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The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-17

public generally Wines,
business immense stock always hand and
O Legitimate business for legitimate profit
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-05-17
DRUGGISTS SHOULD BUY FROM US.

aduleaon Justification anes the
entirely
foreign and invite the closest analysis
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
The Old Lady Knew II All

4 Traveller once pg: up for the night
~ simp.e-!a!r Jed olt couple il 8
roue.y farmhouse. 4 he rode up 70 tn
io1r he heard the Cd woman say, in Z
tote Of deep Conviction
There ! En9wei -omebody'i CON
before night. FOX dropped ny FORK on
the door It's morning aud it stuck
straight ~ Then I dr. pped the dis
cl9:l a. no0n-au0tAer sure s.gn Of COR
pauy."
IN entering thu house the visitor car
l-s>iy struck Ai- foot against the ste,
and came near falling
Al said the old lady. quickis.
which toe did yeu Sub, the right or -
eft"
The right, ws. The reply.
That's good is sure sign you =
going where you are wanted Pa, shop
hat rooster OF the fence II he Gro =
here. L VIII rain before morning
A little boy ran INTO the room. crying
out
~oh. .ranima. look Here's COPPER
found IN the road.
IN ne. Bit surprised. Don't vi
remember, Tommy, that you dreamed IF
finding q nest Of hen : egg, "a; night
told You then tL2t you'd md some mon '
before 8 week
young woman wa. washing o. a
porch 5aak T The house. and the old .4lY
cried out
There there Susan. If you havaa't
>piaShed soab>uis AL over the front +
your dress And If you don't q.
drunken husband for il I'm wonderful y
mistaken. I've known that sign 70 sIae
true often and often. But yau can KIP
il from coming true BY hanging al ~
n
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
The Home OF Jean lngelo
Washington Press


But few moments ride from London
Is the kensington home of Jean lnGplow
whose poetry is SO familiar To American
readers. The house is an old one Of
cream colpred stone. and one scarcely
knows whether it has two or three stor-
les. Liberal grounds surround the house
and even in winter show a gardener ;
care. In summer the entire lawn is hurd-
cred and dotted with hpwers, for the
poet is pronounced horticulturst.
During the cold weather a spacious con-
servatory attached to the house shelters
the flowers, and in this dollhouse of palms
and buds she is often found by her friends
reading or writing. Flowers bloom, too,
in almost every room in the house, on
the center tables mautels and in the bay
windows. Jean Ingelow's home is that
Of poet. with books on every hand and
always in reach wherever you may chance
to sit down. The poet is now in middle
life, but her face shows not the slightest
trace of years. Her manner IS most
friendly. her conversation charming and
she has most musical voice. She en-
joys "A remarkable correct knowledge of
American literature, the titles of the la
test American books being spoken 10y her
with wonderful tlueucy, Her character
is emiuently practical without touch Of
sentmentalty. All her literary writing
is done in the forenoon her pen is never
put to paper by gaSlight. She composes
slowly and her verses are often Kept by
her for months at \ time before they are
allowed to 90 out for publication. She
shuus society and the most severe part
of the winter is spent in the south OF
France
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
Ditto

There were three or four uuoccupied
seats in the car, but he stood for mo-
men,, grip in hand, near the door, and
then walked to a seat in which Young
lady sat alone. and sat down beside her
with an impudence that a>tounted all the
other passengers. The girl looked up at
him and around the ear, aud evidently
realized the situation, for she took pen
Gil aud tablet from her reticule and made
ready for him After about five minutes
the man turned TO her and observed
Beg pardon if am mistaken, but
don't you live al Utica"
She looked up at him in a furtive way,
and then wrote on the tablet and handed
him"
II am deaf and dumb"
All, BY George" he sighed IS he
read it that's to bad, puced pretty
pretty girl To have such a misfortune.
Well, I'm left after all my .martness.
Saw her at the window before got ou
and carried out the plot to dot. Deaf
and dumb, Ell: First one ever struck =
He nodded his head to her to signify
that he understood. and he would have
been glad 10 change seats If he could
have done So without loss of dignity. As
the train Numbered on he perusvd the
contents OF a couple of newspapers, yaw-
ned awhile, aud I'll. II bought and finished
a novel, and finally. after ride of four
mortal hours, the whistle blew, and he
reached for his Crib with the remark
I'm be hanged If al mt glad this stu
pid ride has come TO an end II last"
"nitto" quietly replied the girl, As she
turned Oh him.
YOU YOU" he Gasped a. he stood
there looking down upon her with twelve
kinds OF emotions galloping over his
conntensnce.
''Good-by.1 she said; and he backed out
and dropped to the platform ike a man
retreatins from a mules hind leG.-N !.
Nid
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
Advantages of A Homo Market

The fun extent to which well-sustain-
ed home market contributes to the gener-
al advancement cannot be even approx
matcly estimated without taking into
consideration the increased facility with
which purchases can be affected where
Industries are thoroughly diversified.
Articles purchased near home can be paid
for by the sale of either one of large
number of domestic products-mauy of
them more readily obtained by the would
b pure laser than the few he will be able
exchange for articles purchased abroad.
Imported products must be paid for chief
IL IN breadstutf', meats and cotton, these
being the American products wanted by
the foreign sellers. What cannot be thus
purchased must be paid for in gold and
silver. On the other hand, domestic pro-
duets, in the iuterrhanges of trade, can
be paid for in labor, professional service,
farm produce, fruits aud any or all of a
thousand products Of the field, the mine,
water or forests-many of them other
wise valueess.
Thus it it found that even if the claim
of the Free Trade advocate be true, that
Protection makes III. price of domestic
articles higher, when measured in dollars
and cents, than would be similar articles
purchased abroad, such enhancement is
more han impcnSated by the greater
convenience in purchasing and the pro-
iits on materials exchanged. to say moth
ing Of values given to otherwise worth
less articles. 4 mans ability to buy
depends more up IN the price he can OBJ
tain for what he has to sell than upon the
price Of the article to be purchased. But
thu claim of higher prices for protected
products has no foundation in fact On
the contrary, every days experience IS
full of its refutatons and brings added
proofs that the tendency in prices of
domestic products defended by Tarili
laws is steadily in favor of purchasers.
Not single Tariff protected article is AS
high in price today as before the Tarifi
was laid many are not so dear as former
ly: some of them not one-qnarter the
price.
Strong as the case thus stands in favor
of supplying the home market from home
resources, there can be added an equally
conclusive argument urged by one whom
Free Traders ar. qIick To quote as an OPP
ponent of Protective policy Adam
Smith pointed out the fact that the build
ing up of domestic industries was coupled
with the advantage of giving employment
to two domestic capitals and two sets OF
citizen laborors. while the purchase of
products manufactured abroad confines
employment 10 the capital aud labor rep
resented in the domestic products given
in exchange. The labor cost of foreign
made articles, A. well as the profit on their
produ tion and sale, inure to the advan-
'a.c Of foreigners Those under the
policy of projecting the home market are
insured 10 ON own citizens. I'M icdh-
EeoHoNiN
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18

Among her anti-slsvery recollections,
Julia Ward Howe writes in the July Cos
mopoiHdn: MY husband had told me
early in 1857 of a very remarkable man.
who, he said, seemed bent upon sacritlc-
ing himself for the colored race as Christ
sacrificed himself for the human race.
You will hear of him one day said DR..
Howe, meantime, you are not to mention
what | have told He had not told me
the name of this person. In the summer
of 1857 he one day asked me whether
remembered his mention of this man.
replied that did. He will come to this
house this afternoon, said my husband
You will see him. His name is John
Brown He did come, and remember
him as man of middle height, thick-set
his hair and beard of an amber color, a
little touched with gray. His face was
grave, resolute, but kindly. had the
pleasure of taking him by the hand, but
our conversation was brief and unimpor-
tant. Yet even this meeting with him had
in my eyes certain solemnity. 1t must
have been about two years after this, that
my husband, coming into our sitting
room, found ME with the Boston Tran
script In my hand There has been a
strange attack on Harper's Ferry said.
handing him the paper. Brown has got
TO work, WAS his answer"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
Ono of the Best.

The Chicago Da ly Inter-ocean pays
the Bangor Wing < Courier the follow
lag deserved Compliments
.'One of the best newspapers that
comes to the luter-occan table from any
of th,. minor cities is The Bangor Daily
\ hfg and Courier, of Bangor, Me. 1t is
not only able editorially, but it is an eS :
ceIlent ucws-gatherer, and IL complete
with good literature. 1t has been an es-
tabished success many years, and seems
to grow better with age, The Hon c, A.
Bout.lle, the editor, is not only an sc-
complished j .urnalist, but one of the
most valued members of Congress. He
is a man who keeps abreast of the times,
and there is no danger of The Wing and
Courier falling II the rear while he is at
h. helm The paper has always been at
the front In every hard fight, and the
name Bangor Wing has always been as
ISOLATED with the spirit of the stslwart
Republican of Maine"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18

80. IL also eats garden seeds. Close
watching has failed to see one take any
kind Of insect. Mr. Berry Of North
liVermore, speaking again, bears t"sti-
lnony that "They eat oats and wheat in
he Held, working ON 1t In the same man
ger a the boboliDk. As far a. observed.
rye and barley are not eaten. During
arly spring aud summer II eats few
Insects though rarely In regard to eff
fccts on native birds. Mr.. Berry contin-
es ut moiests ard drives away the
rDhin bluebird' chipping sparrow, red
we'd wren and the smaller birds In gen
raj. The purple martin and white -bcllcd
SHALLOW attempt TO regain former resting
ties. On the same point Nathan Cliff
ford Brown says II have seen II attack
he downy woodpecker and modest the
Baltimore oriole 1t drives away the
vhitc-bellicd swallow by taking possess
on of its nests L. +. Richards Of
Pennington says, at has habit Of at
lacking nearly all birds coming It's way,
especially about resting places aud feed
ny grounds These are specimens of
hundreds Of replies of the same tenor
from nearly every State.
The English sparrow, says the de.
partmcnts ornithologist, "is curse of
such yirulence that it ought to be syste-
maiic4ly attacked and destroyed before
1t becomes necessary to deplete the public
treasury for the purpose To remove
this virulent curse he makes the following
suggestions:
!. Thr immediate re1 cal Of all existing laws
Which afford protection the English sparrow.
Z The cuaeii0cn' II .a-ts legnizng the kill
ing n the English spArro. at all seasons Of the
Il lao r a.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18


Before 1875 there were many large spar
row colonies throughout the United
States east of the Mississippi, as well as
several in Canada. one in Utah one in
Texas and one in San Francisco. This
point it had reached by the aid of man
and through its own marvellous ieeundi-
IT, From this point IL has now spread
like noxiouS weed until 1t practically
occupies tue continent. The sparrow Is
not English any more than he is German
or French or Scandinayi ian: he is Eur pc
an. This fact led may of our lnmigr4nt
populution to favor the Introduction 81
the bird as Il reminder of the old home
Then also erroneous notions prevailed as
to the good Offices of the sparrow in de-
stroyng injurious insects. These no
,ions have now been generally dlSpelled,
but too late The mischief has been
done. The sparrow is Il parasite. II
has attached himself to human habit
tiOns aud does not thrive away from
them lie tlour>heS marvelouSlv, whc'h-
er In the tropic heat of Australia ar the
cold winters of Canada. The sparrow Is
hardy, prolific, aggressive, intelligent and
cunning. I hese qualities, added to other
favorable conditions, have aided its rapid
spread. Its fccund.ty IS Amazing.
single PAIR III the laIilu"e OF Ne" i'!h
ordinarily rears twenty or thlrti young III
IA year Assuming the annual product oi
u, pair to be u, nall males ana nan re-
males, aud that all 1--WE, togeth'r WIN
their offspring, in ten years tae progeny
Of the first pair would amount 10 2'1,iih'-
9S3 ,G9S. or course, the actual increase Is
much less. There are checks on the IN
crease, in climate, inod' natural eheh'ts'
disease, hostile legislation ana the 0e-
stluCtive devices OF man.
During the first fifteen years the oppo-
sition to the sparrpws amounted To h"th-
Ing. Their Introduction hal been OPP
posed by some OF the orhllh"lnsl'ls ana
warnings had been given ny lnlrhi-en'
naturalized citizens VINO mad ma expert
encc with the bird IN the "lH country
The majority OF people cit er booked a
the matter indllierently or h''Pra IL on
Finally public opinion began TO Change "7
evidence of the Sparro"9s harminine>S
accumulated. Protective acts nave oecn
repealed, and in Michigan and ONO ~
well as in some towns ana couhtrS o.
'ther States, bounii's nave oeeh ohereo.
Shooting, poisoning trapping ana nest
destroying have been resorted TO ex'eh-
sively ON Individual account: with the
tacit approval OF puollc sem Uncut pu,
no systematic atttmp1 10 iiltlSate Vhe e''i
has yet been made.
The counts IN me indictment aSa'nS,
the sparrow are that ne Is OF sloVehiy anu
filthy habits anu ulsnSures houses 'lnes
and ornamental ioi'age; Una. nt uestross
buds aud blossoms OF 1ruit anu shaue
trees; that ne ieeus on aPPies' pears
grapes ana sinah lrnl,s, garuen See s;s,
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
SELECTED.
The English Sparrow.
rnrH oeet r>lloS ~ Nonrn AMERICA


T le English saatroM's tirst notablr ap
pea ahce in literature was prpbaJly in
the piicouS tale of Cock L lbin. Tie
late,t and m Isl volumuous, a. well as
The most practical and valuable confirm.
tian to the subject is in the form of
volume Of over 400 pages just issued from
the government printing Office, under tie
auspices of the department of agriculture
1t has been pr, pared by Walter b Bar
rows, assistant ornitholOgist OF the de-
partment, under the direct of the or
nithologist, DR.. C. H. Merriam, aud it
treats of the English sparr1w in North
America espeCi tally in relation to agricul-
ture. 1t is II unique departure in govern
mcnt reports, and contrary to many of
them, is exec dugly int r - ng. Moth
ing of the sort has ever been undertaken
ny the department before. at least ON so
comprehensive scale circular on
economic ornithology was issu d in 1850,
containing questions tn the English spar
row, and the following year tn 81 qnes-
tons were amplitied and issued in sepa-
rate circular The result il now before
us, in the shape of what DR. Merriam
calls "the first bulletin of the newly es-
tablished division of economic ornitholo-
" and mlmmalogy," but which deserves
4 more prctcntinus name than bulletin
Fhe report embudies the result of Il thor
uugh and painstaking investigation of the
sparrow question, conducted in every
State and several of the Canadian PROV
nccS. The result is fairly startling, and
Dr. Merriam is quite warranted IN pre-
nonucng the sparrow question serious
problem
Those misguided persons VINO, nearly
forty years ago imported several spar
rows from England, opened velitable
Pandora's box to vcX this country. 1t
appears that Hon Nicolas Pike and other
directors of the Brooklyn Institute are
responsible for the mischief, In ls1o the
first eparlowS in this cOuntry-elght
pairs of them-were brought to the lnsti-
tute They were care for during the
winter and liberated in the spring, nut
they did not thrive. In 1852 committee
was appointed for the re-introduction OF
the birGs. Mr.. Pike was chairman. II"
went to England with funds provided by
the society and obtained a lot of spar
rows which were liberated in aud about
New York in the spriug of 1903, These
.hIivod and multiplied and their progeny
are now AT home in nearly all parts OF
he continent. The next year, 1904, spar
rows were introduced at Portland, ny
Colonel William Rhodes, and Others by
Thomas A DcbluiS in lSjs The follow
ing table shows places where sparrows
have been imported directly from Europe
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
The Peddier's Law

The peddler's law passed in spite of
much determined opposition, by the leg
stature last winter, goes into effect July
18TH and then man in order to have the
privilege of walking into your kitchen
and stopping all domestic operations
while he palavers over lot of cheap
trash, must be an American citizen and
must be able to secure paper certifying
to his good moral character. There may
he some hardships worked by the law :,
hut on the whole effect will, we believe
prove salutary and housewives throughout
the State will rise up to call the legisla-
tors blessed, for the law is so framed that
ii will not interfere with peddlers who
mean to do a legitimate business, and
have no desire to force their goods upon
unwilling customers.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18

IhJi VA what a LAWYER said ~ fi4l-
story - am about 70 relate - You
1t j. IL best boy story That eger
heard
We have hal good many boys With i,
from time ~ time said Mr. Alden ths
senior member Of large hardware g.
tablishment in Market street Philadei-
phia, a. apprentices, u learn the hn-i-
ness. that may surprise you II that we
never take country boys, unless they live
in the city with some relative who take-
care Of them aud keeps them home a.
night, for when country boy comes "
the city to live everything is new 70 hun,
and he is attracted by every show WIN
dow and unusual sight. The city boy
who Is accustomed 70 these things cares
/ little for them, and If he ha. d good
mother he j. at home and in bed in due
! sea son. And we are very particular
about our bpys-and before accepting
one as an apprentice we must know tina,
he comes Of honest aud industrious par
ents
But the best boy we ever had Is now
i with u. and member Of the firm He
i i the one man In the Establishment that
we could Mt do without. He wa thirteen
years old when he was apprenticed to u,
and he was with as for eleven years. &C
+ ting for several years as salesman.
when he first came we told him that for
4 long time his wages would be very
i small, but that if he proved to he good
4 poy his salary would be increased al a
certain rate every year, and as it turned
ont when according to agreement we
should have been paying him five hundred
i dollars year, we paid him nine hundred,
and he never said a word himself about
2 Al,
outset he showed that he had an interest
ia the business He was prompt in the
morning and if kept a little overtime a.
night, Il never seemed to make any diff
ference with him. lie gradually came u
know where everything was to be found
and if information was wanted, it was
/ to this boy Frank Jones' that everything
was applied. The entire establishment
seemed to be mapped out in his head aud
everything in it catalogued and numbered.
/ His memory of faces was equally remark
aole. He knew the name Of every man
who came TO the store to buy good.
what he bought and where he came from
! used often to say to him Jones your
memory is worth gold mine. How do
you manage to remember
81 make 1t my business To remember,
he would say. 4 know that il can re-
member a man and call him by name when
he comes into the store and can ask him
how things are going on where he lives,
| will be very likely to keep him as Gus
toner
"And that was the exact case. He
made friends of buyers. He took the
same interest in their purchases a he
took in the store, and would 20 to no end
of trouble to suit them, and to fulfil to
HI -
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
How to be a Good Nurse.

Six things, says doctor writing on The
subject. are necessary 10 a good nurse
Strong, eQuable Health, sound nerve, min-
ute observation. a retentiVe memory,
habits of neatneSs and cleanliness, and q
calm. collected mind. \ nurse must new
er disregard her health, because il is eS-
Sential to her own weIl-heiug and because
too. attendants on the sick should always
he cheerful and hopeful. Sound nerve i
often matter of training, but its root
lies in unseltShueSs Any one who, in
an accident or operation, forGets self in
the desire to aid others, will not bt
troubled by trembling or fanting. The
faculties of observation aud retentivene>>
If memory can be developed by having
interest in the work strong enough t.
make the nurse careful and patient in her
observations. calm mind is generally
the result of organization.
If nurse has arranged her work be-
fore-hand, If she keeps punctually 10 this
arrangement, and if everything ueedful is
neatly disposed. she is not likely to be
discovered in hustle and confusion at any
time. The nurse should, furthermore,
be mindful that she is under the doctor,
and should respect and obey his direc-
tons, even if she differs in opinion from
him. 1t is extremely important that
those who are sick and suffering should
be treated with unfsillng gentleness and
patience; nothing can ever excuse nurse
for losing her temper with her patient.
No duty is too little or triiing for her at
tention, and no work that is good for the
patient, can be degrading. 1t is further
4 good rule never to approach a case fast
ing but always to have a good meal be
fore going on duty.-Popuidr Science
NQHHiU
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-18
A New M owe.

The leaders of the labor movement,
representing the central organizations,
have finally agreed to set aside all differ
ences and work in future for the benefit
of the toilers, irrespective of their ailila
tons. The executive board of the
Knights of Lebor, the executive councils
of the Federation of Labor, and the
chiefs of the Railroad Switchmen and
Locomotive Firemens Brotherhood have
guaranteed that If one organization in
fringes on the rights of another the head
officers are hound to investigate and set
matters right. The agreement In fact
makes the executive officers board Of
arbitration to settle disputes between Ia
Dor organizations.