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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
West Franklin.

West Franklin.
Springer x Smith have moved the camp
built last winter by Hastings & Bonsey,
which they will occupy as soon as snow
comes.
John p. Gordon has bought the stump
age of the wood on the island in George s
pond OF Mrs. Leonard Jelison, and in
tends to put it into his mill the coming
winter.
Late Thursday afternoon deer came
into the orchard of Colburn Cousins.
After firing ten shots, Mr.. Cousins sue
ceeded in bagging the game only few
hours previous to close time.
Game Warden Corliss was in town last
week, and collected fine OF man for
capturing deer on Sunday. The deer
was driven into the bay by dogs. At the
time Mr.. Corliss was in town, the baying
OF hounds in the back woods could be
heard. II the game wardens would spend
little more time in the woods, and less
around the stations, it would seem that
they desired to protect the game, but now
it seems that their greatest desire is to
collect fines.
Jan. /. CHEER.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
Gen. Grants Two Tunes,

A drum corps in passing caught sight
Of the general, and at once struck up a
then popular negro camp-meeting air,
writes Gen. Horace Porter, in January
Century. Every one began to laugh and
Rawlins cried, "Good for the drummers -
"What's the fun?" inquired the gem
eral. "Why," was the reply, "they are
playing, 'Ain't l glad to get out OBJ de
wilderness!'
The general smiled at the ready wit of
the musicians, and said "Well, with me
musical Joke always requires explana-
ton. l know only two tunes; one is
Yankee Doodle and the other lsu't."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
FIX THE ROADS NOW.
The Time to Repair Highway Is When
1t Needs 1t.

It Needs Tt.
Most every one has heard of the man
who gave it out that he always took a
bath every year whether be needed it or
not. A great many roads are worked"
on the same principle, says The l.. A.
W. Bulletin. Once ayear they are given
what is known as fixing up" and
the rest of the time they must shift for
themselves. AS consequence they
"shift" from one side to the other, just
as the lay Of the land and the lack OF
proper drainage may demand.
And, be it remembered, there is some
times piece OF road that nature has
kindly cared for, which really does not
require fixing. Often this is plowed up,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
Want Better Roads.

Many of the teamsters and farmers
throughout the region are talking Of
forming an organization to adopt 1eso-
buttons and also collect subscriptions.
which are to be used in compelling tina
various supervisors to furnish bet1er
roads. 1t is stated that many of the
roads are in miserable condition.
Shenandoah pa. J Herald.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
Good Roads Beat Him.

A canvass since the recent election in
Waterbury, Conn. shows that George
Tracy, the Republican candidate for
first selecuman and the only Republican
defeated. with one exception. WAS beat
en- by carefully organized effort of the
bicycle organizations of the city. Mr..
Tracy opposed spending large sums on
town roads.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07

"Ah, said the elderly lady, ait is sad to
see, but the young men of the present
day seem to he lacking totally in rever-
ence." "You don't kno our young men,
mamma" said the younger lady. "You
should start one of them to talking about
himself"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07

"My little brother has been taking Hoods
Sarsaparlla and it has entirely cured him of
scrofulous humor. This medicine has proved
very satisfactory whenever we have used it,"
ETHEL HoDGKINs, North Lamoine, Me.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07

Whatever you would have your chill
dren become, strive to exhibit it in your
own lives and conversations
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07

Hoods Pills cure all liver Ills.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
ELLSWORTH MARK TS.
WEDNESDAY. January 6. 1897

WEDNESDAY. January 6, 1897.
"AINE REGARDING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
a bushel of Liverpool salt shall weigh 60
pounds, and bushel of Turks Island salt shall
weigh 20 pounds
The standard weight of a bushel Of potatoes,
in good order and tit for shipping, is 80 pounds.
The sta pdard weight of "A bushel of beans in
good order and fit for shipping, is 81 pounds.
OF wheat, beets, ruta-baga turnips and peas, 10
pounds; of corn, 56 pounds; of onions, ~
pounds; of carrots, English turnips, rye and
Indian meal, so pounds; of barley and buck
wheat, Is pounds; of oats, 32 pounds, or even
measure as by agreement
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-07
Country Produce.

Beans.
improved Yellow Eye, per bush... 80
Pea hand picked, per bu... 200
Peas:
Improved, per bu (seed).. .............."..25 O
Butter.
Creamery per OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ....25
Dairy ..........................1 Is q 20
Cheese.
Best factory (new) per b. ...............l2d 10
Best dairy (new).. .............-.......... ID
Dutch dmported)..... ....................1.l0
Eggs.
Fresh laid, per doZ ............... %
Hay.
Best loose, per ACKNOWLEDGEMENT q Is
Baled.... .....'..... .............. ......l6 9lS
straw.
Loose ............. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1dS
pal, %
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
THE Way OFTmE TRANSGRESSOR.
Written for the League at Goodwin Chapel
by MIS-. n. NJ. Page.

Written for the League at Goodwin Chapel
bv MIS-. n. NJ. Page.
1t is paved with sharp stones which
pierce our feet and leave us bleeding
by the way, and only can we be
healed by forsaking sin and taking
"His yoke upon us, which is easy,
and learn of Him, for He is meek
and lowly in spirit Come unto
me-" He saith, "and l will give
you rest"
We have many striking examples
IN our blessed Bible which prove to
us that 1.-The way of the transgressor
is hard" Just at the beginning OF
the world, in the beautiful garden of
Eden, were Adam and Eve, sur
rounded by all that was divine,
glorious and sweet. Life was one
glittering sunbeam to them, free
from all sin; pure and white as snow
were they-but, 10! the evil one,
who is always lurking near, came
and tempted them and they partook
of that beautiful tree of knowledge,
and for the transgressing OF this law
God turned them out OF his garden
and placed upon them great curse,
for which we mortals suffer so great
ly now.
Again, Cain slew his brother
Abel; he transgressed Gods law,
and he made his way hard for him,
and the Lord said unto him, And
now art thou cursed from the earth,
which hath opened her mouth, to re-
ceive thy brothers blood from thy
hand. When thou tiIlest the ground
it shall not hencefOrth yield unto
thee her strength;a fugitive and q
vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth"
Again, we have Saul of Tarsus-
also called Pdul-whO, was max
| ing great havoc of the church
and was breathing out threatenings
and slaughter against the diciples of
the Lord; and as he journeyed to
Damascus, suddenly II light from
! heaven shone round about him and
he fell to the earth and heard Il voice
saying, saul, Saul, why persecut-
est thou me?" And when he arose
from the earth, he saw no man, for
he was stricken with blindness and
for three days he was without sight.
God afflicted him for his sinful why's.
And not only have we true illus
trations in the Bible Of the rough
and rugged way of the transgressOr,
but they come before us in every
day life. Every week we read of
! his lot through our newspapers-we
! learn of il in our own hearts, and,
oh, the memory of having trans
! uraSSpd Gods cOnnna ntlOaIItS tor
ments us almost out our reason at
times, and We fully realize that las
we SOW, so shall we reap" And,
oh, the reaping of wicked sowing is
bitter as death, but our Father in
Heaven, how thankful we are that
thou art u lnerciful God, and will
come to "A poor, broken and cOntrite
spirit with healing in thy wings,
and feel so safely sheltered under
thy wing, Oh, God of my salvation!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
SHOOTING STARS.

A Few of the Wanderers Were Seen
Saturday and Sunday Nights.
A star shooting exhibition was
scheduled by astronomers for last
Saturday and Sunday nights, but
evidently, the gun went off halt
cooked, as only few of the "heav-
emily wanderers" were seen to shoot,
There is scarcely a night when the
watchful observer of the heavens
may not see a meteor or two; but
there are special seasons and years
when these wanderers from outer
space stray into the earth's atmos'
phere in much greater abundance
The most magnificent displays of
this class now. on record were those
of November, l833-when the "stars
fell" and superstitious people
thought the world had come to an
end-and November, 1856. A recur-
renee of the phenomenon, in its full.
est glory, is not looked for by
astronomers until 1899, when the
period of 80 years shall have lapsed
again. But the advance guard was
visible in 1881 and 1882 and again in
1864 and 1865, and the display this
year and the one looked for in 1898
are only the advance guard of the
big display in 1899.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
GarwOOd's Sarsaparilla-fOr the blood
guaranteed tocure. A. B. RAINS
Mere Sparks.

Littleness of soul is bred by exclu-
sive attention to tritling affairs, and
it is a thing to be most diligently
avoided.
II it be true that God needs no
mans learning, it is equally true
that he needs no mans ignoran
1t is not so much what a man
knows as it is what he is learning
that gives vitality to his mind.
tt is living faith In a living Ss-
viour that delivers us from the guilt
and dominion Of sin.
The piece Of work thoroughly we'll
done is better than half a hundred
Unfinished jobs.
1t is so easy for narrow people to
identify their peculiar whims with
the absolute truth.-Christian Ad-
vocate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
AN EDITOR MURDERED.
His Notice of Religious Lecture NJ
Sufficiently Flattering.

His Notice of Religious Lecture Not
Sufficiently Flattering.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. l5.-W. H.
Harrison, editor of the Ashland
Register, published at Ashland,
county seat of Benton county, Miss,
was stabbed to death by Mr.. 1. l..
Mcdonald yesterday.
The murder followed upon a
notice of an approaching religious
lecture published in the Register.
Mcdonald thought the notice too
brief, and going to the newspaper
office said that if the lecturer had
been a Methodist instead of Bap-
tist Harrison would have given him
more extended and flattering no.
tice. Harrison made some reply,
and Mcdonald, backed by his
brother, boy of Is, attacked the
editor with a knife, killing him.
Threats were made of lynching, and
the two McDonalds were taken to
Holly Springs for safety.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
A THANKSGIVING PHILOSOPHER.

What's de use OBJ all de kickin' an de
croak
Bout de turkey dat am wanted by de
moke?
Bout de price a-raisin' high,
Twell hit almOs' touch de sky,
Twell de turks beyond de reach oh
Guild folk?
CANT yo' hear dat turkey gobbler COB
blin'? Hark!
He am DIES neatly isin' to remark
Dat de turkey in de fall
Am widin de reach oh all
If yo' only does vo' reachin' in de dark
Earle H. Eaton, in N. Y. World.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Hutton IL Cakes to DR.. j. &. William
son, lot in Columbia, $500
+. II. Cheek and wife to Danuel Will
Jams, interest in land in 9th dist.-$j0O
A McKissick to w. NJ. Davis, lot in
Spring Hill, 5000.
J.J. l. Goodwin ct al, to Il. p. Roberts,
l53 acres in 10Th district, $63i6S3.
j. J. L. Goodwin ct al, to r.. p. Rob
erts, lot in Goth district, 1858.
J.J. L. Goodwin ct al, to j. w. C..
Church, IS 65 100 acres in 10Th district,
1913
G. w. Warren, Sr., to G. w. Warren,
Jr., Is acres in 18th district, 800
A. s. Lovall TO j. d. FriersOn, lot in
9th district $50.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
A gobbler proud.
With gobble loud,
Was to his yardmates saving:

81 am the peer
OF a chanticleer-
You can bank upon my word.
That screeching thing
Is no longer king,
For I'm the only bird"
With conscious pride
And stately stride
His goblets strobe along,
With well poised head
And measured tread,
Gobbling Turkish song.
Said the bantam cock
To the Plymouth Rock:
sect on to his goblets' hobble!
Excuse my mirth,
But you'd think the earth
Were his to hear him gobble."
Said the Leghorn bold,
AS he scratched the mold,
"Well, I admire his gall,
But o'erloOk his ways,
For the old saw says,
pride gOeth before fall
"There's Master Max
With glittering AK.
He must be going to work.
Well, dash my spurs!
Great chestnut burs!
He's guillotined the turk!
"What did he say?
Thanksgiving day
Win be dead enough in min ute
To say the least
A glorious feast,
And he'll be strictly in it."
MORAL.
Don't get too loud.
Don't be too proud.
Repress undue elation.
Don't think by birth
You're heir to earth
And guard against initiation.
Don't grow verbose
.,, Der neigh boris woes,
When you have what he lacks.
Misfortune's snare
May catch you where
The gobbler got the ak. D.
Cincinnati Tribune.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
A THANKSGIVING DINNER.

1t amt around the table ez supports
the biggest bird
Thet the smiles shine out the freest an
the gentlest words are heard;
An the plainest kind o. service makes
the merriment no less;
It's the people, not the turkey, ez per-
vides the thankfulness.
Washington Star.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
SHORT NEARLY 81, 700, 900.
Ex-Treasurer BARLEY, of Nebraska, Wa
a Good One.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. l2-The eX-
pert who has been engaged for sew
eral months in examining the books
and accounts of ex-State Treasurer
BARLEY, to-dayssnbmitted -hisrepprt
to the legislative Investigating com
mittee, showing Bartley's shortage
to be $S70,000. The amount of the
defalcation has been variously esti-
mated at from 100000 to $l,0O0,000
BARLEY is now in the Douglass
County Jail under twenty-yeaI
sentence and an appeal has been
taken to the Supreme Court and
argument on motion for a new trial
will soon be made.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

"YELLow JACK" has about run hiG
course. The last daily official bulle-
tin issued by the Board of Health
at New Orleans last Saturday shows
that there were only two deaths in
that city from yellow fever that day /;
total number of cases, 1,790; total
deaths, 259. GUARANTEES have been
raised at nearly all places.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
ReinYenntiOn.

There's one consolation, any
way" sighed the old hen turkey as
the farmer raised the fatal AK. "to-
morrow l shall be young again!"
The eternal feminine, apparently,
was still doing business at the old
stand.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

THREE banks, located respective
ly in Leavenworth, Marengo, and
English, Ind, with deposits esti-
mated to aggregate 100000, closed
their doors last Saturday. Is this
some of the prosperity" Mr.. McKin-
ley wants us to return thanks for on
next Thursday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

THE seventh regular meeting of
the Middle Tennessee Medical
Association is in session at Muir
freesboro.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

DURING the absence of the Gov
ernOr and Secretary of State of
Idaho, Miss Margaret Reeve filled
the executive chair for two weeks,
placing herself on record as the only
woman IN the country's history who
ever acted in that capacity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

"BUTCH" BRADLEY, who escaped
from the old penitentiary at Nash
vile on the night Of May 10 last, has
been recaptured at Fort Madison
Ia
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

JOHN r. SOVEREIGN has been re-
lieved of his position as General
Master Workman of the knights of
Labor. Henry A. Hicks, of New
York, succeeds him.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
NEWS AND COMMENT.
Columbia's Election.

The official returns of Columbia's
municipal election will be found on
the fourth page of the HERALD.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

Miss NELLIE ELY, Colonel on the
staff of Gov. Taylor, and Hon. T.
Leigh Thompson, member of the
Legislature from Marshall county
were united in marriage last Thurs
day.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

Hon. JOHN f. MONTAGUE, of Giles
county, has announced himself as
a candidate for Congress from this
the Seventh Congressional District.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

j. NJ. Thirswend, of Groesbeck, Tex,
says that when he has a spell OF indi-
gestion, he takes two of DeWitt's Little
Early Risers at mig hit, and he is all right
the next morning. Many thousands of
others do the same thing. Do you?
A. b, Rains ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

THE loss suffered by business men
in the yellow fever section is esti-
mated at $28,OOO,0O0.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

There is no need of little children be-
ing tortured by scaldhead, eczema and
skin eruptions. DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve gives instant relief and cures
permanently. A. b. Rains. ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

ROBERT l.. LINCOLN has succeeded
the late Geo. Pullman as President
of the Pullman Palace Car Company.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

MERGENTHALER the inventor to
the type-setting machine bearing his
name, is dying of consumption in
New Mexico.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

THEODORE DURRANT, the con-
denned San Francisco murderer,
who was to have been hanged last
Friday, was given a respite.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

H. CLAY EVANS will soon move
his place of residence to Philadel-
phia, Pa, where he belongs.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

Gov. TAYLOR has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

The will of Charles A. Dana has
been offered for probate in Jamaica,
L. l., and shows that ho left property
valued at between $l,OOO,OOO and
$l,350,000, This, with the exception
of his stock in the Sun corporation
which is given to his son Paul dur
ing his natural lifetime and held in
trust for the widows benefit, is be-
queathed absolutely to his widow.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

EIGHTEEN hundred cloakmakers
in New York have struck.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

r. F. Anthony, eX postmaster, of
Promise City, Iowa, says: ~ bought one
bottle of Mystic Cure for rheumatism
and two doses of it did me more good
than any medicine / ever took" Sold
by A B. Rains, druggist, Columbia SIN
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
A THANKSGIVING IA BILE.

Thanksgiving morn
Had just been born,
While through the barnyard stray
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19

CITIZENS of Memphis are endeav-
oring to secure a called meeting of
the Legislature in order to amend
their charter so as to get proper
sanitation of the suburbs as a pre-
caution against future visits of fever
and other diseases traceable to non
sanitary conditions in thickly set
tied and unsewered communities. 1t
is also said that il the extra session
is called Senator will have to be
elected to succeed Senator Turley,
who was appointed by Gov. Taylor
to succeed Senator Harris.
H. Il. MATHIS married his niece,
Miss l.. E. Mathis, at Dresden, one
day last week, the magistrate vino
performed the ceremony being igno-
rant of the relationship of the par
ties. The father of the girl was
greatly shocked when the marriage
became known and advised his
brother-who, by the marriage, was
also his sOn-in-law-to leave the
county at once, and the marriage
would be passed over as the girl is
non compos mentis. The penalty
for such a crime is not less than five
nor more than twenty years in the
penitentiaFy.
The age-herald., 1897-10-09
Wax Figures for Show Windows.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 How long does it take to make one of thessi?" said the manufacturer, in response to an inquiry. Well, it de- pends entirely upon circumstances. It is not a mechanical operation, the finish ing off of a wax model as true to life as this" and he pointed to the bust of a laughing child whose rosy nsck and bright eyes were framed by clustering curls. ITO make these ons must have studied anatomy, as well as drawing and modelling. We begin in the same way as a sculptor would to make statue. After the wax has cooled the .eyes are put in, the face is made up,' as theatri- cal folks say, and the wig is fastened on, and the woodsn body is shaped. We make all our hands and feet from life. and they cost about s10. If We have an order for an entire figure we always model it from life. The life-size wax figures of infants are among the fins st things we manufacture, and they add much to the attractiveness of a show window, as was illustrated last winter when a Washington street retail dealer displayed one during the holiday sea- son. The head and shoulders, such as are. seen in the milliners' windows, cost from $40 to $45. The wig makes consid- erable difference in the price, as ws use the best hair, and 1t is expensive, es- pecially the natural blond, which is scarce. The childrsn's heads cost $20, or thereabout.
 All the finishing off imaginable" he continued, would not make figure stand the test of a season behind the glare of a glass unless ths wax has a natural pink tinge. The reason some of the models look so athly is because the wax is bad and not properly colored We use be:swax, slightly coloied and flesh tintS are put IOn in addition :,