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The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
North CornYilIe.

Mr. Albra Adams and wife post
master at No. Madison, were visiting
at Mrs d. A. Collins, Saturday.
Almost every body has had severe
cold, here.
Chas Yorks four horse team of
Brighton, passed through town, Mon
day. with the largest load of boards that
has been hauled this winter, 2600 fit.
Twenty light loads of shovel handles
passed through town on the county
road for Skowhegan, Monday.
Saturday, David Small brought a
large hens egg into Geo. Bates store.
1t measured 81 in, by in.
Sam'l Doble is keeping bachelors
hall' this winter
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
ShawnlIIt

The sleighing is last going now, there
is not much travelling from here to
Fairfield, in the road As the snow has
left Us, but it is fine sleighing on the
river
Measles are prevailing here.
Mr.. John Grant came home out of the
woods sick last week and i very low.
Mr.. Edgar Lamb was brought home
from the woods sick 1t is feared that
ne may have the rheumatic fever.
Mr. Martin Emerson of Island Falls,
was the guest of Elmer Emerson and
daughter last week. WICK.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
East Madison

j. Harville was in town few dsys
recently.
Mrs. Florence Healy of Plttsfield,
visited her parents last week
A social dance was held n Grange hall
Saturday night.
There will be an entertainment and
supper next Satul day night for the
benefit of the church.
There was a large attendance at the
twentieth anniversary meeting of the
grange, held Feb, 9th.
Lakeside mill is now running on full
time, but several looms are idle.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18

W. understand that the school is to be
in district No. 6.
school in district No. 5, closed Friday,
Length of school eleven weeks. The
attendance the first part of the term was
badly broken nearly all the scholars
having the whooping cough. Names
of those not absent during the term,
Chespa Padham, Austin Tibbetts, Amos
Hoyt, Eddie Bcknell was absent the
first day on account of not having re-
ceyed notice of the opening of
school Names of those not absent the
last half Of the term, Amos Hovt, Lula
Adams, Austin Iibbets, Lizzie Padham,
Chespt Padham, Eddie Bieknell, Walter
Adams Emma Clark, Viola Knight,
Ivan Padham, Leila Clark, Leo Dean,
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
Henry and Bert Hayden visited their
brother, Ambrose, ia Bingham, Satur.

Henry and Bert Hayden visited their
brother, Ambrose, 10 Bingham, Satur.
iay.
Two travelling men from the Elstei n
ptrr uf the Srafe. MI aud STAYED ut !.
CIR. wells. Monday night; Mr.. Fisher
Hutl tie. in the interest 1T the Bradley
trrtiuz n "a. aud Mr. Knight Of jones.
bolo, who is selling thu celebrated Fagg.
&c NJ" remedies.
Elder Mclaughlin of Exeter, hid a
meeting, sunday. AT the city school
house. Next meeting. March Il.
Elders Cleveland and Noble of Athens,
have an appointment at Browns Corner,
for Feb. Is.
Elder Geo. Moore accompanied Elder
Jackson, Saturday evening. at this place
Meetings this week on Thursday and
saturday evening.
Mrs. Carrie d ,mon of w. II lrtland. i
reported very sick.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
Canaan
Geo I. Johnston of Hartland. was in
town a few days last week.

Geo. I. Johnston Of uartland was in
town a few days last week.
Miss Ollie Gleason has opened a
private school here, which began last
Monday. There are some over thirty
pupils This is just what is needed
here and many are very glad Of this
privilege Of sending theii children to
school during the long spring vacation.
Mrs. Hattie Chase visited friends in
town, sunday last.
John A. Harris and Horace Weymouth
are home from Bingham, fer few days.
l. W. Hathaway who has been with us
the past two weeks, went TO Corson' S
Corner, Tuesday, and will remain there
this week. He will return Saturday,
however, and preach as usual sunday
morning at 1920 \. NJ
Mrs. NJ. II. Furber died at the home
OF her son, Henry johnson, in this vii
lage, last Saturday afternoon, aged
about seyenty-nine years. She has been
confined to the bed most of the time for
seven months, and bore her suiferings
with wonderful patience. The funeral
services were held at the church, Tues
day afternoon, and at her request were
conducted by +. G. Herriek, who spoke
comforting words TO the bereayed fam
lily. This good woman will be greatly
missed in the community and will long
be remembered for her kind acts and
noble deeds.
Mrs. John Thurston OF Island Pond,
and Mrs. Will Blackden OF Lewiston, and
Mosie A Furber, who is attending
school at Augusta, were in attendance
to the funeral last Tuesday.
Miss Allie Goodrich visited in Skow-
hogan few days last week.
Miss Ellie Crowell has been spending
a few days with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Benz. Chase.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
Browns Corner.

Mrs Ezra Worthen who has been very
sick for number of weeks, is gaining
slowly.
Fred Barnes, clerk in the hotel at Fair
field, made a brief visit at home last
week, and called upon some of his
friends.
Farmers are hurrying to get their
teaming done before the snow is gone.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18

Have you taken smell of the per-
fume, Garland Of Niolets, at SIMPSONS
the corner druggist.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18

A big man in a little world is as
much out Of place as a little man in a
big one.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
Notice of Dissolution.

Notice is hereby given that the business
heretofore existing between Edwin s. Baker
and Chas. A Coleman, under name OF Cole
man & Baker, at Jaekman, Maine, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent.
Said business is to be carried on at said
Jackman by Chas A Coleman 3w7
February 9Th, 1897.
CHARLES A COLEMAN.
EDWIN S. BAKER
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
Clothing Agents Wanted.

AGENTS in every town in this coun-
try, where we are not already repre-
scented, to handle hrst-clsss line of =
custom samples for suits to be made
to order to a competent salesman or
dealer, who can give the business
proper attention we will pay liberal
commission, take all risks, pay all ex
press charges and guarantee satisfac
tion in every respect; we are pioneers
in this branch OF the trade and expert
encs; this, togethe with the facts that
we buy our woolens direct from the
mills and have unequalled facilities
for manufacturing. enables W. to pro-
duce garments to order, with first-class
work, in the most correct styles and
proportions, at about the price charged
for good ready made clothing. For
further particulars address, Oak Hall
Clothing Co, 32-44 North St, Ros-
ton Mass 3w7
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18

ana will be, if reelected managed to the
best interest of all
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
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Recommend

1t makes the weak strong.
We have it.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18
UNITED STATES BRANCH OF
The Employers Liability Assur.
anCe Corporation Lind

OF LONDON, ENGLAND.
II Kiby St Boston. Mass
Incorporated and commenced business IN
1881.
LORD CLAUD HAMILTON President.
s. stanley BROWN, E-Q., Secretary.
GEOR ne MUNROE ENDICOTT, United
states Manager and Attorney.
Capital paid up in cash s75o,eOo 90.
ASSETS DECEMBER 81, 1898
Stock and bonds owued by the com
pany, market lue,............... 1885 5000
Cash in Office and in bank. .,....... $780,
Cash deposited with trustees, ....... 1904 o.
Interest due and acc ued, .......... 7,l3T09
Gross premiums in due course of
collection, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 27O640 81
Aggregate OF Al the admitted assets-----
at sexual value ........,.....+i i6s,sI4.7s
LIABILITIES DECEMBER 81, 1896.
Net amount OF unpaid losses and
claims ...........'........ .,...... s247, $4,000
Amount required to safely re-insure
all outstanding risks.....,........ 1887 ~
All other demands against the com
pany. viz; commissions, etc, w.. 491ls.SS
Total amount OF liabilities, except -----
capital deposit and net surplus. 7s0, TBS 20
Capital Observation-Disclosures. 300, 0.0e
Surplus beyond capital deposit, 80. 8S,Rs78
Aggregate amount of liabilities in -
Guiding net surplus. .............. al, 16ss14-76
w A X BOOrHBY,
General Agentifor Maine,
Wateryille.
S W PHILBRICK. Agent,
Skowhegan, Me.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-02-18

Try a bottle.
1t is as superior to all other
remedies as the diamond is to
cut glass.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
SOCIETY is ALL RIGHT.
From the Troy Record,

From the Troy Record.
one person reads of so many crimes
that he becomes convinced that the world
has turned straight to the bad. Another
notes SO many disasters due to the war
ring elements that he feels sure the world
is approaching its end. These do not stop
to reflect that the change from the past
has not been so much in the happenings
as in the reports of them. Fifty years
ago many a prairie cyclone whirled on it's
way unreported; now it is a poor sort of
a wind storm which does not get written
up" a half century ago a Bradley Mar
tin hall would not have been heard of Il
hundred miles away; now the smallest
hamlet away back in the hills has a fun
account, and its inhabitants thus have
abundant material for gossip of the lux
uriousness which is sapping the life of
the nation. We live today with the whole
world in graphic miniature before US. AS
the things out of the ordinary are the only
ones considered worthy of notice, the ma
tural inclination Is to look upon them as
forming all that there is to life. In reai-
ty they are but the scum rising to the top
of the caldron of human existence in proof
that the refining and improving process
is going on increasingly.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
A BUSY EIFE.

Here lies a poor woman who always was
busy;
She lived under pressure that rendered
her dizzy.
She belonged to ten clubs and read
Browning by sight,
Showed at luncheon and teas, and would
vote If she might;
She served on school board with cour-
age and zeal;
She golfed and she kodaked and rode on
a wheel;
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen, knew mi
crobes by name
Approved of Delsarte, was a Daughter
and "Dame;'
Her children went in for the top educa-
ton;
Her husband went seaward for nervous
prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free.
The shock was too great, and she died
instantice'
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

The Philadelphia Press has made list
of few of the gubernatorial candidates
thus far revealed or mentioned" 1t in
cludes-
Lieutenant Governor Lyon. Allegheny.
Congressman Stone, Allegheny.
Congressman Stone, Warren.
Congressman Huff, Westmoreland.
Congressman Connell, Lackawanna.
Congressman Leisenring, Luzerne.
Speaker Boyer Philadelphia
Judge Samuel Miller, Mercer.
Secretary Reeder Northampton.
Congressman Mahon, Franklin.
Attorney General Mccormick, Lycom-
ing.
Auditor General Mylin, Lancaster.
Adjutant General Stewart, Montgomery
State Treasurer Haywood Mercer.
Judge Wickham, Beaver.
Congressman Grow Susquehanna.
John Wanamaker Philadelphia.
Congressman Robinson, Delaware
Commissioner Gilkeson, Bucks.
Congressman Heiner, Armstrong.
Judge Harry White, Indiana.
1t is insinuated by the Quay faction in
Allegheny county that one of the reasons
why Senators Magee and Finn are so
willing to prosecute libel and damage
suits in that county against friends and
relatives of the senior senator is that
p,t "a tile " @ a"ils Ui Juiols' ihe IittspurS
20 Diep"ten cay ~ ls sau that lhe pooh
"a "a taNanies III the commissioners ol-
- soa 'o. eNailtiieu III tilahiis up the list
a. ~ -,iUu many" ps uie lWo jury cohiiiils-
s.,l' srHlie,s' ~ me uelesates anu lhelr
used" An investigation is predicted
1 @ p,,, u,..
. o'e' ,i, W NeS 'iiioi ei',sI ~ q !
''eS,, "'t - - 20 S"i'', nav Ihe sot'u
pr,ot .iC IL, p',' % ,m.'' re
ir bis aIdiaoe,, co. - a,'',,a,
sbi,, ,on,in.tlon rh -, 80 ~ =.
the other day ana asked him for his sun.
port, Magee is reported to have renIIed
mat personaIlv he yould IKE to he for,
Beacon. hut as he did not know how the
ractiona, lines would ha drowr in the
matter. he wa3 NOT vet ready to saw wba +
he would do
Major NcDow.lrs friends IN oonerass
have been hard at work Canvassing for
votes to secure his re-alertion In me
flfty-ffth congress as clerk of the house
They now have more than a sufficient
lieved that the Major will have any oppo-
sition for a reelection.
-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
Persecution for Opinions Sake.

With the excitement of a bitter cam
paign out of the way, the more intel
ligent people on both sides of the recent
presidential division are coming to their
senses. They are beginning to realize
that the country is not to be saved by
the calling of hard names nor the dis
eased body polite restored to economic
health by the quarreling Of the con-
sulting or opposing political physi-
clans. Mr.. Cages speech in Chicago
the other night pleading for "tolera-
tion, patience and a broad citizenship"
touched the right key, and the response
throughout the country has been imme-
diate and sympathetic. Says the Phil
adelphia Bulletin:
Mr.. Gage is not one of that class of
self-complacent thinkers in finance who.
believing that they have sounded the
financial question in all its depths, sneer
at, denounce and ridcule men of inferior
knowledge and erroneous opinion. He
doubtless realizes that the multitude
which followed Bryan last year. while
minority, is too numerous to be disposed
of by the argument that they are fools,
cranks, frauds or charlatans, and that in
dealing with the sectionalism in the South
and the farther West 1t will be the part Of
wisdom to reason patiently with men
whose errors may be of the head rather
than of the heart. The ignorance, or the
poverty, or the hardships or the illusions
which made the silver movement formld-
able have yet to be removed, and they
cannot be removed by exhibitions of bad
temper, calling hard names and fighting
prejudice with prejudice. Reason and
education must continue to be the wea-
pons of those who want safe and peace
full adjustment OF the problem on broad
national lines, We can gain nothing by
treating a large minority of the people
as ounces and ignoramuses in the hope
that they may be thus shamed out of
their opinions or by ignoring the hard
conditions which have spawned their err
sors and tellirl lg them that they ought to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
SCRANTON, FEBRUARY II, 1897.

w. e. Curtis, the Washington cor
respondent Of the Chicago Record, who
has for several months seemingly
turned his department over as a KIND
of newspaper clearing house for the
Spanish legation, is now in Cuba, writ
ing down the revolution. He is work.
ing hard to make out case for Spalh'
but the best he can do is to find few
chicken livered Cuban merchants or
pensioners who say that If Weyler
could be gotten out of the way, they
believe the better class of Cubans would
be satisfied to give an experimental ac-
ceptance to Spain's bogus 1reforms.
This is certainly poor consolation for
Spain.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
600, ,ooo,O 200 POUNDS OF APPLES
From the Phl!adeIphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record
The German agricultural papers indulge
in no eXaggeration when they make the
remarkable statement that the imports Of
American apples into the German empire
last year were more than twenty times as
large as in any previous season the ship
ments i'm 1896 having amounted to no less
than 100000 double centners-the centner
being equal to a hundredweight.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
THE COST OF SANITATION.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

Pennsylvania is still behind many of its
sister states in it's provision for the public
Notwithstanding only $4,000 a year for the
care of a population of over $3.50 600 poo-
pie while Massachusetts spends nearly
$50, coo in protecting it's 2,25OOOO, New York
$4,000 for nearly 100000 inhabitants, and
New Jersey Alabama, Illinois, and Minne-
sofa all approprlating half as much again
as Pennsylvania.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
THE MILK IN THE CoCOANuT.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Prince George, of Greece, now in COM
mand of the Greek war ships at Crete,
saved the czar from fanatic when they
We're travelling together in Japan. The
dowager empress of Russia is sister to
King George of Greece, and also sister
to the Princess of Wales. If there is any
political significance in family relation
and support of Great Britain and Russia.
Such sympathy is more than suspected.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
EFFECTIVE.
Pixley, in the Times-Herald,

what do you use" she asked of the
dentist, "to counteract the effects of the
laughing gas?" well" he said, "unless
the patient RECEIVERS promptly l present
my bill"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

Inasmuch as Queen Lii still has a
private income of $4,000 a year, it
would seem as if her loss of throne
was not an unmixed misfortune.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

eral James w. Latta, now secretary of
Internal Affairs, Henry F.. Walton, eX-
Speaker of the Pennsylvania Legislature,
and Henry J. Mccarthy, ex-Judge of the
Superior court
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

The Washington Post prints an ar
ticle which says there is q restaurant
in the national capitol where meals
such as that mentioned below cost but
ten cents apiece and are invitingly
served: Pork sausage or fried liver,
fried hominy, buckwheat cakes, maple
syrup, butter and coffee. The Post
also says these prices will prevail dur
ing Inauguration week. After this we
are prepared to deny the decadence of
American fiction.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

Last year the Philadelphia city gas
works lost % per cent. of it's product by
leakage. The inhabitants of that city
should be taught not to blow out the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

know better than to find relief in the
cheap money ism.
An incident which gives special force
to these remarks is the death in New
York of Banker st. John, the treas
urer of the Bryan campaign. This gen
tleman, one of the most scholarly, cul-
tured and upright of the metropolis
financlers, came after careful study
to believe in free silver and had the
manliness to back his opinions in a
legitimate way by his voice and his
purse. In this land of boasted free
dom of opinion this honest man and
upright citizen, because he CHANGED in
all sincerity to differ in belief from the
majority of his business associates,
was forthwith set upon not unlike the
manner in which wolves sometimes at
tack one of their own number; was
deposed from the presidency of the
bank which his executive skill had built
up into a highly profitable institutions
was made the target of social ostracism
and the butt Of envenomed rdicule
until, in less than six months, he was
goaded into his grave. And all for
what? Because he had the dignlfled
courage of his convictions. Only this
nothing more.
it is not in such a spirit of bigotry
and rancor that American prosperity
will be reinstated and the republic put
| in condition to move forward to its
amplest destiny. The next secretary
of the treasury speaks wise words when
he calls off the dogs of persecution for
| opinions sake.
| Turkeys army is to Greece's, in
| numerical strength, as 4 is to l and
| her naval force, as II to /; but Greece
| is fighting with enthusiasm for a prin-
| ciple, under leaders whom the people
trust, and Turkey is simply huge con-
| glomeration of superstition, ignorance
and greed. If the Powers would keep
hands off, Greece would probably dc
| the Moslem worse than Japan lately
did China.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

1t has been decided that the libra
rian Of congress, who is to hold ap-
pointment from the president, is to be
untrammeled in his selection of subor
dinates for the new library building.
This may not be theoretical civil SER
vice reform but it is business.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17
Book Binding

Neat, Durable Book Binding Is what you
receive II you leave your order with the
SCRANTON TRIBUNE BINDERY, Trib-
une Building, North Washington Ave.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

State Treasurer Haywood emphatically
denies the story that some of the rec
ords of his department We're destroyed
in the capitol fire. "The statement"
says he, "that there We're records of
the department in the rooms of the leu
tenant governor over the senate chamber
when the fire occurred Is absurd and
without a grain of truth to support It.
The records of this department are abso
lutely intact. They We're removed to this
tre-proof building as soon as it was fin
ished during the last administration, and
1t is not customary to scatter valuable
records around among the several de-
partments of the state government. We
have large vault as well as d large safe
in our department, where all tho records
are kept. The committee of investigation
will find all the records there"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

Governor Hastings and Attorney Cen
eral Mccormick are still Withholding
their opinion as to the const,tutionality
Of getting a loan of money wherewith
to build the new capitol. The confer
ence which the governor was to hold last
week with Chairmen Marshall and Mitch
ell, of the Appropriations committees,
and other officials for the purpose of see
ing their way clear, financially, in the
capitol movements, has been postponed
for another week. Meanwhile the COVER
nor is soliciting architectural plans, with
an approximate estimate of the ccst of
the building. Most of the legislators
think that Lieutenant Governor Lyons
proposition to expend S5,OoO,00O should be
cut down at least one-half.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

their liberation. Making fair allowance
tainly makes creditable showing, and
one much more honeful than can be
found in the subsequent careers of Grim
inals liberated from our ordinary peni-
tentiaries and jails.
1t is most singular that the manifest
failure of the intimidatory system of
furnishing crime, whereby crimes of all
degrees from homicide down are on the
increase at a rate startlingly more rapid
than the natural increase in population,
does not command the serious atten-
ton of larger number of citizens than
it does. Penologists recognize it and
50 do few leading spirits in the phil
anthropy of each community, but the
great mass of citizens, whose welfare
the condition so materially encroaches
upon, appears to be quite Indifferent.
We find in the Syracuse Post this
interesting but misleading statement
by Mr.. j. f. Churchman, of Phla-
delphia: For a distance Of fifteen
miles leading out of Scranton per-
son can travel underground by way of
the mines. In places they have be-
come dangerous, so much so that ia
tai accident happened the other day,
A young man and woman were out
driving with a spirited team of horses,
and when passing along the road the
earth broke in, letting them fall dis
tance of forty feet. The young woman
was killed and the young man badly
injured" Nothing Of this kind or SIM
liar to it has ever occurred in Scranton,
or near Scranton. The incident to
which Mr.. Churchman referred hap
pened nearly ninety miles away. from
this city. Don't give Scranton a bad
name.