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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30
CESSATION Of the Mare.


AS matter Of fact, mares vary great
deal in this particular, but they are much
more likely to go over than under II
months, and $40 days may safely be
taken as the average period. Eleven
months and one week, in round num-
bers, would be easily computed and IS
very nearly correct. But there are many,
very many, cases where the period Of
CESSATION is well ON to 10 months.
In view of this uncertainty, or rather
irregularity, mares ought to be watched
carefully as they approach the II months
period, SO that the mare may have rea-
sonably good chance of saving the foal.
The signs of approaching parturition
are not easily mistaken by an expert
enced observer. The filling up of the
udder cannot be depended upon, but the
filling up Of the teats clear to the very
tips. and the dropping off of the little
mass of wax or gum that usually forms
on the ends of the teats week or more
before foaling is good indication that
parturition is near at hand. Another al
most infallible indication is the falling
or shrinking away of the muscles on the
top of the buttocks at a point near the
center of line from the root of the tail
to the point OF the hip bone.
By all means don't permit the mare to
be kept tied up by the head in her stall
when you have reason to think her time
is near at hand If the weather is at all
favorable, let her have good, large lot.
If this from any cause is not practical
BILE, let her have large box stall, from
which everything must be removed that
would be liable to entangle OF injure the
foal in its efforts to get up, and be care
full to see that there are no holes under
the manager OF elsewhere into which the
foal may force itself. It is decidedly
better to allow the mare to occupy the
stall or lot in which she is to foal week
or so beforehand, so that she may be-
come accustomed to it. They are deci,l-
edly averse to new quarters, and also to
close confinement at such times. An
ounce of prevention is worth pound of
cure, and little extra precaution at
this time will often save the life of a
valuable foal,-Cor. Breeders Gazette
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30

expenditure of $500, 1000 for music in
jackson park. The German village
spends 100000 on two bands as a mat
ter of course, knowing that music is
the one investment that pays.
Now, dear readers, you know how
the German village came to be born.
VIII you let me be your guide as you
wander through it? If you don't youth
be sorry. I sat at the eastern gate of
this village the other day watching
men, women and children enter.
Look at the matched roof of this
Black Forest cottage and compare it
with the thatching of the Westphal-
ian or Nether-Saxon house. The first
looks as though the straw had been
terraced; at distance the other looks
like turf You'd fancy every spear of
straw had been inserted separately and
perpendicu1arly and then shaved off
even, leaving a name like a cropped
horse at the sharp top of the roof.
By the way, two wooden horses
heads surmounted the gable at each
end. Westphalia is as famous for
horses as IOT HILLS, DuG HcItdlCf nIc
found within the houses.
Here, then, are two absolutely, dis
tinct types of architecture which you
can study to your hearts content. II
you have kodak so much the better,
for you can't turn in any direction
without finding a picture that it is sin
full not to perpetuate.
Before leaving Westphalia let us
visit a rear room and revel in a replica
of the Luneberg cabin of 1870. There
is fireplace that somebody ought to
buy for museum; there are chairs
and tables and panels and ceilings
and warming pans and glass doors that
delight the curio-monger.
Coming out of ancient Luneberg we
face the Hessian town hall there and
find more work for the kodak. It's
sturdy architecture and slated roof de-
note the characteristics of upper
Hessia. The Importance of the town
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30

hall is shown in its belfry-tower, tur-
reted roof and extended wings. Ammo
Domino 1885 is engraved over the
broad pointed arched entrance leading
into the council hall where curious
peasant head-gear and German photo
graphs abound.
Now let us saunter westward and
note the peculiarities of the pretty Up
per Bavarian house with boxes of
flowers in the windows. Its plastered
first story, wooden superstructuse with
balconies and overhanging shingled
roofs recall the chalets of Switzerland.
Why do shingles take the place OF
straw and why is the roof weighted
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30

much beef in his quarters as our best
Herefords have. He is of compact beef
form, with little waste about him. He
was first exhibited at Melbourne as a
yearling and took first prize. Two years
later he took prizes over all other Here
ford bulls sand was pronounced the
champion Hereford of Australia.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30
AN AUST RALIAN HEREFORD.

A Specimen From Our Rival Meat Produs-
ing Continent.
The illustration exhibits a champion
Australian Hereford bull at years old.
He is of the purest Hereford blood, but
Hereford blood that has been acclimated
10 Australia. We cannot beat him much
even in America, though he has not SO
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30
THE GERMAN VILLAGE.
A Teutonic photographic Exhibition
on the Midway.
Tho Men Who Planned the Remarkable
Display-Kate Field Talks Like an E1-
pert About Ancient German VII
Iage Architecture.
Especial Worlds Fair letter.

Especial Worlds Fair Letter.1
With German population of four
hundred thousand in Chicago, it would
be strange were the Fatherland for
gotten at the Columbian exposition,
yet few of the many thousands who
frequent the walled and castellated
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-30
A Plain Man.

Plain Man.
Hungry Higgins-They is two things
lever wear winter nor summer.
Weary Watkins-Wot air they?
"Well, one is q sock"--
"And the other?"
"T'other sock. of course indianapolis
Journal.
The blood of the arctic explorer remains
at a normal temperature though he
breathes air that will freeze mercury, and
N India, where the temperature of the air
IS lis to 100 above zero, the temperature of
The blood is still SO degrees F.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Prudence and MeannesS.

Genuine prudence is a rare and delight
full virtue. Meanness Is its dcspicablc
opposite, but the line between the two
is not so clearly defined that many Wo-
men do not mistake one for the other.
Wolnankind has Il reputation for eXtrav-
agance, AMI truth cOmpels us to state
that they do try hard to prove that their
character has not been maligned by such
Il statement. but-and Il very large but
il is, too-thcre are some who are pru-
dent, clear headed and keen business
women, having Il rare insight into the
affairs of life, who, by saving methods
and real economy lay up many Il dollar
for rainy day.
There is. however, another class who
think themselves prudent who are abso-
lutely mean. They aye the sort who
will walk miles to save ten cents car
fare, never taking into consideration the
fact that shoe leather to Il greater
amount than their ride has been consum-
ed by their long walk. This is not pru-
dencc; il is folly.
1t is not prudence, but meanness that
makes Il woman go whole day without
her luncheon rather than LAY restau-
rant for a. cup of tea and some rolls,
which she argues, costs as much as her
three daily meals put together. She
does not consider that in thus saving her
money she is but putting it by to pay a
physician later ON.
OF course, necessity, in some cases,
compels women to deprive themselves
of many things that are to Us part of
life, and would be missed sadly were we
deprived of them. Such women deserve
only sympathy for their enforced deui-
al; but there are hosts of well-to-do fe-
males that turn Il penny over and over
before they part with it; that
never have company because 1t Increases
the cost of their living; who never, by
any possibility, ride when they can walk,
except to funerals; who go to bed to
save fuel, and who in these days of COM
forting radiance, burn Il tallow dip rath-
er than expend the sum necessary for
gas or electric light.
VIII re is the comfort of such Il life:
What good is money that brings no joy
other than its possession. Extrava-
gance Is the other extreme: but there
is happy mean, that while it looks out
for future that may be dark, still does
not blight the shadow of evil TO come.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Bed of The Atlantic.
MoRE LIKE a SHALLOW SAUCER THAN
LIKE A BASIN.

MORE LIKE \ SHALLOW SAL GER THAN
LIKE BASIN.
Proceeding westward from the Irish
coast the ocean bed deepens very grad
ually: in fact, for the first 30 miles the
gradient is but six feet to the mile. In
the mex. 20 miles, however, the fall is
over 5000 feet and so PERCEPTIONS is the
sudden descent that in many places
depths of 200 10 1000 fathoms are en-
collntered in very close proximity to the
l0O-fathom line. With the depth Of $500
to 1000 fathoms the sea bed of this part
of the Atlantic becomes Il slightly undu-
lating plain. whose gradients are so light
that they show but little alteration of
depth for 200 miles, says the Nautical
Magazine. The extraordinary tlatncss
of these submarine prairics renders the
familiar smile of the ba in rather inap-
p.opriatc The hollow of the Atlantic
is not strictly basin whose depth in
creases regularly toward the centre; it
is rather saucer or dish-like one, so
even is the con our of its bed.
The greatest depth in the Atlantic has
been found some 100 miles to the north
ward of the island OF st. Thomas, where
soundings of 1915 fathohs were obtain
gu. Ilt Stas IOuIti 'fif'tb N'h
hardly be regarded as forming part of
the Atlantic hollow. They are rather
part of the platform banks of the
European continent which the ocean has
overlooked. An elevation of the sea bed
100 fathoms w0ull suffice to lay bare the
greatest part of the North sea and join
England to Denmark. Holland, Belgium
and France. A deep channel of water
would run down the west coast of Nor
way, and with the majority OF the fiords
would be connected. \ great part of
the Bay of Biscay would disappear;
but Spain and Portugal are but little
removed from the Atlantic depression.
The l00-fathom line approaches very
near the west coast and soundings of
1000 fathoms can be made within 20
miles of Cape st. Vincent, and much
greater depths have been sounded at
distances but little greater than this
from the western shores of the lberian
Peninsula
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Rum Did 1t.

Alvin Morse dropped dead at the De-
troit town farm Tuesday afternoon. 1t
seems thar he had been to an adjoining
town. provided himself with plenty of
liquor and became deeply Intoxicated.
After several mishaps on his way
home he finally reached the town farm,
drove into he yard and was again spilled
out of the carriage. soon he Went INTO
the house and drank Il pint or so of al
cohul which he had with him. This
appeared To frensv him and he attacked
james Houston. manager of the farm.
After Il scuffllc Mr.. Houston got away
from him and went into the house and
fastened the door. Morse followed and
attempted To force the door open, in Il
wild exhibition of rage. All at once he
fell back dead.
Coroner Parks and County \ torney
lIoVev of Pittstield We're notified of the
occurnnce yesterday morning, and with
Drs. PuShor and Griffin. and the Adver-
tiser man. went TO the scene of the dis
tIrbance in the afternoon. After care
full external examination of the remains,
the physicians reported no indications
of foul play, it being plain that heart
failure had resulted from alcoholism.
Coroner Parks deemed an inquest unnec-
essary. No blame can be attached to
Houston for his action at the time of
Morse'S death.
Morse lived near the scene of his death,
and leaves wife and one child.-PihS-
.deh .idrc1jSer.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13

sympathy to those now dulled ears, a
word which might bring II smile TO those
dumb lips, She had done nothing to
smooth the path which had been so
Tough to he feet now settled in ever
asling rest. No. she had helped cast
4 block before them, she had taken the
paft of the nppressor, had kept back the
hir,, of the poor.
Il did not mean it, | did not" The
cry arose in her heart. But what Il
poor plea it was, Woul il avail in His
Eyes which had so blessed her with all
which could make young life sweet and
Joyous: Could there be- any excuse for
her that she had closed her eyes to the
need of her less happy sister:
~ the last of the loiterer> departed
she WAS about to follow when her at
tention was drawn by slight noise at
the front of the house. somebody Was
opening the blinds and-Bertha gave Il
little crv-it WAS Janet. face which APP
peared behind them.
II was paler than before and in the
moment in which Bertha took few
swift steps toward her She wisely
crowded down her own excitement.
Good morning. Janet. You did not
not 60 away"
No" said Janet; different things
eame in my way"
And who:"-asked Bertha, mo ion
ing toward the now disappearing
funeral train.
y poor girl who died ot consump-
ton She had one Of the upper rooms.
and il was hot so toward the last we
brought ncr down here.
Rprt In drew "A long breath.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Chicago, Denver and Cincinnati
Physicians fail TO Help Mrs.
Wiley.
DIR. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy Again
Cures Where All Else Fails.
FROM THE CINCINNATI (O). PosTl

FROM THE CISciNSArI (O). Posi-
To the Editor Il believe that | can
help the sick and suffering by giving them
the benefit of my experience.
For years | have suffered from rheu-
matism, complicated with neuralgia and
severe headaches, and at regular inter-
walls with the illness peculiar to my sex,
at times almost crazy with pains in my
head and body. | have employed ply
sicians in Denver, Chicago, here and
other cities who have given me but tenn
porary relief.
Some time ago began the use Of DIR.
David kennedy's favorite remedy, and it
has done me more good than all the doct7
ors put together | am better now than |
have been in years. and my neighbors
will vouch for the great improvement
Favorite Remedy has made in me.
have recommended Favorite Remedy to
many of my friends and it has in every
case helped them.
Having found medicine that has de-
monstrated its power to benefit and cure
in such complicated case as my own,
feel it a duty to make it known publicly
so that the many suffering ones of this
city can avail themselves of it.
Mrs. A. WILEY, Cincinnati, O.
DIR Kennedy's Favorite Remedy has
certainly made many wonderful cures in
cases where the skill and methods 'of
other physicians have been bafiled. DIR
Kennedy has prescribed Favorite Rem
edy and it has produced permanent recovery
in rheumatism, dyspepsia, liver and kid
ney complaints which always arise from
acidity of the blood.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13

want to tell YOU all of remedy which
have tested and can vouch for as the
best one in its effects | ever took. After
season OF grip and other ills
the body which before had known no ills
nor aches had its turn at various assert
ment of them, and nothing made the sup
ply of energy equal to the demand until
tried this. 1t cured me- 1t is very simple.
AS soon as YOU rise each morning drink a
tea cupfull of hot water in which has dis
solved half teaspooniul of Rochelle salts
and a trife less cream OF tarter. This
will whten red nose. 1t is worth all
panegyrics that ever adorned the columns
of any patent medicine advertisement.
If you have been brought up to heavy
doses of medicine you may need to in
crease the amount but for an ordinary
person this is enough, This was a pre-
scrpton from a regular physician, and is
excellent for that state of the body which
is general wretchedness and lifelessness.
Enough for two months will cost you
twenty-five cents.-/Hone1iUfaN.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
On Whom the Joke Was.

a story is told of little boy in
Indiana. He had just learned the Lord :
Prayer in German, and suggested to his
father that tn following evening he
proposed to offer up his new German
prayer when he went to bed, in order to
surprise his mother. He added that of
course God understands German (even
our common school German without
any trouble.
Yes, said his father, but | think it
would sound little sacrilegious, and
God might not like it in that spirit.
No, but you don't understand it, papa,
said the boy; want to do so to 'stOnish
mamma. The joke amt on God at all ;
III on mamma.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
FARRlNGFORO LAWN.

Who hath seen the summer parlor of the King
Lovely and lofty, shut frum view;
Walled with green and ceilihged with blue;
Round about it the singers sung;
RIOS. and lily their odors flung
myself that speak unto you
have seen the summer paror of the king.
Who sat in the summer parlor of the king
His custom of an afternoon:
When summer came. when earth was boom
When round about his singers sung,
Rose and lily their odors flung;
When summer came, when all was June7-
Tho king! in the summer parlor Of the kingl
Lo. this was the summer parlor of the king.
Made fit for him and fashioned fair.
Open only tn delicate air.
Royal songs for the world to sing
Seemed writ round the walls In jeweling;
For myself have seen them there
Have sat in his summer parlor with the king
Mary Brotherton.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13

The farmer, of North Dakota, reckon
ing upon the fact that wheat is very low
in price and pork very high, have begun
to feed their wheat to their hogs. Sell
ing wheat in the shape of pork, they can
get dollar n bushel for it. This is bet
ter than selling it for 30 cents per bush
el for shipment eastward.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Uonaau's Danger.

No man can ever know the
devoted martyrdom of many
women.
Unselhshly a woman works
and suffers that home and
loved ones may be happy.
When it seems as though her
back would break, when she
grows irregular, faint, irritable,
loses all interest in society,
gets the blues" is crushed
with that indesCribable feeling
of bearing-down," she "drags
along" day after day, suffering
agonies that would appal a man.
The cause of all her trouble
is some arrangement of the
uterus or womb, perhaps the
development of a tumor, or
cancerous humor, - anyway,
give it instant attention.
Lya1a Z. PNkAam'c Degr-
table Compound GA
6: s.; (; !: ;; s: :; ; $:
Its cures are un- = .Gstlxx II
parallelled. SIxIVNSSSk
All druggists sell ii. 11/Z
Address in confidence ~ .
LYDIA l.. PINkHAM MED. %.Hs-f- |ss~<<f.
Co., LINN, MASS. q ~.
Liver Pills, rs cents. "~~ o. '.'~<"e~S~
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13

might mean Live Forever. and
we wish you might if you so de
sire; but "L. F." as we best
know the letters, are initials Of
Il. F. Atwood, the originator
Of those famous Bittcrs, which at
any season make life worth the
living to the poor sufferer from
disorclcrcd stomach or liver.
These letters in rcd ink on the
wrapper of True 81. +. medicine
should be your guide in buying.
IS cents of all dealers.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Editorial Notes From Chicago.

The Worlds Temperance tongre-'
held hy the National temperance >ocie'
tN was every way a wonderful success.
II WAS the greatest gathering IT the
hosts of temperance III" World EYER Wit
messed. Ii won golden opinions even
from il enemies. The result will bc ui
great vtlue 10 the Cause the world over.
The Congress wa- catltuiastic and
Harmonious from the first IA the last.
Delegates from all parts al the world
mingled and consulted and concluded IN
the best OF feeling and friendship. His
tories from all countries. the progFes-
of the work in every nation and organ
iZafion and thu voice Of delegates from
different part, of the world bringing
cheer aud good courage va, an in-piri-
ton never 10 be forgotten.
Tie able AID the exhaustive papers
presented from the leading Representatives
of the Cause in America aud Europe.
together with the addresses and discus
sions will furnish abundant material
for the development of the Cause in all
lands.
Tie mass-meeting> in the evenings
held by the National Temperance Nocie-
tv were largely attended and among the
best eyer held. The able aud eloquent
addresses of Rev. DIR. +. l.. Cuyler, Geo.
W Balm. Mrs. Mary \. l.ivermore. Rev.
DR.. o. Z. Clifford. Mrs. j. Ellen Foster,
and Reg. Father j. NJ. Clcary will be
printed in full in the second volume of
the book .Temperance in all Nations.
The great and lasting benefit of the
Congress will be- in its two magnificent
volumes soon To he published, containing
the histories. papers, discussions. etc.
which will be standard works the world
over. They should be in every library
and in the hands of every active worker
in the Cause.
The expenses of the Congress have
not vet been met. They cover over TWO
wears of world-w ide correspondence and
much outlay for stationery. postage,
programmes. the arrangements of de
tails the stereotyping and publishing
the two large volumes. etc. etc e
did not have one dollar subscribed from
Chicago excepting that which was for
the books.
The Worlds Fair authorities through
tS Worlds Congress Auxiliary pay
large sums of money toward the cX-
penses of nearly every other great Con-
greSs but rot one cent for our own.
Our appeal for collections in churches
received no responses with ii half dozen
exceptions. Hence we must still appeal
to our friends to aid in this after and
to help in the circulation of the volumes.
-NatioRm temperance .1drocdtc.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13

The Good Templars of Palmyra have
put OIL their meetings until the last week
of July to accommodate those who
wish to do some haying. This lodge
was started last January with twenty
eight charter members and now has on
its books fifty members in good stand
ing. They have bought Mason Il
Ilamlin organ during this time and
have money in the treasury and seem
to be in prosperous condition.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-07-13
Non-PartiSan w C. T u.

The ssowhegan Non Partisan W {. T L,
meets at the ParIors of the G.. \. 4 Hall the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each month,
at three O'Clock, p. NJ.
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A
PHOTOGRAPHIC POINTER.

have Just reftted my studio with
AN ENTIRE New LINE OF SCENERY
and ACCESSORIES and am BETTER
PREPARED than ever before to give
customers something pleasing and
tasty in full length portraits and
groups. The same careful attention
to details will continue to character
ize all kinds of work.
do no cheap work and every Gus
toner is sure of getting the best that
can be made of them. Business having
been rather quiet during our long cold
winter, am now willing to work real
hard for awhile so when your new
suits are ready come in and have a sit
ting and bring the old folks and the
children and let us all have a good
time. If | cannot suit you at the
first trial it won't cost you anything
to try again for I'M HERE TO PLEASE
AND PLEASE TO BE HERE, so if you
please to come it will please me to
see you. The more the better.
STURTEvAhT,
"n xvs. The Picture Man