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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
Charles M. Brainard.

The telegraph wires bore to our town,
Tuesday, the very unwelcome intell.-
gence that Charles NJ. Brainard, so well
and favorably known to the people here.
had departed this life at Pueblo, Colo
RADIO, Monday evening, the 25th instant,
since early in October for the benefit of
his health.
The latest news received by his friends
here had Leen such that they We're
greatly encouraged and the news of his
death was Il severe shock to them.
Some weeks ago he had what his physi-
clan said was slight attack of the
s.grip" but he bad recovered from it and
had been riding out frequently when his
last letter was written No particulars
of his death have yet been received.
Charles M. Brainard was born in Col
umbia, California, January 1855, and
was therefore nearly 80 years of age.
He was educated at Bloomfield Academy
and at the State College at Orono from
which institution he graduated with
honors in the class of 1876.
He formed copartnership in July,
1880 with L. w. Weston under the firm
name of Weston d Brainard and since
that time until he was prevented by
sickness beginning in March. 1892, he
was actively engaged in the business OF
the firm, numbering and the manufac-
year he was practically disabled from
physical labor but continued to give
such attention to the business of the
firm rs he was able to, and pluckily
fought disease, disputing its progress
inch by inch.
Mr.. .Brainard was an energetic, am
bilious, hopeful business man, methodi-
cal, painstaking, prompt and honorable,
public spirited to degree far beyond the
average and he will be great y missed in
this the town of his residence and bus
mess activities.
He was happy in his family relations
and surrounded with warm friends. He
was married in November 1889 to Miss
Mary Coffin who was with him at Colo
RADIO, to minister to his necessities there.
He leaves one child, Caroline, Just >
years old when her father died, also
his mother, Mrs. l.. W. Weston, and two
sisters. to whom he was loving and
devoted son and brother.
Mr.. Brainard was worthy member OF
Carrabasset Lodge |. o. o. +, and an
active and influential member of Skow.
hogan Board of Trade.
His remains are expected to arrive
here Saturday next, accompanied by his
devoted wife, who, with his other family
friends, have the sincere sympathy of
our people. Truly II good man has
fallen and our citizens mourn.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
Not Complimentary.

This is the way Worthy Master Hunt
of the Maine State Grange paid his re-
specls to the L. ). Secretary of Agricul-
ture in his annual address at Dover last
week:
The patrons of husbandry lahorrd per
sstently for years through opposition,
slurs, sarcasm and epithets to secure the
elevation of the department of agricul-
ture to that of an executive department.
with the secretary member of the Pre-
sident's Cabinet. The change was at
length made, and what has been our
chagrin to see The position so soon filled,
against our expressed wishes, by a man
having no sympathy whatever with the
tillers of the soil. The present sccre-
tary, J. Sterling Morton, while speaking
before farmers meeting at Chicago,
recently, openly and nagrantlv insulted
this great order, which was largely in
strumental in making the position he oc-
cupies. This is but another instance
wherein a man, though learned, may,
when he talks on matters of which he
knows nothing, make great mistakes, or
where the creature assumes to think
himself greater than the creator. We
would not utter words too unkind re-
garding the man but We do believe he is
occupying position that might be more
worthily and profitably filed by others.
Mature to each allot' his proper sphere,
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care:
Policy does often reason override,
And casts cruel sunshine on fool"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
A Just Act.

Among the indictments by the Grand
Jury last week in this county was one
against the dry goods firm of l.. Sopcr
& Co. of Watervlle, for the violation
of the law relating to itnerant vendors
passed by the last legislature.
This company sent stocks of goods
to Madison and some other of the larger
Somerset towns with statesmen. put them
into stores in these towns and flooded
the towns with posters advertising mark
down sales. A merchant in Madison
entered complaint against then before
the grand jury here, aud the evidence
being sufficient, the indictment WAS
found.
This line of business is injustice to the
regular dealers who pay rent and taxes,
and we hope this law will be found ade-
quate to punish this firm sufficiently to
be a warning to others.
Mr.. l.. ii. Soper informed the kenne-
bee Journal that in every ease where
their goods were put on exhibition in
the towns in Somerset county there was
a formal agreement made personally by
Mr.. Soper, who went to them in adj
vance, by which in each case the owners
of the stores were to share in the profits
of the sale an also were to bear one
half the expense attending the display.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
lCGLANOlC EMlGRAN I ,.
The Exodus beginning to Assume a seri-
GUS Aspect to the Arctic Island.

GUS Aspect to the Arctic Island.
Since tho political agitations of Ice
land i'll 1885, which disturbed and dis
touraged the population, things have
been going materially from bad to
worse. Wo are occasionally called upon
to listen to lcrrmiads about lcelandic
starvation from those whose sentiment
for tho Icelanders is more active than
1 leir information is exact, and the
English public has become suspicious
of cries of Wolff But the present
season, with its excellent weather and
good supplies of fool has not shown
any reaction against the draining away
of the people.
This summer no fewer than 6o0 per
SONS emigrated to America, bringing
the population below that limit OF 10
600 TO which it had already dwindled
The island now contains, it is believed,
fewer inhabitants than it did in 1870,
before the temporary rise in lcelandiC
prosperity. The emigrants are largely
of the farm laborer class, and there is
growing complaint that portions of
the country are going out of cultiya-
tion because there is no ono IL work on
the land.
Canada is beginning to attract the
lcelanders TO its northern provinces
and during the last six months three OF
four Canadian agents have been visit
ing every township i'll the island,
preaching the attractions of the new
country. The government has even gone
so far as to introduce a bill proposing
to discourage emigration, or in any
case to put stop to the propaganda of
these Canadian agents, but it is doubt
full whether this measure Will pass the
althing, and nothing seems able 10
modify the distaste which the Icelander
has formed for his venerable but arid
acres.
a speaker in the althing the other
day remarked that bill preventing
lcelanders who Were doing we'll in the
west from writing to their friends at
home would do "a thousand times mere
service than an attempt to pelsecute
touting colonial agents. Saturday Re
view.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
ARnined wedding Cake.

An English gentleman residing in
Calcutta brought an action against
firm of Paris pastry cooks and confec
TONERS under rather interesting circum-
stances. The plaintiff was about to be
married and ordered what has been call
ed "A phenomenal wedding cake from
the defendants. A sum of $l20 was
paid down for the cake ON delivery.
The colossal and expensive article of
confectionery was packed by the plain
tiff S order, and he took it with him to
Calcutta. On opening the case contain
ing the cake when he arrived i'll India,
the Englishman found that he had lit
orally nothing but shapeless mass of
crumbs. The splendid gateau had been
hopelessly bruised and broken during
the voyage.
An action was then brought against
the Paris firm fer sum of $l35, which
included, besides the price paid for the
cake, the cost of packing and transport.
The defendants maintained before the
Paris tribunal Ct commerce that they
had no more responsibility after they
had delivered over the cake to the per
son who ordered 1t. 1t was true that
they recommended a packer, but that
expert acted under the orders of another
individual, who had been selected by the
plaintiff to supelintend the operation.
The tribunal decided in favor of the de
PENDANTS. St Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
A Terrible New Rifle.

A European correspondent says that
the chief surgeon of the Roumanian
army has been making grewsome exper-
iments with the new Mannieher rifle
with which the forces are being
equipped. He placed a number of human
bodies in rows. like soldiers on the field
of battle. At 600 meters five bodies We're
placed half yard behind each other.
"A single bullet went through three bod
les in succession. Upon the soft parts
of the bodies the wounds were perhaps
less serious than those inflicted hy the
old fashioned rifles, the hole made by
the bullet being smaller and more even,
but on the whole the injuries are far
more terrible. The range of the new
rifles Is about , , miles.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28

The city of Santandcr, the late vic
tim of It dynamite explosion at its
decks, continues panic stricken and
there has been Il general exodus of its
inhabitants since they became aware
that no loss than 400 cases 81 dynamite
are still submerged under the waters of
the halh"r. According to the opinion
of exper', the nitroglycern in the dy-
Mantle j bound to explode, sooner or
later, hy reason Of the miilration of
the water. Too much praise cannot he
accorded To the divers who are now. at
the risk If their lives, engaged in rails
ing the explosive, which is being taken
out TO sea and sunk. Smtander Dis
patch
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
Killed "a White Deer.

A short time ago mention WAS made
that white deer was seen by hunters
IN the vicinity of President this conn-
tyand afterward at Clough $ dam, near
Marionville, Forest county. What is
thought to have been the same deer was
shot near Foxburg, Forest county, hy
II. A. ellison If that village. 1t is the
first albno deer that has been killed in
this vicinity for the past quarter of IL
century, and visitors from all parts Of
the country called at the Du Bois hoUsc
10 get sight of tho freak of nature. -
Oil City Derrick.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
lCgypt's Monuments,

Recent discoveries in Egypt and Chal-
dea indicate that, although the monu
ments there carry us back about 3, coo
years before the Christian era, they do
not constitute the limit of our sources
of history. They indicate the origin of
these people to have been in western
Persia. Kurdistan and Luristan show
more ancient remains than have been
studied in any part of the world. The
old Babylonian civilization and Chinese
civilization both come probably from
this region, and it may yet yield us
knowledge Of times far earlier than any
that we know of. Chicago Tribune.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
HEALTH BETTER THAN WEALTH.
A MI You CAM Retain the Former and Give
Exercise the Go by.

DR.. A. Symons Eccles has struck the
general health of city communities
when he says that the most potent fac
tor of present day ailments is the abey
ance into which the muscular system is
allowed to fall by jewellers in cities,
who are daily becoming more and more
dependent on artificial means of loco
motion and labor saving apparatus, un-
til disorders of digestion and nervous
maladios are now as common among
the comparatively poor as they are
among the wealthy. The rich man en-
deavors to overcome the mischief
wrought by his sedentary life by horse
back exercise or golf, but the poorer
man, who is unable to afford these recre-
ations, neglects his muscular develop
ment and invariably tumbles into his
train or mounts his street car rather
than waste the time necessary for a
brisk walk or half hour in the gym
nasium.
The popularity of the bicycle has
tended to counteract the dlsuse OF mus
Giles engendered in a large proportion of
town residents, but there are still num-
bers of persons of both sexes who re-
quire vigorous muscular exercise in or
der to maintain health, Women are
the victims of modern, social and COM
mercial changes almost if not quite as
much as men. The Capitalization of
many domestic industries may have i'm
proved the character of the products
thrs manufactured or of the work per-
formed, but when bread was made and
washing was done at home the female
members of many families fairly well
off, but not too richly endowed with
this worlds goods, We're profitably en-
ployed in kneading the dough and iron
ing the linen. One of the results Of
amount of exercise essential to health
is the revival OF practice which is re-
corded in the earliest medical papyrus
in the British museum.
The introduction of massage may be
regarded as specific evidence of tho ten
dency III these latter days to the neglect
of muscular exercise, and DR.. Eccles
ance of function in certain glands is
productive oI diseases which can he
cured by the injection of organic llq-
uids derived from "A similar source
and modern research has estal lished this
belief much more is it evidently true
that the failure to employ the great bulk
of muscular tissue, which is SO large a
portion of the human frame. will, and
invariably does, give rise to disordered
function and altered structure in the
other organs and tissues of the body
which are interdependent on the activ-
ity of the muscles and each other. Men.
tai and nervous overstrain is rarely
disassociated from muscular disllse and
haccidity. The burden of DIR. Ev,les
exhortatlon is: Even if you MAKE a
little less money, take more exercise
You will Save the difference i'll doctor s
bills and bring more happiness not only
into You own life, but into other peo-
pies Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
Two Convincing Reasons.

Lord Peterborough, who lived in the
reign of Queen Anne, was very frolic-
some, and one day seeing from his car
riage dancing master with pearl col
ored stockings lightly stepping over the
broad stones and picking his way in ex-
tremely dirty weather he alighted and
ran after him with drawn sword in or
der to drive him into the mud, but into
which he of course followed himself.
This noblemau was once taken for the
Duke of Marlborough and was mobhed
in consequence. The duke was then in
disgrace with the people, and Lord Pc
terhorough was about to be roughly
handled Turning to them, he said:
Gentlemen, | can convince you by
two reasons that am not the Duke of
Marlborough. In the first place, | have
only guineas in my pocket, and in the
second they are heartily at your serv-
ice. '-Sala s journal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
England and Wyoming.

A certain Mr.. Horace Plunkct made
a speech III the English parliament the
other day which sent the members off
into fits of laughter. The occasion was
the debate on the woman ; suffrage
clause i'll a proposed bill Mr. P1unkct
has lived 10 years in Wyoming. and
therefore spoke as one having author
ity. Mr.. Plunket excited the merriment
of his listeners hy referring to IA fe-
male justice of the peace, " with whom
he was well acquainted. He said she
knew how To use her authority and her
revolver But the funniest thing was
when MI Plunket told about women
jurors. That practice, he said, had
been abandoned i'll Difference 10 the pro-
test OF one man who complained that he
had to take care of the baby all night.
while his wife was locked up with II
good men and true. New York sun.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
Sure Preventive Of Disease.

The Duchess of Edinburgh is the hap
py possessn from the Russian and SUI
perstitious point of view of two genu-
inc bezoar stones. one of which was left
to her by her imperial father and the
other by her aunt. The bezoar stone is
cut from IA very rare animal and is re
garded as sure preserver Of health and
happiness. Exchange.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
ON THE FRONTIER.

Two giant minds have stamped the mental
world,
Instructors of our times and times TO be;
Toiing To bring mankind to harmony.
Smoke from each study On the frontier curled.
They searched more for flnality than growth,
Not for the footprint but the thonghi Of God
They worshiped wisdom in the chastening
rod
That scars transgressors, and yet both
Felt beauty as She moves through cycles vast,
And knew the hopefulness that cheers Us
here
In our promotion toward the perfect sphere;
They loved the future and esteemed the past.
Revere their lives, o man, for nc'cr again
VIII this old world contain two loVelicr men.
Edward :. Dreamer in New York sun.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
The Flower Language.

Mrs. Murray Hill-There was a time
when you called me daisy, sweet vi
olet and lily of the valley.
Mr.. Murray Hill-Yes, that was be-
fore you began jawing me every night.
Now, the only flower | wish you were
is a -four o'clock. - That shuts up
sometimes. Texas Siftings.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
undauntsd BY Defent.

While female suffrage has carried the
day in New Zealand, it has experienced
defeat in South Australia, where the
adult suffrage bill, which embodied the
principle, was rejected in the popular
house on the third reading, but only 10y
a narrow majority. The friends OF the
cause, however, are not at all discour-
aged and will return 10 the battle with
undaunted spirits till victory crowns
their efforts. Melbourne Letter.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
. >cnrr Wa. 10 the Fair"

Oh, $. Veil au seen it al.
I'll. hull consumed creation;
The -tufr they bruug from round TN
verdi
An WY furcn nation.
| trul 'ycd down the Midway street,
see cy'rything was there,
And Il admit / feel quite proud
Sen,c was to he fair.
ncy,r mate no sort of bones
Of uds or book ltlnin;
Iney, Thought l l,aoW'd il all
The Why or the consaruin.
But lon't mind OF tcllin you
I've cot, du declare,
A libe al cdication
Sentr | was 10 The fair.
They many folks is Siylishcr
An more stuck mp tnan me;
They, many that ken hold their hcade
Stra ght as a poplar tree,
But zen tel yc confident
An richly on the square
They none on 'em ahead of me
Seurr was to the fair,
I've tod the folks Sence got buck
The 'lou~and things I've seen;
Desert ned the sights that really was
An some tibet orter been.
I've lied II heap, Will admit,
But bout tibet don't care.
amt afraid TO stretch the truth
Senca | was to the fair.
An now s'pose I'll settle down.
Same az I've allus done,
An try an make the money back
I've spent in haVin fun.
But he yer mind how hard work,
Or itw much strain or care,
I've 90 ~ heap to think about
Sencc was to the fair.
Aluminium has been put mo anoth-
er use. Tie French cOuturieres now use
the metal in the making of the modern
gown. A hoop of aluminium is placed
in the bottom of the skirt for the pur-
pose of making it hang well.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
JAPAN'S "UNKNOWABLE FIRE. >
Professor Hisatonio Is Attempting To Solve
the Interesting Phenomenon.


the Interesting Phenomenon.
1t has long been regarded as AN mex
plcable mystery that Il luminous ob-
ject, known rs =" shiranu- literally
meaning unknowHhlc fires ocea-
sionally seen at night, especially III
cloudy weather, ON the sea i'll Tsukt,shi
bay. The superstItions ascribe this
unusual phenomenon To the spirits of
those lost at sea. But according to the
vernacular press, the mystery is to be-
solved ere long.
j Professor Nakayama Hisatomo of the
Kumanoto higher middle school, who is
now investigating the thing, is of the
opinion that phosphorus may possibly
be the cause of this luminosity. which
may be EN- ted from unimalculT in the
water. II h,ts secured some water from
the place where the supposed fire makes
its appearance and examined il with IL
microscope with the result that he
found number of animalculP in it,
1t needs however. "a more complete cX-
animation before finally coming To Il
determination ON he subject, and with
this end IN view he is stated to he now
pursuing his researches.
! 1t may be- added that Mr.. Kimotsuki
of the navy, who made AN investiga-
ton of SEA currcnts some time ago, re
ported hat the kuro-shiwo, or the
black current, which flows from tho
neighboIhood of the Philippine archi-
pelago To- the southern coast of Japan,
is the walmest ocean stream in the
world, and consequently it may contain
minute animal life giving off phos-
phorescenee. Japan Mail.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28

Mrs. Fanny A., wife of Col. Elias
Milliken of Augusta died at her home
Wednesday morning, after an illness of
but a few weeks duration. She was
lady much beloved by the people of
Augusta.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28

Germany is the greatest zinc produc-
ing country in the world. The main
district is in Upper Silesia, where the
metal is made from calanine and zine
blended by distillation.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
TIE MODEL OF \ SHIP
BUILT FROM BLOC Of W0ODAFTER
DRAWING =. pAPeR.

opcrniion is Iold u, d, sn,ous cou.
,tructor = Ingla.d rehioI he Other
Leading >ations Intt r.e,eutI,.
Who would ever haye im-a.d that
great ship a uodorn Wonder Il the
Pa like the Paris ~ til CHnperdawu
is built as a woman makes dress Or
a tailor cuts ont a suit Of clafhest That
is the fact. Ships nowadays are built
from patterns, and those patterns do not
greatly differ in appearance or in fact
from those which enable American We
men to copy the fashion in dress. L
bc sure, tailor and dree.maler's pat
terns are made q paper and are laid
upon cloth or dress goods. while ship
builder : patterns are Of wood and steel
and iron are made to follow them. That
is perhaps the greatest difference be
tween the methods Of high grade tailor
ing and high grade shipbuildiug, so far
as their first steps 20.
The English have only lately begun
TO value the model as the basis If ship
building. A famous American ship
builder says that the model Of the yacht
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though they make models today, the
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-12-28
Found ON tn. Railroad Track.

PROVIDENCE. Doc p = The n4angltd
body OF William Cargill was found ON the
track of the New England road at Enfield
He was last seen saturday, when lie left
home to do Christmas shopping.