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The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
Shakespeare wrote "pative a,

Shakespeare wrote native and to
the manner born" ITO the manor
born" is believed to be an American
innovation, There is not single editor
of Shakespeare who admits that read
ing, but there is wide belief in it,
absolutely ungrounded.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
A GREAT SURPRISE is IN STORE

for those who will go to- day and get package
of GRAINO. 1t takes the place of coffee at
about Il the cost. 1t is a food drink, full of
health. and can be given to the children as
well the adult with great benefit. 1t is
made of pure grains and looks and lasts like
the finest grades of Mocha or Java coffee. 1t
satisfies everyone. A cap of Grain-O is better
for the system than a tonic because its benefit
is permanent. What coffee breaks down
Grain-O builds up. Ask your grocer for Grain
o. l5c. and 25c.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
TRY ALIENS FooT-EAsE.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At
this season your feet swollen and hot, and get
tired easily. II you have smarting feet or tight
shoes, try Aliens Foot Ease. 1t cools the feet
and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents
swollen and sweating feet, blsters aud callous
spots. Relieves corns and bunions OF all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it to- day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores for csc. Trial
package FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmstead,
lie Roy, N. Y.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
Her Way of Remembering.

Maria, | am ready to start down
town now. Didn't you say there was
something you wanted me to remember
particularly to bring home with me this
evening""
Eyes.
"Well, what is it,
How can l tell until have looked
over the advertising columns of the pa
per" Chicago Tribune.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26

Berry's Root Beer, the newest and
coolest drink, it will quench thirst, at
SIMPSONS, corner druggist.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
:. NOS SOMERSET TRACTION CO.
NO. 9.
Change of Time commencing Monday, June 2ls+

s45 l045 LOO 400 400
49, 915 Ills 100, 230,
94 l1.45 200, 800, 500, ZOO,
A. NJ. 9No
A 23O, 40, 630
ZOO,
In addition leave WATER for
M. 300.
irons
Nane
JAM, andS
NJ Lands 80
M, and ~
the 0Oand7O % DAM car e
Carfu ishedf for Trolley ,Picncs,
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
For Sale.

Cottage House of seven
rooms at East Madison, to-
gether with stable and car
riage house and two acres OF
land. Would exchange tor
property in Skowhegan viii
lage. Also a desirable farm
with good buildings. This
place is situated in a good
neighborhood with good
schools and has nice water in
house and barn. Apply to
MCCLELLAN & SAVAGE.
Milburn Block,
SIX owhegan, Maine
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26

Imported Bay Rum, ID cents a bottle,
glass stoppered, at SIMPSONS, corner
druggist.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
Somerset Railway.
CHANGE OF TIME,
commencing June 2lst, 1897.

Trains Will run as follows, connecting at OAK.
and with Maine Central Railroad Trains to and
from Boston, Portland, Lewiston, WaterviIle
Augusta, Gardiner, Bath Skowhegan and Ban.
yor.
For Boston, Portland, Lewiston, wateryille.
AnRnata SkoMhaRan and Bangor
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
IIaiDG Central Institute,
pITrsFIELD, MAINE.

Six courses of study for both sexes.
Full board of experienced teachers Care
full preparation for college. Graduates OF
the scientific course admitted to the Uni
versity of Maine on certificate of the prin-
cipal. Thorough normal course. Mod
ern methods in all branches. Expenses
moderate.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
Fall Term Begins Sept. G, 1897.

Among the many who have spoken I'M
solicited words of praise for Maine Cen
trail institute we quote few as follows =
"Of all the causes which Pittsfield has for
congratulation, none equals this institution
of learning where education in its highest
sense is taught" HON. LLEwELLYN POWERS
Gov. OF Maine.
II have come to have q great interest in
Maine Central Institutute as one OF the very
best schools in the state" PRES A. w HAR-
RIs, Univ rsity OF Maine
ITO any young man or woman desiring TO
obtain an education where the expenses are
moderate and the moral atmosphere healthy
! can recommend Maine Central Institute.
G. c. CHASE, Pres. Bates College.
For catalogues and information address
the principal, 5w31
o. H. DRAKE, A. M. Pittsfeld, Me.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
nRAnE snORT.IORNs

Cow -four years old and upwards)-E.
A. Hilton, Arson, first.
Cow (three years old)-J. V. Fletcher,
Arson, first; E. Hilton, Arson, second
Cow 1.-TWO years old)-E. Hilton.
Cow Tone year old)-J. " Fletcher,
first.
Albra Adams of Madison, received the
following premiums: Chester Whites
Boar of any age, first and second; SOW of
any age, first and second; SOW with litter
of pigs, second. Yorkshire or Chester
Boar of any age, second; SOW of any age,
second
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26

Twenty-Five. Twenty-Five.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26

Cow -four years old and upwards l-E.
Hilton, first; G. Hilton, second.
Heifer (three years old)-E. Hilton,
first
Heifer two years old)-E. Hilton,
first; +. A. Hilton, second.
Heifer Zone year old)-E. Hilton first;
c. Hilton, second.
Heifer calf-C. Hilton, first.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
JACKSONVILLE MUCH BENEFIT.
ED BY SANITATIM.

It was with excellent reason hat the
recently wrote most satisfyingly of the
improved health record of it's city.
1t is indeed a striking exhibit, and is
an object lesson for other towns and
cities. 1t has grown very much in the
last five or six years-45 per cent. In
1895 it's population was $50. In 1894,
it had COG deaths and in 1896, 655. But
it's ratio has steadily fallen as it's pop
ulation increased. In 1894, the ratio
of deaths to the 1000 inhabitants was
1858, and last year 1913. It's showing for
1897, promises we'll for a still lower
rate of mortality. Now how has the
death rate fallen there-what cause or
causes did it? The Times-Union says:
1.-THE immense decrease in the num-
Der of deaths is not without a cause.
The cause is the improved sanitary
condition of h city. During the last
two a the water mains and the
sewers have been extended over double
their former area. Thousands have
been supplied with ~ water, and
other thousands now 1ire On lots drain
ed by sewers who two years g were
without sewers or artesian water"
The white death rate, exclusive of
nOn-residents, is not more than Is per
cent. 1t was more before the improved
sanitatiOn-the water and the sew
ers. 1t says, and it is worth thinking
over that "among the benefits tina the
issue of bonds conferred on the city
We must count the saving Of between
ESQ n 300 ives per annum Who can
such a benefit in money!"
Good. pure. unpoluted, imprisoned
drinking water is an absolute essential.
Nothing will kill so soon as bad water.
1t is far worse than impure air. 1t kills
quicker. An excellent confederate vet
a a man of sincere piety, told us
recently, that after the fighting at
Hill he was so overcome and
famished for water he drank out Of an
old spring with a barrel attachment. 1t
came very near killing him-made him
extremely sick for weeks. He has to
this day v recovered from that one
trial of poisoned water. A family in
New Jersey a few years ago moved to
a home with a well. 1t had not been
cleaned out perhaps in years. They
drank of the water and nearly every
member died from it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
Why Children Should Not Know II They
Are Clever.

Are Glover.
The Church Standard wakes indig-
nant and severe over the common prac-
tice of repeating in a child's presence
his alleged smart sayings, and warns
admiring relatives who indulge in this,
to them. agreeable occupation of the
serious consequences that are likely to
follow.
AS a matter Of fact, then, when these
smart sayings" are looked at dispas-
sionateiy most of them are found to
be nothing but stupid blunders, just
such blunders as a child with its as yet
undeveloped powers would be expected
to make. OF course there are a few
prodigies in the world, but they are not
always unmixed blessings. There is
but n Mr.. Gladstone, and-to put it
mildly-he has made some very serious
mistakes.
But let us suppose that a child has
said something very clever, what must
be the result Of repeating that saying
to somebody else while the child is by?
1t can only minister to vanity n self
conceit, and of all utterly disgusting and
uncomfortable creatures on Gods earth
a conceited child is the most disgusting
and most uncomfortable. Not only does
this vicious habit make children un-
pleasant, but it sows in their hearts
seeds which will grow and bear in after
years the bitter fruits Of disappoint-
ment.
Parents and aunts and uncles who in
dulge in this habit are-thoughtlessly
perhaps, but none the less really-cor-
rupting their children's morals with
pride, vanity, and -brazenness, and also
are cruelty wronging them by leading
them to i've in a FOOLS paradise, the
dispelling Of which will give them keen
pain and modification.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
THE COTTON CROP AND MILLS,

The size of the coming cotton crop is
being guessed at daily. 1t was billed
Tor 10,0 600. 900 bales by the guessers.
Now it is put at a lower figure. Mr..
Hester, OF the New Orleans cotton ex-
change, has recently published in
south The crop of 1896 is given at
8,757,957 bales. It's money value was
$s21, 81, 1874. In six years the biggest
crop was that Of 1894, given at {, 1901, 251-
only a little short Of the coveted TO-
100000. It's money value was 1896, $685.
712. He is silent as to the crop Of this
year. which is discreet. Up north they
guess at it every day or so. It is about
certain hat it will not reach 10, GOO, 900,
and may not be as much as 5000, 900.
And yet Texas alone is Dragging now
Of its 5000, 900 bales for the year. If 1t
keeps up to z or ~ cents in case a very
large crop should be produced, it will
make the more money for the farmer.
But would not a 10, 900. 900 bale crop
make the price fall?
Mr. Hester gives the tables Of con-
sumption of cotton in the two sections.
The Messenger recently noted his state
ment on the same tables. In 1896 the
north consumed 1904, $50 bales and the
south 904, 701, or nearly half as much.
Only eight 2 ago the north used
1,799,25 S bales, and the south SAG, 1874,
OP moro than fhroa RI ono for tho
north The south is forging rapidly
ahead in cotton milling. The ratio in
favor of this section as compared with
the north grows. In 1890 it was Is to 5,
and now last year but IS to 10. MI.
Hester gives this years consumption,
but we do no see how he arrives at his
figures. He gives the north 1904, $50
bales and the south 1,042,671. He gives
the south 414 mills, 81, 137 looms, 3,419
spindles. He credits North Carolina
with 161 mills, 2 1896 looms, 9O4, III
spindles. South Carolina leads largely
in looms with 80, JAG, and in spindles
with 1908, 1874. Georgia is third in mills
and spindles, but next to North Car
olina's 10. ALI the other states are
much behind the two Carolinas. There
are several mills to be constructed or
in course of construction now in this
state. May their number increase!
Bring the mills to the cotton fields.
Wilmington should have as many cot
ton mills as Charlotte. Why not?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
(EldOrado (Kan.) Republican.)


No man who lives on meat was ever
known to lick his wife or ask for a di-
voce Adam got into a row, right off,
because he had no hog meat, butter or
black bass. Napoleon lost Waterloo
because the allied forces had bacon for
breakfast the morning of the fight.
The French had vegetable soup. The
south had to give in at Appomattox be-
cause it was out of neat. No war can
be successfully waged without hog
meat.
Americans are the most frisky people
on earth becase they eat the most hog
meat.
ingalls, would have gone back to the
senate had he not lived on oatmeal,
baked apples and blind robins.
A vegetable diet woman is as cold and
clammy and ENJOYABLE as a turnip. If
you wish to put roses in the cheeks of
our girls, vitality in their every mo-
ton and brains in their heads, feed
them meat.
If you want your boy to get a job and
hold it, go to the front and amount to
something. give him bacon grease, ham
fat or tallow three times a day.
The world is full of cranks who are
always getting up some new fad about
hay soup or corn fodder tea.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

Now trebly laundering shook the gale
And Butler was the cry;
With dying hand above his cap.
He shook his finger with a snap.
And shouted I Am a 'goner.'"
Sentimental n tragical! Buffers
dying effort to ave himself from COM
plete political wreckage Is one of the
interesting events in this off-year of
decayed party leaders and decapitated
demagogues. His attempt to damage
the fine character OF Major Wilson will
only recoil upon his own exposed rep
utation. The flung boomerang will hit
his own pate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
J)NAHS qDJRD VINE GREW Up N A

It a taken years for Wilmington's
Big Racket Store to become firmly
rooted in the hearts Of the people. But
it is there. and there to stay. We have
always so conducted u large dry
goods business that the people who
knew us had confidence in our goods
and prices. We sell the best values
and always at bottom prices.
We sell in the dry goods department.
on the first floor, on your left as you
enter the front door, silks of all prices
nice black Silks, eros Grains, Taffeta,
Black Satin, Colored Satin, China
Silks, Drapery Silks and Silkalines.
Black and Colored Satin from Csc to
$1.25 per yard.
In Dress Goods we rave a very large
assortment. We bought from Mr.. Nc
Intire all of his stock of Dress Goods,
SO that we can afford to sell much
under the price, as I bought his stock
for the spot cash at a discount, n l
can afford to sell them for less than his
first cost. We IA all prices in Black
Goods from 10c, 12kc, 18c, zoe, Csc;
"A inches wide at 35c, 45c and soc; so
inches wide at 75c, soc, s1.OO, $1.25. We
have the Gold Medal Brand, every
piece warranted by the company not to
change it's color. We sell all grades Of
OISdlOlSS, La" AlS, oAdiiACo,
that we are trying to sell regardless Of
cost. We do not feel able to pack up
the goods and carry them over to next
season. A good Lawn at 4c; it is the
best cloth for the money you ever saw.
Shallies 1t &c. White Cross-Bar Lawn
at 3kc.
On the same side lower down, in
our store, you can find Wash Goods
White Goods, Duck, Piques, Cretons.
We can please the most fastidious as
to quality and prices.
We have TABLE LINEN in large
quantity. We sell it, so inches wide,
bleached, at Csc; Turkey Red, 60 inches
wide, warranted fast colors, at 25c;
remnants from / to 2 yards in Turkey
Red Table Linen at Ice a yard; bet
ter, bleached and unbleached Table
Linen, 60 to " inches wide, from 35c
to slips. Doylies from Csc to $500 a
dozen.
LACE CURTAINS-we carry a large
variety. We sell them from SOC to $500
a pair.
On the same floor we carry Corsets-
everything in the Corset line, from
21c, Csc, 39c, SOC, Csc, 75c, $1.OO and $1.25
a pair, and IL you need a pair Of Cor
sets at any price, see OURS. We sell
Warmers, H. & p, and r & G., Globe,
Kabo, and several other brands.
We carry Shoes on one side Of our
store, which is 112 feet long, from the
c ling to the floor, about 5000 pair,
and sell them cheaper than regular
dealers, mt can cut the price, as we
have other things to help to pay ex-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

We judge that in Indiana there is no
little intolerance and much race preju-
dice. Reports from a place called Ell
wood reveals a rather unhappy state of
things. It is to the effect that the
whites have resolved that 1.-The brother
in black shall have no abiding place
among them. In consequence of his
determination all the negroes there
have been ordered to pull up and away,
and at once. For many years., it is said,
this dislike of the negro has been DOM
inant. Recently fifty new negroes ar
rived and this stirred up the whites
with the result given. Sambo must
pack and &c. This is in a northern
state mind you, and not in the sunny
south where the negroes are so o
fully oppressed according to northern
lying newspapers. The Atlanta. Jour-
nal we'll moralises. 1t says:
eff in any southern town sue a
state of affairs should develop we can
imagine what a howl would go up
from the press and ne professional
philanthropists of Ne England.
ElWOOO is nelther Il the south nor
are its people of southern blood or ex-
tractin. 1t is prbable that many of
them went to Indiana from New Eng
land, and land where love for the ne
gro is a ruling passion-so long as the
negro is somewhere else.
Negroes are numerous in every city
and town in the south. Nobody at
tempts to expel them. 1t does not ap-
pear that the negroes in Elwood have
been guilty of crime or disorder"
There are a great many huge beams
in the northern eye. Pull 'em out.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

It is amusing to see northerners talk
ing of the southern accent" An edu-
ter a car and easily pick out every
northern man by his "twang'' or
"brogue." Fact. Provincialisms abound
in all countries. We heard a scholar
ly Cambridge ~(England) graduate say
that the educated southerner spoke
English with less popularity Of accent
than any northern men he had met and
he had lived ten years in the north.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
SHARPS AND FLATS.

The wheat supply for the world is
even less han it was thought to be a
month ago. The crop outlook is o
encouraging and the deficiency in
bread supply is great. A crisis will not
be a surprise according to the highest
English authority, the Mark Lane Ex-
press. It closes an article with these
words:
Cali the figures point, therefore, to a
deficiency in the worlds supply of A.
900, 900 quarters. Should the demand
be actually as large as this, the stores
of old wheat will be used up, and a
crisis of great seriousness will only
be prevented by generally good pros
poets for the spring of 1898. We are
not, however, entitled to argue that
such prospects will be more than the
average"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

cnses Baby Shoes from 19(
a pair. Misses Shoes from $50
a pair. Ladies' Shoes from SOD
a pair. Mems Shoes from 9Oc {
pair. We can do you right
and price. Our Shoes are al
goods. We sell good goods or I
In Watches we car s-ll you
Nickel-Finish Watch at $1.35
nice Watch and keeps good tim
Tetiow's Face Powders from
25c, and with each package we
nice painted picture, 5k by 8
free. All styles Of Cologne and
articles.
We have a big line OF UmbN
from 4Oc to $3.50 each. Walking G
from 10c to SOC each.
Look at our large windows and
the prices we have n the goods
display.
We will ride up on our electric eleS
vator and look over our second floor,
which is so by 112 feet. and you can
find the largest and best selected stock
of MILLINERY RIBBONS. the best
assortment in the state. from 1c to
$1.00 per yard. Also Feathers, Flowers,
Tips, Plumes, Aigrettes, Ladies' and
Children's Hats, Baby Caps and Bibs.
Tam O'Shanter Caps, both felt and
wool, lawn and luck. Hats, trimmed.
from soc to $1.0o and up to $1.50. $500,
$2.25, $500 and $500. If you need any
Millinery, we have 1t. and can please
you If you can give ours a look.
On the same floor we carry a stock
of Gents and Boys CLOTHINNG We
have just received a big portion OF our
nice new Fall Suits we bought before
the Tariff Bill went into effect, and can
sell them as close as we ever did. w
nave Suits, all wool. nice goods, good
fall and winter weight, at $3.50 a suit;
all wool at $500 a suit; fine fall Plaids
and stylish colors for young men, up to
date in every respect. at $3.50. 800,
$3.50, $500 and up to $12. SO a suit. We
style and quality. and over-match and
under-sell as to quantity and price. We
sell all styles OF Boys Clothing, Mems
and Boys Hats and Caps, Mems,
Ladies' and Children's Underwear, all
grades and styles.
We may ride on the elevator to the
third floor, which is SO by 112 feet, and
on that floor you car find our Whole
sale DRY GOODS Department
Bleaching. Domestic Goods OF all kinds.
Trunks in large numbers, from SOC TO
$3.50 each; Window Shades from 12hc
to SOC, Carpets, MattinEs. Rugs. Blan-
kets, Quilts, Oil Cloths. Chairs. Tables.
and almost anything in the house fur
nishing line.
We want your trade. We are no
Jonah gourd vine. We do business in
( an UP to date style, and ask you to
give US a call, at liz North Front
street, or!'c: lite The Crton notei.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

What is in a name? From London
comes the intelligence that the luke
night in a cell and are brought up be-
fore a magistrate for BOARD bills. I'M
pecunious and titled. The duke is from
South America and the duchess is a
niece of ex-United States Senator Con-
ger. She is handsome and thirty and
she had been weeping bitterly. He was
a dapper man with waxed m~oustache
and empty pocket.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

Ayers Hair Vigor tanes up the weak
tissues which supply the hair with nu-
triton, strengthens the hair itself, and
adds the oil which keeps the shafts
soft, lustrous and silky. The most
popular and valuable toilet prepara-
ton i'm the world.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
Bucklen's Arnlca Salvo

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all kin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles, or NJ
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refund
ed. Price Is cents per bottle. For sale
by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

President Andrews insists upon re-
signing. That is right after the at
tempt to throttle him. We hope he
will wipe the dust from his feet and
turn his back upon Brown university
and its gang.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

There is nothing to prevent anyone
concocting a mixture and calling it
"sarsapariIla." n there it nothing to
prevent anyone spending good money
testing the stuff; but prudent people,
who wish to be sure Of their remedy.
get cured.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

In Boston when carriages or vehicles
approach to cross the street, the cleo
trio cars stop at once. When a person
is to cross the track a policeman ac-
companies and the cars check up That
is safety. In New York many deaths
and injuries have occurred at cross
ingS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

John Bull through Prime Minister
Salisbury bows to the will OF the tsar
and yields the point c%ontended for as
to control Of Greek revenues, by a COM
mission. composed Of six Great Powers.
Poor Greece is almost wiped out. In
this way Turkey is to get indemnity.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
merous. Two more cases reported and
one hanging by l%ynching.

There is grim death on the trail of
the unwise rushers to the Klondyke
trap. Take warning in time. Bewar
Of the many and great perils of Klon-
dyke.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
HOME FOLKS.

Mr.. D. ". Mclean announces in The
Gibson Vidette that he has assumed
entire editorial charge Of hat new
candidate for support. Mr.. c. D.
Koonce r~etires. Our best wishes for
both and good patronage for the vi
dette.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

The first thing a town should look after
is good drinking water: next. a thor
ough sewage; third. good streets
fourth, a number one hote.; then lights
school houses.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14

The great abuses and cruelties prac-
ticed upon the convicts in Georgia are a
press. Are there any well-founded
complaints of the kind in North Car
DINA, past or present? If SO were they
right?