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The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME.
Where tho Aged and Infirm are Cared
for-NIother Anrelia Speaks
OF Her Charges.
iEcon "a PtopLdence. z. 1, J0NrnaI

from the Providence, IL. L., JOurndl.)
Somewhat removed rom the city Of Prov
ideues, on the main higI way to PaWtucket,
stands that magnificent Charitable institu-
tom known as the Home Tor the Aged of the
Little sisters of the Poo Here a com
pany Of sweet faced and -. fl voiced Sisters
care for the old and tn intirm who are
unable to care for themselves.
Mother Aurelia presiles over this we'll
known institution, and with her associates
ministers to the wants OF over two hundred
old people, women and men. An important
feature Of the Hone Is a wei appointed
pharmacy in charse Of one Of the sisters.
Their chief remedy is good old Pain Killer,
which most Of the old fnIks used when they
were children and which now cures the pains
and aches incidental to theirdrclining wears
As e to be expected the aged inmates Of
the Home are IN constant need Of medical
attention, although, SO carefully are they
tended, few are rarely siek enough to be in
the hospital wing at any one time. But all
of them are subject to the many disabilities
of old age, and so Pain-kilie has come
to be a remedy Of almost daily use
Mother Aurelia SAYS that pain-killcr has
quite superseded the drugs and prescriptions
for use among the old people. When the
limbs twitch with rhenmatism the tair
sister in charge of the pharmacy gives them
a massage with pure Pain-kilier. When
the old men and old women suffer from
their many stomach troubles, little PAIN
Killer with water and SUGAR offers certain
and quick relief When the venerable
heads are raelyed with pain, Pain-k Ter is
again put Ia service promptly The old
people love il and roy upon it. They tes-
tifv thar ITS Use externally is quick y nltica-
cjous. aud internally, is anaccomplnled by
any after i'll III, re which, ut their age,
must never be rished.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
CarratIIul[.

The men are beginning to come out of
the woods tor good.
Oscar Clark and Charles Fcss are haul.
ing pulp from MoOre's boy to the river.
Mrs. Clark is on the gain we are glad
to learn.
Miss Ilittie Baker who has been the
guest of Miss Mary Clark, returned to
her home in Bingham Saturday, Miss
Clark accompanied her,
Albert Webster was in town Satur-
day.
j. A. Rice of Scion was in town one
day last week on business.
Mr.. Baker of Bingham and a gentleman
from The Forks took pleasure trip to
the pond recently.
The young people of The Forks and
Carratunk had sociable at D. II.
Williams, Saturday evening. A good
number were present and good time
enjoyed. 8 &
Eugene Clark passed through town
Sunday.
Florence Williams and Mrs. Nellie
Merrill were visiting at Vie Williams,
Friday.
W -. NlOult W. Ill lpMIl lIlt MS w
the month
Miss Cora Martin has gone to Halo
well, where she intends to spend the
summer with Mrs. Carrie Lanigan.
Lewis Martin is getting ice and fitting
up the shop he has rented of Robert
Berry, where he intends to set up in
business.
Ernest Sterling and Frank Roberge
are out of the camp to-day, they are
waiting patiently for the time when they
will come out for good.
Frank Roberge came very near getting
killed Saturday, but he is all right now
for he said he ran part of the way out
Tuesday.
John Williams and wife were in town
Sunday
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
Fairfield.

DR.. Farnham ia thinking of taking
some special courses in medicine and
surgery at some of the large colleges,
aid will leave about the middle of this
month.
Mrs. Geo. II. Pishon died at her home
at Pishon's Ferry Monday forenoon.
Mrs. Pishon had been an invalid for
some time and the death of her son last
year. was shock from which she never
recovered. Funeral Wednesday after
noon
The temperance meeting Sunday night
was, AS WAS expected it would be, a
success. The Baptist church was filled
ST. that extra seats were brought in.
The following ladies made very interest
ing remarks, NrS. Houghton, Mrs. Jewett
OF Mechanic Falls, Mrs. Pepperof Water
vile and Miss Millitt, the evangelist who
is conducting the meetings at the NJ. +.
church.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
So. NOrridgcWock,

1t seems that the most popular thing
in town now is the new tangled cold.
nearly everyone has il or has been Il VIC
tim aud il th"v haven't the chances are
strong hat they will he given Il benefit
of it later ON.
quite an excitement was created last
Saturday by the burning Of "A small
smoke house owned by Nm. Bracket
and located back of his bindings near
his woodshed. Had it not been seen un-
I'll few minutes later The buildings
most likely would have burned. When
we were among the small kids and
had good old deacon rs our SUNDAY
school teacher We always hated story
with IA moral. but in this ease the story
of Clinton, fire might do Us good even
if distasteful. We Ike Clinton, al 80
have a baud tub that might he quite an
effective weapon in subduing a fire. 1t
stands unprotected, exposed to the
rains and SHOWS of the season, on the
banks of the mill stream frozen up, and
in case a fire should get started here |
hardly think we could do as well as
Clinton in getting it thawed out and in
working oroer, rs it only took them two
hours. Let everybody make nobodv's
cannot have the benefit of what little
protection we do own.
Mrs. f. A. Spaulding contemplates a
visit to her parents in Altoona, Penn.
soon.
Rev. {, NJ. Emery has resigned as
pastor of the Baptist church to take
effect June LIST. Mr. Emery has been
here for a long time and will be much
missed by his congregation.
Last Sunday the infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Lassore died from the effects
or the prevailing disease.
J. O. Smith of the REPORTER was in
town Tuesday.
DIR. F. G.. Danforth has some very
pretty Easter lilies in his green honse for
the Easter trade. w.
THAR vii be PoVurty Suppur and
Soshurbul at Ehin Miller's liawl, Tews-
day mite March 10, and we want yew awl
tew kun. The times air hard an we
don't want tew inkurrdge no foolish
spending ov munney, so evry wommun
who kumz must wair kaleker gown &
apurn or sumthin ekwaly suitabul and
awl men must wair THAR ole cloz & fan
nil shurtz. Emmy man who is rich enuf
tew WAR billed shurt & stand up dekie
must pay ten SCENTS which we meme shall
go towards helpin poor folks out ov
debt, q eVry wommun who wars emmy
iuelry eksept breast pin must pay wun
sent. Furthermore, in order tew dis
kurrige the vanertiz ov dres a priz vii
be give tew the man & likewize tew the
wommun who wars the poorest cloze.
THAR vii be redin, speakin and singin
We charge levun SCENTS fur the vittleZ &
entertainment.
B. L. Frederic has sold his team to S.
b. Tibbetts.
Twenty. one of our Young people at
tended social at Snithfeld, Monday
evening,
Mrs. S B. Tibbetts is visiting her par
ents in Augusta this week.
B. M. Frederic has bought the house
formerly occupied by F. A. Carleton on
Maine ST.
Miss Dora Cleveland has sold her house
on Waterville street to H. K. Sawyer.
Mrs. Geo. Gilman and daughter have
gone to Pennington to spend few weeks.
Mrs. Beard is moving into the house
formerly occupied by the late Selden
Wade on Wade street.
DIR. Ames has raised his blocks on Me-
chanic street and will put in a granite
foundation which makes great improve
ment on the place.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
Canaan,

The new curtain and scenery has arriv-
ed for our town hall and already put in,
which looks very nice indeed. With our
walls frcseoed aud the new footlights,
our little hall will be one to be proud Of
The farce. comedy Tom Cobb or For
tunes toy is being gotten up by the
dramatic club, which they will present
soon, the proceeds to GO for the scenery
already procured.
Mrs. G. d. Harris who went to Pitts.
field, two weeks ago called there by the
illness of Mr.. w. L. Chase, returned last
Sunday.
Miss Mabellc Smith is real sick.
Mrs. Il. II. Harris, Mrs. A. Mason and
Miss NoraJewel took trip to Fairfield,
Tuesday.
Earl Bean is attending school at Gin
ton village.
Alpheus Mason is able to be about
again.
II. l.. Corson was in town for our
town meeting, Monday last
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
ISiI,leY.

John Bowdoin was drawn Juror Fri
day, to attend the ). j. court at Skow-
hogan this month.
f. l.. Briggs was reelected supervisor
of schools for the coming year. mt a
meeting of the school board last Satur-
day,
l.. H. Tibbetts who has been at work
for +. W. Hill of Exeter, for several years
past, will return to his farm in Ripley
the present spring.
John Jones is visiting his sisters and
other friends in Biddeford this week.
l.. S. Seavey is intending to build a
set of farm buildings at the head of the
pond the coming season.
We noticed the familiar face of VIM.
Hoyt at our town meeting last week.
Though resident of Exeter, Mr.. Hoyt is
pretty sure to be present at our annual
town meeting and his many friends are
glad to see him in his native town.
Quite number of our citizens attend
ed st. Adams town meeting Monday.
All taxes are to to paid into the treas
urer the coming year instead of being
collected by collector as formerly.
r.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
Blackwell.

Mr.. Gilman has moved onto the Nor
ton farm,
Mrs, Danforth was called to Fairfield
Friday on account of the sickness of Mr..
and Mrs. D. L Gray, both being sick with
La Grippe.
F. D. Salley went to Augusta Monday
on business concerning the division of the
town of Madison.
1t has often been said that Madison
people don't pull together in town affairs,
but it is very evident that they did in
school affairs whereby they voted sI2,-
600 school house to be built at Madison.
Tracy Gates has got home from the
woods, having been to work for H. Moore.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
Highland.

At the annual meeting money WAS
voted TO purchase seals for the school
house. our people are public spirited
and We congratulate them on the pro-
gress they are making in educational
matters.
4 VI. Adams, Esq, made his family
lying visit Saturday, he reports bushes,
good in the wood, where he is.
5. A. Nye is landing 10000 feet Of
spruce logs per day with ten horses on
a three mile road.
NJ. ). Howard has returned from the
Aroostook where he was called to visit
his father and mother, who were both
very sick.
Miss Olive Fish who has been attend
ing the Normal school at Pennington, is
spending IA vacation ut home.
Two weeks will c'osa most OF the lum-
boring operations in This section.
w. +. Wyman, the veteran who has
been confined 10 his room with rheuma
tism nearly all winter. is now able to
ride out.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
lIarOIle.

The Venturesome woodchuck is on
deck.
Mrs. Eunice Winslow is stopping at
her old home for short time.
Mrs. Libini Mason makes misstep
and falls, iniuring her hip quite severely
but is now better.
VIM. Paddock of No. Fairfield, had a
slight shock last Saturday, while at the
breakfast table.
Some of our local sportsmen recently
enjoyed coon hunt at which five coons
were bagged.
Leon Libby gets an accidental but
quite severe wound on the face from an
axe in the hands of IN elder brother
The little thirteen months old boy of
Peter Pooler, fell on the hot stove In
such manner that the whole side of his
face was very badly burned, from the
chin to the hair, and from the ear to the
eye, most severe barn, but the child is
doing we'll and will recover, the eve was
somewhat injured but is liable to recover.
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Mr Frank l.. Hight aud Master Karl

Mr Frank l.. Hight and Master Karl
of Cornville were in town Sunday.
1t is reported that new game warden
has been appointed in our vicinity,
Arthur Cross of Wellington.
Bert French of lIartland is visiting at
Martin Jones.
Miss Addie Hayden is ON the sick li-t.
Mira. Daniel Foss is very sick with
heart trouble.
e. :. Bean Wa- drawn Jnryman.
Mr.. Florence Foss, wife Of Ieuas
Foss Of King -barv, was brought Ia town
for burial Tuesday, March 5th., The
funeral took place at the church and WAS
conducted by Rev. Wilson Larmond,
tie bereayed husband, and relative, in
in New llam-hife Who could not attend
the funeral have the sympathy Of her
many ifmd-
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
CORRESPONDENCE.
Browns Corner.

Mr.. Darius Taylor of Norridgewock
visited his nephew, Mr.. John Drew, last
week.
Mrs. Marila Harmon spent II few days
last week with friends in Skowhegan.
Mrs. Maud Burrill of Waterville is
visiting relatives in town.
Elder John Friend held a meeting at
the city on Sunday. He left an appoint
ment for one at this place April II.
Mrs. Helen Burrill of North Hartland
who has been visiting relatives in South
Canaan and East Skowhegan for the
past three weeks, returned to her home
on Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Jewell has been in Pitts
field the past week helping her sister
Mrs. Carrie Rolfe, who is moving into
the village.
The social at l.. f. Barnes Saturday
evening was a pleasant occasion and
quite number were present
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
Brighton,

Oliver Davis of Wellington is at work
for j. G. Walker.
Albert Noble of Skowhegan was in
town Friday.
Mrs. Nellie futile and Mrs. Grace
Taylor of Skowhegan are visiting their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Jones.
Miss ARA Pike of Waterville is visit
ing friends in town.
Mr.. Leander Haskell came home out
of the woods last week with bad cut
in his foot.
Mr.. eye Coffin who has been stopping
at Wesserrunsett house the past few
months has returned to his home in
Lewiston.
Mr.. Elmer Downs of Harmony was in
town Monday.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14

Ira II. Randall and Frank l.. Weber
of Augusta were in town recently visit
ing lumber camps in this vicinity.
Clyde Holden of Jackman and Mrs. l..
c. Andrews of Bingham passed through
town, Monday, enroute for Bingham.
Manyl frenchmen, coming of out the
woods, have passed this week.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
Mr.. Joshua Vea.ey of Norridgewock, is
visiting in this vicinity.

B. F. Burns will soon be on the war
path with his wood machine. When
Frank comes around he makes business
lively in the way of saving wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Nj. Moore and daugh.
ter and Mr.. and Mrs. Z. O. Danforth,
attended the anniversary of the A. o.
L. ". at Madison "Wednesday evening.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14

Groder's Pine Pitch Salve-sGre cure
for piles, at II. w. Cushing's.
The Somerset reporter., 1895-03-14
$6la mi
STATE OLE MAINE.
Mo. 29S
Report of the Condition
OF
THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK
OF SKOWHEGAN

. OF SKOWHEGAN.
At Skowhegan, in the State OF Maine AT the close
OF business, March 9Th. 1895.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-07-10
Old Trees.

There is On interest in old trees
which seems to be neyer-failing topic
of discussion. The oldest tree or the
biggest tree in any country is sure to
have a reputation hardly eqnaled by
aay other local curiosity. Old peo-
pie, too, love to talk of these familiar
topics, and their children after them
repeat with pleasure the queer old sto:
ries and ideas about "the old trees"
which still live, while everyone else
grows old and drops away forgotten.
Here is practical argument to the
young of the present generation to
plant trees for oil futurity. They may
fall from the ranks of life at any time,
but the trees they planted bear their
names on for years with many a pre-
cious memory. And of all old trees
none are so fraught with "reminiscences
as old fruit trees. Everyone who has
planted fruit tree is benefactor,
and long after the planter has gone to
lis last rest and been forgotten, some
one, grateful for the fruits which be
enjoys, will ask, "Who planted that
old tree?"-Farmer's Voice.
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A NOypliSt'S Story.

Mr.. Frankfort Moore was for many
yenrs one of the leading journalists Of
Belfast, before he took the English
literary world by storm with his sue
cession OF brilliant books-so brill
iantly paradoxical in subject aud
pbrase-"I Forbid the Banns," ga
Gray Eye or So," and "One Fair
Daughter" His Journalists Note
Book is full Of good stories of his
experiences; but the other night he
told me one which has never yet seen
daylight on paper.
A slim, fair-haired young man, al
most boy, called on him and sent in
his card as Mr.. Archibald Clavoring
Gunter. Mr.. and Mrs. Moore hap
pened to be familiar with the huge,
turly, Max O'Rellish appearance of
the author OF "Mr. Barnes OF New
York." but they welcomed the visitor
none the less, though Mrs. Moore was
at pains not to leave them alone, for
she intuitively grasped what the
pseudo Gunter wanted. So things
went on till it was time for Mr.. Moore
to go to his office. The stranger fol-
lowed him there. OF course, he
wanted money, and when Mr.. Moore
suggested that the American Consu!
would be glad to assist SO distin-
guished fellow-couutryman, he ex-
planned that he and that functionary
had taken opposite sides in the Civil
War, so he was afraid he would have
to ask Mr.. Moore to lend it to him.
"Td be delighted to do so, my dear
fellow" said Mr.. Moore, with his
ready Irish wit, Us the Office boy ap.
peared in answer to his ring to show
the visitor out, "but the fact is, you
haven't told me who you are" He
pointed to print of the real Archi-
bald, but the stranger had fed.-Lon-
don Queen.
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dear nurse companion sayings in be-
wildered tones, "She cannot be here,
porter" Then the whole place spun
round, and I saw and heard no more.
It was long before / returned to my
work. Pneumonia set "a, and fol
weeks was too i'll to leave my he'd.
Tenderly was I nursed and much
was I praised for what they were
pleased to call my bravery. My pa
tient, I learned, had recovered and
was full of gratitude for his strange
rescue from IN untimely end. The
case of suspended animation" was
much talked of among the doctors, and
the medical men took it up with in
terest. "You saved his life, you
know" said the nurses to Inc, appnr-
emily to console me for my unpleas-
ant experiences; and the patlenthim-
self has told me the same thing o hun
dred times sincs that day, for I am
now his wife.-Strand Magazine.
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A Kind Voice.

There is no power of lovc so hard to
get and to keep as kind voice. A
kind hand is deaf and dumb. 1t may
be rough in flesh and blood, yet do
the work of n soft heart, and do it
with q soft touch. But there is no
one thing that love so much needs as n
sweet voice to tell what it means and
feels; and it is hard to got and keep
it in the right tone. One must start
in youth, and be on the watch night
and day, Mt work and at play, to get
aud keep a voice that shull speak at
all times the thoughts Of kind heart.
It is often in youth that one gets a
voice or tone that is sharp, and ii
sticks to him through life, and stirs
up i'll will and grief, and falls like a
drop of gall on the sweets of home.
Watch it day by day US II pearl OF
great price, for it will be worth more
to you in days to come than the best
pearl hid in the seas. A kind voice is
to the heart what light is to the eye.
1t is light that sings as we'll as
shines. -Elihu Burritt.
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,IanallCSa SllOHS.

The Japanese shop is like big and
highly ornamental box, with one side
knocked out-the side toward the
street. Especially valuable goods are
not exposed in the shops, but kept in
godowns or safe deposit vaults, to be
brought out when wanted, but in
most shops the whole stock can be
seen from the street. II the purchaser
is in hurry he simply sits down on
the edge of the floor, which projects
over the strcet-there is no sidewalk
and calls for what he wants. For
purchases of greater moment lie enters
the shop, squats cross-legsed, and is
treated to ten by the salesman.
Not only can ono see whatever goes
on in q Japanese shop, but even in n
home there is no privacy. If it is
night, and the sliding shutters of oiled
paper are drawn, the lamp light
throws strong shadows of the people
within on the Opaque shades, and
shows precisely what NIL are doing.
Some say that this lack of privacy ell
couragos in the japanese their polite
ways. They are always on their good
behavior. New York Recorder.
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ing general results :
194,028
53,9T3

During the period of nineteen
months, January, 1862, to July, 1868,
inclusive, over one million cases Of
wounds and disease were entered upon
the Confederate field reports, and
over four hundred thousand cases of
wounds upon the hospital reports.
The number OF cases of wounds and
diseases treated in the Confederate
field and general hospitals were, how
ever, greater during the following
twenty-five months, ending April,
1865. It is safe to affirm, therefore,
that more than 100000 cases of
wounds and diseases were cared for by
the officers of the medical corps Of the
Confederate army during the civil war
of 18G1-'65. The figure of course do
not indicate that the Confederacy had
in the field an army approaching
3,50O,000 On tho contrary the Con
federate forces engaged during the
war, 1861-1865, did not exceed 600, 600.
Each Confederate soldier was on on
average, disabled for greater or Lesser
period, by wounds and sickness, about
six times during the war.-GatOestor
We2LS.
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Daniel Webster Oh tho tsreat West.

Uanlcl NtDstcr OIL thc VIchL HcSt'
When We think OF the teeming popu-
lation which now fills many portions
of our country west of the Rocky
Mountains, and dremember how famous.
oil over the world, is their singular
beauty, and their Incompatible value
to the tourist, the health seeker, the
agricultnrist and the horticulturist,
as we'll as the miner, it is interesting
to read what SO intelligent states
man as Daniel Webster thought Of
them just fifty years ago, and to know
that his views were shared by many
other prominent public men of the
time. In a speech delivered in the
United States Senate in 1914, with re-
gard to the proposal that mail SER
vice should be established between
Missouri and the Pacific coast, Web
ster said:
"What do we want with this vast
worthless area, this region OF savages
and wild beasts, of deserts, Of shifting
sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cac-
tus and prairie dogs? To what use
could we ever hope to put these great
deserts, or these endless mountain
ranges, impenetrable. and covered to
their bases with eternal snow? What
can we ever hope to do with the west
ern coast, coast of three thousand
miles, rock. bound, cheerless and un-
inviting, with not harbor on it?
What use have we for such country !?
Mr.. President, I will never vote one
cent from the public treasury to place
the Pacific coast ono inch nearer Bos.
ton than it is to-day. ."-Scientifio
American
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Prudence is plug to prosperity.

Prudence is plug to prosperity.
An army is great monster with o
head, but no heart.
No man con be happy without shar-
ing it with somebody.
Cupid is physician who never
takes his own medicine.
A dead beat that is hatched from
laziness is of few days and full OF
trouble.
Some men will "bet you ten dol
lars" when they are at the end of their
argument.
The man who becomes successful
hypocrite has to work at it every day
in tie week.
Hate is two points with poison tips
one toward your enemy the other
toward yourself.
There is no place like home, and
that is why So many men spend their
evenings down town.
It takes some people whole life
time to find out that no dollar is big
enough to give On hours happiness.
There are two sides to every ques-
tion, top and bottom; and the man ou
tho bottom side is liable to be crushed.
As rule, women say almost every.
thing else of woman who is engaged
except that she is too young to marry.
Some people never want certain
things until they see others anxious
for them and then they want them
bad.
The man who falls in love with a
pretty face alone, gets over his disap.
pointment as soon as the pretty face
grows old.
One of the most important, but one
of the most difficult things for pow
erful mind, is to be its own master; o
pond may lie quiet in plain, but o
lake wants mountains to compass and
hold il in.