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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-14
North Fairfield,

They have organized a "Ioung Peo-
pies Christian Endeavor Society" at the
Friends church, with IA membership of
about forty.
The revival meetings closed last week ;
there were about twenty conversions.
The farmers are now busy hauling off
their apples and getting up their years
supply of wood before the snow gets
too deep.
Perley Beal started Monday, for Au-
gusta, where he is to enter the Dirigo
Business College. He is thinking some
of going back to California with his
brother, Leon, in the spring.
The young folks met at Mr.. William
Wentworth's last Friday evening, and
had song; they report fine time.
The school In district No. II, will
commence next Monday, with Miss
Hannah Wentworth, teacher. Miss
Wentworth Is one of our best teachers,
and this is her third term taught here in
succession.
Mrs Laban Allen is convalescing.
A. B. C.
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COLLECTING DEBTS IN FRANCE.
Points Of Difference Between tho System
There and In This Country.

Points OF difference Between tho system
There and In This Country.
The matter practiced in the collec-.
ton Of debts in France and in the
United States does not differ materi-
ally save in the collection and the
mode of procedure. The first step
which is necessary for creditor in
France to take before he can use le-
gal means to collect debt due HIM
is to obtain judgment against the
debtor, which is rendered by JUS
tee of the peace, provided the
amount does not exceed $40. The de
PENDANT is required toappear in court
on certain day and arrange for a
settlement of the account and pay a
part or the whole of it or show cause
why.
If this arrangement is not made,
the defendant is a second time sum
moned to appear, and should he
then fatty refuse payment judgment
is rendered against him. The cost
of Judgment, together with that of
the summons, is betrayed by the
plaintiff and copy of the former
sent to the debtor. He then. has
three months grace to appeal beforea
civil court from the judgment already
handed down Failing to exercise
this privilege, the matter is put in
the hands of "huissier," whose
functions partake of those of both
the bailiff and process server, but his
methods as well as his perogatives
resemble neither one nor the other
The huissier upon request of the
creditor makes an abstract state
ment of the condition of the debt,
the fee for preparing and serving the
same varying according to the
length of the instrument and not ac-
cording to the importance Of the
debt. Its average cost, however, may
be placed at $3.50
In case the debtor ignores the doc
ument an designation" is served
upon him, and eight days thereafter
his furniture is seized and placed in
the hands of the huissier. The ex-
pense entailed in the preparation of
these notices is betrayed by the cred
itor but if at any moment the debt
Or agrees to liquidate in full he is not
only required by law to discharge
his original obligation, but to add to
it the costs Of the judgment and fees
of the huissier Whether this sys-
tenn is better than the plan pursued
in tho United States is matter of
opinion Pittsburg Dispatch.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Athens.

Mr.. Card of Corrinna preached in the
Union church last Sabbath, coming from
his home 10 a wagon. He must have
had hard experience getting home In
it after the heavy snow of Sunday and
Sunday night. Mr.. c. is an earnest,
interested worker and gives us good
sermons.
Mrs. VIM. Littletield has been serious
ly i'll the past week, and for some hours
her friends feared the worse. Mis-
Alice, who is stopping at Skowhegan
was''sent for, who called DIR. Merrill of
that place in consultation with DR.. I'll
lingwood. Mrs. l.. is now out of danger.
Mrs. Albert Lcavitt is also quite sick
calling in the physician saturday.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Alanson Locke we. to
Madison Tuesday and Wednesday to
attend a Free Baptist q. NJ. holden at
that place
Mr.. Geo. Foss lately of Lake Hebron
hotel, Greenvilc, is visiting friends in
town.
Miss Mabel Hall is visiting Myrtle
Green and Miss Gertie Ward is the guest
of Miss Bertha Brown.
School at the Academy has been in
progress four weeks, attendance and
interest both good. Mr. and Mrs.
Sheldon are very much liked by their
pupils both in and out of school. At
their evening meeting last week, j. F.
Holman gave them an interesting talk
on various matters of interest and profit.
Mr.. c. +. Spaulding recently from
Watham, Mass, has bought the home
stead and store of L. j. Calden at Cass'
Corner and will fill up the store with
good goods" and sell them rs low as
the lowest. So he tells Us.
Rev. B. c. Wentworth spoke at the
church, Dec. 10.
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Cochin China's Imperial Safe.

The Emperor Duc-Tu of Cochin
China protects his treasures by plac
ing them in followed trunks of trees,
which float about huge tank stu
Rted in the center of the royal pal
Ice There are 90 crocodiles in the
tank as we'll. When he wishes to
draw upon this bank, all the reptiles
are killed, but this cannot take place
without the joint consent of the ELI
peror and his minister of finance.
Exchange
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A CHEERFUL RUFEAN.
He Could Take a Joke as Readily as %
Would Play One.

He Could Take a Joke as Readily as He
Would Play One.
Among many famous characters
who made men dance till they
dropped or made them commit other
queer antics, Curly Bill was prob
ably the most picturesque. Accord
ing to the stories told by P. Fl. Gale
of Indro, Curly Bill was most ami
able and humorous ruffian and could
take joke as well as make one with
ready cheerfulness.
"A green sort of chap walked into
the saloon where we were all assem-
bled," said Mr.. Gale. This was in
Tombstone, you know, and no sooner
did Curly Bill see him than he
thought he would have some fun.
Going up to this long, lank, slab
sided boy, Curly Bill said to him:
You'll just muse the gents by
dancing
Before you could say Jack Rob
inson that chap jumped clear onto
the bar, and pulling out two six
shooters pointed them at Curly Bill.
saying: Tn just lookin for you
Now dance by -
Did Curly Bill dance2 You be:
yer life he did, and many time has
he told the story till the tears ran
from his eyes with laughter. 1t
wasn't safe to fool with Curly Bill
He was a peculiar kind of chap,
and if he didn't take liking to your
face or your clothes he'd as soon kill
you as not. One day he went to a
Frenchman, and gently tapping him
with his six shooters observed:
Look a-here, you go and stand
on that hill outside of town all
night, and if don't find you there in
the morning I'll kill you, sure as you
are born.
That Frenchman stood there all
night, and when Curly Bill told him
he might go he left not only the hill,
but the town.
1.-THE miners down at Tombstone
had notions to which it was danger
Gus to run counter. They disliked
the Mormons, and if man was
known to belong to that sect 10
chances to he would never leave
the camp alive.
Il remember fellow coming into
a barroom and yelling that he was a
Mormon and could wipe out any
body. The bartender, tender heart
ed sort of a chap, told him to be quiet.
The fellow bawled again. In flash
a coil of rope was about his head,
and he was being jerked to the cell
ing The barkeeper rushed out
Gents" said he, the man is
drunk and don't know what he is
saying He amt responsible.
1.-The strain on the rope slackened,
and the Mormon was dropped on the
floor, where he lay in a senseless heap.
His terrible escape had completely
sobered him. When he came to, the
barkeeper helped him to his feet and
hid him.
When the saloon was empty, he
gave him this piece of good advice
For heavens sake, get out of here
| cant answer for your life These
fellows may be back any moment
and may have changed their minds.
don't want you to be hanged here,
SO get up and git, and while you are
in this camp never say you are a
! Mormon. San Francisco Chroni
n1a
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Advertising Scheme at Niagara Falls

i read some time ago that signs
projected by electric searchlights on
the clouds over London would be a
novel advertising idea, said an cleo
trical engineer. I've got a better one
than that Why not place electric
searchlights on the Canadian side of
Niagara falls and project adveitis
ing announcements on the American
fallsi The immense curtain of water
would make splendid background,
and the rapidly falling water would
produce novel effects on the signs
The trolley road now operating
along the falls might utilize this
scheme and give its patrons gigantic
magic lantern shows on summer
EVENING" Electrical Review.
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BrOMn'SCOrner.

Mrs. Ellen Barnes and sou Fred visited
relatives in Hartland last week.
Mrs. Kittie Barnes and Mrs. w. o.
Barnes are both sick with bad colds.
Mrs. }. l.. Chase has gone to Pitts
field to care for her sick sister, Mrs. G..
\. Rolfe.
Moses Horn spent Thanksgiving with
his parents in Scion.
Ensign Hubbard and family have NOV
ed to Pittsfield to take boarders this
winter.
Josie Lancaster has returned from
Corinna.
Miss MAY Chase of Skowhegan made
a brief visit at her brothers, Cecil
Chase's. last week
Roy Pcnnell rode over to Palmyra,
Sunday to call on his grandmother. Mrs.
Caroline Woodbridge.
Sunday the weather was mild and the
sleighing fine, but Monday WAS so bois-
terous every body that coul was glad
to keep in doors.
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A Narcotic.

Teacher-Giye me a familiar in
stance of a narcotic.
Pupil hesitates.
Teacher What does your father
smoke in his piper
Pupil-Mother says it smells like
hayseed, but guess it's leather. =
Boston Transcript.
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Reconciliation.

At an inquest in certain town
in the north of England on man
who had been drowned the police
man giving his evidence was asked
by the coroner if means had been
taken to resuscitate the body.
"Oh. yes. sirl We searched his
pockets London Tit, Bits.
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Many of the sealskins sent to the Lon
don markets are obtained by the Siwash
Indians along the west coast Of vancou-
yer island and the northwest shores Of
British Columbia
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04

soap and water, and fresh coat of
color where it is needed, makes the fig
ure as good as new. If it is withdrawn
from the exhibition gallery it is placed
IN the c!rier's room. This place is q
veritable 3torehouse of material for the
sculptor, especially when he is engaged
on large group, or on one which is to
he quickly finished. Old figures are
frequently used over again, and even
heads too. Thus, in the group of Co.
lumbus reporting his discoveries to Fer
dinand and Isabella, you can see En-
peror William l., with bis hair combed
down into his face, posing as a courtier
in fifteenth century costume. And
Couat de Lesseps, the celebrated French
engineer who constructed the Suez Canal,
has deceived more than one visitc& as he
sits, quite life-like, studying the cata-
logue like one of the public. All the
figures are thus in time made use of in
come way or another. When they finally
are orn out beyond repairing they are
tun- Led into dark cupboard, the ''hos-
pital." This heap of broken arms, legs,
heads, hands, AL feet is destined to be
melted do vn, 6, tlat the wax can be
used over a,a.n.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
FEEDING VALUE OF coRNsrArE1.

The feeding value of cornstalks is a
subject which receives an endless amount
of discussion and upon which a great
variety of opinions have been expressed.
The subject is we'll worthy of considera-
ton both on account of the immense
quantity of cornstalks produced every
year and also by reason of the great val
ue which they may have to their owners.
The principal reason for the great differ
ence i'll opinion which farmers express in
regard to the usefulness of the stalks for
feeding is found in the fact that the real
value Of different lots of stalks varies
fully as much as do the opinions of their
owners. Some lots are clean and bright,
and contain large amount of nourish.
ment in a palatable and easily digesti-
BILE form. Other lots are so bleaclei
and damaged by exposure to the sun anil
storms as to be unpalatabIe and innutri-
tfous. There is as much difference in
the value of these two grades of stalks
as there is between hay that has been
properly cured and stored and that
which has been SO long exposed to the
weather as to have lost Its natural color
and been deprived of nearly all of its
nutritious qualities. The trouble with
the cornstalks that cattle do not like,
and from eating which they receive little
or no benefit, is due to bad curing or
too long exposure in the field The
smaller varieties usually have larger
proportion of valuable feeding material
than the giant sorts, but the latter, if
properly cared for, will furnish good
leal of food which cattle will like and
Upon which they will thrive. The m,a |
Who husks his corn early and puts the
talks under cover, OR in stacks which |
will turn the rain, will have some va!ua-
'le material with which to supplement
lis crops Of hay and grain.-American
)airyman.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
panlOn.
CO1tentnl emf,

Given all the comforts and many
Of the luxuries Of life, how many
people are disconnected solely from
a. habit Of comparing their lot with
those of more fortunate acquaint-
ances! They do ret specially object
to walking-they Ike the exercise
but, whenever their next-door neigh
boris carriage dashes by them, they
grow suddenly tired about the knees
and feel weakness in the back with
which Professionalism does not agree.
Wooden gowns would be perfectly
comfortable If silk ones never rustled
In front of them. John Smiths brick
house is better than he ever ex-
pected to own, and he would be con-
tent enough with it if Tom Jones,
who went to school with him when
he was a boy, had not moved into a
stonefrt tied mansion with hand
some portico.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
Diplomacy and Cookery.

The importance of cooks in the
political wo.Id is much greater than
most people suppose. An ambassa-
doris influence has often been in pro-
portion to the skill of his COOK.
On a celebrated occasion in Vienna,
when there was much excitement In
all the European courts over affairs
of international momeny, the French
Ambassador was suddenly recalled by
his government.
ut is very grave affair, is t not, .
Prince Metternich was asked by a
lady at court ball, this recall OF
the Ambassador"
''Not SO grave, I assure you,
madam" the Prince responded, "as it
would have been if il had been the
French Ambassadors cook who was
recalled. The Ambassador can easily
be, replaced; it would be dit1ic It to
replace his cook!"
At one time the French embassy at
Rome was equally famous fof its cook,
who was admiringly known as ''His
Excellence, Monsieur Pierre" 1t is
possible that Monsieur Pierre was too
we'll aware of the influence which his
cookery cxerted in int aational az
fairs; at any rate, when une French
Ambassador sent for him one daf,
and ordered HIM, on three hours
notice, to prepare a dinner for the
Austrian minister, he protested ener.
getically.
"Monsieur fambassadeur," he said,
ut is impossible. A grand dinner IN
three hours"
no matter" said the Ambassador;
.'you must the best you can. ]
viii tel the minister that YOU had
bat short notice."
Monsieur Pierre put on a grand air
Il formal y declared to you," he
S |, "that I l unable to prepare a
dinner in that time. Your Excellency
must not suppose that | can scratch
up a dinner the way you car scratch
up dispatch!"
This time it was not the Ambassa.
dor who was recalled, but the cook.
II" was discharged on the spot, greatly
to ne sorrow of the diplomatic corps
in the Eternal City.-Youth's Com.
panlon.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
A Weed That Eats fish.

Commander Alfred Carpenter, writing
from Suakin, Red Sea country, in Africa,
contributes the following remarkable in
stance of plant preying upon one of the
vertebrate. The instance noted was OBJ.
served by him when surveying the Para.
eel Islands in the South China Sea: Gas
I neared a pool cut off by the tide from
the sea, l noticed among other subma-
rine plants very ordinary looking flesh
colored weed. Bending to inspect il
closer, noticed numbers of 8 nall fish
lying helpless in it's fronds, apparently
with little or no life in them. Putting
my hand down to pick one of them up
found my fingers caught by suckers on
the weed, the fronds of which had closed
tightly upon them. The fish had been
caught in every conceivable way-oy
the head, the tail, sides, etc.-and some
Of them had been held until the skin was
completely macerated. Those of the
fish that were still living had evidently
been caught at different times, they ap-
pearing in all stages of exhaustion. [
regret being unable to name either the
plant or the lisa, but that the botanical
cannibai really preycd upon the inuy
denizens of the deep there isn's the least
doubt"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
CLEANING A TOP RrGGY.

A leather top of q buggy requires care.
ful and regular attention to keep it in
good condition. 1t is much injured bv
tee ammonia vapors of o stable, and
therefore should be kept in separate
house or shed where it is not exposed to
the weather. 1t should always be cleaned
when brought il from use, especially if
1t has been splashed with mud. This
acts like blister and takes the color from
both cover and body. The cover is first
washed with q rose nozzle and force
pump, but not with hard stream that
will fierce the dust or sand in the leather.
This will quickly spoil it. When the
dirt is washed off in this way it is once
more riHsed with clean sWater and then
LETT to dry, or is softly wiped with linen
Goth or a chaniois skin. 1t is then wiped
toftIy with soft sponge and castor oil.
This is done while the leather is damp.
1t will not crack, and will keep its color
and gloss under this treatment.-New
York Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
Hab:tEal Po;tur..

Comparatively few persons have both
sides OF the boiy of perfectly similar
proportions. One leg or arm is shorter
than the other. The two sides of the
head are often OF unequal size. Few
persons have ears of an equal size and
symmetricai'7 placed. The size and
position If the eyes vary. In the mouth
and throat also we find inequality, and
the cartilage separating the two nasal
cavities Is oftenel 4euected than vertical.
This condition Of inequality in the two
sides of the body IS called asymmetr7.
Those who havo observed the effects
of school life on bodily development
must have noticed the influence of habit
ual posture On the 77mmetery and health
of the body.
There is a tendency among school chill
dren, and especially among school girls,
to assume habitual postures both - s1v-
tin, and standing The habit of throw
ing all the weight of the body on one
leg produces corresponding throwing
OF the upper part of the body toward the
opposite side in order to establish the
necessary equilibrium. This tends, OF
course, to curve the spinal column, os
which the upper part of the body is sup.
ported.
In this pos ton the body and all the
internal organs are thrown out of their
normal vertical! position, a1d the force of
gravity still further exirgerates this re-
suit. THUS the nuscIes OF the neck are
unevenly exercised 10 the unconscious
balancing OF the hea u ,oa tae yertebral
column. Even the misc es OF the face
tend to become uaevcaiy c)ltracte |, AMI
this, in time, develops d c,nlitol OF
asymmetry of the face.
1t is we'll known physiological law
that the use of muscle causes al increase
in its size, while neglect causes it be.
come smaller.
The steady use of the same arm in car.
rying set of heavy books to and from
school, the propping of one .rm on a
table, or the excessive use of one arm or
leg and the disuse of the other-each
such habit slowly but surely brings about
its own result, unless constant effort be
made to counteract it.
The growing age is more subject than
any other to such influences, but every
age is directly and powerfully Influenced
by any occupation of habit which tends
to the exclusive exercise of certain mus.
cles, or to the habitual taking of a Ger,
tain posture. Companion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
many herds there are often one Cor mo

many herds there are often one Cor more
COWS which only certain member of the
family can milk. This indicates very
plainly that some one is mild tempered,
and understands the cows disposition.
A box located at some accessible point
should contain at all times supply of
salt. If salt is fed in heroic doses once
or twice each week, the COWS will then
gorge themselves, causing arrangement
Of the digestive organs. Milk should
not be applied to the teats to reduce the
power required in milking, for it does
not, but most certainly adds filth to the
milk obtained, and in cold weather the
wet teat will become cracked and sore.
All cows with domiueering nature and
sharp horns should be dehorned. Brass
ferrules at the tips of the hor lessen the
danger but do not prevent the pushing
and bruising of other cows.-American
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
SHOULD HOGS HAVE sALT2

Salt has often been called nature
7crmlfuge, and it is no doubt a fact, be-
{ use long experience with domestic an
finals has shown that all herbivora, when
deprived of salt, will sooner or later suf-
Ter from the presence of intestinal
worms. Swine ale not an exception to
iac General rule, and salt is just as nee
essary for them as it is for cattle, as it
Lot only destroys intestinal parasites, but
Us digestion, and prevents intense
fcidlty of the stomach. When hogs are
led slops from the kitchen they get con.
siderable salt, but when fed exclusively
upon grain, especially at the time of fat
fenlng, each animal should be given
aec"t one ounce of salt daily, mixed with
Its ICED Or the water given it to drink. If
iariAc's would pay more attention to the
enc nistry of the food given to their
hogs, they might escape severe losses
from such common diseases as cholera,
catarra end erysipelas. New York Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-04
WISE 'Y;s..::.j:c.

Men are kilIel Tlsl ! by l:a-.
The GROWER never grows il 3r.c,.
Little sins are always S,3l 10 ,l!n:..
A fact never apologies to aaybr II.
"The memory of the just is DIESEL
The man who looA- high will ne7.r
live low.
The real wise man knows enough never
to say too much.
A stingy man is nan who has no
mercy on himself.
The right kind of praise always has
ring of money in it.
It never makes lutte man look any
bigger to lift him up.
The only people who come out right
are those who start right.
Whenever you are in the wrong place
yo"r right place is empty.
Every man on earth is leading some
kind of long procession.
You can always be happy i 70 are
willing to rejoice with Others.
The shadow of trouble is always
blacker than the trouble itself.
IT you want 10 walk straight yours, f,
don't watch another mans feat.
Character 10 what man is when he
thinks noboay is watching him.
1t will not be hard to speak kind
words if you cultivate kind feelin Is.
No man can do his best for any cause
in W use justice he does not believe.
The people who have carcl the least
about living right arc tho ones most
anxious to die right.
If men were only as near perfect as
they would like to have Others think
they are, the sun would soon shine all
night.
It will help you to be charitable
toward Others, to remember that other
folks have just as m lch mule in them as
you ave.-lndianapolis Qnd.) Rams
Horn,