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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

In spite Of its incapacity for leadership
in democratic age, l think the French
aristocracy has, on one or two points,
preserved more of the purely aristocratic
las distinguished from the plutocratic)
sentiment than the British. To become
poor, even moderately poor, in England
is to lose caste, to become rich is to ac-
Quire caste, and this is the sign that
the aristocratic sentiment about ancestry
has given place to the plutocratic senti-
mcnt about wealth.
Those who really belong to the French
noblesse are in no danger of losing their
birthright Of aristocratic consideration
for any degree of poverty that does not
make q decent appearance impossible and
that does not compel them to engage in
some money earning occupation. The
gentry and their descendants have no
prejudice against decent aristocratic
poverty, and they have the genuine old
aristocratic prejudice against work.
They despise all wealth that is not in
herited and value only the results of the
labors of the dead. Even literature and
the fine arts become degrading as soon as
they are lucrative, sentiment quite OPP
posed to the general modern opinion in
France All the forms Of trade are de-
spicable for aristocrats, and when they
hear of family that has been in trade
they say, with an mir Of genteel ignor-
ance about the nature Of tho business,
"lls ont vendu quel.ue chose. "-P. G.
Hammerton in Atlantic Monthly
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

SIZE HAD HER WAY.-There was
man once who, after peculiarly insult
ing speech in court, was promptly fined
for contempt. He paid over the money
on the spot, saying that he regarded the
money as only fair equivalent Tor the
pleasure he had enjoyed. The Princess
Louise once enjoyed luxury similarly
purchased. When John Brown first en-
tered the service of Prince Albert, the
little princess hearing her father address
him as Brown used the same form in
speaking to him. The queen corrected
them, and they all addressed him as "Mr.
Brown" excepting the Princess Louise.
who, imperious even in childhood, per-
sisted In her right to use the name as her
father did. One morning the queen heard
her and informed her If she again adj
dressed Mr.. Brown without handle to
his name, she would be sent to bed. The
next morning when he presented himself
In the royal apartments where the family
assembled, the little miss said flippantly y,
"Good-morning, Brown" Then. as she
saw the eyes of her queen-mother liked
upon her, she rose with courtesy, and
continued, "And goodnight, Brown, for
/ am going to bed" And she walked
resolutely away to her punishment.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs Cleveland is a skillful pianist, but docs
not sing.
Some ladies' boots shown in Boston shop
window nre Slo0 pair.
Twenty widows own twenty adjoining
farms in Greene county, ..
Ms. Black, widow of the late Jeremiah
Black, is to pass the winter with Mrs. Hornsoy
in Washington.
Miss Annie Lippincott, Grace Greenwoods
daughter, has reg aimed her voice and health,
and shortly will return to tic opera stage
Queen Victoria has the finest dessert service
of old seyrrs in the world 1t is estimated
by competent judges to be worth s25o, 900.
A New York Central sleeping car porter
saws he has been on the road for fifteen years
and ONLY two Indies ever offered to pay INN
for bis trouble
Eugenie will visit Queen Victoria, as soon
as her majesty returns to Windsor. The ex-
empress will pass the winter between Maita
and Palermo, Sicily.
II is said that Mrs. James Brown Potter
keeps two agents constantly employed send
ing paragraphs to the papers about her She
is about To publish speaker
Mrs Richard II Dana and Mrs Annie
Thorpe, the daughters Of the poet Longfei-
low. are going to build large double house
at Cambridge for their residence.
Belva lockwood is going on lecturlng
tour through New England, northwestern
Ohio and Illinois under the management OF a
lvceum bureau She starts at Worcester
Mass, Nov D. and will wind up at Spring
field, His
Miss Hannah Sands, who recently died at
Ryo, n Y, was supposed to be very poor
until search among her effects revealed an
old skirt. in which s400,000 in money and
bonds was sewed up The money went to her
four poor nephcws
Eleven old ladies recently held n tea party
at Arcade, N Y, the youngest being IL
years OF age, the average 70 years and
months. and the combined ages sos; three
were over 80 years; all had been married,
| and nine were willows.
Miss Mitchell, tho daughter of the senator
| from Oregon, was educated in Europe, where
| she had many admirers One Of these, the
| Duke de La Rochefoucalt, is coming to this
| country and will winter in Washington. Cos
| sips are discussing the prospects OF match.
| In spite of all the sensational stories that
| have been printed about Mime. Etclka Gerster
| having lost her reason through her husbands
cruelty, she is living happily in Paris, having
| lost neither her fortune, her voice nor hei
husband, and doyoting herself chiefly te
bringing up her babies.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

Those dairymen who do not believe in
the power of milk to rapidly absorb and
become contaminated by surrounding
noxors smells will do well to try the
following simple test, the results of
which will, doubtless Immediately con-
vince the most skcpical: Take a wide
bowl or soup plate to the COW stable
when you go to milk; pour into it pint
of fresh milk, set 1t on the floor or ut the
height Of a milk stool, SO as to expose it
fully to the mir Of the stable, behind and
close to the cows. II the day 10 close
and heavy and the milk IL cold, and the
stable not cleaned out and aired, the re-
suit will be surprising. Take It to the
house or anywhere away from the stable
and try to drink it.-Scienti6c American.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

Two little boys Of the street stood near
a fruit and candy stand in front of the
board of trade building. They had ten
cents between them.
Lets buy some lemonade" said one
of the lads.
NAV; let's buy candy" replied the
other.
"Oh," exclaimed the first speaker,
lemonade is much nicern candy. It's
cold and then, besides, there's the lemon.
Yum, yum, yum"
Yes replied his companion, "but
10 cents worth of candy will last two
hours and then there's the taste.n
The philosophers logic was irresistible
and the candy was purchased. Chit
cnrn Herald
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
A writer in the Lewiston Journal re

writer in the Lewiston Journal re-
marks: "Calling on Gen. Charles Ham,
lin in Bangor recently / noticed that he
had discarded the old red table that he
had used as law desk so long and had
introduced In its place a modern roller
top desk. The old red table was his IA
theirs. 1t was the desk he used when he
first opened law office In Hampden, and
the only desk he had during the long term
of his practice. 1t is an ordinary kitch-
ell table, now much married and battered.
Probably larger number of writs have
been made on it than on any desk in
Maine; for when Hannibal Hamlin prac-
ticed law more writs were used in ordi-
nary legal business than are used now.
Bushels of political correspondence have
been written on the old table. The Gen
eral stuck to it until the increasing bulk
of his papers recently compelled him to
retire 1t from duty"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
SCRlBNBR'S MAGAZINE
Published Monthly
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
FIRST NO. READY DEC. 18TH.

SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE will be in the
widest sense a magazine of general liter
ature, and each number will be fully illus
trated.
Some of the most notable papers to ap-
pear during the first year are a series of
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS or TIIACKERAY of
very great photographed value. EN-
MINISTER +. Is WAsHBURNE's REMINls-
CENCEs OLE THE SIEGE AND COMMUNE OF
PARIS; GIIMPsEs At TIE DIARIES OF
GoUVERNEUR MORRIS, Minister to France
at the close of the last century giving
descriptions of social life and characters
at the time); a collection of contempora-
ry letters describing EARLY NEW YORK
AND NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY.
There is much excellent fiction, incud-
ing a serial by HAROLD FREDERIC; sto-
ries extending through several numbers
by II. c. RUNNER. j. S. OF DALE, and
others; and short stories by r. l. STEv-
ENsoN, JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, r. A
JANvIER, Miss JEwEPT, THANET, ii. II
BoYEsEN, Miss CROSBY, and a host of
others.
Notable special papers to be published
very early are General +. A. WALKERS op
SOCIALISM; DIR. WILLIAM HAYES Wards
on BABYLoNIAN CYLINDERS; Mr.. JOIN c.
ROPES on the PORTRAITS OF CESAR; Cap
tain GREENE's on COAST Defence, etc,
etc.
SCRmNER's MAGAZINE will be published
at 81 90 year, or % cents a copy. Sub
scriptions may be send to any ncwsdealer
or bookseller, or to
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUB.
TAB AND 745 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS.

The Hartford Courant has entered upon
its 123d year.
The first number of the new Scribner's
Magazine will appear Dec 10.
Miss Charlotte Adams has been appointed
American editor of The Magazine of Art.
Col. John A. Cockerll gets the largest
salary of any managing editor in the coun-
try.
James Gordon Bennett is back in New
York, and 1t is reported that he will run
The Herald himself in the future.
Maj f. A. Burke, of The Now Orleans
Times Democrat, has just finished 2oD
milo mule back trip in Honduras.
Joseph B. McCullagh, of The St Louis
Globe Democrat, is tho richest of our man
aging editors lie was once a correspondent
only.
Bill Nye is giving out and will probably
have to give up work for time He can
afford to lie idle, however, he is worth
100000.
Loring Pickering, editor of The San Fran
cisco Call, has just become father to vigor-
GUS boy. Mr. Pickering is 20 years old and
some time ago married for the third time.
Frank George Carpenter is native of
Mansfield q. He is 81 years Old, and was
graduated at Worcester university. After
that he studied law for n year and then
went into journalism.
Berlin papers record the death, age 60, of
H. Gensch, the founder OF the famous North
German Gazette. He started business poor
journeyman printer, and built up one of the
largest publishing houses in Europe.
The weekly sermon and sporting news gets
sadly mixod up in Australian newspapers
once in while. Here is an example: He
said, Saddle me the ass, and they sad'lled
him, and he finally came in II good first,
beating Ben Bolt ON the post by neck.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

! SANDY RIVER RoAD.-At the annual
meeting of the Sandy River railroad in
Phillips the following officers were elect
ed President and superintendent, N. B.
Beal of Phillips; clerk, Daniel M. Bon
ney, of Pennington; treasurer and gen
eral ticket and freight agent, }. Il.
Thompson, of Phillips; directors N. Is.
Beal, j. H. Bonney, ID. n. Bonney, G. d.
Willis and Joel Wilbur The reports
show that slS,sl6 passengers and 1854
tons of freight were carried during the
year. The total gross earnings were
S26,557; operating expenses, 81 1913
net earnings So, 1853; from which deduct
interest, 1900, leaving a surplus of
81, sos, a gain of nearly 10 per cent. over
the previous year. Five hundred feet OF
trestles have been replaced, 700 new ties
laid. and the road is now in an excellent
condition.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
MUSICAL NOTES.

Mime Patti will be heard again in New
York on Nov. IL.
Sig Campobello has joined the Duff Opera
company to sing the King i'll the pirates of
Penzance"
Campanini, the great tenor, is to undergo
another surgical operation in the hope of i'm
proving the purity of his voice.
Mr.. NeuendorH has begun a series of Sun
day concerts in New York, which are i'll
tended to be both edifying and attractive.
Miss Gertrude Griswold, Bret Harte's
niece, who has just returned from Europe,
will join one OF McCaull's companies and
make her first appearance in tho now opera
OF Lorraine
The rumors concerning possible Wait Of
Anton Rubenstein to this country have beea
set at rest by the news that this eminent
Russian composer has become conductor Of
the imperial concerts Of 81 Pster.burg
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
The Country Boy.

The country lad who is trained to sim
pie ways and homely virtues, and who
learns what dollar is worth by actually
earning it under the laws of imperative
necessity, has a tremendous advantage
over the town boy, says the Iowa Home
stead The country schools are far ME
rior to the town or city schools bnt TINS
Is counterbalanced by tie fact that the
country boy is trained to work from the
time he can pick up corn cobs TO run the
kitchen stove, until he goes out TO ms
own home. The country boy has mile
or so to walk TO and from school, which
gives him vigorous appetite and health.
The country boy is face To face with
practical realities. lie sees how slowly
money is made on the farm; he is taught
from youth up the need of economy; he
has the nature OF saving first ex-
planned to him every day in the week; he
is not exposed to the temptation OF the
saloon, or the ballroom; he is not tempt
ed so much to be a lady's man before he
has occasion to use a razor on his downy
checks. He may be a trifle rude, he may
not feel easy in company, but, In the long
closely contested race of life, it Is the
chap that trudges to school bare-footed
in summer and in stogas in winter, whose
shears that leads the chap that goes to
the city school, with starched shirt front
and the fancy slippers and whose head is
shaved with the lawn mower in the bar
ber's shop. Such has been our ohserya-
ton, and we think we know what we are
talking about. Speaking from expert
ence, we never read any books with such
ayidity as those we devoured while the
horses were resting at the end OF the
plow-lapd. The boys we enyied 40 years
ago, because they wore cashmere and
laughed at our jeans, have dropped so far
back in the race that we have almost for
gotten them. The chaps who had plenty
of money at college and the city bred Eel
lows have not been, as rule, heard from
much since; while the country boys who
wore plain clothes and kept close to their
books in the old college are leading the
thoughts in Iowa and other States to-day
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
How BARSux MADE FoRruNE.-Ad-

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enough You ought To use printers ink
every day. You are asleep ard want
your business to run itself. Standing
ad, ertisements in paper command con-
tidcnce. The man who for year liz, in
one community and leads reputable life,
even though he b. of moderate ability.
will grow in the confidence and esteem OF
his fellows. On the same principle
newspaper advertisement becomes famil-
lar in the eyes of the reader. 1t may sci
dom be read, still it makes the name and
business of the man familiar and its pres
ence in the columns of a paper inspires
confidence in the stability of its enter
prise"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

The car j. full of alumni, whispered
Miss Beekonstreet to her friend from the
West as they both journeyed Cambridge
ward in the horse cars.
Yes" said the Chicago girl land
how it chokes one up, don't itS | won
der they do not open the vcntilators.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

The Vermont Legislature has passed
a bill providing that all hotels or rrstu-
rants using olemargariue shall put out
large signs notifying the public OF the
fact
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

For lame back, side or chest, use Shi.
loh's Porous Plaster. Price Is cents.
Sold by II. W. Cushing>
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24

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and that exactng discipline which governs the prac
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this route ARE Transfers at all connecting points In
Union Depo@, and the unsurpassed comforts and
Injuries OF Its Passenger Equipment.
The Fast Express Trains between Chicago and
Peoria. Council Bluffs, Kansas City, Leavenworth and
Atchison are composed Of well ventilated finely up
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Cars, In which deliberately cooked meals are leisirey
eaten Between Chicago and Kansas City and Atchson
are also run the Celebrated Reclining Chair Cars,r
The Famous Albert Lea Route
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Minneapolis and St Paul. where connections
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Trains are run to the watering places, summer
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grounds of Iowa and Minnesota. II Is also the most
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lands OF interior Dakota.
, still another DIRECT LINE, via Seneca and Kan
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-11-24
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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
Third-ClaSs Matter.

''Ef it amt writtin' an it amt print
in, wat kinder stamps do you put on?'
queried an urchin, whose head barely
reached to the window ledge, at the
postoffice yesterday.
The clerk at the stamp window smiled
at the youngsters question and winsed
in evident enjoyment at the bystanders.
Then he said:
Sonny, l suppose you've got third
class matter?s"
II Dunno" was the dubious reply.
The clerk laughed and repeated his
winks at the interested spectators who
had overheard the dialogue.
"Well," he said finally, and mimick,
ing the boys manner, "ef it amt writ,
tin an it amt printin', | guess We'll
have to call it third-class matter and
send it along for you pretty cheap
| What does it weight"
''Nuthin'," said the boy, and his
mouth stretched into a grin that threat
ened to fracture his ears.
''Nothing?" repeated the clerk.
'Yump," muttered the boy, reefns
his smile slightly.
I'm that case, then, sonny" said tn,
clerk, with hilarious animation, ''we'l
send your package through for moth
ing"
''Sure popP' questioned the boy, a
he edged back a little from the window
Sure pop" repeated the clerk. +"
pledge the honor of the government
Hand over the matter that weighs moth
ing"
Here it -, mister" and the DO,
pushed an inflated toy balloon througl
the window opening. mind yer, II
hold the goV'ment 'sponsible-yer sal
So" And then the boy and the spec
tators, did the laughing and Che wink
ing and the clerk devoted himself 3
chunks of language which weighe
more than the mailable four pounds al
lowed by law.-Philddetphid Press.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22

gled feebly in his arms, but his elo-
duence quieted her at last,
II was more self-shame than any
other feeling that overpowered her.
She had told him that he had not the
temperament of an artist; that he never
could learn to draw we'll; that he hao
no eye for color, etc, etc. :,
Never once had it entered her head
that he was the young B%ostonion about
whom the art world was in ~ecstasleS..
Forgive me, darling" he begged.
What a silly thing you must think
men' she sobbed.
II think you're an angel!' he an
swered warmly. And as for talent,
dearest. YOU have quite as much as |
have. 1t only needs cultivation"
Perhaps this Modified her, for she
dried her eyes-or allowed him to-and
smiled as she said:
TO think you were making all those
absurdly crooked trees on purpose. It's
too ridiculous"
He laughed.
But YOU haven't told me- said he.
will you marry me, M~ilicent?"
What she said then is not known;
but he must finally have won her con-
sent, for in the Boston papers there APP
peared the following winter a number
of squibs to this effect:
Mr.. Neil Halleck, the distinguished
young artist of this city, was married
las; Wednesday to Miss Milicent Leigh
of Pittsburg. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Halleck's bride has considerable
artistic talent, and the young couple
will start on Saturday for Italy, where
they propose to study art together"
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-22
MILICENTvS PUPIL.

What a summer that was at Scalp
Level, when we all had the art fever,
and organized our sketching club!
Despite our lofty aspirations, it was
a very jolly affair, and we managed to
have a good time generally. But one
afternoon stands out with peculiar dis
tinctness in my memory.
We were off to the woods on a kind
of aesthetic picnic, or what julie called a
''sketching iamboree." Our party was
a large me-, but, though there was
always or less OF a scattering
out of doors, Milicent Leigh was the
only one who had a trick of slipping off
by herself in quest of beauties which NO
n else could discover.
On this particular afternoon she was
seated alone on a rustic bridge, making
a sketch of a PROSTATE tree that lay
just at the waters edge.
''There!'' she murmured, laying
down her book. That's the prettiest
I've done this season."
y The words had scarcely left her lips
ere she gave a low cry and started to
her feet in alarm.
A cold nose had just been lmpudently
thurst Into her face, and the same
moment sac confronted a big brown
dog, whose mate was flashing through
the underbrush not fifty yards away.
Milicent stood for a moment
in the most abject terror,
and her apprehenslons hardly
lessened when she saw the owner
of the dogs emerge from the brush with
q gun over his shoulder.
He had a big bushy brown beard, and
with his gray SLOUGH hat pulled over his
syes, he might easily have passed for
villain
AS he caught sight of the dogs he put
silver whistle to his lips and called