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CASTINE.

A social was held at normal hall Friday
evening.
Mrs. Gates and daughter Edna spent
Sunday in Bangor.
Parker Fuller, OF Rockland, spent sew
eral days in town this week.
j. Walter Weeks had small load Of
lumber landed here last week.
DR.. Saunders has been away the past
week on business trip to New York.
Frank Laid, OF Islesboro, was the guest
OF Miss Carrie Crosgroye over Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Douthit; preached Sunday,
Nov. Z, after an absence OF several weeks.
Harold Perkins and wife are receiving
congratulations on the birth of dsugh-
ter.
Mrs. James Coombs and Mrs. Annie
Gardner spent two days in Bangor last
week.
Walter Brown and wife were called to
Boston Saturday by the sudden death OF
Mrs. Browns uncle.
]. NJ. vogell and Frank Bowden re-
turned on Monday from weeks stay at
their camp in Orland.
Contractor Nelson, Of Bargor, WAS in
town last week looking after his work at
the grounds Of the dormitory.
Bert Parker and family went to Isles
boro on Tuesday to attend the wedding OF
Mrs. Psrker's brother, Rawson Warren.
Arthur Devereux has moved his family
from the Gray house on Perkins street to
the Conley house directly across the
street.
Dawn Nickerson and family, Of Booth
bay Harbor, have been spending . few
days with Mr.. Nickerson's parents, Parker
Noyes and wife.
harvest concert was held on Sunday
evening at the Congregational church. A
large audience was present. The church
was tastefully decorated with autumn
leaves and vegetables.
Nov.8. g.
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EAST ORLAND.
Nov. s..

School closed Friday for vacation Of
two weeks.
Miss Bernice Mason spent Sunday with
friends in Bangor.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs..
Fl. E. Dunbar Nov. 8.
Arthur Dunbar has finished his work
at Prospect and is at home.
Mrs. Aurilia Higgins is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Nina Austin, of Bluehill.
Mrs. Lydia Durham, of Camden, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. e. g. Wiley.
Mrs. Emily Dunbar is at home from
visit with her sister, Mrs. Clara Dunbar,
at North Castine.
II. H. Blaisdell is at home from Green
willie, where he has been working for W.
M. Shaw several weeks.
Miss Winifred Gray, who is attending
the normal school at Castine, spent Sat-
urday and Sunday at home.
w. L. Wentworth and wife have been
on visit OF ten days with friends at
Hyde Park and Newton, Mass.
Nov. s. NJ.
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ATLANTIC.
THELMA.

Capt. Emery E. Joyce arrived Saturday
with load Of apples.
A. G. Smith, who has been in hospital
in Brewer, is home somewhA improved in
health.
Capt. Daniel Norwood, in schooner Lii
freight for parties at Atlantic this week.
Mrs. Ross Joyce went to Rockland Fri
day to spend few days with her brother
Ralph, who was shot In the knee recently.
Lydia NJ, wife OF Deacon jefferson Tor
rev, died Wednesday, Nov. 3, after =
long illness OF cancer OF the stomach.
She was attended with loving care to the
last by her daughter and husband, who,
with two sons, sadly feel their loss. Mrs.
Torrcy was sixty years OF age. She was
the eldest OF twelve brothers and sisters,
and hers is the first death among them.
She was native OF Mt. Desert, and spent
the first years OF her life there. Later Mr..
Torrey moved to this place to care for his
aged mother. Mrs. rorrey joined the
Baptist church here, OF which her hus-
band was deacon, and had always been a
faithful worker, being for many years
school. Rev. Gideon Mayo, OF Ellsworth,
3 close friend OF the family, preached the
funeral sermon. Ii seems hard to part
with one who was 80 greatly needed, and
will be so much missed. Much sympathy
is expressed for the husband, now in poor
health and OF her relatives
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MT. DESERT.

MIRA Lyman H. Somes has re,n,n.,.
q visit with her daughter in Brews,
Pearl F. Smith and wife have 49,.
from . visit with their son Iow.n
Bangor.
Harry @. Somes has moved bis ,.n,
Frankfort, where he has a iob =,
cutting.
Mrs. Mary A. Hamor has gone 10
Hill to live with her sister, Mrs or'j
this winter. yum
Ernest Kittridge, the milkm., !.
practical farmer, win harves, abo,, :
cabbsges, many of the larges, tipnins !.
scales At from ten to thirteen pound.
The remains Of Mrs. Julia Hs,r,n..
who died in New York, have been brou,
here and inferred III Brookside csu.,ss
Mrs. Hartman had many friend. ~
Her mother, Mrs. Kenison. has tbs -
pathy OF all.
William Peters, while returning 4.
the postofilce q few days ago, wa ~
denly taken i'll, but timely aid helped i,
to his boarding place, where he is ma
convalescent. Mr.. Peters was forma,,l
resident OF Ellsworth--a brother a, M
late Chief Justice John A. Peters.
Nov. s. IT
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EAST SULLIVAN.

EAST SULLIVAN.
Herman Joy lost his faithful horse las,
week.
The infant child OF Andrew Havey is Ill
OF pneumonia.
A daughter was born Nov. to Mr.. and
Mrs. Wiley Hammond.
Mrs. Luflxin, OF Corea, has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. z. w. Doyle.
Thomas Couglin and Elwood Robertson,
of Bangor, were in town over Sunday.
Mrs. Charlie Sawyer, OF steuben, re-
Gently visited her father, Forest Dunbar.
Herman Joy has charge of dredging out
the trout stream owned by MIR. Harrison.
The young son OF Rudolph Hatch, who
has been critically i'll, is somewhat inn
proved.
James circuit and Mrs. Alice r. Tuck, OF
East Dedham, Mass, were married Satur-
day, Nov. s.
Miss Carrie Dunbar has returned from q
two weeks vacation spent with relatives
in Trenton and Steuben.
Oscar Havey has put in stock OF goods
at Sullivan Highlands, which 10 . great
convenience to the neighbors.
Messrs. Benson and Bridges, OF Brock
ton, arrived Saturday, accompanied by
Richard Martin, to look over timberiands.
Dallas II. Hanna and Miss Viola McFar-
land were married ct Great Head, Grand
Manau Ocf n Mr Hanna arrival hor,a
with his bride Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Hanna will receive warm welcome, hav-
ing made many friends on previous visits
to relatives in town.
John s. Farrin and Mrs. Farrin will
celebrate the fifth anniversary OF their
marriage Wednesday evening from to
1880 o'clock. All their friends are cor
daily invited.
Miss Eta Robertson had puppy given
her to which she became very much at
tached in q weeks time, when 1t met its
death by the family horse stepping upon
it, killing it instantly.
Two families have moved out OF town,
leaving their respective eighborhoods un-
consolabie-F Graham to Bar Harbor
and Eben Smith to Franklin. Mrs. Smith,
who has lived the longest among us, was
always among the first in the homes OF
want, sickness or sorrow, where her pres
ence was benediction, while socially she
was leader, and their hospitality was
unbounded.
Nov. 3. II.
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MASsET.

Roy Fernald has gone to Bangor for the
winter.
Mrs. Ethel Newman has been visiting
friends in Brewer.
Mrs. Julia Parker has been spending
two weeks in Bangor.
8. 8 Dolliver is in the Paine hospital,
Bangor, for treatment.
Derby Stanley, of South Portland, is
spending few days here.
Blanche, daughter Of B. T. Dolliver and
wife, died Nov. 3 OF typhoid fever. Be-
sides her parents she leaves three brothers
Henri G., OF Hawaii, Rudolph and Carl,
Of this place, and three sisters Mrs. Ed
gar Robbins, Of Southwest Harbor; Mrs.
George Davis, OF Trenton, and Ruth, OF
this place. Miss Blanche was member
OF the class OF 1912 OF the high school.
The floral offerings bore silent tribute to
the loving sympathy OF many friends and
the warm place Blanche held in the hearts
OF all.
Nov.s MAD.
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SOUTH DEER ISLE.
DORCHESTER LETTER.


F. A. Pierce and wife, Mrs. Clara Pierce,
Of South Deer Isle, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Pierce's niece, Mrs. Lillian May Robbins,
in Dorchester. During the day several
friends dropped in to call, among them
Mrs. Susie Robbins, of Cambridge, q
former neighbor; Master Augustus Pierce,
grandson from East Boston; Mrs.
Melissa Robbins and Miss Eva Robbins,
and Mrs. Pierce's brother, Capt. Richard
Warren, and his wife.
Capt. Warren and his sister have not
met for twelve years, and it was q very
happy meeting for them, more so as Capt
Warren brought with him his bride OF q
year, whom none of his family had met
before. Later Mr.. Pierce's sister, Mrs
Nellie Brown, came, SO it was quite q
family reunion.
Mrs. Pierce is in Boston for medical
and surgical treatment, ana Monday she
entered the woman's hospital at Parke,
Hill avenue, Roxbury.
The many friends of Capt. and Mrs.
Seth Hatch are ssddened to learn of the
death of their son, Benjamin 8. Hatch,
which occurred at Deer Isle last week.
Ii. P. A. Spofiord and wife, OF Deer Isle,
are guests Of Mr.. Spoford's sister and
mother, Mrs. Winnie Warren and Mrs.
Lucretis spofford, in Cambridge.
Nov g. n
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boro. Their brother, Emery R...,.
Aver, Mass, spent Sunday v;,s
there. "'n "
Arthur Balm and family have
fremont and later will 70 to ROLL; soas
the winter. ahd \
Albert Reynolds has gone to ~.
general hospital, Portland. An As
see him home soon much imn. aOr
health. ''ec
Mrs. J. B. Balm is in the Pa, n
hospital where she was operated !,
pendicitis last Tuesday. She Is All
well - can be expected. as
D. }. Manchester and wife ,s,, .,
southern home Oct. q. They -
compapied by Archie Coomhs 49,
Mr.. Coombs has q position ,has.
wish him success. They will i
missed. Mrs. Coombs has been So s
in the Baptist church for some $50. s.'
will be greatly missed.
Nov. 8.
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SEAWALl.

Lizzie Moore, who has been at Mansi
for two weeks, is home.
Walter Newman has been III for ,x1
weeks, and does not seem any better.
Mrs. Nellie Snowman and son are visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Walter Newman.
Tennyson Brown has moved hi, ismTl
to Southwest Harbcr. Mr.. Rsmsdell ID
moved into the Brewer house vacated \
Mr.. Brown.
W. p. Kent, wife and little son wallsd
OF Mt. Desert Rock light station, sped
last week here. Mr.. Kent has been I'd
ond assistant on Libby Island light oa
two years. He now succeeds Chan
Newman as frs, assistant at Mt. Dexl
Rock. Mr.. Newman has gone to Mod
hogan light.
Nov. 8. Dolly.
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COUNTY NEWS.
PROSPECT HARBoR.

Mrs. Myra Higgins was at DR.. Larrabee's
a few days recently.
Miss Annette Handy is out again, after
several days of illness.
c. G. Hutchings and wife are visiting
in Bar Harbor and Waterville.
Rev. g. W. NJ. Reyes and wife have re-
turned from q visit in Gouldsboro.
George w. Sturgis, Of Portland, was at
]. w. Stinson's the last Of the week.
Il. w. Bridges has been laid up with q
sore thumb, which is somewhat improved
now.
Mrs. J. w. Coombs, OF Corea, has been
with her aunt, Mrs. J. w. Cole, several
days.
DR.. c. c. LArrabee and wife were week
end guests Of Mrs. LArrabee's parents in
Franklin.
Arno Cleaves and wife, OF Bar Harbor,
were guests Of their uncle, e. w. Cieaves,
the last OF the week.
Capt E. A. Over left Tuesday for trip
which will include visits in Brunswick,
Portland and Boston.
Harvey Ray returned from his hunting
trip Saturday with two deer. L. s. Ray
left Saturday for his annual trip OF two
weeks.
Lula Bunker entertained at tea Satur-
day, followed by an evening party. Cards
and music furnished entertainment, and
dainty refreshments were served.
Saturday noon picnic dinners are be-
coming quite the fashion. Ernest Wood
and wife were the entertainers last week.
A large party partook of the fine dinner
and enjoyed the day to the fullest.
A party of young people enjoyed q
candy pull with Mrs. w. F. Bruce Thurs
day evening. Just As the party broke up,
Mr.. Bruce returned from his hunting trip
with fine deer, which he is sharing with
his friends.
winnetka council, Degree OF Poca-
hontas, enjoyed Halloween party at it's
last meeting, after working the degree Of
adoption on two candidates. Guessing
games furnished amusement. The new
game Of "Anna Eva Fay" furnished no end
Of fun. Cute little black cat programs
were used. The refreshments were SER
we'd in little artificial pumpkins.
Nov. s. G.
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his daughter, Mrs. Percy wardwell, last
week.
H. c. Perry, an aggressive young farmer,
has recently harvested 2,100 bushels Of
potatoes.
Mrs. Viva Porter, called here by the ILL.,
ness of her brother, Jay Dodge, arrived
Saturday from Bangor.
Capt. Edwin Ordway and wife were
recent guests OF their daughter, Mrs. w.
s. Bridges, in Penobscot.
Archie Perry, who spent the summer in
Massachusetts, is visiting his parents,
Joseph Perry and wife.
jay Dodge, who has been employed on
tug boat, is i'll Of typhoid fever ct the
home OF his father, A. X. Dodge.
Warren Hooper, OF Csstine. is having .
large amount OF p,oughing done on his
farm here, formerly the vesxie farm.
Misses Annie L. Dunbar and Annie b.
Conner came from Penobscot Friday, to
remain over Saturday at their homes here.
Charles witham has returned to New
Haven, Conn.,, after having spent . vaca-
ton with his mother, Mrs. Sophronia
Witham.
Nov. 8. l..
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COUNTY NEWS.
WEST FREMONT.

Ashbury Lopaus is home.
Charles Thurston left for Rockland to
go scallcping.
The sociable at the hall Thursday even
ing was . success.
Henry Thurston and wife have gone to
Boston for the winter.
Rev. Alfred Bishop and wife have moved
to Henry Thurstonb house.
Andrew Norton is at home. He will 20
scailoping with A. A. Wentworth.
Mrs. A. C. Norwood, Of Southwest Har-
Dor, is visiting her son, Dennis Norwood.
Mrs. Nettie Tinker, who has been visit
ing relatives here, returned to Manset
Friday.
Walter Lunt has taken his boat to Sim
Mayo's to have an engine put in to 70
scalloping.
Miss Rena NJ. Lunt has gone to Med
way, Mass, where she has been employed
several winters.
Mrs. Eliza Rumin left Thursday to
spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs.
Jason Kane, in Bridgewater, Mass.
Mrs. Charles P. Lunt and Mrs. L. n.
Lunt are still in Bangor visiting Capt.
Lunt, while his schooner, the j. NJ. Har-
low, is loading.
District Superintendent H. B. Haskefi
held the third quarterly conference at the
church Saturday evening. He also de-
livered an interesting sermon Sunday A.
ternoon.
Miss Gertrude Carver returned to Owls
Head Thursday. Her grandmother, Mrs..
Sarah A. Reed, and grandson, Carl Reed,
went home with her, also Mrs. L. b.
Sprsgue.
Capt. Elias Rich and Capt. William
Hanna have started on new business in
the schooner Monomy. carrying load OF
coal to Swans Island from Mex inley for
Frank McMullin.
Nov. 8. THELxA.
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hold water and scaiding pain IN passing
or bad effects followingu use OF hquor, WI
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasa1
necessity Of being compelled to go org
through the day, and to get up La
times during the night. u
Swamp-Root is not recommended !
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reading this generous s:::.: I F.
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all druggists. Don't make any n'i pcs]
but remember the name, Swainr.
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bladder remedy, q
cause OF its reuin1
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properties. swami
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NORTHEAST HARBoR.

Lester Burr has gone to st. Petersburg,
Fla.
Stella and Nellie Bartlett have returned
from their vacation, which they spent
with their aunt, Mrs. Bracket, in Waldo
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advertisements.
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Back
Ytdnsv Trouhla Makec YIN HjeerltA

Almost everyone knows OF Or. kilinefI
Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver a
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
Repents at Leisure.

Princess Amelia von Fuerstenberg, one of the most beautiful of the Ger man princesses, married a humble automobile demonstrator last June, eloping with him after Emperor William and members of her family had done all they could to prevent the match. She sacrificed all her chances of power, and is said to re- gret her action very much how that she has to live on the small sum of money her husband can afford tc give her.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
WIDOWS PAID PENSIONS.

The idea of pensioning widows has steadily grown in Australia and it has been found wiser for the state to pension the mother for the care of her children than to condemn her to such employment as would cause her to neglect the children. The fol- lowing new scale of weekly allow ances was authorized by the recent parliament and took effect May 1, 1908: For one child, $1.22; two children, $1.10 each; three children, 97 cents each; four children, 91 cents each; more than four children, maximum of $4.3S.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
HAVE EYE TO BEAUTY.

The Buddhist priests in China are, as a rule, unshaven, unwashed and uneducated men, with low and sensual faces They have no home ties to help to purify their thoughts, yet they possess a wonderful artistic faculty. They show the most eX- quisite taste in the selection of the spots on which they build their tenn pies and monasteries. When a tenn pie is to be built they select some place, with the eye of the artist who has caught the secret of natures charms, where the mountain peaks rise above and the great silent val leys stretching at their feet are made musical by the echoes of rushing streams.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
TO FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS.

"If smallpox or yellow fever was causing a thousand deaths a year, you'd be holding special sessions of the legislature to devise means to be rid of the scourge. And yet l tell you that tuberculosis is no longer burden to be borne unquestioningly, no longer cross that must be un- protcstingly borne. It is an cpl demic that must be met and con- quered." This strong statement of the case was made by Bishop Cod man of the Episcopal diocese of Maine on an appropriation for $130,OO0 for the next two years for the Hebron sanitarium.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
VASES IN PARIS.

To have pairs of vases with flow CTS arranged as nearly alike as pos sible is the latest fad in smart house. holds. These appear in all possible places, and each room is kept to d color scheme. A charming combina- tion, when white and green are de- sired, is that of climbing white jas mine, the fragile Japanese narcissus and lilies-of-the-valley. The jasmine vine has most exquisite foliage that shows many tender shades, and the starlike flower is deliciously fragrant, but not overpowering.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
HISTORIC HOLIDAY NO MORE
St. Distaff's Day, Celebrated by Our Grandmothers, Forgotten 5y
 This Generation.

Our grandmammas remembered, but most of us have forgotten a his toric holiday which until recent de- cades was celebrated in January. It is St. Distaff's day, ''the morrow after Twelfth day." and it falls on January 7. In days of old, when knights were bold, all ordinary household cares save cooking were put aside at Christmas for 12 days. High revel was held in the interval, but on January ! the women Of every home returned to their or dinary pursuits. In those times, the distatf was the symbol of femininity. A man who wished to say he had in- herlted property or trait through his mother would say he got it "from the distatf side of the house" All unmarried women were called spin sters, a name that has stuck to this day, and women of all degrees, when visiting neighbors. carried their dis taffs. So it was that the day on which women took up their regular occupations, chief of which was spinning, was dedicated to St. Dis taff, and until modern machinery usurped the place of the spinning wheel the holiday was kept faith fully.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20

In making their report to the legislature the state capitol com mission very adroitly endeavors to convey the impression that the re- port of the state capitol committee of the legislature of 1907 was based upon the investigation of Gratz 5. Strickler, whom the committee employed to inspect the building. As a matter of fact, the report of MT. Strickler was not received un- til several days after the legislative committee had filed their final re- port, but it was received ln time to defeat in the house an approprla- ton of S325 ,ooo for the completion of the capitol by Caldwell & Drake
 MT. Strickler's report uncovers al most as much rottenness in the con struction of the capitol as was shown up by Major Sewell in his report to Governor Dcnaghey.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
THE LAST OF THE BONAPARTES

If we except the American de- sccndants of Jerome's first marriage in the United States there are now only three men who bear the name of Bonaparte Two are bachelors over II, descendants of Jerome's sec ond marriage, and the third son. less widower of 50, a descendant of Napoleon's discarded brother, Lu- cien. Josephine's descendants mean while sit on many thrones, and in clude King Edwards grandson, the petted Prince Olaf of Norway.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
JEWISH COLONY IN TOLEDO?
Are the Only Members of That Faith in Spain-Why They Were
 Granted Exemption.

The only Jews in Spain are found at Toledo, and they have descended from colony which settled there at the time of the dispersion of the Babyicnian captivity. When the or der of Ferdinand and Isabella was issued in 1494 expelling unbelievers from Spain the Jewish colony in To- lcdo was granted exemption by show ing proof that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crucifiXion and had not been in Palestine for generations before the advent of Christ. A decree was issued permit ting them to remain and reside ii certain quarter of the city of Toledo,
 mG to pursue certain lines of busl- ness. but they were not allowed to travel or leave the place, and every man, woman and child of Jewish birth was taxed 30 pieces of silver annually. In the archives of the Vatican to-day may be found the documents relating to this remark able incident.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-02-20
STICK TO THEIR CLERKSHIPS
Bricklayers May Be Better Paid, But Young Men Prefer the High
 Stool and Pen.

"You often hear clerks say they would rather be bricklayers on ac- count of the pay, but they don't know what they're talking about. Clerking beats bricklaying every day in the week and twice on Sunday"
 He took another cheese sandwich in his long, pale, ink-stained fingers, and, perched on the lunch counters high stool, he acclaimed warmly:
 "Clerks, however poor, are popu- lar with the ladies on account of their fine clothes; but bricklayers, when they go sparkling, get the cold shoulder.
 "A bricklayer, no matter how much he makes, has trouble in get ting into swell boarding houses, for his clothes soil the fine furniture :: but clerk, with his white hands, is welcome in any house he can afford.
 "l know what I'm talking about, for l bricklaid two years before l took to clerking. And you'll find lots of young bricklayers forsaking the trowel for the pen; but, though clerks often say bitterly that they'd rather lay bricks than push a pen, they don't really mean it-they never turn"