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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

There is an old apple woman who does
business on Wall street corner who de-
serves medal for one of the best natured
dispositions in this town. The other day
a coal wagon, one of the big ones drawn
by three horses hitched abreast, drove
up to her corner and slowly and clumsi-
ly backed up against the curb. Then the
driver swung his horses around so as to
give another team chance to get
through the street. Round came the
heavy animals, not with very much
speed, but with n momentum which
proved disastrous to the propretress of
the stand and her goods. Down she
went, while a good share of her apples
went tumbling after her.
Luckily she was not much hurt, but
as she reclined on the pavement she saw
one of the horses add insult to injury by
opening a vast mouth and closing it upon
the biggest apple on the stand. Then
up rose the old woman in hot haste
But not to seek vengeance. Instead, she
picked up two more apples and hospit-
ably handed them to the two. animals
which hadn't helped themselves. And
what is more, she looked as if she hadn't
= grievance against anybody in the
world.-New York Times.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

Adams Is reported to have been the
first to recommend the use Of blue
glass, but they were at first more widely
used in Germany, chiefly through the
recommendation of the great oculist
Crate, of Bohm, and others. The blue
color of glass is chiefly to be recon-
hended because it absorbs those rays in
their passage which belong to the yellow
Ind orange portion of the spectrum, in
which the greatest brightness and great
est heat are concentrated, and the eyes,
especially weak ones, consequently
greatly protected by the blue color,
while rays which such eyes are able to
bear obtain access.
The material for blue glasses which
has to be made in various shades to
suit individual eyes, is somewhat less
hard than that employed formerly for
green spectacles and is also inferior in
that respect to white glass, but it has
gained in durability comprised with
former descriptions of glass.
Still greater is the progress recorded
in the manufacture and hardness of
smoked" glass, also used for protecting
the eyesight. This kind of glass, which
is colored gray or mouse colored by the
addition of manganese, formerly suffered
from too great softness by the addition
OF large quantity of lead; but the best
manufactures now made are nearly
equal to white glass in point of hard
ness. The object of smoked glass is to
reduce the glare of light without segre-
eating colors. hambers' Journal.
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Where Napoleon's Friend Was Found.

where Napoleon's Friend Was Found.
On the voyage in frigate from Alex
andria to France Napoleon said to those
who were in his confidence:
81 am taking two very different
chances. If this vessel is captured by
the English and | am thrown into an
English prison l shall be in the eyes of
France a common deserter, general
who left his army without authority to
do so.
But if reach France in safety, sub
due the factions, take command of the
army and carry out my plans for the ma
TONS good, l shall win the blessings of
our fellow countrymen,
~ will not be taken by an English
vessel. II we encounter one we will
fight as long rs possible, and when the
enemy begins to board us we must sink
the ship"
This desperate plan was received in
silence and with evident disapproval, ex-
cept by Gaspard Monge, who said, when
it appeared that no one else was going to
speak:
Eyes, general, you have stated the
situation exactly. If what you suggest
happens we must sink the ship"
81 was waiting for this proof of friend
ship, and | charge you with executing
the plan" replied Napoleon.
Not long afterward an alarm was
given, and every one FASTENED to his post
to defend the frigate against an ap-
preaching English vessel. 1t was soon
discovered, however, that the vessel was
not English nor unfriendly
where is Mongel' inquired Napoleon.
"Find him and tell him that the danger
is past
Monge was found at his post by the
powder magazine with a lighted lantern
in his hand. Youths Companion.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

There is famous echo ON the Rhine
between Coblentz and Bngen, which re-
peats word seventeen times, while In
the sepulcher of Metella, the wife of
Sulla, in the Roman campayna there Is
an echo which repeats five times In diff
ferent keys, and will also give back with
distinctness hexameter line which re-
quires two and half seconds to utter
Brewster mentions an echo on the North
side of Shipley church, in Sussex, Enu.
land, which repeats twency-one syllables
Brooklyn Eagle..
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One Way to Fix Up an Old Room.


If you are repairing an old house and
wish to have one or two striking and eff
fective features, choose a room for den
and have the whole of n windowless side
finished with drawers, cupboards, hooks
and pigeon holes. Shut in some of these
with stained glass doors, drape others
with real silk or blue and white porce-
lain tinted crapy goods. Leave a gal
lery along the top for busts, pottery or
unframed paintings. Cover the floor
with mating ard rugs. If possible
place low seats in the windows for plants
or books. Select wrought iron frames
for hanging lamps, with a copper candle
stick placed here and there for pick up
use.
An old portable clothes closet may be
converted into corner shrine for such a
room by being covered with dark red
plush, in which is kept some family heir.
looms or beautiful vase. A few odd
bamboo pieces Of furniture will best har-
monize with the rest Of the room, or stiff
carved chairs In dark mahogany. An
old fashioned desk, such as was In con-
slant use in New England years age, or
any antique table or stand will find .
suitable abiding place here.-Brooklyn
EaglA
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

HealSry summer visitors to the Adj
rohdiGks frequently hear term used by
tGG natives in describing some of their
city comrades in those delightful and
health giving regions that greatly mys-
titles them at first. The people thus re-
ferred to technically are called the
"lungers," who are generally found to
be pretty plentiful. "Lungers," pro-
nounced "lung-ers," is word that has
not rs yet got into general usage outside
the range of the pine tree odors of the
northernmost part of New York state
but its meaning and derivation are soon
perceived and compel instant admira-
ton for their simplicity and significance.
The "lungers" of the Adirondack
regions are none other than the con-
sumptives who resort thither for the
benefit of their lung troubles, and who
form class by themselves in the eyes
of the natives apart from the mere
huntsnen and pleasure seekers. There
is sort of distinction in being hunger
that naught else can give, and though
the word thus evolved by an admirable
pathological fitness seems to have touch
of rugged brutality in it at first sight,
yet there is, after all, kind of rough
sympathy in it that is redolent of the
soil.
AS the pulmonary knowledge Of the
Adirondack people increases in minute
hess, as it doubtless will, one may ex-
pect to hear the more detailed designa-
tons of lone lungers," "half lungers,"
ETC., though this, it is believed, has not
yet been observed. York Tribune.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

A teacher in large boarding school
for young ladies used to jest over pupil
whose appetite at table caused her neigh
bors serious alarm. 1t was the custom
to have hot raised biscuits twice week
for supper, and this girl, after eating six
one evening, gave her teacher and doctor
very bad night indeed. 1t never seemed
to enter anybody's head that hot yeast
biscuit was the food above all others to
cause morbid appetite and bilious at
lacks. Yet the supper of hot biscuits
and cheese with honey or preserves is one
of the institutions of boarding schools,
and worse fare for growing girls it would
be hard to ind.-ShIrley Dare's Letter.
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cohethihs wrong.
"Well," said the "brute" to his wife
as he took his place at the breakfast
table, "who are the new neighbors next
door,"
why, how should know" answered
the wife.
Don't you know their name?"
"Of course not"
''Are they wealthy
I'm sure don't know"
"The man an old skinhint"
Il don't know"
"His wife extravaganza
you will have to ask some one else"
ANY daughters? And are they proud
and stuck up?'
"Why, Harry? l don't know"
Anything mysterious about them? A
secret connected with the family"
81 don't know anything about them"
"What! You don't?"
"No."
"They have been here twenty-four
hours-fll send the doctor up as l 20
down town"
"What are you going to send the doc
tor up for?'
Something must be the matter with
you. That family has lived next to US
for one whole day and you don't know
the first thing about them yet. You
need attending to-"
And then he buried himself in his
paper.-Philadelphis Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

THE Sntft) In the Aryan relig-
PLANT. to the gods was the
fomented juice of the Soma or Moon
plant, which being a strong drink, gave
new excitement to those who partook
OF IT, aud was believed to impsrt power
o the gods. 1t was believed, moreover,
that 1t wrought miracles, and for his rea-
son, perhaps, 1t afterwards became u e
chief god OF the Hindus. In vedic
hymn the worshiper says;
We've qualified the Soma bright,
And are immortal grown;
We've entered into light,
And all the gods have known.
What mortal now can harm,
Or ( eman vex US more?
Through thee beyond alarm,
Immortal God we soar"
No such power as this Is attributed to
any plant of the present. lii, tine, and yet
many of the cures performed by s. s. S,
purely vegetable remedy, seem almost
20 border on the miraculous. In contag-
ious blood poison scrofula, skin diseases,
some forms of cancer, etc, 1t is the rem
edy par excellence.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free.
SWIFT SECIFIC Co, Atlanta, Ga.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10
YOU NEEDN'T WAIT!


Our Chamber Set barssins at $40 to $50
are not to be equalled.
See our Parlor Suits at S25, S35. .l5.
Solid Oak Sideboards. S22, S23. So
binner SEES worth SIS, for $40.
ID ming Tables from 81 so.
Dini' & Chairs at all prices.
We sell everything in the way of Carpets
o Iclolhs, Rugs snd Mating ut lower
pr ices than other dealers.
We buy more goods than ten stores in
Maine.
We sell more, can 3 afford to do with less
profit, can wait your convenience for the
pay ments.
Our business increases because our cd
custom ers stay with us and induce others
to try the 'asy way to home comforts
If YOU PREFER TO PAY
CASH we will give you handsome dis
discount.
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MISCELLANY.

It's great deal easier TO secure an indorse-
ment for a mans character than for his note.
Usually such things as are advertised possess
no value. But who would say that DIR. Bull :
Cough Syrup possesses NO merit 1t is the
standard remedy ofour age Price % cents a
bottle.
The recording angel never stikes balance
on his books by what is said of man on his
grasestone.
II you desire lnxuriant growth of healthy
hair Of a natural color, nature browning orna-
ment of both sexes, use only Halls Vegetable
Sicilian Hair Remover.
Author, apo YOU suppose these society
womens novels pay Cynic. The publishers
they employ Oh yes
No better preparation for the hair has ever
been invented than Ayers Hair Nigor. 1t re-
stores the original color To faded and gray hair,
and imparts that natural gloss and freshness,
everyone SO much admires. Its reputation is
world wide.
touch offrost on u cranberry and in pref
ty girls manner impairs the attracti,eness Of
both.
Don't!-If a dealer offers you bottle Of Sal
walton Oil without labels OF wrappers, or in a
mutilated or defaced package, don't touch it
don't buy it at any price, You can rest assured
that there is something Wr0ng-it may be IA
dangerous and worthless counterfeit. Insist
upon getting perfect, unbroken, genuine pack
age. Price % cents.
leave patients 10 tie saints" seems to be
the motto Of some doctor, when they send sick
people away from home.
The correctness Of the maxim nothing sue
ceeds like success" is well eNempihed in Aver S
Sarsaparia. The most successful combination
OF alternatives aud ,onics, it always succeeds in
curing diseases Of the blood, and hence its won
derful popularity.
"Well, Mr.. Barber, how are times with you :
"Splendd You know it's good year for the
crops"
WITH Elys Cream Balm a child he treated
without pain and with perfect safety. II cures ca
tarrh hay fever and cold, ia the head. It is easily
applied into the nostis and gives immediate rctet.
Price so cents
My cArARRH was very bad. For thirty years
have been troubled with it-hISe tried numh Of
remedies without reci. y druggist advised Ely's
Cream BALM. have used only one bottle and
can saw trel like new man. make this Vnlun
tary statement that others NAV know OF the Balm.
j W Mathewson. Lawyer Pawtucket, X. I.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

Be thankful that no speculator has
thought to corner the cranberry crop o.
the turkey product of the land.
Rejoice that so far not more than 81
per cent. of the college football player
have been seriously crippled in the pur
suit Of sport
Rejoice that the spirit Of progress that
sneers at the doings of our fathers ha,
not yet been able to affect the mince ri.
Of our mothers. Exchange.
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WE'LL SUPPOSE
YOU NEEDN'T WAIT

Bring your mother or INTENDED wife 10
our store. talk the matter over, see III.
line Psrlor Suits at S45 and the Chamb-,
Sets at s25, examine the Carpet bargains
look over the higher priced goods. or ,be
lowest, make up your mind what You TIM
you will require, then we will arrange IN,
rest of the matter satisfactorily to Won. Il
you want two hundred dollars worth. fortv
or fifty dollars is all we ask you to lav
down.
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YOU NEEDN'T WAIT.

Whichever You are ready, we are. 1t is
simply saving money on your par, for the
weekly pay mt mt is 50 small thai you would
likely spend it ON odds aud en- Is ANYWAY
f you had not made up Your mind o save
for the furniture GET All TOU
" mt. We don't tuck on extta mices
aecause you buy on credit. Go anywhere,
and you cant buy as cheap as we will ell
you. If you want to furnish or re furnish
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10
YOU NEEDN'T WAIT

If odt of town write us just how You are
situated. We will ssud You all particular,
and treat you well.
Perhaps you are married, and You tat
oticed the threadbare spot in the Garrett
pr the Old fashioned Chamber Set aud !isl
you could get new.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

Guest lat restaurant in moist weather.
Waiter, l can't get any salt out Of this
salt cellar.
Waiter-You've forgotten to unscrsw
Tho top, sir.-Nsw York Weekly.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10
HOLIDAY Season.

We offer you the best the market affords,
we say 10 you if You wish TO remember
Your friends, we will sell you what \you
want on the same easy terms
Furniture, Sliverware, Rugs, S'eging
Mach mes, Organs, Lamps, Dinner Sets,
Easy Chairs and Rockers, Desks, Book
Cases, Pictures, Ea-els, Foot Rests DNp
cries, Clocks, everything you can think Of
for household use and ornament Send at
once for cuts and prices or go to the near.
est store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

If you have bad breath. consIp patton, pain in the
ANAL Of your back. .discolored skin, seriousness,
David Keanedys Favorits Remedy, Of Rondout,
N. Y. Il will eleasss the blood of Ill impurities,
regulate he Kidnsys and Liver, aad thus isstersO
healthy. glow. p your cheeks asala All druggists
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

What Three Women DO While Riding.
A busy woman says she gives her
mind complete rest on her journeys to
and from the scene of her daily work:
II close my eyes behind my hand or
paper and make my mind as complete .
blank as possible" Another woman, .
writer, says, on the contrary, II make =
practice to give my brain over to wan
dering fancies, often getting my best
ideas while in transit" Still another
woman, busy mother, plans the chill
dren's frocks, Mentally making over,
altering and combining In way that u
most helpful to me afterward." All Of
which shows that this perennial riding
has come to have An allotted place and
eondderston.-Her Point Of View in
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YOU NEEDN'T WAIT

Christmas is near and you want Side
board or few Chairs or n Dinner Set. ~
Knives and Forks. Perhaps your Table i
too small and you would like larger one
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Harper's Magazine.
ILLUSTRATED.

The Magazine will celebrate the fourth Cen
'enary OF tho Discovery OF America by Its re
discovery, through articles giving a more
thorough ex iosiion than has hitherto been
made OF the recent imp ecedenred develop.
ment of our Country. aud esp, cially IN the
great Wes'. Particular attention will also he
given to dramatic episodes of American history.
The Fl, Id of the next European War will he
de.crbed in IA Series OF Papers on the Danube
From the Black Forest to the Rlnc1 Sea-" by
Poultney Bieelow and F. ID. Millet, ILLUSTRATED
by Mr. Millet and Alfred Parsons. Articles
also will be given on the German, Austrian,
aud Italian Armies, illustrated by L. de Thu
>tiup. Mr.. W. d. Howells will contribute a
new novel, "a World of Chance" character
tically American Especial prominence viii
be given 10 short stories, which will be contri-
huted by T. b. Aldrich, X. II. DAVIS, A. Couln
Doyle, Margaret Deland, Miss woolson, aud
other popular writer's. Among the literary
features will be Personal "reminiscences Of
Nathatiel Haw horne, by his col eye class mate
and lifelong friend. Horatio Bridge. ami II
Personal seinoir Of the Brow ings, by Anne
Thackeray Ri chic.
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A man at Fort Valley, Ga, has calf
with SIX legs and two heads, the heads
separated from each Other at the neck,
giving the calf two distinct heads, VIII
. set OF eyes. teeth and ears each.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-12-10

The Volumes Of tn, Weekly begin with the
first Number for January OF each year. When
no time is mentioned, subscriptions will behn
with the number current Ut the time Of receipt
OF order. Bound Volumes Of Havper's Weekly
for three year, back, In nest cloth binding. will
iree Of espense provided tie FREIGHT docs not
exceed one dollar per volume). for S1n0 per
volume. Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable
for bindins. viii be sent by mail, postpaid, 90
RemittanUos shOuld b made ny Post .oflce
Money Order or Draft, TO avoid chance Of loss.
Newspapers are not to copy thts advertise
address: Harm 4 Bnormas, New York.
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Besides flowers, several other articles
are called into use by the perfulner.
Musk is the most important 1t comes
out of the musk deer of the mountains
of India, China and Thibet. 1t is ex-
tremely difficult to obtain unadulterated,
and when obtained in that condition
costs twice its weight in gold. So great
is the tenuity Of the odor, that in an area
Of five feet it gives out $3.50 ,8O8 par
ticles without undergoing an appreciable
diminution Of weight.
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The Volumes Of the Magazine begiu with t''e
Numbers for June and necember Of each year;
When no time is specified subscriptions W I,
begin with the Number current At the tim" "'
recent of order Bound Volumes OF IL irpel
Magazine for three years back In neat cloln
binding. Will he sent by mail. postpaid, on re- re-,
ceipt Of $40 per volume. CLOTH Cases. i1
kemittances should he made by Post-oil' q
Money order or Draft. to avoid chance OF To- 10
Newspapers are not TO copy this ahvef.lsvs
nent without the express order OF Harper
BrOfhers.
Address: HARPER & BROrHERs, New York
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Caution,

Caution.
Ny wife, Nora o. Reddick, having LETT ins
bed and board without just cause, all person.,
are hereby cautioned not to harbor or tru no
her on my acr0uut, - sball hereafter Ply "'
bills Of her contracting. SwW'
JAMES W. RRDDIcK.
Madison, Nov, u, feoi.
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PREPARED ny
Or. J. c. AVER & co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. riies 81; six bottles, a.
The western sentinel., 1891-06-18
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF.

FORSYTH COUNTY,
I In the Superior Court
J. &: Vaughn and Thomas Il. Pepper, par
ties trading under the firm name of
Vaughn & Pepper,
AGAINST
Warner Moore ana Thos. l. Moore, parties
trading under the firm name of Warner,
Moore & Co.
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
10 the Sheriff of Forsyth Co.. Greeting !:
You are hereby comm ntied to summon
Warner Moore and Thos. l.. Moore, part
ners, the defendants above named, if they
be found within your county, to be and ap-
pear before the Judge of our Superior Court,
at a court to be held for the cou.,ty of For
sy tn, at the court house in Winston on the
7th Monday after the lst Monday of Sep
tenber next. and answer complaint which
will be deposited in the oihce of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of said county, within
the first three days of said term and let the
said defendants take notice that if they fail
to answer the said complaint within the
time req,lirtd By law the plaintiff will ap-
ply to the court for the relief demanded in
the complaint.
Hereof fail not, and of this summon make
due return.
Given under my hand and seal of said
court, this Sth day OF June, 1891.
w, SrAFFoRD,
C. s. Z. OF Forsyth County.
Warrant of al,achn snt returnable 10 the
the Superior Court of Forsyth county Octo-
Der 26th, 1891. w. b. STAFFORD,
Watson & Buxton. G. S. G.
The western sentinel., 1891-06-18
The Confederate Soldiers.

We are requested to call the at
tention of each old soldier in this
countyto the fact that he is required on
or before the first Monday in July
of every year to file with the county
commissioners statement setting
forth in detail the company and reg
iment of battalion in which he
served at the time of receiving the
wound, whether he is holding an Of
fee in the State, United States, or
county from which he is receiving
the sum of three hundred dollars in
fees or as salary; whether he is
worth in his own right or in the
right of his wife property at its as
sessed value for taxation to the
amount of five hundred dollars, and
whether he is receiving any aid from
the State of North Carolina under
any other statute providing for the
relief of the MANNED and blind sol
diers of the State.