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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12

Miss. Grace Lowe, of Deer Isle, is the
guest OF Mrs. B. T. Sowle.
Mrs. Austin Davies, OF Bangor, is visit
ing Mrs. Walter r. Parker.
Miss Rena B. Roberts, OF Boston, is vis-
iting her aunt, Miss Grace Smith.
Mrs. Barlow Hall is ill. Her niece, Mrs.
Arthur Hopkins, OF Brewer, is with her.
Mrs. Annetta Freeman West, OF Boston,
Miss Bernice Eldridge is spending va
cation of two weeks with relatives in
Dexter.
Wesley A. SowIe is at home after COM
'pleting a summer course at the University
of Maine.
Mrs. Nj. ]. Thorsen, of Weehawken, N.
j., and Mrs. Henry Michaelis are visiting
in Bucksport.
Miss Louise Dutton, recently returned
from Europe, has joined her mother at
Hancock Point.
Harry E. Walker and wife, of Exeter,
n. a., are in Ellsoorth for the remainder
OF their summer vacation.
Harry L. Crabtree, OF New York, has
joined his wife and little daughter
Dorothy here for a months vacation.
Arthur E. Cook, wife and little daugh-
ter Stella, Of Boston, are Visiting Mr..
Cooks parents, James L. Cook and wife.
Mrs. James E. Lynch has gone to Bar
Harbor to spend few weeks with her
hus sband who is employed there for the
summer.
Miss Marion E. Mum, daughter of DIR.
and Mrs. Charles E. Mum, of Lowell,
Mass, is visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Charlotte T. Jones.
There will be meeting of Nokomis
Rebekah lodge Aug. IS. The noble grand
wishes a good attendance, as there will
be special business.
Howard H. Adams, of Boston, arrived
last week to spend his vacation with his
parents. His wife and little daughter will
Join him here to-day.
The contests of the poultry Clubs of
franklin, Ellsworth and Hancock closed
not yet been announced.
A compressed-air whistle has been in
stalled at the Ellsworth Foundry & Ma
chine Works garage. The whistle blows
at a. M, II M, and p. m.
Harry E. Rowe and wife left to-day to
spend the remainder OF Mr.. Rowe's vaca-
tion, the month of August, at Mrs. Rowe's
former home in South Portland.
Freeman Smith has bought the Douglass
Anderson place on the new Lamoine road,
and moved there. He has sold his farm
on the Bucksport road to Allan Fiske.
The Moore reunion will be held at
Maddocks' landing, Green Lake, Wednes-
day, Aug. 10. Picnic dinner will be served
in the grove. All are cordially invited.
Erastus F. Redman and wife, OF Dor
chester, Mass, are in Ellsworth for a
short visit with relatives, receiving the
warm greetings Of their many Ellsworth
friends.
Mrs. John Richardson and daughter
Doris, of Pittsfield, N. H., and Mrs.
Samuel Chapman, of Ellsworth, are guests
of Miss Lizzie Morris at Birch Point
cottage.
Dates for the North Ellsworth fair have
been fixed for Tuesday and Wednesday,
Sept. % and "A. The management promises
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12
PlaV at Bayside.

The Shady Nook young people will pre-
sent their suffragette play Thursday, Aug.
20, at Bayside grange hall. The cast:
Mrs. Green................ Miss Marian White
Mrs. Rice. Miss Isabel Magee
Mrs Doolittle.. Miss Jessie Bigelow
Mrs. Snow........ Miss Amy Philips
Mrs Brown ,t;. r,,;... r,,
Mrs Taylor - i'S i'iiA"De'N "ieasoh
Mrs White '''''''''''''-"i'o may oiseio"
The other part of the entertainment will
be furnished by Miss Isabel Mcgee, vio-
linist, Miss Marian White, reader, Harold
Gleason, cornetist, and Misses Marian
White and May Bigelow, pianist. A sup
per and dance will follow. Monaghan's
orchestra.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12
Fire at West fremont .

WEST FREMONT, Aug. 10 Especially The
house OF Deputy Sheriff Robie M. Rumill
was burned Saturday afternoon, with
all its contents. There was only small
insurance.
Mr.. Rumill, who is in very poor health,
has the sympathy Of all in the community,
as well as of his many friends throughout
the county.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12
Suicide at North Bucksport

Louis E. Colony, of North Bucksport,
committed suicide by shooting Saturday
morning. MIR. Colony wss one of the
victims of the big New Haven train wreck
last summer, and for weeks was on the
danger list in New Haven hospital. He
never recovered his health, and despond
ency because of this affected his mind.
He leaves a widow and one son.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12

A Bangor firm is giving away, free, a
genuine Perfumed Tango Necklace to each
girl in Hancock county selling packages of
their Orangeade powder. Write to w. E.
Mea,ing, Bangor, Me.--Adp..
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12

CONDENSED TIME TABLE.
Trains arrive at Ellsworth from the west at
6.b5, 7.l8, Ills, I1.58 a. m, 4.21, 6.I8 p. m.
Sundays, 6.55 q. m, 7.18, ell, Ills q. m, $40
p. m.
Trains leave Ellsworth for the west at 737 a.
M, IL %, ALL. 5.35, 1921, 1887 p. m. Sundays,
$50 q. M, All, 5.35, 1921, 1887 p. m.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12
WEATHER IN ELLSW ORTIZ.

For Week Ending at Midnight Tuesday,
Aug. II, 1914.
| From observations taken at the power
station of the Bar Harbor g. Union River
Power Co., in Ellsworth. Precipitation is
given in inches for the twenty-four hours
ending at midnight.
Weather Precip-
Temperature conditions itation
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADvER rIsE MENrs THIS WEEK

Admr notice--Anna L Hudson.
Notice-Fred v Stanley.
Calais Fair.
Probate notice-Carolyn Il whittlesey.
Maria Dewitt Jesup.
Mary Nevins Mayo.
Helen L Goss.
Sylvia NJ Saunders ct ais.
Exec notice-William B Mitchell.
Admr notice-Jesse ID Atwood.
Charles H Bowden.
Virginia d Austin.
Julia A Wallace.
Sheriff's sale-F. o. Silsby.
For sale-Auxiliary sloop.
BANGOR, Me:
Eastern Trust g. Banking Co.
Bangor Daily Commercial.
Eastern Maine State Fair.
PORTLAND, Me-:
Neal Institute.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
THE KNOCKERS PRAYER.

Please don't let this town grow.
I've been here for thirty years, and
during that time I've fought every
public Improvement I've knocked
everything and everybody; no firm or
individual has established business
here without my doing all / could to
put them out or business. I've lied
about them, and would have stolen
from them IL \ had the courage.
have done all 1 could to keep the
town from growing, and never have
spoken a good word for it. I've
knocked hard and often i've put
ashes On the children's slide, and i've
made the Marshal stop the boys play
ing ball on my vacant lot. Whenever
I saw anyone prospecting or enjoying
themselves i've started "A reform tc
kill tn business or spoil the fun.
don't want the young folks to stay in
this town and l will do all / can BY
law, rule and ordinance 10 drive then
away. liz pains me TO see that AK
spite OF my knocking it IL beginning
to grow. Some day 1 fear I will b.
called upon to put down sidewalks In
front or my property, and who know:
but what \ may have tO help keep TAX
the streets that run by my premises
This would be more than I could bear
1t would cost me money, though all
] have was made right here in thil
town. Then. too, more people nigh
come ~ the town begins to grow
which would cause me to lose some o
my pull. / ask, therefore, to keel
this town at a standstill. Put th'
brakes ON. that \ may continue to M
the chief
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

better conditions is to be grateful
You can get good, dry Coal at Smith
AZ Reifsnider's-that's something "
rejoice about.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
INTO RATTLER'S EYES
Man Looked While Clinging to Ladder
I'm Mine.

There f. a saying down on the
broad Mo1ave desert, where the blTn-
ing sands concel many dangers, that
no true son Of the greasewooC
wastes will pass up a RATHER. Strong
as IL the lure of gold which so irres-
iStibly holds the prospectOr on his
search, there III none who will not
stop an hour or half a day to kill
the deadly foe Of the gold hunter.
There is story which will bear
telling and it is comparatively new
III happened in San Bernardino coun-
Hey. The man to whom the experience
came il noted the desert over for his
\ truthfulness- He has been bitten twice
His name is George Branch. Quiet
unassuming, with laugh at what he
termed joke on the snake, he told
the story ON a recent trip to San Fran
cisco:
Il was hiking along with Jack and
Jennie and Joe, my three burros,
when | ran across an outcroppine
that looked good and in a country ]
knew was among the best there il
on the desert. So we four struck
camp right there and began sinking
a shaft to get look at the inside.
Il had little timber, but managed
to get enough over the workings
to put down a good ladder and keep
the shaft open The grub ran short
and had to hit the trail back for
more. 1t took about a week. When
returned started down In the mine
to do a half day shift, hitting into
camp little before noon. I wasn't
paying much attention to anything
except getting down the ladder. MY
candle shed a pretty small light for
all the darkness at the bottom of the
hole.
ia was passing the last set OF tim
bers and when they were opposite my
shoulder I flashed my candle to the
left to see IL there was any sign Of
settling. Just as I was turning around
to look on the other side / heard,
about three inches from my ear, the
buzz of a RATHER.
1t sounded more like bell rattle
than / ever heard them before. It was
so close it almost scared me into los
ing my grip on the ladder In the
half second I stayed there ! saw ev-
cry scale on the snake and his wicked
little eyes and his fangs and darling
tongue. Maybe it was the light Of the
NAoL duu Iudy-
be :. was something else that kept
him from striking. But all that lad
would have had to do was to reach
out a couple Of inches to get me on
the cheek and I would have had no
chance to stop the poison from doing
its work.
II asked a college professor after
ward Just how he thought + did IL
don't remember. But in about two
skips Of flea was out on the sur
face and listening to the RATHER buzz
away down in the shaft. The pro-
fessor said there was something that
always made man in an emergency
do just the right thing.
II got stick and poked him off the
timber and killed him by dropping
rocks into the shaft. He was four
feet long and had sixteen rattles. He
had slid down the incline of the shaft
and rolled on four-inch beam. T
think he was afraid Of falling or he
would have struck"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, nov. 20, 1914
THE FOoT.AND.MOUTH DISEASE.

Few farmers or stock growers In
this country had any real knowledge
OF the nature OF the foot-and-mouth
disease when its existence at the Chi
cago Stock-Yards was first reported
by agents of the Federal Government.
No trace Of it apparently has been ne
ted in the United States since 1870,
when it was introduced from Canada,
where it had been brought by cattle
ffom England. Over twenty years ago
the farms Of Germany were swept by
the prague and the losses were put at
nearly s4O,000.OO0.
What makes the foot-and-mouth dis
ease especially dangerous II the ease
with which it spreads. Once IL gained
a start in a certain section, by the in
lection of the pens of the stock-yards
and of cattle cars, it was bound to ex-
tend quickly ia many directions
through the ordinary channels OF traf-
fic. In establishing a strict quaran-
tine in all localities where discovered
the Government has taken only the
first step toward extinguishing it- The
isolation OF all diseased animals and
the disinfection Of all places and sub
Stances through which the infection
may be carried are necessarily local
measures.
Beginning with a sudden fever, the
foot-and-mouth disease soon reveals
itself through the formation Of bis
tiers on the tongue and in the mouth
and nostrils, and on other parts Of the
body where the skin il thin, espec-
tally on the tender parts Of the feet.
The immediate effect is that the ami
NAL has difficulty in feeding and de-
velops Iameness. The disease can be
transmitted to most domestic animals,
horses seeming to be the least suscep-
tible. while sheep, goats or swine are
its chief victims.
"A puzzling feature Of this kind Of
cattle plague Is that, while in Europe
it has been traced back for over 1000
years, periodically it breaks out with
extraordinary virulence and spreads
like wild-tire. That the disease was
conveyed to the United States this
year from some part of Europe is the
opinion of experts, but no one is able
to say when or how it arrived.-From
the New York World.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
WAR WEARY.

The obligation that rests upon de-
cent newspapers to tell the truth is
ever a sacred and responsible one AZ
no time should 1t be more honored In
observance than during the continu-
alton of the tragedy that is being en-
acted upon the European continent
"a period like the present stiffens the
demand for veracity made by public
that takes journalism seriously.
Right-minded people have wearied
of the amending procession Of tales Of
horror, cruelty and destruction They
are eager, even anxious, to address
themselves to the constructive poll
cies of peace. The distorted perspec-
tive presented them by many news
papers gives them just offense- The
plain truth is, the reading public Is
sick and tired of the montony of the
war diet served up to them.
Yet how many sensational news
papers disregard their duty to their
readers, and careless Of their ob1iga-
ton, deliberately invent horrors fol
the sole purpose of claiming supre.
macy ia the publication Of exclusive
news.
Never in the history Of the news.
pap~r has there been such a demand
for Truth; yet never in the history Of
tn newspaper has Truth been *
carelessly handled.
No wonder the reading public i:
weary of war news"
Sn arn VIC
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
UNTNTELLLGENT VOTING.

The returns from almost any cleo
ton district show a regular proper
ton of errors in marking ballots. Al
SO the returns always show many IL
logical oddities. The mistakes or the
ballot box are by no means confined
to uneducated persons. Down In the
back street of the city where recent
immigrants prevail, you might expect
To find laundering voters The chances
are that their political education has
been well attended to. Some work.
er has taken pupils one by one,
and has shown them that even an
ignorant man can mark a ballot cor
rectly. For such citizens, the act OF
voting is a great privilege. They medi-
tate over their lesson, with great
searchings Of heart enter the voting
booth, and are apt to mark correctly.
Meanwhile the hurried business man
enters the polling place, his mind CEN
tered on problems that he left at his
Office. Before he knows it, he may
have marked two candidates where H.
could vote only for one.
In the states where the law does not
permit one to vote a straight party
ticket by making single mark, the
tail end OF the ballot usually shows
a lower total. Yet the contests most
affecting a community may
come at the end. 1t seems but a
trifing effort to mark ballot from end
to end Many voters seem to become
by this strain on their mas
sive intelIects. At primaries or 9TH
er elections where candidates are ar
ranged alphabetically without party
designation, the politicians always say
II is a great advantage to have your
name begin with A or B, so that you
can head the ballot II your name
begins with w or ", you are
There are always num-
Der OF Indifferent voters who on many
contests will mark the first name
that they read. They would add to
the average intelligence of the elect
1ra1e by going fishing election day
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

LET EVERYBODY BE GRATEFUL
1T WILL HELP A LOT JUST NOW.
No matter what the condition IA,
40 might he worse. Tine first step co
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
IMPROVING PROSPECTS.

Don't tell everybody you meet Lndl
we are going to have hard winter.
RI il getting to b. about a. common
to say this as to remark on the
weather-and about as unintelligent.
Why are we going to have a hard
winter? Oh, the war in Europe. Well,
that II disarranging business good
deal, but the worst of that came at
first For the past two months there
has been steady recovery. More than
2500OO,OOO of orders from foreign
Governments have come to this coun-
try on account Of the war, and that
will go a long way to effect the dam
age done to our business in certain
directions.
Grain exports are unprecedented,
and cotton exports are increasing.
The internal trade of this country
is close to what 1t was year ago,
as reflected i'm the bank clearings, the
contraction OF which from last year
Is sufficiently explained by the closing
of the stock and cotton exchanges.
The farm crops, even allowing for the
enormous contraction in the value Of
raw cotton, il $104,000,000 more than
! it was last year, and agricultural pros
perity has always been very closely
connected with commercial prosperity.
There are unemployed every winter,
partly because some trades are near
Iy or wholly suspended in that season,
and partly because of the fluctuations
of business. Probably there will be
more unemployed than usual this win
ter, because our business must be
somewhat reduced by the enormous
destruction of wealth going on in
Europe and reaching the trade ri
every quarter OF the globe But there
is no reason to suppose there is 60
ing TO be a very large increase OF
unemployment The Charity Organi-
cation Society reports some increase
in the calls for help, but not larg
increase.
The news columns of recent morning
papers contained the opinion of Geo
FEB. Caldwell, president OF the Invest
ment Bankers Association, that THE
United States Is on the verge Of the
greatest prosperity the country has
ever known. We have reached the
bottom after period Of decline, and
things are now getting better every
day" William S. Lloyd, manufact-
urer of knit goods, is quoted as saying
that in the last 30 days there has been
a marked Improvement Large estab-
lishments selling direct to the retail
er are rapidly recovering from the
slump following the outbreak of the
war. Their gains in October more
than offset their losses in September
Several iron and steel establish.
ments have resumed operations, OF
increased their working hours, since
the election. The Pittsburgh Steel
Company has ordered the firing 81
four large open hearth furnaces, ant
after Monday 1000 men will get five
days work a week, instead of les:
than three. The barbed wire plan
OF thu same company has To run at
, urday nights and Sundays The Pitts
: burgh Products Company is running
: full time, and two mills of the Car
, negie Steel Company at Homestead
started up couple or days 40.
Don't tell everybody what terribl
/ time we are going to have this win
: ter. It's a bad thing to say, any way
! and it probably isn't true-Philadel
! phia Record
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
PICTURES THE UNIVERSAL LAM
GUAGE.
Bible Study Encouraged by Unique
Methods Story Of the World Told
Gratis-Wide Range Oh Subjects

MethOds-StOry Of the World Told
Gratis-Wide Range of Subjects
Filmed.
What is said to be one of the great
est achievements in the simpIification
or Bible study, since King James or
dered translation OF the Bible out OF
the original tongues into English, is
the "Photo-Drama Of Creation"
Ine Scriptures are printed in five
hundred different languages. Pictures
talk universal language. Motion
pictures are "A gift Of tongues" and
az the same time speak German,
Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, and
all of the other languages living or
long since dead
The spectacle Creation" starts
with the Genesis record OF the begin
ming or things; indicating by imagin-
airy pictures the various steps taken
In preparation Of the earth for human
hab1tation, mentioned as days" or
epochs in creation. Following this
are given graphic descriptions of the
principal events or Jewish and Chris
tian history.
To produce the film many races and
various religions co-operated. One
division Of the work is said to have
been photographed in the Holy Land,
where neither nature or man has con
s1derably changed since Abraham
there tended his fiocks
Pictures comprehending the whole
Bibl. story necessarily include vast
diversity of subjects and settings. Not
long since the Association had rep
resentatives in China, Japan, India
and Africa. They gathered much data
and secured many interesting pictures
for the Drama.
Sacred subjects have been treated
with becoming reverence, and there Ia
nothing in their presentation to or
fend the most sensitive.
The four divisions of Creation are
to be shown at the Opera House on
four different days, viz: November 20,
70, 26 and 20. The Bible picture will
be shown after the regular first per
formances on Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday, but on Sunday night moth
ing will be shown but the sacred pic
lures which on Sunday will be very
devotional. NO admission charges are
to be made while Creation II showing
at S.45 p. m, nor will a collection be
taken up. Creation is positively a
philanthropic or public benefit in
pictures; all are welcome.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

Next Thursday II Thanksgiving
Hear the turkey groan.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
TO CREDITORS.

This III To rive notice that the subscriber has ob-
tanned from the Orphans Court Oh Carroll County.
in Maryland, letters Of Administration the Per-
sonal Estate of
GRACE v. oRNDoRFF.
late Of Carroll County, deceased. All persons
having claims against the deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof legally authenticated, to the subscriber.
on or before the Goth day OF June. 1915. they
may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit
of said estate.
1914 -
NOV 04t Administrator.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
TO CREDITORS.

This II to give notice that the subscriber has
obtained from the Orphans Court OF Carroll Coun-
wv. Maryland letters Of Administration the
NANCY ". BARBER.
late of Carroll County, Maryland, deceased. under
the provisions of chapter l46 OF the Acts OF
the General Assembly Of Maryland Of 1912. All
resident III nonresident creditors OF the decedent
are hereby warned TO exhibit their CLAIMS against
said decedent with the vouchers thereof legally
authenticated to the subscriber and to file the same
in the Orphans Court of Carroll County, on or
before the 18th day June, 1915, they may other
wise by law be excluded from all benefits of said
estate.
Given under my hand this 18th day Of Novem-
WILLIAM IL BARBER,
Administrator Of Nancy w. Barber, deceased
nov 20-4t
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

The ferret-eyed little man stepped
across the street car aisle and ~nis-
pered into the ear Of the tall chap in
a gray suit: You'd better wipe that
bit of egg off your chin. The income
tax man is just two seats in front OF
you. "-Indianapolis Star.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

"Oh, Mrs. Uppington, ! was so sorry
to read about your trouble with the
cusoms inspectors at New York. The
papers said you had To give up nearly
81, 900 worth Of rare old lace that you
had sewed to your corset"
THAT was a miserable lie. The pa
pers are always misrepresenting
things. HAD III fastened 10 my chem
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

IT'S 5000 NILES TO THE NEAR
EST FIELD OF BATTLE-YOU WILL
NEED COAL THIS WINTER JUST
IHE SAME. We think we have got
better Coal for you than we have ever
had. Every car seems to run very
even i'm quality from Smith & Reff-
Snider.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20

Maybe cattle ought not have mouths
and hoofs.