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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

ness rests over the scene like a benedic-
ton of peace.
Come within. In cosy corner, near a
south window in the kitchen, sits the
aged grandfather in his comfortable arm
chair, reading in the Boston paper the
"latest news from the war;. The sweet
faced grandmother, sparkle of quiet hui
NOR still Frightening her eyes, her face
almost untouched by the lines of passing
years, goes softly in and out, performing
some OF the lighter household tasks. Busy
with some sewing, is a girl just budding
into womanhood-an orphaned grand
child who has never missed a mother s
care.
The central figure of this group is a
mother. Her features are faultless, the
flush of youth still fingers on her cheek !;
her dark hair lies in little waves about her
forehead; there is a patient, far-away
look in her brown eyes. She is the care
taker, the protector of this little home.
The husband and father is ''at the 'front.'.
In one end of cradle rests babe eight
months old; in the other a white haired
boy of two and half years sits turk
his hands grasping the other, as with
sturdy muscles he rocks the cradle to and
fro, to and fro. A fair and delicate girl
OF four years, in her own small rocking
chair, keeps the measure of his motion.
The two children are singing the baby to
sleep. Listen! There is childish lisp on
some OF the syllables but the words are
perfectly Ineligible and the melody of
the song correct:
Farewell, mother. you may never
You may never, mother.
Press me to your heart again.
But, oh! you'll not forget me, mother,
You will not forget me
If I'm numbered with the slain"
The father returned, though battle
SCARED, to his home; but to-day, OF that
household group but one-the wee babe
survives. She sings her own sweet child
to sleep with songs of peace. M.
Bluehill, May 30, 1898.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
A SAD SEA PICTURE.
Graphic Description of an Ocean
Spectre-The Derelict.

Cold and gray the morn awakens on
the eastern edge of the Grand Banks; the
chilly fog bank lifts for the nonce, and
arching itself like gruesome pail over
the grayish waters, there, like a spectre,
unveiled, heaving and groaning, swaying
and steering, evidencing total absence
of the watchful eye and the helmsman,
lies a ship.
A ship. That thing of beauty which
had sailed from port with colors fly
ing, with white sails filled to the breeze,
with brave and joyous hearts whose voices
rose with the gale, and whose minds in
the mazes of duty were ever fixed on the
welcome awaiting them when Christmas
should herald the homeward- bound.
But the lifting of the raw December
fog discloses dreary scene; the wind has
lost it's minstrelsy and has lowered to
dirge. The sea birds hover around and
around as though they viewed the once
staunch craft as something foreign to
their element-or is it that they reyel in
the storm kings anger, in that they
alone are able to survive his wrath upon
all occasions, to shrek at his utter IN
ability to drive them from his domain,
and to mock the efforts of the toiling few
who have failed?
The derelict tells her own story; her
boats are smashed, her rudder is gone
and the relics of spare spars and hawsers
about her quarters give evidence OF a
herculean effort to guide her path through
the relentless pillows. Nothing stands
but her mizzen-lowermast with the
cro' jack yard a-cockbill, while above
is seen her ensign, the remnant of which
is lashed to the GRO jack brace, which
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

Nature is evidently the battlefield of
life; there is terrible fighting, but no suf-
ticiently able observer to report it.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHTS.
n Vivid Memory Picture of the Civil
War.
Written for THE AMERICAN

\ low, red farm house costly nestles
near the base of lone mountain. The
morning shadows rest long upon it, but
the westering sun sends its latest beams to
brighten it with a lingering good night.
In front of it, across the road, stretches a
level grass field; at the back rises the
grand old mountain like tower of de-
fence and protection, it's surface partially
covered with scraggy spruces, the open
spaces showing the gray OF its granite
layers, with now and then a large bowlder
mysteriously stranded nearly thousand
feet above the level OF the sea.
By the end door Of the house balm Of
gilead stands sentinel; at the opposite end
little grove of hackmatacks proves a
barrier to the north wind; in front To-
Gust tree puts forth its graceful, swaying
branches and a mountain ash moves its
banners OF crimson over the weather.
beaten roof.
Across the yard at the right is the Or
chard, and under large apple tree stands
a covered bench filled with bee hives. A
flower garden near by is redolent with
southern wood, carnation pinks and other
kindred plants. The sheep feeding far up
the slope look like flecks of white upon
the hillside. The tinkle of a COW bell floats
family down on the still air. The faith
full, old, red horse droops her head over
the pasture bars and seems to be dream
ing of other days. The spirit of calm
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
tneoieaI.
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has come to be necessity of life in
very many families for the common
ills liable to occur in every household.
Every Mother should at once pur-
chase good supply of it, and avoid
the advance which the heavy stamp
tax is liable to make imperative.
~~~oIo--.o-I~oo~-ooN
Sold by your Druggist, from whom you
ought to purchase dozen now. If you can't
get it near home we will send you by express,
charges prepaid, ONE DOZEN BOTTLES
for THREE DOLLARS, cash with the order.
is. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
ELLSWORTH, Me-, March 7. 1898.
OF THE


After a careful canvass of the different
towns and cities in every county of the State,
| have come to the conclusion that there new
err was a better time than the present to en-
gage in the carriage business, that is, for one
who has a thorough knowledge of the bust
ness and who is willing to take off his coat
and put his whole energy into the work.
Sixteen years ago YOU could not sell a good
vehicle for what 1t cost to produce it. That
was because some were deluded by the cheap
western limitations of our work which could
be bought for a much less sum, but which we're
worth practically nothing. To be sure they
looked very spick and span at first, but one
season, if they held together as long as that,
proved to the owner the foolhardiness of tne
policy of purchasing the cheapest without re-
gard to the saving TO be made in the long run
by buying OF local dealer and getting your
moneys worth. The INSCRIPTIONS dealer
reaped harvest off these carriages. some be
bought as cheap as SIS and palmed them of
ON some uusus pecting customer for 500 OF
more.
However, everyone who purchased one of
those carriages is to-day walking advertise
meut for good work and doesn't lose a chance
to recommend YOU to buy a good wagon, pro-
vided YOU can secure one at a reasonable price,
| am personally acquainted with people all
over Maine-from my home in Ellsworth to
John Mallmons hotel in Lubec, to Smiths
hotel in Caribou, to the Whitney house in
Presque Isle. to Patten by way of OK Beau, to
Moosehead Lake and across the country to
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

gether in sheltered spot, they draw lots
No pen may picture what was to fol-
low, but ere the cleaning steel has
claimed its victim, a generous wave
sweeps the ship amain and that last of all
terrible resources has been averted.
Day after day, day after day, helpless
wreck, she drifts hither and thither, far
from the track of vessels, tempest-tossed
and forlorn, until chance vessel, passing
within hailing distance, stands by.
But the shouts of the eager brothers to
the rescue are lost; no response comes
back over the hooking waters, no sound
save the scream of the sea- gull.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

land this creation ofthe fifteenth century,
in the agony of its own approaching dis
solution, was seeking to drag down to
similar distress and destruction thousands
of harmless ones. What could we do?
| Speak against it? We did, and failed to
stop it. Then what? Argue with a man
deaf to mercy, and make signs to man
blind with bloody hatred? No! we smote
and shall smite, be the cost what it may,
until this remnant of the dark ages
| learns that the policy of pirates does not
pay at the end of the nineteenth century.
So far from its being true that we are
hot to kill, / dare to affirm that there is
in this country's great heart a feeling of
real sympathy for the rank and file of the
Spanish army and navy. 1t Is against the
Spanish official system that we war, and
we sorrow over the poor, conscripted boys
who are made mere implements of muir
der in the hands of their superior officers.
These poor fellows are utterly unlike
our boys-who realize that they are "the
people,, that "the people" are the country,
anu tiat W iSii buS Souutiy 10 az wal tuS
people, are at war. But our ill-clad op-
ponents, having no quarrel with Cuba
and no reason to hate US, are forced into
combat ill-fed, and heartlessly.
What did the victory at Manila indi-
cate, or the prompt dismantlement Of San
Juan, or Cardenas, or Matanzas? That
Spain was so unprogressive and SO alto
gether unfit for rule that it became
simply murderer of its own people, by
placing them in dangerous positions and
yet leaving them absolutely unprepared
for successful combat. Badly differed,
and absolutely bereft of the feeling that
makes the American soldier conscious of
his oneness with his officer, they have
been led out like sheep to the slaughter.
They have been sacrificed by official neg
lect and official greed; for it is well I'M
derstood that the money set aside by the
Spanish government for food, for equip
ment, and for target practice has gone to
line official pockets. If the brutality of
Spain toward the reconcentrados was
not sufficient to have filled up the vial of
its doom, the criminal neglect of the
most ordinary training for its own de-
tenders is enough to bring it to an end
as one of the powers of the earth.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

By all that is merciful in humanity; by
all that there is of dumb agony in the
hearts of Spanish peasant mothers who
will mourn for sons torn from them and
then robbed of every chance of life; by
United States, for a harsh deed that has,
like the surgeons wound, mercy in it; by
all the horrors in Cuba that we would
bring to an end-let us hope for short,
sharp, decisive work.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
PRESENT-DAY THOUGHTS.
BY "NEMO'.
copyrighted by Dave IS Tabor. |

There is a tendency among some think
ers 10 regard the present war as terrible
reversion to barbarism. They think of it
as turning back upon civilization. /
will agree with them il they are speaking
of Spain, but will not agree with them
if they are speaking of the United States
The arguments they advance are famil-
lar enough and well understandable
war arouses the worst passions Of men;
that civilization gains more during the
quiet times of peace than in the bustling
hours of war; that advancing thought OF
the world favors bloodless arbitration
We should be unprogressive indeed if
we did not agree in a general way with
all these statements, for they are all true;
but they are not always true. They are
untrue in relation to ourselves. This we
can dare to say though fully aware that
here and there in our forces are men of
violent feeling who rejoice in killing; but
these no more color the general character
Of our hosts than one blot OF ink colors
the great, rolling, health-giving sea.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

First then; why are we fighting?
Because the best impulses of a nations
heart have been stirred. Even in the ex-
element of actual warfare those same
good impulses impel us. Like David's
men of old we take our swords in our
hands and we reckon our lives as little,
II we may but be able to place a cup of
cold water at parched lips. 1t is a heroic
war; as we have nothing to gain except
the doing Of good, and everything to lose
II the fortunes of war should turn
against us. We did not seek the fight.
Peace is attractive to our great CONNER
cial nation. But because we have feelings
and because we ourselves have suffered
from oppression, we from the highest
motives stoop down from our lofty estate
to throttle the logged blood -thrstiness of
a dying nation.
Right under the shadow of our noble
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
Mrs. Rorer's Strawberry Shortcake.

To make strawberry shortcake, prepare
a dough precisely the same as for the
fingers. Roll this into sheet an inch
thick, cut it into an oblong shape, brush
it with milk, and bake in a quick oven
for fifteen minutes. Have the strawber-
ries mashed and sugared. When the
cake is done, pull it gently into halves;
butter each half a little; put the lower
half on a serving dish and cover it thickly
with strawberries. Put the remaining
straw berries over the top. Serve at once
with cream and powdered sugar.-Mrs. S.
T. Rorer, in Ladies' Home Journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01

Mothers lose their dread for that terrible
second summer" when they have DR.. Fowler's
Extract of Wild Strawberry In the house. Ma
lures specific for bowel complaints of every
snrt-Adla
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
ELLSWORTH MARKETS.

WEDNESDAY, June /, 1898.
MAINE LAW REGARDING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
bushel of Liverpool salt shall weigh 60
pounds, and a bushel of Turks Island salt shall
weigh 70 pounds.
The standard weight of bushei of potatoes,
in good order and DIT for shipping, is 60 pounds.
The standard weight of a bushel of beans in
good order and fit for shipping, is 50 pounds
OF wheat, beets. ruta- baga turnips and peas, gu
pounds; of corn, Sc pounds; of onions, so
pounds; of carrots. English turnips, rye and
Indian meal, so pounds; of barley and buck.
wheat, IS pounds; of oats, 80 pounds, or even
measure as by agreement.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-01
Success or Failure.

In the success or failure Of life much al
lowance must be made for training and
circumstances. The inheritance at birth
of favorable temperament, physical con-
sttution and mental organization, is in
the beginning, most important circum-
stance toward the accomplishment of
grand purposes in life. To be born Of
bad parentage, to inherit weakness and
bad appetites, to have bad training in in
fancy-these are circumstances that will
very probably strongly tend to consign
the individual to the lower walks of life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
TRADING STAMPS

A war more or less active and earnest
has been begun in various places against
the trading stamp. which has met with
particularly strong opposition in Connect
lieut. and Massa chusetts, and in some of
the towns dealers have been notified Off
cially not to give out any more of the
stamps, it being asserted that according
TO the opinion of Justice Shepard of the
United States court of appeals at Wash
ington, merchants giving out the stamps
were liable under the lottery act. a
Washington correspondent, under date Of
January 2, 1885, writes:
After considerable discussion and var
ious preliminary proceeding on the part
OF the Washington Trading Stamp COM
pany and Gustave Lansburgh, looking to
a contest of the opinion of the curt Of
appeals rendered on the 9TH of last month,
the attorney for both parties has now
announced that his clients have decided
TO abide by that decision.
There is not the slightest doubt but
what tho decision of the court of appeals
was a deep disappointment to the trad
ing stamp company, and that it has geen
detrimental to their business throughout
the country. However, when the court
o fappeals assemblies next Tuesday the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
NOW, TAKE HOLD
And Pull STEADY all Along the Line
We Wichitans.

ne " lcHltdHs.
Wichita will make the greatest stride
forward the coming season that has been
made in years, or otherwise the brightest
assurance must fall fiat. All that is neces-
sary is to hold fast and line up in a
steady pull in order not only to reinstate
values, regain lost ground, but to render
every interest solid again with a new
start forward and upward. If Wichita
but holds steady to her purposes and
does not lose faith in the evidences of
things hoped for, it will take a COM
bination Of war; famine and crop failures
to hold her down and back. Everything
that could be expected is coming our way,
and il will only be necessary to put forth
the proper eXertion to take them in, by
the exercise of a little faith and a modi-
cum of enterprise. The foundation for
a new business house is being scooped out
on Main, north of the Occidental and the
Sheetz block is nearly completed. The
two new wholesale establishments, men
toned in these columns, will soon be
climbing skyward. The live stock market
and yards and packing interests have
been increasing of late in the most salts
of the Whitaker plant would mean
regular boom in that direction. The re-
building of the street railway lines
throughout viii give employment to a
large force and let loose a lot of money
additional, and its new equipment prove
an attractive incident TO the street life.
AS for the Garfield university scheme,
that must not be permitted TO fall down.
The demand made should be promptly met
in good faith. That institution in the
hands of the Friends means not only a
great school filed with a class Of schol-
ars who will have plenty of money. and
who viii represent all of the western
states, but means that the west side will
be rejuvinated and made to blossom and
bloom as the rose. There is no more solid
or wealthy religious organization in the
world according to their numbers. They
are a staunch people, reliable and desir-
able in every way. The man who pro-
poses to found and endow Garfield means
Just what he says. and will do just as
he proposed If the original offer made
him IS made good. This should not be
permitted TO fail for that institution in
the hands of the Friends would prove
far more desirable than as a state institu-
ton which would have to be looked after
by an expensive lobby at every meeting
of the legislature. The new street railway
lire will run by the Masonic Home and
right up to the front OF the university.
From this west-side center by the
Home" by the Masonic Temple. through
the heart Of the city, by the cemetery
to Fairmount college. on the hill east Of
the city. viii be a direct line for single
fare. To save the endowment 10 this uni
versity, with the Fairmount college, the
Lewis academy and All Hallows, Wichita
becomes the educational no less than the
Masonic center Of the state. and no
thanks to the dominant political and cor
porate power Of the state. IN short never
were the prospects for Wichita brighter
than now. Il her people but prove equal TO
the opportunities offering.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
MAY LOSE c. A. RS
Committee Having Trouble to
Raise Funds
FOR STATE ENCAMPMENT
Council of Administration Will
Consider Removal.

It looks now as if the C. A. R. encamp-
ment will not meet in Wichita The COM
mittee appointed to raise the funds has
not met with the success that was war
rant5d by promises when the members went
to Chanute last spring. Some of the men
liberal contributions have refused to do
nate anything at ALL and others are giving
only small part of what they promised.
1t will take from $3.50 to 1000 to pay the
expenses of the encampment, the rent Of
halls, etc, and the committee, after two
days work has secured only $3.50. In that
time they saw the men who were expected
to help pay the greater part of the eX-
penses.
The encampment was advertised for
April 81, and the attendance would prob
ably have reached four thousand visitors.
The 800 G. A. R. posts of the state all send
from one to ten representatives, and the
encampment will be made the occasion Of
the grand lodge meetings of the w. R. c..
the Ladies' Aid and Sons of Veterans or
ders. The attendance would be more
likely to exceed four thousand than TO
fall short of that. A one fare rate has
been secured on all railroads.
All the extra rooms at the hotels have
been engaged already. People who expect
ed to come have been writing ahead to be
sure of accommodation and as a result the
hotel rooms have been taken.
Two of the members of the committee
have suggested that the matter of select
ing another place for the encampment be
referred to the encampment state council
of administration. The proposition was
discussed and a vote decided to make an
this week. The money has to be raised.
The posts cannot bear the expense. They
are not financially benefited a single cent
1t will be hard work for them and their
reward will be only the social features.
The encampment will bring crowd here,
an immense crowd. The houses of the city
that are to be benefited must pay the eX-
pense or the meeting will have to be
movd. If the meeting is taken away after
it has been called to meet here and so ad-
vertised it will give the city a black eye
for years to come Wichita has professed
an ambition to be known as the conven-
ton city of Kansas. 1t has made a good
start, but to let the encampment slip
away will put the city below where it
started. The people who come here spend
their money here. The one fare rate on
the roads VIII catch hundreds from south
and west who will wait until that date
to come here for their spring shopping.
1t will take money and the men who are
benefited must pay it or the encampment
will be taken to some other city. The
committee for raising the funds are as
named below, and the members will make
another round the first of the week. The
result of the next effort viii! be final.
The following are members of the COM
mittee on finance:
J. NJ. Balderston, J. P. Allen, II. D.
Heiserman, Ben II. Downing, John NJ
Allen, NJ. S. Rochelle, Henry Schad, John
L. Jacobs, II. T. Kramer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
SUITS ALL SETTLED
State National Bank Compro-
misses Claims.
TRUST FUND CASES
Are Disposed of by Order of
Court.

The State National bank yesterday COM
promised all the suits against it for pre-
ferred claims An order was issued from
the district court authorizing the settle
ment upon recommendation of the comp
troller of the currency.
The largest one of these cases probably
was brought by Attorney Dave Smyth for
the Wichita Masonic Lodge No. 80 for
$50 of the lodge funds. L. D. Skinner,
the president of the bank was also treas
urer Of the lodge and had in his possession
that amount of lodge money belonging to
the treasury. Skinner put the money in
the bank and it was commingled with the
general deposits. Mr.. Smyth set up for
the lodge the claim that the lodge money
was a trust fund. That it should not
have been treated as part of the general
deposits, and therefore should be consid
cred trust fund by the receiver and paid
in preference.
The terms of the compromise allow the
lodge 90 cents on the dollar, which is very
much in excess of the general dividends
declared that will amount in all probably
to 81 per cent.
Another of the cases is an instance of
where Mr.. Skinner had gone on bond for
a gentleman who had deposited with him
notes and papers as collateral The notes
were collected and instead of being put
by in a separate envelope in the safe, as
the notes had been, it was turned in with
the general deposits, as the lodge money
had ben. The plaintiffs set up the right
of preference on the ground that their
money was trust fund. All these cases
which finally closes up the business of
the bank, were compromised yesterday,
the amount being something near two
thousand dollars