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The Somerset reporter., 1890-02-13
'TATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO.

STATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO.
LUCAS COUNTY, s. S.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the
senior partner Of the firm Of +. J CHENEY &
Co., doing business in the City Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid. and that said firm
will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use Of HALLS CATARRH
CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day Of December, A. D. '86.
(~) A. W. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls Cataarh Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu.
Gus surfaces Of the system. Send for
testimonials. free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
@rSold BY Druggists, Is cents.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-02-13

DIR. c. P. Sawyer Of Skowhegan always
has good word for Springall's English
Alternative.
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West pltssNe,d.

There has been considerable sickness
In this vicinity. Dr.. Drake Son have
been called. Of those that have been very
sick with the prevailing disease are ): Mrs..
VIM. Patten, J. A. Patten, Mr.. Rand and
family, Mr.. Emerson and family, M
Garfield and family. Mr.. Osborne and
several Of bic family. and others ws have
beard Of being sick. Mrs. Osborne re-
mains quite III.
H. N. Merrill and g. W. Lane Of Lew.
iston are Waiting relatives here.
Mr.. Horne Of Dixmont u visiting his
sister Mrs.. Rand.
People along IL road we're greatly sur.
prised and alarmed one day lass week, 10
~ the othes stADs drlvse's hosse dazzling
along = 2 fearful rats, aeeeae lihs Wild
horse AID puDag hks Z loccoativs, b 3
What y called . pullsr. Afsss ysachips
Canaan NJ driver ~ Z ~ uado % tAsS
heh eesllV ooaegpllsd, I'D. NJ Ars0 daye
eaussssaes ~ ~ ~ Assn pSDsassd
The Somerset reporter., 1890-02-13
M. L. MARI. Nj. d.
SKOWHEGAN, MAINE.

Residence, corner OfN0rth and Heselton Stre.t
once, Water Street, connected with Dr.
Henry Leavitt's Dental Rooms. 7tf
OFFICE HOURS, to \ and 7 to a p. NJ.
The Somerset reporter., 1890-02-13
At WARRINGTON.

The Senate committee on territories
Monday directed Chairman Plat to f..
voFnbly report the bill for the admission
III Idaho ~ State.
The President has nominated Alanson W.
beard 10 BE- collector Of customs for the
district Of Boston and Charlestowu,
Moss; Charles Emory Smith, Of Penn
rylvaaia, minister to Russia; Fred M.
ryder Of Connecticut, consul ct Quebec.
Senator Frye expresses the opinion
that oar fishermen would lose nothing by
~ explratioa Of the privileges Of the
leodns vivendi, granted BY the Canadian
.ioovosnneak
~ rSastdsat has sigssd the proclama.
No. seg.iaG ~ Sioux reservation In
GnA1ee Hear has intsodpcsd ! bin
lloA eoos11ss thet ~ persons who have
~ - - eotA haads b guuahot
- 1fmg - - - permaasnt-
: ! ! - ~ ~ ~
The Somerset reporter., 1890-02-13
SherW's Sale.

STATE OF MAINE,
SOMERsET IS.
Taken on execution and will be sold at public
auction, on the seventeenth day Of March A.
p 1880. at ten OF the clock In the forenoon, at
the Office Of Merrill 4 Coffin, In skOwhsgan in
said somerset County, all tile right II equity
which Joel s. Dexter, Of New Vineyard, In the
County Of Franklin, has to redeem the follow.
ing described mortvaged real estate, situated
In Lexington Plantation. n said Somerset
County, to wit: 1t being Lot No. in the sth
Range In said Lexington, and bounded on the
occupied by Ge0g e W. ana George fease
south by land Of Thomas B. Tague; and West
by the country road leading from the North
East side OF Sandy stream.
Dated this thirteenth day Of February, A. d
3w7 ZENAS VAUGHAN EberjfY
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paoxTEE

could not get them at any season of the
year, and this stimulated importation from
the caves and cellars lying outside of Paris,
and also set our own people thinking about
raising the plant artifcially.
n umbers had cellars attached to private
gardens, but only few succeeded in raising
m ushrooms. Lack Of attention to tempera-
ture, improper management of the beds.
the use of inferior spawn and other mis-
takes were fatal. Then some market
gardeners in Long Island, Staten Island,
Manhattan Island and other points adjacent
to New York, as well as near Boston. Phila-
delphia and Washington, began following
out caves and building dark places to raise
the fungus.
A few succeeded. and the rest, becoming
disleartened by constant failure, abandoned
the project. The truth is they had not the
knowledge nor the patience. They could
easily have imported expert mushroom
gardeners from France, instead of !, arning
from the imperfect and very meager litera-
lure, pictorial and otherwise, belonging to
the subject may add here that all the
drawings to be found in the American En-
cyclopedia and the other three or four pub
locations on the subject are to be traced
back to stupid. inadequate and inaccurate
work printed about forty years ago.
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chaser, its cost, and subsequent history as
far as can DO known. When unfit for fur
ther use. or out Of harmony with the style
OF the day. such articles are to be labeled,
and put away In the spacious garrett In
time they may return to fashion and use,
or in longer time become curios and inter-
esting relics of by-gOne times No cheap
and trifiing things should be bought for the
mansion, and Presidents families should be
responsible tor the keeping, and not allowed
to disperse the relics In their charge.
To illustrate the spirit In which the con-
tents of the mansion have been regarded at
times, one mistress of the White House had
some pieces of old mahogany condemned
and sent to auction. At the sale they were
bid in for her, and are now value orna-
ments in an ex-Presidential home. While
not dishonest, since the Government re-
celved all that the articles could bring at
public sale, the transaction affords the NOR
alist chance to draw some fine conclusions
as to the commoner official ideas of honor in
dealing with The Government Bric-a-brac
dealers have had many fine pieces of furni-
ture and porcelain from the White House
pass through their hands. and city caterers
have even owned parts of dinner services,
and gradually broken them up in the course
OF many dinner seasons. With the present
appreciation Of relics and old wares, any
piece from the White House would be con-
Sldered trophy to be hung on the wall.
Mrs. Harrison said on entering the White
House that she should make it her duty for
the four years to leave it more comfOrta-
BILE place for her successor. If her success
sors keep up the garde meuble idea White
House furniture and White House plates
Will not be procurable at the curiO stores of
the city again. Only few years ago part
of the white and gold Sevres set used by
Washington, brought here when the capital
was moved to Washington, was sold by
Nintli-street dealer in antique furniture.
Its only rghtful place is behind glass panels
i'll the state dining rOOm.-Harper's Bazaar
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In England the spawn is mixed with
fertilizer, usually from the horse, aud then
made into blocks which are called bricks.
These bricks arc capable of being moved
about and even shipped across the ocean,
and when portions of them are here and there
introduced into the mushroom beds they
soon begin to develop and terminate.
In the French caves, however, the spawn
is put into form like flakes or leaves, it be-
ing then known as micelium. The French
raisers also use less manure than they do in
England, and this, according to some au-
thorities. accounts for the lnferiority Of the
Partisan plant. Moreover, the surface of
each bed is covered with about an inch of
fine white stony soil.
Moisture is indispensable to the mass
forming the bed, and this is regulated by
artificial means, the water. being brought
from the surface. Above ALL uniformity of
temperature is kept up.
The different galleries bear crops in sue
cession, the spawn being introduced into
one series of beds while the crop is being
removed from another The work is thor.
oughly systemlZed, aud the same rule pre-
walls on this side. Thus one proprietor
Is able to send to the-surface OF out of his
cellars In one day crops weighing from 80 to
3OO0 pounds. These are at once either pre-
pared for the near market in Europe or sent
to the canning establishments, and in this
country they are sent to customers or
handed over to the mddleman.
Imagine range of beds, like that in the
greatest of the French caves, extending for
fully twenty miles of row upon row of beds
The Partisan caves not alone supply the
city itself, but forward vast quantities to
almost every city in Europe. The amount
Of capital invested in the industry is not
very great, but the return is astonishingly
large. In Paris itself every one almost, in
any kind of cafe, may be seen eating mush-
rooms, the price being within the range
even OF the peasants purse.
This fungi produced in these places, as /
have said, do not spread or assume the um-
brella shape, but are gathered while in but
ton form. In the natural fields the mush-
room springs very rapidly into tho extended
form.
The hole remaining when the plant is re-
moved Is filled with fine earth. The beds
bear from six TO eight months, then the ex-
hansted material is taken away and sold for
manure to the market gardeners. There are
nc draughts in the caves, and the tempera-
ture can be thus easily maintained at a uni
form point.
French experts lay much stress on the
value OF virgin or fresh spawn, for expert
ence has shown them that spawn taken con-
stantiy from bearing beds loses its potency
for reproduction. The beds produce In
about six weeks after the introduction of
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THE WHITE HOUSE.
Reservation and Preservation of
the Historic Furniture.

The disappearance of nearly all the mas
siye old rosewood and mahogany furniture
from the White House, and the vanishing
OF nearly every piece with history dating
back more than thirty years, were disap-
pointment to Mrs. Harrison when she came
to the mansion. why, where is all the
old furniture?" Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston
asked, when shown through the private rooms
year since. There has been poor house
Keeping at times, and a stupid Indifference
to the value and interest attaching to any,
thing which has held q place in the home
OF the Presidents since the century began.
Sevres dinner sets have been given by the
French Government and bought by our Gov
ernment In administrations long gone by.
but not piece of table porcelain now In
the mansion has an authentic history ante
dating President Lincol ms day. When a
service became incomplete, or the mistress
or steward considered it out of fashion. Il
was condemned, sold at auction and the pro-
ceeds used to buy new ware. No later than
the last Administration the solid rosewood
chairs OF the state dining-room with curyipg
legs and heart-shaped backs that dated
Iorty years away, were sold at auction. and
cheap and commonplace modern chairs sub
stituted. Mrs. Harrison found seven of the
OLD rosewood chairs In the cellar. and re-
paired and upholstered In rich brocade, thew
now ornament the library. It is her wish to
establish q garde meuble after the French
order. A list has been made BY her Of
every piece of furniture and tableware now
In the mansion, with the name Of its pur-
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NEW GOWN AND WRAP.
A Fertile Imagination Is Needed
to Supply Novelties.
Special to THE SUNDAY CALL.

New YORK, Dec. %. 1904 few years
ago-wel, say some dozen or so-it was
quito the custom among the majority Of
women to make regular business Of get
ting, at the beginning of the season, all the
paraphernalia which their respective needs
and engagements would seem to call for.
The wardrobe question was then off their
minds for at least three or four months, and
all they had to do was to wear their fine
feathers in alienation and rejoice therein.
But this, too, is one of those things whereof
the old order changeth, and the fashionable
women of to-day are constantly adding to
their possessions fresh gown. new and
novel wrap, or bewitching bonnet Just ar
rived from Paris. So it is necessary for the
pnrveyors of feminine attire to constantly
Issue new designs, and the fashion writers
are kept busy chroncling the same. The
most indefatigable of designers is Redfern,
and there is hardly day that does not see
some new and stunning model placed on ex-
hibition in his New York show-rooms. The
flower show of few weeks ago and the
forthcoming dog show were stimulants to
his fertile fancy and resulted in the follow
ing sketches:
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as rule. all the beer he needs. In fact, beer
seems to be the mainstay Of the laboring
classes wherever you 60.
Some six miles beyond here. just after
leaving Brentwood, another pretty little
hamlet, I talked with a peasant whom 1
found in the field eating his lunch and tax
ing things exceedingly easy. talked to
him about his life, and he seemed perfectly
cOntented with it. When / suggested that
one Of our laborers would think his diet
very light one he said:
Yes; my brother. who got into bit of a
Scrape here and has gone to America, says
that man will not go to work there in the
morning until he has shilling's worth of
meat in his stomach"
This laborer gave me many interesting
facts about peasant life in the south of
England, where he has lived ali his life. An
hour after left him stopped at the home
Of cOttager by the roadside for glass of
milk, which was only an excuse to talk with
the good woman WHO presided over the
place in her husbands absence and proba-
bly, quite frequently when he was at home.
She said:
Good girls about the house usually get
from ELS to 925 year, according to the
work they have to do and their smartness.
Cooks get ESQ year. servant who is fit
and wants to work can get good home and
good wages as a rule, but many of the
young women are wild to get off to the city,
where they get get harder work and less
wages than at home"
This woman's testimony was only cor
rOborative of what / had learned in many
parts of England, where good agriculture
dominates. But she also voiced the general
sentiment when she said that while the
girls could earn something in the summer
time, it was difficult for them to get any,
thing to do in the country districts in the
winter. and that was cause of serious dis
content among them. But things have
greatly improved of late years and all
classes Of farm labor have better chance
than IN times past.
l have said this much of the agricultural
classes In England as l have seen them.
Much more might be written, but it would
add nothing of moment to the story. The
picture is not at all rosy one. and there are
neighborhoods where dark lines of sadness
are drawn around the peasants life. Such
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and stylish corsets. You can have no idea
unit you have tried it what refreshment
any strengthening this deep breathing gives.
IL Is 70 your insides what bathing is to your
o o;r ~ gu will soon find that the fresh
ar Is necessity to you and will take cara
70 nave your rooms we'll ventilated. es-
peclauy your bedroom. Cover Yourself well
up III ped put sleep with your window wide
open, no matter how cold It ia -,
When you sit down sit 'upripht Navar
let the contour of your back he Gomez
Keep the distance between the hips and tha
top oil your ribs as long as nature will ailosv
your interior organs need ali the space tbav
can can GET; Iongitudinally as well as latitudin.
at nrst put stick to it; get ND and wall
ABOUT II 1t becomes too wearisOme. WIZ
you lie down in the day time lie fiat. DOM pr
prop yourself so that you are half Wing
feathsr ' niIIgews never neat your spine with
ana al that region cool and the circulation ~
your blood will keep it warm. If Won lie o u.
sofa let II be cane-bottomed sofa or ~
some nom heating material. The great nerve
centers in your back must be kept fresh apd
healthy: Never read when Won i ars ,i ana
doWn, put only when you are sitting erect
Don't eat candy; you never would if vow
could see the inside of your stomach alter
9 fnoa So. When you are faint from lack of
a not OF from nervous wear and tear, don't
get IN the habit of patching yourself mn
with tea; 1t is no better for you than brandt
Is for your brother. 1t borrows from Patar
70 pay Paul. and ends by robbing both. Eat
bread and milk chiefly, morning and noon
at dlhner eat what you like only don't eat
wien you are not hungry on account of an
agreeable flavor. To eat few nourishina
thihgs Is better than to eat lot of things
poor In nuiriment. In summer eat las
meat. Pastry will do you no good and too
much OF 1t Will do you HARM Why NOT give
yourself all the chances you can to be we'll
IL IS contemplate to lower your tone M
nealth Just bteacSe some unwhuIesOme thin1
tastes good. Yet you are not to be an ascati
In diet by any means. But remember that
the best time to eat unwholesome things ia
not when your appetite is too squeamisb m
eat anything else. but when it is stropp
enough to eat anything. Then there il ?
chance OF your digesting the stuff, and that
is the main thing WAY
AND now, as to exercise take all you oar.
get, put never carry il to the point of IA
tigue. and take all you can in the omen air
or In pure air at any rate. Gentle exten'
sion movements of arms. legs and body ara
the best; no heavy weights; no violent eYS
ertons But go through regular series
every day, II only for fifteen minutes. There
Is an immense difference between fifteen
minutes and nothing at ALL Be ambitious
but be prudent, and by and by you aud your
daughters after you may revive the perfect
type OF womanhood.-Juli Hawthorne. in
N. Y. Herald. -
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tom Cbu 10 discovered IN any cOrl
try have ever visited. Many of the peas
HES are large, but they are never so over
flowing that tire homes are not pleasant to
the eye, although the depths of the house
hold may reveal unpleasant truths. One
thing Is very apparent. both from observa-
tlon and from the testmany of those who
labor on the land, and that is that as a rule
the condition of the wOrkingman is improy-
ing when his efforts tend in the rightdirec-
ton. IL 1t is not what it should be- it NAV
become so in the future. But what sur
prises me is that they are as well off as they
are In this country where life is settled, and
the struggle for something to 90 is so great.
ana thatyou can find very few of them who
would even consider the question of trip
to the New World, where such golden prom
lseS are made to the ear to be so harshly
broken to the hope. After this careful in
CURRY can quite easily understand why the
English peasant prefers to remain at home
Although In our country he would have a
thousand chances for advancement against
one In these Overcrowded communities and
would even have q chance to reach wealth
and position, he accepts with perfect salts
faction the exactions which class imposes
and has perfect confidence that it is the
honest Intention Of the law TO be fair to all
alike and that in the end his Government
VIII not neglect his true interests. No man
in the country is more independent or now
enjoys more political power than these peas
ants, LOT the laborers of any community
have only to speak about the simplest mat
ter and one of the strongest governments on
the lace OF the earth will heed their protests.
Liberty the English peasant has in large
doses, but license, no, aud he obeys the ! aw
because he respects it.
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ENGLISH
PEASANTRY.
An American Correspondents
Views Of British Villages.
Something About the Habits Of the People
Children Are Not Allowed to Labor
Until Ten Years Of Age.

MCPHERSON DAVIS. during the last
2fdIS years of his life, once said: 1.-THE
~ material welfare of country is al
ways found in good peasantry." If that
be true England must be very wealthy do
main, for nowhere during travelling ex-
perience Of many years and of many miles
In many countries have ever seen so con-
tented and indeDendent class of laborers
as the men who till and the men and
women who tend and reap the crops of the
United Kingdom. The ordinary farm la
borer in the United States knows no such
degree of comfort and pleasure as his
brother who works upon English soil. Only
In the most favored localities of our own
country is the farm latorer SO well housed
and looked after as in this. which had al
ways been taught ground its workingmen
to tbs bone that the few might have and the
many might wait or suffer. This may be
true OF some industries here but it certainly
does not apply to the agricultural laborer.
Taking three widely separated and typical
sections of Southern, Northern and Middle
England, writes Frank A. Burr, an Ameri-
can correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times. have investigated the subject by
actual contact with the people, and by ming
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INTERIOR or an -dTtincfdi Mushroom Care.
manner in which mushrooms are forced for
the markets, from which the following is
taken:
A large number of persons who order
stewed mushrooms, mushroom sauce and
other dishes made of the fungus believe
they are eating what has grown in open
pastures Let me tell them about this.
There is a natural mushroom crop every
year. just as there is an annual crop of
flowers - grasses. The mushroom season
commences about the first week in August
and continues till the last week in Septem-
Der. and in certain seasons well on into
October. The whole face of the continent
is then covered with plants of the mush-
room family, most of them wooden, insipid
and sickeEiBg, many of them deadly poison
Gus.
All the plants Of this interesting family,
pretty nearly, which are unfit to eat are
called toadstools, from the old superstition
that in silent places, when the moon shone
bright, the fairies came in the form of toadS
and sat round about on these fungi till the
dawn. 1t is very difficult for an inexperi-
enced eye to detect the difference between
some toadstools and the wholesome plant.
But the difference is as marked in structure
and other respects as it Is in taste.
The true mushroOm-that which reaches
our market before the dew is yet dry upon
it's known as the Agarieus campestris. 1t
abounds everywhere in open, wind-swept
pastures, but as a rule 1t thrives only in
ground run over by horses, cattle and sheep,
the fertilizers from these animals being the
best known medium for the development of
the mushroom spawn, or seed. Many plants
almost like the agaricus grow under the
shade of trees and other outrageous places,
but many Of these are very unwholesome
and even deadly.
For the genuine plant select one whose
gills or un'ter radii do not Join the stem
that is, do not grow to it-but leave we'll
defined space all around between their
points and the stalk of the plant. All the
worthless and poisonous fungi that resem-
bic the agaricus have the gils growing fast
to the stem. Moreover, the bulk of whole
Scme mushrooms are beautiful fresh sal
mon pink in the gills, this color changing 10
q dusk madden brown. One other point,
The skin is tough and definite and peels
easily, which, as far as l know. is not the
case with the harmful sort But 40 one
keeping these facts in mind will ever gather
poisonous plant.
There is a common belief that our mush-
room springs into existence in single night.
1t doesn't. 1t takes some weeks under
ground growth before it bursts through the
sod. Tie broadening out of the umbrella
top, or efilorescence, is due to the air, differ