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The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
The Farmers Place.

The farmers of the country constitute
about one seventh of the population, and
there are employed on the farm and con-
nected with 1t In one capacity or another,
about one half the population. All are
dependent on the farm for food supplies,
and the material employed In many OF the
industries Is derived directly from the
farm. Over one third of the industrial
population are farmers. A mere state
ment of the case shows the Importance OF
their calling and the necessity for their
understanding Its underlying principles
and the most advanced methods Of apply
ing them. Numerically, the farmers
stand at the head. They should stand
there intellectually and educationally, for
the Importance Of their calling demands
it. But do they?
1t Is an indisputable fact that the great
majority have been content TO occupy y
secondary position. A few farmers
clubs, scattered here and there, and the
Grange movement are the only spontane-
GUS efforts made by the farmers of the
country to enlighten and elevate them
selves to the level which the magnitude
and Importance Of their calling demand
that they should occupy, II we except the
dairy associations organized In all the
dairy States, and the growers Of stock
who have organized themselves into some
thing like protective and political associ-
atoms. The general farmers, as a class,
have remained inert and inactive. Do
not these facts account fol abandoned
farms and the cry that farming does not
pay2" Farming, properly carried on,
should remain profitable, though all other
Industries fail, for it Is the one great In
dustry on which all others depend. With
out the supplies Of the farm, nothing can
be done.
One great fact looms up In the near fu-
ture. Not only the best brain, but the
best educated brain, must find its place
on the farm. There is no lodging 1t.
ITO this complexion must We come At
last" The day has gone by when merely
initiative and routine farming can be sue
cessful Such farming no longer pays.
The successful farmer hepceforth must
have something like a scientific knowledge
OF soils, fertilizers, animals and foods.
He must know how to treat his soil and
his stock and how to feed both economi-
cally and so as to secure the best results.
Our agricultural colleges and experiment
stations have not begun their work any
Too soon. We must have educated and
brainy farmers to run this basic industry
The growing emergencies of the hour de-
mand it. They are becoming a necessity
to mankind. Such farmers will not de.
sert their farms, but bring to their aid the
highest practical knowledge Of the hour
and make them produce as they never
produced before.-MrrOr aud Farmer
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
POETRY.
Good N ornlnR.

Woodworking, world. On the window seat
She balanced her two little tinid feet,
She chung with her dimpled hands. and stood
Framed in like picture OF babyhood
The olambering vines hung low and green
Round the sunniest ourls that e'cr were seen.
As she stood with beauty and high, impaired,
And bade Good morning" to ali the world.
Good morning worldi' and the great wotl heard
Each rustling tree and each singing bird.
The dancing sowers and the field of grass
Nodded and waved at the little lass
And the far off hills and the sky overhead
Listened and beAmed as the word was said;
And the old sun lifted his head and smiled
Good morning, world" Goodmoning, ehild''
WonGH's Journal
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
ATelephonlc Church.

The idea of telephone church Is being
carried out at Tunbridge Wells, England,
where the pulpit of Congregational
church is connected with sixteen subscri-
bers. We are told that "thcse included
doctors and apothecaries, clerks working
in various parts Of the town and au inva-
lid lady who has been obtaining consola-
ton from the telephone for several
months, and some lazy clubmen who went
into the thing presumably more from .
spirit of experiment than devotion
Wires are being laid to Maidstone, and
soon subscribers living there, In Roches
ter, in Stroud and Chatham will be able
without leaving their houses, to attend
services in Tunbridge Wells"
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17

Mrs Mary A L.vermors, while lecturing
recently in New Hampshire, received this
most unfortunate introduction from Il
young minister ;-"Ladies and gentlemen,
you have all heard Of the Industrious man
across the water SO beloved by his people,
and who is known by the sobriquet Of the
grand old man." | have the pleasure Of
introducing to you a lady beloved in Bos-
ton, and known there as the grand old
woman"
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
Farm Mortgages.

The American Wool Reporter says that
another farm mortgage company has gone
into liquidation. The Anthony Loan and
Trust Company of Anthony, Kan, with
an Office at 4 Post-ofllce square, Boston,
has decided to stop business. 1t started
in 1856 with nominal capital Of $780,.
900, with only portion paid in. The
company has done but moderate bust
ness. The president is Edward II Conant
of Boston, the other officers being located
at Anthony. Back interest accumulated
beyond the amount Of the capital and the
company decided to go into the hands Of
a receiYer
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
STATE OF MAINE

Torn. tsSg. 1~'o'"i SouFt' sept
al, sam9eI A. Aaxfeld vs. Gideon P. Brown q,
dsr s H., Itrsasttes. Aud now the court or.
GIdsn n"I s1o plaintiff give notice to the said
Su ,,ns.. Brown Of the pendency Of said suit.
~ puDmsning an abstract Of tue writ and OF the
. "cSs return thereon in said action with thu
sve ISl OF court thereon, three weeks sucsess.
~ in okowheEen iu said county, tie lat pnb.
mcauon n be thirty days Ct least befora the
ies.n .t \, o. said court to BE- holden st SHOW
tuesday Of December next, that he NAV s thar
.na there appear. in our said court. ana ana.
wer TO said suit, II be see al. "A~ ~ns'
Attest L. H. WEBB, Clerk.
a. true abstract Of the writ, and OGcer'u RI.
'nrn With order Of court the, con. ~
Attest L. n. WEBB, Clerk.
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
0Illnk CURE old Or. W. W. WATS0N'S

1t is estimated that major-general in cti-
zen's clothes deteriorates fifty per cent, more
especially If he smokes common cigars.
FIT:-All Fits stopped free by DR.. Kliues Or ct
Nerve Restorer No fits after frst days use. Maj
veous cures. Treatise aud q 90 trial bottle free Ia
Fit cases. Send to DR.. Kline 93l Arch 1t. Phils Pa
There never was a more startling instance o.
the downward tendency of the man who enters
into wicked ways than is seen in the desire Of
aprize fighter to go to Congress,
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17

Believe nothing against another but on
good authority; nor report what may hurt
another, unless 1t be greater hurt to an
other to conceal 1T VIM, Penn.
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
Legul Notice.

- VT w A1NE.
soMERsRTr ss:-At the Supreme .Jud,o,., c.u.
begun and holden at skowhessn on tha
thlrd Tues'iay Of September hei., m. 10
day OF said month, A. d. 1889. 'A' -
:, samuel A. Maxfeld OF Bangor in the county
Brown. Edward ne ste ps,nt I'D. against Gideon
al OF Boston, In the Common wealth. Of Moss.s
aan n,, copartners in business under the
hris name and styls Of Brown. Ste.se Clark
me t county OF Somerset. John Clark and G"nro.
Clark OF Nsrth New Portland in aid c "Sn,Ee
copartners as Clark Brothers; e. r. GiIm.yn
~ Of S FrsRsu hanger OF Pennington in coun
-, VI r III Mi.,c 0tartners as Gilman 4 Ran
s sei anu George ". Davis Of Pennington .fore.
~, trnstees III plea of the case. for III,
~ th ssM a. said Bangor, on the dsy
the plaintif in the sum of Forty fho".am1 10
hundred and ffty.six dollars and th;rtv NV Hce
cents, according to the account annexed, than
the pIainti y y, conservation IN thereof, promised
an. ALSO. ,oI mat tue said defendants at said Ban
s sor. On tne DAY OF the purchase OF this WI,
of ,;ty ,ihen.ea 70 the plaintiff in another sum
Iore That time had and received Nv the T9,a De-
d ,h 70 the plaintiffs u.e, in cor slderatinn
sum on 99 ea1s t4s Plaintiff to pay him that
claim "a to demand: Under this count plaintiff
irs, =" recover only the claim spe cited IN the
,,as se count. Yet, though often Requested. said
,, - nave not paid said sum. nor anv
70 The ts.eo: out neglect and refuse so to do,
we. we sum OF Eighty Thousand dollars wSicb
oni tasn and there be made to appear. Win
Uiain,,9 ~. sev damages. And whereas the said
III Ineir own hands and pOsossion eoods a.S
$1,000 ~ tne value Of Rig6iy Thousand doliars
Cd bat Sa which can be come :. to 30 attach
hands ana NAY, , entrusted totand deposited in the
n nUd' ~ Inc county OF Somerset, John Ciari
a asid GEORGE CLARK Of North New Portland. in
+. Gii G yS SoPsrtners q. Clark Brothers; &.
IN. ~ the county OF Frankiin, copartners q:
HHmmIn k.nger, and George ". Davis Of
rimaJmington aforesaid, trustees Of tho said de-.
value. .A0u's W Tue sa1d
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
Dissolution Of CO-PartDerShjD

Notice is hereby given OF the dis.
solution of the firm of Brown &,
Morse, meat and provision dealers.
by the reti rement of Mr. Brown
who is succeeded by f, s. Aubin
The new firm will be known as
Morse & Aubin, who will continue
the business at the old stand under
Hotel Coburn.
MORSE & AUBIN.
~The hooks OF the late nrm Of provr l.
NJ morse arc left with the now firm who are an
thorized to make settlements. omae "u'
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
C0Qcc Cuts CARBOlATED pETRO- SevUM
OOuIO EvuptIons 20 CENTS.

The man who feels around in the dark for
door, and gets an arm on each side of it, oc-
cupies the time of recording angel fully FIVE
minutes.
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17

.,,,.,. Writ dated August 18th. 1850.
an. AetIacnment OF personal property in sUmsr.
SCI county. August 10, 1859, and in FrSntlin
H.. s.y,, Ausuht II, 1855. Writ returneble Ia
OF September A. d. 1880 VIII" Auesuay
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
MISCELLANY.
WeI EeRi

Wet Feet
are one of the most prolific sources Of disease.
We cannot always prevent this and the next
best thing to do, is to guard against any evil
results. Adamson's Botanic Balsam will break
up the cold and save doctors bill. Pleasant to
take.
Some writing $3.50 years old is on exhibition
in Paris, and the ink looks as fresh as on a
thirty-day note for 500.
The Somerset reporter., 1889-10-17
Debtors Attention.

Al parties indebted to VIM. Tuoter. On A
~ hn ase reqneeted % cali q he iorner pscs
6ncS: ,1s.. ana make esttlsnsst, Whsrs III
skowhaGAn, Au6. e ~. ~
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-20

that it comes nearer than anything at
present set forth Ii it had been the de-
sire to establish a scale which should fa-
vor Florida Icould suggest many changes,
but such is not the wish. 1t is to present
an ideal orange and place against it the
best productions of the world. Under it
not once in ten years would an orange be
found to score one hundred points, but
by the VanDeman scale we could score
them by the bushel, and for that matter
so would every other. orange growing
country. | think no other argument
should be needed to reIegate it to the
realms of the impossible.
G.. F. A. BIELBY.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-20
Varieties of Oranges.
C. f. A. BIELBY

Mr.. II. II. Hart, of Federal Point, read
the following paper on Varieties OF the
Sweet Orange" before the American
Pathological Society at Ocala.
Like the Eastern Continent, which is
geographically separated into the grand
divisions OF Europe, Asia and Africa, the
orange (Citrus aurantium of botanists)
may, by a similar rule of three, be COM
pretended under the tripartite classified
ton of Citrus dulcis, or the sweet, Citrus
nobilis, or the Mandarin, and Citrus
bigaradia, the sour or bitter.
Out OF respect to the preiudices OF the
president of the Florida Horticultural
Society, who, anticipating speedy sub
version of foreign languages by the En-
glish tongue, wishes to do away with
Linnaean Volapuk altogether classical
SYNONYMS will be avoided as far as posi-
BILE in this paper Leaving all subtitle
scientific distinctions to be wrangled over
by our senior wrangler and the wranglers
of lesser degree, who discuss an Ortho-
graphical tid-bit with the pertinacity OF
game-cocks, | will merely touch briefly
upon the different. strains of the sweet
orange and theirs gustatory, aesthetic and
commercial recommendations.
Ii wisdom be folly, as the old adage
hath it. then the blissful ignorance that
pervaded the minds of ante-bellum Flor
idians, concerning the varieties OF the or.
ange, must be accepted as evidence of a
perfect equilibrium Many believed in the
existence of only one kind of sweet orange
and thought variations were but acciden-
taland temporary. Someclaimed that or
anges would not grow upon pine land,
and that the seed of sweet budded on a
wild stock would produce sour.
Therefore, they looked with incredulity
and amazement at the first specimens OF
Citrus nobilis, borne on a tree from Louisi-
ana, and planted in the grove OF DR..
Moragne, at Palatka, and as the stock
was not open to free distribution, buds
were surreptitiously obtained, like the
golden fleece, by colored Jason, and
conveyed to Orange Mills in an Argo hol
lowed from the trunk of cypress.
The advent OF the Navel orange excited
still greater curiosity, besides appealing
to their sense of humor, but the Blood
with crimson pulp and skin notified like
a tigers back, dealt the coup de grace
that exploded the one variety hypothesis
and consigned it to the gloomy domin
ions of Pluto.
Still there are many who, with an in
fatuation worthy OF the dark ages, cling
to the sweetseedlinG, and one writer, Billy
p. Neeld, of Pinallas, who ought to know
better, lately attributed the low prices
gluts and decay of fruit in transit to th'
propagation, in these later years, OF {
legion OF suspicious, wildcat varieties il
place OF the old reliable Seeding. Shall
we say to him: "Ephraim is welded to hi
idols: let him alone? So surely as th'
big freeze blasted the emango boom on th'
Tampa peninsula, will he find out hi'
mistake when, in Geluged markets, only
fancy kinds pay margin. Look at quo
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-20

which fingers long and lovingly upon the
tongue like Amontillado sherry; the in
tense piquancy of the Majorca; ). the ten
der, melting Jaffa; the mild neutrality of
Early Oblong; the innocuous desuetude
of Sweet Seville; the rare blending aro-
matics in the Maltese Blood; the spicy
Citrus Nobilis; the oyerfowing succulence
of the Parsons Navel; and the crisp,
honeyed pulp OF Washington Riverside,
the king of all, worthy being gmentioned
last by those who, like the prudent mas
ter of the marriage feast, reserved the
best for the last and 'keep the good wine
until now"
The number of varieties in Florida es-
teemed worthy of reputation and a
name has already mounted into the hun
dreds, and is rapidly Increasing. Like
the apple orchardist of more rigorous eli
mates, almost every one of whom has his
favorite bantling, warranted to keep ''for-
ever and one day longer" SO many or
ange-growers worship some private pet
with all the enthusiasm of a lover, often
calling it by the name of their best girl or
madam somebody else. The elate lamented
P. W. Reasoner complied list of more
than $50 varieties of the sweet orange,
which. large as it is, would be emuch larger
hadhe admitted all that are knocking at
thedoor. Atthes same time it is susceptible
of condensation if some names, inserted
as separate varieties, were assigned to
their proper places as synonyms.
One of the grave perplexities that
harass the orange grower is how to de-
eide what varieties to plant for future
profit. To certain extent fashion rules
in oranges as well as in ladies' bon
nets, and the favorite of to-day may, like
the queen of harem, become an outcast
tomorrow, or be -strangled by the
bowstring of that most relentles
of tyrants = popular caprice. Who
would have thought few years ago, when
Mandarins and .Tangerines were eagerly
snapped up at the thrilling price offifteen
dollars the standard box, that the time
would soon come when they would melt
down in the hands of the commission
man for want OF purchasers at any price,
or be left to decay on the trees like sour
oranges? Certainly not those who in the
expectation Of speedily rising to the dig
nifty of capitalists, set out acres of them!
Certainly not the nurserymen with large
stocks upon their hands to be disposed of
at a bargain which, however favorable,
promises to be bad bargain for thepur-
chaser. To forecast the thing requires a
magEifying microscope OF greater pro-
phetic power to peer into the depths of
futurity than most short sighted mortals
possess.
The term ''kid glove orange, as ap-
piled to Citrus nobilis, originally a joke
of our facetious countryman, Colonel
Dancy, OF Orange Mills, was gravely ac-
copied as a synonym by our first nomen-
clature committee, and, like many an
other whimsical what-do-you call him., it
struck, where one more dignifed would
have glanced off. Luckily that COM
mittee did not hear an old darkey refer
the rubicund Malta blood as the "erysip-
elias orange, or another synonym might
have been perpetrated to the prejudice OF
thic O ttra tive fr11it And attractive GER
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-20

know all about oranges seedlings ST. per
box, and choice .Navels 1915 How is
Billy going to raise choice Navels, or the
Bold Burgess, or Double Imperial or Nell
tensis varieties from seed when the sup
ply of seed is insufficient at $25 each, for
the very good reason that, like the
Frenchman's flea, "when you think you
have got him, he is not there?
Perhaps a sweetseedling raised in Flor
ida electrifes discriminating palate with
more thrilling sensations of delight than
the same grown in California soil-with-
out rrigation-atl least Floridians like to
think so, and in proof Of this may be
cited that prince of seedlings, the Homo
sassa, which. raised on the Pacific slope,
is pronounced only ordinary. In my own
experience the waste in a grove of seed
lings on the tree and after shipment is far
greater than among budded varieties,
selected of course, as well for keeping and
shipping qualities as favor The finest
eating orange in the world would becom-
paratively valueless were it too delicate
to bear transportation, and that's what
is the matter with very many sweet seed
lings-they are hard to get to market,
and hard to keep after they get there.
And again, why this great ado over the
inferiority Of budded trees, seeing that a
good proportion of the choice varieties
that we are ready to swear by, and go
our bottom dollar on, are but sweet seed
lings. selected for rare piquancy of flavor
combined with durability F.?
And would not the jewel of consistency
receive double emphasis if, upon inves-
tigation, the sweet Seeding advocates
prove to be also the advocates of scrub
bulls, marsh ponies and razor backs, and
those who dote on budded trees the ones
who keep up with the procession?
1t is claimed that budded trees are
short lived, and yet by strange incon-
gruity, the men who hesitate to plant a
fruit tree at all, lest they may not live to
see it bear, are the very ones who reject
bndded trees as short lived. Specimens
certainly seventy years old exist in this
State, and show no prospect ofdyingyet.
When they do die, it will probably be, not
| of old age, but of starvation. The same
| kind of folks lived twenty-five centuries
ago, and Hierocles mentions one, who
hearing that ravens lived two hundred
years, Immediately bought a raven to
satisfy himself by trial.
Moreover, also sweet Seeding trees
sometimes fall into bilious state, asevi-
denced by jaundiced foliage and an inter
mittent habit of bearing, under the same
conditions in which budded tree settles
regularly down to business, and continues
wearing OF the green" In Europe, where
orange growing is not in it's infancy, a de-
mand for the best has led planters to
procure improved varieties from English
nurserymen. DR.. Bennett speaks of an
immense grove in Sardinia, where the
Seeding trees were attacked. sooner or
later, by fatal blight, of which budding
was considered even a more effectual pre-
vention than shot gun quarantine
against yellow fever After the progress
sive orange grower has become satiated
with the pastime of extracting sweet
stumps, in state of decay, from therav-
| oo.oo Nf foo+ 7.c+ M tho &c
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-13

yoHssrowN, Pa, June THE
body Of the Rev. Alfonso p. Miller,
rector Of the Johnstowu Episcopal
Church, and those Of his wife and
child were recovered to-day under
circumstances both cad and strange.
Four Episcopal clergyman vho had
been sent here by Bishop whitshead,
were working about the ruins near
Lincoln street, when they came
across the body Of their late brother.
ClasPed In one rigid arm was the
body Of his babe, and In the other
bis wife, whose arms were about
bis neck. They were removed I'm
this position and will BE- % buried
Tomorrow, the Episcopal clergy
men officiating.
Father Smith, pastor Of the Cstho-
lie Church ct Ebsnsburg. Cambria
county, reached here to-day after q
two days journey from South Fork.
be says the residents Of Mineral
Point, Coopersvilie, DutehtoWn,
East Conemaugh, and other small
settlements along that valley ass In
destitute circumstances, add are In
need Of immediate supplies Of grocer
les and clothing. Reports from each
OF those villages show that between
seventy and eighty lives were Lost
between Woodvale and the hamlet
Of South Fork.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-13

the possession Of from eli, 600. 600 to
$1,000, 0O0-with no allowance for
increase 10y Investment or otherwise
by lSS6, when Mrs. Stewart died.
The testimony In regard to Hill
tons control over Mrs. Stewart was
astounding. IL was proved without
contradiction that he rarely allowed
her out Of his sight; that she signed
all sorts OF documents At his bid
ding; that he charged her interest
on her drafts nj Per cent until the
legal rate became O per cent and
then at full rates until the interest
charges against her and To his credit
were enormous; aud that goods from
the store for her use were charged
at excessive figures. Several wit
ntsses testified to Mrs. Stewart
having repeatedly declared that she
had given Judge Hilton only q
power Of attorney to manage the
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-13

President Harrison's ancestry gees
back to Pocshontas In these stsps,
according TO the New York Sun
John Rolfe married Pocahoutas ;
their son married Jane Scythrsss /;
their daughter Jane married Robert
Boiling; their son John married
Mary Kennon; their daughter Jane
married Colonel Richard Randolph
their son Richard married Mary
Meade; their daughter sussnnah
married Benjamin Harrison; their
son Benjamin signed the Declare
tion Of Independence and had .
son William Henry Harrison, who
became president; his son John
Scott was the father Of President
Benjamin Harrison.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-13
A. J. HOLMQUIST,
IS Gen. T zes ssh Local Agent Salina, Kansas

business for her and had never In
tended to transfer the property TO
him. But amazing as was all this
testimony the great surprise In the
ease came when the contestants
having finished, Judge Hilton's law
yers rested their case without q
syllable Of testimony In reply.
This was In April. Argument was
set for May %. As the time drew
near for Mr.. ChOate to uDcork his
oratOry, rumOrs began to circulate
that compromise was on foot.
This was disappointing To those who
hal watched the case from the out
side. for q rare treat had been an
tIcipated from Mr.. ChOate, who
never before had an opportunity for
the exercise Of his peculiar talent
for sharp speeehmaking equal to
this.