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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27
THEN AND NOW.
/ BY a Form er Hancock BOy.l

OF course you Know. TO hear me speak.
That was Yankee born;
fSst saw daylight dowI Ia Maine
one bright October mora.
But. like SO many down-east boys,
could not coutenlsd be
Till ha seen some of the world,
So on wclt to sea.
sailed east aud lied west,
To many foreign shore.
l'us one day 1 made up my mind
That woula roam no more.
And for quite number of years
lived In Jerety state,
But finally nale up my mind
visit East To make.
reached Nj. Desert Ferry
Or IndepeRsence day.
But what wonderful changes
Since had been awayi
'Ti- now Mt. Desert Ferry.
Twas Gateomb's cove one day.
But all The good, Old a,hioned NAMES
Have Ing since passed away.
Til" people. too. have sadly changed;
I hey don't say ''hoss' or ''critter".
They dfopi Ell he good, old county laugh
And use the city twister.
The farmer. Ia my boyhood days.
Au-t ssep horse or walk,
But Row tney have rel road train
That runs ths oagh 10 New York.
Farming was q iite a business then.
Potatoes epnain cIop,
And every fall we used TO dread
The old potaso rot
J .st ask the NATIVES why the cbAnse-
THAT kid OF crop dont pay,
fu.ato raising is pisseI out.
strewbeirlss have tue day"
TIE girls all IN my boyhooi days
Wa bed dishes lwi ). a day,
iiut now the mothers do their work
While til the organ play.
Ut what's the use for NE to grJ~l
OF changes down In aaiaes
IL 80 lovk Into the ass
I see another change.
instrad of youthful. dars haired lAi,
AS WIS In thai lay.
The glass shows tie reflection
OF a man lhat.s o d md gray.
SO will take things a. they are.
Cant help II. doht you sec.
For every ar Is bound 20 bring
A change to you and me.
Trenton. n. j.. Dec. is. les. s.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27

It's the little colds that grow into big colds;
the big colds that end in consumption and death.
Watch the little colds. DR.. Woods Norway
Pine Syrup.--Advf.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27

suppose that the basis of Chris
-tian Endearor is the consciousness OF
Christ In the hearts OF Christian work
ers--Dr Hume
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27

The habit OF expression reacts on the
man who speaks. The habit of exaggera :
tion in speech distorts the observation and
makes the conscience itself unreliable.
- E. Il hale.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27
To Christian Endcavorer..

You serve with zest
Your cause.-the best
That any may espouse;
1t is yonr plan
In every nan
The Eigassst to Grouse.
-. W. c.. Tan. CHRISTIAN Endeavo-
welcome pceEa ii Baltimore Arnc.i-
can
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27

The more eyes an advertisement catches
the more dollars IL is tuorth
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1903

will be Municipal
and National Good Government Advocating Democratic Principles
has for 100
Told
New Thoroughly Daily
Weekly
The Weekly Aguwose readers also receive The Saturday Daily
FORM special attention being given to Maine News Business
Market and Shipping Reports
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Pauper Notice

HAyING contracted with the City Of S q o
IL worth to support and care LOT AZ, AZ yesrs
may need assistance during the next nss y{,rno
and are legal residents of Ellsworth Int ss
all pers0i.s trusting shein On my ae tesor,ans 70
there Is plenty OF foom and accoiLnloe
care tor them at the C1fy Farm ocuse.
Al. D. DPuNSkI.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27

o PAY, NO wAsHEE
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-27

+. Ps. xiii, 1-6; xxxix, 10; &c, II
cxix, S1-sS; Eecl. xii, IS, IA; John tx
4; Cor. vi, 10, 20; Eph. V, 1921; Col
iv, lie; II Pet. iii, S-14.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
RIGHT nfA1kEs AfIGHr.

The decision of the United States
supreme court today holding valid the
New York state law under which
taxes are levied on values Of corpo-
ration franchises will be received by
President Roosevelt with supreme
satisfaction.
In giving the news today the Asso-
ciated Press dispatches announce
that more than twenty-four million
dollars of taxes in arrears will now
be paid into the treasury of New
York as the result of the decision.
Five years ago this summer when
Roosevelt was journeying through
Kansas he said to the writer and 9TH
ers who were dining with him in his
car: "A particular feature Of my
administration of state affairs in New
York which affords me supreme sat
isfaction was the adoption of the law
taxing corporation franchises"
The enactment of this law had been
especially urged by Roosevelt in his
message to the legislature and was sup
ported consistently and energetically
by him through the various conflicts at
Albany until it finally came to ham for
signature. Roosevelt at this time was
governor of New York, and but a few
days before had been named at Phil
adelphia for vice president on the ma
tional ticket.
Today sees the end Of that fight which
Roosevelt champfoned with that ability,
energy and good fortune which attend
him so generally to a successful out
come.
The decision of the highest court in
the land today again for Roosevelt ex-
emplihes: Right makes Might. Herein
is Roosevelt's great strength. He be-
lieves he is right and goes ahead. Since
he has left the executive chair of New
York over and over again have results
in his presidential career shown that
Right makes Might.
The New York case settled today
has been bitterly fought at every stage
and the state government has been
met by the most powerful legal OPP
position and the most powerful
moneyed opposition. yet Roosevelt
wins because Right made Might.
The decision of the court in the case
of the New York law will give an in.
centive and encouragement to other
states, wherein the people have fei
that corporations escape millions II
just taxation because the laws do not
permit the taxing of what is often tht
corporations greatest asset, the fran,
chise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
THE RESULTS

The effect of the japanese victory on
Russia as a nation is hard to foreteI,
because it may be either one of two
extremes. It may either shatter the
dominion of the cars. or it may re-
unite the Russian people and establish
the throne of the Romanons more firm
~ than ever.
Unless the car and his advisors are
totally blind to the situation, the crush
ing defeat of Rojestvensky must almost
necessarily end the war. In this way it
may be a great blessing. for Russian
success would have prolonged the
struggle indefinitely and caused great
deal more bloodshed and suffering. But
Rojestvensky's defeat will have the eff
feet Of disheartening the Russian arms
in Manchuria, and vladlvostok must
fall From the American point of view
Russian dominion in eastern Asia is at
an end.
Internally the Russian nation is torn
with revolution. The masses are op-
pressed by the grand dukes and the
favored classes. If the car had act
ed wisely and speedily fulfilled the
promises he has made to grant reforms,
this defeat might have had the effect of
arousing the loyalty OF the Russian ma
ton and reuniting 1t. But the car has
been dilatory and is evidently surround
ed by evil advisors. and on this account
the revolution may take on renewed en-
ergy. and the yoke of the despot thrown
on
u For the japanese the events Of tn,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
JAYHA WKER JOTS

George c. Marshall was killed by
lightning while standing on the porch
Of Clay county farm house. An
other man close to him was only
slightly shocked.
Ansel T. Ames Of Ames, Cloud coun-
ty, youth of IS. has just engaged in
his third matrimonial venture, his
bride being Mrs. S. A. Shafer, a Cliff
ton young woman Of SIS summers.
A Lawrence man is now fussing in
the papers of that town because peo-
pie persist in pasturing their horses
and cows in the streets. But how else
would the grass be kept down?
The Salina Journal asserts that
Nine. Gina CiaparelH Captured all
Salina with her voice" It is believed,
however, that this is erroneous. John
Bishop, Fred Trigg and E. r. Holmes
all escaped.
The young lady who writes the So
ciety items for Seth Wells Erie Rec
ord says she hopes "stork parties
won't become popular in Erie, be-
cause it would be too trying on the
society reporter"
In noting that Fort Scott has dis
covered a new kind of brick, Fred
Trigg infers that it belongs to neither
the Hornaday nor Richards factions.
Does Fred think there are no bricks
in either crowd?
The hotel reporter of the BellevilIe
z E6eElsln uOeSl propose 10 allow p6O-
pie who cannot write so it can be read
to get ahead of him. In a recent list
of hotel arrivals one is credited as
registering from Idunno and another
from Whatisit
The foreman Of the Union Pacific
round house at Junction City has re-
! ceived a bulletin giving instructions
how to operate and care for the new
gasoline motor cars which are Union
Pacific is ordering for suburban and
{ faz- r7ra1. A-s-rf 4s- N7s IT,
that one of the cars is to be used on
the Junction City branch. Car No.
will be sent there. at least that is tht
one designated in the bulletin. The
car will be like large electric car
except that it will be pointed at both
ends. It will carry passengers excIu.
sively, but will haul combination
baggage, mail and express car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
wien FItz L. Was shot.

Many years ago, when, during a
fight with Indians on the Texas frontier,
an arrow shot by a redskin, pieced the
body of Fitzhugh Lee, it was thought
by his brother soldiers that the wound
was mortal said an old friend of the
lamented Virginian, at the New VIII
lard.
"A terrible hemorrhage set up, and
Lees face took on a deathlike paI1or
which was taken as a sign of imminent
dissolution. Still he preserved conscious
ness, and in feeble tones made some re-
quests of his friends about sending word
to his family.
while in this desperate situation, one
Of his comrades in a laundering effort
to impart cheer, exhibited his hat to the
wounded man, and showed where a bull
let had perforated the crown.
THE Indians came pretty close to get
ting me, too, F'itz," he said.
"A sickly smile played over the fea-
lures of F'itzhugh Lee, and in a whisper
he remarked: oh, come off nov, George,
about Indians shooting that hole in your
hat. You know very we'll that you
went off down yonder by the creek and
put that hole in yourself One who
was present and who was on the verge
of tears told me afterward that when he
heard this jest from the lips of a man
supposed to be dying, he Immediately
took comfort. Any man who could joke
at such time wasn't going to die, and
he was right, for in a little while Lee
began to improve, and it wasn't long be-
fore he was chasing Comanches as mer-
rily as ever. w ashington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
orAKER REFLEorToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
The spring fever germ always works
with a system.
Lots of people are so polite as to in
spfre suspicion.
When a fellow is dead in love it's
his own funeral.
Absence makes the heart grow fouder
of some other fellow.
When a woman sets her cap for a
man she considers it all settled.
If money talks it is hard to under
stand how silence can be golden.
Even the girl with a high instep can
indulge in a flat-footed refusal
There's a lot of hocus-pocus about
spring. likewise lot of hokey-poISey.
There are many different kinds Of
success, but few OF US are able to take
our pick.
Deaf mutes should make good prize
fighters. They do all their talking with
their hands.
Many a woman is interested in mis-
sions whose children act like lot Of
young savages.
Most investors have at some time dis
covered the difference between capital
and capitalization.
Blobbs--.Why is Henpackl1ef so down
on church fairs?" Slobbs-''I9 first met
his wife at one"
The cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that man can have one wife too many
but not one too few
Wigg-" Harduppe says he doesn't be-
lieve in borrowing trouble" Wage
mo. not as long as he can borrow any
thing else"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.1

TFrom the Chicago News.]
Thieves regard life from an abstract
point of view
There are few graduates from the
school of experience.
Insurance solicitors spot newly mar
ried men for easy marks.
Never judge a hen by the colo stor-
age eggs you get for breakfast
Man is made of dust-otherwise Wo-
man would not have much use for him:
Give a woman the right kind Of raw
material and she'll make good nus
band of 1t.
Nothing provolzes a woman like being
nrenared for an emergency that doesn' [
A TirI can manage to get along with
ont a dimpIe if there is plenty OF sun
shine in her smile.
what has become of the old-fashioned
GIRL Who was an expert at making cotfee
and her own dresses!
fortune is evidently blind if we may
i,1r5pe bv the way she passes US py ana
Sasfoyvs her favors upon others.
A woman after standing up at the
altar and promising to obey gives ner
husband the laugh when he later lnsln-
mates that she ought to make gooa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
4UNKNowN,,

She stood, that irnmemorial day,
Within the shelter Of his arm,
Griet bowed and heard him revrent say ::
COD keep. my little girl from harm.
And then his column marched away
He fell with broken blade in hand,
Upon his heart a pictured face
his generous foes could understand
Iney left the trifie in its place;
Ihey answered thus his eyes command
He lies within a grave unknown
Somewhere beneath the Southern stars
S6e sits with whitened hair alone,
his wound was death-hers shows no
And all the burdened years have flown.
The he, frightening years have gently. flown;
- COD Keeps her. in his own right hand,
she says; Fame sometimes finds its
Some men are great-my love was grand
Can such as be be left unknown"
With happy eyes she sits alone,
This latest of Memorial days;
OUTSIDE, the march, the thundertone
or cannon, music, garlands, bays,
She smiles: My love comes to his own
Only his grave is left unknown
Charlotte Whitcomb in Boston Tran
script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
Even He Would Be Useful.

George B. Cortelyou was entertaining
a group of EnglIshmen with stories
about America.
Many interesting things happened"
said Mr.. CorteIyou, at the time of the
discovery Of gold in California Very
resolute, dauntless and peculiar men
were the pioneers who went westward
over the plains to dig gold and to found
towns in those days.
AN English tourist once met, in the
west, a prairie caravan-a great file Of
prairie schooners. cattle, men and wo-
men.
We are going to found town. the
leader of the caravan explained We
will found this town in a scientific man
ner.S We have everything needful with
US here, nothing unnecessary. That man
with the red hair is a baker. I am a
blacksmith. The little fellow is a doc
tor. That fat chap is butcher. And
so on
How very interesting said the
Englishman-
Yes said the leader. We work on
scientific principles. We don't have any
waste There isn't a person in our
party who won't do some important
duty in the new town
THE Englishman pointed to an old
and feeble man with bent back and a
long thin white beard.
But that very old man there, he SAID,
he can't possibly be Of any use to you,
can hep
oh, yes said the leader Wen
open our new cemetery with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
Pants and Tails.

There's one funny thing about dogs, !"
said Mr.. Albert D. Prentiss. of Chicago,
at the Hotel Joyce. land that is that
you never saw one pant and wag his
tail at the same time"
Carriage and Murphy admitted that
they didn't remember ever having seen
a dog violate the stated rule.
"A dog" said Mr.. Prentiss, is not
capable of a double emotion. He cant
growl and wag his tail, it is impossible
for him to be mad at one end and
hospitable at the other. If dog is
overjoyed to see his master he will
bark and wag his tail; if he wants to
get into the house he will paw at the
door, whine and wag his tail. but they
are all symptoms Of the one emotion
But il his master opens the door he
will Immediately cease to show anxiety
by whining and will resort only to the
tail method of expressing his feelings
Watch a mans eyes to judge his tenn
per, watch q dogs tail to get at the
state OF his mind"
But what's that got to do with the
price Of prunes? '' asked Carriage.
Nothing whatever" said Mr. Prem
tfss but it might affect sausage -
Baltimore News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Do you suppose that Philadelphia
machine which has just been busted
was a gas engine?
The people of Russia are not to
have Zemsky Sabor, but a zemsky
SOVIET Which viii you take in yours2
Still, you need not be afraid to put
a quarter in the collection basket once
in awhile for fear the church will
think it is tainted. The chances are
you won't be asked any questions
even if you should raise your contribu-
ton to dollar.
'sThe grass is coming up fresh and
green this spring" says a Massa-
chusetts paper in a news item. Pshawi
Ihats the way 1t does in Kansas every
spring.
Men who intend to visit the Port
land exposition this summer should re-
member to refrain from beating their
wives while there. Any wife beating
you may want to do should be done
this side of the Oregon line. for the
whipping post IS now in operation
there.
Rojestvensky evidently tried to steal
a base and then slide home to Vladi-
vostok.
Loves young dream seems to have
developed into a nightmare in the
case of the 64-year old Shawnee coun-
ty farmer who applied for a divorce
i've weeks after marriage
The session laws passed by the last
legislature will be published this week
and then you can find just what you
mustn't do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
OTTAWA,s WISDOM.

Ottawa seems to have a little sense.
It demands that the natural gas peo-
pie give the city gas at 25 cents, and
then pay the city 10 per cent. of the
gross receipts for each month. Just
why city should give without money
and without price to bunch of men
a franchise worth thousands of dollars
is a question that has troubled the
people who pay taxes, and it still
troubling them. Lawrence has given
away at least a million dollars worth
Of franchises IN her time, and has
nothing whatever 10 show for the gift.
Ottawa is Demanding something for
its franchises; and. as we say. Ottawa
seems to have some sense.-Lawrence
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
REr1Ecr1oNs OF A BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.l
summing an automobile is little
cheaper than a family
scandal is about other people; when
# IS about you it is SANDER
Fashionable society wears its stories
cut as low in the neck as its gowns.
you've got to have very little hui
man nature in you to be able TO love
a girl that is sea sick
There is a lot of excitement when
Won hear somebody coming down
stairs to be able to kiss a girl and
nave her begin singing at the piano
before they come in the room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

Since it has been demonstrated that
Mr. Westinghouse invention to do
away with the disastrous consequences
OF railroad collisions is a success, per
haps it can be applied with equal sue
cess to the collision which Will take
place about November when President
Roosevelt and the United States senate
come together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

last forty-eIght hours can have but one
result. They have become one Of the
greatest world powers on sea as well as
on land. Japan has become the mistress
OF the Orient and must henceforth be
recognized as the probable equal Of any
Enropean nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

That uneasy feeling among the 9TH
err candidates for the congressional
nomination in the Seventh district is
caused by Fred Dumont Smiths sun
port Of Judge West for attorney gen
eral They fear that Senator Smiths
eyes are once more turned in the df-
recdon of the empty congressional
chair and that he had his fingers
crossed when he said he didn't want
to run for congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
THE BATH TUB ISSUE.

Governor Cummins of Iowa would not
permit the capitol commissioners to put
an expensive bathtub in the executive
mansion for his benefit. Doubtless
Governor Cummins has heard of the
gooo old times when a president of
the United States used to walk down
to the Potomac river every morning to
take his tath.-Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

The Washington Post says that Ad-
niral Dewey always reads the war
news before breakfast, and it reminds
US that Dewey himself once manufac-
tured pretty good line Of war news
before breakfast. It is more prob
able that the admiral reads his war
news along about supper time, as the
evening papers usually print all the
war news. 1t viii be remembered
that the news Of Admiral Dewey's lit
tie stunt was first printed in the after
noon papers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

It is now stated that Commissioner
Garheld's Standard Oil report will be
ready about December l. By that
time Kansas expects to have the
Standard whipped and It won't care
what the report is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
A az ZOE NE JAPs.

friendly to the little Jap, in a. way, but
they are nevertheless taking precau-
lions to prevent the little Jap from be-
coming too big to be manageab BILE
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
MAY HAVE DONE so.

The Ohio state convention may settle
the tariff and decide about rate legis-
lation, but there are good reasons to
suppose that it will hardly find time to
nominate the next president.-Newark
Evening News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

the dearest nat. And I am dying to
congratulate you on youe-or may I
dear, say sOur'-success3 Yours i'm
patiently, MIRIAM"
Well he said at last, pulling a long
sigh and letting the note drop from his
myers, Pm a goat if I'd have believed
before 1t happened that they'd go to so
much trouble to set the money put in
to it's. E Kiser, in Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

A Pennsylvania man has offered
500 each to have his enemies killed.
The sultan Of Morocco and the Chicago
thugs should call him down for bull
ing the market. The former offers
only two dollars each, while the Chi
cago quotation is SIS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

OF encouraging the anti-race suicide
idea It will cover an entire block,
and the ground fioor win be occupied
by a department store which viii
make special prices to inmates OF the
apartments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

It must be admitted that for a man
with nervous prostration, Rojestven-
sky exhibited considerable nerve in re-
naming in neutral waters long after
he had been warned to get out He
evidently ought to have stayed still
longar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29
DON'T PRJIEvE N.

If that story that General Line
vitch's men are dying of an epidemic
at the rate of three hundred day
was started to fool the Japanese, it is
useless. The Japs learned to disbe-
lieve everything the Russians said be-
fore the war.-Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-29

One grain of corn will not fatten a
chicken. Neither will one advertise
ment fill your purse Constant feed
ing fattens the chicken. Constant adj
vertising fills the purse.-Arkansas
City Traveller