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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-27
COMING EVENTS.
BLLswoRTH.


Thursday evening, Dec. -, Of Hancock,
halt Concert and ball under auspices OF
Village improvement socisty. Concert at
O'Clock. Admission - sUnssEt - csutsf
(no reserved seats); dance Tickets, $ csntsr
ladies' free; ice-cream and cake, 10csnts.-
Tickets ct Moore's drugstore.
Monday evening, Jan. l, at Nioolin'
grange hall, North Ellsworth-New Year
ball and supper.
Tuesday evening, Jan. 2, at Odd Fellows
hall, 6. 80 p. m.-supper by Nokomis Re-
bekah lodge.
Tuesday evening, Jan. 2, at Odd Fellows
hall = Dance and supper by Donaqua
lodge, 4. Off.
February 1924, at Hancock hall Ellis
worth food fair, under auspices Of Els
worth Merchants association.
Friday, March 70, at Mechanics build
ing, Boston Ellsworth reunion.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-27
GREEN LAKE.

Alice Spencer has returned to her home
in West Schools.
Alma Merrill is taking care OF Mrs.
Arthur Moore, who is improving slowly.
The Maine Central railroad it putting in
q siding near Allen brook for the accmo-
dation Of J. Fred Webster.
George De Rusha has charge Of a crew Of
men operating on j. Fred Webster's land,
cutting cordwood, pulp wood and logs.
The heavy rain Friday night destroyed
the shedding which had been quite good
for week. All brooks and the lake arc
clear OF ice.
Charles scribner, station agent at Green
Lake, has accepted . station at Milford:
Mrs. Scribner will finish her term OF
teaching before joining her husband.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-27
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS.
Home-C Coming Of Ellsworth Boys and
Girls Add to Holiday Cheer.

Homes Coming of Ellsworth Boys and
Girls Add to Holiday Cheer.
The holiday season brings back to Ellis
worth for longer or shorter visits, many
Ellsworth boys and girls away at school
and college, or whose business or pro-
fession has taken them to other cities.
No matter how long they have been gone,
they are still Ellsworth boys and girls.
They always receive a warm welcome
home, and their presence adds greatly to
the Christmas cheer OF the home folks.
Among those at home this year are:
Fred w. Joy, of Rogers, Peet & Co., New
York.
DR.. George Parcher, now stationed at the
immigrant hospital at Ellis island, New
York harbor.
Robert King, Clarence Tapley and
Arthur Parcher from Bowdoin college.
Albert F. Stockbridge, from Bangor, and
son Joseph. from Bar Harbor.
Miss Ruby Phillips, from Boston.
Herbert Monaghan, from Bangor.
Howard Adams and wife, from Boston;
Martin Adams, wife and two children,
from Bangor.
Miss Mae B. Friend, from New York;
Miss Leah Friend, from Natick, Mass.
Albert A. Joy, from Presque Isle.
William F. Jude and wife Hena Aus
TIM, from Castine.
D. Shirley Norris and wife MARY New
MANI, OF Bar Harbor.
Austin L. Maddox, civil engineer, OF
Norwood, Mass.
Miss Harriet Rollins, from Tarrytown,
NY.
Prof. Henry Z. Emery, chairman Of the
tariff board, from Washington; Prof. F.
g. Atkinson, Mrs. Allinson and Miss
Susanne, from Providence, R. l., = guests
of Judge and Mrs. Emery.
Miss Margaret Monaghan, from Houl-
ton, to remain for some weeks.
Kenneth M. Cameron, wife (Hazef
Knowlton) and little daughter Mary,
from Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Roscoe H. Smith and wife Hazel
Holmes), from Bangor.
Mrs. Eudora Hopkins and daughter
Blanche, from Bangor.
Chester L. Bailey and wife Evelyn Bon
sey), from Searsport.
Miss Margaret King, from Lowell, Mass.
Herbert 8. Foster, from Bangor.
Miss Leonora g. Higgins from Wood
fords.
Miss Margaret Drummey, from Port
land; Miss Mary Drummey, from Old
Town.
Mrs. Lillian G. Wakefield, from Bangor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-27
NORTH ELLSWORTH.

Harold Maddocks and wife are spending
the week with Mrs. Maddocks' parents,
John Perry and wife, in Sorrento.
Carl Maddocks, Hazel McGown and
Alice McGown left Tuesday for castine to
attend the winter term Of normal school.
Mrs. Cora Karst, of Bar Harbor, who has
spent several weeks here with her sister,
Mrs. q. F. Maddocks, returned home Fri
day.
Mrs. Maria Gray, who has been In Surry
for some weeks, came homo Friday to be
with her brother, Emery Maddocks, who
has been in poor health for some time.
George Maddocks. who has been in poor
health for some time, died Sunday morn
ing. Saturday night he seemed in unusually
good spirits, but soon lapsed into un-
consciousness, and sank gradually until
his death.
Harold Maddocks and wife entertained
. party Of fifteen ct their home Saturday
evening. A well-iaden Christmas tree
bore fruit for all, and treat Of popcorn
and apples. The evening paused pleas
antly with no lack of fun. Phonograph
selections were furnished by A. W. Mason
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-27

Registered mail should be at postof1ce half
an hour before mail closes.
No Sunday trains.
Postofiice open on Sunday from to 10 m.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

have married is shiftIess and good for nothing and
that he Is all that stands between you and hunger
man can lift woman up in the world, but a woman
can't do anything with a man.
Jim, Long and Limp.
I wondered why had not seen him as he was be-
fore He had long, limp hands that hung down to his
knees, because his arms were so long. He had long,
thin limp feet and when he crossed them and his toe
hung down his foot made straight line with his leg
His shoulders melted into his arms. His mouth was
loosely hung and his blue eyes drooped at the corners
There was not decided line in his figure pitied
him and pitied myself and pitied the children.
wonder why God makes folks blind and then Furnishes
them for what they cannot see! :
he never looked manly and like other men except
when he played on the fiddle read once when
went to school Of a who bought palace and lived
like king by just playing on a fiddle. Jim might
have done something Of that kind If he hadn't got on
the wrong road--the beggar's road that has no end
The beggars road is treadmi and once in 1t you can
never get out
We weren't looking for the gold mine all these years
were tramping over Missouri. No. indeed! Jim
always had a new scheme for getting rich every time
caught sight Of a town. And the first time he
visited 1t to get work he came back surer than ever
Once going to hire him to sell real estate
and give him a furnished house to live in. That was
the time sold the melodeon to buy him some decent
clothes.
Another time he met cooper and they struck up
friendship and decided to go into business together.
He said that he and the, cooper could make barrel
every thirty minutes and each barrel would sell for
80 They could easily make twentyeigh barrels
day and that would bring them in $l+ l thought
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

bought two wagons and .orses and started for a
place in Missouri where Jim had heard of mine
Jim and Kadidge here rode in the head wagon and
followed with little Joe and Becky. Her real name
was Elizabeth Rebecca.
1t was in the early fall when we started. liked
it at first. 1t just like going camping. You
see didn't know that 1t vas going to last forever
When we got over into Missouri rested for two or
three weeks in a little sheltered wood Of pecan and
walnut trees. l shall never forget that fall The
warm weather lasted almost up to Christmas time
During the day when Jim was out prospecting we
sat under the trees in the warm, yellow light anu
watched the ripe nuts fall At night Jim played on
his fiddle He got so he could mimic every bird in
the wood.
All that winter we wandered over Missouri. Every
day Jim saw hill or a rock that told him that we
were near a mine. But we never reached IT. we
suffered from cold and hunger that winter 100
Sometimes for days all had to eat was corn pone'
When we couldn't live any longer on that D searcneo
for town. and Jim went TO work at his trade again.
Jim never had any trouble in getting JOB, ne was
such a wonderful taker. But when he got the )oo
he was so happy and felt safe he forgot 10 WORK.
He amused the other fellows all day while they
worked, and at night brought home his WORK 1or me
to id While he slept sat up and sewed by the
Sght of candle stuck In a bottle.
The next day was a repetition The first. He
never brought home anything bit spirit Of exhilara-
tion over the way the other fellows had enjoyed
listening to him. Poor Jim! He was made for
world where people get bread by looking pleasant.
He was always so tired too, in the morning that
he couldn't get up, Yet he proud of his trade
You should have heard him talk about it.. Jim
was real bright some ways. He used to say that
God made man and then thetailor remade him. II
one shoulder is higher than the other It's the tailor
who makes them level If a man is narrow chested
Il is the tailor who pads him out And then who is
1t but the tailor who makes sailors and soldiers and
ministers out of menf II it weren't for the tailor
who could tell ope from the other? Isn't it all in
the clothes they wear? So you see a tailor is next
to God. That's the way Jim reasoned It But no
one else ever saw things just the way Jim did.
For six or seven years we wandered over Missouri
and every day Of those years cried. never could
cry aferward because there tears left to cry
with 1t was the tears that washed away the scales
from my eyes l saw Jim as had never seen him
before Is hard when you md out that the man you
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

Yet Jim was real energetic some ways. He'd run
bis legs on all day looking for somebody's lost COW or
stray dog. 1t seemed to be money that Jim didn't
care to work for I've often told Kaddge here that
We've had sufficient quantity Of schemes If we have
never had sufficient quantity Of anything else But
they are kind Of unsatisfactory food for any length
Of time
1t was after this when set out to cross Kansas
for Oklahoma That's where the long trail begins
We found plenty Of people just like We had to
travel all in one wagon Young Joe and the girls
had to walk most Of the tme because the horse was
too old to haul so many. There were plenty more
just liksus and they were all heading for Oklahoma.
1t was warm weather and We. didn't suffer. In
the towns the girls and 1 went out washing and
ticular-It pretty good sized town, too, but
I've forgotten the name-where the girls and young
Joe and went out together to look around, and we
came to a large church. The doors were wide open
and there wasn't any one to be inside. Neither
the girls Joe had ever the inside of real
church before. You see we'd never had any clothes
to wear we could go.
l looked in and saw an organ. and then I couldn't
help going in. think there was going to be we'd
ding. There were heaps Of flowers and white rib
bons. 1t splendid that it frightened Kadidge
and Be'kv and Toe. they slipped right into the
first seat they and down. | went straight
up to that organ l wanted TO play bad l couldn't
help 1t. My hands old and they were stif
from washing and my fingers seemed all in the way.
But did manage to play Dixie You know any
one from Kentuck can play Dixie" The girls and
Joe looked as much out Of place there three field
mice. After little we slipped out of the church
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
A KENTUCKY SUSPICION.

\VIHEN Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri was
w Prosecuting Attorney of Pike county, an old
darky came into his Office at Louisiana one
morning and after beating around the brambfss for
few minutes brought forth the object Of his visit.
"wuzn' you bawn in kaintucky, Mas Champ" he
inquired cautiously.
Sure, Uncle Henry" =
Use had spshuns you wuz, sub, mon once, but the
other mawnin when you make dat speech agin Sam
Collins and say whiskey de greatest ebi In de
worl begins to hab misdoubtments, sub"
What's where 1 was born got to do with It, Uncle
Henry?, It's fact isn't it?"
Use bawn in Kaintucky myself sub" said Uncle
Henry with pride, "an hahn! gvn' on no pinium on
dat .subjeck, but you'd please me clean down to de
rroun sub ef you'd tell me ef de persecutin attorney
has got to swear to his speech er he jis takin
de jury" p. W. J. LAMPTON.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

and hid in an alley to watch the grand folks going
to the wedding. The children had never seen such
a sight before You they had always belonged
to the people who look through windows from the
wrong side.
That summer when evening came we used to walk
out and peek into the houses and used to tell them
how had lived in a house once and slept in a bed
with two sheets on it.
We had plenty to eat all summer. When fall
came we reached a little in the flint hills where
we stayed some time Young Joe got plenty Of work,
and did l and the girls. Jim wasn't well, and
he didn't pretend to do anything but play the
fiddle.
Here young Joe got acquainted with lot of young
folks and went somewhere most every night. 1 was
glad because he'd never had much pleasure anyway
One night he came home later than usual and woke
all up. He pale and trembed so his teeth
Ghattered. He kept stuttering-'We must go We
must go"'
l knew something awful had happened. l tried to
wake Jim up help strap the chairs and the stove
but couldn't Nothing could get Jim out Of bed
So the girls and harnessed and picked up the things
and set out The girls walked beside the wagon
all night their brother could ride. couldn't get
word out of him. We headed straight for the Okla
homa line. Joe was awful anxious to get there and
kept asking how far l thought it l knew
we couldn't reach 1t, but didn't tell him You
Fleeing Before the Fire.
That night the sky in front Of red. The
glow fell over the plain. Fire! Joe watched ii draw
nearer and looked hopeful.
\ A little before dawn we reached creek which.
flowing southwark, joins the Chiocco just below the
Kansas line. The fire was by this time that
the wind brought cnders and burnt grass stalks and
the air was hot on our faces. We crawled down the
steep bank into the shallow water of the creek and
there left the wagon and jim The rest of US set
about burning on the grass on the south edge Of
the bank. beating thei flames out with clothing
till our hands and eyebrows and faces burned.
After we had made the fire guard went back
to the wagon and wet the canvas top and covered
the horse with dripping blanket and then climbed
in to rest The coming flames sounded like the roar
of a storm They fed on the breeze they created.
The prairie to the south was sea Of fire and the
air was sufocatng with smoke
when it reached our fire guard it turned TO the
west and its shining pillows enveIoped the prairie
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

then that Jim really would do something, so sold
Of the wagons and the horse TO help pay FOR tools
and wood and rent. But Jim couldn't learn. He was
so busy reckoning up fortune that fourteen barrels
n day would bring that he couldn't find time to make
the barrels. So he wore his clothes and enter
tanned customers with his fiddle
His partner didn't like this way of doing and they
fell out and we lost everything again. But Jim was
always little happier when he lost job than when
he found one 1t was easier for him to give excuses
for not working than to work. You see 1t was too
pleasant in summer to work and too cold In winter
And that's the way it went.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
THE SERVANT PROBLEM.

IN PARK AVENUE housekeeper who weighs about
Aa hundred pounds had negro hired help VINO
weighed two hundred plus and she had given
notice The lady was greatly cpnsoed in this bereave
ment however by the fact that much betterseryant
had been promised her by a friend who was leaving
town. The departing maid was somewhat curious
about her and questioning the mistress
.oh, she's fine and dandy" the lady assured her.
do you think you can keep ber?'
"of course can. She isn't the kind 10 go away
soon"
The departing maid sighed deeply as II she had her
own troubles
say. Miss Mildred" she inquired dejectedly, kin
she wear 10 cio'sr'
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
A TRUE STORY :
Bg Edna Wo7,thleg Underwood

Al rights reBerVed.I
elled over the cOuntrys showing them and election
eerIng at the same time. or course when he came
home he was tired and he did put in a good deal OF
time in bottoming chairs. But any one has TO sit
down when he's tired. And Jim tired good deal.
Somehow the tailor shop didn't prosper and In
year or two we were closed up. That was every
thing we had. But Jim wasn't bit discouraged
He was Just as full of plans and schemes as he could
he We sold our two cows and all the furniture ex-
cent nv melodeon which we kept for while and
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
Be- Edna


Was in the early morning when met her, and
the white mist ribbons of night still noated over
the plain. The wind blew warm and sweet from
the heart of the south. The muddy Arkansas was
path of pearl l could tell of it's whereabouts only
by the gentle tapping of the water when my horse
walked close beside it.
She was getting breakfast the ground beside Ter
wagon from which gaunt. stern woman. presunl'
ably her daughter was unlaCing two old fashioned
chairs tied to the back. When came near enough
she looked up and spoke with ne sad faced indifer-
ence of the wanderer who has seen many places ana
many people and in the end finds them all alike. My
horse rausing of his accord made her think that
wanted to speak with her so she rose and asked
me to dismount in voice whose hospitaltt; ana IN
fiction betrayed Southern birth and different man
ner Of life somewhere within the dim vistIS Of the
past.
l did di>nount. for when she moved from the camp
fire and its obscuring veil of smoke looked down
into the most wonderful face have ever seem What
might not some old Flemish painter whose brush ald
bare the soul have made of face like that She was
perhaps ffty-fve yet she might have been younger
1t is difficult tell the age of woman of the plains
The dry air and the hard alkaline water age them
rapidly and darken them into brown and wrinkied
Uniformity Years Of wagon life and the winds had
tbinped and grizzled her hair and made harsh like
wire and wasted her body. Her face had pale
purplish cast and it covered with the little red
dots which betoken extreme age.
1t was face which grief and suffering and disap-
pofntment had hardened to mask of iron. Long long
ago and forgotten all her and her greving
1t was the face of who tearlessly has given up
toy and comfort and that glittering toy called hope
and returned again to the of primitive man, who
has only the old inheritance Of the sky and the red red
earth.
From this mask Of iron the eyes looked forth as
from the other side of the grave. Awful eyes they
were They were dim caverns of gray grief Sorrow
digs itself caves to dwell in while joy loves the SUM-
When they looked at you they looked through you,
and ON and on and beyond They seemed to some
thing unseen Of mortas.
In looking at her had the feeling that is some
times had when looking at the very aged that the
body is NEAR that it be touched but that the soul
that looks from the dim eyes far away and is being
gradually withdrawn into the distance of space 1t
was not hard to get talk of herself The wagon
woman does that willingly. She does not have many
to talk with and she likes a sympathetic listener
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

Y JES, was born in Kentuck, and was born in
I house. too. 1 have not always lived like this
When was a girl 1 went to school, and 1 had
a melodeon. and taught some, too. But never had
anything after l married Jim. Yes, Jims been dead
these three years Died of a shock. We didn't think
he'd die; he didn't have it hard Kadidge here, who's
always been sort of her father because he
couldn't get house and buy things said he didn't
have ii hard because he was too lazy anything
hard
He wasn't exactly lazy, though; he was real ener-
getic some ways but he always seemed to forget
about the money. Yet you somehow couldn't'think
of Jim and work at the same time But he was a real
bright man. He used to say that when you walked
and worked it wore your shoes and coat out and it
took money to buy coats and Shoes he didn't see
where there was any gain<in working. He said lots
of things like that.
When he came to Centerville, Kentuck, to work in
the tailor shop he the handsomest fellow in the
county. He had blue eyes and black curly hair and
he played the fiddle and led the band Ali the girls
liked him. No thought that he'd work in tailor
shop long, because he was such wonderful talker
and he knew much. The people VINO talked with
him always thought just the way he did. He was
always talking about what he was going to do, and
inventing something, and making plans, and finding
gold mines. Jim was wonderful talker.
Not long after were married nay parents died.
and took my share of the money and set Jim up in
a tailor shop of his own. 1t was a beautiful shop
and it had the largest sign Of any in town 1t didn't
take much to make Jim happy.
Soons he got the shop he wanted to go into politics
and be Mayor, and be electioneered all day long
Then he had wonderful inventions in his head and
whenever he could see stranger on the street he'd
grab sheet Of wrapping paIer and rush out and
make drawing to show him what winner his In
rention was going to be- OF course he didn't care
so much little tailor shop when he had prospects
of being politician and millionaire You couldn't
really blame him.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

have married is shiftless and good for nothing and
that be Is all that stands between you and hunger
man can lift woman up in the world, but woman
can't do anything with man.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-02-10
TALK OF The TOWN
Blanket sale at Fits

Blanket sale at Fits
Wash goods special at Vaughan's.
White sale; don't miss the good
things at Vaughan's.
Sl.25 children's gingham dresses for
SOC each at Perry's on Saturday.
Better get one Of those coffee mills
we are offering at Zoe each. See our win
dow, c. n. Kenyon & Co.
Closing sale Of rummage at the Uni
versalist vestry Friday evening, doors
open at o'clock Good bargains.
Mrs, Joseph Denny and son, Bradford,
Of Mortified are visiting at the home
Of her sister, Mrs. James f. Higgins.
Just arrived at the Paris Shirwaist
house, new bingham, ehambry and per-
Gale waists, all sizes, special price so
cents.
New line of kimono blouses, in all
over embroidery, something entirely new,
special Thursday, SIPS. Paris Shirt
waist house.
To advertisers: Our representative
J. G. Mooney, is at the City hotel Any
favors you may extend to him will be
appreciated by us. Signed, Kemper.
Thomas company
California navel oranges l6 for 25c.
grape fruit 4 for 25c, nice sound bananas
l6 for 25e, best IL for 25o, nice ripe
pineapples for 25c, all specials for to.
day and Saturday at United Fruit Store,
40 North Main street.
Notice to A. o. H., All members of
the A. II. are requested to meet at
X. of c. hall Saturday morning at $3.50
o'clock to attend in a body the funeral
of our late brother, p J. Leahey, which
will be held from st. Monica's church
at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. S. c. Moves of Washington
street has few old silver coins, one a
half-dollar of 1871 and another of 1900.
She also has silver fve-cent piece of
date of 1898. A. ". Robinson of the
same street brings forward half.penny
OF 1920 and pennies of 1916 and 1925.
Tickets for "The Red Mill" the comic
opera TO be given at the Barre opera
house Tuesday night, February Ii, 90
on sale at Hendricks tonight Innumer-
able features of the escape from the mill,
the Dutch Riddles. the Broadway SOU
brettes. the Fifth avenue girls. the box
ing dance, the motor beauties the Bow
cry bells and the no end Of Victor
Herbert brilliant and popular music will
all form an entertainment of refresh. |
ing refinement and good cheer. with all
the requisites of an unusually clever
performance.