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Ninetv-eirht Per Cent.

There is fascination about big profits TO a
business man. But the conservative and can.
tious trader prefers to have the lesser per
cent. of interest and the larger per cent
of safety in his Investments. There Is no bust
ness man who would not consider 1t sound
absolute loss was impossible and which offered
ninety Weight chances in q hundred of. rich
profit. The statistics of cures effected by DR.
Heroes Goiden Medical Discovery show that
can he absolutely cured Almost. II not all forms
OF physical weakness may be traced to starya
ton. Starvation saps the strength. The body ID
just as much starved when the stomach canno,
extract nutrition from the food 1t receives al
when there is no food. "Weak lungs" broni
chtal affections, obstinate coughs, call for
supplies that nourishmcnt in ita most condensed
and assirniiable form. 1t makes "weak lungs
strong. by strengthening the stomach and OF
gans OF dig estion which digest and distribute
the food. and by increasing the supply Of pure
b cod.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Thumbs have been appreciated ever
since the world began. The aucieuts
used to call the thumb the other hand.
Barbarous kings used to swear and
make compacts by their thumbs. In
Rome it was a sign of favor to wiring
and kiss the thumb and of disfavor
or disgrace to lift it up OF turn it ont
ward. A man who was hurt in his
thumbs was excused from serving In
the Roman wars. Some of the scoun-
drelly citizens used TO cut OFF their
thumbs so as to remain at home and
get rich. Teachers used to punish their
pupils by biting their thumbs.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
Set His own Novel.

r. L. Farjeon was one of the very
few writer's who set up work in type
without the medium of manuscript.
When the novelist first turned TO fic-
ton he was editor and publisher Of the
Otago Times, which was printed at his
own offices at Dunedin, and many of
the chapters of his novel "Grif'' were
transferred direct to type by the late
Mr. Farjeon, who was one of the most
rapid compositcrs of his time. He was
a firm believer in charms and attrib-
utcd much Of his good fortune 10 a New
Zealand greensboro which he wore for
many years on his watch chain.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
Was 1t Wise?

About year ago the granite cutie ;
of Sullivan and Franklin came to
terms with the granite manufacturers
association of those two towns, and
signed an agreement which included a
scale of prices, hours, etc.
Early last summer the mai ufactur-
ers, relying on this agreement, made a
contract for street curbing for the city
of Washington. This contract in
volved something like quarter of a
million dollars, and meant steady
work for some 300 men for about a
year.
After it became known that the
contract had been secured, but before
bonds were given, the cutters init
mated that there wasn't enough in it
for them at the price they had, a year
ago, agreed to accept; they asked for
a raise from IS cents to 35 cents-7
cents more than their agreed scale OF
prices. This meant a cost of some
$4,000 more than the manufacturers
had, in making the contract, counted
on and told the men they couldn't
stand it.
The men didn't strike-they had
agreed not to; they simply said they
would take their chances of getting
work elsewhere. They are now talk
ing them. The contract was thrown
M. The contractors lose the $500 de-
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
Did Not Look Right.

The intelligent conlpositor, one of the
kind that figures in many an anecdote
worked on an Arkansas paper at d
period when a well known novelist wa:
editor. One day the printer undertook
to set up the word "doughnut." Ht
spelled it "donut."
See here" said the novelist, don
you know how to spell 'doughnutf
You've misspelled it here"
The intelligent compositor came ovel
and gazed at the proof and scratched
his head in perplexity.
We'll" he admitted, that doesn't
look right. but it had a W. in 1t once
and somehow that didn't look righ
either
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

The Rockland Opinion thinks that
because w. a. Walker. OF Castine, is
a druggist and hotel proprietor, g
is therefore the "loglcal" candidate
for senator of The Hancock county
resubmissionists. Mr.. Walker says:
''This inference is wholly and abso-
lately wrong. am against resubniis-
sion, first, last and always, and have
no hesitancy in announcing the fact"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Official, social and diplomatic circles
in Washington were much grieved
last Wednesday to hear that Sir
Michael Herbert, the British ambas-
sador to this country, had died in
Switzerland of consumption. Sir
Michael had been i'll for some time,
but he hoped to recover his health in
Switzerland, and to return here this
fall. He was ambassador but few
months, yet he conducted the impor-
tant negotiations which followed the
attack ON Venezuela by England and
her allies, and also those which re-
suited in the creation of the Alaskan
boundary commission which is now
in session in London. He was in
Washington on two former occasions,
once as charge d'afdirs, and once as
secretary of the legation. On his
first visit to this country he married
an American woman, and also became
a personal friend of President Roose-
vel.. He was only forty-six years
old, and was one of the youngest d.
plomats who ever held an important
post in Washington.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Reports from the fall strawberry crop
continue to come in. Our South Deer
Isle correspondent writes: M. G. Pert
found ripe strawberry in field where
he was at work Friday, Oct. 2, and straw
berry blossoms have been found lately; so
IL the weather continues Its freaks we
NAV have straw berries at Christmas.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Postmaster ]. G. Ralph, of Southwest
Harbor, has on exhibition an odd curios-
ity which he has photographed-an axe
blade dug up in the Stoddard grounds at
Manset with large tree-root through the
eye, protruding with large rootlets two
feet or more on each side OF the opening,
showing a big growth OF the material
after itjhad strung the axe on as trophy.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
The Home Product.

81 should think you would be am
bilious for political distinction"
mo" answered Mr.. Cumrox, Il don't
care for it. My daughter has studied
painting and her pictures of me are
funny enough without calling in the
aid of any professional cartoonist."-
Washington Star.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
COUNTY GOSSIP.

Tuis is North Ellsworth's grest d IS.
Tue fair of tue tsrners' cur Is otipg
held. Tine weather is fi1e, and 4 ig
crowd is anticipated. The cify grSeru-
meat is attending in body, hssaed by
Mayor a. @. Hsgertny.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Not all the gifts nowadays are going to
the larger churches in the big cities. Mrs.
Carlton Brookmau, of West Park, N. Y.
has recently donated g, 800 to the Baptist
church of North Sedgwick, for which
both church and community are truly
thankful.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Bueksport's school committee know a
good thing when they see it. They
closed the schools last Wednesday to give
teachers and pupils an opportunity to
attend the Oriand fair, which by the way,
Was a roaring success.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
posted with their bid; the cutters,
some 300 of them, lose years work.
Was it wise?

President Roosevelt is receiving
many congratulations for the firm and
skillful manner in which he dealt with
the labor problem involved in the
Miller controversy. The day follow
ing his return to Washington he held
a conference with committee of the
American federation of labor at which
were discussed many bills which
union labor intends to bring before
Congress. The question of Foreman
Miller was also mentioned, and the
President took the opportunity to in
form the labor leaders that his atti-
tude on the subject had remained I'M
changed, and that the decision which
he was about to give the public was
final. After conference a statement
was given out from the White House
in which the President declared that
the laws of the land forbid any dis
elimination between union and nom
union men in the employ of the gov
eminent, and that he could no more
decide against man because he did
not belong to union, than because
he was Catholic or Protestant, white
or black, Jew or Gentle. For this
reason Miller would not be dismissed
on the charges made by the book
binders union, and the government
printing office, as we'll as all other
government bureaus which employ
laborers, would remain open shops.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Mrs. Fred G. Lyman and Mrs. Herbert
P. Higgins entertained small party
Monday evening at the home of The
former on High street in honor of Miss
Charlotte Clark, whose marriage to MIR.
Wright, of Saco, occurs Wednesday even
ing. At O'Clock maiden tea was given
for Miss Clark and number of her lady
friends.
After supper number OF men dropped
in, and the evening was spentat hearts.
First prizes were won by Mrs. Oliver l..
Hail and g. Prescott Clesves, while Mrs.
Cleaves and Oliver l.. Hall carried off the
boobies.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

"Misfortunes never come singiy, you
know, Miss Priscilla"
"Alas," said the poor maiden, shak.
ing her head, "the single misfortune Is
the worst of all!''-New Yorker.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

The kicker usually does not make
much progress, Notwithstanding that
he puts his best foot forward.-Boston
Transcript.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
Painless Operation.

The old beau was trying to make
himself look youthful.
HE Is dyeing for love-" they COM
mented.-Chicago Post.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Butcher-wasn't that good steak
sent you yesterday?
Customer-oh, 1t was a good, durable
steak.-Life.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

He-Your father did not object to our
marriage as much 80 / had expected.
She-0h. poor papa has given up the
idea of being too particular Brooklyn
Life,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

FREEDOM NOTICE.
rREEpnM NOTICE.

T1HIS is to advise all persons inter bas-
l. that have given my son, Thomas and
ter Nevells, the rest of his minoriief, aar +.
shall, after this date claim none OF MS Gu"
Mas. RUBY A. MERCER
Ellsworth Me-, Oct. Z, 1903.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
Y!..ost.

"ARTEN fur boa, black, chain Inaiss,.ehjIl.
MI between Clough's hill and the b!aun
George Stevens academy, FRIDAY Io'nicate
Oct 2. viii the finder please comihu
with MusA B. DoLLARD, BROOKLYN
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

The man with the pstched-up reputa
tion has invariably seen a good deal Of til,
seamy side OF life. Aheml
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

WHEREAS my wife. Mary E. Gray, mas
w left me without Just cause or pr9yooa .,
ton, hereby forbid all persons harborihs u
bills of her contracting alter this date.
DAVID W. GRAY
BrooksviIle, Me-, Sept. 10, 1903.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

as special liquor deputy, accompanied
Aaron Bunker, the special liquor deputy,
at Bar Harbor, on raid against Mrs.
Ford's place on West street. A thorough
search was made, but no discriminating
evidence was found. The officers had
other search warrants in their inside
pockets, bat as the warning bsn been sent
around, they were not used.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
Special Notifies.

SPECIAL NOTICE.
no not trespass IN Cuniouloeus PARK, =
demand protection to life and properly
from the county of Hancock, the state !"
Maine. and the United states of America,
MARY C. FRETZ AUSTIN.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
MAINE w. c. T. U.
Twenty-ninth Annual Convention at
Dover Sept. 1917.

The following report. though printed late
will be of great interest to readers of the W. c
L. q. column
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Gbe csIIsmortb american.

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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

The story and a. half house at Salisbury
and owned by Daniel Mckay, was burned
Sunday forenoon. Nothing was saved
except some of the furniture on the first
floor. A defective chimney is supposed
to have caused OF the fire.
Maurice c. Rumsey, organist and choir
master at the Episcopal church, left Wed
nesdsy evening for his home in New
York, where he will spend three or four
weeks.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
FROM BAR HARBoR.

Rev. MIR. Hanscom as Liquor Deputy
Fire at Salisbury Cove Football. '
BAR HARBoR, Oct. 8 Especially : The
Y. NJ. G. A. boys whipped a football team
from the Higgins classical institute last
Saturday. The boys will play Ellsworth
high here next Saturday.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07
INFnRMArIoN WANTED.

A USTIN-If this reaches the eye o. Say
IA relatives of Isaac q. Austin, wliIlo IN
communicate with P. o. Box 4s2, Ells"95t si
Me-? Mr.. Austin died in Santa cruz, , der
early in 1908. aged 70 years. leaving conSi
able property.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

HOUsE on High ST. Ellsworth. at low
IL figure. Address c. W. Cook. Franklin
Me.
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for Salf.

HoUsE - NV home at Town Hill, Eden:
L Fam Of 40 to 20 acres. Good field and
pastare. Cuts IS to Is tons Of hay. Two story
house, large stable, all in good repair Loca-
ton. miles from Bar HaTb9s and Northeast
Harbor and miles from QusTryville, where
there are good aEkets for ANY farm prod ucts
Very good location for country hotel
splendid view of the mountains. VIII sell on
easy terms or will rent for term OF years
The only reason why / wish to sell is that am
not aple 10 work the farm on account OF ny
age. Apply TO z. NJ. HAMoR. West Eden, we
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A T Cooks poIut East Bluehill acTet ~
N story house, stable, carriage house, Aen
merry. good wateF in house and out OF aoots'
Good place for summer rustication. Apply 10
III. ID. Cook. Lamoine, Me.
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advertisements.
SIantfo.

~O@N)NN-Ne-NN~N-N- ---NNN-0-N~NN0JNN
TYPEwRfTISG -- OF all kinds done with
i neatness and dispatch. at the law Office
of L. r. Giles, Bank Block, Ellsworth. JULIA
F. ELLINGTON.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

GIRL to do homework In a small family in
VI Somervilie, Mass. Apply at 10 Pine St,
Ellsworth.
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HOUSB Of rooms in Massachusetts town
4 OF 5000 population. where thefe aIe
many kinds Of manufacturing and chance iol
all members of family 70 work II agreeable
Nearly new, and finished 10 bard wOod: iui,
mace, city water and in good repair, "ou1S
like TO exchange for real estate in hAhcocA
county. Address Box So, Ellsworth, Me.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-07

Rev. Stephen II. Green, rector of st :
Saviour's church, left Sunday night for q
weeks absence in Massachusetts.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-02

mine, on the upper Yukon, who is SAID
to have taken out some 100000 of
gold in th7 last three years, owes the
discovery of this rich claim to the In
dams. He has repaid them in the fol-
lowing original manner: Every man,
woman and child of the entire tribe
has received the present from him of
a wooden sweater cap and leggings
These garments are of as many colors
as Jacobs coat, and the tribe is not
only the most comfortably clad, but
the most picturesque Indians we have
in the far west"
Tom took the paper to Una. Can
II be-" His lips failed to speak the
name.
Some few months ago a San Fran
cisco paper printed the report of a
steamer lost en- route to Alaska.
Among the passenger list was the
name of Ned Collins, who was once
the proprietor of the Lucky Strike
mine, and who was known as Lucky
Ned Collins.
He had squandered fortune in wild
plunging on the New York stock ex-
change and was returning to Alaska
to retrieve his fortune. He was said
to have been worshiped by the In
dams, who would erect a monument
to his memory on the site of the old
mine now deserted.
They did, and though the inscription
on the rude stone only commentaries
the generosity of Lucky Ned Collins,
Una and Tom read between the lines,
1--WE made amends to you. Helen
Farr Hunter In Boston Globe.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-02

litical, military and diplomatic rela-
tions, are subject to decennial revi-
sion. They are embodied in a treaty
known as the "ausgleich" or customs
union. When this arrangement, which
is about fifty years old, came up for
confirmation in 1897 there was a dead
lock between the two halves of the
joint state, and temporary solution
was adopted continuing the status quo
until the end of 1902, when it was slip
ulated that the defnitive ausgleich
must be concluded.
Therefore, at midnight of Dec. 81,
1902, the customs compact must have
been agreed upon, or the unity of Aus
tria and Hungary for all practical pur-
poses would have come to an end. M.
Sell travelled from Budapest to Wen
ma, and he and DR.. Won Korber, under
personal and vigorous pressure from
Francis Joseph, spent the last day Of
the old year in an anxious and siren
uous endeavor to reach an agreement.
At o'clock that night they were
still apart. 1t looked as if compact
were impossible and the statesmen de-
cided to give it up. Both the prime
ministers and the aged emperor,
whose vigilance and tact ministered
to the conference throughout, saw no
escape from the impasse, and the ne
gotiations terminated =. A semi-oficial
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-02
EXAMPLES OF RUSSIAN RULE.
How Cars Officers Dealt With Un.
fortunate Chinese.

How Cars Officers Dealt With Un.
fortunate Chinese.
An English writer tells some extra
ordinary stories of Russian rule in the
far east 1T is not necessary" he
says, ito repeat here the tale of the
horrors of Observation-Disclosures, but a
personal friend of mine is a witness
to their reality. On his way to that
city while two days journey down the
river he saw floating on the water the
corpse of Chinaman. Then he
passed another and another; then two
together tied by their pigtails; then
more until as he drew near the city
the drowned bodies lay so thickly to-
gether that the whole broad sweep
of the river was one dark mass of
floating dead. Tied together by their
pigtails, and many of them horribly
mutilated, the dead Chinese in their
hundreds, in their thousands, stretch
ed from bank to bank, moving river
Of the dead. In the spring of 1901
another friend of mine was travelling
in Manchuria. He was accompanied
by his Chinese comprador. When
they left the railway line and struck
across country in carts the land be-
came suddenly dead; each village
as they entered it was deserted.
Signs of life, recent life, were there
in plenty, loaves of bread in the ovens,
pigs in the yards, fires in the houses,
but no people, not sign of man, wom-
an or child. He had come on bust
ness, to buy pigs bristles, and in or
der to buy it was necessary to find
some one to sell, but no one was
there. The first day they wondered,
the second they consulted and then
the comprador said he had a plan.
Would the master stay a long way
outside the next village quite hidden
and let him go on alone? The master
could and did. The explanation was
simple but sufficient. The Russians
had occupied Manchuria for a year
and the Chinese were acquainted with
their rule. Seeing a white man com
ing toward the village they naturally
mistook him for a Russian and fed,
man, woman and child, leaving all
their earthly possessions behind them,
hoping perhaps that he would be con-
tent with loot and leave life alone"
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-02
Especial Correspondence

Austrla-Hungary is naturally a hot.
bed of strife. It contains racial and
religious elements hopelessIy antipa-
thetic. there is flaw in its scheme Of
constitutional unity and the problem
of maintaining satisfactory fiscal and
financial relations between the two
halves of the monarchy puts it's
statesmen absolutely at their wits
ends. It is this phase of the empires
troubles which has been acute for the
last five years and which has recently
been responsible for one of the most
dramatic Incidents in the political his
tory of modern Europe.
The fiscal and financial relations Of
Austria and Hungary, unlike their po-
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-02

When Ned Dalton married Una Per
kins the village gossips reaped har-
vest.
Every one had something to say
except the man whose heart was
smaTting under the wrong dealt him
by the friend and schoolmate of his
boyhood and the woman he had loved
ever since she was a wee lass.
When some of his friends came to
him to offer sympathy, Tom Reed met
them with an impenetTable reserve.
He turned with renewed fervor to his
work upon a wonderful invention,
which he never ceased to believe
would one day make his fortune.
Una and Ned went to housekeeping
in a coy little cottage on the edge of
the village, and for time it seemed
as If the dark representations would
prove false
Then Ned got into bad company and
neglected his wife and home. After
the baby came it was worse. Una
expostulated, entreated, rebelled.
They quarreled bitterly and one
dark, dismal November night Ned
took the midnight train to Greenfield
and the next morning was speeding
away on the Northern Pacific express
to Seattle, the gold fever in his veins
and the Klondike a dazzling vision be-
fore his eyes. He left a letter for
Una:
I've gone to make my fortune in
the gold fields. If never come back,
marry Tom. He always loved you,
and it will be some amends for the
wrong we both did him.
NED"
Una read the note with binding
tears, and fancied her heart was bro
ken. But as the months passed and
grew into years, and no word came
from her husband, it was Tom she
thought of most.
For the first year after her husband
left she watched every mail, hoping
that it would bring her some message.
Now five years had gone, and she had
given up all hope.
One day as she came home from
work, her mother met her at the
door Una, we have heard at last"
she said, as she put a western paper
in her daughters hands, and pointed
TO a small notice marked in blue pen
| Gil
Died-In Denver, May IS, Edward
Dalton, aged 80. Westbrook, Conn,
| papers please copy.
Now Tom will surely come" Una
thought. But he did not.
One day she learned that he was i'll,
in dire poverty in a neighboring city.
She went to the address that had been
! given her, and stumbled up the dark,
ill-smelling stairs to the wretcbed hall
bedroom that he occupied. Knocking
timidly at the door, she received no
response. She opened the door softly.
"Una!" He had awakened and rec
ognized her.
Una, why have you Gomez"
ITO ask your forgiveness, Tom"
you had that long ago. Do you