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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01
George Wyke of the Somerset
House.
lAnson .1drocaie. I

Any one who travels about our State
much runs across some strange charac-
tiers. One of them is George Wyke. the
gardener, night Waterman aud general
utility man at the Somerset House AT
No. Arson. George has seen good
deal OF life having been around the
world but Just now he Is not tramping
much, He was an English soldier 30
years ago and having seen the old world
was delighted when his regiment set
sail for Canada. In the sixties his com
panv stationed AT Quebec, was sent for
ward to the boundary line to do picket
duty, or look duty as he calls it. 1t
was lonesome task, but there are
worse jobs than doing nothing George
says One day he received orders to re-
port to his regiment which was just get
ting ready to sail for the West Indies.
George did not like the idea aud he de-
termiued that he would have none of
it in his. Accordingly one morning when
he went on duty mt \. VI. he began to
think. As he thought he began to un-
strap his belt and his revulyers. and lay
lug them on the big granite post that
marks the boundary, set out for Moose
River, which place he reached Septem-
Der %, 1863. and stopped there two
years with Mr.. lIolden-long enough 10
entertain the officers who pretended to
be pursuing him and then worked his
way gradually down river He stopped
a few years at John Carney's, a few
more at Bingham, and then came to
North Arson where for l5 years he has
tarried contented and happy. He has
during all these years slept in a box in
the office, never for "A night taking an
ordinary bed. Neither has he during
this period ever visited Skowhegan, Sol
on or even New Portland. Once he
strayed away as far as NJ 'ranacook, but
only once and then onl> tor a day. He
is a well informed man nnd says he is
content to let others do the running
around. A contented mind is surely a
continual feast.
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Victor N as n Shakespeareaa.

Several ye ars ago a celebrated TRACE
dian was summoned to play "Hamlet"
OF Windsor. When he came to the So
liloquy, he made an unusual pause aft
er ITO be- The queen, believing
that he had forgotten his lines, instant
~ prompted Tor not to be. That is
the question. " by your leave your
majesty, said the tragedian, put out
Of courtly humor by the interruption,
that is not the question. The question
Is my method of interpretation. -
Never mind your method" returned
the queen smilingly. What we want
is Shak pspeare. $50" T--~-- -.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01

Cattle buyers are quite plenty, a call
for steers.
II. F. Danforth had a husking last
Friday afternoon, with dance in the
evening.
NJ. NJ. Moore had a nice piece of corn
this year. 1t would be worth the time
go into his chamber and see the long
yellow ears.
The Free high school closed Friday,
Oct. 10Th having been in session (S)
eight weeks. The following are the
names of pupils who have not been
absent one-half day during the term.
Mabel Davis, Ethel Davis. Lula Holway,
Maude Holway, May Holway, Daisy
Holway, Elsie Jones, Lottie Moore, Net
tie Moore, Eugenia Sawyer, Annie Tur-
ner, Manley Davis, Roy Danforth, Les
ter Holway, Elmer Salley, jennie
Sawyer, Herbert WEIGH, Mahlon Welch,
Leon WEIGH, Mahlon Whipple. The
whole number of pupils enrolled As,
average attendance 10. The number of
visits by citizens during the term was 26.
Mittie l.. Batchelder, was teacher, May
+. Holway, assistant.
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East SkoWhegan.

The past week was very busy one ii
4. Skowhegan.
The building of Theodore Goodrich
was hauled only about two-thirds the
distance, after hauling all DAY and left
on the brook bridge near L. Richard
sons. Thursday six oxen and twenty
horses hitched on and after hard hauling
up the sand hill landed the building OIL
the spot at II o'clock A. NJ.
The Goodrich Brothers have dissolved
partnership and the hulled corn business
will be carried on In the future by Theo.
dore Goodrich, near the trottng park
and whoever buys his hulled corn will
be pleased with it.
kimbalfs Thursday afternoon, and all
his corn, splendid lot was husked
The evening was spent in singing and
all enjoyed it much.
John Ross had husking Saturday
evening, and finished his corn, good
pile.
The little child of James Goodrich
whose wife was Ho, ace Eatons' adopted
daughter, lived hut few hours and was
buried Sunday, Oct. 25th.
A little Id. girl came to board in the
family of Adelbert Richardson at Par
sons Mills in Cornville.
Another couple made happy on the
25th inst, Charles E. Sanborn and
Lettie May Booker both of Canaan, were
joined In marriage. by A. Richardson
Esq. IN this place.
Lizzie Currier Of Brooklyn, n. Y, and
her cousin, Kate Richardson, made us a
short visit last week. Everybody is al
ways glad to see Lizzie.
Abel Written of Canaan, and Joe Ire
land have been breaking up for John
Buzzell and Wallace Ireland the past
week.
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"
A Flesh Forming Food

"A FleSn FORMING ROOD
(Artidciatiy Digested.)
Stimulating, exhilarating and
strengthening, without alcohol.
Relieves WEAKNESS and ex-
haustion. 1t adds new tissue to
emaciated forms, makes them
plump, rosy and healthy. Thin
pale people will become fleshy
and rosy checked after using it.
PaSkoIa supersedes Cod Lily
er Oil (without its repulsive
taste and arrests the 7vaSfine
in consumptive cases. You
can buy it at any drug store.
Send your name to the Pre-
Digested Food Co., 80 Reade
ST., New York, and get their
interesting pamphlet.
HoRATIo W. CUSHING. skowhegan, Me.
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SO. Madison.

Rufus McKenney lost a horse last
week. 1t got down in the stall and
choked to death.
Mr.. A. ii. Ward is having his house
painted, which improves the looks of it
very mnch.
MIR. Frank Yickery and wife of New
York, have returned home.
Mr.. II. d. Will of the village, has been
working on Ward hill, the past week.
|. S. Wheeler and d. +. Millett have
been shingling their building this fall.
Mr.. Daniel Dickerson is having his
barn put up again, which blew down
last summer.
Mrs. A. ii. Ward, who has been sick
for the last two months, is improving
fast under the skilled treatment of DIR.
II. II. Pusifer of Skowhegan.
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in a daily circle of suffering. because she
thought there was no relief.
Her suffering was caused by female
weakness, in its worst forms. She had pain
in her back and lons. great fatigue from
walking, lcucorrhma. local Inflammation,
and frequent desire 10 urnate.
All This time relief was close at hand,
and She had only to arccpi it with the
same faith that has saved thousands of
Others Every druggist had it.
LyIia f. Pikhdm,s Vegetable Com
pound cured her of all weakness and dis
rase. and she is now different woman.
1h, woman is Mrs. Walter Wilcox, OF l36
West Street, who advises all women who
suffer so from female weaknesses to try II
and be cured. 1t cures kidney trouble
in either sex. expels tunors removes
backache, and invigorates the system.
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Out of the Ordinary.

| 1t takes no less than 1900 red cedar
trees to supply the wood for the pencil
manufacturers in this country.
A cod caught off Marlborough, Eng
land, the other day, was found to have
tfty-nine tishhooks, all bated, in his
| stomach.
| The sense of taste is most acute in the
| base, tip and edges of the tongue, and is
almost wholly lacking on its inferior
surface.
An injury to the tongue is said to be
repaired by nature with greater rapidity
than is the case with any other part of
the system.
More than half the inmates in Ameri-
can penitentiaries are of foreign birth.
| though foreigners form only Il per
cent. of the total population.
Science tells us that the body of every
human being weighing $50 pounds con-
tains one pound of salt; also that every
one of US needs in year about fifteen
pounds of salt.
| The corpse or ghost plant, which
grows in pine forests where the sun
never penetrates, is of a CHASTITY white
color, not tinge of green appearing on
stem, leaf or blossom.
Horse runaways are unknown in Rus.
STA. No one drives in that country with
out having thin cord with a running
moose around the neck of the team. The
horse stops as soon as il feels pressure
on its windpipe.
| The pressure of water to the square
inch upon the body of every animal that
| lives at the bottom of the deepest part
of the Atlantic ocean is about twenty
five times greater than the pressure that
will drive railroad train.
| The trolley car has carried its benefits
to the "uttermost parts of tie earth
| The quiet streets of the city of Jerusa-
| lem, in Palestine, echo now with the
zzz of the trolley wheel and the bang of
the nerve-killing gong.
In the well-known house of Chequers.
in Buckinghamshire, may still be seen
the clothes worn by Oliver Cromwell
when a baby. Among the articles used
! by the protector in his cradle days are
six caps, scalloped round the edges and
bound with ribbon, now yellow with
age.
The only copy extant of the act OF
| Parliament of 1919, during Cromwelfs
| reign, Incorporating ana cHarucrihR TIE
Society for Instituting the Propagation
of the Gospel among the Indians of New
England, is in the possession of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions, and is
on exhibition In New York.
A special mouthpiece for public tele-
| phones is being introduced into Germany
with the object of avoiding the spread of
diseases carried by the condensed mois-
ture of the breath. A pad or large
number of discs of paper, with hole in
the middle, is inserted in the mouthpiece
and the upper disc of paper torn of
after every conversation.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01

"Mr. Hill says Il am Democrat, but
Candidates Wheeler and Fairchild say
we are Democrats then Shepard de-
clares lie is a Democrat, then Grover as
serts that is the only real Democrat, and
finally Hughey Grant brushes all aside
by saying, boys. you are not in it;
am Democrat That is one of the
conditions in the Democratic party to-
day. 1t reminds me of the yellow dog
that ate his tag and the baggage master
didn't know where the cur came from or
where he was going Chduncy Deper.
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Hints to Young Authors.

"rhe first thing YOU need is to have
something to say. If you have nothing
that you are burning to sell, keep silent.
Next, you must remember that the way
of saying thing is very important, and
so you must cultivate style. To gain II
good style you must read the best
authors. You will learn how to write
only by reading, aud not by writing out
your OWE thoughts while you are young !;
but by taking in great thoughts and
words Of the great of all ages.
"Read Dante, Milton, Shakespear :;
have always on hand II task, in the way
of a history or an essay, or some volume
which you cannot read hastily.
Gradually, by reading the best literature
you will gain good vocabulary, and
learn to express yourself as the masters
do"
When you write do not choose high
flown subject which does not interest,
and is In no way real to you, but de-
scribe something with which you are
familiar. Take your fathers house, or
the street your school stands on, or your
own room, and try to make pen pic
ture of either of these. Write In plain
simple language, As you would speak.
Always write as If you were talking to
somebody, y child, or dear mother, or
your cousin Bob who is in Madras, or
your aunt Emmaliuc, In the frontier
fort, weeks journey from home.
Never think especially of publishing
your work, or of making money by it,
Money is paid only to those who under
stand their art, not to beginners. You
will spoil your work and ruin all your
chances II you let the thought of money
enter into your first writing.
Udrpers Young People.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01

The Hindoos have curious way of
emphasizing what they say. In most
villages is a sacred tree, pipal tree, and
the gods are supposed to delight to sit
amoung its leaves and listen to the
music of their rustling. The Respondent
takes one of these leaves in his hands
and invokes the gods, who sit above him,
to crush him and those dear to him, as he
brushes the leaf in his hand, il he speaks
anything but the truth. He then plucks
and brushes the leaf and states what he
has to sAY.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01

The first apple tree in Maine was
brought from England in II tub and bore
fruit over $50 years. 1t has been dead
for some years, but is carefully preserv-
ed by York (Me.) citizen.
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Found.

A stray colt, sorrel color, sucker or yearling
The owner can have the same by calling and
paying expense and for this notice.
East Madison, Oct. II, 1894.
3w4a. JOHN c.. HARVILL.
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Bartlett & Cairns.
LOTS OF PEOPLE.

OdH SCCuIC d SOUeI IfOuSC gin
Can't sell their farms.
Can't find employment
Can't find lost articles.
Can't do hundred things because they
don't advertise in the REPORTER. 1t
is really wonderful how much can be &C
complished by the use of these little, low
priced advertisements.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-01

The racetrack is a great place at which to
be overcome by the heat.
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FOR SALE !

Second hand Wagons.
" Double Harnesses.
"a Row Boat.
" Watches.
Guns and Reyolvers.
" Lady's Gold Watch.
" Ladv's Riding Saddle.
q Piano.
" Refrigerators.
" Tip Cart.
- Cook Stoves.
Furniture bought and sold.
Cash paid for Rags, Rubbers, &c.
WARDS AUCTION ROOM,
skowhegan, Me.
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WALKING on Stills.
A DISTRICT N WHICH THIS IS DONE
FOR SUBSTANTIAL REASONS.

The IIerders and Peasants of Landes Sc
stills In Their Avocations In belgium
They Had Festival Which Bore some
Resemblance to Our Football Game.
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1lraw,nr tho tnne.

A dudish looking party in long tail
overcoat and turned up trousers was pick
ing his way ginRerly over n muddy down
town crossing when rakish looking par
ty I'm a rain coat and rubber boots saw
him.
The spectaclcof u live walking dude Hp-
peals irresistibly to the average mans
sense of the ludicrous and the rakish look
ing citizen, initiating the gait and general
bearing of the other stalked along sol
emnly by his side a block or two in Hppar
ent unoonsoiousness Of the fact that he
was creating a sensation and attracting
the amused attention Of everybody on the
sidewalk
In going over another muddy crossing
the rakish looking party, as ii by accident,
trippcd the dude The latter narrowly es-
capped fall, and as no recovered himself
he swung his wight. 1t landed ON tho jaw,
and his tormontor went down as if u pile
driver had struck him.
"You can ape me don't you know, he
drawlod 'bgt, baw Jovc, you mustn't
monkey with mo '-Chicnrn Tribune
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-12-04

The present session Of Congress has ex-
cited much less apprehension than was
caused by the extra or the regular session
last year, because it is generally taken
Gor granted that the recent election will
have a SOLDERING, not to say benumbing,
influence upon the party in power. 1t is
possible that such hopes may prove un-
founded Certain it is that the utterances
of Democrats from the West and South
have been anything but reassuring, for
they have indicated passionate desire to
arrest the threads of Populism into Dem
ocTatic territory by concessions falling
little short Of complete surrender Many
Western and Southern Democrats really
seem to have no principle or purpose what
ever that distinguishes them from the
widest Populist fanatics, and to be ready
and eager to take up any financial fallacy
that may appease the most frantic voters.
The safeguard for the country is to be
found, it seems probable, not in the
sobered sense or patriotism of the Demo
Gratis, but in the frmness of the Republi-
cans, and their power at short session to
prevent mischievous legislation. For in
stance large extension of the income
tax is urged with furious earnestness by
some Democrats, who insist that nothing
else can appease the voters with Populist
leanings 1t is possible that they are
right but a government which tries to
satisfy Populist notions will have to 90
very far. The prosperity of the country
requires that these enemies OF all that is
honest or safe in finance should be sharp
ly fought, and not appeased at all. The
income tax may indeed be uuconstitu.
tional, as eminent lawyers argue, but
that will make no difference whatever II
a popular temper is suffered to develop
which demands such tax. Constitutions
do not bind the people in this country
when they get wrong idea, They are
the sovereigns after all, and the only safe
way is to give them right idea. Error
must be fought persistenUly and unshring
ingly, until the people come .to under
stand their own true interests and duties,
or they will in the end find the executives
enl lawmakers and courts to- do their
will
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-12-04

The ground was grassy plain on the
other side of tho Beirut river, intorsccted
by little water courses and studded with
groves OF pine trees, some full crown and
tall and others making a thick underwood
or scrub, in which the iackals, which we
cano to hunt, were hidden We had "a
brace of beautiful Persian greyhounds,
which shifted and ran about, but were
perfectly useless but our real pack con
sisted Of two hattalions Of zouaves and
spahis. who drove the pines in full uni
form, encircling them and gradually di-
minishing the circle, shouting and scream
ing until tho jackals ran out and went
tearing down the water courses, with the
army at their heels, firing at impossible
distances.
think l never saw so animated d scene
tho wild Algerine horses ana their wilder
riders in scarlet trousers, red morocco jack
boots and white burnooses floating on the
wind, the whole relieved against tho bright
green pine groves and purple mountains
or the bright gold of the sand bank. The
huntsmen and whippers i'm consisted of a
French general and two Colonels General
Ducrot's wife and / were the only ladies'
My little Arab mare leaped everything
she came 20 like feather and seemed to
enjoy it as much as l did, and Nine Du-
crot, though on a heavy French horse, fol
lowed with much pluck and animation.
After four hours of this and killing sew
eral jnckals the spahis "offered" us as a
sort of fete their national dance-a dance
the principal figure of which consisted in
turning head over heels and administering
severe blow on your partners head with
your foot-and also what they call "fan.
tasia, which is two or three horsemon rae
ing against each other, the horses absolute
/ ly touching, the brides held in the riders
| mouths, while they present, aim and fire
at full speed with wonderful precision
Songs, Poems, Verses eto., Lady Duff
ferin.
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Great Grief and Head Shaving.

Among the anCients shaving the head
was "a very common mode of expressing
great grief or sorrow. Sometimes 1t was
done by the priest or some other religious
functionary formally cutting off the hair
sometimes by violently pluckiug it out by
the roots In extreme cases among men
the beard as well as the hair was either
cut of or plucked out. Tho idea seems 40
have been that mourners should divost
themselves of that which, under ordinary
circumstances, was considered most beau
tiful, ornamental and becoming Lucian
(and he is not the only one Of the ancient
writers 10y any means who gives points on
this queer mourning custom) says that the
Egyptians expressed their intense sorrow
10y cutting off the hair upon the death Of
their god Apis and that.the Syrians acted
in the same manner at the death of
Adonis
Olympiadorus remarks concerning Job
l., 90, that the ancients among whom
long hair was regarded as an ornament
cut it OF in times Of mourning, but that
those who commonly wore it short suf
forcd it upon such occasions to grow long
philadelphia Press
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a Din to snprress Kolb.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. A bill was
introduced in the house by Representative
Knight, of Hale, which is intended to put
a stop to Kolbs performances and prevent
all possible danger of dual government.
Briefly the bill makes it crime punisha-
Bile by fine and imprisonment for any per.
son to take the oath of Office and attempt
to discharge the duties of such Office with
out first having been declared elected
thereto by the person or body having au-
thority to so declare the result. 1t makes
the penalty for violating any of its pro-
provisions "a fine of not less than $500 and
not more than $4,000, and the offender
shall be imprisoned in the penitontiary of
the state for not more than twenty-five
years. There is little doubt that the bill
will become law.
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millionaire Walters VIII.

TowsoN, Md, Dec 4.--The will of the
late William Walters was fled here late
yesterday afternoon. The principal point
in the will is the disposal of the art gal
lery and its contents, The gallery and
works of art are left to his son and daugh-
ter, Harry w. Walters and Mrs. Jennie
Delano, with the request that it be kept
intact, and that the interest of one be sold
to the other. The estate is valued at all
the way from 50 900, ,OOOt TO 100000. With
the exception of several small bequests to
relatives, and $4,000 to the Maryland In
stitute of Instruction, the estate is left to
be divided between the son and daughter