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The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
At the Worlds Fair.

The Moors, the Turks. wild men with cirts
Here show til sr customs curious.
The japanese and folks like these
Wear knives that are injurious.
Here are balloons and foreign tunes
That skirl both fast and furious,
And Cairo folk as brown as oak
And Znlus true or spurious.
The dancing girls make startling whirls-
BE careful how you look at them.
All innocent and Shy went
And-weil- Ia peep | took at them
Men from Ceylon you'll see anon,
From Sitka and from Toxic.
For sights SO rare you everywhere
Fees to men white or smoky owe.
Here mosques you see and Japan tea,
And clans they serve Economically,
And sliding cars and foreign jars,
For which they charge gigantically.
The Ferris wheel, with arms of steel,
High as a tower will wind you up.
II you should fall, for good and all
The doctors they would bind you up.
Eugene Field in Chicago Record
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
The Pomona Reunion.

The storm of Tuesday was dampcr
on the Somerset Pomona reunion at
Hayden Lake. There were about 400
present and it is needless to say the exer-
ciscs were all indoor. Many from the
East side of the Lake reached the place
of meeting by boat, but on account of
the gale, could not return that way, and
had to send for their teams by the road
around the south of the Lake. Others
got as far as East Madison and turned
around and went home. But for the
large attendance.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

When the typhoid fever epidemic was
at its height, when cases We're being re-
ported daily and everybody expected that
there would be many deaths from the
disease, one local flower firm decided to
make speculation ON death. 1t was
figured out that there would be an un
usual number Of deaths and that this
w0uM cause demand for an unusual
number of floral pieces. In the manu-
facture of floral pieces moss is an abso-
lutte necessity. and the peculiar kind that
is used comes from Oregon and Wash
ington. The firm i'll question thought to
make a speculation by ordering guam
tity of this moss early and running a
corner in it, The moss has arrived and
has been placed in storage. But out of
all the cases of typhoid fever the deaths
have numbered less than %, and there
is one firm that has moss enough on
hand for several years.-San Francisco
Examiner
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

We offer one Hundred. Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that tanno. lie
cured BY taking Halls Catarh Cure
F. J. CHENEY x co, Props,
Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned, having known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe nm
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and tnanciylly able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
West K Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
Ohio.
Walding, kmnan 4 Marvin, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 80 per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
Fire VIII Not DESTROY II.

Asbestus is a mineral fiber of the horn
blende variety. 1t derives its name
from Greek word which signifies lin
destructible by fire." The ancients We're
familiar with its uses and the modes of
obtaining it, yet strange to say always
alluded to it a. Il vegetable production.
1t was used in all their funeral rites. but
particularly where cremation was prac-
ticed, the corpse being wrapped in an
asbestus cloth so as to keep the ashes Of
the dead person from mingling with
those Of the wood or other combustibles
used in incarceration of the remains. The
people of Egypt and many other coun-
tries of the ancients, especially the royal
and wealthy classes, made towels, nap
kins, tablecloths, etc, of asbestus and
cleaned them by throwing them into the
fire.-St. Louis Republic
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

The current in the Missouri river is at
times something remarkable, For a
week past the river at its mouth has
been raging maelstrom, and SO swift
that several steamboats, We're tied up at
The mouth waiting for il to subside. The
government steamboat Stone tried sew
eral times to breast the terrible current,
but each time was swept back into the
Mississippi and only succeeded in max
ing the ascent at all when the Mississippi
rose and checked the velocity of the Big
Muddy.-Alton Sentinel.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

An interesting delusion is produced by
looking along redhot poker at some
small object Ga coin or letter stuck up
on a walD removed from the eye dis
lance of from four to six feet. Direct
the gaze iii,ently for few seconds, and
you will presently see an inverted image
of the Object hanging hear the end of
the poker. st. I.ouis Republic,
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
paWnce Bill the Greatest :.
Canada claims that he has the Greatest
Wild West in the World.

Let Canada speak for herself through
her own newspapers, about Pawnee
B;lls Wild West, given at Point St.
Charles. Here is an extract from the
Montreal Gazette: Pawnee Bits Wild
West, at the Driving Park at Point ST.
Charles yesterday, is worthy of great
complimentary notice. The horses were
good runners. the riders were reckless
and brilliant Ia Drscmen, the Indians were
all of the simonpurc brand, painted and
befeathered aud blanketed in correct
aboriginal style; the girl riders were
female centaurs. the rifle shooting was
next to marvellous, and the blood
curdling y"lls of the red men in their at
lacks on the stage-coach and the set
tiers cabin, made every spcctator-cx-
cept the bald oncs-nvountarily clap
his or her hand to his or her head to So
that his scalp or her switch was secure
ly in place The bucking bronchos, toe,
furnished an amount of exciting amuse-
ment that was astonishing. considering
the generally forlorn aspect of one of
these crosses between an equine earth
quake ard "A gravity railway. The per-
formance itself is the best of its kind
that has ever been given in Canada
This show will be in Skowhegan Mon
day, Sept 18th.
The parade will begin at 10 \. NJ.
the performances ut , and 5 =. NJ. there
will be seats for everybody and ladies
and children will be specially looked
after. Children under . will be admit
ted at halt-pricc and the Enclosure at
night will be SO brilliantly Illuminated
as to be As light rs Il Spring forenoon.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

The Lewiston Journal is authority
for the statement that the bucket shops
which did so thriving business in Maine
last year are to be revived again. The
field has been canvassed already. There
i wasting of substance and loss of
money in the wake of this business and
ruin if continued in long enough. These
institutions are. splendid things to let
alone.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

\ significant political move has been
made in Seward county Kansas. \ CON
yenton has been called by the Rcpubli-
can and the Democratic committees
with the purpose to make Il combination
against anarchy and disorder represent
ed by the Populist party. Thus the
two parties combine against the popu-
list movement that has been 50 disgrace
full to Kansas.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

Science has been enriched 10y med
ical discovery as important in the domain
of therapeutics a. chloroforn, laudanum
and quinine. The great theory of infec-
ton by bacillus forms requires, in order
to be fruitful of benefit to mankind, the
discovery of a powerful germicide. In
carbolc acid, in corrosive sublmate and
in potassium perinanganate science has
made long strides i'll the direction of
adequate antiseptics and bacillicides, but
these drugs all have their drawbacks
Now. however, Dir. Worrall, Il noted
scientist, claims to have found among
the coal products a disinfecting body APP
parently superior to all previous oaes.
He has named it izal, and ~. Klein,
after series of exhaustive. ~ esatury
experiments, is said to have fai.nd Il ab-
solutely destructive Of the sporesof some
of the most intractable and malignant
diseases. Unlike most powerful di~in-
fectants, it is nonpeisonous to human
beings aud may bc taken internally dilut-
ed, while Dr.. kleu's experiments go TO
prove that. diluted with POO parts water,
izal absolutely destroys the vitality of
the microbes of diphtheria, scarlatina.
glanders, erysipela5 and cholera. New
York Telegram.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

Now the House has gotten through
with the silver purchase repeal measure.
attention is likely to be given to tariff
tinkerihg. 1t may not be done immedi-
atelv but as it is to be done the sooner
certainty is reached the better. Reduct-
ion of wages is not only probable but at
present seems unavoidable.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

has. Tufts, the recently appointed
postmaster at East Madison. was in
town yesterday and Informed the RE
PORTER that he knew nothing of his APP
day. He SAYS the present occupant of
the Office has been absent of late and
some weeks ago citizen asked him if
he would take the office. He replied i'll
the affirmative and that is the only eff
fort he made for the office. The office
pays less than 500 per year and there
fore is not very desirable AS source OF
Wealth.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

Israel Leavitt of Athens, who last
Sunday stabbed Warren Spaulding after
a dance in Harmony, has been arrested.
Leavitt says he acted in srlf-lcfenco.
The doctors say Spaulding cannot re-
cover. Leavitt was given hearing mt
Harmony, and bound ovor in $1,000
bonds to await the action of the grand
Jury.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

The State rifle matches at Augusta
were seriously interrupted by the storm
Tuesday. and by order of Governor
Cleaves were postponed until Wcdnes-
day Whom they We're cOmpleted.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

On Thursday last, Hon. Seth l.. Mill
ken. representative from this district,
made a comprehensive and cogent speech
in the House at Washington in favor OF
the silver purchase repeal measure that
/, well worth reading. We purpose to
Use liberal extracts from it next week.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The fol-
lowing are the real estate transfers dur
Ing the week;
Pitt ,tield-Gustavus }. Conner to Fred
NJ. Harlow, 81; Fred NJ. Harlow to
1ustavus j. Common, 81 David L. Bur
Ton to Parks Brothers, $50; Allen
hackett to Walter q. Chamberlain $50 !;
Grin ). Haskell to I.aforest 7. True,
sl0O.
farti ld-Edsil A. Warren to Lewis
t. Young, $500; A. &. Grant to Mary
:. HoXie, $3.50
.smthfield-B. +. Mitchell to Abe G..
Merrill. 5000;
Anson-Deidam l.. Norton to Emma
!" Williams, $500,
skowhegan-Hcnry S. Jewett ct al
!" Albert A. Jewett, 81.
st. Albans-Rufus Warren ct al to
'harles II. Bailey, $1,000.
New Portland-Hiram Salley to
.harles A. Colman, s25; Elias Hutchins
"falls Burying Ground Society, 500.
,, falmyra-Wm. o. Thomas to Douglas
Dam and Water Power Co., so; George
Stuart to Fred d. Brown, $62.
h Aadison-B. p. j. Weston to Abbie
rpefry, 500; Abbie $. Perry ct al to b..
T. D.. Weston, 800; B. p. j. Weston to
~". Chapman, $1,000.
whartland-hary a. Wright ct al to
warren \. Wright, $50.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

Five hundred and forty-two thousand
four hundred and twenty five books have
beet borrowed during the year at the four
Libraries in Camberwell. This is the
highest London record
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

Good news is received from Manches-
ter. n. II. The big Amoskeag corpora
ton will resume operation in their mills
that have been suspended for five weeks.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

The State Normal School ut Farming
ton opened Tuesday morning with 1870
pupils, the entering class numbering y,
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

The estimate of the amount gwen y
the late Senator Stanford to the Leland
Stanford, Jr., university reaches SEQ.
0o0,o00. The buildings alone cost 81.
900 600.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

There were great rejoicings among
the pupils of NJ. Benjamin Constant
upon his election to membership in
the French academy. A reception was
given him at one studio by the men
there, and a triumphal arch of roses and
laurels was erected by his girl pupils in
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

The L. 5. Senate on Monday, dis
posed of the cases of two persons APP
pointed to that body by Governors of
States. They were Lee Mantle of Mon
tana. and John b. Ellen of Washington.
These were cases where the legislatures
Of those States at the session last win
Ter failed to elect and after the legisla-
lures had adjourned the governors APP
pointed them as senators. The case of
Mantle was quite fully discussed and he
was rejected upon the ground that a
governor of ii state has no authority of
law to appoint a senator for Il full term.
The governors authority is limited to
filling vacancies. There was one other
case of this kind, that of Beckwith from
wyoming, but he took the precaution to
resign, and so no action was necessary
in his case. This action should have the
effect to cause legislatures to make sure
Of the election of senators aud avoid
getting into deadlock and cause their
States to go without representation in
the Senate until the next legislature
meets
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
Killed In a Glove Contest.

NEW York, July lS.-Frank Esan. who
has the reputation of being tough, killed
John j. Mcdonald, "a years old, in glove
contest last night. E9au escaped.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs;-One year s1.50; SIX
months, rs cts; three months, 81 cts, when
paid in advance.
ei75 will be charged il not paid until the
Vnd Of year.
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The Somerset Reporter,
A Weekly Republican Newspaper.
e. E. MCNEELIR.

4 o, SMITH. E. E. McNEELIR
7. o. SMITH & CO., PUBLISHERS,
t4s WATER STREET. SKOWHEGAN, ME-
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II is just and deserving recognition of
those great interests that have contributed so
largely to the continued prosperity and ad-
yancement of our State, and deserves on the
part Of our people general and appropriate
observance.
GIVEN at the Council Chamber, at Au-
gusta this twentyfourth day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety three, and of
the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and eighteenth
By the Governor; HENRY b. CLEAvEs.
NICHOLAS FEssEsDEN, Secretary of State.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

Governor CleavcS attended tht East
ern State Fair 1T Bangor, Wednesday.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31
SkoW hECAk MARKET.

Use DASA'S SARSAPARILLA ITS
THE KIND THAT CURES"
The Somerset reporter., 1893-08-31

STATE OF MAINE.
Proclamation by the Governor.
LABoR's LEGAL HOLIDAY

BY public enactment the Legislature of our
state has designated the First Monday OF
c., har
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A'ouser ss.ss q AnAlr. In Nov. Orleans.

AQueer ststs sf AHrAirs In Now. Orleans.
A gentleman Of this city who has done
much toward adding 10 the annoyance
Of the census taker by becoming the IA
ther Of IL children has certain peculiar
notions. One of these notions was until
lately perfect disregard Of the birth
registering department Of the board OF
health. One by one the children came.
but the busy father, ooolly ignoring all
such institutions as boards Of health. al
lowed them to pursue the even tenor OF
their growth unregistered. But even a
board Of health will turn. A short while
ago this gentleman became the father Of
his twelfth child. he did not have II
registered. This was too much. The
board Of health sent him notice. He
received it. He was busy, and it an.
noyed him. "a
"By gracious he said, I'm teach
these fellows how to worry mel If they
have the registering fever, I'll give them
all the work they want" So the gentle
man sat down and made up Q list Of all
his 10 unregistered offspring, and laugh
ing with glee at the thought Of the extra
work it would cause mailed it to the
people who dared to annoy him about
one unregistered child. The joke will
come when the board of health replies
and compels the registration Of the en-
tire dozen without deduction for large
contracts. New Orleans Picayune.
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THE MOST SURPRISED MAN IN ARIZONA.
matter of fact 1t rolled over us more than a
year ago. He was about six years out In
his calculations The terror was mounted
on a mule Once upon time 1t was the
proper caper for terror to ride his mule
into saloon and drink his whisky while
seated In his saddle. The stranger headed
his animal for the Red Front saloon and
dug in the spurs and uttered his warwhoop,
but the next thing he knew the doctor was
probing for bullets, and he had gone out Of
the warwhoop profession. The city mar
shall had been looking for such break, and
he was ON the spot to check it The mule
was killed at the first shot, but it is be-
lieved at this writing that the man will in
: time recover sufficiently to limpout of town
In search OF some spot where the good old
fashioned customs are still preserved in all
their purity.
Nor 1DENTrFIED.-Tuesday afternoon last
a stranger who looked As solemn as IL he
hRd buried a wife and 10 children came into
town by the Cherry valley road on bay
mule and dismounted at Scott's bank.
Como Of the boys sized the stranger up as
an undertaken looking for an opening. while
others had a suspicion that he was mp to
snuff. This state of uncertainty lasted
about Is minutes, during which time some
one unloosed the saddle girths and attached
the saddle toa hitching post by rope about
20 feet long The stranger found Mr.. Scott
alone in the bank and pulled gun ON him
and asked for loan OF 500. Mr.. Scott
never loans money without good security
He dodged the gun and raised an alarm,
and the solemn man bolted for the street
and his mule. He Jumped into the saddle
with a whoop of defiance, and when the
mule went out from under him he was
probably the most surprised man In Arizo-
ma He got up and began shooting, but
our efficient city marshal. assisted by about
20 prominent citizens, turned loose on him
and brought his career toa dead stop The
mule made bolt for It and could not be
caught. but he bore the brand of q New
Mexico ranch. Nothing was found on the
man to identify him. He had two guns, 50
cartridges, q in cash and y plug of tobacco
He was buried at the expense Of the city,
and the look Of chagrin which covered his
face as he was laid away was 30 marked as to
excite general comment. Heprobably lived
in some back township where no newspa-
pers are taken and therefore knew nothing
Of the changes Of the last i've years.
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Killed a Horse with His Fist.

Tom Roe, truck farmer Of Waco,
Tex, is not prizefghter. but IL he
should run afoul of someof the supposed
fighters they would not get off very
easy. Several days ago his horse, that
had been grazing in the field, became
crazy and made rush for Tom with
open mouth and would probably have
seriously injured him had he not leaped
aside and struck the horse on the neck
with his fist. killing him instantly.
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"vheil, dot scares me, you know. l.
doan' like nobody to suicide in my place und
haf some big pieces In der papers, und 90
speak softly to him und gif him glass Of
beer und feefty cents und get him oudt
Der VERY next day dot second man comes
In und sits down and throws his hat on der,
floor und says:
"'Carl Dunder, my wife, shildren, homo
und fortune vhas swept away, und doan'
like to live any longer. Please gif me o
private room in which to expire, und mebbe
you vhas 80 goot ash to sec dot my grave
vhas kept green" H1
II see," said the sergeant. +,
"Vhell, can't gif dot man no private
room, und doan' like dot coroner to come
around. So fill him COP und gif him some
shange, und he goes away happy. He says
II he dies he vhill bless me. Vhas dot like
you oxpectedi' AZ .,el
"Yes-what elses"
der next day dot third man comes. He
vhas slim man, und be vhas weeping He
goes over by table und cries like some
shildren. BY und by he looks oop und says:
"'Mr. Dunder, Ivhas some wrecks on dot
sea Of life 1t vhas no more use to struggle
against adversely. Imake good fight, but
vhas licked. Please gif me leedle wa
ter dot may take some poison und bid dis
world last adieur
"Do want some dead mans lying around
init all dose reporters rushing in to put It in
der papersi No! l speaks to dot man wer-
ry kindly, und pats him On der shoulder,
und in 10 minutes he drinks some beer nnd
takes feefty cents und says he vhill go by
his brother in Buffalo to expire. Vhas dot
rightf"
y "Did . fourth man comet"
"Yes, und fifth und a sixth. shuss
get dot sixth man oudt doors before I come
away He vhas o fat man, und 1t takes q
quart of beer und seexty cents before he
says he vhill struggle some more init dis
cold world"
"Mr. Dunder. you have been played
again." said the sergeant.
"Vhas tooken for greenhorns und hay
seeds by dose menw f.a. !,
Exactly"
"Und nobody vhas going to expire in my
housed" =, 4..,a
mo. 1t was sort of gum game. It's
wonder that somebody doesn't beat you out
Of your shirt. have talked and talked.
but"-
'SergeantP' interrupted Mr.. Dunder as
he sprang up. II vhas going home"
"Wellf" tt9 ..4.g -'.z.,,z
''Pooty queek after vhas home a man
vhill come In und look tired und weary pnd
discouraged He vhill take out some white
powder In paper und say TO me;
"'Mr. Dun6er, leedle water, please.
can't fight dis world no more, Ivhas going
to dot land where eaferybody vbas an angel
nit wings und sings all day long. Please
see dot nv legs vhas straightened out In
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DUNDER ON SUICIDES.
CARL TELLS OF SEVERAL DESPERATE
PEOPLE WHO VISIT HIM.
And When He Is Informed That It Is .
Green Game He Resolves TO Get Even.
The Next Man who Visits Him win Have
Hard Time.
copyright. 1893. by Charles B. Lewis.i |

copyright. 1899, by Charles B. Lewis.l
Sergeant. mebbe | doan' understand
how 1t vhas exactly" said Mr. Dundera ~ he
called at the police station the other day
with look of anxiety on bis eonntenance.
How what WASP" queried the sergeant.
About dose suicides Vhas 1t my pees-
ness II somebody suicidesf"
"Tell your story" ff +
"Vhell. stranger comes in my place and
looks sorrowful und homesick. Pooty soon
he says to me:
'f'Mr. Dunder, she yhas no use. make d
big fight, but vhas beaten. haf made
oop my mind to shuttle off some mortal
coils. vhas going to die right here und
now. und like to say gootby to you who
vhas always eaferbody's friend. Farewell,
oldt mansp
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THE ARIZONA KICKER.

The "U.ah Terror" Comes Near Losing
His Life Through . Misunderstanding.
A STRANGERS MrsrAKE.-A chap calling
himself the Utah Terror" struck this town
last Tuesday with a whoop As near as he
could figure the wave Of civilization was
not due here for five years yet, while as a
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Thanhs, Call agnlnl JohnsOn.Prnlt.

The attention OF economical house.
keepers Ia called 10 the Gold Band
Package Coffee. n Ia the hest.
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one million Dollars 10 Loan.
Six TO - per cent.
CONWAY & DoNNELLAN,
3 Room %, Commercial Block
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THAR TOOru
Can be saved and made useful life
time. II was placed there for wise
purpose. D. not have II extracted, but
go tn DIR. q. u. Hewett q Son, Dolly
P. OIL building AMI have II filled AMI
sec cdr. Heweit's new Method,
TEETH WITHOUT PLATES,"the
greatest invention Of the aye.
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Of person and OF intellect, OF serious
and lofty purpose, OF worthy httnln'
monts and still richer promiao.- World
The Frohman.Hayman offices at
1927 Broadway will be moved up 10 the
Empire Theater building today. IL
VIII ho interesting to aspiring play
wrights TO know that 1t will require an
express wagon 10 convey oil OF the
plays In Mr.. Ffohman's possession
which were sent to be passed upon
HuykH
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Assn after dinner coffee you will be
pleased with Gold Band.