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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Sixty-seYen years il long time 70
live, but when that number represents
the number Of years that a couple have
enjoyed married life, the figures look
larger still. One may travel about the
country and find couples who have been
married over fifty years, but when it
comes TO hunting for those who have
lived together for nearly three score and
ten years il Is another matter aud some
thing like hunting for an eagle cent of
the date Of 1886. Such a couple. how
ever, Is found in the town Of Mercer.
Mr.. and Mrs. William George. aged Sc
and - years respectively. were married
g. years ago last February. Both have
lived all their lives in Mercer. and are
hale, happy and hearty now. OF their
ten children eight are living. scattered
far aud vide one died on a Southern
battlefield.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
No Inventor.

"They do say that every American is
q born inventor, said the patriotic
gentleman.
my husband, said the fat lady, is
an exception. He uses the same old ex-
cuses for being out late that used to
hear my father use. "-Indianapolis
Journal
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The grain traffic of the Western roads
last week was the heaviest known for
years. All roads are excessively busy
and the demand for freight cars brisk.
All crops are safe except corn and this
is promising. Farmers are getting Is to
20 cents more bushel for wheat, and B
or cents more for corn than last
year and are selling freely. This makes
a wide difference with producers.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

decreasing prosperity in the west con
sequent upon good crops, good sales of
APPLE products and the confidence com
ing from the favorable settlement of the
tariff issue is effectually killing out so
cialistic and free silver talk. Prosperity
does not agree with these isms.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The city of Rockland was visited by a
S25 600 fire, Tuesday. The loss is large
" in lime kiln property OF the Cobb
Lime Co., Bird, Barney and Pillsbury.
The Lime Rock railroad was also con
sderablv DANA yed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

A change is announced of the post
office site in Lexington, it being removed
two miles northwest and the route
changed to the west side of the stream,
as stated In the REPORTER several weeks
ago.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

A recent tariff ruling subjects planed
boards from lumber cut on st. John
river waters in Maine, manufactured in
New Brunswick, to the duty prescribed
in the Dingley bill for foreign lumber.
Under the former law this lumber plan
ed, was admitted free, the same rs
though sawed and not planed This
operates against Maine lumbermen on
the St. John and Aroostook tributaries,
who manufacture their lumber at ST.
John, N. B.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The Watervlle Mail denies the report
that serious damage was done by the
hail storm Saturday, to gardens, streets
and roads, as was stated in papers.
Such things are liable to be magnified.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Hon. Edwin Dunn, ex minister TO
Japan is In San Francisco on his way to
Washington. He says there is no likeli-
hood of trouble between Japan and
the United States over Hawaii. The
japanese feel bitterly against this gov
ernment but Hawaii is not OF sufficient
Importance to bring them to open rupture
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

A party of young men, students from
Massachusetts, have been camping near
Moosehead lake region. Two of them
were out one day hunting for bear,
whose tracks were visible, when they
were surprised by seeing a moose close
to them. Acting upon the first impulse
they shot and killed the animal. Find
ing they had violated the law, they at
tempted to hide their game by sinking
the carcass into the river which was near
at hand, but this did not prove success,
and when stir was made about it the
boys confessed the offense. Commits
sioner Carleton being satisfied that their
story is straight one, and they had no
intention of violating the law declines
to prosecute them as the penalty is four
months Imprisonment. 1t is very evil
dent that the boys will not do so again.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The Mckinley tariff law placed tariff
on shoddy and rags that greatly dis
couraged their importation so that in the
last months it WAS in operation but
4O,28S pounds were imported The
German Wilson law removed the tariff
Cd shoddy and increased its importation
so that the first months of that iniqui-
tous measure saw 9,500,7S0 pounds
brought into this country. This was
imported to be worked into the clothing
of the people of this country and was
one of the direct fruits of the tariff re-
form under which the country has been
struggling for three years past. The
Dingey law places a duty of 25 cents a
pound on shoddy, 20 cents on wool
wastes and 10 cents on rags. This will
practically prohibit the use of shoddy in
wooden manufacturing and ensure
honest cloth. Clothing may cost more
but it will be very much better. The
reign OF shoddy is doomed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Insurance Commissioner Carr has adj
mitted the following companies TO do
business in Maine; Victoria Fire ms.
Co.. OF New York; Law, Union and
Crown Fire and Life ms Co.. of London :;
Interstate Casualty Co, of New York !:
[. 5. Fidelity and Guaranty Co., of Bal
timore; National Surety Co; Masonic
Equitable Accident Association. of Bos-
ton.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The 10th Maine Regiment Association
will hold its reunion, Tuesday, Septem-
Der 2, on account of the State fair occur
ing that week.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
A PRIVILEGED Pair.

Hojack-Silence is golden, believer
Tomdik-So they say.
Hojack-Then the nuptials of deaf
mute couple might be called a golden
wedding Detroit Free Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
Rolling Wills Resume.

Cleveland. Aug. 3.-AA departments
of the Cleveland rolling mills opened
yesterday About 2000 men were given
work. Several departments which had
shut down at the time Of the coal strike
resumed operations. General Manager
Chisholm said he did not know how long
the works would continue in full opera
ton.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
NIL EnsT0N rEonrcE MARKET

The Caribou Republican says: Two
hundred men are at work on the branch
railroad between Caribou and Limestone.
The road will be completed in season to
move this years crops from our neigh
boring town.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The available cash balance in the U.
s. treasury, July 31st, was $238, 81 ,604 !;
the gold reserve $l43, 1926, 400. This is a
favorable showing.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The Egyptian Intelligence department
has received word of heavy tribal tight
ing up the Nile between the Dervishes
ane Jaalins The Dervishes, under one
of the generals of the Khaliff, defeated
the Jaalins in pitched battle and oceu-
pied Metelreh on July !. The losses on
both sides We're very large. The Jaalins
are said 10 have lost 1000 killed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
The Oldest and Largest

paint manufacturers in America are F.
W. Devoe 4 Co., New York established
l754) who made the paint that covers
l3 better and wears l-3 longer, and for
which j. d. Rawles 4 Co. are agents.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Conservative experts at London esti-
mate that the United States will receive
this year forty millions sterling S2o0,-
000. 600 for wheat and thirty millions
for corn more than last year.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
.rrzRxp AS SECOND GLASS MAIL NATTER.

The Marquis of Salisbury replied to
the liberal leader, the Earl of Kimberly,
Monday, in the British House of Lords,
explaining the status of the negotiations
between Greece and Turkey. He s6h
il was no wonder that people were i'm
patient at delay. The completely and
multiplicity of the negotiations, he said,
account for the delay. The territory
conquered by Turkey was once assigned
10 Greece by international agreement,
and, therefore, the action of the powers
was recogized by the Sultan. He was
right in demanding security from incur
sions such as brought about the. present
war, and for that purpose rectification
of frontier upon strategetic basis was
reasonable. 1t was also reasonable to
hold that Greek communities should not
be placed under Turkish rule. The COM
plicated interests of German bondholders
enter into the question of indemnity.
The credit of Greece in European mar
kets must for long time be exceedingly
small, and, therefore, some form of con-
troll of the sources of Greek revenue is
inevitable. Negotiations in this respect
are not very far advanced. Salisbury is
not at all sanguine of Il speedy solution
of the Cretan difficulty. The present
attitude of Crete seemed to be favorable
to an agreement so far as the Christians
were concerned; but the two creeds was
no nearer than they have been for many
centuries. "rhe euly solution he
said, 'seems to be to dig ditch across
the island with the Christians on one
side and the Moslems on the other
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
TWENTY-FIVE. twenty-five.

Every man is of the opinion that he
paid terrible price for his experience,
while others got theirs at a bargain
counter. Globe.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

| am trying to think where you got cured OF
rum drinking ! was cured al the
kEELEY INSTITUTE, PoRTLARDsMF .
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Gorham, N. H, Aug. Norman Da-
cost, aged about "a years and single,
was shot and instantly killed by George
A. Staples a the Perley Low place on the
main road eight miles from the Waum-
beck House in Jefferson and four from
the Ravine House IN the town of Ran
dolph late Saturday night The murder
was probably the outcome OF longstand-
ING trouble "a the farm
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

President Mckinley and Mrs. McKin-
ley are spending few days at Burling-
ton, Vt.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Berry's Root Beer, the newest and
coolest drink, it will quench thirst, at
corner druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

Imported Bay Rum. Is cents a bottle,
glass stopper,d. at SIMPSONS, corner
druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
Three Goats of Cheap

paint will not cover as well as two coats
Of F. W. Deyoe 4 Cos best mixed paint.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
An Old Man Shot.

Westfield, Mass, Aug. Hiram c.
Burlingame. aged sc, was shot and
probably mortally wounded at noon yes
terday at his house on Hampton place,
about three miles north of Westfield
Center by Edward Fitz, aged 20. Three
shots were fired, two taking effect. one
in the breast and the other in the alb
domen. The misGeant fled and the
wounded man managed to crawl about
half a mile to the house of his nearest
neighbor Medical aid was summoned
and an examination showed the wounds
to be probably fatal. Chief of Police
Mullen found Fitz at the farm C Eb-
eneZer Hastings In Middle Farms, where
he was employed, and placed him under
arrest. He was brought TO the police
station in this town, where he admitted
doing the shooting and told the circum-
stances leading up to II. His only
reason for seeking to take the life of the
old man, he says. was TO get possession
OF q revolver. He went 20 BuFlKkahe's
hut and asked If he would sell him a re-
volver. Burlingame gave a favorab BILE
reply and produced the weapon. F1tE
then sprang upon the aged man and
wrenchinE the revolver from his grasp
shot him twice. Burlingame defended
himself as best he could and managed
to get his assailant out of the hut Fitz
then went to a window and fired the
third shot into the hut, but failed to hit
his mark.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
LIVE STOCK MARkET.


Sheep and Lambs-The market was
particularly quiet and inactive this week.
There appeared TO he very little demand
for any stock, although the decline was
not enough to make prices take any
considerable drop. In fact the general
run of the weeks business both in pric, :
and amount of stock on hand. was much
the same as that of last week In none
Of the offerings was there any marked
change such as would affect the mark,t
to any great extent. on the whole
while not I'm any way lively the trade
maintained a steadiness that gave both
drOYers and purchasers an insight to
what was To be expected during the
week. The amount OF the cansif ment
on sheep and lambs was nea' 1000
head in advance OF last weeks upply
The demand was fairly good and the
prices. as on other stock. were thu same
as those OF last week
Northern and Eastern Reef Cattle
There was NJ more than IN usual supply
OF demand for this stock and thu small
number that were on thr market were
Disposed of at the same prices that they
brought last week
Western Cattle-The arrival were con-
siderable lower than last week bur there
was no effect On the market. as the en-
tire consignment was. as usual, wholly
for the export trade NJ quotations
were ma "a IA this market, and the home
slau1ht.tcrS Were not purchasers.
Veal Calves -Thrre was very little. II
any. chang" ~ the stock this week The
price reuaiG-i the same. and the con-
s!%u" hut a few head below
thu al..',"t r"e- iv,G asst Wtek The
sale .HftH h-jSh. although
the rd.# '.... .re shy Il paying an
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
DIR. Andrews Future Plans

Providence. July 3l.-President An
drews of Brown university has accepted
the presidency OF what is styled the Cos
mopolitan university" This is an edu-
cational movement under the auspices of
q New York magazine. and is of the ma
ture Of a correspondence school for those
who are unable to enter upon regular
rolleEe course The acceptance Of this
offer IS conditional upon the acceptance
of his resignation by the corporation OF
Brown university. 1t will not necessitate
his removal from the city.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
Mysterious Death at Haverhin.

Haverhill, Mass, Aug. 4-E. w. San
born, a cabinet maker of Lawrence. came
to this city few days ago and engaged
a room at Mrs. Fenton's boarding house
About 10 o clock last night he complained
of feeling unwell, and leaving his room
In which he and several friends We're en-
joying themselves went out by the back
door upon a platform or staging in the
rear. Shortly after he was found lying
on the ground, two stories below. with
his neck broken and otherwise badly
mangled, death having been almost in
Simultaneous. The affair is clothed In
considerable mystery, and the occu-
pants Of the house tell conflicting stories.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

20.
The Washington bee., 1897-12-25
THEY SAY.

4 HEY SA L.
What did Buckingham ask
Richard
He wanted the moveables of
Hereford.
Honest men never forget their
obligations.
What was Richards fate
He was slain on Botbworth field.
Be true to those who have been
true to you.
"New made honors forget mems
asmes.'
Be what you seem to be and
nothing more.
Don't be alarmed when dogs
bark.
The civil service law will be mod
ifed.
1t is an impediment to republican
principles.
Never get the big head when you
are placed in power.
1t is dangerous disease to be
effected with.
If you have a good horse keep
him.
Never trade while you are on a
hong journey.
Judge Scott takes things very easy.
He is Judge and those who prac-
lice before him say SO.
Judge Kimball will not be re-
appointed.
Commissioner j. W. Ross will
Eetucn soon.
He good man and the colored
mans friend.
We make a mistake sometimes.
When the government is against
you it is best to yield.
In union there is strength.
Perhaps some people will become
wise when they know thing or two.
Don't imagine that you are all
powerful simply because You have
little power.
There never was a horse so sure
footed but that he stumbled.
We often fall on smooth ground.
The BEE is the greatest race paper
1t is a bad thing to tattle on
your friends.
A deceitful man often betrays his
friends.
We often desert those who have
befriended us.
Great deeds are seldom perform
ed by timid man.
A weak man will make many
promises.
The artful man will do artful
deeds.
Men are false because it is hard
for them to be hon st.
BE what nature made you.
1t is hard for some people to tell
the truth.
A great man will not stoop to
do small things.
The world is wicked.
Senator Hanna will return to the
Senate.
1t is wiser to keep your thoughts
sometimes.
1t is the wise man that knows
when to speak.
Strike blow at the proper time,
Some surprises will 60 to the
Senate next month.
President Mckinley has kept
his promises with the negro.
He is fearless as we'll as noble.
Give him credit for what he does,
All men cannot be appointed.
Look out for The BEE next year.
The Cook libel suit will be
eswelghei in balances and found
wanting"
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WANTED.-Refned, energptic ladies
as agents for good-sel'ing I0ilet arti-
cles. Must be well G. >nmended.
Apply between the homs ,f a. m.
and6 p. m. Tuesdays and Thursdays
II Florida Avenue n. w.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-08
C1AMNESS AND REAUrY.

There's calm on the Green tonight, love,
The music all has ceased;
And the Instruments have been taken away,
To be carefully cleaned and creased"
This Is one of eighteen lovely stanzas
composed by town-born poet under
the stimulus of the silence which sue
ceeded a band concert on the Green. 1t
now appears that there is to be a calm
on the Green, love, every night so far
as band concerts are concerned, 1t hav-
ing been discovered that band concerts
on the Green are more illegal than gor-
geous street-sprinkling advertisements,
There are those who will be sorry that
this discovery has been made, but
there is some consolation for them.
That thing of beauty known as the
oand-stand can now fulfill an unmin-
gled mission. 1t Is we'll enough for
some things to be both beautiful and
useful, but men do not usually ask use
fulness of that which is wholly beauti-
AHA' lucy are COlleul 10 De impressed
and inspired by it without making it
work. In the case of the band-stand
we ought to be and probably shall be
satisfied with its beauty alone 1t will
shine in the sun and glow in the cleo
trio light, And when the soft moon
beams play upon it we can be reminded
of the good and beautiful old times
when similar moonbeams played on the
splendid ruins of the Parthenon further
up on the Green.
There's a calm on the Green to-
night, love-" but the band-stand is
there. And as long as it stays there so
long will there be something. And by
and by those of us who do not have to
die without the sight will have the su-
preme satisfaction of seeing how a new
| flag-pole Is inserted in what will then
| be the old band-stand.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-08
FTNANCIALEY EMB4RR1SSED,

Among the sufferers from agricultural
depression and the reduction in the rate
of interest have been institutions of
learning. The financial condition of
Cambridge university is case in point.
The situation is said to be serious.
| When the great bulk of the older col
| lege endowments were bestowed there
| was practically no other method of in
vestment than in agricultural land For
! many years the British farmer, strug
Cling against increasing foreign COM
petition in food-stuffs and increasing
cost of production at home, has been
growing poorer and poorer. From the
consequent fall in rents the Cambridge
colleges have suffered very severely
though not all in an equal degree. In
some cases the misfortune has been al
leviated by demands for building
ground, but in others no such happy
compensation has occurred. 1t appears
that during the last fourteen years the
aggregate amount of corporate income
Invisible among the heads and fellows
of seventeen colleges has been reduced
to the extent of 35 per cent. only two
colleges out of the total number are in
a position to pay the maximum fellow
ship dividend fixed by the statutes,
while in some of the others the divi-
dend falls to mere pittance of about
one third of the normal amount When
the distribution of the revenues was
! last fixed by a statutory commission it
was supposed that the college revenues
would easily bear the burdens laid upon
| them and would steadily increase.
Events having completely falsified this
expectation, the whole scheme of the
commission has been dislocated. The
| colleges being in dire straits to main
tain their own establishments. the
Chancellor has again and again been
/ constrained to use his dispensing power
to reduce their contributions towards
the common purposes of the university,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-08
THE CONQUEST or THE ArR.

When Lord" Benham of this city
sees airships coming from England he
is more of a seer than he appears to be
to the unthinking. He is only a little
ahead of his time. 1t will not be long
before everybody can see them. Those
who will go to the Nashville exposition
can see an airship which has just aston
ished some people and seems destined
to astonish many more. Some time ago
the managers of the exposition were
impressed with the story told them by
Professor Arthur W. Barnard, physical
instructor of the Young Mems Christian
association of Nashville. They made
an arrangement with him, and as a re-
suit they win probably have a great at
traction at their show. The first voy-
age of the airship has been made. It's
designer showed his confidence in it by
going up in it. It is described as bal
loon-like affair, but with a propeller
projecting in front, for steering, and
carrying a revolving canvas wheel, or
reversible sails. There are also canvas
wings at the Sides The steering seems
to be done by pedaling, la bicycle;
and instead of the usual basket under
the balloon, this contrivance has a sort
of bicycle frame The balloon itself Is
filled with hydrogen. Professor Barnard
said he would show the crowd that he
could reverse the motion or direction of
his airship, in spite of the wind; and
this he did, at an altitude Of five hun
dred feet. He also assembled higher,
going up about half mile, and work.
| ing his vessel obliquely across the wind
at the rate of about fifteen miles an
hour. The breaking of one of the pro-
pellers obliged him to cut short his in
tended aerial trip to Memphis, and he
returned to Nashville. He expects to
try it again in a few days
1t will not be many years before we
shall hear: "All aboard, This way
for those going by the Air line! First
! stop LOndon,'