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 ammuniton- -hoisting machinery and rem dering the guns useless.
 At Mercy of Fast Ships.
 It would be impossible, he says, in rough weather, to fire our forward tur- ret guns, that is, one-half of our heav- fest guns, while the foreign ships with their high bows could use their forward guns with ease. Thus the three or four best navies in the world with vessels su- perior to ours in speed could pick the time of battle; if they chose rough weather the result can be imagined.
 Another serious defect, according to Mr. Reuterdahl, is the open shaft to the magazine. By this he means that there is an open passageway from where the guns are fired, to where the ammunition Is handled. Under these conditions, the damage that would be done by few grains of burning powder dropped from turret to .'handing room is self-eyident. Another defect Is the enormous size of the ports-so large that the shell of an enemy could enter. A bursting shell would ignite the powder being loaded into a gun and set the handling room' ablaze. Taking as correct MT. Reuterdahrs assertions as 10 detail, the layman will have no difficulty in picturing the havoc that would follow. The expert repeats many of the crit icisms of the navy that have been made from time to time-the poor protection for our gun crews, insufficient ammunition hosts, lack of torpedoes and destroyers, etc He also takes up the system of slow. promotion, quoting the following from President Roosevet's message of De- cember +, 1906:
 Under the present archaic system of promotion, without parallel in the navy of any other first class power, captains are commissioned at the average of 56, and rear admirals at the average age of 60. The following table gives the average in other navies
 Captains Sea-Going
 Flag-Officers
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DONAPARTE HITS
 BLOW AT TRUSTS
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 believe that widespread, persistent. sys- tematic and interruptions attempt to de- ceiye the people as to these things has been in progress during the entire local life of the present national administration and is in progress today"
 After relating Aesops story of the wolves persuading the sheep to send away their watch dogs" MT. Bonaparte said: Just now, the denizens of that great sheep fold, rthe American union, are be- ginning to turn their thoughts to the grave problem of choosing head watch dog to guard them for four long years. l can't help thinking it may aid them in this weighty task to establish, first of all, a negative test of fitness. Whatecer ap- plicant for the job is viewed with par .ticular favor by the wolves may well be left in his home kennel; in palmer Ian guage, no man can be safely trusted to take care that the laws be faithfully executed if his choice is longed for and urged by all or many of those who have obstructed the faithful execution of the same laws in the past.
 Trusts Are CIoaked.
 q have said that many attempts have been and are daily made to so mislead public opinion as to these matters that 1t may be hindrance, not help, in the inforcement of the laws. My attention has been called to one expedlent in this scheme of deception winch merits men tion Testimony taken in some pending suits under the Sherman antitrust act has recently shown the public what had been for some time well known to the department of justice, that establishments and enterprises emphatically advocating themselves as independent of all trusts are simply branches of the very trusts
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manded or not is matter of speculation.
 It is now fully understood that Chief Wler will be retained in charge of the department He may have been teehni- eally guilty of insnbordnation, but real ly he only did early in the fight what he would have been forced to have done later when the new commission won the first case before the lower court.
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to which they profess deadly enmity. The trust question by this imposture not only cloaks the completeness of It's monopoly but cynically makes profit out of its own unpopularity. l think there is reason to believe that certain organs of public opinion, perhaps under the like guidance. pursue q similar tortuous pol icy; they seek to obstruct the execution of the laws by vehemently and perpetu- ally demanding impossibiltes of those charged with their execution"
 MT. Bonaparte closed by saying that executive officers of the United States. regardless of their own personal opinions, were bound in conscience and honor and by the demands of official duty and the sanction of their official oaths to treat any law on the statute books as the proclaimed will of the nation.
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POPE IS INDEPENDENT.
Head of Catholic Church Will Make
 Cardinals When He Wishes.

In Hearst News Service correspond ent's interview with Cardinal Satolli
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AMERICAN NAVY
 IS ARRAIGNEO
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 -------------~-->-~-- -->-~--~>-->---~'-r>>-->--- ~ six inches above the water when she is ready to fight. The condition of our ar mored cruisers is almost the same Of our last eight armored cruisers, which cost us more than 4o,OO0,OO0 only two have a main armor-belt which extends above the waters edge.
 No Other Nation Has Made Such a
 Mistake.
 NO other nation of the world has ever made this fundamental mistake, except in the case of few isolated ships, The French have always had high. continu- ous belt which reaches from five to eight feet above the water-line. The British. for some time without the continuous belt encircling the entire ship, have always raised the armor they considered vital many feet above the water. The Dread- naught-their famous battleship, embody- ing the secret lessons of the Russian Japanese war-represents the principle upon which all their ships are being built today Her main water-line belt extends eight feet below the water and five above. This ship has now been finished and in commission for more than a year. Mean while, the United States makes no move- ment to raise It's water-line armor to where it should be. There is no defense for placing this armor under the water. It is kept there simply because it has been placed there in the past. The initial mistake might be understood, for the de- signing of a battleship is most com plex problem; but the continuation of the policy seems more incredible than its beginning.
 ''The United States has five big battle ships now building, not one of them. in spite of the continual protest of our sea- going officers, with its main belt above tho water-line. Three of these are too far along toward completion to be changed. Two of them can be altered by the pressure of outside public opinion. But that pressure must be exerted soon,. or it will be too late"
 Another Serious Defect.
 MT. Reuterdahl declares that one of the most serious defects of our battleships is the lowness of their bows. Even in the latest of our ships the bows are only eighteen and twenty feet above the water-line. He points out that all modern battleships in foreign navies are from twenty-two to twenty-eight feet above the water-line and continues:
 ''The result of this difference in con- struction would be disastrously apparent in any naval war. Fighting at sea takes place with ships under way and steaming 1t high speed. Our ships, when moving into any considerable heavy sea, take in over their low bows solid water. which slaps up over their forward turrets."
 Through the ports of our ship if open for action in rough weather, the expert declares, each wave would send tons of water. short circuiting the electrical
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Shipment of Whitman's s can dies just received by express. Give us your order for Christ mas morning delivery.
 PATTON POPE DRUG co.
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|" The facts shown Tn this table are startling, and earnest attention is invited to them.''
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One of the leading social and musical events of the season will be the appear ance of the Yale Glee, Banjo and Man doin clubs at the High school auditorium on Christmas night. These clubs consist of 46 young men besides the manager and his assistant. The appearance of the clubs in Birmingham is regarded more as a social than a musical event, although their enviable reputation entities them to a place in the front rank as en- tertainers.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-02
Don't Meddle,

One of the most irritating feelings
against which the best people need to
be on their guard is meddlesomeness.
The chances are that by our NEEDLE
someness we mar more than we mend.
The probability is that the cook broiled
the breakfast bacon better than we
could have done it, and the tailor cut
the coat better than II he had followed
our directions. No one can ever be
happy in this world who fancies him
self or herself born to ''set it right" 1t
would do US all good at times to sit
with the pupils instead Of taking unin-
vited the seat Of the master and the
critic. One cf the most useful lessons
any man can learn is to let things
alone. Let the chair stand where the
maid placed 1t. Let the dinner be
served without protest as the good
wife ordered it. And remember that
the world will have to get along with
out us some day; that If we keep hands
on from it for little while it may be
learning, as it must learn, to eventual
~ get along without our suggestion or
interference.-Temple Bar.
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Queer Things About Fishes.

A naturalist describes the WAYS in
which fishes sleep. They are very
light sleepers and frequently assume
singular positions, but the most re-
markable thing is the change Of color
many of them undergo while asleep
Usually their spots and stripes become
darker and more distinct when thew
fall asleep. Occasionally the pattern
OF their coloration is entirely changed
The ordinary porgy, for instance, pre-
sents in the daytime beautiful rides
cent hues playing over its siIvery sides,
but at night, on falling asleep, it takes
on dull bronze tint, and six conspicu
Gus black bands make their appearance
On its sides. II 1t is suddenly awakened
by the turning up of the gas in the
aquarium, 1t Immediately resumes the
silvery color that it shows by daylight.
The naturalist ascribes these changes
to the principle of protective colora.
ton" and points out that the appear
ance OF black bands and the deepening
OF the spots serve to conceal the fish
from their ene:nies when lying amid
eelgrass and seaweeds.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-02

The marriage of Ethelbert, king OF
Kent, with Bertha, the Christian
daughter of Charibert, king Of Paris.
paved the way TO Christianity in Eng
land. The marriage of Henry VIII.
with Anne Boleyn was one of the
principal factors leading to the refor-
nation. Ethelred the Unreadys mar
riage with Emma of Normandy gave
the conqueror an excuse for asserting
his claim to the English throne. The
marriage of Henry l. with Matilda Of
Scotland reconciled the people of Eng
land to the conquest by restoring the
line of Cedric. Henry Ills marriage
with Eleanor Of Aquitaine made Eng
land the first continental power in
western Europe. The marriage of Hen
ry VII. with Elizabeth Of York closed
the bloody wars Of the roses. The mar
rage OF Margaret, daughter Of Henry
VII, with James ~. of Scotland ulti-
mately led TO the union of England and
Scotland. Finally the marriage of So
phia with the elector of Hanover put a
line of German princes on the English
throne.-St. James Gazette.
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NORTH FRANKLIN.

Mrs. Upper is suffering from erysipelas
in her hand.
Mrs. Everett Tracey and son Dallas were
in Ellsworth Saturday.
Claude Clark has gone to Hancock to
cook for Clement Bros.
Mrs. Stella Butler has gone in the woods
to cook for Bragdon Bros.
Fred Butler, OF North Sullivan, is
working at L. NJ. Bragdon's.
Maurice Butler returned to his home
at Northeast Harbor Saturday.
Will Merchant and wife are rejoicing
over the birth of little giri born Dec. Is.
Wilmont, little son of Arthur Robinson.
who has been i'll with pneumonia, is
better.
Mrs. Washington Abbott, OF East brook.
is with her daughter, Mrs. ROBBIE Mer-
chant, for while.
w. F. Cousins and wife spent few DAYS
with their daughter, Mrs. George Springer.
at West Franklin, last week.
Preston Williams, who has been at home
during the holidays, has returned to
Waterville, where he is attending school,
Dec. 81. n
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COUNTY NEWS.
BROOKLYN.

f. E. Lurvey is ill.

f. E. Lurvey is ill.
X. w. Smith was in Ellsworth last week.
Miss Rachel Cole is visiting friends in
Boston.
A. F. Blake spent few days in Sargent
vile last week.
A. II. Mayo was in Portland and Rock
land last week.
Granville Phillips and Maynard Blais-
dell were in Surry last week.
Charles Blake, who is employed on
steamer Pemaquid, spent Sunday at home.
J. F. Staples and wife, of surry, visited
their niece, Mrs. Fred Phillips, last week.
A. H. Mayo will clerk in Herrick &
Staples store, while Capt. Herrick is
away.
Mrs. F. A. Allen has closed her house
and will make her home with Mrs. Laura
York this winter.
Capt. George w. Herrick left this morn
ing for Augusta, where he represents this
town in the Legislature.
Miss Bernice Mayo and Mahlon Hill
have gone to Charleston to attend Hig-
gins classical institute.
Many from this town attended the Joint
installation OF the Eastern Star and Min
newaukon chapter at Sedgwick, Friday
evening.
Dec. 81. UNE FEMME.
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each other. Miss Braden was a west
ern girl. and never supposed you hao
met her."
81 don't see where Miss Braden fis
ures in this story" she said severely
II believe il concerns Miss Connors-
.Nettie Braden is the heroine" be ex'
plained. The Counors person Is just
the riilainess. Promise never to telif'
mo. / shall make no premise"
very WELL" he said. If you don't
care. that puts things in different
light" He had half turned away when
hand was lightly laid upon his arm.
please go on said Mabel penitent
Iy. you know | care. | shall not tell
You know Miss Braden came the
day after you came up TO town. he
began, leaning comfortably against the
railing. She was awfully in love with
Dick Harrington. | used to chum with
Dick a little when | was out west. and
l sort of pitied him. Miss Braden was
awfuily Jealous and so lovey dovey
that the whole piazza was laughing
'You know what little mischief
that Connors girl is? Well. the night
of the hop she ran into Dick on the
piazza just alongside of an open win
dow. Just because she knew that Miss
Bracen was on the other side of the
window she kissed him with a smack
that could be heard block away.
Dick saw that she saw. but, like the
wise boy he is, he never let on. In
stead he hunted me up and got me TO
90 upstairs and shave. We looked so
much alike that when Miss Braden ac-
cused him of flirting he blamed it ON
me. 1t would never do to tell her that
it was all done out of devilment, you
know. just because she had been SO
mushy. She never would believe that.
l thought you never would find out.
bet she knew of our engagement and
sat right down to write you. Did shef"
Mabel nodded. "She thought she
was doing kindness" she defended.
You see. she knew we were engaged"
And that was what you wanted me
to confess when you urged me SOL" he
laughed. II shall have to tell Dick the
trouble he got me into"
Don't you dare" she pleaded. "Prom-
Use you won't"
"On conditions" he offered.
"Well?" she asked.
First" he began, that you prom
Use never to be Jealous again.
Il promise" she agreed.
THAT you take back the ring You
gave me the other day and promise to
keep it on this time until add to II a
wedding ring
She stretched out her hand In an
swer.
sisted
THAT you give me what did not get
from Beth Connors," he teased as he
bent his head TO her lips.
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Embellishments.
[ think they're
best for the
BLOOD

Dear Sirs:- ssonington, Me, June IS, 1901
! think I'll. F." Bitters are the best to
take for the blood and headache ! ever
saw. In fact would not be without them
in the house. for they have saved me a
great many doctors bills.
Yours respectfully, Mas. Ina M. PERT
The true 81. F., Medicine eliminates
all impurities. breaks up colds and fevers,,
corrects the digestion. it now and
take it at once If you are not feeling
well.-3Sc. at the store.
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MARLBORO.

Woodbury. Bowden and Reuel Hodgk ins
who have been quite ill, are improving.
George Mosley has moved his family in
to the Shea house, formerly occupied by
Clifford Pettengill.
Edward Treadwell and wife, OF Els
worth, have come to spend the winter
with their son George.
The neighbors and friends OF Ransom
Hodgkins met one day last week and cut
and hauled him nice pile Of wood.
Dec. 81. ARE.
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and Gerald. left Friday for q visit with
relatives in Waltham, Mass.
Miss Mabel Twining, who has been Wis
iting her aunt, Mrs. l.. B. Grindle, re-
turned to her home in Burlington, Mass
Friday.
Miss Msude Ridley and Warren c. York,
of East Bluehill, were married Monday
evening at the home of the brides mother,
Mrs. Annie Ridley. Rev. r. l.. olds, Of
the Baptist church, ofiiciated.
Dec. 81. r.
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LEACH's POINT.

Austin J. Ripley spent Christmas st
vinalhaven.
William Smith, Of Bangor, spent Sun
day with friends here.
Miss Lillian Brewster, who has been LII
with bronchitis, is much better.
Mrs. Florence Gray, OF Bangor, is VISIT
ing her parents, Decatus Leach and wife
Thurman Snowman and wife, OF South
Orrington, visited his parents, Isaac
Snowman and wife, last week.
Dec. 81. NJ.
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EAST BLUEHUJ.

The schooner Caroline Gray is discharr-
ing freight for Chase Granite Co.
Miss Emily Morgan, Of East Surry. il
visiting her sister, Mrs. George e. Hardy.
Miss Susie Long has returned to Brews-
ter, Mass, where she is EMPLOYED as
teacher.
Mrs. A. E. Long and children, Olive
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witness to Signatures.

!, John Donneliy, Mayor Of Doyles|
town, Pa, have been acquainted with
Mr.. Philip Kratz for Is years. know
him to be an honorable and useful citi-
zen. He, in my presence, signed the
above statements concerning Peruns,
which / have every reason 10 believs
are true in all particulars
SIGNED. }JoHN DoNNELLY, ESQ
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BUCKsPoRT.

David p. Farmer died suddenly ON the
street Monday afternoon. Mr.. Farmer
was well known here. For twenty-five
years he had been engaged in carriage
painting. He leaves wife, a brother and
four sisters.
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Fountainville, Pa, Feb. IS, 1909.

Fountainville, Pa, Feb. 16, 1909.
s. B. Hartman, NJ. d.
Dear Sir: 1 have been thinking of
writing to you for some time to let You
know what Peruna did for me.
am 81 years old. lost my health
about six or seven years ago. first
had dyspepsia and employed different
doctors.
Last year injured one Of my kidneys.
had one Of the best doctors for that.
He put me to bed, not to move for two
weeks.
l slowly recovered, but was SO weak
and Frustrated that could walk but
short distance. In fact I had to keep
quiet.
took several remedies, but obtained
no relief. also had catarrh in some
form.
My wife advised me to take Peruna,
and IT is with pleasure that I can say
that by taking one and one-half bottle
OF your Peruna, 1t cured me and / feel
all right. send this with many thanks
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Ny wife has also been taking your
Peruna for asthma and it helps to re-
lieve her. We keep your Peruna In
the house constantly. Again / say /
thank you for Peruna.
Sincerely yours,
PHILIP KRATZ.
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SHIRT WAISTS.

Regardless of former prices. we offer
about 100 Shirt Waists, most
ly In wooden material, at 49c;
this lot we make special effort to
close out.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-02

1t doesn't pay to borrow trouble If you
have to pay for the privilege.
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Fountainville, Pa, Nov. 8, 1903.
DR.. 8. b. Hartman.
Dear Sir: have good health now and
your valuable medicine gave me good
health. have had no doctor for some
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-02

time, as 1 do not need any. When h
take cold take Peruna and In a shou
time / am all right. My wife ia subjes
to asthma. She takes Peruna At thu|
time, and she has had no need for doc
tor for some time. With many thanh,
for your medicine, we remain,
Sincerely yours,
PHILIP KRAFT,
Fountainville, Pa, April 10, 1903.
DR.. 8. B. Hartman.
Dear Sir: We have Peruna In ,h.l
house all the time and when we thins|
we need 1T, we take 1t. We are ahou,
sixty years old and have not called /.
doctor to cur place for some years.
We 60 out in all kinds OF weather and
sometimes when we go on trip W
take Peruna along. A preventive d
better than cure. That has been our
experience.
had poor health some years ago and
when / found your medicine hit The
right thing. We both thank you 70,
your good medicine.
Sincerely yours,
PHILIP KRAFT.
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Ask your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac For 1907
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FURS.

On all our Furs we offer a discount
of one-third. We have some ele-
CANT scarfs in Isabella and Sable
Fox, Japanese Minks and other
furs. When you can get
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WHITE GOODS.

This is where we cut prices.
We have placed the entire
stock in four lots which we
offer at
Sc, IL 1-2c, 15c and zoe
Look at the lot.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-02

you are buying furs pretty cheap.
All of our Muffs in proportion.
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WRAPPERS.
Remnants of Dress Goods,

suitable for skirts, children's
dresses and waists, at about
half price. This lot contains
about $50 yards, and will not
last long.
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LADIES' DRESS SKIRTS.

10 and $40 Dress Skirts $49S;
marked down to $3.49.
We have about Is which will sell $40;
these odds and