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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-29
LYING BY The CLOCK.
The Family Timepice liz Deliber-
ately and Presistently
Uutruthful.
Bluestone, Va.

Many man who would not for any
money go into the kitchen at seven o'clock
in the morning and say to tliecook, "Do
you know IL Is hulf-past seven O'Clock?
Well, it is, and more; It's just thirty.Gye
minutes past seven, aid my .rain goes I'm
twenty five minutes !" will quietly and in
cold blood put the clock up to telling this
lie for him. Thi, isn't fair TO the clock
1t Is bad enough when man, or even n
woman, In sudden gust of anger. swear
Mt tramp, or pedlar, or irritating caller.
with slamming door or banging win
dow. That is done in quick frenzy of
temper, and has sometimes the excuse of
great provocation. But lying by the clock
Is always done with calm deliberation
and malice afOTethought, and is persever
ed In day b.. day. It's too mean on the
clock. Vocal as the big clock at Doctor
Bombcv'S. speaking to poor little Paul,
these mortyard clocks should sit heavy
on The conccnce of the teacher. saying in
all da. .ong, in staccato toues, "My,mas.
ter, maxi me, lie. My, mas, ter, makes
me, L. l;nht. j. Burdetta In the AUG.
LadiC, lone Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-29
Asks Through the French En-
basador at Washington that
Negotiations be Begun.
CABINET MUST BE CONSULTED

Before the call closel, breif official
memorandum was agreed upo in or
der to set at rest misleading conjectures
aud to give the public information on u
subject which had advanced beyond the
point where diplomatic reserve was es-
sential.
When the President will submit the
Spanish proposition to the cabinet has
not yet been announced
The call of the ambassador was two
hours after the cabinet meeting of today
had closed, and there will not be ano Ii =
er regula cabinet mest,ng until Friday.
1t is generally unlerstoo however,
that special cabinet meeting wi be
held, in order to make prompt reply to
the proposition.
Secretary Long arrived at the White
House shortly after the Freuch ambass:i-
dor had departed an had talk with
President during which the Span sh
proposition was gone over briefly. Mr..
Long said afterward that it was an ini
tial move, but in reply to inquiries as to
whether it was likely to bring n speedy
cessation of hostiities he expressed
some doubt, saying that no decision on
the points involved had been reached
thus far
CONJECTURE AS 40 TERMS.
Naturally the plea of Spain to open
negotiations opens up wide field of
conjecture on what the terms of peace
will be. Thus far there is no official
warrant for saying what terms Spain
will propose or what terms the United
States will offer or accept. So far as
this country is concerned, it is the gen
eral impression that the complete Span
ish evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico
will be insisted upon as sine qua non.
There is not the same certainty as to the
saline certainty rs to the Philippines,
Ladrones and Carroll les, although the
belief is growing that the terms of the
United States will include coaling Sta
tions in these groups
On the port of Spain it is believed
that Spain has not reached the realiza-
ion of her misfortune that she will
readily consent to the teims of the evac-
uation of Cuba and probably Porto Ri
CO. The Spanish desire is apparently
very strong for the retention OF the
Philippines, although there is little
doubt that coaling stations here and at
other points would be conceded. The
matter of war indemnity is for future
consideration, although there does not
appear to be disposition amorg the
officials Here to pile up heavy war in.
demnity against Spain in her present
helpless condition.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-29

D1aMfArr c U BAN OIL cures
A"a0s$a~ Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Rheu-
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-29

The President Informs M. Gam
bon That He will be invited to
the White House to learn the
Decision as Soon as it is Made
This is tho First Direct Official
Move Looking TO the Restora-
tion of Puace.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-29

Washington, July 26.-The Spanish
government has sued for peace, not in
directly through the great powers of
Europe. but by direct appeal to Pres
iden Mckinley. The proposition was
formally submitted to the President
at three clock this afternoon by the
French A AMBASSADOR, NJ. Jules Cambon,
who had seceived Instructions from the
foreign office at Paris to deliver to the
United States government the te"der of
peace formul tied BY the Spanish miuis
try.
At the conclusion of the conference
between the President and the French
ambassador, the following official state
ment wns issued from the White House:
THE Franch Ambassador, on behalf
of the government of Spain and by di-
rection of the Spanish Minister of For
eign Affairs. presented this afternoon
ut the White House message from the
Spanish overnment looking to the ter
mination of the war and the settlement
of terms of peace"
This was the only official statement
/. Snade public, but it suffice to put at
rast all conjecture and to make clear
and definite that at last Spain has taken
the initiative toward peace.
VERY GENERAL IN TERMS.
The position submitted by the
ambassador. acting for the Spanish
government, was quite general in terme
nd was conf ned to the one essential
point of an earnest plea that negotiations
be open ed for the purpose of terminat-
iag the war and arriving at terms of
peace. The communication of the
Spanish government did not suggest
any reference made to Cuba, the Phil
lippines, Porto Rico or other possession.
The evident purpose of the Madrid
authorities was to first learn whether
the United Stotes would treat on the
subject of peao Q, and after that to take
up such terms as the two parties might
suggest
Neither was there suggestion from
tice be established pending the peace
negotiations. 1t seemed natural, how
ever from the proposition that formal
peace regotiatio MS be entered upon, that
pending tn cir conclusion a cessation of
hostilities would occur.
Owing to the importance of the COM
nitnnication, the ambassador adopted
the usual diplomatic procedure of read
ing the communication from tho orig
inal, in Fiench, the translation bein"
submitted by M. Tbiebeaut. In the
conversation which followed the read
eing of the proposition, neither the Pres
ident nor the ambassador entered up.
on the question of the terms of peace
THE instr uctions of the ambassador had
confined him to the one essential point
Q9.peace negotia tions, and it was evi-
dent th,t the Presid ent desired to con-
slider the proposition at this moment
be-o g'v'ng any definite reply.
WILL CONSULT THE CABINET.
1t was finally d. termined that the
Presid mt woul consult the membe, s
o his cab net concerning the proposi-
ion, an after decisi IN ID been arriv-
ed a, NJ. Cambnn would then lie IL
vited to the White lforeo for a further
conference and Ior II ii.al answer from
t.is United States government.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-29
CYCLONE.
FEMALE NORMAL SCHOOL,
RMVILLE, VA.

Free tuition provided by the State for
200 young wemen. Liberal courses in Ian.
guages, Literature. History, Sciences and
Art. Professional Course and Trainii &
for Teachers.
Session le9ins sept. 2lst. Catalogue
sent on application.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

glib responses and SNUG piety and the
contented folding of fattened hands!
There is a war against women and chill
dren and defenceless men Il am not writ
ing of the insurgents. They are safe)
near enough to our coast to be reached in
four hours. This war in Cuba is being
carried on by nation that has been
raised to the very heavens by its privileges,
but that has cast itself to the beasts by its
blindness. That nation in the frenzy of its
expiring age, has dragged warfare back to
the reckless, heartless slaughterings of
the fifteenth century. 1t must be rebuked.
It's only dread is force. God will never
perform miracles, while we fail to
perform duties.
You sing of the "Sun of Righteousness"
arising with healing in His wings. Your
part is to see that the healing takes the
form of food for the hungry, drugs for
the diseased, clothing for the naked, and
warfare with the oppressor until the last
of his slaughter ships disappears on the
eastern horizon.
Till then your holy Easter is mockery.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
just What He Wanted.

One of The first men to reach San Fran
cisco with hoard of klondike gold was
an Irishman named Finnegan, who had
been very poor before he had struck it
rich, and who, consequently, was unfa
miliar with many ordinary usages of a
life of luxury.
sol say, yez kin bring me two dozen
eyesters," he said, airily, as he took a
seat in one of the finest restaurants in
Frisco.
The oysters were soon set before him,
and Finnegan, looking about him for
something to put on them, and hardly
knowing what the something should be,
spied bottle of Tabasco, and proceeded
to season the bivalves not wisely but too
we'll.
lmpaling an oyster upon his fork he
thrust it into his mouth, then leaped to
his feet with terrific roar of pain, and
began dancing about and yelling like a
mailman.
''See here," cried the proprietor, rush
ing to the table, keep still, or In put
you out!"
"P-p-put me out, is it? Oh wish yez
would put me out!" yelled Finnegan
Me insides is blazin loike match-fac-
tory !'-Harper'S Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
KITrEIsY TO CARIBOU.
One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense

One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.
Frederick Reed, OF Bangor, committed
suicide in Boston last week, by shooting.
Patents have been granted to Charles
W. Goodrich, of Gardiner, for sharpener
to lawn mower.
Margaret Mather, the actress, died at
Charleston, w. Va, Thursday, aged
thirty-six years.
Mrs. Sarah Brown Howard, the oldest
resident of Bangor, died Thursday. Mrs.
Howard lacked only four months of being
centenarian.
The annual Farmers ''tield day. at the
University Of Maine, Orono, comes this
year June l. Arrangements are being
made for reduced rates over all railroads.
Mark P. Emery, of Portland, died We'd
nesday, aged eighty-one years. He was
director in the First national bank,
director of the Maine Steamship Co., and
trustee of the Maine savings bank.
News has been received of fatal ava
lanche on the Dyea trail, in which from
IoV " lOo INlphhlhSiS are SdlI " nav Z
been lost. }. A. Raines, Maine man. was
caught by the avalanche, but was dug out
alive. So far as known he WAS the only
New England man in the unfortunate
party.
The large sde-wheel steamer "nenry
Morrison was destroyed by fire at Win
throp beach last week. The "Henry
Morrison" was built by the city of Bos-
ton but sold to parties in Maine and was
used for several seasons ON the kenne bee
river. A year or two ago she was rebuilt,
being considerably heightened, and was
bought by II. w. knights and Capt.
SWrt, who commanded her last season.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
OBSERVANCE OF EASTER.
Discrepancy in Computing the Date
Not Corrected Until 1852.

"The observance of Easter dates back to
about the year IS, at which time there was
mucheontentiOn among the eastern and
western churches as to W hat day the fes-
tival should be observed. 1t WAS finally
ordained at the Council of Nice in the
year 325 that it must be observed through
out the Christian world on the same day.
This decision settled that Easter should
be kept upon the Sunday first after the
fourteenth day of the first Jewish month,
but no general conclusion was arrived at
as to the cycle By W hieh the festival was
to be regulated, and some churches
adopted one rule and some another.
This diversity of usage was put an end
to, and the Roman rule making Easter
the first Sunday after the fourteenth dag
of the calendar moon was esta blished in
England in 500. After nine centuries a
discrepancy in the keeping of Easter was
caused by the authorities of the English
church declining TO adopt the reforma
ton of the Gregorian calendar in 1882
The difference was settled in 1852 by the
adoption of The rule which makes Easter
Day always the first Sunday after the full
moon which appears on or next after the
twenty-first day OF March. If the full
moon happens upon Sunday Easter is the
Sunday after. "-Ladies' Home Journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
THE MENDING HABIT.
Burdettc Points Out the Danger of Be
coming Confirmed Cobbler.


'Let man once fall into the habit of
pottering, of tinkering at his house, his
body, his character, and always there Is
danger that he will become confirmed
cobbler," writes Robert J. Burdette in
ladies' Home Journal.
"W here he should rip off a rotting roof
from ridge to cornice, he will stick in a
shingIe, "A piece of slate, a scrap of tin,
amid ever increasing leaks, dry rot and
general decay. He braces, and holsters,
and patches walls and fences until his
farm looks as though it had Il combine
ton of Saint Nitus' dance and delirium
tremens. He thinkers at his poor, perish
ing frame with cure-alls and lotions, pills
and plasters. He braces up his decaying
virtues with good resolutions, and poul-
tices his vices with good intentions. He
fences his follies with certain-or rather,
Observation-Disclosures And after all, he
is the same old man. Decayed and de-
caying, weak here and warped there; out
of plumb, disjointed and covered with
patches that do not renew him nor mend
him at all, but merely emphasize his de-
generation"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY "NFMO'.


Sweet Easter! Its music fingers in our
ears and our hearts have happiness, for it
bespeaks the triumph of the beautiful.
We know that the time now is when the
harsh outlines of the hills and the bare
trees will be softened with delicate fol
age, and the brown and darl;some tints
of the winter bound landscape be trans
formed into every possible tint of green.
Under the influence of this thought we
feel raised up, we stand in the high places
of Joy, we are full to OVERLOOKING of the
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

Steamer Golden Rod" of the Island Steam
boat Co., will go on her route between South
west Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor,
Bar Harbor and Somesville, June 6, 1898, max
ing her regular two trips day during the sea
son-AdUt.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

Jerry Shannon, proprietor of the Shan
non house, at Bath, died Wednesday.
Mr.. Shannon was seventy years of age.
He had been in the hotel business in Bath
thirty-fve years. He was one OF the best
known hotel men in the State.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

81 observe in the public prints" said
the scientific boarder, "that a whales
tongue sometimes yields ton of OIL"
''If the whale is as oily tongued as that, {"
said the Cheerful Idiot, ''no wonder
Jonah was taken in"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

Sweet Easter! How gently have its
associations, its flowers, its anthems, it's
words of confidence, made promise to our
hearts that though dark the winter of
life-existent whenever we are comprised
by perplexities-the darkness will GER
tainly sooner or later break into the
glorious morning of revived hope. AS we
have sat and listened we have thought
and believed, and through all our pains
and our ows-dreadfully petty and
self imposed, many of them-sweet peace
has come. For within our own hearts
happiness has its root, and il we will but
clear away the rubbish of trifiing griefs
and puerile complainings that now pre-
vent its growing, it will spring upward
into sight.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

But if our crazed and fevered memory
of a wife is that she was last seen being
outraged by brutal sodiery; of a child,
that its innocence was scorched out of it
by direst suffering; of an infant that,
before it should have known want want
was its shadow, and that its little body
bloated with dropsy while its limbs shrank
from starvation; of ourselves, that we
have walked in nakedness and shame be-
fore our fellows-they also staggering on
like us-to helpless DEATH then to be-
come full often the pickings for buzzards
and vultures and carrion crows--if all
this, what would Easter mean with its
promise of life of triumph to come? A
fierce and wild demand that in that life to
come should be chance to revenge your
self in some way upon the bloody minded,
butchering men who had made the earth
life for you and yours a bowling waste.
Can you imagine yourself under such
pressure of unearned and undeserved sor-
low, calmly contemplating a gentle Gid
rng onward through eternity? Nay, if
naught else could be done you would
raise your ghostly hand to strike, just for
the satisfaction of making even "a motion
of protest.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

Sweet Easter? 1t sounds forth with
thousand tongues that death once more
is vanquished, that life triumphs We
hear again of the resistess rolling back of
the gates of the neither world, of the
sweeping aside of the mighty, oppressive
stone of mans safeguarding, and we are
led to believe by every analogy that life
here is mere preliminary one to
grander. Thus as we have listened our
fond hearts have thought of those whom
we have loved and lost and under the
gentle influence of this gentle season we
have contemplated with silent joy their
lives, happily occupied somewhere in
Gods universe where death hath no
sting and grave no victory. And in the
strength of this confidence we have cleansed
our hearts of evil, as If their precious
eyes We're searching the recesses where
lurk uncomely images of things that
would shock their tenderly nurtured
natures.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

The evidence in the case proves Hoods Sarsa-
parilla cures rno@-'etism. dyspepsia, catarrh,
that tired feeling, scrofula, salt rheum, boils,
humors and all blood diseases.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

If the tissues about the roots of the hair
become unhealthy, the hair will soon turn gray,
or fall on. Correct this trouble with Halls
Hair Renewer.-Adpt
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
exhilaration that comes to the soul
through eyes that see and understand.

But empty our larders and rob us of
clothes, drive us together like beasts and
shelter us worse, slash our trembling
limbs with machetes-where then would
be this bland sense of physical content
ment? Surround us with all the glories
eur and shine undimmed, let it sink in
the west and, in sinking, paint unspeak-
able wonders across one half the heavens
how would this feast of the eye satisfy
you when hunger was driving out all
other feelings? Easter and its rebirth of
beauty would be mere wresched mock
cry of misery.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

Itching piles? Never mind if physicians have
failed to cure you Try Doan's Ointment. No
failure there. so cents, at any drug store
Adut.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

Hoods Pills are prompt, efficient. always re-
liable, easy to take, easy to operate. 25e.-Adut.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

But let each day bring more of haze
into our minds, let each lurking shadow
alright us with the fear that it means
more cruelty from an enemy who will
torture before he kills, let each hour with
itsi benum bling hunger stupefy still more
our intellects-where then would there be
room for the confidence that Joy cometh
in the morning.; where indeed? There
would be only one hope of JOY left, and
that the wrenching apart of soul and body
to leave behind a master that rejoces in
cruelty and that finds it cheaper to
bury than to feed Hope after detection?
Neither hope nor detection, for we should
have reached while living that surcease of
suffering when the heart refuses to
culver and the mind to record.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

U,,I. AuuprC 600 a year; $3.50
II r. 4Ah rhiChN II paid In advance
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
Ooh Dust I1lashin9 })omurr.

Let US be done with self. deceivings and
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13


he would did thankfully
that
Another Sterling, La Held
l in
although old and
done it, thank the medicine world
F. W. Linden, Rock had
had extended to his indeed
while
o
If all would
caarh Though will
the longer and
tedious
We would s all Immediately
their and begin taking Penna If B.
of charge
though England old and tried medicine
all the Western and Southern States other
remedy.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
CATARRH IS DURABLE,
Do Not Be discouraged by what You Hear to the
Contrary. Catanh Yields to Proper Treatment.
Pe-ru-na, for Catarrh, Wherever Located,
InSureS Cure.

UFFERERS from catarrh, on
account of the insidious man
ner that the disease manifcsts
itself, are often led to believe
they are incurable. There is
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13
ELLSWORTH MARKETS.
WEDNESDAY, April 10, 1898.

WEDNESDAY, April 13, 1888.
rAIsE LAW REGARDING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
bushel of Liverpool salt shall weigh so
pounds, and bashel of Turks Island salt shall
weigh 20 pounds.
The standard weight of a bushei of potatoes
in good order and fit for shipping, is so pounds
The standard weight of bushel of beans in
good order and fit for shipping, is so pounds
OF wheat, beets, ruta- baga turn!ps and peas, so
pounds; of corn, IS pounds; of onions, 50
pounds; of carrots, English turnips, rye and
Indian meal, so pounds; of barley and buck
wheat, As pounds; of oats, 32 pounds, or
measure as by agreement.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-04-13

COuntry PrOduCe.
Beans.
Improved Yellow Eye, per bush..........2.5O
Pea, hand picked, per Observation-Disclosures. 2.25
Peas:
Improved, per bu (seed). ...................2.5O
Butter.
Creamery per 10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. rs
Dairy ..........................2 20 a -
Cheese.
Best factory tnew) per ID. Il a Is
Dcst udlfy NHeW).. 10
Dutch 0mported) -. Observation-Disclosures
Eggs.
Fresh laid, per doZ ...=......... ............I II
Hay.
Best loose, per ton. Observation-Disclosures. 9dl0
Daieu .....'..... IL a "a
Straw.
LOUISE .--......... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ! as
Baed. 10 n
Middletown transcript., 1898-04-30
THE LITTLE FARM.

Six acres of land is not much OF q
farm, bu; il can support family in
comfort, II intelligently managed. A
Santa Cruz lCal. paper, gives case
and it is not an unusual one-on man
doing well on plot Of ground as small
az that.
when E. N. Stocking came to Cal
ifornia, he was in search Of health and
living, but discouragement stared
him aud his family i'll The face. To
find employment seemed impossible, SO
he bought on The Branc fote Greek six
acres Of land. lie put tie land out in
vegetables, berries, and tree fruit,
and chicken yard. With The combi-
nation Of thrift, industry, aud economy,
those barren six aci es Of few years ago
now fairly bud, blossom, and ripen.
Last year three hundred and sixty
Eve dollars were harvested from a
patch Of straw berries of one-quarter
of an acre and two rods. Just think
OF it. ye men who let the pennies slip
away, and who cry hard timesl In the
winter, he confines himself to raising
chickens. Every inch Of gronnd ID uti-
lized, and happy con- ented family 10
the result.n