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NORTH BROOKLYN.

Timothy Pettee is very low.
Mrs. Sterling Freethy and family re-
turned to their home at Hopedale, Mass
to- day.
Eugene Hamilton and wife have re-
turned to Boston, where Mr.. Hamilton is
in the real estate business.
Freeman Higgins and wife, OF West
Brooklin, will spend q few days OF this
week with c. 8. Hamilton and wife.
velma, daughter OF Jesse Staples, and
Carrie, daughter Of Frank Staples, Of
Massachusetts,, are visiting their grand
parents, Abel Staples and wife.
Aug. q. SUb'
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WEST BROOKSvILLE.

Maurice l.. Gray has been drawn te
serve as grand Juror at the October term
Of court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hussey, after several
weeks here, have returned to their home
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Walter Moore and George Otis Tspley
Of Rockland, are visiting their grand
mother, Mrs. G. H. Tapley.
Arrivals in town the past week: Capt
Ira W. Tapley, Arthur Perkins, of Brook
Ign, N. Y; Paul Tapley, of Philadelphia
Mrs. Jane Jones, OF Boston; Mrs. Homer
Blodgett and daughter Emily.
Aug. %. Johnson.
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WEST sURRY.

Arson Cunningham 10 very low.
Mrs. Nora Collins 10 with hsr father,
Cyrus Conary, Tor few days.
Blueberries are about all harvested.
Hollis Willins is "blue berry king In this
vicinity.
8. @. Cunningham has crew working
on his house to take the place OF the one
burned year ago.
Aug, %. L.
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PARTRIDGE COVE.

John Preble, wife and little son spent
the Weekend ct Wilson Eaton's.
Nrs. Alies Young and Mrs. Laura Means
attended Bangor fair Thursday, and
stopped ct Old Town over night with g. c.
MaGrath Ind vito. They returned home
Friday, accompanied By A. H. Mears and
Mrs. Magrath. Mr.. Nagrath came Satur-
day, and spent the weekend ct Mrs.
Lydia Springer's.
Aug. q. HUBBARD.
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NOTICE OF FORECLosURE.

VXyHEREAS Addie F. Pierce, OF Sedgwick,
w Hancock county, State Of Maine, by
her mortgage deed dated March fourth. 1910,
recorded in the Hancock registry OF deeds,
book l8t. page 268, conveyed to me, the under
signed, certain lot OF real estate situated in
said Sedgwick, and bounded and described as
follows: Being the same fully described in
said mortgage deed, to which reference Is
hereby made; and whereas the condition OF
said mortgage has been broken, now there
fore, by reason OF the breach Of the condition
thereof, CLAIM q foreclosure OF said mort
gage. CELIA ALEXANDER.
Castine, Me-, August "a, 1911.
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cpticon views. Refreshments were served.
The proceeds were for the Y. p. 9. c. 6.
Judge Virgil P. Kline and wife and v. p,
Kline, IT,, left for their home in Cleveland,
o., Saturday.
James A. Bonsack won the cup offered
BY the Parker Point golf club In the
tournament just played.
Edward Bonsack and wife, Of Philadel-
phis, are in town for Q few weeks. the
guests Of James A. Bonsack and wife.
Mrs. Miriam Butman, OF Quincy, Mass,
returned home last week, after spending
her vacation with Mrs. Eliza A. Chase.
William D. T. Toebury, Of Marblehead,
Mass, commissioner Of corporations Of
Massachusetts, has been in town Tor his
annual visit.
The Parker Point golf club 10 having .
club house built on the golf course, which
will add greatly to the convenience Of the
members. Frank L. Mason is the builder.
F. B. Richards, OF Cleveland, has pur-
chased the Ever cottage and land, also
nine acres Of land Of Mr.. Coggan, adjoin-
ing the Ever place. Mr.. Richards will
improve the property, and build q new
house.
Messrs. Abram and Kane held another
Of their popuhr dances In town hall on
last Friday evening. A prize was offered
for the best waltsing couple, and was won
BY Miss Lena Hinckley and Alonzo
withan. Miss Grace Rose, Miss Lima
Morton and 8. B. Hubbard acted as
judges. On Sept. is, they will give a
national ball', and offer prizes for the
best costumes.
Aug. Is. H.
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H.x r.xer. A.thm. and summer Colds

Hay Fever, Asthma and Summer Colds
Must be relieved quickly, and Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound will do 1t. =. M. Stewart
been greatly troubled during the hot summer
months with Hay Fever, and find that by
using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound get
iariv will be glad to benefit by Mr.. Stewards
experience. Sold by all druggists.
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TIME subscriber hereby gives notice that
i she has been duly appointed executrix
Of the last will and testament Of
ANTHONY HOWARD HINKLE, late of
EDEN,
in the county OF Hancock, deceased, no bonds
being required by the terms of said will.
All persons having demands against the es-
tate of said deceased are desired to present
the same for settlement, and all indebted
thereto are requested to make payment inn
mediately. KATHERINE D. HINKLE.
Bar Harbor, Aug. 0, 1911.
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rTNHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
Il she has been duly appointed executrixs
Of the last will and testament Of
MOSES E. FRIEND, late OF sEDGwICK,
in the county OF Hancock, deceased. and
having demands against the estate OF said
deceased are desired to present the same for
settlement. and all indebted thereto are re-
quested to make payment Immediately.
ELIZABETH p FRIEND.
Sedgwick, Aug. Is, 1911.
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Itch! Itch! Itch! - Scratch! Scratch
Scratch! The more you scratch the worse the
itch. Try Doan's Ointment 1t cures piles
eczema, any skin itching. All druggists sell it.
-Adpt.
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sURRY.

Rev. Milton 8. Beckwith, Of Ellsworth,
gave lecture in the grange hall Friday
evening, on grange topics. The public
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STATE OF MAINE.

Peters & Knowlton, attorneys.
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Peters s. Knowlton, attorneys.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

fast y -
Five o'clock came. I was due to leave
the Care st. Lazare at 9 o'clock for
Cherbourg and New York. I suggested
going. The women rose reluctantly.
1T has been such an interesting
night they chorused, we are so glad to
have seen" Paris ..
I drove them back to their hotel and
then went to mine to pack up. 1 went
to sleep sixteen times with a necktie or
sock or a collar IN my hand, but, man.
aged to catch my train. .,
Now, that is the programme followed
and just the entertainment got by one
party Of Americans engaged IN seeing
Paris by night. We by no means made
the whole of the grand dukes tour, and
we were economical, but the jaunt cost
more than 800. Lots of people who
haven't somebody along who knows the
ropes would have been out two to five
times that sum for the same excursion.
l am positive that IN other respects our
experience has been that of hundreds OF
life in Paris. 1 have come to the con-
clusion that in Paris II Is the same as
anywhere else; you've got to take most
of your own fun along. Some folks
talk enthusiastically of their experiences
In seeing Paris by night, but in three
cases out of four I'll venture they hypno-
tized themselves into thinking they en-
JOyed themselves"
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

accepts traditions Internationally; must
search for the truth myself Religious
doubts crept into my mind as a boy.
1 read and reflected. and found that /
could become a minister in good con-
science. Yet I studied law and began
to practice. Going to BOARD with my
brother, in Brooklyn, / attended Henry
Ward Beecher's church, and came under
his influence; not that he ever advised
me in the matter. So I went to an uncle
in Maine, a clergyman, and studied
with him. I had a wife and child, and
thought II impracticable to take them
with me to a theological seminary.
while in Maine I was asked to
preach at n church eight miles distant.
If you don't come 1 was told, we
shall have no preaching during the win
ter. My uncle said the way to learn
was to stand up and go right at II. l
drove back and forth through the snow.
and by spring had got the swing of the
pulpit. Then I went to Terre Haute,
Ind, where I preached against slavery
for five years. On my return to New
York, I Joined Beecher, at his request,
in the edtorship Of the Christian
Union. He was then in that period of
life when II Is easier to talk than to
write. 1 tried to have him visit the
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
JAPANESE RAILWAY TRAVEL

Japanese engineers favor the English
type of locomotive principally because
the center of gravity is considerably
lower, and they feel 1t is safer on their
curves with the narrow gauge. / under
stand" says a writer in the Railway
Age Gazette, that the most satisfactory
locomotives ever operated in Japan were
built In America from English designs.
followed by orders for some 500 Of the
same type. and they proved very salts
factory. Locomotive and car works have
recently been established and much new
work is done at home.
Station platforms in japan, as in
England and Europe. are level with the
car steps. The stationmaster Is quite a
dignified official, has a uniform, and car
ries a sword on special occasions. The
uniform consists of the ordinary regu-
lation blue, with gilt buttons and gold
braid, and a bright scaPfet band around
his cap. He is rather a snowy individual
when he gets It on, and as he walks
along the platform things move. When
there is a celebrated dignitary passing
ber of Parliament, he buckles on his
sword
About 100 pounds of free baggage is
allowed on each first-class ticket, and
baggage will be delivered by station
porters within a radius of four miles at
2I1 cents n piece. Trains are In charge
Of guard. Tickets are punched when
passengers pass through the wicket on
the platform, and given up when pass
ing out at destination. All tickets are
good for stopovers at most stations
within the limits of expiration date all
that Is necessary being to show your
ticket TO the collector at the wicket and
pass out.
Special platform tickets are issued at
cent each to accommodate those COM
ing with or to meet friends. In that
way they take advantage. in a financial
sense at least. of the feelings of the
people, which in Japan lead them to ap-
pear in large numbers when their friends
leave or when they wish to welcome
some one coming. 1t is my own recol-
lection that when 1 left Kure, the naval
station. homeward bound. upward of a
hundred appeared and lined up on the
platform TO say Rood-by in their best
English. It is considered a mark OF
very great disrnspect in Japan not 10
go to the station to see your friends Off"
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

office once a week, but he was a man
OF moods, and sometimes he would come
and sometimes he wouldn't. When the
did appear, l would ask him questions
and have bis answers written down in
shorthand. Then 1 would out the re-
piles into proper form and use them as
editorials.
In the meantime l edited some of his
sermons that were to be made into a
book. When the proofs were sent to his
house he would either ignore them or
return them uncorrected. Finally l got
after him pretty energetically, and he
wrote me, saying: I hereby give, assign,
and bequeath all my sermons, books, and
other writings to L. Abbott. Now let
me alone knew his habit Of using ex-
travagant language and didn't take his
note seriously"
You are seventy-ive years old" said.
land are working about as hard as ever?'
Not as hard as l used to work. but
am in better health than 1 was at the
age of seventeen. A physician told me
years ago that God expected human be-
ings to obey the laws of health as well
as the Ten Commandments. I took his
word for 1t and acted accordingly.
have never hunted or fished, but 1 walk
some. ride in the open air every day, and
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
Barney" Oldfield Says Fearful Death Rate
of Sport" Was Certain Sign 1t
.--.- Could Not Last.

1t used to be called Instructive" de
veloping," useful" but that day is long
past. -
The racing game, in fact, has outIIved
its usefulness. The science of speed has
reached a point where any manufacturer
any sane buyer. There is no demand and
little need for a further development
along speed lines. Fast racing has ceas-
ed to be even a proof of perfect cars.
The same car seldom wins twice in sue
cession. 1t is a contest now of drivers
I tires, and luck, rather then machines,
The manufacturer has found that he nc
| sooner wins a record than some other
manufacturer takes IT away from him.
~ Success Depends on Luck.
A two-doIlar-a-day workman's careless
ness in the manufacture of d tire will
lose a speed event as surely as a faulty
axle or poor engine. All the skill in
the world will not save a good driver
when some dub who has crept into the
race by virtue of weak head and a two
dollar license card from the sanction
governing body shOves a machine across
his road. A soft spot in the track. a
piece of broken metal, an infinitesImal
speck Of dirt in an oil feed-these things,
or skill are what win motors races now.
People say that speed madness is the
thing which draws great crowds TO motor
races. I don't think so. Speed madness
is one thing: blood madness is another.
For speed there is nothing more wonder
full than the wireless telegraph; yet II
is unlikely that the Seventy-SeVen thou
sand persons who attended the recent
race at Indianapolis would find much
interest in a wireless telegraph contest.
1t is not sufficiently spectacular. The
element of human danger is not present.
II motor racing could be developed to
point of perfect safety, how much
of crowd do you think a race so ar
ranged would attract, even though the
cars made 500. or, for that matter, 5000,
miles an hour?
Americans will not tolerate bullfght-
ing, because II is considered inhuman
and unsportsmanlike II is certain that
the MeXiCans would not continue their
national pastime II 1t involved so tre-
mendous a sacrifice of human life as
motor racing. With all the supposed
danger OF bullfghting, there have not
been five deaths among the fighters in
as many years. There were twenty-nine
fatal race accidents in the United States
last year This year, with the season
less than half over eighteen lives have
been sacrificed to the speed idol. Incl
dental to speed carnival at Brigh-
ton. New York. July 3 and 4. three
drivers were killed. The American grows
sentimental about killing cattle; the
Mexican prefers cattle to human beings
1t is merely a matter Of taste.
Since 1904 more than 200 drivers and
mechanics have been killed in racing
accidents.
At the May Indianapolis race the worst
accident, aside from those in which death
resulted, was directly due to the admis-
sion OF an inexperienced driver to the
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
Much Talked of Tour des Grand Dues in
the French Capital Tame and Out.
rageously Expensive. /

disposal by its owner, an American
woman. The chauffeur had been ordered
to call at the hotel at o'clock. He had
been under hire two days. At 9 he had
not appeared. so the five of us-I had
called for help upon a Parisianized Amer
lean friend of mine-piled into a taxi
cab and started out to find him. We
had learned that he was stopping at a
little hotel in the Avenue de la Grande
Armee, whose name our informant did
not know, but one of the women recog-
nized the place from having made a trip
there with the chauffeur's employer when
the driver had failed to show up the day
before My friend got out to explore
and brought word that the man was
asleep upstairs. We ordered him
awakened. In twenty minutes and all
the while the taximeter kept wor king
almost as fast as a similar instrument
does in New York, the driver appeared
rubbing his eyes. 1 got a Whit of his
breath. He had been drinking. We had
a consultation and decided our lives we're
safer in the taxicab. 1t was now II
O'Clock and too late to call at the
Marigny, and ii was voted that the Bal
Tabarin should be the first destination.
Now, we cannot take these women
anywhere except into a box" said my
Montmartre resort. so We bought 1oge
and found ourselves overlooking the
'gayety below. Eight Spanish dancers
alternated on the programme with six
teen dancers of the quadrille, or can-can.
and the intermisSionS were taken up
with dancing by the audience, who
'bestOned' in a way that savored Of the
mattChiche. or the apache dance. 1t was
a weirdly mixed throng on the floor, with
a inlr Of 4
and the women of the neighborhood,
many of them pretty and well dressed,
but nothing really exciting We sat
until midnight and then left for the
Abbaye.
There was some difficulty getting
q table. but finally We were placed, and
about half a dozen walters hustled up
to take our orders.
Don't be in a hurry said my Paris
ianized friend, as I took the wine card
that was poked at me. The game up
here is to make you order food and wire
as quickly as possible so that you will
eat 1t or drink it right up and then can
be got rid OF to make room for other
cOmers unless you keep on buying wine.
I always beat that. Wen sit for twenty
minutes and then you let me do the or
dering'
Peaches Mt So Apiece.
Sure enough, though first one waiter
and then another kept buzzing up inquir-
ingly, my friend sat stolidly for the time
he specified. They would bring tempting
baskets of peaches at 81 a throw and
offer them, but we would pass them up.
Grapes Jared the same way. Finally my
friend selected a bottle of champagne,
and I assure you the five of us sat there
for an hour and a half consuming that
wine
There is absolutely no use in ordering
anything else here, said the wise one.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17

Seeing Paris remarked ]. Hierony
mus Jones, sometime traveller and occa-
sional bon vivant, who, as reported in
these columns, recently made a visit %
the French capital lis a serious under
taking. l was forced to that conclusion
during my recent limited but for the
most part enjoyable sojourn in the city
of light and life.
I may say at the outset that l am
equally at home toying with a little
trapped vermouth under the awning of
the cafe de la Paix, watching the throng
GO by. and talking to Able Kaffenburgh
Of Szinnyey, who expects some time to
establish an American paper over there,
OF other temporarily expatriated New
Workers, who hold their seats by the
year, or over here in the Waldorf, enjoy
ing a comfortable chair that commands
good view of the alley and enjoying
Havana cigar that escaped duty by
growing up in Connecticut. But when
1t comes to running about seeing what is
going on here and there after dark, that
Is something entirely out of my line
SO II was that when three estimable
and, l may add. absolutely respecta bic
American women OF my acquaintance
asked me to act as their escort on one
feeling of alarm. They wanted to go the
next night, but I needed time and made
the engagement for the third night fol-
lowing.
Tour of Grand Dukes.
You must take the tour des grands
dues" " said my friend Files. the hotel
man, to whom I appealed for advice
learned that this meant following the
programme usually pursued by those
festive noblemen who. at stated intervals
or otherwise. SwOOp down upon Paris
from St. Petersburg with rOuleaux of
rubles and scatter thousand franc notes
all the way from the top of the rue
Pigalle to the farthest limit of the Bois
ie BOulugne.
' First, Elles explained. one dimes at
the Ritz. Then one goes to the Marigny,
next to the TabarIn. thence to the Alb
baye, next to the Capitol. or the Pigalle
or perhaps both, after which one lands
next at MaXim'S. One finishes the even
Ing by breakfasting at the Pre-Catelan,
n the Bois de BoulOgne listening to
the birds singing or watching the cows
being MIXED
Such programme seemed appalling
from its very length. l decided to expert
mcnt for myself during the next two
evenings and get some idea as to the time
to be allowed for a visit 10 each place
listed. The first night I dined at the
Ritz. but got SO interested in a strange
kind CT wine and some old chartreuse,
dating from 1863. and worth all of the $40
a bottle l was told il was priced at that
there was no room for anything else that
night. Some experience the second even
ing made ne decide TO cut out some of
the other attractions, and l sent word to
the ladies that I would call for them after
Dime" on the evening appointed.
We were to make our tour in a fine
new automobile generously put at our
The Washington herald., 1911-09-17
Senator Bristow, of Kansas, Once Risked
= His Own Life in Saving Negro
from Lynching

and enjoying the occasion immensely.
year"
Emigrating to Iowa when a young
man, Senator Albert Baird Cummins
worked in an express Office at McGregOr,
on the Mississippi River. He handled
freight. billed shipments. and met trains
and steamboats-one boat at 2 o'clock in
the morning and another at 4 o'clock.
His wages were so a month. Occasion
ally he was a substitute messenger on
the railroad.
'Thirty-five years after that strenuous
experience" he told me, 'and while
was governor of Iowa, I made a trip to
the northern part of the State. The engt-
neer and conductor of the train had
worked on the road while I was a mes
senger. At noon. when we stopped for
dinner, all three of US went into the res
taurant together and sat on stools at a
counter, as We had done many times in
the past. talking just as we used to talk.
and enjoying the occasion immensely.
You got into politics Unexpectedly" 4"
I said.
I'VE had a prohibition law" Senator
CunHmins answered, but IL was not en-
forced. In the city Of Des Moines sa-
looms were. unlicensed and uncontrolled,
and conditions were shameful Pro-
hibition, I. thought was not practicable
in an entire State, especially II the popu-
lation was composed Of contrary ele-
ments. So 1 openly stood for local op-
tion and the rule of the majority, with
restrictions where the selling Of liquor
was authorized by law. While Mrs.
CuTnmins and 1 were away on a vaca-
ton mass meeting of Republicans nomi-
mated me for the legislature. I ac-
cepted the responsibility and was elected
But declined a second term. Running
independently-nominated at a mass
meeting, you understand, caused my
enemies to say that 1 was not a Repub-
lican. an accusation Inar mas been re-
peated ever since with more or less
energy.
Nevertheless, I was a Republican and
am Republican now. But law was
my business. Ofice-holding then was not
serious personal proposition. While
in New York during the summer of
chairman OF the Republican State con-
yention. So I was officially received
back into the party. Three years later.
at Mark Hanna's request, was made
the Iowa member of the Republican Ma
denal Committee, and during the cam
paign Of 1895 spent considerable time at
the Chicago headquarters. In 1901 I was
elected governor. Since then have been
working In politics rather steadily. to
the neglect of my business as lawyer"
How the Iowa ''Ideav Originated.
Also" said. ''you have been agItat-
ing the tariff question:
Years ago the Farmers Protective
Association IN Iowa had trouble with
attorneys and came to me. Excessive
prices were being asked for fence wire.
Suits for infringements Of patents were
begun. I was employed TO represent the
independent manufacturers. Later. when
the wire interests were consolidated. 4
was the attorney Cor the wire combinn-
ton was also the attorney for ave