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THE FIDELITY AND CASUALTY CO.,
OF NEW YORK.
Incorporated March 20, 1876 Commenced
business May l, 1875. George F. Seward Pres
ldent. Robert j. Hillas, Secretary
Capital paid up in ash $3.50 Coo
ASSETS DECEMBER 81 lsss
Real estate owned by the COM
pany, unincumbered 5-n 600 ~
stocks and bonds. market value . az - AZ
Cash in Office and in bank - lis %
Interest due and accrued so-S -
Prem in due course of collection 200 s7s 81
Reserve Reinsurance deposit
leash In eompany's possession, 10 ass o,
n pI4iT,r z<sIai yaIqe. s3,24s3is II
Net amt of unpd losses and claims, ! "a -. %
Amount required to safely rein
sure all outstanding risks, / ss- 5ss 70
All other demands, viz. COM -
MISSIONS etc, 1875 80
Total amount of liabilities ercept
capital stock and net surplus, a. AIS o5s "a
capital actually paid up in cash, go 200 "a
Surplus beyond capital, $50 80 0s
Aggregate amount OF liabilities
including net surplus, s3.24s- a4s II
III. T. sILsBY, Agent, Aurora.
OMAR W. TAPLEY, Agent, Ellsworth.
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SpeliaI Notitfs.
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COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE

THE present law irm Of Hale & Hamlin. OF
i Ellsworth, Maine, Is hereby dissolved BY
the retirement of Charles Il. Drummey
therefrom- Hereafter the firm OF Hale l.
Hamiin will be mposed of Eugene Hale and
Hannibal Z. Hamlin. and will carry on a gem
eral law business at the same Offices as the
former nrm- The business OF the former firm
Will be settled up by the new
HANNIBAL E. HAMLfN
CHARLES II. DRUMNEY.
February 10 A D. l-9g
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The annual report of the State commits
sioBers OF sea and shore fisheries contains
many figures Of interest TO the people of
Hancock county. Hancock occupies
very important place among her sister
coas. towns in The fishing industry, and
in several branches leads them all Han
cock leads IN the lobster fishery with a
total catch for the year 1898 of 2, ~, 061,
aggregating 1893 ,O92 pounds. There are
81 men engaged in the business in the
county. Knox county stands second in
l-1.---, H:..I -,936, $50 taken. Han
cock also leads in ground fish sailed,
with o,ool 1886 pounds to her credit.
Cum berand county is second with
1854 15S pounds. Hancock Is far in the
lead in the number of clans canned or
sailed, the product being l, 06O, 800 pounds.
Cum oerland county is second in this
with $4,000 pounds. Hancock county
was alone in the founder fishery, with
10000 pounds to her credit. She was a
close second to Cum berland in fresh
mackerel with 329, $50 pounds. She led in
salmon ,s04 pounds) with Waldo county
second, and in scallops (i5,46s pounds)
with Cumberland second. Anot her
branch Of the fish industry, the extent
of which will surprise those not ac-
quainted With it, is eel fishing. Hancock
county caught and shipped during the
year 1898, no less than q 800 pounds OF
cells, valued at s2,75O. Only two other
counties engage in eel fishing-Lincoln
and Sagadahoc-and their combined catch
is not half that of Hancock county. TAX
ing the aggregate vaIne 81 ell asheries,
Hancock county stands second only to
Lincoln county, whose extensive men,
baden and herring fisheries boost her
into first place. The total value of Han
cock county's fish product for the year
was $50, 359. Even Knox and Washington
counties, with their extensive herring
fisheries, must bow to the superiority OF
Hancock.
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COUNTY GOSSIP.

Residents OF the vicinity known as
Hancock Lake in the town of Bucks port,
hope for the establishment OF post
Office there
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Spssrnodic interest in the Ware murder
case was aroused last week by the pub
LEGATION of q report that Detective Tracy,
OF Bangor, promised an early arrest.
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LEGAL AFFAIRS.

THE committee on Legal Affairs will give a
l. public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta, Friday, Feb. "a. 1899, at 2, 30
O'Clock p. m. No. So. On an act to amend
Chapter 22s of the Private and Special Laws
OF 1913 as amended relating to the draw in the
bIueniII.
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EfgisIatios Eutiers .
- - -
JUDICIARY,

JUDICIARY.
VINHE Committee on Judiciary will give a
L public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta, Tuesday, Feb. Is, 1899 at
30 O'Clock p. m. No. l7s. On an act to ex-
tend the charter Of the Bluehill Water Com
pany.
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Drip Elantln.

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LLAT VAMPERS and fitting room help
wanted CoNMoSwEALTH :. & l. Co,
Gardiner, Ne.
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hOG-Black, rough coated dog. with white
- spot on breast; answers to the name
Rover. Finder please notify DANIEL RICH
ARDsoS, Ellsworth.
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tnsurancr Statements.
UNITED sTATEs BRANCH OF TIE
Western Assurance ComnanY.

OF TORoNTU, CANADA
Incorporated Ia August ISL. Commenced
business in August. Isl. Hos GFp 4 tON
Presideht } J kESnY, Vice pre-ideut
ASSETS DECEMBER 81, lss>.
stocks and bonus owned by the
COMPANY market value. sl,2c3, lao Is
Cash 10 the compaHy- principal
Office and IN hank Isl ie7 a
Prtmlums In due course OF collection. IT, ol3 ~
Billz receivable, = va >
Mortgages. SEQ o.
4 Aggregate assets At actual value : EHS 4le ~
LIABILITIES DECEMBER 81 ls.s,
Net amount Of unpaid losses and
claims 1902 o5
sure all outstanding risks sa62s OF
Total amount of liabilities except
capital STOCK and net surplus. l.Ol9,7lo %
surplus beyond liabilities 64AS s.
sl,653,sI6 6s
AGENTS:
FRED c. LYMAN d CO., Bar Harhor
A
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THE FIDELITY AND CASUALTY 90

FRED c. LYMAN & CO., Bar Harbo,
o. W. TAPLEY, Ellsworth.
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Franks of the Types.

Experience shows that errors will oc-
cur in the best regulated typesetting
esta ablishments~ Recently, in writing
an article on ancient theories with re-
gard to the universe, had occasion to
refer to the idea cnce advanced THAT
the earth was circular, with roots
reaching downward without end. AS a
suitable heading to this paragraph I
wrote 1.-The Earth With Roots. Imag-
inc my surprise Oh reading the title in
print as 1.-The Earth With Boots. y
Not long ago quoted the following
remark made by Professor Barnard
with regard to variable stars Gas
many as hundred of them have been
found in a space in the sky that would
be covered by pins head held at the
distance of distinct vision. The type
setter carefully changed the pins head
to pigs head, and be still survives!
When engaged to lecture before the
Bridgeport Scientific society on "Our
Place Among Infnities, the morning
papers in that city gave the title of my
lecture as "Our Place Among 1n6rmi-
ties. However, the climax Of errors
was reached, not by a typesetter, but
by small boy who was sent to cir
culating library in quest of my fathers
book, "Other Worlds Than Ours" and
overwhelmed the librarian by asking
for "Otber Worms Than Ours MARY
Proctor in New York Herald
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Dickens, Minute Observation.

The observation Of Dickens was as
peculiar in kind as minute and sleepless
in exercise. Every human being, Of
COURSE, down to the semi-idiotic landlord
Of the inn in "Barnaby Rudge, sees
existence at an angle of his own. We
look atlife each through our personal
prism. But the prism of Dickens, if the
phrase is permissible, was peculiarly
prismatic. 1t lent eccentricity Of color
and of form to the object observed. It
settled on a feature and exaggerated
that. Now, to look at things thus is the
essence Of the art of the caricaturist
Ithas been denied that Dickens work
is caricature, and to say that it is al
ways caricature would be vastly unjust.
Nevertheless, the insistence on Carker's $
teeth, Parks snort, Sllimpole's man
ner, Jarndyce's east wind, and Rigaud's
mustache, to take only few cases, IS
exactly what we mean by caricature
and it is caricature in the manner OF
Mr.. Carlyle. The historian, like the
novelist, was wont to fix on single
trait or two-in Robespierre, ST. Just,
or whoever it might be-and to ham
mer insistently upon that. 1t was a
ready, if inexpensive, method Of secur-
ing distinct impression. Both Dick
ems and Carlyle overworked this meth
cd, which becomes, in the long run, o
stumbling block-to M. Taine, for ex-
ample. Andrew Lang in the Fort
nightly Review.
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Wood For Canes.

Oak and hazel have always held their
own Holly was almost an equal favor
lite. The ground ash has constantly
been used by country folk Of all degrees
having any association with horses or
cattle. At one time it was fashionable
in London simplex munditiis, just the
plain supple, elastic stick, but with a
gold band around the top to give it a
mark of distinction. At present the ha-
eel seems fashionable Those who use
it are not in the majority CT cases, we
surmise, aware of the magic lore always
associated with the hazel and its nuts.
as to which much might be written.
Orange wood and lemon wood find favor
with some
Curious sticks there are, too, if this
be not "bull, made of huge cabbage
stalks from the Channel islands The
blackthorn has always found ireland
true to it as the needle to the pole.
while some part of Scotland likes the
rowan. This is Il tree of much magical
legend. Twigs Of it nailed on cowhonse
or stable act as does the horseshoe else
where, and the herd boy or girl often
carries Il rowan stick with 4 bit of red
thread attached to ward off fro.a the
cattle the evil eye, warlocls or witch
s.-Gentleman' S Magazine.
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First Run on n Bank.

Although banking was practiced
among the Egyptians GOO years before
Christ. and among the Romans almost
in its modern form 1, 900 years ago, yet,
according to Gilbart, the first run Of
which we have any account in history
of banking occurred in the year 1857.
At that date the bankers of England
were the goldsmiths, who had short
time before begun to add banking 10
their ordinary business, and had be-
come very numerous and influential In
1869 the Dutch feet sailed up the
Thames, blew up the fort at Sheerness,
set fire to Chatham and burned some
ships of the line.
This created the greatest consterna-
ton in London, especially among those
who had intrusted their money to the
bankers, for it was known that the lat
ter had advanced large sums to the king
for public purposes, and it was rumored
that now the king would not be able 10
pay the money. To quell the panic q
royal proclamation was issued to the
effect that payments by the exchequer
to the bankers would be made as usual
In 1871 there was another run on the
London banks, when Charles II shut up
the exchequer and refused to pay the
bankers either principal or interest of
the money which they had advanced.
On this occasion many of the banks and
their customers were ruined.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
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Whnt,s In the Air?

There would appear to be more than
passing collouuial significance in the
expression. what in the air ?" Thus,
according to writer in Cosmos, par
ticle OF dust foaring in the air is made
up Of nucleus of variable form, solid
or liquid. surrounded by an ''atmo-
derrn, or thin gaseous layer, adhering
to the nucleus by attraction, this atmo-
derm diminishing the weight Of the dust,
but not sufficiently to explain its sus-
persion in the air Although denser
than the exterior air. it is still composed
of gaseous molecules that have preserv-
ed their essential properties. They yet,
like those less closely bound, are repell-
ed by the moving molecules that circu-
late freely near them or that form part
of other atmoderlns. and thus there re-
suits resistance-that is, friction Of
the dust particles against the surround
ing atmospheric molecules.
In this way friction causes very light
powders to fall to earth very slowly, and
once raised by the wind they follow the
currents, even the slightest ones, of the
lower layers of the air. Thus dust parti-
cles are raised easily by ascending cur
rents, and having reached the top Of
their course fall back, but slowly, and
being taken up by new currents may
consequently remain long in suspen-
sion. rising and descending alternately.
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Lou,, stcvcnson,. Kumor.

HODeTt LOUIE StCVcHBU1 = 1kHHIUI.
June. 1875, after visit to London.
Simply IA scratch. All right, jolly, well
and through with the difficulty. My IA
ther pleased about the Burns. Never
travel in the same carriage with three
ablebodied seamen and fruiterer from
Kent. The A. B. $ speak all night as
though they were hailing vessels a, sea.
and the fruiterer as if he were crying
fruit in noisy market place. Such. at
least, is my funeste experience. Won
der if fruiterer from some place else
say Worcestershire offer the
same phenomenon Insoluble doubt. =
"Letters Of Robert Louis Stevenson"
III Scribner'a
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
CnrrpT OK rOMNNN DTEAS


". NJ. Webb and R. C.. Webb partners in trade at
Anderson, S. c., under the Firm ma me Of Webb
& Webb. Plaintiffs, against F. NJ. Murphy. as
Trustee for the children of F. n. Murphy. Sr.
deceased, Lucius NJ. Murphy, G. Louise Mur-
ply, Irene Cater. formerly Murphy Eva Muir
ply, Claude Murphy, Clarence Murphy and
Louis Murphy Minors over the age OF fourteen
years, Defendants-Summonsf for Relief-Com-
plant Served.
To The Defendants F; N; Murphy, as Tru stee Of
L. NJ. Murphy, C. Louise Murphy. Irene Cater,
formerly Murphy,) Eva Murphy, and Claude
Murphy, Clarence Murphy and Louis Murphy
infants over the age of fourteen years:
y7OU are hereby Summoned and required to an.
I swer the Complaint in this action, Of which
a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve
d copy of your answer to the said Complai Mt on
the subscribers at their Office, Anderson Court
House, South Carolina. within twenty days after
the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such
service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint
within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this
action will apply to the Court for the relief de-
manded in the Complaint.
Dated Anderson, s. c., January II, 1899.
BONHAM e. WATKINS,
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IN SHADOW.

Tue world was fair, and very fair;
Blue sky and sunshine everywhere:
But mid the Towering of the world
One little bud kept closely curled.
In vain the wooing sunshine smiled.
The little bud was not beguiled.
But when the night wept wild with rain
Upon the desolated plain
Night through her shadows saw unclose
The petals of the hidden rose;
A rose Of love. to scent the years.
All, turn and take it through Your tears!
-E. Nesbit in Black and White.
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William Dickcrson, Of Chester,
Pa, has been treated by physicians for
bronchitis and other ailments; butwith
little relief. Last Wednesday night
while lying on lounge, he was seized
with fl of coughing, and elected a
live lizard from hismouth.. thinks
that the reptile was taken into his
stomach when he drank water from a
spring while cunning.
If man is easily discouraged he
will languish his obscurity.
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Notice to Creditors.

ALL persons having ssmands against
the Estate Robt. T. Chamblee, dec d, are
hereby notified to present them. properly
proven, to the undersigned, within the
time prescribed by law, and those IL
debted to make payment.
w. II. CHAMBLEE, Admir-.
Feb %. 1899 35
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Pert.

Sue Brette-Does not applause denote
pleasure in an audience?
Footlight-Why, certainly
~ notice you always get more ap-
plarse when ycu go off the stage than
whe? you come on. '-Yonkers States
man
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him much sooner than he ever expected
to, because the keepers finally caught
him in the game preserves sitting in
his hole under the stream bank frizzling
the leg of a pheasant which he had shot
out of tree with his airgun, and
Dunston wrote to his father, and his
father wrote back that Freckles being
now IA and apparently having less
sense than when he left Australia, had
better return and begin life as an Office
boy in his place of business Freckles
told me that Office boys in his fathers
office generally got a fortnight's holi-
day, but that his mother would prob
ably work up his governor to give him
three weeks Then he would get a
proper outfit and track away to the
boundless scrub and fall in with other
chaps who had similar ideas and begin
to bushrange seriously. But he never
wrote to me, and don't know if he
really succeeded well. I'm sure hope
he did. for he was tidy chap, though
queer.-Eden Philpotts in 1dler.
tIntrimony- and Business In Africa.
The sailor who had wife in every
port be visited has his counterpart in
the native trader Of west Africa, who
has wife in every village with which
he trades. There is one important diff
ference-Jack's wives helped to spend
his money, whereas the traders wives
help to make it. Miss Kingsley tells us
of the custom ano also gives the expla
nation.
1t would be useless for the trader to
sit at home and wait for his customers
to come to him, because each village is
usually at feud with all the neighboring
villages. and the inhabitants dare not
venture beyond their own district on
pain Of being robbed first and eaten aft
erward. On the other hand. it is obvi-
ously risky thing for the black trader
to travel from village to village with an
assortment of the very goods best cal
culated to arouse che cupidity Of the
guileless African.
To lessen the danger he resorts to fre-
quent matrimony. In every village he
takes wife from one of the most i'm
portant families and SO secures fac
tion who favor him. The African wife
is not subject to jealousy, and so each
ct the wives is more than content to
have husband who can keep her sup
piled with cloth and beads to outshine
her neignbors Her male relatives are
proud of the connection with so impor-
tant i. -lan and hope besides to be es-
peciall, favored in matters of business
In return they take his part in disputes
and help him to collect his debts and
treat him generally as respected mem
Der of the family.
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six weeks after, when Freckles was got
ting fit again. he walked with me one
half holiday to see the place where he
was smashed up. The bough was q
frightfnl high one to drop from even IN
daylight; also it was broken. Freck!es
got awfully excited when he spotted it.
..There, there!" he said. "That's the
best thing I've seen for 1s weeks
81 don see much to squeak about, :
said especially as the beastly thing
nearly did for you.
"But can't you see? It's broken.
That what did it. Thought / slipped
and if had shouldn t have been made
of the stuff for bushranger; but its
breaking is jolly different That WASH t
my fault The most hardened old hand
must have come down then. In fact,
you couldn't have stopped up. Oh,
what lot of misery I'd have been
saved through all these weeks if 1 Il
known it broke in natural sort of
way
He got an extraordinary deal of conf
fort out of it. and said he should return
to his. old ways again as soon as no
could run mile without stopping. And
we found his lead mask. like Ned kel-
ly's, just where it had dropped when he
rolled over in the fern, and he welcomed
it like friend or dog. That's the
end, except that his fathcrdid write to
! Dunston, and DunstOn. not being very
keen about Frenchy himself, seemed to
think he would be just the chap for the
girls of Freckles father Anyway he
went, and he cried when he said Good
by" to the school, and Freckles told me
that when he said ..Gnodby" to him he
yelled with crying and blessed him IN
French, and said that the sunny atmos-
pherc Of Australia would very likely.
prolong his life till he had savelenough
to get his bones back to France.
! SO he went. an Feckles went after
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[sEA1 ] JOHN c. wArk1ss, c. c. c. P. :

To the absent Defendant. Clarence Murphy:
You will take notice that the Complaint q this
action, together with copy of the Summon s, was
filed in the Office OF the Clerk Of the Co urt Of
11th, 1899, and copy of same is herewith served
on you. BONHAM WATKINS,
JAN H. 1899. Plaintiffs Attorneys.
ence Murphy and Louis Murphy:
You and each Of you are hereby notified that
unless within twenty days after service Of this
Summons and Complaint on you, you proc ure the
you in this action the Plaintiffs will procu such
appointments to be made.
BONHAM & WATKINS, Plaintiffs Attys.
Jan 1889 %
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It is sometimes more difficult to
win the father ear than the datgh-
ter's hand
The postmastership Of Pembroke,
Me-, has been held by one family long
er than that Of any other town in the
country. William Kilby was appointed
to the Office in 1900, and his direct
descendants have handled the mails
ever since his retirement in 1910.
= Help man out of trouble and he
will remember you when he gets in
trouble again.
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ana M going 10 ueAt E1ludy ul6A1.
I've often got out of the dormitory and
been in that wood by night, and only
the chaps in the dormitory have known
it. ,,
Well, the night came. and all that
we heard about it till ,eterward was
that about II o'clock, c. possibly even
later than that, there was fearful
pealing at the front door Of Dunston's.
and looking out we could see a stretcher
and something on it. That something
was actually Freckles, though the few
chaps who knew what was going to be
done felt sure it must be Frenchy. Be-
cause Freckles is 8 feet 10 inches and
growing, and Frenchy isn't more than
S feet s inches at the outside. and a
DOOR thing at that But it was Freckles
all right, and two laboring men had
brought him back. and Frenchy had
come with them.
Not for five weeks afterward, when
Freckles could get up and limp about.
did I hear the truth, and I'll tell 1t in
his own words, because they must be
better than chaps who wasn't t there.
He seemed frightfully down in the
mouth and said that he could never
look fellows in the eyes again, but it
cheered him telling me, and when | told
him he was laundering well out of it
he admitted he was He said:
81 got off all right, and the moon
was as clear as day, and everything
just ripe for sticking chap up. Then.
like a fool, having a longish time to
wait, didn't just stop in shadow be-
hind tree trunk or something in the
usual way, but thought I'd do thing
I'd never heard of bushrangers doing.
though Indian thugs are pretty good at
it. went and got up a tree which has
branch over the road, and thought
I'd drop down almost on top of Frenchy
to start with. And that's just what |
did do, only dropped wrong and came
down pretty nearly on my head owing
to slipping somehow at the start. What
did exactly happen to ME as l left the
tree shall never know. Anyway
Frenchy came along sure enough, and
dropped, and he jumped I should think
fully yard into the air, but that was
all because in falling 7 hit big root