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, 1924-06-26
ROYALTY MONIES
BE RENTED
EARLY THIS YEAR

CHEYENNE. WYO., JUNE U.s.
State Treasurer John Snyder has
just completed an important service
for the people of the State. In COM
pany with Senator Warren he last
Saturday morning visited the Inter-
'Sr Department and succeeded In
getting the promise OF the Secretary
to hasten payment of the oil royalty
money to the State accrued up to
April 80, amounting to $3.427 1853.
Last year this money was not paid
to the State till after September 1.
but this year 1t will be forthcoming
shortly after the first OF July.
This expedition, made upon the
earnest solicitation OF our State
Treasurer and Senator Warren,
means n great deal at this time. In
the first place. the interest upon this
big sum OF money for three months
Is worth nifty thousand dollars to the
State and would pay the salaries Of
the Treasurer and Senator for sew
eral years. Just at this time. when
money Is a little tight. 1t will serve
to relieve the situation to n consider
able extent. II also provides ample
funds for our schools and highways.
and what ia more to the point. II will
be available for work this summer
not next fall.
Treasurer Snyder and Senator
Warren are to be congratulated upon
the successful outcome Of their ef-
forts.
, 1924-06-26
DIRECTOR HAS
PROBLEM WHEN
GIRLS ARE CAST

Cases of mistaken identity are al
most an everyday occurrence and one
hears frequently of so-called doub-
les. But there is an even more I'M
usual instance in the Fox special
production. mo Mother to Guide
Her." showing at the Strand Theatre
tomorrow.
Genevieve Tobin has a youthful
counterpart, representing the char
acter of Mary Boyd at the age of
eight. Compare for yourself the
likeness of little Ruth Sullivan and
Miss TObin. Then look at Dolores
Rouse and her juvenile prototype,
Katherine Downer, who portrays the
role Of Kathleen Pearson when eight
years old. Doesn't 1t almost make
you think that the director waited
for the little girls to grow up before
he finished the production? But, it
was just another job hat they gave
the casting director. He had to
find two little girls about eight years
old. who matched in facial contours
and expressions the eighteen year old
Geneyieve Tobin and Dolores Rous-
sc. There often is some difficulty
lin finding two people about the same
age who resemble each other close
iy. But 1t is a far more trying task
to find a resemblance when such a
variance of age exists. In this case
the casting director had only half
his work done, because he had to
find another pair of girls at the ages
OF eight and eighteen, who looked
closely alike.
, 1924-06-26
UTILITIES PASS
LITIGATION COST
TO CUSTOMERS

Users of electric, telephone and
gas service are "cashing in" daily
on the e~ver-growing friendliness
they are displaying toward these in
situations, according to George E.
LAWS, a public utility man of Den
yer. who was a visitor in Rawlins
recently. The present level of rates
for utility service, which are practic-
ally the same as before the war, tho
the price of everything else has in
creased, is due to the attitude of the
customers Of these companies, Mr..
LAWS stated.
I'm the past, the people, or their
public officials, were prone to har-
rass the public utilities. sometimes
without regard for the merit or
soundness of their action. AS a re-
suit the utilities-and the people as
well-expended hugh sums Of money
in litigation.
To-day, however. the people or
their representatives and the COM
panies meet aros ehtscobttlaeesti?a
panies meet across the table to set
tie their affairs. The courts have
almost been boycotted as a result.
Consequently the people are receiv-
ing better service, and with little
IL any-increase in rates. Had the
utilities been obliged to litigate; had
the people made unreasonable de-
mands. the expense that would have
thus been saddled on the companies
would have made the maintenance
of rates at their present low levels
impossible.
Mr.. Lewis visited Rawlins In the
interest of the forthcoming annual
convention of the Wyoming Utilities
Association. which will v in
Casper June 1924. While here he
called upon James Potts of the Raw
Inns Electric Light and Fuel com
pany and e. c. Bertagnolli of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph company.
There Is a very definite reason
for the more friendly attitude on the
part of the customer of utility COM
panies." he said. 1T didn't Just
happen. Newspaper advertising has
played the most prominent part in
moulding the sentiment OF the peo-
pie. Thru this medium the utility
companies have laid their affairs be-
fore their customers. They have ex-
planned. In type. many OF the things
that heretofore have constituted n
mystery for the average person.
Quite naturally the people. as they
have grown to understand. have be-
come more friendly. They now real
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
A EeenonciVc Chord.

Betty Brown the prettiest girl in
the village, was blest with father
who snubbed all the young men who
came to see her. one evening bash
full young man named Samuel Green
called.
After the trio had sa' together in
silence for some time, the young man
ventured to remark:
at looks as though il might rain,
sir"
ITS not going to rain was Father
Bf9Wn's gruff reply.
For nearly half an hour there was
complete silence. Finally the old
mans curiosity got the better of him.
"Who are youY' he growled.
Samuel Green" was the response.
'Whut? Not old Tom Green's
SOM
Yes sir"
"Weu. then" exclaimed the father,
thawing, "it may rain, it may rain
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
SIZE of Sea Waves Given.

Again the question of the maximum
height that great waves attain on the
rm-swept ocean has been answered
in at least semi-scientific manner
The photographic office at Washing
ton has been at the pains to compare
many of the most trustworthy OBJ
servationS on record relating to waves
on the Atlantic The con, lusion ar
rived at is that, on the average, what
are called great waves attain a
height of about 291a feet In tempests
of extreme fury waves sometimes at
tain height as great as Az feet,
Such waves can hardly be called
mountainous" but to castaways in a
small boat they would seem to be pro-
digiously high. The length of great
waves, that is, the distance from one
hollow to that before or behind 1t,
varies from COO to 1900 feet.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02

An euiehtening and perhaps a
Christening experience to Carolinians
who deride "theorists' and experts"
in agriculture but put all their faith
and hope for progress in ''practical'
or dirt" farmers would be some
reading in the history of so universal
and useful an implement as the turn
pillow. 'Practical" farmers had been
unable through generations to design
lust right the curves of the mold
board and no appreciate progress in
that matter was made until theorists
anplied to the problem the laws of
higher mathematics Thomas Ieffer
son. in study prepared for the
French academy, calculated the
curves and reported the results of
field tests. and on these lines, almost
unchanged, lines evolved by pure
theory and checked by practical use,
moldhoards have been constructed
from mis- time. "Practical' farmers, a
little later when the cast iron turn
pillow was introduced. which preceded
the chilled steel pillow, insisted that
the cast iron would ''poison the soil,
iniure the Fertility and promote the
growth of ocks."-From the Columbia
state.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
South Bluehill,

Cecil Gray and family and Albert
Howard and family, OF Brooklin,
spent Christmas with friends here.
Henry Henrickson, who has been
visiting his son in Penobscot, has re-
turned home.
Angus Henderson, who has been ill
a long time, is quite low.
Frank Day, jr., felkand broke his
wrist several weeks ago, but it was
thought to be only a sprain. The
bone united. He was at Bluehill
memorial hospital Friday, where he
had it rebroken and set.
Miss Emily Bowden of this place
and Wallace Thompson of Deer Isle
were married at the Congregational
parsonage December IL. They will
reside at Deer Isle. Mrs. Thompson
was one of the popular young ladies
of this place and will be much missed.
Congratulations are extended
On Christmas eve there was
Christmas tree and concert by the
Sunday school, which was much en-
joyed by full house.
Dec. 81. o.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
SOWING OF DIR CONS TEETH
According to Greek Myth Thcbes Was
Euiit by Soldiers Who Game
From the Ground.

some strange things are contained
in til myths. one Of them is the
Greea story of the sowing Of the
dragons teeth,
At the bidding of the oracle of
Apollo. Cadmus set ont with party
of retainers to found the city of
TheheS. The sacred serpent of Mars
captured the retainers killed them and
itself was killed by Cadmus.
A voice instructed Cadmus to re
move the monsters teeth and sow
them in a field. rs he completed this
task points of spears broke through
the clo1, then holmets, then armor-
clad bodies Of men, until a host of war
riors stood in tha field
NEEDLE not with our civil war;"
said one Of the warriors as Cadmus
ad,au ed to IAget what he thought was
a new array OF Cneuies
Thereupon the warriors began to
fight among themselves until all ex-
cept five were Killed. These five joined
Ca'mus and helped him to build
Th"hes.-Iondou Answers.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
Sole NIGHT SHIRT TALES
f. lsmio of Mons Lost Garments
Leads to Suspicion They Were
Left in SIeepers on Purpose.

There has been an epidemic of lost
nigt shirts in the Detroit district re-
ccL.ly ~.
The first tale of a shirt involves an
ED rly woman who called at the Of
Ace and was anxious for the return Of
Il night shirt which she said her son
had left on a pullman. 1t should be
easy to discover, said she, as it was
made of heavy blue and white fanel-
cite. 1t was located and when the
clerk was wrapping 1t ZIP she remarked,
with q grim look, that she felt sure
her son, who had failed to appreciate
the article-her gift, too-had left 1t
on the car on purpose, but-"as long
as Toms home, he's going to wear it."
JUU ging from the tone in which she
delivered this ultimatum, Tom will
Weir il until he takes another trip and
manages to lose il on another pull
man car-far, far from home.
A passenger bereft of his night at
tire wrote in plaintive plea for its
return saving. "The weather is cold
and the tails Of the shirt are long. so
please rush by return mail" Unless
he has been careless once more he has
leg comfort at night, for the shirt was
returr2d Immediately.
a travelling man who reported the
loss of his night shirt said someWh hat
lathetically that it was the only one
lie had Nth hila, lie had to have it
IpcauCa he didn't dare To % home
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
NH n EsspS" 2 mrs
Woman Testif'es She Pokes
Fires Tor a LIVING.
London Firm Supp.!3s Attendants for
Dogs, While Goo Conversation
aIists are Away IN Demand.

The woman who stated in court re
Gently that she earned a living by
poking fires is only one of the many
hundreds Of people who follow occu-
pations of which most folks have
never heard.
This curious form of employment is
common in big cities where Jews are
numerous. BY rabbinical law Jews
are forbidden - ldend or tend to any
fires on tlc.I .s..aadth. AS many as
90 houses NY - visited by these
profession IRE ~ rs, who receive
a small fee from aach.
Strange a. Ills may be- there are
many stranger was of making Il liv
ing. For example, good conversa-
tionalist need never be down and
out" Some employment agencies are
always on the lookout for interesting
takers to eniertain insomnia victims
at night A sufferer from this com
plant actually pays retaining fee
to woman well known in the West
End of London for her bright and vi
vacious conversation.
Just as little kSown is the work of
men who take dogs for an airing
There is in London at least one firm
which, at the shortest notice, supplies
dog attendants, who may be called by
women to take charge of their pets
in the parks.
This strange profession" is not
such sinecure as it would appear.
Thefts of valuable dogs have been in
creasing very rapidly in recent times;
and the thieves are very ingenious in
their methods. SO where valuable
animals are taken for an airing only
people who are up to the tricks of
these pests can be entrusted with
them.
Another little known way of earn
ing Il living is the work of the search
ers at the British museum These
men are employed chiefly In looking
up references dealing with heralGry,
genealogy, and the history of ances-
tral mansions or of regiments any
thing and everything indeed
Many of the searchers have been
employed in the queerest tasks mag
Unable. In one case three years
quest produced evidence, found in the
rolls of some ancient parchments, re-
garding the disputed ownership of
rich seam of coal in Yorkshire. This
resulted in a gain of t37 900 for the
mans employer
1t is not only in London that one
finds queer trades; they abound in
many parts of the country.-London
Answers.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
Culture and letter. Writing.

Letter writing is custom of civ
lied races. The more cultivated the
individual, the more it is second ma
ture With him to attend to his bust
ness and personal correspondence.
With individuals as with races, it is
largely Il matter of custom and habit.
Some persons-you may know some
such-boast they do not write letters,
Some men who avoid this irkSome duty
merely shift the responsibility. Posi-
bly they are so situated in business
that they are not required to attend to
any correspondence. Social and per-
Sonal letters they Leave to their wives
or daughters or sisters 1t is an inter
eSting thing that the more important
man is the more particular he is to
attend to seemingly unimportant cor
respondence. If ne does not have tiEe
to attend to it himself he employs a
secretary to do it for him. The dis
tinguShed writer sees that every let
ter addressed TO him concerning what
he has written, whether it is synpa-
thetic or hostile, receives courteous
and suitable answer. The poor or
mediocre writer often throws such let
tiers in his waste basket-NeW York
sun.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
Inn nh&1HTsc TN Ain
y WAUEasvssE.S EU HHE
Mountains Being Harnessed to
Supply Power.
People of Italian Town Lipht Streets,
Cook and Feat Homes by VOL
canic Steam Pressure,

Volcanoes, although often referred
10 as burning mountains, in reality do
not burn at all Neither are they
mountains in the true sense of the
term.
The scientific definition of volcano
Is IAN opening in the earth's crust,
through which heated matter is thrown
up from the earths interior to the sur
face, where it usually forms hill,
more or less cOnical in shape and gen
orally with a hollow or crater at the
top"
Where eruptions frequently occur,
the heated materials forced upwards
pile themselves to heights which cause
them to be classed as mountains
What looks like fire belching forth
is merely the reelection of the molten
lava on the clouds of steam which hang
over the crater The steam itself is
often wrongly spoken Of as smoke
The cause of volcanic action Is not
known. The most popular theory is
that 1t is brought about by water get
ting into the white-hot furnace below
the earth's crust. In support of this
the fact is cited that nearly all the
most active volcanoes are close to the
sea.
Volcanoes are really safety-valves.
Without them we could hardly have
existed at all, for scientists say it is
due to volcanic action that the con-
tinents emerged from the sea. Earth
quakes, which are usually more ter
rible in their effects than volcanoes,
would occur much more frequently but
for these safety-valves.
Between 600 and 700 volcanoes have
been counted in various parts of the
world, and of these 270 are still on the
active list. NeSuViuS was silent for
over two thousand years, destroyed
Pompeii. Etna is known to have been
active as far back as 500 b. c. In
11S6 it destroyed $1,000 people, since
when at varying intervals 1t has been
the scene of number of disasters.
In Italy and in some of the volcanic
islands of the Pacific the steam power
issuing from volcanoes has been har-
messed for engineering purposes. The
people of the Tuscan town of Lardello
light their streets, heat the homes, and
do their cooking by means of volcanic
steam pressure, which generates
enough heat To cook a joint in less
than half an hour.
In another district in Italy volcanic
energy is exploited for the purpose of
til
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02

Willie Springer left Saturday for
Boston, where he will teach in the
high school.
is at the home of H. G. Wooster, for
a few days.
Langdon Smith is spending a short
vacation with his parents, N. A.
Smith and wife.
Mrs. Hannah Scammon spent
Christmas with her daughter, Mrs.
Frank Goodwin, at Washington
Junction While she was away,
three men were kind enough to saw a
pile of wood which she had in her
dooryaM Mrs Scammon was much
pleased and surprised to find the
wood manufactured on her return
home.
Mrs. Lena Campbell of Seal Har-
Dor is with her sister, Mrs. Helen
Wooster, who broke her hip last
week. The many friends of Mrs.
Wooster are glad to hear she is COM
Portable.
lothian Buzzell is at home from
Connecticut, and has moved his fam
lily to Lamoine, where he has employ
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs C. S. Goodwin have
gone to spend the winter with their
daughters.
Mrs. S. T. Goodwin entertained her
son Harry and his family Christmas
day.
Dec. 81. M. B.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02

.Rettv :" called the young mother.
"Yes, ma'm," came from the
nurse.
"When the baby has finished his
bottle lay him IN the cradle on the
right side. After eating, a child
should always lie on the right side.
That relieves the pressure on the
heart. Stil UeGectively) the liver Is
on the right side Perhaps, after all,
you'd better lay him on the left side,
No. I'm sure the book said. right
side. On the whole, Betty, you may
law the baby ON his back till | lave
looked the matter up more thor
oughly."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
You Never Can Tell.

A strappng woman boarded troll
ley car, settled into a seat and paiC
her fare. The car had not Travelled
more than five blocks when she rose
and rang up a cash fare Whereupon
the conductor strobe up to her.
Madam he demanded, do you
know that | must turn in every fare
rung up upon that register?"
certainly - the woman replied,
throwing open her coat and showing a
badge. Meet the new Inspector
FYerybody's Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
fremont.

Milton Kittredge left Monday for
Bates college, after week with his
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs Clayton Wallace of
Philadelphia spent Christmas week
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. E.
Wallace, before going to Northeast
Harbor, where he has employment.
Viola Wooster, Ruth Kittredge,
Helen Wooster and Edmund Reed,
left Monday to resume their studies
at Castine normal school
Homer Pettigrove and son Holsey
came home from Rockland, where
they are scalloping, to spend Christ
mas week with their families.
Dec. 81. X.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02

Miss Dorothy Chatto of Bluehill
Falls and Maurice Howard of New
York were married in Bluehill by
Rev Mr.. Robson, and went to Bos-
ton for a short wedding trip.
Mrs. C, e. Bridges recently visited
her parents, DR.. Littlefeld and wife,
at Bluehill.
Frank Leighton visited his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs Willard Leighton,
Sunday
Dec 3 c.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02

The latest delirious splash in ear
rings! She was pale and interesting
type A little enamel basket filled
with green leaves and pink roses, also
in enamel hung from the ears by slen'
der platinum chains, In the heart of
each rose in the basket gliSt@ned a
diamond.-New York Sun,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
| nst Rlnn Oddly Found.

A Boston woman lost a ring highly
priced as an heirloom. She searched
diligently for it and offered reward
for its return A few days later she
was eating some cookies she had made
and, to her Joy and surprise, found
that a particularly hard substance she
bit into was her lost ring.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
So There. Smarty,

1.-THE difference between a woman
and a glass" said the funny fellow,
lis that the glass reflects without
speaking, while woman speaks with
out rejecting"
"And the difference between you and
a glass;" said the sharp girl, rs that
the glass is polished. "-Auckland
Weekly News
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
HILLS Cove.

Misses Ruth Hamor and Laura
Sargent left to-day to resume their
studies at school.
School began to-day, after weeks
vacation, with the same teachers,
Miss Georgia Mcfarland and Miss
Bertha Hinckley.
Mrs. Alliene Wilcomb is teaching
the fourth grade at Bar Harbor.
Richard McPike, who has been
employed at Waite, has returned
home.
Arthur Chillman has had radio
installed.
Many friends of Calvert Hamor
will be pleased to hear that he is able
to be out.
Dec. 81 H.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
AGAINST Evil Gases.

The United States bureau Of mines,
informing the pablic against the use
of masks agains, obnoxious gases, etc.
SAYS that gas masks are the simplest
and easiest to wear, but they protect
only in comparatively low concentra-
lions Of obnoxious gases and should
never be used where the air contains
less than 16 per cent of oxygen.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
(2223)
How to Strengthen Ives

In a surprising short time simple
camphor, witchhazel hydrastis, etc,
as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash,
strengthens eyes so you can read or
work more. One small bottle shows
results. Aluminium eye cup free.
AleXander's Pharmacy.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
The Mode

Mrs. Homebody eagerly - What
did she wear?
Mr.. Homebody- | could see
from where | sat was an air of so
phlstication.--Life
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-01-02
HENS STRANGE Brood.

At farm at Dalton, near Ormskirk
England a buff Orpington hen " act
ing as foster-mother to litter Of
young SN"r'"lS which creep under her
wing at night.