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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
WALL STREET AND EACHANGES.

The trustees OF the Atlantic Trust Company nave
unanimously determined for time to retain the
company's earnings In It's business. thus strengthen
ing It's actual position and surplus. They nave also
decided to take from the companys surplus a.oou'
and place in suspense TO meet the possioi'! Vi
losses about $4,000 This policy has already been
approved by a considerable number OF the argest
shareholders The company has just decIafed &"
dividend OF per cent our OF the earnings Tor tho
quarter ending December 81. payable January D 10
go on Do@cmbcr q and reopen January >. Inc
net earnings N the last quarter nave oeeh 49, -
IL vears since tho enlargement Of tho company
capital II has earned equa. 10 80 per cent IL h,S
rad dividends at the rate OF per cent year, ahu
Within this period and under the present mahase-
ment II has not made bad loan or lost COIN 1,.a
T'ba STATE Banking Department found the condition
- The company on September % last TO show sur
MUS o. assets over liabilities OF &iO.5'5
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
Sunrise % 43s Moon sets m 1903 Moons age
HIGH WATER TODAY.
Sandy Hook Island 1852 He'll Cato lo:45
u W-snndy Hook 9:l2 Gov Island O3l He'll Gate II "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
Announcements
Henry \. Daniels. NJ. D..

Henry y. Daniels, NJ. D..
so West DIST 81.
Of the Nervous system OF ali descriptions
impotence sterty and Ike ailments Hours TO l. to
Helm the helpless by remembering in some
substantial way that tomorrow Is Hospital Sunday"
T. q w Topeka" h. 4 w.
" A round end high banded collar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25

Usually the brokers on the New-York STOCK Elk
change have nigh old time the day oeioFe
Christmas Yesterday. however. passed without
demonstration OK any kind Tho only Ihc'oe"' o"'
@. the ordinary. In fact. was the appearance OF
u.,chau singer In the gallery Just before o'clock
Her nresence excited some attention from mo
brokers. The brokers sub.cr!bed %.ic for Chrs'-
ma. distribution among tho $40 employees OF the tx
change who received amounts acSo'u.hhs H. 1891 Sv
salaries and length OF service IN tnvY ,moen
Fxehangs there was game Of football ectW War
Ill 1'be hrokers presented 10. j. Van Cot. inc
wheat pt reporter purse OF 70 ana Beh'sT,n
VrKe,g tho corn reporter. "A purse OF 49, ~
80. And brokers' arms downtown generally pre-
seuted their clerks with god pieces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
TO-DAY.
OUTGOING STEAMERS.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Vessel For Line. Malls CLOSE Vessel sails.
Lucania. Liverpool. Cunard $3.50 am $50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-25
ROGERS, PEEr & Co.

Prince and Broadway.
Warren and Broadway.
Thirty-aecond and Broadway.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
A Royal Shooting Diary.

W. A. Baillie.Grohman writes an
article on "aports In the Seventeenth
Century for The Century. Mr. Baillie-
Grohman, speaking of some Of the old
records Of TIM chase. says:
One Of the most interesting records
of this kind ~ Il manuscript folio vol
ume of 80 pages, gofReou-ly bound in
green velvet with solid. gold clasps,
which Is the list OF game hunted and
shot by John George /, elector of Sax
ony, the I r,mest sportsman Of his cen
fury. II j. SUPPOSED to be mostly in his
own handwriting and forms enc Of the
treasures of the royal library at Ores
den From this punctiliously kept shoot
ing diary we learn that between July
II, 1911 and the day of his death, Jan.
IL, 1866, this Nimrod and his suit
bagged 10, $50 head of game, made up
of the Unprecedented total of a., 230 red
deer, 81, 10 wild bears, l02 bears, S18
wolves, etc, the 30 beaver enumerated
among tie smaller animals making up
the balance being, perhaps, the most
interesting, as showing the prevalence
of an animal at present almost extinct
in Europe.
The great weight of some of the stays,
boars and bears brought to book by the
elcctor is as surprising as tho enormous
totals we have given. Today red deer
stays of 300 pounds ayoirdupois are,
with the exception, perhaps, of Hunga
rian red deer, considered unusually fine
animals Indeed, Scotch deer of that
weight (clean) are today next to un
known How much. therefore, must the
race have degenerated when we read of
stays killed by the above sportsman
scaling c~er $50 pounds avoirdupois and
hear that he shot !, 1870 stays which
weighed over 400 pounds The antlers
of these animals were in proportion to
their bulk. Every sportsman knows that
today red deer nntlers bearing more
than / 4 tines are exceedingly rare. How
one wishes oneself back III the electors
days, when one hears of great heads
with 30 tines and peruses his summary,
according to which he bagged 80 stays
of 20 points and upward and 1, 735 deer
of Ii points and upward
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22

To most people Mercury is known
chiefly as being very difficult to see, and
to be seen mt all it must be looked for
low down i'll the twilight sky at certain
specified times during certain equally
specified seasons of the year. Seeing
him is enhanced by the rumor that the
great Copernicus died without ever hay
ing done so.
He is. however, not so difficult to do
tect as this probably true fable about
Copernicus has led many to suppose
Two impediments to Mercury s observa-
ton stood i'll Gopernicus way-the one
that Copernieus lived very far north,
the other that the nists ut the mouth Of
the Vistula rose nightly to obscure the
twilight sky. The latter obstacle Is as
evident as it made Mercury tho reverse;
the former will be none the less appar-
ent when we reflect that the path in
which all the major planets travel is in
northern ATTITUDES greatly bowed to the
horizon. III consequence that patch is
subject for long distance from the sun
to all those atmospheric disturbances
peculiar to the horizon, disturbances
which make observations near it prac-
tically impossible, and the farther north
the greater the difficulty. Atlantic
Monthly
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22

Up to few years ago the yellow
boot was unknown i'll England outside
the annual visit to the seaside, and
there many people would have been dis
posed to lock upon it as the uniform Of
what is called in onomatopoetic fashion
the "bounder - But in this respect,
again, the leveling spirit of the age as
serted itself. Men are HOW occasionally
seen walking through the streets, espe-
cially when spring comes, with yellow
boots who could not be set down by any
enemy, however malignant, as " bound
ers.
1t was reserved, however, for Lord
Randolph Churchill to bring yellow
boots into the house Of commons There
was visible shudder through the house
of commons on the historic evening
when Lord Randolph was observed
walking up the floor with these staring,
appalling yellow boots on. Nobody had
ever seen such "A thing before. 1t was
observed that the late speaker, who had
a very stately figure and was very reso-
lutte in UNFOLDING the dignity of the
house Of commons-itw was observed that
the speaker turned away his eyes as
though he would at least appear not to
see this horror and PROCLAMATION. But
once the daring example was given, the
revolutionary movement at work de
olared itself openly Now 1t Is quite IA
common sight the moment the fine
weather comes to see the yellow boot.
-Harper's Magazine
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
Browns Corner.

Henry Crowell came home from the
drive Thursday. He had been suffering
for several days with a felon on his
thumb.
Lem Lancaster came home from SkOW-
hogan, Friday, where he has been at
work on the drive. He says he ent
over the falls last week. aud claims he is
the only man who ever went over and
came OUT alive.
Mrs F. f. Morrill, and daughter, Essie,
went to Waltham, Mass. on Tuesday.
Farmers are haying in earnest now,
when the weather will permit. Grass
is much better than was expected few
weeks ago.
Mr.. Allen Peavey of skowhegan,
visited his granddaughter Miss Maymie
Peavey, last week.
Henry Crowell has again been engag-
I'd AS clerk at the Samoset House. Mouse
Island, this season. and Went thither on
Monday. He was accompanied by his
sister, Miss Ellie Crowell.
Mrs Vonie Jackson of Moore's Mills,
ana her mother, Mrs. Eaton of SkoWhe-
gan, were calling on friends in this place,
Monday afternoon.
Meeting at 30 p. m. next SUNDAY,
July %, by Elder jackson. sabbath
school at II O'Clock.
There was a meeting in Fred Burrill's
barn at the steam mil on Sunday after
noon, conducted by Mr.. Mcmillan.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
Took Him Down a Peg.

The young doctor to whom the Esou.
lapian oath was Greek looked con-
temptuously at the old woman who had
come to the up town hospital where he
was an inferno to inquire about her
son.
He has cerebro neurosis, | told you
once, he said.
"Oh, dear, said the woman-for she
Was not ms ornately educated as the
young physician-'is it AS bad as that
New-what do you call it,"
"Neurosis, " said the surgeon. Don't
l talk plain enough for you?'
lis it anything like nervous prostra-
tom" inquired the woman. You will
pardon me, sir. My education was
along literary rather than scientific
lines
That's what some call it, " said the
young physician as he got ready tc
make run for the ambulance at the
door. New York Telegram.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
Insect Pests In Hawaii.

Few countries have been more plagued
by the impol tation of insect pests than
the Hawaiian Islands, and none has
benefited so greatly by the introduction
of species to destroy them. The greatest
harm was done by scale insects, which
multiplied enormously and spread all
over the islands. To eounteract these
pests coooinellid@, yulgarly known as
lady birds, were introduced into the
islands in 1890 and were complete
success. They became perfectly natural
lied, increased prodigiously for time,
almost cleared the trees and then, as
their prey became comparatively scarce,
decreased in numbers, only to reappear
when the plague returned some time
afterward in the island of kanui. The
orange and lime, were in most de-
plorable condition from the attacks Of
aphis and scales Very few ladybirds
could be seen, but i'll few weeks they
swarmed, and in six months time tho
infested trees were all i'll perfect condi-
ton, full of fruit and flower. The rea-
son why the imported beneficial insects
have done so much good in Hawaii.
while elsewhere their success has been
less marked, is that the remote portions
of the islands and the consequently
limited fauna have given free scope for
increase to the new arrivals. New
York Sun.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
His Lucky Number.

"That boat" said the old vessel own
or. 81 bought on Friday, the thirteenth
day of the month, and in the dark OF
the moon. She was as slick craft as
you ever see and without weak spot
in her. Imade paymentdown of 3d.
900 and the first crew put on her con-
sisted of just - men. The only pet they
had aboard was a green eyed black cat
that slept i'll daytime and tore around
the riggin at night.
~ loaded the barge at Grand Haven
for Tonawanda with cargo OF green
lumber The showers began at in the
mornin and were just - hours gettin
her ready to clear. Friday mOrnin
she encountered a fearful blow in up
per Lake Michigan. Every one of the
crew of 10 was swept overheard, ship
and cargo being left to the mercy of
wind and waves. The cat was the only
Twin thing aboard. "
Terrible, wasnt it,
might have been worse. The 10 peo-
pie were picked up alive. When the
storm subsidized, we found the ship toss
in around in dead sea, but not very
seriously damaged. The cat was sittin
on top of the deckload washin his face
and there's wasn't enough lumber lost
to build hencoop. She made that trip
and 90 others without an accident. l
never allowed her to clear except on
Friday, the crew remainin at 10, and
the cat was the mascot.
but one night the captain got smart.
He left the harbor before midnight on
Thursday. One of the men bad failed
to appear and the cat was foraging
ashore. The weather was fine, no COLI
sion was reported, but I've never heard
from her since. "-Detroit Free Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22

only two and half days of good hay
weather last week, in this place. f. B..
Richardson's crew by working lively
Saturday, after dinner, hauled in three
good loads, and at p. m. it commenced
10 rain hard, leaving one good load out
in the rain. The weather has been such
that farmers will have but little rest TO
secure their hay in good condition. The
ground was never known 50 wet in
haying season, and in many fields water
ands.
Mrs. I.illis \. futile, with her two
children from Mass, arrived at her
mothers, Lydia Bigelo", saturday
night, for visit at the old homestead.
John Brown hooked a salmon in Lake
George, July 9TH, but being alone in the
boat he lost him. lie thinks he would
weigh 6 or lbs. and at one time he
jumped 10 or II feet out of water
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
Forest Macready- Mccullough.

Mccullough did not carry the actor
into everyday life, as Forrest did. For
rest was always the great tragedian, s"
and after his divorce generally moody
and silent, but when he spoke it was in
doep, tragic tones and with shakings of
his black, curly locks that impressed
the listener with unbounded awe.
No one, think, ever dared to joke or
be familiar with the great Forrest.
When "alimony day came around and
he had to pay good round sum to his
divorced wife, it was better to keep
away from him, for then he allowed his
temper and "ugliness" to have full
sway,
Nowhere i'll American dramatic his
tory does an actor stand out with the
prominence of Forrest His individual
ity was SO pronounced that no one who
once met him could ever obliterate that
meeting from his memory. Forrest ID
also part of history, for there are
many who remember the "Macready
riots" melted primarily by Forrest
kissing Macready III Hamlet" for in
Producing SOME business no did not like
waving handkerchief and dancing
Oh i'll the players soene-which Forrest
sarcastically dubbed 1.-The pas de
mouchoir" This was in London, and
the news spread like wildhre, SO that
after playing u magnificent first engage
ment all over England his second was
made failure by Macready's friends
kissing, groaning and interrupting his
plays Overland Monthly.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
THE CHIN AS AN INDEX.



l have read DR. Leuf's letter on
"Physiognomy i'll The Medical Coun-
ell and am prompted to say, in reply to
his request for contributions ON the
Chin"
Protruding chins characterize men
and women Of the get there type. Sue
cessful people usually carry their chins
thrust forward. with compressed lips.
This chin if heavy, with broad rami
aud swelling masseters, indicates fight.
ing blood.
A retreating chin shows lack Of force,
mentally. morally and physically; usu-
ally Of the yielding sort; soon discour.
aged; desires projections; small exec
utive force The development Of other
faculties often makes up for this defect.
A small, well rounded chin, with
mobile and red cushion of flesh upon,
indicates pleasure loving owner. If
dimpled all the more 80, for dimpled
chins belong to coquettes. People with
dimplcs love 10 be petted and loved;
like admiration and praise Generally
tickle. Usually this chin is healthy, re-
Operative aud long lived.
Broad chns signify nobleness and
large dignity, unless vertically thin,
when, if with II there be thin lips Of
bloodless kind. you find cruelty.
Square chins with little flesh denote
firmness and executive ability. These
make good hators
Drunkards Usually have circular
line about Their ehins.
Stevens have wrinkles about their
chius
Long, thin ehins are poetieal, un-ta.
Bile and delicate i'll constitution. Such
people are subject to bowel derange-
monts If thin through the angles of
the mouth, too, they are prone TO tuber
culosis Generally short lived
Medium ehins with suggestive bi-
furcation in the center. with small
mounds of flesh on either side, charac-
terize generosity, impnlsivencss, CHEEKY
natures. The same sized chins, with a
dab of flesh just under the center of the
lower lip, Indicate meanness, selfishness,
brutaity.)
n b. No one feature can be taken
in Judging character. Often develop,
ment of other faculties of mind or fea-
ture entirely governs. In each case take
the "totality of Indications" before
judging. st. Louis Cliniquo
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22

The Daniels parrot" that died In
st. Johnsbury, VT, the other day, was
81 years old. He was taken from the
nest when very young and lived for IA
years on the Isthmus of Panama. For
seven years he was with the Spaniards
in Mexico ON cattle ranch and spoke
Spanish well. He spent II years on a
steamboat crossing the Gulf Of Mexico,
three years with the Wise family in st.
Johnsbury. and for the last Is years
with the Daniels family, who received
an offer of 500 for him six years ago
from the managers of Barnum's circus.
He laughed and seemed very bright al
most to the time of his death. New
York Tribune.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
Interdependenox of Inventions.

tn advent of important and valuable
Inventions is often dependent, not upon
the brilliant inspiration of some indi-
vidual inventor, but upon the general
and gradual advance of the state of the
art to which they belong, making their
occurrence not only possible, but almost
Inevitable. The bicycle is an excellent
example of this kind of growth in me-
ehanical Construction, since, while IL
is one of the most important things,
both mechanically and commercially,
which has ever been produced, it owes
Its development to the parallel i'm
provements in metal and rubber work
ing, without which 1t could never have
existed at all, in the modern sense, or
to any extent.
The clumsy wooden veloeipede would
always have remained useless toy had
not the introduction of drawn steel
tubing made the construction of light
sand yet strong frame possible, while
The original leather tire of Dunlop could
never have led to the practical applica-
ton Of the pneumatic principle with
out the substitution of the rubber con-
struction which only the advances in
rubber manufacture made possible.
THIS Is but one instance of what is APP
parent IN many other lines of work, and
there is little doubt TINT if the patent
records of the past 90 years were thor
oughly studied by competent specialists
many inventions which at the time Of
their conception were failures simply
because of the impossibility of executing
the ideas would now be found both
practicable and valuable. --Cassier s
Mapazipe
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
nIinxiing With Strangers.

The effectof mingling with new peo-
pie who have new methods of thought
is very salutary. Always to see the
same people do the same things, feel the
same way, produces stagnant condi-
ton Of the mind and heart that is very
distressing to behold There are thou
sands of invalids who might be greatly
benefited by getting away from home,
if only for short time to mingle with
strangers and be touched with the mag
notism of the great world as it courses
in its accustomed rounds. And there are
mental and moral invalids who need
the same change, to get their heart and
mind enlarged and let in little more
of the great light of life, Outside in
fiuences are very valuable to those who
at home have been we'll trained by
healthful influences in early youth; so
they can avoid the snares and pitfalls
into which some SO often blindly fall. -
True Flag.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
A Turkish Bride.

Richard Davey, in his book, 1.-THE
Sultan and His Subjects, thus de-
scribes the appearance of Turkish
bride:
1.-THE bride, whom we will Gall Gul
Hanum. or the Lady Rose, is dressed
in the most elaborate Partisan bridal
costume, with AN immense long train,
q wreath of orange flowers at her head
and pink veil reaching to the ground.
She sits like statue on sort of throne,
placed at the farther end of the apart
ment, beneath canopy composed OF
garlands of artificial roses. All the
ladies of her family and acquaintance
are present, some few of the elder In
the beautiful oriental costumes Of a by
gone time, the rest In badly chosen Eu-
ropean evening dresses and blazing with
all the jewelry they can load upon their
peraons -
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
CORRESPONDENCE.
Blackwell.

Mrs. Euniee Danforth and grandchild
rem have been visiting d. L. Gray and
family of Fairfield, the past week.
Mrs. Elvira Veasey spent Fri ay and
Saturday with relatives at South Nor
ridgew0ck.
Mrs. Nala B. Weleh has returned
from her work at Brooklyn y. !. for her
summer vacation.
Miss Grace +. Snow of Roxbury Mass.
is visiting the family of NJ. NJ. Moore.
Miss Daisy f. Holway of Showhegan
passed Saturday and Sunday with rela-
tives on Blackwell Hill.
Mrs. Elmer Towne and son Don, of
Boston, Mass. are passing the summer
with Mrs. Towne's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Moore.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22

The wealthiest nation of the world Is
the United States. The census of 1890
shows the true valuation or fair selling
price. of the real and personal property
of the country to be S66, OBJ, 09l, 1877.
1t is an increase of over 40 per cent on
the valuation of the previous decade
and is about six times the value Of tho
money of the entire world. The mind
cannot grasp the meaning of such fig
ures without graphic illustration. This
amount in gold dollars would load 1873,
$40 carts, each carrying a ton If 2, 900
gold dollars were piled one on the other,
they would form stack three feet high.
Make similar piles close together till a
wall of gold one mile long and worth
$3.50, 400, 900 is formed. Increase this
wall to 284 miles and the amount
would represent cur national wealth.
Placed side by side the coins would
form a carpet of gold covering five
square miles. William George Jordan
in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22
MICHIGAN House
Lake George,
CANAAN. MAIN {.

Season of 1897 Opens Saturday, June 18th.
The best of boating, bathing and fish
ing. Fine croquet grounds. An excel
lent tennis court. Large, commodious
stable. An ideal inland resort.
e Many desirable changes have been made at
this popular inland resort since last season, and
the comfort and pleasure of the guests will he
looked after personally by Mr.. and Mrs. Wash
blu n, this is sufficient guarantee TO the stand
ard to be maintained.
No inland resort in Maine surpasses this ad-
mirable place with its beautiful lake, fine hotel
numerous cottages, large amusement and dane
ing pavilion, croquet and tennis grounds, bowl
ing alley, swings and other amusements. The
fishing is frst-cass and fine boats for rowing
are always at the wharf.
The table at the Mohiean House is famous
throughout Maine as being unexcelled at SIM
liar resort for variety and quality.
On and after Sunday, June 20, blackboard
accommodating u people will leave the Show
hogan House every Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock
for this resort. Fare. round trip, so cents. Par
ties desiring to visit Lake George on any week
day may also engage this team on most favorable
terms.
cEnpcE + WbcuRIlRN prnn
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-22

No new dynasty would begin by the
Prince of Wales ascending the throne
1t would still be the Hanoverian dynas-
ty or family. What is meant by change
of dynasty is change of the reigning
family. The dynasty of the Tudors end
ed with Queen Elizabeth; the dynasty
of the Stuarts commenced with James
and ended with Queen Anne.