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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

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Pupils VIII Courage.
An instance II remarkable n,rse e--
cu1r.G few years ass1 su.H a.. sas=l
fr nrcmon IA tbs CITY Wa established
and the mon If The aIa department So -
being trained IN Tic u-e of tne scaling
ladders and the dro nets. Tho man viz
framed the firemen told the ineIa ~
without apparently thinking it ana act
much out OF the common.
We began Ia u Tin fire uot-, - be
said, from the first story Windows
There is knaek III jumping into them
20 as not to got hurt. ! led OF by stand.
ing on the window sill, telling the luon
how to hold the net and then jumping
into it. Each man IN turn would conn
up and follow me III the jump. 1t Va
very simple at that height, and alsa
from the second and third story VIII
dows We went up a flight each day
When we had all got used to jumping
into the net from the fourth story, as
found out afterward, the men thought
that would do We'll take the fifth To-
morrow, | had said to them when We
little off, and that | was guying them
SO the next day, when we got ready Il
begin, and set eight Of them holding
tho net, they got nervous. saw that
when | said: Hold her strong, boys.
I'm going to come down from the fifth.
| began to get afraid Of them rs | went
up stairs. Igot to the fifth floor and peep
ed out Of the window to see if every
thing was all right The men We're AL
i'll their places. | didn't dare to get
upon the window sill, as l had done on
tho floors below. 1t might make them
nervous. So | just took one more peel
to see if everything was still all right,
put ono hand on the sill and vaulted
out came down all right and every
man made tho jump after me.
"Thcnots ain much good to the gen
eral public continued the trainer,
"but You have no idea of how much
value they are to the discipline Of tho
force. Fircmon, you know, are mostly
married men, with families, and il
takes nerve for man to plunge into q
house full of flame and smoke when hl
has wife and children dependent upor
him, but the net gives him confidence
of safety. He knows now that if his re.
treat is cut off his comrades have tht
net below, and that he knows how L
jump into it safely even from the top Of
house It's great thing. New
York Herald
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

OF course we expect the Administra-
ton at Washington to do what it can for
the benefit of importers of foreign goods
and for the advantage Of foreign manu-
facturers, as they have heretofore done.
This expectation was realized in a late
decision of the Attorney General that
the word "wool,n used in paragraph 297
of the new tariff act refers to the hair of
sheep, only, and that the new duties un-
der schedule X upon articles made of
the hair of other animals went into effect
upon the date of the act instead of
January LIST next. Thus importers are
given the benefit of the reduction of
duties on these goods and collectors
pay back duties paid on these goods
since the tariff bill passed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11
Writing I'D the Soldiers.

The report of the great gathering in
Boston, last Tuesday, brought out an
other display of that enterprise which
the Boston journal shows. While the
parade was finishing its work the Jour
nal printed magnificent account of the
early scenes and incidents of the day,
and, later, gave grand report of the
entire affair. The Journals enterprise
was also shown in engaging for the day
its old time war correspondent "Carle-
ton" (Hon. c. c. Cotlin,) to report che
parade. This is but a type of the ener-
getc way in which the Journal contin-
ually gives its readers the best and
quickest news obtainable.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

President Cleveland has issued an
order directing leading government oili-
cials to cancel engagements for cam
paign speaking and to remain wholly
out of political contests until further
orders. 1t is further stated that the
president will not write any letters to
help Hill out of the cavity in which he
finds himself. This is somewhat dis
couraging for the Tammauy nominees in
the Empire State.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

The reform Democrats of Kings
county New York have nominated a
ticket in opposition to the regular party
head, made up of Everett II. Wheeler of
New York city, for Governor, Daniel y.
Lockwood of Buffalo, for Lieut.. Cover
nor and Charles f. Brown for Judge of
Court of Appeals. EX-Secretary Fair
childs Who was in Cleveland's first cabi-
net is to be chairman of the campaign
committee.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

A heavy rain, that was quite accept
able. prevailed here from yesterday noon
until into the night, accompanied with Il
brisk wind but not sufficient to do any
harm. In the west and south they have
had very heavy storms and gales. In
North Dakota and northern Minnesota,
heavy SHOWS fell, blocking railroads.
In the louisiana and Mississippi country
destructive storm ragged early this
week.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11


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and Mr.. JC. Perry Of Recll,nd and
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the Watcfyflir sentinel.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

The .Waterville & Fairfield Electric
Railroad now runs closed cars altogether
No. 5 having appeared recently. On
chilly days the current is turned on the
electric radiators, making the cars warm
and comfortable inside. No suffering on
our road with cold before the coal stoves
are set up Or overhead afterwards.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

Congressman Milliken of Belfast has
accepted an invitation to participate in
the New York campaign. Mr.. Milliken
has spoken for the Republican cause in
New \ ork for many years past and is a
favorite with Republicans there. Few
men are more effective on the stump than
the able representative of the Third
Maine district.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

Herring were never so plentiful along
the coast as they are now and the fisher
men are reporting great catches. The
price is down to 80 cents a barrel, but
even at that there is money in them
when they are as plentiful as at present.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

Hon. John +. Russell has consented to
be the Democratic candidate for govern
not be elected and every one else in that
state knows it, but he is willing to go
through the motions for the good of the
marty.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

Many people are making for Maine
forests now in search of big game.
They are all loaded for moose but
opportunity offers. Those animals are
reported plentiful in most of the hunting
regions.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11
skoWhEoAk MARKET.


Mrs. Jennie Rennie q Virgil. y Y, had
been sick far year OF more with overflow Of
the gall and ulcers Of tie stomach. Her physi-
clan told her Ste eoud not live. Mrs Rennies
mother had found such benefit fram the use Ct
Dr.. David Kennedy, Favor.,e Remedy that
She persuaded her daughter 70 use II, which she
. d, WITH lit result mat i cured her Of these
diseases, ard She says size was never as vel as
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11
RsrEREp As SECOND CLASS MAIL NATTER.

Yes, the German tariff bill has caused
the rise of wool but this rise is in the
Argentine Republic instead OF the
United States.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11
1t Is Often the Case.

Mrs. Bolton is looking oXtromek
well What do You attribute it tor
"Tho dressmakor, of course, dear. y
Chicago Inter Ocean
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

Havana, ZacatecaS, Mexico. and Can
ton are all situated between the twenty
third and twenty-fourth degrees of north
latitude
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

When merchant begins to purchase
advertising space he soon fluids himself
in need of additional space in his store.
Ink.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

This one on a G street boarding house;
A little girl asked if She might have a
small piece Of meat \ very small piece
was placed on her plate, when she re.
marked:
Il want a piece to eat, not 10 look
att"
An audible smile travelled around
among the boarders and an audible
frown settled ON the brow of the land
Washington Capital.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

1t is crime to kill an American eagle
in the state Of New York, and it is also
an otfonso against the law to have one
of the noble birds in possession
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11
No. 29S 3
Report of the Condition
OF
THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK
RESoI r., p

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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

Li,t.e. Have yaa aly distant 7siatiyes:"
ftGsea- .Sd Hlue are ali aear enough to
, i.lt ile at moments notice.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SEVERAL participants in the late rev.
olution in Costa Rica took a steamer
from Port Limon to New Orleans.
Twenty y-three prisoners were shot at
San jose
TRAINS collided at Capleton, Can,
and Conductor Cowan. Engineer Dutlic
and Fireman Mcpherson were instant
ly killed.
HENRY LADoUCHERE's amendment to
the queens address to abolish the house
of lords was passed by vote of l47 To
l45 in the British house of commons,
In mill at Sombra, Ont, boiler
exploded. and Mr.. Cornell, the engineer,
and three of his children, who had
brought his dinner. were killed.
In Brazil the war is practically over
and the cause of the insurgents is lost
one. The rebel forces have surrendered
Internationally, almost without firing
shot.
A PROCLAMATION was issued by Prcsi-
dent Peixoto, of Brazil, decreeing am
nesty to the rebel sailors and soldiers
who surrendered Internationally.
THE house of commons rejected the
amended address in reply to the queens
speech that does away with the house
of lords.
STEAMERS collided and sank in the
straits between Bengalis and Cogal in
Aslatic waters and fifty persons were
drowned.
MARIANo GANTAANo, aged III, was
reieused after spending fifty years in a
Chinese prison.
AT the annual boat race between the
crews of Oxford and Cambridge over
the Thames course in London tho
former won.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22
-" H-7-77-7--
PLANT CURIOSlTIES.

THE hop grows wild in Europe from
Norway to Italy.
The -four o'cloclss" open regularly
at four, rain or shine.
THE roots of tree are often as eX-
tensiye as its branches.
MADAGAscAR has flower that emits
the odor of putrid flesh.
THE common spinach is the only plant
that has cmigrated from New Zealand.
THE watermelon is Indigenous to
Africa, and grows best under the equa-
tor.
THE common Glove is the flower bud
of a plant belonging to the myrtle
family
THE beet is indigenous to the shores
of the Mediterranean, where it still
grows wild.
The garden radish is supposed to be
q Chinese plant, which came west by
way of India
EVERY tree has PRESERVE buds, which
develop at the point where limb has
been cut off.
THE orange grows wild all over trop-
ical Asia, and is everywhere regarded
Us indigenous.
ANYBODY can be good and yet be
good tor nothing.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22
LATER NEWS.


IS the senate, On the 10th, the only
occurrence that possessed any general
interest was the announcement by the
vicc-prcSidrnt that he had affixed his
signature to the Bland seigniorage
act. Messages from the president
transmitting the latest dispatches from
Minister Willis in Honolulu in relation
to affairs in Hawaii and from Ambas.
sador Buyard in London in relation to
the landing of British forces at Blue.
fields, Nicaragua, were presented and
referred. Half a dozen bills were
taken from the calendar and passed.
........In the house the entire session
was spent in further consideration of
the sundry civil bill. The army ap-
preparation bill was reported.
The miners. employed at the Ander.
son mines at Clinton, Ind, agreed, on
the 10th, to go to work at thirty eight
cents n ton for run-offthe-min coal,
which is equivalent to fifty cents n ton
for screened coal, or reduction of
twenty cents from the scale for the
year which ends May /.
DURING n performance in n theater at
Lucca, in the Italian province of that
name on the evening of the 18th, n
gentleman upon entering his box
found in the doorway bomb with n
lighted fuse, lie seized the burning
fuse and by crushing it n his hand put
out the fire.
On the 10th Secretary Herbert
ordered all the American war ships
away from Rio, the New York going to
st. Lucia, West Indies, there to await
further instructions by cable from the
navy department, and the Charleston
to Montevideo to join the Newark.
THE hearing before Judge Glynn at
Denver, Col, on the 10th, upon the APP
plication for warrants for the arrest of
Gov Waite and Messrs. Van Horn. Orr,
Martin and Rogers for contemptwas
continued until the goth.
The Westminster Gazette says that
Mr.. Gladstone will occasionally make
his appearance in the house of COM
mons, and will retain his old seat on
the treasury bench.
Ex-CosGREssMAN WAsHINeToN Town
SEND died at his residence in West
Chester, Pa, on the 18th, of paralysis
of the brain, aged SO years.
COMMODORE WILLIAM ID. WHITING, OF
the United States navy. retired, died,
on the 10th, at his city residence in
New York.
The jury in the Ratliffe-Jackson kill
ing case of Kosciusko, Miss, brought
in verdict, on the 10th, of not guilty.
MILLIONAIRE II. B. IVES, of New Ha'
ven, Conn, who recently became VIC
lently insane, died on the l9th.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22

With Cupid salary is no object
Cynicism is one of the shadows which
experience casts.
The heart is no philosopher
An ounce of woman's intuition Il
better than pound of her reason.
We always better ourselves by for
getting ourselves.
What flower enjoys, It gives to the
world In color and perfume.
What girl thinks. woman would
like to do.
Melody is the soul OF music, as
harmony is its body.
Give some people an ell and they'll
take all the rest of the alphabe De-
troit Free Press.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22
MRS. pYRNE SITTING on the DOORSTEP.

elaborate oratory. Old women brought
their sorrows to Mr.. Castleton, and
went away comfortcd, blessing him for
an unaffected sympathy that doubled
the value of his counsels Children
clustered about him wherever he
called, and looked eagerly for his COM
ing into the Sunday school. The young
people liked him and trusted him,
wondering a little sometimes that one
so grave and quiet could so thoroughly
understand the troubles and tempta-
tions of youth.
He had shown an interest in Susie
Barclay for many reasons. She was an
orphan and had lost both parents and a
sister within fortnight, victims of a
malignant fever raging in Rosedale,
four years before. She was poor, hav-
ing taken position as pupil teacher In
seminary, and been household drudge
as well, to earn an education. At tho
time Mr. Castleton came to Rosedale,
Susie was teaching music, was organ
list at st. Marks, and in leisure time at
home earned many an odd dollar by
embroidery.
And it was upon embroidery she was
busy on the week preceding Easter
Mr., Castleton's first Easter in Rosedale.
As organist, Susie was compelled to
take part in all the services at st.
Marks, but, besides this regular attend
ance, she was devout, sincere mem
Der of the church, and gave her time,
little as she could spare it, TO the work
In the missionary society, sewing circles
and festivals of the year.
And the work upon which she was
sewing so steadily Susie called, In her
heart, her Easter Offering Mrs.
Stacey, the richest woman in Rosedale,
often employed Susie's busy fingers,
and it only made the gentle girl smile
scornfuly when she heard Bessie Stacey
praised for the exquisite embroidery
her own active fingers wrought
Mrs Stscey Intended to make an
Easter Offering, at st. Marks, OF new
set of church-liaen, and she had en-
gagged Susie TO aem'stlteh and em'
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22
WESI AND SOuTH.


The Indiana prohibitionists met at
indianapolis and nominated u full state
ticket with William Taylor, Of Vermil-
lion county, as secretary of state. The
platform favors protection to American
industries, government savings banks,
pensions for disabled veterans, equal
suffrage, and denounces contract prison
labor.
WITH body of state troops Gov.
Waite attempted to forcibly install his
new appointees on the fire and police
board in Denver lie was met by an
armed force of police ana deputy sher-
ifs, and n bloody affray was barely
averted by the arrival OF federal troops
and the intervention of prominent citi-
zenR
AT Union, O., Mrs. Mary Sheets died
from paralytic stroke, aged l0l years
month and day.
For the murder of Constable Hazel,
Jerry Harlbeck was hanged at Charles.
ton, y. G.
JOHN BURNS and Joseph Donerel were
killed by Grant Cecil at the wedding OF
the latter at the home of Miss Rhoda
Mays, the bride, in Beattyville, Ky.
Cecil escaped.
LACKING railroad fare, Frank JUG
walked 1875 miles TO answer summons
as witness in liquor case III the fed
eral court in Chicago.
FLAMES ruined Liankauf & Straus
Wholesale dry goods store at Mobile,
Ala, the loss being 100000.
IT was agreed by Gov Waite, of Colo.
RADIO, to submit his alteration with the
police board to the supreme court and
to abide by the decision. This deter
mination ends the prospect of blood
shed which for two days kept Denver
In q fever Of exeitem, pt
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22

intended her to be, In spite of her com
| pleXiou.
But Mrs. Stacey took out her pocket
book and from 1t ten dollar gold
| piece.
"You can buy new hat" she said,
in patronizing way indcscribabiy ir-
ritating.--
NO." Susie said, quietly: this is to
be my Easter Offering
"Oh! And speaking of Easter, would
you mind, on your way home, taking
this linen to Mrs. Byrne's to wash and
iron, Tell her must have it ON Fri
day at the very latest"
1t was growing dark, and Susie re-
membered that SO far from being ION
her way home" Mrs. Byrne lived at
the other end of Rosedale, but she was
/ too shy to refuse, and rolled the linen
up again.
| Mrs Byrne was working
woman with seven children, whose
husband, after subjecting her to all the
miscrcs of drunkards wife, had re-
LEASED. her by pitching head-tirst off
the bridge below Rosedale into the
river. Womanlike, she grieved for
him, as if he had made her life bed of
roses and turned to her washtubs for
living, patiently and industriously. A
very sunbeam of woman she was, In
spite of her troubles, and Susie was
amazed to find her sitting on the door
step sobbing like a child. She rose to
receive Mrs. Staceys message, and
promised to do the work, and then, in
answer to Susie's gentle: You must be
in trouble. l am afraid" her grief
broke out In words:
1--WE no right to compl ain, miss, +"
she said, "tor the Lords been very good
to us since poor Tim was drownded,
but indeed it's chance lost I'm fret
ting for
"a chance lost?" said Susie, her voice
still full OF gentle sympathy
"It's Nora, miss, She's ncan delicate,
miss. iver since she was barn, and the
cir here is bad for her intrey Ths
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-03-22

broider 1T, promising her ten dollars
for work she well knew would cost her
three times that sum In any city store.
And Susie had already appropriated
that sum, in her mind. She would buy
n large cross of white flowers, such as
she had seem in her visits to the city,
and present 1t to st. Marks. Not one
penny OF those ten dollars would she
use Tor her own expenses; and If
Bessie Stacey let 1t be understood that
she had embroidered the linen her
mother presented, why, Susie could
give her cross, and so balance matters
For' somewhere in the depths OF her
heart, so far down she had never called
it to the surface, Susie knew that there
was rivalry between Bessie STACEY and
herself. She ltnew that Mr. Castleton
was frequently at Mrs. Stuccy's, to
luncheon, to dinner, to arrange various
church matters in which, Mrs. Stacey
suuuehly Wakened 10 an interest She
hao never 1eit whch gooa Ola NH Mpf'
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