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veloped and penetrates deeply into the
soil, and the plant is vigorous grower.
The seed is larger than that Of red
clover, oval in shape, bright reddish
yellow when fresh, paler in the white
f1owered variety, and has highly pol
ished surface. The plants stool freely,
many stems arising from single root.
Crimson clover will not stand severe
freezing, although it is one of the SO
called "winter ANIMALS" and under fa-
vorable conditions makes much Of its
growth during the cool, moist weather
Of fall, winter and early spring. Its
strong growing roots enable it to Sc
cure nOurishment in many soils so poor
and thin that red clover would fail en-
tirely. While requiring warm eli
mate, 1t win not endure severe drought.
It thrives best on rich, rather sandy
loan, but when the conditions of mois-
ture and temperature are favorable it
gives good results on light, sandy soils
as well as on clays, If they are not too
stiff and cold.
Crimson clover has come into promi-
nence in this country within compara-
lively recent years. It can hardly be
regarded as a successful crop outside
Of the region from New Jersey west to
the Allegheny mountains and south to
eastern Tennessee and Texas. Good
crops are often obtained in other Sec
tions, but cannot be depended upon
year after year. In the middle and
south ATLANTIC states this clover is one
Of the best crops that can be grown for
forage and soil renovation. 1t has Civ
en- good results in many portions of the
gulf states, but many failures are also
reported. In the colder sections of the
country this clover is sometimes sue
cessfully grown as summer crop, but
it usually winter kills badly when
sown In the autumn. At the expert
ment stations in Rhode Island, New
York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, South
Dakota, Nebraska and other states in
the north and west the general results
Of tests show that it is too tender for
the climate and Is less valuable than
red clover. From results recently OBJ
tanned at the Alabama experiment sta
ton 1t seems very likely that in many
cases, especially in the south, failures
with the crop are to be attributed to
the absence from the soil of the tuber-
Gle forming organisms which are neces-
sary for the proper appropriation of
nitrogen by the plant. These organ
isms being supplied to the soil, excel
lent crops were obtained where with
out them the result was a failure.
These facts are a contribution by Ag-
rostologist S. w. Williams in circular
No. II to the investigation Of grass
and forage plants which the depart
ment of agriculture is pursuing.
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q lJNJ!usT n! 10 LEE FARMER.
Cost of Roads should Not Fan ON
Him Alone.

Cost of Roads Should Not FAN ON
Him Alone.
With all the advance Of thought in
the direction Of better highways, there
are still many who believe that their
cost must necessarily fall upon the ag-
riculturist, says Otto Dorner, chairman
of the L. A. w. highway improvement
committee. Just as the farmer was the
pioneer settler In most Of the states,
SO he has been the pioneer road build
er. At his town meetings he has de-
termined where new roads should be
laid out, which of them should be
worked and improved and how much
of tax should be expended upon each
improvement. AS it was left to him to
plan this important work, so its ex-
pense has rested almost entirely upon
his shoulders. Now that the cry for
macadamized highways is to be heard
in the city and country alike farmers
believe, as rule, that they are to be
called upon to build them.
This is wrong. Farmers have enough
in the way Of taxes to pay without un-
dertaking the building Of elaborate
gravel and stone roads. 1t is unfair
that such burden should be added to
their already heavy load. Whatever
may be undertaken in the way of con-
structing permanent highways should
be done at the expense of those who
are to reap its benefits. True it is that
the saving In the cost of hauling
crops would be considerable and that
this saving would result almost entire
ly to the farmer. But that is no rea-
SON for asking him to pay the cost of
building such roads. He is not the
only one to use them. They serve to
bring city people and city products into
the country as much as they serve to
bring country people and country prod
ucts into the city. The merchant who
has business with the farmer is as
much benefited through good road to
travel over as is the farmer who comes
to town on business of any kind. Nei-
ther Is the use Of roads limited to those
living in the vicinity, and travellers
from distance share the benefits re-
sulting from their improvement 1t
would be the height of injustice, there
fore, to ask the farmer alone to stand
the cost of good roads.
The proper division of the cost of |
good roads has been accomplished |
through state aid.
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MAKE TRAY Ell a DURDhN-
facturers and for agricultural products.
Agricultural America has built them
up and maintains them. The union
between the cities and farming dis
tricts is close, upon hundred different
channels of trade. Each depends upon
the other. What is more proper, there
fore, than that the city should unite
with the country in constructing and
maintaining suitable and efficient
means Of communicating and trans
portation?
'But how can tax be levied upon
city property for expenditure in coun-
try districts for road building purposes?
A city tax is out of the question, as
much so as it would be to levy a town
tax upon farm property for building
sewers In distant city. True, coun-
ty tax might be levied, large share Of
which would be paid by the cities situ-
ated in the county, and which might
be used for the building Of roads In
any locality within the county. But
this is not sufficient, especially in the
case of large cities like Chicago, New
York, Cincinnati, ST. Louis, Mime
apolis and Baltimore. Their interests
extend far beyond the counties in
which they are situated. Indeed, the
cities themselves constitute the greater
part, or nearly all, of the taxpaying
property included In these counties.
They may properly contribute to the
cost Of building roads in all the terri
tory from which they draw their
trade"
'The best method vet devised for
levying taxes upon city property for
the purpose Of building country roads
is by the medium Of a state tax. This
is levied upon city and country prop
erty alike, upon all classes Of people,
so that every locality, every taxpayer,
contributes proportionately, according
to the amount Of property owned, the
wealthy property owners contributing
the largest amounts"
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GOOD ROADS TAX.
state Ala system !. the Most Eaul


State Aid System Is the Most EQul-
table and Feasible.
1T is absolutely impossible for the
farmers alone to provide a system of
good roads. The cost is altogether too
great, and unless substantial help is
furnished them, upon some reasonable
basis. progress in road building viii
continue to be slow and unsatfsfac-
tory" says Otto Dorner, chairman Of
the, L. A. w. highway improvement
committee.
''The help which the farmers require
in building roads should come from
the cities. The cities are the great cen
ters of wealth; they are the great mar
kets in which business is done, the
great distributing points for manu-
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Handicapped by Mud.

The movement for good roads deep
ly concerns every commercial, finan-
cial and social interest in the land. We
are handicapped in all the markets Of
the world by an enormous waste of
labor In the primary transportation
of our products and manufactures,
while our home markets are restricted
by difficulties in rural distribution
which not infrequently clog all the
channels of transportation, trade and
finance
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A Safe Prescription.
Where roads are bad
A little gravel
Well used will add
10 Joys Of travel.
IL A. ". Bulletin.
TO FIRST VOrERs.


There is a constitutional pro-
vision which will become opera
tive before the next general cleo
ton is held, of which the general
public maynotbe aware, although
it has been published in connec-
ton with the Constitutional Con-
vention. It is an educational
test. 1t is "that no person who
becomes of age or who is natura-
lied after January 1st, 1900, shall
be permitted to vote who shall
not be able to read the Constitu-
tion in English, and be capable Of
writing his name"
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mules were able to hauT as much as u
bales. or 6 tons, In place Of their for
mer load, which amounted to only a
single ton, And, more, the improved
roads made 1t possible to haul this
load in wet and dry weather alike, for,
being properly built Of stone, they
were fit for use Immediately after q
heavy rain"
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WEDDING ON A BIG SCALE.

to six inches high and had been twice
gone over with the weeder after the
wheat was up. They keep these two
tools at work until the wheat is too
high and can easily go over so acres
per day. 1t Is light work on the horses.
The amount of crimson clover seed,
per acre recommended by DR.. Pieters,
the seed expert Of the department Of
agriculture, Is about Is to 20 pounds.
A sample that viii give 90 per cent Of
strong spouts win 60 further than one
terminating less than SO per cent.
Seed in the hnsk Is sometimes used
and with good results In dry weather.
When this is used, more seed Ii need
ed. say q bushel per acre.
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A Good Investment.

People generally are beginning to
realize that road building is a public
matter and that the best interests of
American agriculture and the Ameri-
can people as a whole demand the con-
structIon of good roads and that money
wisely expended for this purpose is
sure to return.-Maurice o. Eldridge,
Assistant Director, Office Road In
uuiry.
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Many school Children are sIokIy.

Many school Children are sIokly.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chill
dren, used BY Mother Gray. nurse in Chill
dren's Home, New York Break mp Colds
ID "a hours. cure Feverishness. Headache.
stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and
Destroy Worms. At all druggists. 25c.
Eaaple mailed FREE. Address. Allen S.
0Imsied. Leroy. N. =
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-z6Ai1I33s!Il3;|9sy
CRIMSON GLOVER.

IL Thrives ON Thin Soil-RegiOns In
Which 1t Succeeds.
Crimson clover, also known as scar
let clover, German clover, italian
clover and carnation clover, is an an
nual plant native to southern Europe
and has long been cultivated as
forage crop in the warmer portions Of
that country. 1t is an erect, tufted
plant, one to two feet high, with soft,
hairy stems and leaves and usually
bright scarlet flowers in elongated
heads. The root system is well de-
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Wholesale wedding.

A correspondent sends The Rural
New Yorker photo showing how they
use weeders In British Columbia. He
says the wheat in this photo was four
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AGENTSWAN EI-FOR"THEIIFEA AND
Achieven ents of Admiral Dewey, ,'the worlds
greatest naval hero By Murat Halstead, the
lifelong friend and admirer of the nation
idol. Biggest and best book: over 500 pages, 8
xlO inches; nearly 100 pag, s halftone fllustra-
tions. Only Sl.50. Enormous demand, Big
commissions. Outfit free. Chance of a life
time. Write quick. The Dominion Com
pany, Bird Floor Caxton Bldg, Chicago.
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a m. a m. a m. p m. p m. p

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining
ton and points north, or take passengers foI
points south of Delmar.
'f' Stops only on notice to conductor or agent
or on signal.
''i'' Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south.
''p" Stops to leave passer gers from points
south OF Delmar, or take passengers for vii.
ming and points north.
Wilmington ID a. m, 2.35, AT and 6.5S p. m.
week days. Leave New Castle s. 81, 9.46, II04
a. NJ, 6.37 p. m. week days.
Express trains leaving Harrington sos a. m.
and arriving at 6.53 p. M, week days, run
through solid to and from Baltimore. via Porter
and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS.
DELAWARE, MARYLAND& & VIRGINIA R. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations l0.3e m 6.37 m week days. Return
ing train leaves Franklin City $40 a. n. and
l.45 p. N. week DAYS.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague wis
steamer) L2o p. M. week days Returning
leave Chincoteague 4.52 a. M, weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown, Lewes
AZ lO.5o a. M, 6.31 p. M, week. days. Returning,
leave Iewes 6.45 a. m. and 3.Osp p. m.week-
days. y
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 1898 a. m. and
6.37 p. m. week days. Returning, leave Berlin
7.O2 a m and 2.S7 p. m. week days.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT r. R-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 9 21 a. M, and
53I p. M. week days Returning, leave Centre
vile 7s6 a. m, and 2.37 p. M, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE R. R.-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 9.38 a. M, and
5.E p. m, week days Returning, leave Oxford
6.45 a. M, and l.43 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAFoRn R. R.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations Il. II a.
M and lis p. m. week days, Returning leave
cambridge ZOO am. and 2.80 p. m. weekdays
CoNNEcTIoN.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore q Delaware Bay Railroad At Har-
rington,. with Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge & Seaford
Railroad. AT Delmar, with New York, Phila-
delphia & Norfolk. Wicomico & Pocomoke, and
Peninsula Railroads.
j. B. HUTCHINSON, General Manager.
]. R. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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rliddIetown Directory.

MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
President, G. w. w. Naudain; Secretary
George g. Rowe; Charles Ell. Howell VIM. h.
Cochran, David I. Allen.
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Dime GabIe.
Plla. Hilm. and Baltimore R. R
DELAWARE DIVISION
SOUTHWARK.

On and af.er Nov. 20, 1899, trains will
leave as follows:
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SECRET SOCIETIES.

DENOMINATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets 6rst FRI
day nIyht OF each month In Hose House.
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BANKS.

BANKS.
Peoples National Bank President, G. W
w Naudain; Cashier, Geo. d. Kelley Teller.
w. q. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President Joseph
Bfggs; Cashier, John s. Crouch; Teller, -.
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr o. q. A. M.
Meets every Monday uight in McWhorter's
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. S, IF. 4 A. M. Meets
drst Tuesday of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 9, /. .. o. F.
Meets every Thursday night In Now horter's
Damon Lodge, No. Il, K. Of p. Meets every
Wednesday night in McWhorter's Hall at
O'Clock.
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs, Meets
every second and fourth Friday nigh in
Union Lodge, No. 8, A. o. U. W., meets every
ID and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall.
LOCALORGANIZAT1O
Volunteer Hose Company, meets 6rst FRI
A.,r, ,r.gx ~ 4.Fs, oh nrfh In HnnaQ
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TINS TaANscalrz 500 per ysar
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IT'S DIFFERENT
THE NORTH AMERICAN
PHILADELPHIA

Irs DIFFERENT, : because /! tx prints
all the news and all the news II prints
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-03-15

about $4,000 inhabitants, has no sewerage,
and IS supplied with water by teams, from
Il pond three miles distant. The city is
twenty-five miles from the south coast.
The streets are very narrow, sidewalks
the same, and very filthy.
Hotel Recordo is the principal hotel,
and there they claim English is spoken,
but they speak English about as well as
the average school boy of Hancock county
can speak Spanish. However, with some
difficulty | made the waiter understand
that wanted steak, and being very hungry
| managed to eat part of it. 1t was very
much different from what we get at he
Ellsworth hotels.
About one mile west of the city United
States soldiers are stationed, and through
them | learned that there were many
Cases OF yellow fever and smallpox in the
city. Consequently my tarry in the city
was very limited, and at noon | started
back for Havana. The country is quite
level, and we passed through acres of to-
bacco, orange groves, bananas, cocoanuts,
lemons, lines, and the perfume of the
sweet olives scents the whole country. In
TACT, everything that grows in tropical
country is here III abundance.
It seems to me that this is the finest
country Outside the cities) on the face of
the globe. No wonder Spanish people
fought stubbornly against giving up the
sovereignty OF CABIN. May Spain rise some
day greater and better, learning from the
past that civilization cannot be built
upon Il foundation OF corruption, C.
mented with human blood.
CoLMAN A. CRABTREE.
Havana, Guba, Feb, 1899.
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Helen Gould's Goodness.

Helen Gould sends to Governors is
land enough ice cream to supply the
hospital twice week. She has also Sc
cured carload Of lemons for tho
wounded from Santiago. Her good
deeds rarely come to the surface, for
where ono is heard of hundreds Of 9TH
ers are not. But her kindness to the
soldier boys is on every ones tongue,
and she is universally alluded to as the
good fairy" of the hospitals Miss
Gould at Governors island is a more
inspiring sight than the whole beyy of
rich women at Newport. New York
Letter
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Not the Hash That Was Cold.

Stanley (aged 4 years)-Mamma,
please sing that lovely song called THE
Hash Is Cold. p"
Mammal don't know any such son :
about hash, Stanley. Is it funny song:
Stanley-No, indeed, mamma. 1t 5 a
"sorrow song. "
Mamma-Well, l cant think what
you mean. CA little later she sings
from MY Dearest Heart " "The grave
is cruel, the grave is cold."D
Stanley carbohydrates it, mann
ma-that's it. But | made mistake.
1t WASH the hash. 1t was the gravy -
London Tit Bits.
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>orlCE or FORECLOSURE.

WHEREAS Bessie g. Eaton and Groves ID
w Eaton, both of Sedgwick county OF
Hancock and State of Maine, by their mortgage
deed, dated the twenty-siXth day of April, a. IT,.
lS9j and recorded in the Registry of Deeds, Of
the county OF Hancock, book 2g0, page 100, con-
veyed To p. L. Smiley Il certain lot or parcel OF
land situated in the town of Sedgwick, bounded
and described IA follows, TO wit; Beginning
at the south corner of land owned by Groves u.
Eaton at shore of kggemoggin Reach, thence
by the shore of said reach to land of Samuel
Jordan; thence north forty-tive degrees cast
following said JOrdan's northwest line TO the
head of the lot of land of Colman Carter, thence
north forty five degrees west by land of Col
man Carter anu land If q. y. Eaton t4 said
Eaton's land; thence hy said EatOn's land to
the aforementioned bound, containing forty
acres more or less. meaning to convey the anne
lot of land conveyed to Bessie q. Eaton by
Henry W Sargent by his deed dated the 9TH day
of june 1890, and recorded in Hancock County
Registry of Deeds. book PAS, page los. Except
Ing and reserving about i acre conveyed
to Herbert S. Simmons in 1894, and whereas
the condition of said mortgage has been brok-
en- now therefore, by reason of the breach of
the condition thereof we claim foreclosure OF
said mortgage. SARAH j. EATON
Ii. n. DORITY,
Executors of the last will and testament Of
=. T.. Stanley.
Sedgwick, Me, Feb 49, 1859.
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1AcotcaI.
SAVED BY A POSTAL CARD.

Thousands who have written for one of
the free trial bottles of DR.. David Ken
ped,,. Favorita po,,,oa,. bovo ritororl,. had
i''' ,'''>'
their iiYeslsaYed by postal card. They
got the trial bottle, and it proved to them
thar br David kepnedv,s Farorita Rem.
-,
cay vas the only real cure Tor diseases Oh
the Kidneys, Liver, Bladder and Blood,
rheumatism, Dvspepsia and Chronic Con-
sti,,stion The hoIgh, q large. sized rot :
,'P''',,''' NY 'ous ~ a Ia - -
tie OF their druggists and 1t benefited or
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-03-15
FROM HAVANA.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM A HAN
COCK COUNTY MAN.
THE CITIES FILTHY; THE COUNTRY
L0RIoUS-HANANA'S FINE SYSTEM
OF WATER SUPPLY.

The sanitary condition OF Havana is
very bad, though much better than when
the United States took charge. 1t will
take a long time to clean he city of refuse
which has been gathering for many years,
it is hard to teach them that cleanliness
means less sickness San Jose street,
which is hardly a stones throw from
beautiful Central park, is in such filthy
condition rs to sicken a human being
who attempts to run the gauntlet of the
awful stencil arising. Many more of the
streets are in the same condition. All the
streets are very narrow, and sidewalks are
just wide enough for one.
HAyAEA's WATER SUPPLY.
The Water supply from Core, about
two miles from the city, is as good as
/ there Is ii tie world. 1t was erected by
the city OF Havana in the year 1893, at an
expense OF sI6,59O,0oO. lis construction is
/ the best and shows great engineering
| skill. The supply of mountain water IS
/ obtained from Nedas springs, some six
miles distant from the power house.
/ Around the mountain are constructed
| two cement basins, one to catch the water
as it runs in cold streams from the hill
| tops, the other to serve as reinforcing
/ basin to prevent waste, and to be used in
case the first should be damaged or de-
stroyed A massive stone aqueduct six
feet square, is used to bring the water the
entire distance, crossing the Almandares
river underneath its bed. This piece of
submarine,Work is fine piece OF engi-
neering, and the masonry is indestruc
| tlble.
The general decline from the springs
avoids the use of pumping stations,
supplying a.quarter OF a million people
with good alter without the assistance
of any machinery. The reservoirs COW
ering several acres are enclosed bya seven
foot stone wall, on top of which is a
handsome iron railing. The two reser-
voirs, containing more than twenty mill
lion gallons, are duplicates, one being
used and the other being held ready in
case of emergency. Each is 227 feet
square aud twenty two feet deep.
They are more than $50 feet above
the level of the city Adjoining the outer
,,olt ora h.. s,,,nd 10 ,are,e ,i..aas Of
American, Granite which were tn he used
as cans Tor tho wall but the sfona wss
,,arar ,,s,l t,,,i,oa l;.o,,s-.,t,4i..r.= ,r,ar,,
this property.
The polira forca ~ Havana is in charge
81 faoroo NJ N1o,Iton Of rhi..ao o.
ot,io, ~ ..o..,i..,,. Tch, N,C,llo,,,,
ex-ahief ~ ,,oIice n, New Yorl, ettv
whose re,utat;on os evecutive officer i.
we'll known tbrough fine limited States
ItaYi,3, s.rvad nv. ,.i,,, of NV yarL, for
neorIy thirty vaors in e,.ery arade of tbe
departnant te i. proboh,y es fan,tiar
Win ito r.oni,eu.nt. the malice do
n.r,,nent n. any,neu in exi.tanca the
Cnhan capitsl viii hsvas denar;ment INIT
viii ba=o ,,,daI of i,s Lind a,d OH. ,o
maintain INV md order for the inhat,i.
tsntssnd safety for visitors
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The Nightier Weapon.

"WAen Cu.rul Elauco is defeated,
will he have to yield up his sword?"
mo; we'll let him keep that, but he
will have to hand over his pen. Chi
cago Record
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Didn't Play the Game.

Old Fogy-I am panied to hear that
you are addicted to poker playing aud
that last night you lost go.
youHs Fosy- ideal Why. I
don even know how to play the game.
Old Fogy-So am informed by the
party who won the money.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-03-15

''Ie is tho most notable rich man IN
,his section of the west.
"Ah?"
"Yes, we have plenty of rich men who
came here without cent, but he is the
only rich man who came here rich. l
tell you, he is to be credited with great
force of character. detroit Journal