesdays and Saturdays d. Q
6 ~, via way landings.
From Jonesport at 80 a m, Mondays anu
Thursdays. via MilDridge and Prospect HArpof'
All cargo, except live stock. via the steamers
OF this Company. Is insured against IRE anu
marine risk.
Maine.
CALvIH AUSTIN. Presr GEM Manager
Boston. Mass.
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filutual Benrht Column.
EDITED BY AUNT MApGA".


The purposes Of thIa column are succinctly
stated ia the title and motto-ii is for the mutual
benefit and alias To- be helpful and hopeful
Being for the common good. II Is fer the com
mon uss--A public servant, purveyor Of In
formation and suggestion, medium for the In
terchange OF ideas. In this capacity u sollcit-
communications, aud its success depends largely
on the support given 1t IN this respect Com,
InunieatioRs uust he signed but the name OF
writer viii not he piiRtedexcept by permission
Communications will ne subject to approval OF
rejection by the editor OF the column, but none
will be rejected without good reason. Address
all communications 10
THE AMERICAN,
Ellsworth. Me.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-05-23

Baker. d. D., the
present pastor Of
Williston chur y,
Portland, Me-.
"the birthplace
Of Christian En-
deavor."
DIR. Baker is a
tn orou gh going
Christian Endea-
vorer, and under
his wise leader
ship the first
society" still
maintains all of
its old time ear
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ADVERTISEMENTS
KIDNEY TROUBLES
Increasing Among Women. But
Sufferers Need Not Despair
THE BEST ADVICE IS FREE

OF all the diseases known, with which
the female organism is afflicted, kidney
disease is the most fatal, and statistics
show that this disease is on the increase
among women.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-05-23

How are you all to-day l hope all are
well. l suppose you about all done
house-cleaning by now. am not through;
have tried TO clean house for a week, but
make rather slow progress, for can only
work little while at a time.
have been very much interested in reading
the letters from you all, and am glad so many
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-05-23

nestness and zeal. DR.. Baker is prom
inent in the work of the movement not
only in his own, but in other states.
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New Pastor Mt wuIixton Church.

An honored speaker at many an in
gathering is Rev. Smith
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SOUTHWEST HARBoR.

must come with an apology for mad
vertently making a misstatement last
week as to place of holding the county
convention, having since learned that the
Ellsworth union, for good and sufficient
reasons, is unable to arrange for the con-
vention this year. Through some error
the Star in the East calendar OF county
conventions gave Ellsworth as the meet
ing place of Hancock white-ribboners,
and hence my premature announcement.
While the date, June rs, remains the
same, the annual convention will probably
be entertained by the North Sullivan
union, an invitation having been received
by the county president, who will no
doubt make definite call not later than
next week. j. M. MASON.
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The next meeting of the Us. will be at
the Congregational church vestry. The
programme OF the last meeting was as
follows: Reading, Miss Katherine Free
man; solo, Mrs. Louise Freeman; read
ings, Miss Leta Freeman and Miss Inez
Hills
Twelve Y almanacs have been sold by
the flower mission superintendent since
Christmas.
A committee was appointed to confer
with the VS.. in regard to the coming
county convention. Press Coz.
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lisa. lii, 7; Matt. V. II, u; xviii, 1S-
20; Acts XIII, 1-3. 1888. 1859; XIV, %,
&c; Cor. iii, $40; II Cor. xi. 1888; II
Tim. iv, 6-s; Rev. xxi, IT.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-23

thousand people are there duplicating
the life that is going on In Illinois and
Indiana. The soil they cultivate is red
and not brown. Their houses, their
towns, their schools are newer. But in
nothing else do their surroundings diff.
In the Middle West except that a pro-
founder beauty characterlzes the scenes
they look upon.
There are no drones. Everyone is
busy. New land is being broken. New
buildings are going up. New trolley
lines are starting. Thriving towns have
sprung up everywhere. Oklahoma City
has the air of a metropolis Lawton,
Ardmore, Shawnee, Enid Guthrie. the
capital, and other Oklahoma towns
have their commercial clubs, their
spirit of cooperation, their hustle.
Okmulgee, South McAlester, Coalgate,
Chickasha, Tulsa, Muskogee and doz-
ems of other towns in Indian Territory
are a-quiver with industry. Many of
them did not exist five years ago. and
the largest ones have doubled their
population since then.
Oklahoma, which it is proposed to
combine with Indian Territory in a new
State, will make n magnificent com
monwealth. There are fully 100000
white inhabitants In the two Terri
tories. oklahoma has more than 700.
/ xt-iNi yx~ith no T.,
| dians. There are 100000 people in In
| dian Territory, of whom a quarter are
| Indians. So that while the new State
will face an Indian problem. it will
not be hard one. One may ride
through Oklahoma. says a writer in the
Worlds Work, stopping off at town
after town without ever seeing an In
dian In Indian Territory an Indian
shack or tepee is occasionally visible
from railroad, with its dwellers
Indians in the towns, and the railroad
stations. If you do see one In town.
you have to be told that be is an In
dian, for he is probably a half-bree
or quarter-breed, well-dreSsed and com.
petent-looking, not distinguishable from
the white men with whom he mingles.
There will always be Indians In the
State of Oklahoma, as there are In
dams in Maine, In Wisconsin, in New
York, but the States constitution will
be made by representatives of 100000
white men, and it will be a white mans
State
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-23
TONIC TREATMENT
Weak Stomach and Sick Headache
Cured by DR.. Williams
Pink Pills

The symptoms of stomach trouble
vary. Some victims have a ravenous
appetite, others loathe the sight of food.
Often there is feeling as of weight OH
the chest, a full feeling in the throat.
Sometimes the gas presses on the heart
and leads the sufferer to think he has
heart disease. Sick headache is fire.
quent and distressing symptom.
A weak stomach needs a digestive
tonic and that there is no better tonic
for this purpose than DR.. Williams Pink
Pills is shown by the statement of Mr.
A. O. Merrill, a mining man, of Oneals,
Calf, veteran of Battalion @, Third
y. S. Regular Infantry.
had never been well since left
the army, he says, "always having had
trouble with my stomach, which was
weak. | was run down and debilitated.
Gould keep nothing ON my stomach,
and at times had sick headache so bad
that l did not care whether l lived or
died. My stomach refused to retain
even liquid food and / almost despaired
of getting well as / had tried so many
kinds of medicine without relief Then
was bitten by rattlesnake and that
laid me up from work entirely for a
year, six months of which spent in bed.
One day fried recommended DIR.
Williams Pink Pills to me and l began
taking them. They cured me when all
other medicine had failed / have
recommended the pills to great many,
for during my recovery every one asked
me what was helping me so and / told
them DIR. Williams Pink Pills. l can
not speak too highly of them"
Ii you want good health you must have
actually make new blood and restore
shattered nerves. They are sold by
all druggists or sent, postpaid, on re-
ceipt of price, 50c. per box, six boxes for
$3.50 by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Co Schenectady N Y
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-23

seize her-and here she would tremble
and snort with terror, crouch almost
to the ground and refuse to move.
Fortunately 1t occurred to him to tie
his handkerchief over her eyes, and by
doing this, he coaxed her almost to the
door. Just at that moment Robert
caught sight OF Pilots black head over
Ben's shoulder, and wild with excite
ment, began to shout:
Steady, Pilot! Ho, boy! Ho, boy ~
Hearing this well-known stable-call,
Pilot answered with a cheerful little
whinny, and Lady took step forward,
and finally both were across the thresh-
old and saved from the fire.
If the mare had not retained so Wv
Id remembrance of her old foe, Clip
sy Tim would have had her out OF the
burning stable and far away over the
moors before Ben got In, and would
never have been suspected of the theft.
AS long as White Lady lived she dis
liked and feared Gipsies, and would
not let one come near Chicago
Daily News.
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Rose Farm of Twelve Acres.

One of the most interesting sights ID
the Pomona valley is the development
work now being done by the California
Rose company on it's rose farm at the
foot of White avenue. Here may be seen
literally acres of roses, the slips beng
planted a few weeks ago, covering !le
entire 12-acre tract, in rows about iee'
apart. +.
The plants are about 6 inches ID
height, and here and there over the traeI
many of them are in bloom. 1t Will Dc
beautiful sight when the rose bushes a r.
grown to or feet in height, all ii
blossom. -.
The work of irrigating and tending ; tas
plants at this time of year requ45e o,
about twenty-five men. From Dece el.oo
until April, during the shipping Seas sgi'i
probably fifty to seventy-fve peop' g,r ~,,
be kept busy. At this season - the y@ua a:
plants are being pushed as FaP rdjHIab I
tender care, good soil, the aI ;lL..8f.
amount of sunshine and constant iLfls''
inc will accomplish it.-Pomona lines
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WHITE LADY. :
~~~-~~~~~~~N~

| 7S7 ORSES rarely forget either a
IHI benefit or an unkindness. Nj.
Ky Shurtleff had a beautiful mare,
White Lady, a hlgh-spirlted and SEN
sitiye creature. Ben, her groom, had
never treated her roughly or given her
cross word, and White Lady knew
his step and would whinny with de-
light when she heard it.
Mr.. Shurtleff sent Ben one day TO
Craigie, a lonely little railway station
in the midst of the moors. When Ben
came out of the Office he was amazed
not to find White Lady where he had
left her. Gypsy Tim, a rough, dark
looking fellow, had mounted her to
try her speed over the moors. White
Lady had never been handled so rough
ly before. She reared and plunged
with fright
Get Off" said Ben, turning white
with anger. He was not more than
Is and small for his age.
Tim answered sneeringly:
"You be quiet. I'm just trying her
a bit I'll tame her for you"
Ben seized him by the arm, though
he was twice as big as himself, and
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I'm just back from Massieville," re-
marked the cheerful citizen Ever
hear of Massieville? Well, | didn't sup
pose you had. Not many men have. I'M
less they were born within fifteen or
twenty miles of the place. The way
happened to hear of it was that | was
born there, right in the place, and
lived there till | was 16.
II was graduated from the Massie-
vile public schools in 1S19-or, to be
strictly accurate, from the Massieville
public schOol-and last week | had a
lonesome fit for Massieville, one of
those fits that Il man over 40 frequently
gets for his birthplace. / fell to think
ing about the commencement exercises
when | was graduated, and the more |
thought of that great event the worse
| wanted to see what MassieviIle look
ed like. When | recalled that it was
just about time for the class of 1906 to
be graduated from the MaSsieville pub
lie school | couldn't stand it any long
er, and the next morning | had the
unique distinction of being the only
man in the world bound for Massieville
on railroad train. That afternoon |
left the train at "A punktown station and
hired man to drive me over to Massie-
vile, which always was and probably
always will be six miles from the rail
road
We'll, on the way over to Massieville
| spent every minute thinking about
that graduating class Of 70. There was
Hump Gore. Humps essay was
corker-'Altruism the Hope of a Great
Republic That word 'altruism' was
Knockout drops for the village, and If
there had ever been need of mayor in
Massieville Hump would have been ii
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is called, "Suwanee River"), solo
Black joe" "Massa's In De Cold, Colo
Groun'," "Old Uncle Ned "Oh, Susan
na," Nellie Bly," willie, We Have
Missed YOU" Come Where My Love
Lies Dreaming" and a hundred others
almost as well known. He practically
founded an American school of folk
music, and it Is safe to say that no 9th
er mans works have been sung as often
by the American people as have Eos.
| ter's
There is another side to the picture
however and it, to a great extent, eX-
onerates the American people of the
charge of ingratitude. All Of Foster 5
self. He was paid many thousands of
| dollars for his songs and spent every
cent. He would write a song in the
morning, sell 1t before noon to the first
bidder and at night again be penniless.
The song which causes Kentucky to
honor him was written In memory of a
visit to his uncle, in Kentucky, Judge
John Rowan, who was also United
States Senator. How much money the
thousands of copies that were sold
brought to the composer is not known.
but it must have been a considerable
amount. Foster made great deal of
money. Shortly after his name became
known, Chrlsty, the famous negro min
strel, asked for song that he could
sing before its publication. Foster had
just completed 'Old Folks at Home, "
and submitted it. Chrlsty Immediately
offered $500 In cash to have his name
appear on the title page of the first edi-
ton only, and the composer accepted.
Later the song was published, and its
success was instantaneous. Foster re-
ceived from the publishers more than
$4,000 in royalties, the greatest sum
that. up to that time, any musical com
position had ever earned in America.
Foster had all the advantages that
any man could desire. His marriage,
in 1850, with Jane Jenny Mcdowell, the
daughter of one of Pittsburg's leading
physicians, bid fair to be an ideal one.
but his habits made it impossible of en-
durance and in ten years they had sep
arated and Foster went to New York.
He spent the last few miserable years
until the fall in his poor room in the
American House severed his thread Of
life And then In the morgue lay the
lions and had even figured upon the pro-
grams of such artists as Jenny Lind
and Nilsson.
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: old ker4Hck sun-ms dsrkis
and soon On tbs mesdov tash n and The sSo,

About the middle Of January, 1864
there was taken from the common ward
Of New York hospital to the city
mOrgue the body of an unknown n an,
| clad in the wornout garments of the
under world, thin, emaciated, evidently
| poverty stricken. All that was known
of him was that he had been taken
to the hospital from a poor room in
the American House, where, during the
night of Jan. 10, he had fallen upon
tie broken edge Of a water pitcher and
severed an artery in his neck. How
long he had lain there no one knew,
but when he was found he had lost so
| much blood that recovery was impos-
slble. Three days later he died in the
hospital ward. He was alone, poor
friendless, unknown.
A statue of this man was unveiled
In louisville, KY, during the festivities
Of Home coming week. 1t is the gift Of
the city's school children, paid for
with their pennies and erected to hon
OF the memory of man who did more
thar any other to bring the State of
Kentucky close to the hearts of the
Nuerican people.
The dead body was that of Stephen
Collins Foster, author and composer Of
My Old Kentucky Home" Millions
OF persons had thrilled at his immortal
song, yet, when he was in direst straits,
struggling in his last battle for his
poor life, there was no one there to
express to him the gratitude that Ken
lucky has shown in the unwilling Of
this monument.
Some one, somehow, learned of F0s-
ter's DEATH and the body was claimed.
Then the wife, from whom he had been
separated, came hurrying to him. the
country by which he had been negle cted
acclaimed him benefactor- but he was
dead In the tattered garments that he
had worn in his last miserable years Of
poverty and suffering They took him
to his home in Pittsburg, they gave him
great funeral, they had a band that
played his songs-the whole country
mourned for him-and the scene In the
New York morgue vas forgotten to such
an extent that very few writer's of mu-
steal history mention it.
This seems like a terrible common
tary on the ingratitude Of the country
for such a work as my Old Kentucky
Home" Yet it seems even worse when
one records the full measure of Eos
ter's gifts to his fellow men. He wrote
besides, "Old Folks at Home" Tor, as 1t