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The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29
BICYCLE RACES.

FiRsr-Race between Harold Wood
bury, Walter Blunt, Roy Marston. Start
at Aliens corner, around Court, High,
Madison, Water streets, and finish at T..
X. crossing. First prize. pair bicycle
shoes; second, pair bicycle stockings.
SEcoNB-Road Race over above route,
open to all riders in Maine First prize,
box 50 ten cent cigars second prize, fine
clothes brush.
RUNNING RACES.
SPRINT RAcE-Ioo yard dash. Purse,
81 First, 81; second, 81.
POTATO RAcE-5o yards, e5 potatoes.
Purse, $3.50. First, $3.50: second, 81.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29

The following letter is from a well
known lady OF North Yarmouth, Me.
who has been patient and helpless sui
ferer from the lingering anguish OF chronic
rheumatism for several years.
Vainly she sought relief trom many
sources. Skiful physicians Al home and
abroad have been summoned u ste II Inc!
could not relieve her terrible torture
At least hall dozen OF the bust Physl-
clans of the state had gwen her up as past
cure.
She was employing prominent Fort
land physician and he, too, was about 10
leave her when having head OF remark
able cure made by Strout's Elixir, advised
her using it, saying, 1t can at least Go
you no harm
She took Strout's Rheumatic Elixir, and
thus tells her story. Her letter is dated
April, 1903. She says
al wish to add my word OF praise to
the power of Suouts Rheumatic Elixir.
For nearly three years | had suffered so
from rheumatism that | WAS not able to
bear my weight upon my feet, and my
suffering during all this time was some
thing terrible. Everywhere | sought
vainly for relief but only found 1t at last
in your splendid remedy
"7He e6nfof .SDom'e Hhta0iatlc Eh1D
7aaS bosi1i7cT amt Mamffii0fely 6sWlhefal.
While taking my first bottle was able to
stand on my feet ard walk a few steps;
and before the first bottle was all taken
was able to walk little every day. !
shall continue using it and am certain |
have found the medicine that fits my case
and shall now get strong and well to en-
Joy the blessings of life
Gratefully yours,
MRS. L. W. SWEETSER.
Here was wonderful case, and is power
full proof of the intrinsic worth OF Strouts
Rheumatic Elixir. Do not suffer single
day longer but go at once to your drug
gist and get this blessed remedy
Rtmem6y, 7Wh Ea6h Bette yoH
Rere7q a DislNa aWdP1SHt7e CUR
anferfo Pay Bah IoW NonYy ii
Does Net Benthf yen.
Absolutely nothing to lose by trying
and everything possible to be gained.
See that you get the right medicine
StrOut's Rheumatic Elixir-with
our Dositire guaral,tee and you are GER
taid to be cured Sold by druggists,
81 90 per Bottle. Made and guaranteed
by King Manufacturing Co., Bridgton,
Maine.
N. e. strouts Elixir, Kisses IT'D BIT
LIVER PILLS should be taken to keep the bow
els open and regular
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29

person can beat time without having any
intention of killing it,
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29

Raei7,e a distinct Hai1SHt7t Quar-
anieefo Pay Bach Jom .Nonyy ii
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29

s.7 CLASS-PuKsE, s!75. 90.
Pilot Maid, br. M,
Guy Edwards, Waterville
Echo, br. s., A. II. Rice, Watervlle
Geo Rolf, b. s., Guy Edwards, Waterville
Judge Franklin, blk s,
L. f. Judkins, Hartland
Brown Bess, br m.
L. w. Chase, Skowhegan
Helen S., blk. M.
Nelson Weston, Skowhegan
Prince Ilarbnger. b. g.,
Col. w. G.. Morrill,, Pittsheld
Combine, gr. G.,
Geo II. Clarke, Skowhegan
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29
Does Net Benthf yen.

n - To secure best results from
On Strout's Elixir, KINGS It'd BIT
LIVER PILLS should be taken to keep the bow
els open and regular
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29
RUNNING RACES.



Halowel Wervle and Sowhe-
beautifully
Bicycle Clubs the
All headed by Halls Superb Military Band
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29
New Curtains.
New Stationery.
New Po[teN)0llaies,
Pocket Books
and Card Cases,
New Baskets, Bags and Shawl
Straps, for your trip to the
WORLDS FAIR.

500 Boxes more Of that Extra Fine
Stationery, atsIo cents per box. Buy
quick or you will lose it. We sold nearly
500 Boxes of the same kind in two weeks
last December.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-29

MIMI II " . . " TT
Here was a wonderful case and is power
full proof Of the intrinsic worth OF Suouts
Rheumatic Elixir Do not suffer single
day longer, but go at once to your drug
gist and get this blessed remedy.
Remembv., 7HH Ea6h Bette yoH
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
Writers and Their Work.

When people look Mt the numerous
volumes written Ivy Scott, Dickens and
Thackeray it strikes them that these
great writer's did an enormous amount
of work.
The mechanical labor Of producing
so many books sin itselfsomethingre re-
markable, but a busy newspaper man
writes more in year than a successful
novelist does in twenty years. An
active reporter grinds ont, at the low
est estimate, 1900 words day, $4,000
in month, 5O4, 900 in year, equiv
alent in quantity to thereading matter
of nearly six three-hundred-page nov
els. Some reporters have been at
work from twenty to forty years. At
the very low average we have given, IL
busy Journalist would write in ten
years 5,O4O, 900 words in twenty years
10, $50, 900 words; in thirty years 10,
100. 600 words, and in forty years 90, -
100, 600 words, or an amount of matter
equivalent to 224 novels of 800 pages
each, the work Of any fifty Industrious
novelists.
1t is very evident from these figures
that newspaper writing represents
hard work. But let MS go a little fur
ther with these statistics. In order to
write twenty words a mans fingers
travel over the space of n foot with
two or three distinct movements in the
formation of each letter. At this rate
it will be seen that, as there are $3.50
feet in mile, a newspaper man in
forty years makes his pencil travel
about 195 miles with a vertical and a
lateral motion.
This work is aside from the report
er's time and labor spent in getting his
facts, but even this superficial calcula-
tion should make it tplain that the me-
chanical or physical labor of writing
is much greater than the general pub
lie supposes. We have had in our
mind writer who gets up cnly col
lumn a dav, but there are men who
average two or three columns daily.
To figure out the produce and the
labor Ct such toilers would stagger be.
lief and would cause many young
men to give up their journalistic as
pirations. Atlanta Constitution.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
NEWSPAPERS in Japan.

There are 100 newspapers and
magazines published in Tokyo, the
most important, from the standpoint
of circulation, being the Asabi Shin
bun. or Morning News, Asabi meaning
morning and Shimbun meaning news.
This paper enioysa circulation Of lOO' e
900 copies daily, while at Osaka paper
of the same name prints over l3p, 900
papers every morning.
The Daily News of Tokyo has a cir
culation of 30, 900 copies, but in spite
of this small circulation it probably
has fully as much weight with the in
telligent reading community as have
those papers which circulate more
largely. The circulation of the Morn
ing News (Asabi Shinbum) IS greatly
due to the fact that it prints from day
to day continued serial stories OF
fiction, and on this account is largely
bought by the women in Tokyo and
vicinity. The Daily News does not
adopt this which, | think, Is
American-but on the contrary deyotes
its space to all the news happenings OF
the day.
The reporters of tao Daily News
"cover" all the murders, suicides,
fires, court trials, receptions ard
social, theatrical and sporting events
in similar manner to the great
American newspapers. 1t Is also more
fearless in its editorial utterances re-
garding politics, and while Japan is an
Empire, it must be remembered that
the people elect members to the House
of Representatives.
In addition to the Morning News
and the Daily News, there are thirty
three other daily papers in Tokyo, a
large majority of which are morning
papers. Japan has not as yet adopted
to any extent the American custom OF
printing evening papers, either separate
or in connection with the morning
edition.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
Foreign.

THERE was anti-French rioting in Italy
the French Embassy I'm Rome was attacked.
The diplomatic world OF Europe Is anxious
ly watching the developments OF the trou-
bles between France and Italy which are
growing out Of the Aigues-Mortes riots.
CHOLERA in st. Petersburg is epidemic.
There is no emigration from st. Petersburg.
The Russian authorities do not allow emil
grants TO pass out that way.
IY the French elections tho Repablicans
have gained sixty-three seats there Will be
rsballots in l55 districts. The monarchical
marty has maltel away. The socialists have
made substantial gains, but sufficient
number OF liberals and opportunlsts nays
been returned TO make a moierate Govern
ment possible.
TEE steamtug Dorcas, with the barge Eta
Stewart in tow, coal laden, from sydney ior
Halifax. Nova Scotia, was wrecked near
Three Fathom Har5or, AMI all hands, twelve
in number were lost.
LATEST French election returns show that
3t5 Republicans, 30 Socialists an Socialist
Radicals. 13 "Conseryateurs Rallies ana 81
Conservatives have besa elected. Secoa1
ballots will be necessary in ITO districts.
Loap DUxR.vEy's cutter yalkyrle, the
challenger for the Americ1s Cup, slliel
from Southampton for the Unto States.
Two cases OF cholera have occurred In Rot
terdam there is a case In Rio Janeiro, with
TWENTY-FIVE cases in $40 Paulo, Brazil :
Turkey has established quarantine agaln'
Russian ports.
TIE Duke of Saxe-Coburg AMI Gotha Is
dead: the Duke OF E Eiinburgh has taken the
oath as his successor.
TIE Duke OF Edinburgh has resigned his
posltion as British Admiral owing TO his ac-
ceptance OF the Coburg Duchy.
THERE we're III new cases OF cholera in
Moscow. Russia two new eases were re-
ported in the suburbs OF Berlin and two In
ROTTERDAM.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
THE HARVEST-MOON.

Over fields that are ripe with the sweetness
That hides in the full-tasselled corn,
Over vineyards slow reaching completeness,
Dim purpling at dusk and at morn,
Shine down in thy affiuent splendor,
o moon of tho year in her prime;
Beam soft, mother-hearted, and tender
Earth hath not a hOlier time.
For the seed that slept long in the furrow
Hath wakened to life and to death;
From the grave that was cerement and bur
row
Hath risen to passionate breath.
1t hath laughed in the sunlight and star
light.
Hath thrilled to the breeze and the dew.
And fallen. to stir in some far night,
And all the old gladness renew.
o moon of the harvest's rich glory,
Thy banners outlame inthc sky,
And under thee men write the story
That cries to the heavens for reply
The story OF work and endeavor.
OF burden and weakness and strength,
The story that goes on forever,
Through centuries dragging its length.
And thou, ever stately and golden.
Thou moon Of the latest years prime,
What sight though thine eye hath beholden,
No grief to thy pathway may climb,
AS over the fields that are reapeu,
At evening and level and shOrn,
Thou pourest thy splendors that deepen
The rose and the silver Of morn.
Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Bazaar.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
South and West.

CABIN five miles north OF Charleston.
No.. was destroyed by llrs. II was occupie
by An old colored woman and several small
children The old woman was a paralytic,
and was burned TO q crisp. An eight-yesr-
old child was so badly burned that she diet
three hours later. ami one child. ten years
old. was believed to have burned TO death.
E. NJ. DONALDSON, OF Marion, Kan. is
missing. He was President OF the Union
Trust Company OF Sioux City, Iowa. which
failed. and OF the First National Bank o.
Marion. which was closed BY special
examiner. Donaldson has fed the country
and is probably in Mexico. n defauter 10
the amount OF at least 1900. 200.
EXCESSIVE rains have injured the corn AMI
cotton crops Of Mississippi.
THE Mayor OF Brunswick. Ga. advised
people 10 leave that city on account OF the
presence OF yellow fever.
The boiler in J. W. Wilett's saw mill in
Bushnell Township. Michigan. blew up. W.
n. Eckhert was instantly killei and two
other men fatally injured. The mill was
wrecked
Two dead men were folni beside the car
cass of butcherei yaarling near Blgtlckalo,
in the Choctaw Nation. 1t il thought they
were shot by ranchers who hal caught them
stealing cattle.
WESTERN NEW YORK. Delaware and West
Virginia celebrated at the Worlds Fair.
GOVERNOR BoIRs was renoninatei by the
Democratic State Convention OF Iowa, at
Des Moines the convention adopted a CON-
promise silver plank.
THERE is a falling of in the cotton crop in
Texas. and owning 10 the financial string
ency the banks are unable TO advance plant
ers money to move the proi1ct.
AT railroad crossing between Lexington.
Ohio. and West Alexandria, Mrs. William
Hapner aud her daughter. aged seventeen,
we're struck by train and instantly killed.
A little girl aged three was seriously injured.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01

it out? tell ye, she's got to go back
long of us.
"See herel" Uncle Jud, looking
somewhat stern, held ont the slip of
paper. "Do you sec this? Well, be-
fore came out ts your house [ heard
Won we're in debt, and bought up this
note intendin to make you a present
of it, if you showed any signs of carin'
for poor old man. You didn't, SO l
fetched it away. 1t holds You for two
hundred dollars and your stock and
place are good for the amount.
Jonas cast despairing glance at his
wife. Uncle Judson. regarded the pair
with grim smile
You've showed your hands, you and
Harriet" continuedhe. "But l don't
want TO be too severe. You did make
ont to keep me few days, and l bear
no hard feelin's." He took Judy,
nlaced her on the floor, and said very
gently; "There is your Aunt Harriet
and here I am. Now don't forget
that you're free to make your own
choice. Which one of us would you
rather stay WITH"
Judy, in reply, threw her arms about
Uncle Jud's neck, who, thus embraced,
held out the note.
"That settles it, he said "Here,
Jonos take this note and burn it up.
I've cot full value received right here,
with the biggest kind Of intruss to
boot "
Jonas and his wife, having no other
choice. accepted the situation, and re-
mained to partake of the finest dinner
they had ever eaten. Uncle Judson
and Judy came ont on the front por-
tico to see them off As they drove
away Judy gave her uncle's arm
tight squeeze.
Il feel sorry for en- she ventured
to say.
"Goodness knows don't see what
for !"
I'm sorry for 'em, because they've
lost so much. You'll never help 'em
any now. That's what makes me pity
'em. They've lost so awful much.
"Well, now, it do sound sorter pitt
full, to be sure" His eye here lighted
up with Il humorous twinkle. "But
thev swindled themselves. They
swopped little gal for two hundred
dollars as is with thousands. They
swindled themselves, Judy. Don't you
forget that. Yankee Blade.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
Hiuhbinders Uss Air Guns.

Tn, Chinese high5in ler5 OF san
Francisco have taken to tlo use OF air.
guns, which, being practically noise
loss are better adapted to their MUIR
derous purposesthln noisy gunpowder'
I. is said t. be ex,ee lingly dangerous
t, venture into Chinatown, on account
ofthe constant shooting going on there
AMI several Americans were shot on
,bo confines of that interesting quar-
tor Daring tho past few days the
shooting galleries have been thronye |
with Chineso practicing, and as this
bas bsen tho case imms lately before
hloolv outbreaks heretofore, the po-
lie, look for trouble very shortly
There are at least 1000 highbinders IN
San Francisco and they are rendered
desperate by the harl times which
have closed up many OF the disreputa'
BILE places on which they were accus'
toned TO levy blackmiil. The Chinese
Consul has set Chinese detectives to
watch them, but the American officers
place little confidence in their ef-
6ciency. New Orleans Picayune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
Washington.

". J. POLLOCK. the Superintendent OF
free delivery in the Postoff1ce Department,
has resigned. and A. W. Machen. the As
slstant Superintendent. has been appointed
TO the vacancy.
Orders have been issued by the Treasury
Department to all Sub-Treasurers to pay out
gold over tho counters. the same as o.her
classes of money. The effect OF this is 10
practically place the gold reserve among the
available Treasury cash assets.
The Hon. James H. Blount. OF Georgia,
Minister AMI Special Commissioner 10 Ha-
wait. arrived in Washington aud went to tho
Shoreham. After brief rest he went 10 the
State Department. and. by previous appoint
ment. had an interview with Secretary
Gresham. Mr.. Blount was quite reticenf.
and referred all who inquired TO Secretary
Gresham.
DocroR CHAUMoNTEL Councillor OF St2te
in the Duchy OF Saxe-Altenburg. while
scending the Schorwzenstein Mountain
Tyrol slipped into the crevasse OF a glariel
and disappeared. Rescue was impossible.
TIE President sent to the Senate the ap-
pointment OF Joshua f. Dodge Of Wiscon-
sin. to be Assistant Attorney-General, vice
William A. Maury. resigned.
The President has approved the Joint res
olution making Immediately available the
appropriation for the payment OF mileage 10
Senators and members Of the House OF Rep
resentatiyes.
SECRETARY SMITH has approved the LEASE
Of 5000 acres OF asphalt lands in the Uintaa
Indian Reservation 10 the American Asphalt
Company.
The official copy Of the decision made by
the Berlng Sea Board OF Arbitration has been
received at the State Department from the
Hon. John W. Foster, agent OF tho United
States at Paris.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
Costs Of Cars.

A fat car costs about 1880, fiat
bottom coal car s475, gondola drop
bottom $500, double hopper bottom
coal car 1925, a double hopper bottom
coke car s54O, box car $500, stock
car $3.50, a fault car (ventilatedl 800,
and refrigerator car $500. A four
wheeled cab.ose costs $3.50 and an
eight-wheeled one s70O. The prices
given on the above cars include power
brakes and vertical plane couplers.
A flfty-foot mail and baggage car costs
S350O, second-class coach $3.50, a
first-class coach $500, while a first
class Pullman car costs sl5, 900. Chi
cago Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
FUN

II is never very difficult to realize
on good character. Troy Press.
II is rare indeed when the expert
meat cooks work isn't well done. -
Hotel World.
The small boy is never as blue as he
looks, when he is eating homemade
blackberry pie.
Fire is a good servant, and, like other
servants its goodness depends on its
keeping its place.
The eagle is a very noble bird, but
the average hen contributes more to
the comfort of the human race
Washington News.
What a gay and festive old world
this would be if we were only as in
dependent of gold in the form Of cash
as in the form of jewelry. Puck.
The young man of fashion may rail
against the summer girl for wearing
his style of necktie; but it makes his
heart sick to see how neatly she ties
Washington Star.
'sNow that he is dead we will know
whether he was poet or not. "Did
he leave anything?' "Oh, yes; con-
siderable property Then he was
no poet. New York Press.
Do not get angry because man
makes an ass of himself Doubtless
he enjoys it. and surely You would not
deny enjoyment even to the meanest
of creatures. Boston Transcript
Mr.. South-"I'll buy some of those
new scarfs you so much admire if you
refer me to somebody to tie the knot. "
Miss North-"Why don't You see our
pastor o. -Clothier and Haberdashers
Weekly.
"Poor Mrs. Sad is terribly worried
about the silk she bought to make over
her dress with. Doesn't 1t match?'
"Oh, yes, exactly; but she found it at
the first place she went into. Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
"Why don't you throw that greasy
tramp out the park?" asked the fastidi-
ous citizen. ''He is blot On the face
Of the earth" II would, said Officer
McGobb 'but don't t'ink him worth
the toss Of Il copper. - In lianapolis
Journal.
She-"5upposing you were going to
propose to a girl, what would you
say?o He-"Oh, something simple
and direct like will you be my wife?
Supposing you were the girl, what
would your answerbe?' She---"Yes.
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Rocksey-"My DAMN WIZ
agoin' to make Il hothouse, ana ho
went and asked Stubby, the carpenter,
the easiest way to do it, Mrs. Di-
neen-"Phwt did he say?' Mrs.
Rocksey-"He told him to give the
baby a box of matches to play with.
Raymond's Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01
The Parrot Industry.

The steamship Seneca, which reached
port the other day, was converted into
a regular aviary by $50 Cuban parrots,
which we're consigned to a bird fancier
in this city. The parrots made life
miserable for all on shipboard during
the voyage, for they had gone through
a course Of training under the tutelage
of Cuban women. All the parrots are
young, some Tess than eight weeks old,
and fully two-thirds of them have still
to be fed by hand. Imagine the task
These birds are taken from the nests
when very young and practically help
less, and arc reared by the Cuban wo-
men for the market.-Philadelphia
Record.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-01

| Sound, ana ye6f or TWO ago anOtner
hunter of the marine swordsman was
spitted in his seat, the bone blade gO-
ing up into his body, and he died q
few days later of the frightful thrust.
A wounded swordfish not rarely at
tacks the schooner itself, and only n
few seasons ago one big fellow drove
headlong INTO an island vessel, and his
sabre went through its thick walls as
if they were of paper, protruding By
several inches into the vessels cabin,
when the giant in his furious wrench
ing to free himself broke the end Of
the blade. which fell on the floor.
IT has been only within the past
three or four years that men began to
hunt the big ugly chaps for a steady
and profitable vocation. Before that
time the world fancied that the flesh Of
svorIfish was unit for fool, and tho
Atlantic fishermen hunted them only
for the sport it afforded to the idler5
et summer seashoro resorts. Then 1t
was learned that swor1hsh steak Is
about rs fine and savory a morsel as
NAV be garnered in the broad ocean
BIZ far superior, in tho opinion o.
country cpicures, t. halibut steaks,
since it is jucier, with peculiar game
Aayor-and since then there has been
plenty of money in sworifshing, but
IN the New England coast alone, AMI
more than score of sword6shermen
90 forth weekly to the ocean hunting
grounds as far down east as Eastern
Maine. Swordfsh steaks, juicy, thick
white slabs of tender meat, are sold
everywhere in the New England
markets at from twelve to sixteen
cents pound, but Boston IS pre-
eminently the great market
for them. Very singularly, New
York, the great fish market OF the
continent, either has never tested
or fails TO be pleased with the fish,
and not pound, it Is said, OF sword
fish goes to the Gotham markets.
There is a steady demand for the
swords, which may be handsomely
polished, So tha' they CLEAN like
ivory, on the part Of summer visitors
TO the scashore or curio collectors Mt
the uniform prica OF fifty cents each.
They ar beautiful unique ornaments,
unmistakably suggestive of the sea.
Swordfsh range i'll size all the way
from $50 to 600 pounds, and few
have been taken twenty-five miles
southeast of Block Island that weighed
500 pounds. There is very little
waste about them, their hide is fairly
smooth, though tough and thick and
hairy. They cut ~ finely into steaks
an inch or 50 many inches thick as
YOU are pleased to have them cut.
They are packed i'll big boxes, iced'
and sent fresh as smelt right to the
tables of the New England consumers
New York Sun.