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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
Again the Australian Ballot.
WEST FRANkLIN, Oct. %

WEST FRANKLIN, Oct. %, 1898.
To the Editor of The american:
The fad among newspapers at present
seems to be the discussion OF the AUS
tralian ballot law. / think the present
system an improvement over the old way.
How well we remember how some man
no employed number of men ouid
stand at or near the door on election day
and pass the votes as his men APP
peared. When he had got "mess" he
would lead his voters Indian file to the
ballot box TO vote his convictions; then
return to his old post for an other batch.
do not think the present arrangement
as secret AS it should be, and the fault
should be remedied. The arguments
against the law because some lawyer,
Judge, or some other person made a mis-
take are preposterous. Any man OF or
binary intelligence W no cannot vote as the
present Law requires deserves to be disfran-
chised. II were a lawyer or judge or
any one else, and could not mark my bal
lot properly, would resign my position
and dig clans or join temperance So
ciety. CHARLES Z. BUTLER.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
FOOTBALL.


Ellsworth does not take to water as
readily as Bar Harbor, so last Saturdays
game was postponed.
This afternoon the Ellsworth high
school and the Dirigos will line up at
Wymsn park. This will be the Dirigos'
first game. Though the Dirigos are
heavier than the school team, the latter
has the advantage OF experience. A close
game is expected A big crowd will be
out to see it.
The Ellsworth high school will play
Cherryfield academy at Cherrytield next
Saturday. A return game will be played
in Ellsworth probably on Saturday, Nov.
Il. Nov. 5, the high school boys expect
to line up against Oldtown in Ellsworth.
Manager Campbell is trying to arrange
two games with Bangor high.
The Dirigos will play the University of
Maine second eleven at Ellsworth next
Saturday. Another game will be played
with the same team at Ellsworth, Nov. II.
On Thanksgiving Day the Dirigos expect
to play Bar Harbor high school at Bar
Hsrbor. 1t is probable that two games
will be arranged with the Orioie running
team, OF Bar Hsrbor, which will put an
eleven on the gridiron.
The Kennebec Journal, reporting the
Bowdoin- Colby game says: "Bellatty did
some fine work, carrying the ball up
twenty-hv yards on the second kickoff
and max ing short gains without excep.
tion whenever he WAS sent with the ball. !"
And again in the report OF the Bowdoin-
Tufts game: ION the first kickoff by
Tufts in the second half, BelIatty secured
the ball and made beautiful run Of forty
yards before he could be stopped" Ellis
worth enjoys such reading as this.
The Bar Hsrbor correspondent OF the
Bangor Commercial says OF the Bar
Har Dor Rockland game played there Sat
urday: at was one of the most remark
able foot ball games ever played in NJ aine.
1t WAS played in the midst of terrific
downpour of rain and bowling wind
blizzard, on u grIdiron on which boats
could easily be hoated, where tbs play
ers at times bad several narrow escapes
from drowning and " here the spectators,
about $50 in number, stood in rubber
boots and mack int o. hes. Bar Har Dor
won by the score OF Is too.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
Secretary Alger has issued an order

Secretary Alger has issued an order
which will give impetus to American
shipping. 1t took effect Oct IS,
simultaneously with the hosting of
the American flag at San Juan and
the complete and permanent occupa-
ton of Porto Rico. Hereafter yes
sells trading between the United
States and Porto Rico, and vessels in
the coasting trade of the island, are
exempted from tonnage taxes. This
trade is confined by regulation to
American vessels. The effect of the
order should be TO increase threefold
the employment of American tonnage
IN the Porto Rican trade, as in 1897,
the year before the war, American
tonnage from Porto Rico was only
10000 tons, compared with $4,000
tons foreign.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
ONE ON THE SENATOR.

Senator Hale Forgot the Law, and
Paid Fancy Price for Partridges.
Senator Hale this week paid s. apiece
for eight cartridges. This is regarded
hereabouts as rather high, but under the
circumstances, the senator is not COM
planning. 1t happened in this way:
The game laws Of Maine being pretty
stringent, two wardens are stationed at
Bangor to inspect the game shipped to
and through Bangor. In looking over
the express matter on the train from Ellis
worth, theA other night, the wardens
found a box containing eight cartridges.
They examined the box more closely and
found card bearing this address: ITO
Mrs. Zach Chandler, Washington, d. c.,
from Eugene Hale, Ellsworth, Me-
The box OF game was seized and war
rant was sworn out against Senator Hale,
charging him with violating the game
laws relating to the Illegal transportation
of game. A civil suit WAS brought
against him. 1t was found that the sena-
tor was not at home, but in Boston, so
the warrant was sent there.
Mr.. Hale promptly authorized Bangor
attorney to settle the case for him, and
promptly sent his check for $40, or in
other words, he paid IS a bird. He wrote
to the game wardens that he did not
blame them for doing their duty, but
that he WAS ignorant of the law concern
ing such cases. The joke is on the sena-
tor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
TEN PAGES.
Maine Congressman and the War.

t. u Journals Washington
cores goaa, 81. has been diagnosing
the attitude ef Names senators and
represe natives on questions growing
out cf +''o z-'"~ with Spain, and sum-
marizes the situation as follows:
There is considerable talk in political circles
here about the position of leading public men
on foreign affairs issues and on the doctrines of
the Philippines. 1t is known that Speaker Reed
Is aS " lingo of very decided opinion.
He was opposed TO the annexation OF Hawaii,
and he isNow believed to be opposed to the an
nexatoH oI fur,o Rico and of the Philippines.
He would wash the hands of Uncle Samuel
clean of all - cheap competing labor and
tropical territories. which in his opinion but
the consequential damages of war which never
ought nave waged and into which only
the explosion OF a battleship hurried the
country, under the inspiration of the yellow
covered newspapers. lie Is said to believe that
the whole doctrine of protection of American
labor, ana OF Its high standard OF life, is i'm
perilled by the introduction of the free
petition OF the coolie and colored labor OF the
Antilles and of the Philippines. lie is very de
cidedly of the opinion that from to the
champions OF expansion are on the wrong track.
On the contrary. senator Frye is well known
to be of the very opposite persuasion-feeling
that in the growth of domestic population we
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Bangor is alive 10 new business
possibilities from the opening of the
Washington county railroad. First
the board of trade proposed an excur-
sion over the new road, which, of
course, would not be one of pleasure
only. Now it is proposed to reverse
the situation, and prepare reception
in Bangor for Washington county
merchants and citizens, arranging for
a very low excursion rate on the rail-
roads. And Ellsworth will watch the
trains go by!
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
Something About Lenses.


Very few amateurs have time or oppor-
tunity to make a thorough study Of OPP
tics, but il one wishes to use his camera
to get the best results he should under
stand mething about the lens and its
action.
Light, the agent by which we see, con-
sists, like sound, of motion. Sound is
produced or conveyed to the ear by wave
like motions of the air, and light is con-
veyed to the eye by wayelike motions OF a
certain ether which fills all space.
Sources of light, such as the sun, send
off continuous waves, and these waves,
striking against the surface of an object,
bound back. and striking the eye, convey
to il impressions of the object, and we
have the sensation OF sight. The fire.
quency of these iigh waves is something
almost, il not quite, beyond the compre-
hension. The waves which affect the eye
and produce sight move a. the rate of
from 400 millions TO go millions per
minute.
Some surfaces reflect most OF the light
that reaches them; OF hers absorb most OF
the light. The waves of light meet
ing the surface OF an object are broken
up by the rough PARTICLES of the sur
face, and each particle of the surface
becomes a centre from which these re-
fiected rays spread out in all directions.
The eye, receiving these waves from
every point of an object, condenses them
to corresponding points, and rearranges
them on the retina in the form of the
object from which they were reflected
and we say we see the bject.-Harper' S
Round Table.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
OsgOOd-Treworgy.

Two well-known residents of Surry
were united in marriage at the Baptist
parsonage in Ellsworth, on Monday.
They were E. N. Osgood and Mrs. Julia
A. Treworgy.
Mr.. Osgood has been in business in
Surry for number of years, but has sold
out and removed to Portland. The newly
welded couple left on the noon train
TUESDAY Tor their new home.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
NOTICE OF FoRECLosURE.

WHEREAS Isaac G. and Hannah NJ. Gott
w of the town of Hancock, in the county
mortgage deed dated June /, 1897 and record
ed in the Hancock county Registry Of Deeds,
vol. a13, page 400, convey to me, the under
signed. certain parcel OF land situated in the
known as the Avon +. Foss place, with build
ings thereon, a description Of which is fully
given and recorded as above mentioned. And
been broken, / do this day foreclose the same
and take immediate possession of the same
shall pay all legal demands and collect all
rents for the ensuing year.
MERRILL ID. CHArTo.
Dated Surry. Oct. %. 1898.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
W ar faxes.

They've put stamp upon our checks.
As well as on our beer,
They've taxed the note that often wrecks,
And things that bring good cheer.
They've taxed the mortgage on the roof,
They've taxed insurance, too.
Until some folks have but reproof
For schemes for revenue.
I've but a word of good advice
For those who MAKE the tax
Why not impose some of the Ice
ON more deserving backs,
Why make the man who pays debt
Add something to his score,
When there are several millions yet
'Twefe well not to ignore:
Tax nuisances, not virtues. There
Is sure no lack of these
The man who talks while cutting hair.
The man demanding fees
For doing what he ought to do,
And others of his Xix,
Pray why ignore the pirate crew
And put much on silk?
The yellow journalist should be
Compelled to pay two cents
On every one-cent extra he
Brings out with lines immense.
Tax al the fibs this fellow tells;
think you'll surely lnd
That you've at last removed the spells
That weak finances bind.
Tax all the saffron clergymen.
forgetful of their place,
For every word they utter when
They would incite the race.
Tax people like our loved Van Wyck,
And Plat, and Croker too,
For every scheming little strike
Their politics put through.
Tax deals and schemes. tax everything
Which makes our folk appear
To be bound fast within a ring
You'll find there's plenty here.
Tax everywhere corruption, and
think you'll shortly see
The people In Il chorus grand
Acclaim you splendidly.
John kendrick Bangs. in Harper's Week
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is AT least one dreaded dis ease
that science has been able to in all its stages
and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure il the
only positive cure now known to the medic4l
fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional dis
ease, requires IA constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure il taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the sys
TEN, thereby destroying the foundation OF the
disease and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting ma
ture in doing its WORK. The proprietors have
so much faith In its curative powers, that they
Offer one Hundred Dollars for any case that ii
fails TO cure. send for list of testimonials.
Address, +. J. CHENEY x CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
Nominated by the Governor.

Among nominations recently made by
cock county:
Agent to prevent cruelty, L. Sherman
Cleaves, Bar Harbor.
Coroner, Merrill P. Hinskley, Bluehi!l.
Notary public, Henry d. Ball, South
Hancock.
Justices of the peace and quorum
sStvpIvu omailIage, Northeast Harbor !;
III. l. Elwell, North Sedgwick.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
W. ii. DRESSER.
lf9al Notices.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

WHEREAS Nellie b. Keliam, of Hancock.
w in the county of Hancock. and State OF
Maine, by her mortgage deed dated December
2, a. d. 1891, and recorded in the Registry of
Deeds for said Hancock county, in book 26O,
page 50. conveyed to me, the undo rsigned, all
real estate. and all right. title and interest in
and to any and all real estate situated in Han
cock county and State of Maine, including
certain lot or parcel of land situated in Han
cock and bounded and described as follows,
to wit: Beginning at the southeast corner of
a lot of land owned by Thomas kief and run
ming south seven rods to a stake; thence west
thirteen rods to a stake; thence south SIX
rods to a stake; thence east thirteen rods to a
stake; thence south nine rods to a stake;
thence west twenty rods to stake; thence
south eight rods to a stake; thence west sew
enty rods to a stake; thence north thirty rods
to a stake; thence east to the first mentioned
bound containing fifteen acres more or less.
The above described premises being the same
premises conveyed to the said Nellie b. Kel-
lam by William H. X. Kellam, October 8, 1886,
and recorded in Hancock county Registry,
book 207, page 547; and whereas the conditions
OF said mortgage deed have been broken and
remain unperformed, now, therefore, by rea-
son of the breach Of the conditions thereof,
claim foreclosure Of said mortgage and give
this notice for that purpose.
WILLIAM W. JELLIsoN.
Hancock. Maine, Oct. 20, 1898.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
Wrecked on Duck Island.

The schooner 1.-TWO Brothers, bound
from Weymouth, n. s., for Portland with
lumber, went ashore on Duck Island Sun
day morning. She is a total loss. The
schooner was of IS tons.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Our Southwest Harbor correspondent
calls attention to the fact that out of the
forty-two Saturdays so far this year,
twenty-nine have been stormy in part or
whole
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

A spirit OF true neighborliness exists at
South Deer Isle. One day last week while
the women were making quilt for sick
neighbor, the men mounted the roof of
another neighbours house, ripped off the
old shingles and nailed on the new in a
iiffy
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

There have been no developments in the
Bucksport murder mystery which make
the ultimate capture of the murderer seem
any more probable. There is growing
belief that the mystery will remain I'M
solved, and the murder of Sarah Ware will
go unavenged.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
advertisements.
TRIB0U'S
LIST of PRICES
FOR THIS MONTH.
FOR THIS MONTH.

Our store is only few steps from Main
street and it will pay you to call and look
at our goods and prices whet her you want
to buy or not.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
SufeiaI Nntires.

>@~-~S~~CNNN~N-0OoO ~N~~~N-No-oN
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the firm of
IN King 4 Hutchings has been dissolved
by mutual consent, The business will be
continued at the same place by w. F. Hutch
ings, who assumes all bills OF the late firm,
and to whom all outstanding bills are to be
paid Accounts due should be settled at
once. w. +. HUTCHlNGs.
Lamoine Me-, Oct. 7, 1893.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Hancock county feels personal loss in
the death Of Prof. A. F. Chase, late presi-
dent of Bucksport seminary. The Lewis
ton Journal truly says: "He could leave
no greater monument than the testimony
of hundreds of young men and women
who, under the inspiration of his teach
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
Hancock Good Templars.

The next session of Hancock district |
lodge, l. o. of G. T.. will be with Oak |
lodge, Trenton, Thursday, Nov. 10, at
TO- 80 a. m.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
4Lost.

O-~~>0-01~-O~0-~-o-~ ~--~-0-~-~-~~-o-~-~-N-
EOLLARETTE-Blac fur, between c. II.
y Drummey's house and Washington juno
tion. viii finder return to j. p. Eldridge's
store and receive suitable reward?
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

More than $1,000 has gone into the
county's strong box in the past week, as a
direct result of the Maine prohibition
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

The limbs'o the naples are bare. And
the oak trees blush.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Tumblers worth 40c. doz., our price so rs
berry Dishes, worth SOC. doz.. our price a5
Jelly Tumblers worth 6oc. doz our price 30
Water Bottles, worth 25c. EACH our price Is
Fruit Jars, worth Sc. each, our price
Glass Pitchers worth &c. each, our price Il
GOT. MIX Pans, worth loo. each, our price
sgt. Mix Pans, worth l?c each, our price l..
Oet. Miik Pans. worth l5c each, our price
Dover Egg Beaters, worth PC each
GU. price 10
Cups and saueers, worth Soc. per set,
our price 55
Cups and saucers, plain white. worth
65c. per set, our price ~
at. Decorative Pitchers. worth 75c. each.
our price 40
qt. Decorative Pitchers. worth are eact
our price 20
8, 4. 5, and 6 in Decorated Nsppies.
worth 10 to 2nc., our price to \
3, 4. and In. Decorative Plates,
worth Il to 25c., our price to IL
Good Plated Teaspoons, worth sc. pr
Good Silver Plated Teaspoons, worth
75c, per set. price %
Good Silver Plated Knives and FORKS,
o.th 80 50 per set. our price 10
10 piece Toilet Set, worth s3 % per se.,
our price 45
piece Toilet Set, worth - so per set,
our price l SO
Copper Bottom Wash Boilers, worth
AIS our price l 10
Copper Lotion Wash Boilers win Cop.
per Rim. our price 20
Tea Strainers,
Pint Tin Dippers.
Clothes Pins, per doz.,
Pins, per paper,
Al! our rugs at reduced prices to close.
800 rugs, S1.75; IT'S rugs, $50; $50 rugs,
s1.25.
Also q small line OF CUSTOM MADE
SHOES which we are selling at Ia price
to wind them up.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26
COUNTY GOSSIP.

Work on Mt. Desert toll bridge began
Monday
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Capt. Eben L. Higgins is the oldest per-
son in the town of Eden, being in his
ninety first year. Although he lies in bed
most of the time, his mental faculties are
good. He reads great deal, is interested
in W hat is going on in the world politically
and religiously, and is well informed on
what is being done for the benefit Of man
kind. He was a sea captain for many
years, and sailed many voyages to foreign
countries. Notwithstanding his age he
can tell many good stories of what he has
seen in countries that he has visited
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Adrertising is ike learning to sipim.
Hare confidence, strike out and lou tritt
surelu min
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

Northeast Harbor is to have kinder
garten school.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-10-26

SPECIAL NOTICE TO WATER TAKERS.
TINE ofice of the Ellsworth Water Co. at
i No. Franklin st. will be open every
Saturday afternoon and evening (as well as
other week days. until further notice. All
business will be promptly attended to at the
Office. l.. II. CUsHMAN, Supt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22

Missouri Pacific Adds an Early Morn
ing Train East and West.

Kansas City, Feb. 22.-Another early
morning flyer has been put out of
Kansas City The new train is over
the Central Branch of the Missouri Pa
cific, over which road the mail and pas
senger service has been poor in the
past. Formerly there was only one
mail train a day west, which left at
1910 p. m.
The new train leaves Kansas City
at 7:45 in the morning and goes $50
miles west. Another train leaves Stock
ton at $50 in the morning and reaches
Kansas City at 7:45.
The schedule of the new train is as
follows:
The train leaving Kansas City at 7:45
will reach Atchison at $50 and connect
there with the train over the Central
Branch, which will leave at $40 The
train leaving Atchison at $40 a. m. will
reach bingham at 1928, Whiting, :O2;
WetmOre, 11:28; COTS, 11:46; Centralia,
12:1S; Vermillion, 12:37; Frankfort,
1858; Bigelow, 1:16; Blue Rapids, 1:40;
Clifton, 1928 p. m; Clyde, 3:43; Wash
ington, 3;45; COncordia, 4:15; James
town, 4:4O; Beloit, 5:23; Cawker, 6;05;
Osborne, $50; Stockton, $40. The train
returning. leaves Stockton at 6:25 a.
M, reaching Atchison at 4:50 p. m. and
Kansas City at 7:45 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
TOMBSTONE's FOUNDER.
Steps to Be Taken to Prevent the
Monuments Disturbance by
the Government.

Tombstone, Ariz, Feb. 22.-On a bare
granite hillside, near the edge of the
camp, rises a rough bowlder-built mon
ument that marks the last resting
place of Ed Scheffelin, the man who
discovered the mineral treasures of the
ground wherein lie his bones. He it
was who named the camp, and in like
his thoughts were ever with it, His last
request was that his body might be re-
turned to Arizona and be inferred where
his tombstone could be seen from the
streets of the city he had founded.
The land where interment was made
is yet government property. There has
been fear that it might at some time be
embraced in the limits of an agricul
tural or mining claim, hence measures
have been set on foot to make the
ground secure forever to the use to
which it has been devoted. The origi-
nator of the idea is George H. Fits, of
Tombstone, discoVerer of the great
Pearce mine. At his suggestion Dele
gate Mark Smith. of Arizona, will in
trOduce in congress next week a bill
seeking the establishment of a reserva-
ton of a single acre, the acre whereof
Ed Scheiffelin'S monument marks the
center