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The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18

The Governor and Council. are. on
trip to visit the Indian tribes, this week.
The Pass'maquoddies have already pacf
ed big charge into their cannon.
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18
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for Infants and Children.

"Castoria Is 30 wen adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, N. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY.
1.-THE use Of 'Castoria Is 80 universal and
its merits 30 well known that 1t seems work
OF supererogation to endorse It. Few are tho
Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLos MARrYN, q. D.,
New York City.
Late Pastor Bioomingdale Rsformed Church.
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18

Forrest Goodwin, Esq was toast mast
er on this occasion. Mr.. X. L. Patteu
was called upon to welcome the class OF
81 and Miss Josie Smith responded for
that class. Mr.. John Steward who grad.
yates from the State College this year
responded to the toast Our Graduates
in College," Mr. George Pierce, "Our
Graduates in Business, and speeches
were made by Mr.. Hall, principal Of the
High School, and Mr.. Geo o. Smith.
At II late hour the company adjourned
with the hope of meeting again At the
end of another year, voting this one of
pleasantest reunions ever held.
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18
Presentation ni . 4m
bcHrit,tlHH

The exercises, both Monday and Tues.
lay evenings, were highly creditah.e 10
pupils and instructors and highiy salts
factory . the friends Of the pupils sud
our citizens generally,
The music for the two evenings by
Fales Ladies Orchestra OF Wstery e
won much praise from all Their seicc-
tions were bright and pleasing and rem
dcred In manner which showed each
member 10 be 4 musician. Tits orchestra
is composed Of Watersile young ladies'
and is credit to that city
RI >loN oi HE ALUMNI
At the rluseuf the graduating eXercis-
es at the Han the reunion of the Alumni
Of Skowhegan High School and Bloom
field Academy was held at The CGhurn
About seventy were present, An inform
al reception was held in the parlors fot an
hour or more when supper was announc-
ed and the company repaired to the din
ing room whore the following menu was
discussed
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18
THE JUNIOR EXHIBITION.

The exhibition OF the Junior Glass of
Skowhegan High School and Bloomfield
Academy came fl at Coburn Hall Mon
day evening" the 10th instant. Principal
Hall presiding. Rev. +. l.. House, pas
tor of the Methodist church made the
opening prayer and Fales Ladies' Orches-
ira of Waterville furnished the mu-
sic. The stage was tastefully decorated
with drspery in the class colors, cream
and old rose bearing the class motto,
Row not Drift" and cut flower pieces
evergreens, plants and flowers in great
profuslon. The class is a large one, %
in number and their names appear on the
following program:
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18

ABNER I. wHIPPLE.
sw2s BY Geo. v. O0WER Ms Atey.
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18

Castoria cures Collie, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrh9a. Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes d.
gestion,
Without injurious medication.
your 'Castoria, and shall always continue to
do so as 1t has invariably produced beneficial
results"
EDWIN F. PARDHn, D.,
"The winthrop" 125th Street and 7th Ave-,
New York City.
The Somerset reporter., 1891-06-18
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURC

OVID SETH ADAMS.
By George W. Cover. his Atty.
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CHAPTER VIII
A DIFFICULT SITUATION,

Mrs. A1laire restored to reasonl It was
like a person that had risen from the dead.
The very first question which fell from
Molly's lips was how long she had been out
of her mind.
''For two months, replied DR.. Bromley,
who was expecting the question.
'Two months onlyl" she murmured For
it seemed to her as ifs century had gone by.
'oTwo months!" she continued. "John
can't be back yet, for its only two months
since he sailed. Has he been told that our
poor little babe -"
'tNIr Hollister has written him." an
swered DR.. Bromley, interrupting her
"And have they heard from the Dread
naught?"
She was told that Captain John was to
write from Singapore, but that the letter
had not yet arrived. But anyway, accord
ing to the maritime reports, the Dreadnaught
ought to reach the Indies very soon, and
that they were now looking for cablegram
to that effect.
Then came an inquiry as to the absence Of
Kate Barker, to which the doctor replied
that Mr.. and Mrs. Barker were out of town
and that it was not known exactly when
they would be back.
To Andrew Hollister was assigned the
difficult task of informing Mrs. Allaire Of
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why we would not wear ont our lives climb
ing up and down these gullies. As we en-.
tered Schenley farm our kind friend here
met this Chief Bigelow. He wanted Mr..
Bigelow to pose for him to sketch him as a
park freak, he said. Mr.. Bigelow laughed
and declined in favor of Mr.. Mcknight,
who was standing there too. Mr.. Mcknight
might have consented to ride the park ele-
phant for the benefit of the readers of THE
PITTsBURG DISPATCH ifI hadn't been
there. I think he was bashful, though
something was said which didn't under
stand, about me seeing the white elephant.
Mr. Bigelow said to sketch
''Zeb, 1 want to tell you that"
"Mr. Bigelow said to photograph the big
bridge he was having built at the entrance
of the park. So we went down under 1t.
Myl What high bridget 1t Is exactly
los feet from the bottom Of Four Mile Run,
which is underneath, to the floor of the
bridge. We saw gap that had just been
closed, and then we saw gap in the bridge
into
Which They Swung Truss.
"It was interesting to watch them. They
swung the truss by means Of over-reaches,
block and tackle and sich like. After that
we went up on the bridge and walked over
the awful gap by plank only foot wide.
was the first human being, Huldie, to
cross that bridge entirel That's wonderful,
because Mr.. Bigelow said 150, 900 people
would cross it on Fourth of July. I was
ahead of 10000 people. Worth goin' to
town fur, wasn't it7 Mr. Bigelow says he's
fgoin' to have another bridge built in the
park 1S0 feet high. Huldie, when that's
ready to 60 on I'll let ye go down and try
walking a plank. We jumped on Du-
quesne car"
"Zeb, IT must tell you"
"Now, fur goodness sake, Huldie, let me
do little talking, I don't get chance
often. We got on q Duquesne car, and
when we got off again it was in a very dirty
and crowded part Of the city-'Old avenue
I think they CALI Our kind friend here
stopped in front of the Newsboys and Boot
blacks Home-a big, dirty, brick building
and he pointed out to me little man stand
ing in front of lot Of newsies and boot
blacks. 1 thought the man was bargaining
with them to see who would black his boots
the cheapest, but when was introduced to
him found he was not that sort Of fellow.
Father to All the Newsies.
"His name Is Tom Druitt, and he is father
to all the poor newsies in Pittsburg. He;
started this Home for them and he is so kind
that they all love him. Now, Huldie, he
just talked sense. He said to me that the
boys were bad generally. and that the street
was a terrible place for them to learn
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number of breaks from the moment she
commenced to get breakfast. Hulda never
allowed herself to get nervous over an ap-
preaching journey to Pittsburg. Her
i'folks" lived in Iawrenceville, and she
''often went TO see them, you know" But
her husband had no excuse for frequent
trips TO Pittsburg. Hulda monopolized
them, until I commenced to live in the
country, and then he had the opportunity.
He proposed to seize 1t now.
But as we walked on, his own guilty con.
science gradually undermined the bouy.
ancy, which, under my roseate description
of city sights, had assumed species of in.
to1ication, anticipatory, of course. "Per.
haps he ought not to have left the farm in
80 busy 8 season." he thought, and to make
matters worse he worried about the fence
which he possibly left open for the live
stock.
His Conscience Was Relentless.
'T reckon you're quite sure about me put.
ting them bars up, are YEP" he asked, rest.
lessly, after We had proceeded some dis.
tance.
Although assured Zeb in the afirma-
tive, the doubt that we had certainly left
the rails down grew and grew in my mind.
1t was surprising how those pesky fence
bars little by lutte depressed me also. I
felt mean for practically lying to the old
man.
But my unmeant deception worked good
results. The honest granger's spirit arose
once more, and that, too, in proportion as
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my own fell He trusted me, and unable
to trast my memory found myself murmur-
ing more than once that day, "Drat the
fence,, Wish we had come around the regu-
lar road. -
Zeb saw more on that West Penn train
from the car windows on that single ride
than / had seen in six years travel on the
same railroad. The big plate glass works at
Tarentum-the workhouse at Claremont-
the Pittsburg water works across the river
at Brilliant-the horse cars at Sharpsburg-
the half hundred freight locomotives at
Bennett station-the big electric light towers
as the train entered Allegheny! How they
did excite his wondcrl And think he had
made himself familiar with the contour of
every face in the cars at the same time.
Remorse on the Other Side.
Romorse is a terrible thing. Ordinarily,
should have regarded as beatifc the priv
ilege of escorting a rustic among scenes
which in his eyes wore a gilded fringing.
In polite society and in the sordid world in
general it is hard to discover, even with
microscope, that honest feeling of surprise
which God planted in every nature. It is
fashionable to suppress the emotion. How
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1 would have enjoyed the genuine aston.
ishment shown by old Zeb at every turn Of
the Pittsburg streets that day had not
been deceiving him. No, no; not the fence
rails; something worse than that detracted
from my enjoyment
Twas making him the victim of heart
less scheme, and he suspected it not, With
my little instantaneous camera was taking
snapshot photographs of what struck his
countrvman's Imagination. I had cody
brought him to town solely for the purpose
of replenishing my empty notebook and
Journalistic album. My pastoral surround
ings in the country had been exhausted,
and would ''pan out" no more newspaper
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BY JULES vERNE-

ment would call for the expenditure Of .
very small portion of the income which
would be annually passed to her credit, and
hence the accumulations would In the end
make her one of the richest women IN South
ern California
When 1879 had come in there were none
hopeful enough to think that it would bring
any change whatever In the situation, and
yet it did, The fact is that during the ear
lier months of the new year, DR.. Bromley
and the physicians attached to his retreat
had noticed unmistakable symptoms of
change in Mrs. Allaire's mental condition.
That calmness of despair, that stolid apathy
which she had shown for all the petty de-
tails of actual life was interrupted by mo-
ments of emotional activity.
1t was thought advisable to remove her
from DIR. Bromley's establishment, to take
her back to Prospect Cottage, back into her
own room; and when this had been done,
there were on her part manifest signs of
realization of what had happened and Of
interest awakened by finding herself amid
other surroundings.
With the coming of the first days Of
spring-it was April then-the walks in
the neighborhood of the cottage were re-
sumed, and several times Mrs. Allaire was
taken out on the beach of Island Point.
Her eyes followed the movement of the
vessels in the ofing and now and then she
stretched her hand out toward the horizon.
But unlike the first experience she made no
effort to escape from DR.. Bromley, who
walked by her side. Nor did the noise Of
the waves as they broke foam-laden upon
the sand affect her unduly. Was there
reason to think that in her Imagination she
was following the course of the Dread
naught as she sailed out of the port of San
Diego and her topsails disappeared from
sight behind the clifs2 Yes, perhaps so,
for one day she was distinctly heard to
murmer the name of John.
Yes, had it been that the Dreadnaught wss
to come sailing back again, could John have
returned home at this time and have con-
fronted Molly suddenly, possibly she might
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BLOWN OUT OF A SLEEPER,
A Strange Incident That Happened on q
Western Passenger Train.

A Strange Incident That Happened on a
Western Passenger Train.
Chicago Herald.l
All the berths of sleeping car attached
to Sante Fe route train that reached Chi.
scago were full when the car left Los
Angeles. One of the sections was taken by
Mrs. Killing, of Chico, Cal, who, with her
three children, was on the way to Germany.
Another berth was occupied by gentleman
who tells what happened on the trip.
Thursday night, he says, just before Kansas
City was reached and while the porter was
making the beds, necessitating some con-
fusion in crowded car, Mrs. King missed
one of her children, girl years old. The
mother went up and down the car in search
of her little tot, and, not finding her, in
creased her pace to run. She peered
hither and thither and into every berth.
asking the passengers if they had seen any
thing of the little one.
The conductor was prevailed upon to stop
the train, and careful search was instf-
tuted. The child was nowhere to be found.
The mother was almost distracted. Her
piteous cries resounded through the sleeper,
and she implored the conductor to "back"
the train in search of her lost one. His
sympathies went out to the frantic woman.
A half-mile further on the train was side
tracked at water station. There a hand
car was manned by the trainmen and a run
was made down the track for three miles.
where freight train was met, the engineer
of which said he would have seen q child If
it had been on or near the track. Thinking
the search useless, owing to the darkness Of
the night, the trainmen returned to the
watering station. At her own request the
conductor left Mrs. King and her two chill
dren there on the bleak prairie in care of
the man who had charge of the water tank.
Then the train rolled away. All the passen-
gers were sorrowful, and many of the wo-
men were in tears. The afflicted mother
counted the seconds until the first streak of
dawn appeared. Then the search was re-
sumed.
When the conductor went through the
train early the next morning, showing a
telegram that the child had been recovered,
safe and sound, big Jumps arose in the
throats of the men, and the women put
handkerchiefs to their eyes. The little tot
was found about four miles down the track
from the watering station. In the chang
ing of places by the passengers at the time
of making the beds the child was blown
through the rear door. The night was
warm and all the doors and windows were
open. The high wind carried her consid-
erable distance from the track and sat her
softly down in the sand and sage brush.
She was fast asleep when the searching
party found her.
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CHAPTER VII

1hfOhGANT
With the coming of March Mrs. Al1aire
was permitted to resume her walks in the
immediate vicinity of the cottage, in COM
pany with Kate and the mulattress. A lit
tie later Andrew Hollister called at the
house and satisfied himself that the health
of the patient left nothing to be desired;
that her physical condition was in every
way satisfactory. Mentally, it is true, there
was no improvement perceptible, and when
Andrew Hollister stood in Molly's presence
her condition wrung from him the admis-
sion that her mind was irrevocably lost.
Lew Barker's position now became more
and more desperate. Mrs. Allaire's fortune,
which he had converted to his own use,
had not been sufficient to fill the pit gaping
at his feet There was one way in which he
might save himself, but it didn't seem as if
the thing could be accomplished in time
enough to do any good. While it was true
that Mrs. Allaire was alive and well, it was
also true that Edward Manson was in the
very best of health. In the wariest and
most underhanded way, SO that his action
might not become known to Manson, Lew
Barker had succeeded in unearthing this
strange character hidden away in the depths
of his wild lands in Tennessee.
Strong and vigorous, hardly so yet, with
his mental and physical endowment at its
best, Edward Manson led an outdoor life on
these vast tracts of field and forest, working
off his surplus vitality by fishing and hunt
ing, now on foot, now on horseback, man
aging these extensive estates without taking
counsel of anyone. He was the true type
of those sturdy North American farmers
who live to be 100, and the only wonder is
how they can bring themselves to die at all
There was, therefore, no use expecting
any immediate results from this source. In
fact, it looked as if the uncle would outlive
the niece. All hopes which Lew Barker
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have recovered her reason, but, alas, what
idle speculation was 1t to look for the COM
ing of John. For this reason, Dr. Bromley
determined to subject his patient to shock
"a dangerous policy withal, but one which
might be followed with the best results
On the morning of May 27 the two men
called for Mrs. Allaire at Prospect Cottage.
DR.. Bromley's intention was not to re-enact
the heartrending scenes in any manner, but
to place Mrs. A1laire in the exact position
occupied by her at the moment when her
mind received its direful hurt. Mr.. Hollis
ter and he led her toward the steam launch
and hardly had she set foot upon the deck,
when her demeanor was such as to hold the
attention of the two men spellbound. Ap-
parently with an instructive movement she
walked to the bench on the starboard side
of the launch and sat down in the corner
which she had occupied when holding her
child clasped to her bosom. She then
turned her gaze down the bay, toward Point
Iona, as if she were looking for the Flying
Cloud at her anchorage.
The launch had already made about half a
mile of her course, and Molly's eyes had not
been lowered to the surface of the bay. She
kept them directed toward Point Iona, and
when at last she turned them in another di-
rection, it was with the intent of Watching
the movement of q merchantman which,
with every sail set, had entered the bay and
was heading for the quarantine station.
Molly's face seemed as if trans6gured. She
rose to her feet, her eyes still riveted upon
this incoming ship.
1t was not the Dreadnaught, and she was
laboring under no illusion that it was. With
mournful shake of the head, she mur-
INJURED:
"John, dear John, you'll soon be coming
back, too, and I shall be there to receive
you"
Suddenly she plunged her gaze down into
the waters of the bay which now for the first
she recognized. A pitiful wall escaped her
lips as she turned to Mr.. Hollister:
"Mr. Hollister, is that you2'' she in.
quired tenderly. "But my little walt-my
child-my poor, dead babe-he is there
there-yes, I remember-I remember"
And with these words she threw herself
upon her knees on the deck and the tears
burst forth tumultuously.
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A CANINE RAILROADKR.

She Rings the Engine Bell and Understands
All About Switching.
St. Louis Post-Dlspatch.l
"Baby" is an old brindle dog of no little
sense. She is well provided for by the rail-
way boys who work about the Missouri
Pacific yards at Carondelet For years the
faithful old animal has been the pet of the
railway men and for many months past she
has been known as the railroad dog. 1t is
nothing new for Baby to ride on the engine,
and she can ring the engine bell as well as
the fireman. She will get the rope in her
mouth and pull the rope for an hour if
need be.
Her delight is to follow the switchmen
and when they turn switch Baby will give
a series of little barks and then run up to
the next switch. If the switch is not turned
the dog will wait patiently until it is, and
then bark as though she was saying: "All
right. Come on.
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back an1iously. 'T disremember whether
or no put up the bars agin."
Whats the difference
- Them cows might get in here. Huldie
always ties 'Shep' when go way, and with
no dog round the cows have it all their own
way"
The corn was thrifty. 1t had reached
sufficient heighth to cut of all view of the
fences, barn and farmhouse, and we stood
uncertain as to what might be the result of
pressing on 20 miles without first settling
the doubt as to the fence rails.
'ph, you certainly put them up" said I,
impauently, though was by no means GER
tain OF having seen him do it
SPose you wait here while run back
and see fur sure?"
Can't make that train if you do that, and
then we can't get another till noon" 1
pointed to the hands of my watch.
1t Was Too Good to Lose.
Ee immediately resumed the walk toward
the station. He had lain awake since 2 A
II lest he should oversleep himself and miss
tne tram. That trip to town which I had
offered hlm was too big an event in his SIM
pie HE TO lose now when he was on the way.
A mt Hulda had accused him of quite q
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wickedness But he got some of them to
start savings account in the Dollar Saw
ings Bank-same place where you and got
our little money, Huldie-and now one of
the boys has got $40 there and another has
500. Mr.. Druitt says to me: 4 tell you,
sir, when you can get q boy to save money
yere pretty sure of making good man Of
him. Before you can save money you must
be Industrious and economical both. Show
me boy who is industrious and economies,
and II show you the making of good and
useful man. Huldie, that's good common
sense doctrine. I am goin, to get Druitt to
send you and a boy to live here when we
get old. And next we went"
"Zeb, I must and will tell you that"
'For goodness sake, Huldie, what is 1t
: you must and will tell me- Can't ye wait
until"
'Zeb, you old fool, the cows were in the
corn all day." L. E. SToFIEL
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been completed at
the marble an d
granite works of A.
S. Esterly. The
monument, which is
a novel and unique
design, was de-
signed by Herman
Strecker, and the
swork done under
his personal super
vision. The fund
out Of which the
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Mother Goose Adapted.

Sing song of sixpence, but sing it low and
SOFT
Four and twenty blacklegs mp at Tranby
Croft,
When the Croft was opened people saw a
scene
Not exactly suitable to lay before the Queen.
The Prince was in the drawing room, count
ing out his money
(He had a roll of bank notes, which was
rather funny,
The Baronet was showing his counters DER
the line
When up jumped blackleg and made Sir
William sign.
-DeroG Free PTess.
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MYSTERY OF A TRoUTs TASTE.
No Fellow Can Find Out Why His Stomach
Seems SO Capricious.

No Fellow Can flnu Out why His Stomach
Seems SO Capricious.
Forest and Stream.
If there is any one question that troubles
the fy-fsherman more than another it is
why trout rise freely one day and perhaps
the next utterly refuse the same fly. 1t is
natural to suppose that they are hungry
and want food. Yet judging from the way
they act it appears sometimes as ifit were
only mere caprice on their part; something
like the way we pick at olives or salted
Who can explain the well-known fact that
trout rise freely to a fly during a snow
storm and leave off at once when the snow
stops falling? Or why do they commence
to rise all over o stream at certain hour,
which often happens to be right in the
middle of the day, and stop as suddenly as
they began2