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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-01-08
10, 1872 sIs,625

The foregoing amount, less 1881. is to be ex-
pended upon that portion of the county road
In said township No. 10, which lies between
the east line OF township No. and stake
marked "A" standing on the northern side of
said road. and Lincoln c. Bragdon, of Frank
lin, in said county, is appointed agent to su-
perintend the expenditure of said amount.
On township No. 10, eastern part, we assess
the sum of $s7.s9 as follows; Rate OF taxa
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-01-08
SOUTH BROWNSVILLE.

ne band had an entertainme mt at Eell's
~ Christmas night.
Aarporside grange held special meet
fi,day evening, Dec. q, for the pur-
Oh receiving applications for mem
rship.
Viie heaVy stock has been killed in this
s"oofhood the past week. Samuel B.
'Ae outchered steer that dressed 1871
anos' L. B. Coombs killed. pig that
shed aD pounds. 8. b. Blake killed a
'hat weighed 375 pounds. L. B. Blake
~, rat fourteen inches long, and
e pound.
Dec. %. n
afs' Helen orcutt has been quite ill the
p week.
me smelt fishermen are meeting with
Por success.
-alss Remission, OF the Cape Rozier
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zfual Nntiffs.

lows: Rate Of taxation. .o0s on dollar. valu.
alton, $40 632,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-01-08

The foregoing amount, less $l1 .01, is to be ex-
pended upon the road leading from Aurora to
Beddington within said township No. %, and
Charles P. Silsby Of Aurora aforesaid, is ap-
pointed agent to superintend the expenditure
of said amount.
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing as
sessments be published in the Kenne6ec Jour
nal and the ELLSWORTH AMERICAN.
Ellsworth, Maine, December 81, A. d. 1907.
JOHN P. ELDRIpGE,) Co. Corners
ORLANDO W. Foss, for
FRED X. PAGE, Hancock Co
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The foregoing amount, less 1888, is to be ex-
pended in repairing the road in said township
leading from the east line of franklin
through sid township No. to the west line
OF township No. 10, in said county; and Lin
coin e. Bragdon, of Franklin, in said county,
is appointed agent to superintend the ex-
penditure OF said amount.
On township No. 10, western part, we assess
the sum Of .2S as follows: Rate of taxa
ton, .0G46 on q dollar. Valuation, $19,625.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-01-08

The foregoing amount, less $4.O6. is to be ex-
pended on that portion Of the county road
leading from Aurora to Beddingtun which
line Of said township and the division line
between land OF H. M. Hall ct ais, and land
formerly OF William Freeman. and Charles P.
Silsby. Of said Aurora, is appointed agent to
superintend the expenditure Of said amount.
On township No. %, Middle Division, we as
sess the sum of s66.12 as follows: Rate Of
taxation, .O03 on dollar. Valuation, ,04o
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-01-08

Totals, l4,165 $l6.l63 $50 10
The foregoing amount, less $sGs. is to be ex-
pended upon the county roads in township
No. z, in said county of Hancock, and K. "
Smith, of Steuben, is appointed agent to su-
perintend the expenditure of said amount
On township No. 9, South Division, we as
sess the sum of $3.50 as follows: Rate of
taxation, one cent on a dollar. Valuation,
$3.50.
No Valu-
Name Of owner. acres. alton. Tax.
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1882 slO.ss2

The foregoing amount, less t5.4I, is to be ex.
Iended on the road leading from Aurora to
Beddtngton on that part lying in said town.
ship No. %, between the division line OF land
OF H NJ. Hall ct ais, ard land formerly Of
William Freeman. and the east line Of said
township. and Charles p. Silsby, OF Aurora,
tend the expenditure Of said assessment.
On township No. %, Middle Division. west
ern part We assess the sum of es1.2O as fol.
lows: Rate Of taxation. oil on dollar. Valu-
.finn A LIN.
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vine is hardy or it would not with
stand the rough usage of those who
ruthlessly uproot the vines in care
less effort to obtain the fruit.
Whole families at a time go out to
pick the berries by the bushel. The
plant blossoms in June. In Septem-
ber, although the berry is still deli
cate pale green, the swamps are in
vaded, for the rule is, First come,
first served" or perhaps more prop
erIy, "Finding's keeping" as little
boys say.
For many family, in its first year
of settlementint the bufntover lands, )"
among the northern pines, this cram
berry crop, together with that of the
blueberry and the wild red raspberry,
provides the only supply of actual
cash.
Father, mother and children hurry
each morning into the marsh, where
all but the very youngest spend the
day picking with might and main. 1t
is not delicate work, this picking.
The practiced hand runs the fingers,
curved upward and spread rake-like,
under the wiry branches, and then
draws them upward, retaining the
round, green-white berries, but allow
ing the tiny fiake-like leaves to fall
back through. A smart picker can
gather several bushels day, and
they sell at about dollar and half
or two dollars a bushel in the grocery
at the nearest town. From here they
are shipped in crates to the city and,
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NEW EXPERIENCE FOR A LION
Capt Hennebert, of the Belgian
| army, who has long been in the Afri-
! can service, amused a lecture audi
| ence a few weeks ago with a story
about young black woman he saw
last year on the shore of Lake Tan
| ganyika, at one of the missions OF
the White Fathers.
II must tell you first" said the
| Captain to his audience, that at
those Catholic mission stations the
| black women are invariably clad in
cotton gown extending from their
shoulders to their feet. This young
woman went out into the forest to
pick up dead limbs for firewood.
"She tied up her bundle of fag-
gots, balanced it on her head and
was trudging home along the mar
| row path when just as she turned a
sharp corner around an enormous
| rock she saw a large lion in the
path, and they were instantly face
to face in uncomfortably close quar-
ters.
''The girl stopped so short that her
bundle of wood fell to the ground
behind her. The sudden apparition
caused the lion to settle back almost
on his hind quarters. He was get
ting into the attitude for a spring,
but his surprise was so great that
very likely he did not know exactly
what he was going to do.
| "Quick as a flash it occurred to the
woman that If she turned to flee she
would probably be killed at once;
and simultaneously she did the thing
that saved her life.
She gave one pull at a cord and
her gown was loose and open from
| top to bottom. She whipped it off
her shoulders, swung 1t through the
air, and the cloth came down like
a mop over the face of the lion.
"This was an entirely new expert
ence for the animal. He was blind
ed, baf1ed, dumbfounded. He
sprang out of the path, and fled like
a rabbit.
mo one knows just how it hap
pened, but he carried the gown with
him. A bit of it may have twisted
around his neck or perhaps some OF
it got into his mouth; at any rate,
the lion and the gown disappeared
together into the bush, and the young
woman was not anxious to hunt for
her garment.
| Some astonishment was created
by the temperance of the girl in
the village with her bundle of wood
on her head, but in the attire of the
mothers of the previous generation
which was nothing at all. Bits OF
the gown were later picked off the
bushes for some distance from the
place of this curious meeting, and
the larger part of it was finally found
in one piece, but so full of holes that
1t was beyond patching.
1.-THE girl was the village heroine,
! very proud of her sudden fame and
quite certain also that she had no
desire whatever to meet another
tion New York Sun.
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Divided according to age, the num-
Der of blind increase with advancing
years. For the old blind, perhaps
third of all, nothing radical can be
done. They must be cared for un-
der the provisions for the mainte-
nance of the aged. But they can be
made happier by being taught simple
occupations. Young persons, eager
to do good, can visit them, read to
them, entertain them with music.
There has been provided for them u
special type clear to aged and insensi.
tive fingers, in which Is consider.
able library. This type was Invented
by blind man, DR.. William Moon.
His son, DR.. Robert Moon, is the
secretary of the Pennsylvania Home
Teaching Society and Free Circulat.
ing Library for the Blind. DR.. Moor s
address is 1919 Walnut street, Phtla.
delphia, and, so far as the means OF
his society permit, he supplies to any
aged blind person the inestima5le
consolation of books.-Everybody's.
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AA cranberry DOS IN NOFtnetu
'z'' Minnesota. The cranberry
loves the sand, so at a little distance
the jackpines made fretted shelter
from the hot September sun, for the
pine tree also loves the sand.
Close around there was only
waste of spongy moss overlaid with
growth of cranberry vines, for this
was the dried bed of what had once
been the upper end of the blue lake
we could see glittering in the sun.
The cranberry is particular as to
its home. 1t must be sandy loam-
never clay. 1t does not object to
flooding, on the contrary rather likes
ESPECIALLY in the fall when the
hard frosts might nip the berries, and
the flooding prevents the freeze.
But the cranberry does like drain
age, and so roots itself into sharp
sand along the seashore or along the
borders of the Great Lakes in Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
Along the Atlantic, the cranberry
bogs have been made much of, and
cultivated to the betterment Of the
berry, both in size and flavor; but
along the northern part of the coun-
try the wild berry only is found.
The berry is wild and the place
wherein it grows is often wild. Miles
and miles, that have never known of
civilization except by the woodman's
axe, are dottel here and there with
plats of marsh land overgrown with
Two CT cd
what was once called the crane-berry,
because of the resemblance of the
flower to the head of a crane. The
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CTo be continued.)
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.

DR.. V. A. Latyam, Of Chicago, and
Miss Mary A. Booth, Of Springfield,
Mass, are said to be the only expert
women neutrality-suspicious. in this
country.
The wife of the Prime Minister of
Bulgaria is the president Of the Bull
garian Woman Suffrage Association,
which ha sa membership of about
5000 women.
Miss Vera Wentworth, a British
suffragist, was kept in Holloway Jail
a day beyond her companions for
cutting "Vote For Womeni" on the
wall of her cell.
Miss Ross Becker has been ap-
pointed q claim agent and United
States pension attorney in Missouri.
She has been known for years as one
of the most successful women in st.
Louis, being notary public and an
insurance agent.
To overcome the objection on the
part of some women to high-heeled
shoes, because OF their danger to
weak ankles, a Virginia woman has
devised a T-shaped piece of metal,
to be inserted in the heel of a shoe
and extending on either side of the
foot to support it.
Mrs. a. F. Goddard, of Abingdon,
Mass, has resigned her place as
church organist after service of
forty-four years, said to be the
longest term Of any woman in the
church history of New England. She
has been successful director OF
chorusos and quartettes and has pro-
duced several popular musical compo-
sitiOns.
Miss Ruby Abrams, who was re-
Gently graduated at the head of the
art class in Cooper Institute, New
York City, is deaf, and until a few
years ago was also dumb. She has
been an art student ever since she
was graduated at the head of her
class six years ago at the Institute
for the Improved instruction of Deaf
Mutes. She has the record Of having
won four prizes during her art course.
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CHAPTER V.
A Bloody Mission.

There is in the lamentably unfnter-
esting parish of Lewisham a long
street where the numbers of the houses
attain to three figures. Standing at
the end of this street, one has before
ones eyes lesson in perspective.
No. 81 is occupied by Mrs. Gredge, a
lady who, like the blind beggar, has
seen better days. After the manner Of
elderly females of a brilliant past, Mrs.
Gredge lets lodgings, and it is with her
lodger that we have to do.
The yellow rays of sunset shone in
the sky over the roof line from No. 4S
to No. 90, and lighted up the bare par
lor of No. 81 Pr0ut street, Lewisham.
The hideous wall paper, representing
tnnumerable baskets Of impossible
flowers hanging from festoOns Of blue
ribbon attached to nothing, was shown
up in all its brilliant crudity by the
searching light.
Small portions of this fowery
abomination were hidden by framed
prints, of which the poor workman
ship and general vulgarity prepared
one for the information in the cor
ner of each, to the effect that they
were specimens Of German enterprise.
At the table in the centre Of the
room sat young girl. She did not
look more than twenty years Of age,
though at times the expression Of her
face was almost that Of a woman of
forty. From a low white forehead
her dull faXen hair rose in a soft
curve before 1t yielded to the black
ribbon that bound it in a loop low
down on her neck The light rested
softly on 1t, but failed to draw from
its smooth bands any CLEAN of life.
She wore it parted at the side and
brushed we'll back. Her delicately
cut face was pale, and there was a
peculiarly drawn look about her lips,
which were very red. Mrs. Gredge
knew her lodger by the name of Miss
Marie Bakovitch; to many lovers Of
music in London she was known as
the Baroness de Nantillc.
The whole life Of her being seemed
to be ceatered il her eyes. They
were intensely blue, with almost me-
tallic CLEAN.
Before her on the table was 4
newspaper which she Was slowly
scannaing, column by column. She
followed the line of columns with a
pencil; not like one who is reading
word for word, but as if she were
searching for some particular news.
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Who ever heard Of just the right
kind of Thanksgiving without cram
berries? And the Thanksgiving cram
berries, like the Thanksgiving turkey,
lasts in well-regulated homes for two
or three days.
| remember | lodged once a recur-
renee of the leftover turkey two or
three days after Thanksgiving, by
going to a friends to luncheon. And
what do you think she had? Turkey
Pink. Turkey again, you see.
l will tell how she made it, for 1t
was good She put through the col
ander the cranberry sauce left from
the turkey dinner, added to it
spoonful of gelatine, dissolved, stirred
in cup of chopped turkey meat, and
set to harden in a mould. When cold
it cut like cheese.
The luncheon closed with large
cranberries, candied like cherries and
equally as good.
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A TEACHER BY ACCIDENT.

Stephen A. Douglas, who is now
chiefly remembered as the rival of
Abraham Lincoln, was, when the
rivals met in joint debate fifty years
ago, the centre of national interest.
He was born in Vermont, but after
removing to New York, and before
finishing his academic course, he
started for the West. His money was
not sufficient for the needs of his
journey, and he reached Jacksonville,
Ill, with only fifty cents. At Win
| chester, ten miles away, writes Prof.
Allen Johnson i, his biography Of
Douglas. a school teacher was need
ed, and hearing OF this, the youth set
forth on foot for Winchester.
Accident, happily turned to his
| profit, served to introduce him to the
townspeople Of Winchester. The
| morning after his arrival he found a
| crowd in the public square, and
| learned that an auction sale of per-
I sonal effects was about to take place.
Every one was eager for the sale to
| begin. But a clerk to keep record
/ Of the sales and to draw the notes
was wanting.
The eye of the administrator fell
upon Douglass. "He then spelled his
| lame with the double s." Something
In the youths appearance gave as
surance that he could cipher" The
| impatient bystanders " lowed that he
might do" so he was given trial.
Douglas prove equal to the task.
| and in two days was in possession of
five dollars for his work.
Through the goodwill of the viii
lage storekeeper, who also hailed
| from Vermont, Douglas was present
ed to several citizens who wished to
sec a school opened in town, and he
| soon had a subscription list of forty
| scholars, each Of whom paid three
| dollars for three months tuition. He
| found lodgings under the roof of this
same friendly compatriot, the village
| storekeeper, who gave him the use
| of a small room adjoining the store
| room. Here Douglas spent his even
; ings, ievOting some hours to his law
| books and perhaps more TO comfort
| able chats with his host and talkative
| neighbors round the stove.
For diversion he had the weekly
meetings of the Lyceum, which had
| just been formed. He owed much to
this institution, for the debates and
discussions gave him chance to con-
| vert the traditional leadership, which
fell to him as village schoolmaster,
| into real leadership Of talent and
| ready wit.
Even while he was teaching school,
| Douglas found time to practice law
| in a modest way before the justices
! of the peace, and when the first of
| March came he closed the school
| house door on his career as a peda-
! gogue. lie at once repaired to Jack
| sonville and presented himself before
Justice of the Supreme Court for
license to practice law. He was duly
| admitted, although he then lacked a
| month OF twenty-one years of age.
| THRILLING TRIP IN A BALLOON.
Thrilling adventures with the wind
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THANKSGIVING BERRY. :.
BY Evelyn Price Cahoon.

to pick and sell the berries, They are
reckless in their picking as, indeed.
are some of the whites; and have 40
regard for the life OF the vine. Many
use a sort Of pronged scoop, which
they run under the stems, raising up
the fruit, but also unfortunately drag
ging up the vines by the roots.
Along the Eastern coast, as the
berry became scarce, and the price
proportionately high, the thrifty
Yankee set out new plants in the old
bogs. It is easily done, for the stems
take root readily If simply thrust In
the sand, and in three years from
roofing are producing fruit like the
native plant. This is one method OF
field planting, setting the little
punches of twigs something less than
foot apart, all over the field.
Another method practiced is to cut
quantity of twigs into inch-long
pieces, and scatter them broadcast
like wheat and harrow them In.
In these cultivated fields, where
the berry Is protected, there is no
need of picking before the fruit Is
ripe, so it is not gathered until GRIM
son in October. When the early
frosts of September come on, the
farmer as a measure of protection,
floods his field by system OF irr1ga-
tion similar to that in use on the
arid plains of the West.
This is the season when on clear
still nights, LAS busy as cranberry
merchant" comes to have meaning;
for the owner of a field must hustle
around and get all the little squares
between the irrigating bitches flooded
foot and a half deep before he can
] go to bed.
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The berries that are raised on Cape
Cod have the name of being, in size
and flavor, the best produced. Next
are valued those raised in New Jersey
and New York. But they are all need
ed, for it takes five hundred thousand
bushels to carry the Nation through
the jubilant month of November, and
somewhat over another five hundred
thousand to last the rest of the year.
The Western wild berry is higher
colored, but smaller and of not quite
so delicate flavor, and is all bought
uD ont West
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CHAPTER ".
Continued.

After a four years absence Mrs.
Mistley's son was coming back, and
the day when he had left was as fresh
In her mind as ever. She could recall
the very expression of his face as the
train moved away-a handsome, bOy1sh
countenance. with peculiar rigid pur-
ity of outline, expressive Of too great
a degree of refinement for comfort In
this world. He had left England q
merry, reckless boy, with no great
sense Of responsibility in life; and now
he was coming back a man, with a
name among his contemporaries, with
a definite purpose in life. She won
dered vaguely whether he would be
much changed, whether she would now
find him thoughtful and serious.
At last there was a hustle in the sta
ton, and a troop of porters assailed the
platform, arriving in the most aston
fishing manner from oil sides. Then
the great locomotive came clanking in,
with a mighty sense Of its own import
ance and general superiority over the
mere local engines around it.
A moment later Mrs. Mistley was
looking into that face she had so
longed to see. Even amid the confusion
and excitement of the greeting, she
found time to marvel that there was so
little change in it-a little browner,
perhaps, with a hard, dry look which
spoke of great hardships borne man
fully, and testified to exceptional pow
ers of endurance.
"Where is Charlie?' were Vineyards
first words. While his mother was eX-
planning that her younger son would be
detained at Greenwich until later in
the day, the colonel approached with
Mrs Wright at his side. No form Of
introduction was attempted; the old
soldier came forward with out
stretched hand, and as he took Mrs.
Mistley's fingers within his, he bowed
with a peculiar old-fashioned courtesy
which conveyed wondrous amount of
admiration and respect.
'Mrs. Mistley"' he said, II should
have known you anywhere. We car.
ried a photograph of you in our dis.
patch case for many months. 1 think
VINEYARD considered 1t the most
precious document there
'And which," added that respectful
youth, gayly, ''the colonel left lying
about one night in the rainy season, the
consequence being that it all came un-
gummed, and nothing was left next
morning to the eyes Of a bereaved son
but two sticky rolls Of wrlnkled paper,
one of which was found adhering to
the person of a native dog. How do
you do-Mrs. Wright?'
The young fellow became suddenly
silent, and turned rather hastily to find
the luggage. There were unshed tears
In Mrs. Wright's eyes, and perhaps he
was not quite sure of himself: at all
events, he was by no means sure Of
the colonel, who, like many brave men,
was afflicted with soft heart.
Presently the two small boxes were
found and placed under the care of a
porter, who shouldered them both at
once with much zeal. He saw how the
land lay, and knew that his reward
would be greater than his deserts.
After having arranged that Mrs.
Misuey and her two sons should dine
with them in Seymour street that even
ing. the Wrights drove away, and
mother and son were Rft alone to-
gether.
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ELEPHANT SAVES A BOY.

Clarence Macomber, of Worcester,
Mass, with 1000 other spectators.
watched the swimming antics of ele-
plants of w. w. Powers, of New
York, in Lake Quinsigamond. The
Macomber lad was standing on the
taffrail when he lost his balance and
tumbled into ninety feet of water.
Jennie, the largest of the ele-
plants, seemed to divine his danger
and as he was sinking for the third
time caught him by the arm with her
trunk and thrashed toward shore,
holding him up in the air, until a
policeman lifted him safely to the
float