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Read what a WaterviIIe Person saws
of DR.. j. /. Cowan.
WAr2RyILLE, Me-. Dec. 81, 1891.
DIR. CowAA Dear sir

WATERVILLE, ME-, Dec. 81, 1891.
DB. CowAs Dear sir:
About fourteen years ago | was
taken sick with what the doctors called in
tammation Of the spiue. | became so low that I
could not sit up long enough to have my bed
made. suffered so much and became so ner-
yous that | could not bear to see or talk to any
one, my sutferiugs were terrible | tried doctor
after doctor but could get no permanent help
Life was not worth living longed to die and be
through with my suffering.
was in the hospitals for nearly year and
had four surgical operations performed but got
no relief. | was completely discouraged after try
ing all the best doctors and g ting no relief
felt that | must be an invalid all my life. 1t was
"A terrible thought to think of suffering all
through life and to be of no account, only IA
burden.
When everything seemed the darkest | heard
of DIR. Cowan, of his wonderful cures and of his
ability 10 tell what the diseases were. | wished
II possible o find out what my trouble was aud
thought that if he would only tell me that it
would be something If he did me no benefit.
went to DR.. Cowan, found out what my trouble
was, received treatment and to-day know what
il is 70 be free from aches or pains. Before see
ing DIR. Cowan could not cat anything with
out terrible distress. Now can eat anything
without having any distress, sleep all night,
have not known what it was to have night
sleep before for years.
feal that | cannot say enough in praise Of
what you have done FOR me. feel that | owe
my life to you.
II this letter will do you ally good you may
use it as you see fit II any one doubts the
LN Just write F. NJ.
Waterviile, Me, or call.
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BOARDERS !

am now prepared to take boarders. |
will furnish good rooms and good board
at low price. Iw'2
O. f. MORSE, 81 East Front St,
Skowhegan, Maine.
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Fred c. Dow is visiting in Boston,
this week.
X. w. Haines has been absent in Bos-
ton, for week on business trip.
Special sale on crockery at NJ. b. Hesel-
toms Friday, Saturday and Monday
MI. Fred Ii. White of Boston is visit
ing among friends in town this week.
The invitations have been sent out for
hop at the Heselton, Monday night.
Parties having spruce wool for sale
should consult with the Richards Paper
Co. in this place at once. They want
300 cords.
w. f. Robbins goes to New York city,
on Saturday next, to take an advanced
course in optics. Mr. Robbins gradual
ed from Bucklin's School of Optics in
that city in 1888.
Walter Pierce, who was in the cleo
trio car accident Sunday evening, has
been confined to his bed since that time,
and suffers considerably from what is
feared may be some internal injury.
The preliminary meeting of the Upper
kennebec Explorers, took place at the
Heselton, last evening, the date of the
banquet is Feb. 9th, aud it promises to
surpass anything yet given by the EX.
plorers.
Alexander Pope of Boston, the noted
artist, has been at Fairview Farm the
present week, painting "A picture of the
handsome trotting stallion Mahlon, for
John +. Spauldng of Boston, IA part
owner of the animal. The picture is to
be hung. when completed, in the United
States Hotel, Boston, where Mr.. Spauld-
ing has long made his home.
The concert given by the Musical Arts
Club of Lewiston. in Coburn hall. Mon
day evening last, under the auspices of
Russell Post, G.. \. X. was of high
order throughout. The members of
the Club, Otto Scheda, vioinist, Gerald
b. Whitman, cellist, Geo. W. Horne,
tenor, Miss Louise Marie Callahan, read
er, and Miss Angie Starbird, aecompa-
mist, were new TO SkoWhegan people,
with the exception of Mr.. Horne who
has already become great favorite with
our music loving citizens. They made Il
most favorable impression, each prov
ing himself or herself an artist of high
rank in their particular line of work
The program was made up of selections
which would please the most fastidious
and give pleasure to all. The audience,
though apprecative, was not what it
should have been as 10 numbers and I'M
fortunately the Post did not realize cx-
penses. Good concerts are So rare
among the list of entertainments for
each year here that it is greatly To be
regretted that when such one is given
so few, comparatively, avail themselves
of the opportunity of attending.
All our souvenir china to close at "A
discount of 33 l-3 per cent. Now is the
time to buy. NJ b. UESElToN
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HORSE OWNERS
ATTENTION !!

am prepared to handle green colts
and break them to harness at the low
price of $500 per week. My experience
in this line Of work and the good success
attending my labors should, at the low
price have quoted. leave no exeu,e for
owners to place their colts in the hands
of parties unfamiliar with this business.
perhaps to have them permanently spoil
ed.
L6B will also clip horses
with American Machine for
SI.5o each until further notice.
NORRIS CLEVELAND.
Head OF Madison Ave, Skowhegan. Me.
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TOWN and VICINITY

Mrs. S. r. Nye has removed to Nor
wood, Mass.
Mrs. w. II. Cannot of Augusta was in
town Monday.
Mr.. S. F. Malbon of Boston arrived in
town Tuesday evening.
Quite little thaw Monday but hardly
January thaw.
Jas. d. Partridge, after a vacation in
town of some weeks, returned to Fort
Fairfield yesterday.
Mr.. Frank Adams of Blackwell z. O.,
Madison, was in town attending the
grange meeting, Tuesday.
Prof. Granville wager of bingham,
Mass, occupied the Congregational
pulpit last Sunday and will also preach
there next Sunday.
A few of the famous Century War
Books left at the REPORTER office Call
and look one over. Favorable rates
given on them to our subscribers.
c. NJ. Barnard would now be pleased
to welcome his friends at No. :. Madison
Ave, and glad to have them avail them
selves of the many bargains in footwear
his firm is offering.
Messes. Maher and Brooks, Assessors
of the city of Augusta, We're here Mon
day trying to find evidence to enable
them to bring action against our town
for the support of Mrs. Jewell who has
fallen into distress in that city.
Tie annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National Bank was
held Tuesday and the board of directors
reelected as follows: James b. Das-
comb Ed. p. Page, Geo. y. Page,
Charles f. Mcclellan, \. II. Wyman.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the second national bank was
held Tuesday, and the board of directors
was reelected as follows: Il. b. Shep-
herd, james Fellows, j. \. Colby, John
Weston and j. r. Mcclellan. Gen.
Shepherd was reelected as President
and Mr.. Fellows as cashier.
Mr.. Chas. NJ. Barnard, foreman of the
cutting room of the Bloomfield Shoe CO.,
for the past two years, severed his con
nection with the company last night, to
engage in the shoe business at No I
Madison Ave, in company with Chas.
Gardner. The several employees who
have served under Mr.. Barnard made
this an occasion of showing 10 some de-
gree the good fellowship prevailing oe-
tween them, and presented him with IA
beautiful solid gold chain, upon his re-
tirement.
At meeting of the Somerset Bar and
Law Library Association held Tuesday,
the committee appointed for that pur.
pose reported code of rules and regula-
tions to govern that body and they were
adopted. The REPORTER was in error
in stating that o. K. Bachelor was
chosen president of the association by
reason of being the oldest attorney in
the county. He is not the oldest. He
presided at the meetings by reason of
being the oldest member of Somerset
Bar present. The Association has no
permanent presiding officer. The oldest
member present presides ut meetings in
accordance with statute provisions.
----~ So
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FOUND.
purse containing sum of money which
the owner can have by calling at Fuller's Drug
Store, proving property and paying for this
advertisement.
1w2t W. q. LORD.
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East CoRDvILLE, Dec. llth, 1894
DIR. J. l.. CoWAN, Skowhegan, Maine.
Dear sir:
Seeing your advertisement in the
Hyde Park paper reminded me of my old
trouble and sickness which you treated me for
over year ago and thinking it might be inter
estng to some one in like condition, thought |
would send you statement hoping to induce
some others to try yOul method of treatment
Although paid you your full fees | feel | am
greatly indebted to you for the good health |
now ENJOY. Several years ago was taken with
severe case OF nervous prostration, suffering
only as those that have Lad such troubles can
tell, severe paines in the head, neck, back and
extreme mental depression. For nine wears |
lived in this condition rarely ever being able to
go out door Seeing one of your circulars of 1893
and influence of friends who had been benefited
by your treatment induced me to try them, !
took no medicine but under your treatment |
began to improve at once and at the end OF
three weeks could walk oat every day. con.
tinutd to improve until | was practically well
ana have been so ever since. | thought this
might influence some TO try your treatments and
get assistance as did You may publish this il
you care to. My address will be Putnam. Pa.
after jan. 10Th, 1885.
Yours especially,
Mrs. JOSEPH l.. ALnUCKs,
East Cordville, Mass.
BRAGG, 81 Pleasant St,
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DR.. j. l.. COWAN
WILL RE AT


PREBLE HOUSE, Portland, Thursday, Jam 10th.
PARK HOTEL, Hartland, Friday, IAN nth
ST. ALBANS, Saturday, Jan. eth.
NEWPORT HOEEL, Newport, Monday, Jan. 18th.
BLETIIEN HOUSE, Dover, Jan. 18th and 10th.
HOTEL, BURNIIAM, Jan. 18th.
HOTEL, CLINTON, IAN 18TH
SAWYER HOUSE, South Norrdgewock, Jan. 10Th.
SANDY RIVER HOUSE, New Sharon, Ian 10th.
HOTEL, MERCER, Jan. 2Ist.
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East CoRDyILLE, Dec, llth, 1894
l.. CoWAN, Skowhegan, Maine.
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Job Printing.

The Job Printing Establishment connected
with the SOMERSET REPORTER is prepared to
do all classes OF work, the richest as we'll as the
most common Jobs Competent and expert
enced workmen are employed and large
stock OF paper, envelopes, advertising, we'd
Orders of dances, bills of fare, programs etc,
ETC.. printed in great variety of styles ON short
notice. Commercial printing a speciality
Orders by mail will receive careful attention
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truth Of tins ask them to write or call and see
me. May God ever bless you for what YOU
have done for me.
Gratefully yours,
+. Nj. BRAGG.
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A White Sewing Machine.
w. Fl. Will DIES
FOR SALE !!

The Stock and Fixtures in
the Millinery and Fancy
Goods Store for many years
occupied by Mrs. B. r. Flagg
corner Of Madison Avenue
and Russell Street, will be
sold at good bargain.
Mrs. FIaeg's serious illness
makes this course necessary.
Inquire on premises Of
N b. x. FLAGG.
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Buy Christmas
Presents that
are Useful.
We suggest some of the following. of
which our stock contains a
large assortment.

Christmas lIandkerchefs, Towels and Linens, Stamp
ed Goods, Umbrellas Ties, Ribbon for Fancy Work, Gro
ehe and Embroidery Wash Silk Black Dress Goods Novel
y Dress Goods, Black and Fancy Silks, Coaks, Furs,
shaws Wrappers, Blankets Puts. Quilts. etc. OF
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DR.. Warmers Coraliue corsets. S3c :;
health corsets, $l.05 pair.
NJ. b. HESELTON.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

If-W. Fl. Ward.
Wanted--M. ]. Allen.
For Sale-R. b. Flagg.
Visit-Bixby g. Buck.
Notice-W. w. hayden.
Boarders-O f. Morse.
Dates-Dr. J. L. Cowan.
For Sale-Nathanel Hall.
Cream Balm-R. r. Patten.
Shoe Sale-Palmer Shoe Co.
Sacrifice Sale-L. J. Lyons.
Special SALEM. b. Heselton.
Inlaid Spoons-W. f, Robbins.
Legislative Notice-W. S. Cotton.
Damaged Blankets w. P. Ordway.
Foreclosure Notice.. w. Rockwell
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Crate of Shaw's plates just opened.
Friday, saturday and Monday we will
sell 5s ut &c, 6s at lie, Is at &c each, IS at
75c per doz., soup plates at &c each.
NJ. B. HESELToN.
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TEACHING POINTS.

INrRoDUcTIoN.-The courage of our Captain is
conspicuous in this lesson. He is fearless against
the bgots. He breaks the Pharsaic Sabbath that
he may rightly keep the true Sabbath. Yet his
courage is not so conspicuous rs his compassion.
a. Wis. To exclusively theorize as to the
of evil or its final continuance destruction,
would be to follow the example of the Disciples
Did this man sin or his PARENTS? To use our en-
dowment of Divine power for the destruction of evil
is to follow the example of the Master.
a. V. 81. Physical blindness is a calamity
from the realizing thought of which we shrink. But
it is no worse than mental spiritual blindness.
Jesus knew that the Pharisees were more blind
than the man he sent to the pool of Siloam-The
mental eyes can see that the earth is globe.-The
spiritual eyes see 'llim who is invisible"
81 Won. The historical fact of the cure of
the born blind is allegory of spiritual fact.
In like manner Jesus is the Revealer of the Inner
Light.-The blind mans faith was tested by his
works. The restored blind man was the first con-
essor of Christ. He testified to what he knew the
fact of his experience to the opposers of Jesus
stubborn, and for the cause of Jesus powerful
10 be cast out OF the synagogue for testifying to
the truth is honor to the victim and to the truth
a benefit
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Raleigh's life is record of undertak.
ings begun in enthusiasm, maintained
imperfectly and failures in the end.
Among his other adventures he had sent
a colony to Virginia. He had imagined,
or had been led by others to believe,
that there was an Indian court thers,
brilliant as Montezuma's, an enlight-
ened nation crying to be admitted with
in the charmed circle of Gloriana's SUBJ
jects. His princes and princesses proved
things of air or mere Indian savages,
and of Raleigh there remains nothing in
Varginia save the name of the city
which is called after him. The starving
survivors of his settlement on the Roam
oke river were taken on board by
brakes returning squadron and carried
home to England, where they all arrived
safely, to the glory of God, as our pious
ancestors said and-meant in unconven-
tional sincerity. on July %. 1885,
F'roude, IN Longmdn's Magazine.
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FATHERS OF GREAT MEN.

The father of Samuel Pepys was a
tailor.
Shakespeare father was wool mer
chant.
The Emperor. Diocletian was the son
of slave.
Lncoln's father was poor farmer and
laborer.
Cardinal Antonelli's father was an
italian bandit.
The father of Adrian, the ascetic pom
tiff, was beggar.
The father of Martin Luther was a
peasant and woodman.
Virgi's father was porter, and for
many years slave.
Demosthenes was the son of sword
maker and blacksmith,
The father of Sir Robert Peel, the
British statesman, was day laborer
The Roman emperor. Macmillan was
the son of a common soldier.
Franklin was the son of soap boiler,
and was himself printer.
Daniel Webster was the son of far
mer in very humble circumstances.
Harvey, who discovered the circula-
tion of the blood, was farmers boy.
Christopher Columbus was the son of
weaver. and himself learned that
trade.
John Calvin was the son of cooper,
and helped his father in this humble
calling.
Sophocles, the Greek poet, was the son
of blacksmith whose wife had been a
slave.
The father Of Thomas Paine was a
corset maker. and taught his son the
same trade.
Faraday's father was blacksmith,
and disapproved of his sons experiments
with chemicals.
Theirs, the historian of the French
revolution and afterwards president Of
Frar c.. was the son of lock member.
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A HOUSE WITH A ROMANCE.

On tongue Of wooded land formed by
the Glebe and Goldsborough creeks in
Talbot county, there is a house with
romantic story. When, in 1861, Wen
lock Christison the Quaker was seized
by Puritan mob headed by the Rev.
Seaborn Cotton, tried, and condemned
by Gov. Endicott to die, pardoned by
the King, and let off with tlogging at
the carts tail on the highway, he found
sanctuary in Maryland, where Lord
Baltimore granted him asylum on the
tongue of land that cools itself in the
pleasant waters of st. Michael's river
Miles they call it now. Here the in
domitable Quaker abode and prospered,
wearing his hat in the presence of COVER
nors and magistrates, and tesifying for
"the Truth and the Light" without fear
of clubs or cart-tails. Those easy going
Eastern shoremen actually made him
burgess, and he and his descendants
long dwelt in peace in the old brick
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manor house, of which fragment still

manor house, of which fragment still
survives.
In time, by lapse of heirs, the place fell
to the possession of Richard France. the
famous lottery king of Maryland, who
built the turreted villa there, and
adorned the grounds with fountains and
winding walks, conservatories and gar
den gods, to the ELUSIVE wonder and
admiration OF the natives. But Mary
land, taking up scruples, set her face
against lotteries, and France for time
coquetted with Delaware, until Delaware
in like manner turned prudish; and the
last we hear of the lottery king" is that
he had died in debtors prison.
Then the garden gods fell on their
faces, and thorns sprang up and choked
them, and all was desolation and respect
ability. Again the villa" waited not in
vain; one day the windows we're opened,
exposing all the CHASTITY gapes in their
panes, and strange man, untidy and
shock headed, pottered about in the
weedy. seedy garden, grim and churl-
ish recluse. But negro curiosity, once
sharply piqued. is persistent and pene-
tratipg. and forthwith Ethiopia began
to gossip about the strange man, how
that he was blacksmith from Connec-
ticut, and an oracle in local political
clubs, one to whom big Six was
spell to conjure with. And presently
the disheveled interloper was joined by
a bearded and venerable companion,
with head like pear, who lurked and
waited behind the close gates :and the
screen OF shrubbsry. Then furtive
yacht, at night in st. Michael's river,
took the bearded mystery abroad, AMI
was off to the bay and the sea; and tie
police, who went poking about the place
day or two later, looked foolish al
asked one another insane conundrun
about the cunning fitting of Boss
Tweed.-Selected.
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into action the mans latent faith and hope.
Through faith and hope the Omnipotent
Spirit could, as in many another instance,
find a channel for marvellous restoration.
Who can measure or conceive the power
of Spirit over matter? The cure Of nat
ural blindness is sublimely difficult work.
But to the wondrous vivifying touch of
the Spirit it cannot be an impossible work.
3. The Cured Blind Man a Wit
ness to Jesus,-vs. S-II.
The surprise of the neighbors, and their
query whether the man were the same per-
son,-suggesting how great change must
have been wrought in his personal appear
ance when the dead orbs in his eye-sockets
were succeeded by cleaning and seeing
eye-balls; the CONSERVATION of the enemies
of Jesus that such wonder.work should
be wrought, and their vain endeavor to
prove it false; the testimony of the restored
blind mans parents, and the straightfor-
ward testimony of the man himself, who
could not be involved in any theorizings
in regard to Christ, but declared what he
knew,-that he was blind, that now he
~Ouii oSS, otuOOOih 1uNt tuC CiACHliSo VI
Jesus found so hard to meet; the increas-
ing anger of the enemies of Jesus until they
thrust the restored blind man out of their
synagogue,-all this is graphically told in
the record.
This blind man was the first one to suf-
fer for confessing Jesus. He heads the
innumerable army of confessors through
the ages. His being cast out of the syna-
gogue was to him a very serious matter.
1t was no doubt, the lesser excommunica-
ton of thirty days which might be length
ened and become permanent, if the victim
remained obdurate, or might be shortened
by contrition. at shut a person utterly
from the synagogue" said Geikie, "for
even if he entered it he was reckoned as
not present; no mourning for the dead and
no rite of circumcision could take place in
his house and no one but his wife or child
could come within four cubits (six feet of
him."
But what small price to pay for seeing
eyes! What Joy for such an object of
Christ's grace to even suffer as witness
for Christ
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Sir Walter Raleigh.

Of all the famous Elizabethans Sir
Walter Raleigh is the most Economically
interesting. His splendid and varied
gifts, his checkered fortunes and his
cruel end will embalm his memory in
English history. But Raleigh's great
accomplishments promised more than
they performed. His hand was in every
thing, but of work successfully complet-
ed he had less to show than others far
his interiors, to whom fortune had Of
fered fewer opportunities. He was
engaged in hundred schemes at once
and in every one of them was always
some faint OF self, some personal am
bition or private object to be gained.
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LESSON SERIES FOR 1895.
FIRST QUARTER.
February "a, 1895.
JOHN g: III.
INTRODUCTION.

Many portions of the Fourth Gospel
are so intensely realistic in their details as
to demonstrate their own authenticity,
whoever put them on record, and which,
it seems to me, could have been written
only by one personally convorsant with
them, and some of them by an old man.
| ask attention to the case of the man born
blind. never knew in actual life more
real, genuine character than his. He is
said to have been street beggar, and well
known. What sort of person would
blind beggar be in one of our quiet, sta
tionary, not over-crowded towns or cities?
He would be treated good-naturedly, but
not respectfully. The street eamins would
chaff him and make fun of him; and many
older persons, especially when they put
their small coins into his wallet, would dis
charge at him their harmless volleys of
coarse wit. His own wit would be sharp.
ened by theirs. He would give as he re-
ceived. He would in ever such encoun-
ter be quick in appropriate rejoinder. He
would be no respecter of persons, but
would have ready answer, and that al
most always smart repartee, for whatever
was said to him, by gentle or simple. Now
this blind man is just such person. He
has not had the use of his eyes long enough
to stand in awe of the Pharisees. They
cannot get around him. He chaffs them
numerically. Divest his language of the
stilted form of our translation, and we
have precisely the way in which such
man would talk now. 81 know nothing
about his being sinner; that is no con-
Germ of mine. But there is one thing do
know,-I was blind, and have got my
eye-sight." They return to the charge, and
he answers, "I'vc told you the whole story
once, and you wouldn't believe it. What
do you mean by wanting me to go over it
again? Are you going to be his disci-
ples!D Then again; and his reply, when
they say, "We know not whence he is,
has very sharp sting, -"It's something
very strange, isn't it, that somebody you
don't know about should make me see ?"
They find they can do nothing with him,
and therefore set the example so faithfully
followed by Christian Pharisees of later
date, of communicating the man who
will not yield to them. The man is painted
to the life. He must have told the story
himself, what the Pharsees said to him and
what he said to them; and it is manifestly
rehearsed in the Fourth Gospel by one
who enjoyed it, who was greatly amused
by it at the time, and took pleasure in re-
calling it years and years afterward.-
From "IuteyuaI Tokens IF AntAorShtb in
the Fourth Gospel" BY Req. DR.. Il. p.
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