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MILL DOSl AMI rOl7S1,
newspapers, carrying the gossip from
farm to farm, and as such were highly
regarded by all the women.
How you used to envy the "thrashers''
because of their wide experience! Very
likely you hired out to man who ran a
machine when you were young man,
and it ia as likely as not that when all
the romance Of a ''thrasher's" life disap-
peared you met your first disillusion-
ment. II was not the last you were to
encounter by any means.
Some years after you had seen the
first horsepower and it's circling horses
you began to hear about portable ''s5eam
ingines' that were to be used to furnish
the power to run the separator. You
had rsver thought of a steam engine as
being on any Of the valley farms. Steam
engines belonged to the town, not the
country, and were apt to burst, OF the
fire would cause confagration. Ev-
erybody protested, but some one bought
one, and the entire valley turned out to
see it work. It was so successful that
horsepowers were relegated to dead
past with grsater suddenness even than
had been th@ fail, and in a couple Of
seasons every one was used to seeing the
smoke and haaring the steady puff of the
steam thrashar.
But it is only in civilized countries
that the primitive methods of thrashing
have been done away with. In Mexico
they still tread out their grain, and SO
they do in India, and in this country
the fail is yet used on buckwheat.
Beans were generally trodden out until
few years ago, when machine was in
vented that will thrash them as well as
the big separafcrs will wheat.
I. D. MARSHALL.
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STATE OF MAINE.
T., &

Il. ..
CUMBERLAND. SIS.
At the Court of County Commissioners begun
and holden at Portland within and for the
County of Cumberland on the first Tuesday OF
June, Ammo Domini, 1898, 10 wit at regular
session thereof, on the first Tuesday of Septem-
Der, Ammo Domini. 1888.
On the foregoing petition, It being satisfactor-
lily shown to the Court that the petitioners are
responsible, it Is hereby ordered that the
County Commissioners will meet at the dwell
ing house of John Woodbury. III Falmouth, Oe-
tober 26th, A. d. 1893, at 10 O'Clock. A. NJ,
and that the petitioners give notice to all persons
interested by causing an atteSted copy of said
petition and this order of Court thereon. to be
served upon the Town Clerk of Falmouth and
also by posting up copies OF the same In three
public places in said town, and publishing the
same once week for three weeks successfully
in the Portland Daily Press, a newspaper print
ed in Portland in said county. the first Of said
be at least so days before the time of said
meeting; at which time and place, latter it has
been satisfactorily shown that the above notice
has been duly given), the Commissioners will
proceed to view the route set forth in said pc
tition, and other routes and roads connected
herewith, and after such view they will give a
hearing to the parties and their witnesses at
some convenient place in the vicinity when and
where all persons and corporations Interested
NAV appear and show cause, If any they have,
why the prayer Of said petition should not be
granted.
Attest: b. G. STONE, Clerk.
Copy of the petition and order OF Conrt there
o'' Attest: &c. STONE, Clerk.
sep2S dlaw3w
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STATE OF MAINE.

LIS.
CUMBERLAND, IS.
At the Court of County Commissioners, begun
and holden at Portland, Within and for tue
County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday. OF
June, Ammo Do1nini. 1898. to wit, at O regular
session thereof, on the first Tuesday Of SepteIn-
Der, Ammo pomipi, 1898.
rily shown to the court that the petitioners arc
responsible, 1t is hereby ordered. shat the louf-
ty commissioners will meet at the pot of1ce at
"Duok Pond' (so-caAed), in said City CT West
brook, Friday, October tWenty-seventh, A. D..
1893 at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, and that
the petitioners give notice to all persons inter
ested by causing an attested copy OF said petit
ton and this order of court tAere0n to be served
upon the City Clerk Of said City OF Westbrook,
three public places in said city and publishing
the same once a week for three weeks success
sively in the Portland Daily Press, q newspaper
printed in Portland, in said county, the FIRST OF
said publications. and each OF the other notice
to be at least thirty days before the time o. said
meeting; at which tine and place latter 1t has
been satisfactorily shown that the Shove notice
has been duly given, the commissioners will
proceed to view the route set forth in said petit.
ton. and other routes and roads connected
Herewith, and after such view they WIN give a
hearing to the parties and their winesses at
some convenient place In tho vicinity when and
may appear and show cause, iii any they have,
why the prayer Of said petition SHOULD not be
Attest BIC STONE, Clerk.
Copy of the Petition and Order of Court
thereon.
Attest: Be. STONE, Clerk.
Sept23-1aw3w
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JOHN JACOB AsToR.
Gossip About a Young Man Who has Great
Possessions.

Young Astor has developed in a man
ner that was not expected since the re-
sponsibilities of his colossal inheritance
fell upon him. He has in fact gone to
the other extreme from that which rep
resents thespurposes and life of his cous-
in, william Waldorf Aston. He has no
intention of entering politics, but he
takes the keenest interest in public
affairs. Moreover, the bent Of his
mind is practical ana causes him to de-
light in:investigating some:of the munich
pal problems, such as street cleaning,
good pavements, and he has been giving
some consideration to tenement house
problems. Those who know something
of his life say that social recreations do
not entertain him, .and that he proposes
to engage in no more than is necessary
to maintain the place in society which
his family expect him to fill. He has
been deeply interested in. some of the
greater questions OF American political
life, and would talk by the hour with
any well informed person about the
resources of Canada, its future and it's
ultimate destiny as part of the coming
North American Republic. 1t is known
that he has taken much interest in the
rapid transit problem, and. being of some
scientific disposition and training, has
been led to the opinion that for lower
New York the underground system is
one which has far the greater advantages.
Whether it is true that he proposes to
invest several millions in this undertake
ing or not we may not know until the
work has progressed considerably, but
the best real estate experts we have in
the city declare that such system as is
proposed would, aside from the direct
returns upon the Investment, very greatly
appreciate the immense blocks of real es-
tate which young Astorrr possesses in the
upper part of the city," Holland" in
PHILADELPHIA Press
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ng by the side of the splendid great

ing by the side of the splendid great
'sseparators' that took their places. Tt
took more men to operate these ma
chimes, and the force was furnished by
horses hitched in teams to the ends of
The long sweeps of a horsepower that
was set UP outside the barn. When ev-
erything WIS ready, the driver used to
get upon the platform in the middle Of
the power, and cracking his long whip
start the horses on an interminable jour
ney round and round and round in a
small circle described by the ends of the
revolving sweeps. You used to think
that if when you were a man you could
stand up on the platform of horsepower
and crack your whip and get $3.50 day
for doing it you would have not lived
for nauglft.
There was another man who used to
inspire you with admiration, and he
was the feeder who stood on a platform
and showed the grain into the cylinder
ell day long. He was man of nerve
and skill, and he got bigger pay than
any one else who went with the machine.
His work was hardest, too, and it was
possessed Of an element of danger that
made you shudder when you thought
about it, for while he stood there mid noise
and dust and turmoil imperturbable as
a sphinx, he might at any moment, it he
carelessly let his hand go too far toward
the swiftly whirling wicked teeth of the
cylinder, lose that hand or perhaps an
entire arm.
You will not soon forget the horrible
accident that happened to Sam Lawson,
tall, straight and blue eyed-Jim Aliens
older sisters intended" He was 'sa
master hand at feedin," but one day he
turned to speak to the man at his right,
who was "cuttin bands" and his left
hand was drawn in. It was but a mo-
ment's lapse, but it cost Sam his hand
and most of his arm, and it was thought
for days and days that he would die
from shock and loss of blood. Jim's sis
ter Tilted him, too, when he got well.
She didn't think she could afford to mar
ry man with only one hand, and he
went away, out of the life Of the valley
neighborhood.
w Hell bIl0 GuFdSil6IS COlI6 Was OIL
ways a great day on the valley farms.
There were ten or dozen of them all
told. Three or four ''went with the ma
chine" from farm to farm. The rest
were farmers and their hired men, who
"changsd works. and helped one anoth-
er out. The women folks used to dread
s'thrashin time" for it meant hard work
in the kitchen. A dozen tired, hungry
men caa eat a great many doughnuts
and power O pies, to say nothing of the
boiled potatoes and pork and bread. The
men who went with the machine as
sumed . sort of professional superiority
over tie rest and were freely accorded
the respect which they demanded. No one
else was really a s'thrasher," and no one
else coaid tell quite such good stories in
the evesang OF during the ''noonin" after
dinner Besides, they were animated
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Messengers Notice.

Office of the Sheriff of Cumberland County
State of Maine. Cumberland SIS. September
%, A. ID. 1893.
THIS is to give notice, that on the 22d day Of
i September, A. D.. 1898, a Warrant inlnsoL
yency was issued out of the Court OF Insolvency
for said County of Cumberland, against the es-
tate of
CALEB M. MITCHELL. of Portland.
adiudged to be an insolvent debtor on petition
Of said debtor, which petition was filed on the
22d day of September, d. 1898, to which date
intereston claims is to be computed. That the
PAYMENT Of any debts to OF by said debtor, and
the transfer and delivery OF any property by
him are forbidden by law. That meeting OF
debts and choose one or more assignees of his
estate, will be- held at Court Of Insolvency to
land, in said County of Cumberland, on the 10th
day Of October, A. D. 1898, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above
written. SAMUEL ID. PLuMMEh,-
Deputy Sheriff as Messenger Of re Corr. 1, q
Sep25&Oct2
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A Remedy of General Utility

1t is among the follies OF which the manu-
facturers of many proprietary remedies are
guilty, to term their medicines ''panaceas,
There is no such thing as 'panacea," which
absurdity has never been perpetrated by the
proprietors of Hostetters Stomach B!tters.
But they do claim and with justice, that it is
restores that regular and vigorous condition oil
the stomach, liver and bowels which conduce
to the recovery of general health Thus ,ns il
mo stamina and causing harmonious action
Of the e' organs Which, as long as they go right
are the best guaranty AGAINST an endemic
maady like chis and fever It aeeGmp u fishes he's
kidneys since il not only prevents their disease
and decay, but expcls from the blood through
them Impurities that cause rheumatism, goui
and dropsy. Use it with confidence
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-27

onstrated the practicability and value OF
his theory the government established
the weather bureau, placing it in charge
of General Myer, chief of the signal serv-
ice of the army, who selected Professor
Able as his principal assistant. 1t was
his duty to prepare the predictions
which were published under the head OF
probabilities, and thus he became the
original Of that popular supposititious
character, cold Probabilities" Theval-
ne of his work it is impossible to COM
prehend. The nearest approach that can
be made to 1t is to estimate from the
damage that storm has done the dam
age it might have done but for his fore
warning, and the aggregate for the num-
berless storms he has predicted would
be incomprehensible.
Professor Able was born in New York
city Dec. 8, 1888, and graduated from
what is now the College of the City of
New York in 1857. He studied astron-
omy at Michigan university, where he
taught higher mathematics In the scien-
tific school, and from 1860 to 1864 did
coast survey work under DR.. Gould, the
astronomer at Harvard. The years
1865 he spent in Russia at the impe-
rial observatory at Pulkova, near st.
Petersburg, as the guest of the resident
staff of observers there, and on his re-
turn to his native land was chosen direct
OF of the Cincinnati observatory.
Professor Able does not think suf-
ficient attention is given to the study OF
meteorology and would like to have it
made part Of the curriculum of all our
colleges and scientific schools. He hopes
some day to see a special school estab-
lished for the training of men for orig
inal investigation of atmospheric laws
with view to charging the scope of
the work he has so well begun.
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-27
Substitutes For Glass In Greenhouses.

Trials with paper and oiled cloth, as
reported by Professor L. Fl. Bailey of
the New York Cornell station, indicate
that these are unsatisfactory substitutes
for glass in greenhouse roofs during the
winter. ''For summer or late spring
use, oiled muslin is fairly satisfactory.
Plants which require a heavy shade in
summer can be grown to advantage
under such roof. In the summer of
1891 we found cloth rooted house to be
an excellent place for towering the
tuberous begonias."
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-27
UNION MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

The imperative need of the protection
afforded by Life Insurance is made man.
ifest every day. Of late, the grim spec
tire Death has stalled abroad in it's most
hideous forms: accidents of the most ter
rible character-some resulting from. nat
ural forces, others from the carelessness
of man-have been recorded day by day.
Immunity has been accorded to none;
neither age, youth nor status has claimed
exemption-the old and the young, the
rich and the poor, have alike fallen be-
fore the scythe of Deaths avenging
angel. It is this uncertainty of life-the
converse of deaths certainty-that caus-
es those who reflect to avail themselves
of the beneficence of Life Insurance.
When death in its terrible swiftness en-
tiers household, the pangs of the suffer-
inc bereaved are sufficiently acute with
out being added to by any prospective
view of perjury and want
Life Insurance is duty; one of the
most sacred attaching to any bread-win-
ner. and a terrible responsibility rests
unon the shoulders of those who are in
any way neglectful in this connection.
INSURANCE PROTECTION CONSE-
oIJENT UPON DEATH BY DISEASE
OR ACCIDENT Is ALONE SECURED
BY POLICIES OF LIFE INSURANCE.
Your home company-the Union Mu-
tuaI-issues policies than which none are
more liberal; they are also of the most
varied character, with premiums as low
as 1T is possible to make them con-
sistent with the absolute security they
afford.
INSURE TODAY, TITS MADNESS
TO DEFER.
cod tt sepsS
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MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Honorable Court of County
Commissioners for the County OF
Cumberland:

TT1HE undersigned municipal officers .for the
Il City of Westbrook. being the Mayor OF
said city and the City Council of said City OF
WestbroOk would most respectfully represent,
that the true boundaries of highway duly To-
Gated in the limits of said city, and known as
BridgtOn street, commencing at Pride'S bridge
in said city. and running in northerly dIrec-
ton through Pride's Corner and Duck Pond, SO
called, to the line between the City of West
brook and the Town of Windham are doubtful,
uncertain or lost; your petitioners however,
would most respectfully give your honorable
court to be informed that the bounds Of short
portion of said way was duly established few
years since, as will appear by the records OF
your honorable court, but no monuments were
erected that can be found; If SO erected, they
have become doubtful uncertain or lost.
Wherefore, they pray that yotr honors, to ex-
anime said highway and locate and define It's
limits and boundaries and cause durable mont-
ments to be erected at the angles thereof, ae-
cording to the provisions OF the statute in such
cases made and provided.
Given under our hands this twentieth day OF
September, A. D., 1898:
ALBERT A. CQRDWRLL,
Mayor Of Westbrook.
CHAs r. GQQpELL,
D. W. WOODBURY.,
JOHN J, KNOWLTON,
FRANCIS A. CLOUDMAN.
ALFRED B. WINSLOW:
FLAyIEN l,I1E UREUX,
A. II. WATERHOUSE,
A. D. LEIGHTON,
CHAS. q. BAILEY,
City Council Of the City Of Westbrook.
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rhyme with cow and not out upon a
stack, you will probably either commit
suicide or quit the job and let the straw
take care Of itself.
You will be chozed with the dense
black dust, which will likewise fill your
eyes, and the short straw will cover you
up If you stop long enough to clear your
throat or vision. Your mother wouldn'
know you half a minute after the ma
chine has got fairly to running, for this
same dust will speedily arrange itself in
dark layer on the surface of your face,
and before half an hour has passed you
will get a barley barb in your mouth, or
perhaps in your hand, or some other por-
ton of your anatomy. 1t will be then
that you will stop work in despair, and
if you are of an ilnpetuous disposition
you will be likely to make use Of pic
turesquely arranged language when you
explain to the boss that you have had
enough. If you don't, he will.
But s'goin thrashin" has its compensa-
tions-in the minds of men who like that
sort Of thing. IF it hadn't, they would
not be likely to engage in the business.
Maybe you are not greenhorn in the
matter of ''thrashin." Maybe you can
remember, if you were born in the coun-
try and your first birthday was long
enough ago, how your father and your
grandfather used to get up long before
daylight in the cold winter time, and
after eating breakfast by candle light go
out to the barn and pound the grain out
all day with fails. You can also remem-
Der, probably, how you used to have to
get up at the same early hour some days
and feed the stock and "chore around"
for two or three or four hours before
you started away through the drifts to
school.
1t used to strike you as tremendous
ly mean thing for your father to rouse
you from your warm bed on those cold
mornings, and you wouldn't think Of
subjecting your own son to such treat
ment now. You'd expect his health to
break down under it, but you remember,
no doubt, that you were quite as sturdy
and strong as he is, and maybe you were
sturdier and stronger. 1t didn't hurt
you bit. Maybe it did you good.
Deacon Allen, the nearest neighbor,
who lived in the red house with the big
yellow barns at the foot Of the valley,
used to have his grain trod out by horses,
and 1t was lots Of fun to go down there
and help Jim Allen drive the horses.
Jim didn't like to do it, but with him it
was work, and he had to keep at it all
day, while with you it was play, and
stolen at that. Jim lives at the foot Of
the valley now IN the new white house
he built after his father died. He is
prominent citizen In the valley, mem
Der Of the county board, and he owns
Separator" and 10 steam engine to run
it, and he does the ssshrashin" for all his
neighbors every fall.
While you were yet q small boy the
life of the fail and the treading out
methods of thrashing came to an end,
and their place was taken by wonderful
machines, by the use of which in one day
three or four men aud team Of horses
working in treadmial could thrash out
as many bushels of cats or wheat as your
father and grandfather could thrash with
eails in weeks of strenuous pounding. If
1t was fun to watch jim Allen drive the
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County Of Cumberland, State of
Maine:
YTNHE undersigned, Inhabitants of the town OF
IL Falmouth, and other towns in the vicinity,
all in said county respectfully represent that
the road travelled from West Falmouth Post
Office to North Falmouth Post Office, in said
county, is crcuitous, hi,y and very inconven.
lent and not sufficient for the necessities OF
public travel, either that which is local or from
a greater distance; that saving i'll distance
can be made; a better road with less hills be
constructed, involving much smaller expense
from point on said road at from three TO four
rods from the sOuthWesterly side of a dwelling
house at Morrill's Corner, so called, now oceu-
I pied by Edward Libby, leading through lands
/ of Marcellus Leighton. c. r. Morrill,, John
Coughlin, Lorenzo Leighton. Wilbur Libby.
John Stewart, heirs of John Frye, heirs OF VIII
liam II. Allen, A. j. Dearborn and Granville
Hall to a farm road in the nortlerly part of
John Woodbury's field; thence by said farm
mus of the road leading from said Woodbury. $
land to West Falmouth Post Office, called
Shady Lane and thence to West Falmouth
Post Office on the county road, and such way
would be of common convenience and neces-
sity.
We therefore pray your honorable board that
after due proceedings had, you will lay out anG
establish highway from said point described
above as near the house of said Edward Libby
to the road called Shady Lane and thence by
said road to the Post Office at West Falmouth
and to the county road there along the short
est practicable route between said points as to
your honors shall seem best. And as in duty
JOHN C. COBB and 90 others.
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ROUND AND RdoND AND ROUND.


horses when the grain was trodden out,
it was Joy unalloyed to see the new
thrashing machine do its work. 1t pos
sessed the element of mystery to your
youthful eyes. A man stood on the floor
at one end and poked the bundles OF
grain into the mouth of the continuance,
and at the other end came out the straw,
while the grain ran in little stream into
measure or a bag at the side. How it
was done you couldn't understand, but
you never got tired Watching 1t, and you
used to follow the machine to the neigh
boring farms-by permission If you could
get it; without permission If you had TO.
But theirs small thyashing machines
that wezs run BY tgeadsniu we're asaothy
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A New Wheat For the West.

Velvet Chaff wheat is new variety
that Is strongly recommended from the
west. 1t is winter wheat, very hardy,
and on the Indiana experimental grounds
the past eight years it has averaged 2s3
bushels per acre. This year the bad sea-
son reduced this yield, and excluding the
present year it would have been more
than 30 bushels per acre.
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-27

he FORECASTS THE WEATHER.
Professor Cleveland Able Is the Original
"OId Probabilities"

Professor Cleveland Able Is the Original
"Old Probabilities
The Importance of the work Of the
United States weather bureau cannot
well be overestimated, and too much
honor cannot be paid to the man who is
primarily responsible for it. That man,
though very few people seem to know it,
is Cleveland Able. professor of mete-
orology in the weather bureau, of which
he has been practically the working head
since it's establishment in 1871. Our
whole weather service is the outcome OF
the system of storm predictions inau-
gurated by him in 1869 when he was the
director of the Cincinnati observatory.
Itwas his idea that the collection Of tele-
graphic weather reports from all parts of
the country would enable him to predict
the path of a storm, and when he had DEM