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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
HIS VIGILANCE REWARDED.
The Story of n Man Who Was Prepared
For Foot pads.

There Is Il man i'll Buena Park who
has always been afraid of being robbed
BY footpads. A few weeks ago he decided
that he would prepare himself 10 defend
his property and person if attacked. So
he purchased IA revolver-nut an ordi-
nary revolver, but long barreled cue,
the sort the cowboys carry out VT.
For several nights he carried the gun,
and the assurance with which he walked
no doubt frightened the footpads. for
they left him unmolested. He was
pleased with the sense Of security he felt
from the humping of tFis weapon
against his leg, and his fears were quiet
ed until one night not long ago
The sidewalks were slippery, and be
was picking his way along toward his
home, when man bumped against him.
The offender was profuse i'll his apollo
gies as he struggled to regain his foot
hold.
1t was purely accidental, l assure
you. sir, y SAID he. Certainly, certain
ly," replied the Buena Park man, mo
harm done, y and they separated.
A moment later he felt for his watch,
it was gone. Then he felt for his gun /;
it was safe, and its size and weight gave
him courage He turned and started on
the run i'll the direction the man had
taken, and before he had gone "a blol k
overlook him. He grabbed him by the
collar with bis left hand, and, sticking
the pistol in his face, commanded him
to give up the watch.
"All right, all right; don't shoot, y
said the trembling man, as he handed
out watch. and, breaking away, ran
down the street as fast as his legs would
carry him.
"Ill teach you footpads a thing or
two, shouted the Buena Park man, hut
there was no response, and putting tie
watch i'll his pocket he started toward
home. At each step he grew more and
more indignant at the state of society
that permitted such criminals as pick
pockets and footpads. and when be
reached home he WAS very angry.
"What makes you look so ferocious?"
were his wife's first words.
Been held up; fellow took my
watch, but | got it back again, he said.
"What are you talking about: You
left your watch at home this morning, =
said she as she took from his pocket the
watch that belonged to the other man.
The Buena Park man is still adyer-
Using for the owner Of that watch. =
Chicago Times Herald
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
PROBATE NOTICES.



T A COURT OF PROBATE held a. skow-
Y hogan. within and :or The comfy 81 som
erset' eh me %. TUESDAY or tEb. IN tse year
- ',9 l''l I'M. -t'.t IN nanafed ana
ul4elt * thtl"llo"'us business hasihs oeen
p igI ~rt4t.n pr, peftsI;ef
aat4ee tber.of hf ,tg ., III ,,s,so,t. -
ed. ,hatthee Inavaupeqr A. a Probate cont To
be holden AZ 40 = ko,yheyan At the prot.ate
OEca on the Qnd Tr-psD4y of N4p nert
at nine o. the clock in the forenoon. and be
heard thereon and object Il they see cause.
CIT, . ,, .3,
cea.ea w presenteG for praf19e 5y Eati-
" Moore the txec1trix named therein.
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,1eeeasrd vii nret1rts5 "a, nrohste nv
NApa1eon z Turner Jr me ever4tor named
therein.
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ed WI r're@ented lar nrob,fe ~ Islvin
Eigelow the executor nam = n inerein
-. 80, ,... .-.z.. 4,
iei d. 'iaI - ave 'i an II leased.
And arartw i Gilman a. svfea.o,s 3s9nsd
therein.
1T; t,... t-. - f4.zz. \
ceased, WI presented fo- proi-4te, 80 ne
titiop for M .ppoiut1. eut of Ivaf4 = EaYn-
ton aamlnIstratrix with the W5II annexed
Charles +. Mcclellan. late Of Skowhegap.
deceased Petition for the appointfneut of
torre, q GOODWIN administrator presented by
htieu a. 9a1ool" c' az "ei'a'
Helen l. Mcclellan. late q ska# aegaus de-
ceased. Petition for tie appointment ef Ed
ward r. Dantorth, Admr. WITH The will an
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
THE BUTTERFLY.
How the GorGco Beauty bursts From
His Ccly Outer Shell.

How the Goreco Beauty bursts From
His CGly Outer She'll.
Last summer | noticed milkweed
caterpillar travelling across the piazza
floor, evidently in search of his final
shelter. We secured him temporarily
under tumbler, but there, to our sur
prise, he proceeded to spin his little
web and hang himself head downward
from the bottom Of the covering glass
III such wise that in the course of two
days we saw the whole process of change,
even to the splitting of the caterpillar
skin and the final wriggle from it that
changed him into the most exquisite
transparent, nile green chrysalls, but
toned with gold. Toward the end of two
gradually we saw from under it the
thorax, antcnnp head, wings and alb
dominal rings in perfect coloring of
black and red. One fine morning he
burst this outer she'll of sin and Matched
himself" not "a cherubin, but IA
more tangible aerial creature, though
not able to float off at once, as perhaps
bSt0 cDtIuUIu 40 MOI. NJ. IlS w IllES
We're only as big as. dime pieces. And
still the wonder grew rs we watch, Il
them grow and unfold under our eyes
III breathleSs amazement, and one at
least III reverence and awe. 1t seemed
such definite change from death into
life. 1t was not so difficult then to i'm
agine soul freed from Its mortal en-
velope since this marvel could be done
The little creature, after expanding
to its full size, became very seeiablc,
liking to be held on the finger, and after
l had once unrolled his Inohoseis with a
pin and guided it TO drop of sugared
water quickly learned To find his food
and sucked up a drcp lin no time .
After few days he floated out of a
carelessly opened window, and l was
glad and sympathized, for |, too, longed
to try my wings beyond four walls
Milkweed caterpillars are common
enough (Danais Archippus, | believe,
but cannot verify) and it is "A most
charming and exciting experiment, es-
pecially for an invalid, to uy.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
Likeness of English and Americans.

As respects character, the British and
American publics are strikingly sne
The tone of popular sentiment is much
the same. The attitude toward ques.
tions of general human interest is often
identical Political ideals are, at bot
tom, not so unlike as superficial obsery-
ers fancy Party spirit manifests itself
i'll very similar fashion. Both are sensi.
tive, though in slightly varying degrees
TO the same appeals. The same national
spirit animates both, showing itself i'll
quite characteristic fashion when the
Jealousy of one is aroused against the
other. Indeed it is in their mutual rival
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
TAKE CARE OF THE CHEST.
And the Rest of the Body VIII Take Care
of Itself.

"Take care of your chest, " says Il
physical culture teacher, land the rest
of your body will take care of itself
The chest is the chief thing to be remem-
bered. Keep it we'll raised and your head,
spine and shoulders will involuntarily
assume their proper positions without
any effort ON your part. The cry from
parents and teachers used to be, Throw
your shoulders back = But this mistaken
notion is noW completely exploded. TIL
shoulders have nothing to do with cor
rect posture. 1t is all the chest, and its
elevation or depression will regulate the
rest of the body The chest is the seat
of all things spiritual, elevated and en-
nobling. Bring it into prominence and
you bring into prominence the best
qualities of your nature.
ut has been said that whatever psy-
Geological attribute is most marked in
a human being Is correSpondingly most
marked III his physical being. If he 5
glutton, his stomach is most in cyl
dence; if scholar or brain worker, his
head is sure to be thrust we'll forward :;
but If he preserves proper intellectual
balance he walks with his chest in ad-
vance of the rest of his body.
at is curious, too, how one may
really influence his own mental condi-
ton III this way. Just try and see how
impossible it is to say, ooh, how happy
| am with sunken chest and spent
breath. One involuntarily lifts his chest
and takes IA good long breath when he
says anything optimistic and brave, for
if he doesn't he might just AS we'll say
Have mercy On US miserable sinners.
The effect is the same. There is no surer
cure for the blues or like maladies
than merely lifting the chest and taking
good long breath. 1t scares away all
the bugaboos of pessimism. New York
Sun.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
Curious Insurance.

A curious form of life insurance is
springing up in French manufacturing
towns under the name Of La Fourmi
(the anti. The popularity is that the
longer man lives the less he becomes
entitled to- The payment of 81 month
assures the payment Of 1000 to the
heirs Of man dying before the age Of
38, the payment diminishing proper
tionately IL $40 at 81. The idea seems
to be that il man dies young his chill
dren are h1ley to be in want, but that
when he Is 20 they will be able to earn
their living.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
Whnt started the Fight.

A Philadelphia man was arrested on a
warrant, charged with assault and bat.
terry on his wife, and was taken to the
central station for a hearing. His wife,
ON her oath, said he beat her so badly
that she was detained in bed two days.
When Magistrate South asked him why
he had beaten his wife, the prisoner
said, well, judge, you see, l opened
the door and threw my hat inside to see
if it would BIZ welcomed, and when she
threw it out | was so mad that l went
inside and licked her !"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
Fretful. rs UsnnI.

When the frightful dynamite explo.
sion at Rofaeo shook the earth and all
tine buildings within 80 mile. tremhled
10 Their foundations, the sleeping com
iuuter rollGd over in his Auburn pan k
ted.
How many times" he mumblcd,
do yor think you re entitled to collect
a passengers fare on your old mi
train? You punched my ticket half AN
hour ago !"--Chicago Tribune.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27

ries and jealousies that their spiritual
kinship is often most manifest. Their
diversity is superficial and provincial;
their unity fundamental and racial.
The American who can divest himself
of proyiucialism in England and the
Englshmau who can lay aside his in
sularity in America each finds himself
at home. Edward Nj. Chapman in
Canturt
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
Learning the Lesson.

Hubby-When l first got married, I
determined to have no large items of
expense in housekeeping. but find aft
or all that it is the little things that
count.
Batch-How many have you?
Hubby-I have four Detroit Free
Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27

Tottia Gagged D-I wonder why babies
is always born IN the night time.
Lottie Gagged s. little ser)-Don't
you know: It's COS they wants to make
quite sure Of findin their mothers at
home. -Philadelphia American.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27

The heavens themselves, the planners,
and this center, observe degree, priority
and place, insisture, course, proportion,
season, form, Office and custom, and all
in line of arder -Shakespeare.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27

WANTED-A reliable lady o gentleman to
distribute samples and make house-to house
canvass for our Vegetable Toilet Soaps. sac
to A75 month easily made. Address Crofts X
Reed, $50 to $50 Austin Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-27
It's Soap,
~ All Soap.

Welcome Soap is abso-
lutcly free from excess of
aIkali, corrosive, and e.o-r
authorizations: that is why it
is superior to any other soap.
The morning times., 1896-12-13

Picker bill? We do not mean the bill
for the electric sailing of Massachusetts,
goldfish, but the original Picker bill, of Mr..
Pickler, of the northernrnost part of South
Dakota? =" Pears to Us, Mr.. Speaker,
that that subtreasury bill was strangled
very saNageiy py plutocraLS like you. sir,
and others who have been 'downtrodding'
us masses ever since the law was passed
that money could not be raised on field
crops in bonded warehouses. There are
only sixteen Of us in the present House, but
we propose to deadlock the state of the
nation and throw away the key Till the
parity between potatoes and pelf Is es-
tablished without international consent"
Do you recognize this extract from the
Congressional Record?
And perhaps another week will be wasted
before the North Pole is taken up where
DR.. Nanscn left it. Where is the bill for
the extension of the Monroe doctrine to
circumpoiar Improvements, as per Illus
tration at the top Of the page?
INAUGURAL BALL DRESS REFORM.
And what again is this we hear of the
Bill to Regulate Inaugural Ball Costumes
for the District of Columbia and the Gen.
eral Amelioration OF the Depraved- Classes.
1t will be generally conceded, as they
say in election time, thatJhereIs some war
rant for the general complaint of visit
ing Popocratic allies against the use OF
condensed milk and unsoaked Maryland bis
cults They have appealed to+the milk in
spector and the Treasury Tnacerator (as to
the bIscuitS) in yain and we are not sur
orisad to learn that one OF the first bulls
to be introduced will be one to prohibit
The use of fraudulent or canned Jersey milk
in The hotels and priya5e boarding houses
OF South washington. Also for the exam
ination of filled cheeSes ard butter inn
ported from HyattsvIle and Baltimore. -
We also commend to the good Judgment
of the people of the District the admirable
bill to be introduced by Mr. Tompkins Of
wv ashington Hospital for Conta gious Dis
eases" Mr. Tor'nkins has we'll stated in
the rubric Of his bill, as il were that what
the people OF the District really need is a
hospital for the cure of contagious diseases.
he reads the title, ought to be abolished
and il not abolished, ''burned down fl
dern >tIpfs IN c,oId WIN the
Tomp kins Alateria Mediea.
We are also in favcr OF Mr. Thistle
downs bill to establish an annex to the
Botanical Garden for the propagation OF
down is from the district OF Mr.. Morton
Secretary of Agriculture, but there is
nothing of a personal nature in his bill
tis not, as might be reaso onably supposed
an entering wedge For the adjustment
turc. Mr. Morton and Mr.. Lrhistledo WI
have been friends from their respective
youths.
u Il
The morning times., 1896-12-13

1t may not be necessary, but at the same
time 1t is germane 10 this bill OF particu-
lars TO state that the genre picture in the
center of this page is the chairman OF the
CrabberaSs Committee OF the House TO
regulate such parts of the universe as
have escaped the presumed careful at
tentiOn OF the Creator He is a seer OF
things anil dreamer Of dreams.
He is that hot member of the body
who thumpS himself on the chest when
his thumb and index finger are not en-
gagged in pulling his Brother Jonathan
goatee, and says 10 the admiring gallery.
II em one Of the sixteen who have sur
yiyed the wreck OF the Watson Butler
Limited
REMEDIAL LEGISLATION.
These have undertaken to rectify the
abuses of the nation without any com
pensation except their eonsurnptive SIS, 600
per annuIn and they have already laid the
rails on the track 70 wreck the south
Bound Canton express, and to purify the
local atmosphere of morals and OF art
Washington is therefore to be congratu-
lated hat it is the only town in the country
which comes under the jurisdiction Of this
particular town council
For all this, ..oyeyer, we do not believe
that anything is to be gained fIor the
Investigations of the new Congressional
Committee on the hall Of sculptures III the
Core Oran Art Gallery. We think. for in
stance, that Venus a the Faith would look
slightly bizarre, to say the least, if, : is
contemplated, she is forced TO wear a
GainSbGI oJgh hat, a shirt waist de nous
selaine and tan shoes. The OSturne Is Tot
historic, TO matter what the CON mittee
may say, and, furthermore, is il likely that
Venus would have worn her GaInsUoroueh
and-Gstrich tips i'll the act of either com
ing out OF or going into the natatOrium?
We also disagree with the epigra mmatic
but hi gbly inaFtistic suggestion O. the com
Inittee that Love and Life would look
better with the back end CT The picture
to The front end of the spectators" :" This
is not the transcsndental language OF the
arr school. even II some elderly ladies a gree
with the scntimeLG- -~A-s~
The morning times., 1896-12-13

Speak king seriously, we would say that
the UrtAI merit oriuuS uI an me bills ala
future is the one for the relief of one
u.rsI hmphN, NJ N"f l'tihi'l'i"i
disabled by the landslide in the Steenth
district of brooklyn.
1t is generally understt od in that city
that Mike got much less than he deserved,
and that il Will cost more to hang him up
for TWO wears than 30 pension him with
some Stuff-producing job, regardless OF a
cIvtl Serlte examination. Mi, Murphy
will probably stay, or stop, as they say
in BTC OSiyn, at the Arlington untl he
Is fixed and reimbursed for the II onpy
Furnished him for expenses during the
red-lIot canvass OF his bailwick in his
individual interest
This viii probably be one Of the first
cases taken up 10y the Democratic steer
ing committee this session, lnasmuch as
it is reDurred that Mr.. Murphy has pRb-
hcly said in Brooklyn that unless some
> thing Ice done Tor nIn ne woGiu DC ohnetd
10 sell his SHIRT stud and bull pup, and uL on
such sacrifices as these the gallery gods
themselves throw incense 4 sentiment
slightly modified from the original In
King Lear" There isnothing exaggerated
or set q own in malice in our pictorial pre-
sentiment of Mr.. Murphy.
A FIRST TERMER.
He has been introduced more specifically
O. act as the complimentary color OF our
Old Iuend lImutny, WHO, when wei cut
and cured. -aakasthe typical Hayseed. This
IS his first term in Congress. He was eject
Ell against the combined efforts Of the
Whisky Y and Free Lumber Ring Of Northern
Maine and largely through the influence
OF the Ladies' Home Missionary Society
for the Prevention Of Round Dances i'll the
Island OF New Guinea.
We prnPhesy that Hayseed will be heard
from before Christmas with a supplement-
ary blOomer bill or one to stay the spread
OF American cOrsets or other pulmonary
. complaints among the ladies OF the FIN
lsiGTdS
and why has nothing been heard yet Of
the petition Of the citizens OF Northwest
eER ATkansaw, who have been separated
The morning times., 1896-12-13

for years by Squeehassett Creek, for
Memorial Bridge over rthatturbulentstream
Does Hon. Longchamps Shortcrops wish
to die and be buried in Congressional Gene
terry before he reintroduces that bill, or
allow the calamity howlers about more
revenue. or Mr.. Mills to take the Senate
enmaSse into Pinar del Rio before he dem
onstrates the universally of the national
usufruct in that Squeehasset Memorial
Bridge? 1t is time, forsooth, that Short
crops is catching the Speakers eye, or
making reasonable terms with the Bill
Clerk of the House.
SQUEEHASSET MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
1t may be incidentally Y remarked that the
local parties on the hither and the thither
side of Squeehasset Creek have never met
hand-to- hand in deadly conflict. The dead
have been buried on either shore where
they fell. They died for their country and
The morning times., 1896-12-13

But all OF the legislation OF the session
is evidently not to be for the sole use ard
behoof OF John Locke's modern ideal re-
public. 1t may be as necessary at the
next election to provide some means If
support for the man who introduced the
bill in the House to abolish the bar, and
which was carried over the protest of
the whole Kentucky delegation, as it was
to provide for one Michael Murphy.
There is one feature of this abolition
measure which need be taken cogniZance
of here, and that is the historical. 1t is
now reasonable certainty that as soon
as the ColdStream Guards of the Senate
have also passed the bill prohibiting Off
cial tippling, the governors and eX-gov-
ernors of North and South Carolina IN she
House and Senate will no longer regard
the interval between drinks as bowling
success as a practical joke.
The morning times., 1896-12-13

the Bells Cross Roads postoffice, and yet
Longchampsi is slumbering tue Greater part
of the day nd cultivating taste for olives
and musty ale the great majority OF his
nights.
and it strikes US that there has already
been wasted much valuable time by 10th
houses of Congress, while men who get up
with the English sparro W ,and to w HON the
odor of mint julep on the morning hour is
the very abomination OF desolation, have
bills of insistent Importance to Launch, ac-
companed by the lurid and lunar oaustic
defiance of the titled members from New
York and Nantucket.
If we remember aright 1t was Hayseed
the Second who introduced during the last
session OF Congress the hill to constitute
the winter cabbage as the national flower
of the greatest country Oh tsie green gods
earth.
OUR NATIONAL FLOWER.
This hereditary hayseed's argument in
favor of the cauiiflower as n compromise
measure was one of the finest 9th yrambs
we haye ever listened to In state OF
protracted coma There are still grave
apprehensionS on the part of the golden
rod and American beauty cabals OF the
House that it may fall to the lot OF the
Bald Eagle of the Sierras 20 grasp the
national caulirlower in his talons, While
he shriekS the death-knell of this Agri-
cultural Republic.
And, thirdly, what has become OF the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Worsted mats can be washed without
fading by using salt in the water.
If piece of camphor gum is placed
in the drawer where are kept dress
waists that are trimmed with steel it
will prevent the steel from furnishing.
The Wedgwood pottery has taken on
a new form. In addition to the familiar
blues it now appears in a sage green
that is eminently cool looking and suited
to summer decoration.
Potatoes baked in their skins should
have a piece cut off the ends to allow
the steam to escape. This assures their
coming out dry and mealy. They should
never be placed on the table in their
skins.
The oilcloth on kitchen floor is fire.
quent source of perpleXity, yet there Is
Il simple way of keeping it clean and
bright. Go over it twice a week with
flannel wet in warm water. Then
wipe the floor perfectly dry and after
ward rub it well with skim milk.
A mixture of cloth. pumice stone and
common soda well pounded and passed
through a sieve, then made into a paste
with water. is excellent for removing
stains from marble. 1t should be rubbed
over the marble, left for a few hours,