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st. Adams.

Mr.. Turner has had all the business he
could attend to at his shovel handle
factory this winter.
There has been but very little lumber
hauled to the saw mills and we learn
from different parties in town that quite
a goodly number have not got their years
supply of wood up on account of the
great depth of snow.
Town meeting comes off the 2lst.
Several want to be road commissioner.
Snow is settling fast, roads are getting
quite bad.
Good potatoes are scarce and worth a
dollar per bushel, apples the same. Hay
plenty, stock is wntering well.
The Harrison Smell place is for sale.
The Jordan farm has been sold to a
man from Lowell, Mass, who Is soon to
move on the farm.
Hon. ID. ID. Stewart is quite well and
has been all winter.
Mr.. Harding is doing good business
at the grist mill.
Mrs. Samuel kincaid is up to Will
mantle spending the greatest part of the
winter with her daughter.
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Messengers Notice.
STATE OF MAINE.

SoMERsT S.: COURT OF INSOLVENCY.
In the case of Erastus c. McKechnie OF
Fairfield, lnsolvent Debtor.
This is to give notice that on the End day Of
Mar. A. ID. 1898, q warrant in insolvency was
issued out of the Court Of Insolvency for said
County OF Somerset against the estate OF
Erastus @. McKechnie of Fairfield
adjudged to be an insolvent debtor on petition
of said debtor which petition WAS filed on the
End day OF Mar. A. d. 1888, to which date
interest on claims is to be computed. That
the payment OF any debts to or by said debtor,
and the transfer and delivery of any property
by him are forbidden by law. That a meeting
OF the creditors Of said debtor, to prove their
debts and in case there are assets sufficient
to authorize the same, to choose one or more
of Insolvency to be holden at the Probate
Court Room in Skowhegan, in said county, on
Tuesday the 18th day Of April A. d. 1898, at
one O'Clock in the afternoon.
Given under my hand the date first above
written. 3wl0
VIM. F. MUTT, Deputy Sheriff,
as Messenger of said Court of Inso1vency
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A SEEMING DISCREPANCY.
rhe Dear Lady Has Her Dsaehtar's In
terest ut Stske.

rhe Dear Lady Has Her Daaehtar's EA-
tersst Ut stske.
She 10 q lady whose husband has 90
cumulated large share of this worlds
goods. She does not care how much
anything costs and desires people to
know that she doesn't care So it was
not through any fear that she was not
getting her moneys worth that she re-
proved her youngest daughter. who had
been practicing at the piano. The little
girls efforts had been harrowingly per-
sistent and dutiful, and she was hurt as
well as surprised when her mother in
dignantly remarked:
Dolly, / am compelled to remind
you that we have employed the best
teacher in the city for your musical ed
ucation and that as we propose to spare
no expense in the future you ought to
be more conscientious in laying foun'
dation You will gain nothing by slight
ing the work now. | am determined
that you shall learn to play the piano
no matter what it costs"
81 was practicing faithfully" the
pupil protested.
My dear. do not attempt to deceive
your mother.
But you heard me practicing, didn't
your"
1T may be, was the chilly re-
joinder, that your mothers advantages
in early life were not SO great as those |
intend that you shall enjoy. But there
is one study in which | was always
good, and it will be useless for you to
attempt to mislead me in anything con-
nected with it. That is arithmetic.
81 never said you weren't splendid in
arithmetic, but that hasn't anything to
do with my piano playing.
"Unless my eyes are at fault those
are five finger exercises that You are
now supposed to be working on
Eyes !"
Every we'll. Do not think that l for
get myself SO far as to speak in anger.
But l should very much like to know
what you mean by trying to play five
finger exercises with both hands. De
troit Free Press,
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COrnyilie.

The roads were quite bad, Monday
Lester Bicknell and lady of Madison,
were in town, Monday.
The deer are making their appearance
on the crust now.
Mr.. Clark went to the City, Tuesday.
A change in stage drivers again.
Phillip Gardner is having great sale
of native herbs.
C. c. Kinsman has his shovel handles
made.
The w. U. Il. Club met with Miss
Lydia Currier and had very interesting
meeting. The order of exercises was
first, quotations from W. d. Howells
and Margaret r. Sangster, followed by
selections from their writings by nearly
all the members; then current events
and questions, with United States his
tory; then adjournment to meet at the
same place through the remainder of the
winter.
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United States Mail Protectors.

The United States government is
sometimes served for years by valuable
servants who are not even boarded at
the expense of the government. These
servants are cats. Ratsare one of the
persistent dangers that threaten the
United States mail. They destroy the
bags and the mail matter. The postoffice
building in New York city is large
building and now many years old. 1t is
said that there are 80 cats in the build
ing cared for by the clerks Some of the
cats have never lived anywhere else |;
others have come in from the neighbor-
hood. The cats who have known only
this home are very shy of strangers and
will come only to the clerks in the
building. So you see that the govern
ment is served without pay by these
faithful servants who prevent the de-
struotion by rats of valuable property,
and all that is given them is shelter, -
Outlook
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Blackwell.

Mrs. James WEIGH spent the day at
Skowhegan, Friday.
Mr.. Asa White of Clinton stopped a
few days, last week, with his cousin, p.
ID. Gates.
Mrs. Furber and son, Merle, of the
river road, have been visiting the family
of Daniel Murray for few days.
Mrs. Nettie Prince returned, Friday,
from Skowhegan, where she has been
keeping house for her sister, Mrs. Rec.
ord, the past week.
Mrs. Veasie spent Tuesday last, call
ing upon friends in Madison.
Mrs. Perry Gates has been in Skowhe-
gan, the past few days.
Quite number of maple orchard
owners in this locality have begun tap
ping trees.
Mrs. Annie Adams returned Thurs
day, from Madison, where she has been
working in the family Of Rev. MIR. MOI
cross.
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Carratunk.

Lewis Martin died at this place, Thurs
day. Mr.. Martin was sick about ten
weeks. He was taken with la grippe
and slow fever, which terminated in
consumption. He was an honest, hard
working man and was respected by all.
He leaves a wife and six children, an
aged mother, two sisters, and five broth.
ers besides other relatives to mourn their
loss. The funeral took place, Saturday
afternoon, and was conducted by Rev. j.
c. Gregory of Bingham. Mr.. Martins
age was AZ years. His death being the
fourth one in about three months and a
half, it casts gloom over the town.
Mr.. Charles Lewis of East Madison
and Jennie and Susie Martin attended
the funeral of Lewis Martin.
We would like to know what has be.
come of The Forks correspondent. W.
think If they were showed under it Is
time they were thawed out.
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Athens.

Fine weather and bad roads are now
in order.
Robert Hayden went to Skowhegan,
Sunday.
Mr.. Southland Walker of Concord, was
in town, Tuesday.
We learu that our mail route has been
changed so as to make an independent
route from Skowhegan to Athens. Bids
will now be received cat the post office
for drivers on the Skowhegan and Athens
line, also FROM Athens TO Brighton. We
hope that this arrangement will prove
beneficial to our citizens.
Clarence Hight returned home, Satur-
day, from Auburn, where he has been
visiting friends.
Horace Patterson received four nice
horses from Boston, Thursday.
Ernest Decker has returned from the
West on account of the illness of his
father, Albert Decker.
Henry Atwood has been absent from
school the past week, on account OF a
bad cold.
Charlie Chapman, Liberty Jones,
Mark Drury and Ed Corson returned
from the woods, last Friday.
An electric road from Skowhegan to
Athens is now the talk. Hope we shall
get it.
Lawrence Hayden of.Madison, was in
town, Thursday.
Mr.. E. S. Locke of Boston, is visiting
relatives in town.
w. j. Walker, f. Fl. Holman and L.
B. Hoyt went to Skowhegan, Friday.
Mrs. Carrie Stickney, who has beer
sick for the past few months, remains
about the same.
n. P. Bush, while returning frou
Skowhegan one day last week to his
home at Coles Corner with a load OF
fertilizer, got out of the road and broke
his sled, leaving him "hors de combat.
Mr.. Fred York Of Cornville, passed
through town, Sunday, on his way tt
Brighton.
Almon Locke went to skowhegan
Thursday.
Many of our farmers are still hauling
In their supply OF ice.
Mr.. Daniel WILEY of Skowhegan visited
his cousin, p. B. Wiley, last Friday.
s. S. A.
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NOTICE QE FORECLOSURE.

~ H. aes .. 5 y, sie ID
by his mortgage deed, dated the twentieth day
OF August A. ID. 1897, and recorded in Somerset
conveyed to me, the undersigned a one fourth
interest in common and undivided OF q certain
parcel OF land situated in the town of Nor
ridgewock in said Somerset County, and
bounded and described as follows, to witt
Beginning at a stone at the South east corner
OF the 8. M. Handy lot, thence Essterly by
Main Street eight rods to point in the pas.
sage way between this and the Ward lot; thence
Northerly to the South asst corner OF the lot |
sold to e. S. ngley. thence Westerly by the
South Line Of the Longley lot aforesaid to the
East line of the S. M. Handy lot, thence South.
erly by said East line to point begun at and
whereas the condition of said mortgage has
been broken, now therefore. by reason of the
breach of the condition hereof, claim fore.
closure Of said mortgage.
Dated March sth, 1893. 8w10
CHARLES w FARRAND
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Dr.. Thomson's
SarsapariIIa Cures,
Read the Testimony from One o.
Uncle Sans Trusted Empioyee..


Hearing Is one thing, but knowing is anoth.,
that l know about DR.. Thompson's Sara.
parilla I was in a TERRIBLE condition, my lave,
limbs were numb. and had no action at all /
stepped on large tobacco tack and went
did not feel it, had terrible heart attacts h,
I turned round quick would fall on the 400,
WAS dizzy headed. 1t seemed as though m,
head would go away off, then come bach
would be just that way. could do no wash
ing for year. l weighed only 81 pounds /
had doctored by q umber OF doctors. 1 wore
an electric belt, and used the battery on nv
feet for about six months and would taks
everything | heard OF for rheumatism ana
paralysis. but when commenced to take b.
Thompson's Sarsaparilla l began to grov
better | do not have any heart trouble nov.
dance night. and danced, something / had
never expected to do again. My feet have
come to their natural color. Before they
looked as IL they were dead. They are nov
four OF US. and keep the post office besidea
l now weigh about one hundred pounds'
This is all within one year. Now IL any OF nv
suffering sisters will write to me will answer
been sick for the past Ave years. shall keen
taking DR.. Thomsons Sarsapari1la another
year at any rate. have sold it to my custom
ers with the best satisfaction, and in fact ali
their remedies cannot be beat. One bottle h,
enough to give relief, but you want to take
more to get your system renovated anew. I
know that feel like new woman, and all my
neighbors and patrons for miles around cas
walk when go out to q neighbours, without
any pain. Nobody knows but God and myself
what suffeIe for three years. DR.. Thomson's
Sarsaparilla has done wonders for me.
MRS. P. F. DUDLEY
North Guilford, Me-, Nov. 40th, 1897.
For Sale at Patterns Drug Store Skow h egan,
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Assl o.w.. al1a1lsy s1tll9 y 1skh,
last week. II
MIS- iosssy aspsoyioe Csuasn, ! Gdod
will student, q spsndlug nj week's VA
cation with friends 10 Oakland.
Mrs. Fred Nelson and little son have
returned to her home 10 Bowdoinham,
after several months visit at her fathers
10 this place.
Mr.. Arthur Wardwell and wife have
hired out to stay another year on the
Skowhegan town farm.
Mr.. Scott Holt and Mrs. Frank Black
we'll are among the sick ones
Mrs. Chester Gaylord and children
visited In Canaan, last week.
Mr.. Samuel Bicknell died at his home,
last Saturday p. M, after few weeks
illness.
Perley Beals and wife start for Cali
fornia, Tuesday OF this week. Cecil
Lalley accompanies them.
Among the visitors in this place, last
week were Mrs. Frazier Parsons aud son
of Cornville, Mrs. Albert Smith OF Fair
field, Mr.. Merle Foster of Canaan, aud
Mr.. and Miss Hatch of Shawmut.
M. ID. Holt shipped cattle from ohnton
sta tion, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Toy attended a
coasting party at Mr.. Simeon Pettigrew's
in Clinton, last Monday eve.
M Eugene Decker was married to a
Portland lady, last Friday evening, SO
report says.
Ferdy Spaulding is on a visit to Bos-
ton, for few weeks.
Mr.. Bert Ames visited in Norridge-
wock, over Sunday.
The entertainment at Burrill hall was
we'll attended, last ednesday night,
and the travelling allowing, there will be
another social there, Wednesday night
of this week.
The winter term of school closed here,
Friday p. IN. Miss Mae Bowman of No.
Fairfield, teacher.
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For The RxrosrEa.
w. q. +. q. Work.

At the last meeting Of the National
| Convention Of the w. c. T. U. resolu.
! ton was passed "to make prohibition q
leading object of work for the ensuing
year." and now the state superintendent
Of "press work" sends out call to all
her co-worker to send out through the
press q ringing, stirring call to rally
10 the cause. And 1t seems very
fitting that as the 20th of March draws
near 1.-THE birthday of the Industrious Neal
Dow that we should memorabilia his
life work by sending out all along the
lines our earnest appeals for prohibition.
| No doubt the question most frequently
asked Ia docs prohibition prohibit? The
best evidence we have on the subject is
! from those who lived before the pro
hbitory law was created, and we are
told by them that there Is vast diff
ference. That In those days no social
gathering, no friendly call, no wedding
or funeral but what liquor in some form
was freely supplied. That every country
store and wayside inn kept their barrels
of New England rum, gin, etc., and that
all this was done without reproach or
reproof, but through the earnest efforts
of that grand old man" these things are
not, and to do these things now, one
would make themselves amenable to the
law and receive the censure and criticism
of all right minded citizens.
That prohibition does not entirely pro-
hbit is self-evident act, but like other
criminal laws is sometimes broken, but
that is no argument for its repeal, but
more reason for aggressive work. Our
laws against theft, murder, etc., are often
! broken, but is that any reason tn y
should be abolished? Certainly not. We
also believe in its enforcement the same
"a any other law. | once heard judge
on the bench say to jury, THAT no
matter whether we believed in law or
not if the law was violated IL was crime
lust the same
We cannot better honor the name and
memory of one who devoted life work
to the cause of prohibition and gave to so
great a legacy as the "Mane Liquor
Law" than by consecrating ourselves
anew on this Goth dav of March, to more
faithfulness, more earnestness along this
| line.
Neal Dow one. said to friend, 1.-The
Maine Liquor Law more than any other
measure, will bless the people who adopt
IT," He never lost faith in that pre-
dction and believed that time had amply
Justified it, Surely no law ever attracted
more attention and is known world wide
as well as 1t originator, who won laurtls
on both continents.
"Behold sower went forth to sow
| In the spring of the century long ago,
| Flood and tempest and fire and frost
Swept the field, but no seed was lost.
| What Of the harvest? The old Maine seed
Is growing bread for the great worlds need"
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If we do not soon see salmon at LON
don bridge, there is fair prospect OF
our catching sea trout there before long.
The main cause is the gradual cleans
ing of the Thames water, largely
through the action of the county council
in securing better treatment Of the Lon
don sewage; while minor contribution
is made by the efforts of the Thames
conservanoy to make the Thames not
only a navigable waterway, but clean
enc. The sure and certain indexes of
this Improvement have been the success
sive temperatures of certain kinds OF
fish, creeping up annually higher and
higher from the sea.
The writer has noted this process for
some l / years, with increasing satisfao-
ton. The first indication conveyed to
his mind that some change was taking
place was the appearance of a couple Of
porpoises at Hammersmith bridge early
ON the morning of the fateful day when
Mr.. Gladstone's home rule bill was re-
jected. Walking back to Chiswick, after
witnessing the memorable scene in the
lobby of the house Of commons at Q 80
that morning, he saw the porpoises, and
though Roman annalists would have en-
tered this as an incident full Of political
omen-monstra martina in Tiberi visa
he guessed that they had come up in
pursuit of fish. So they had, for shortly
after it was announced that the tubes Of
certain torpedo boats had been cboked
with whitebait on their way down to
run the mile at Lower Hope A few
years later the whitehall and shrimps
were swarming at Gravesend. -Cornhill
Magazine
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NOTICE Of FORECLOSURE,

Whereas Nathan d. Davis, OF Scion in the
mortssse deed, dated The Eighth day Of ~ mas hIs
A. D. 1897, and recorded in Somerset s.,
Registry Of Deeos, Book 2al page $685. conveyed
to me, the undersigned, certain parcel Q!
SCION, and being Lot Number 80. containing
One Hundred and Fifty acres more or less, and
being tbs same promises decided to Nathan D.
Davis by Josiah L. Davis, by his deed dated
June 28th A. D. 1873, and recorded in Somerset
IS, Registry Of deeds. Vol. 1853, Page 3O8; and
whereas the condition Of said mortgage has
been broken. now therefore, by reason of the
breach OF the condition thereof. | claim q
for eclosure OF said mo rtgage. 3wlO
Dated March 5th 1898
LUTHER f, HUNNEWFLL
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A recent railroad wreck in North
Carolina was caused in a peculiar way.
A colored man wanted to get ride and
tried to jump a train of empty fat cars.
track, where the wheels of several cars
passed directly over him. His body
threw two OF the ca the track, and
the strangest part ol IS that after the
cars had run over him the man was able
to get up and walk away. AS he looked
around him he was heard to exclaim
"Well, we'll | never see de like sence
wuz bon. I'll bet my week s wages dat
railroad'H sue me fer damages. AT
lanta Constitution.
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A just Rebuke.

Lord George Bentinck did not like a
debtor. When dining once in his club,
he noticed man whom he knew as a
defaulter also dining there. The latter
called for his bill. AS the waiter was
bringing it, Lord George interposed, and
in his commanding, inoisive tones said,
Waiter, bring that bill to me-" Coolly
casting his eye over its items, Lord
George said, in voice heard all over
the room and with severity of tone
which made his unfortunate victim
vince, Before Captain - orders
such expensive dinners he should pay
his debts of honor San Francisco
Argonaut.
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Notice of Petition for DISCHARGE

SOMERSET COUNTY, COURT OF INSOLVENCY..
In the case of Abel H. Patten of Skow-
hogan, Insolvent Debtor. Notice is hereby
given that said Debtor has fled in said court
for said county Of Somerset. his petition for
discharge from all his debts provable under
for certificate thereof; add that q hearing
upon the same will be held at the Probate
Court Room in Skowhegan, in said county OF
Somerset, on Tuesday, the 18th day of Aprll
A. D.. 1898, at one O'Clock in the afte oon'
when and where all persons interested may
the prayer Of said petition should not be
granted
ATTEST: NATHAN FO WLER,
Register OF So id Court for said County oil
Somerset 2wll
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Men of Weakened Power, Ex-
hausted VigOr.

Weak men suffering from nervous de-
hility, weakened power and exhausted
vigor, can now take new hope. DR..
Greene, "a Temple Place, Boston, Mass,
who is without doubt the most success
full specialist in curing this class of dis
eases, offers to give free consultation by
mail to all weakened, vigorless and
nerve.exhausted men. You have the
privilege of consulting DIR. Greene by
letter describing your complaint and he
will, after carefully considering your
condition, send you free letter fully
explaining all your symptoms, telling
you everything about your complaint SO
plainly that you will understand exactly
what ails you. Write to him at once
and get back your strength and vigor.
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Free pills.

Send your address to II. +. Bucklen &
Co.. Chicago, and get free sample box
of DR.. Kings New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are particu,
larly effective in the cure Of Constipation
and Sick Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have been proved in
valuable. They are guaranteed to be
perfectly free from every deleterious
substance and to be purely vegetable
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Regular
size 25c. per box.
Patterns Drug Store, C. w. Folsom,
Proprietor.
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Palmyra.

Nathan Wright was buried, Sunday,
the 18th, aged 20 years.
Perry Furbush sold his three-year-o old
Holstein bull to E. H. Thompson. His
weight was 2600 pounds. He was ship
ped to Bangor.
The widow of the late Lewis Wyman
remains about the same. She has been
sick a long time.
Mrs. G. j. Maxim, who has been sick
for long time died the 9th, aged about
so years.
Mrs. Annie Furbush, aged "a years,
fell one day last week, and injured her
arm quite badly. She is totally blind
and nearly deaf.
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Browns Corner.

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Cool and little
daughter of Oakland, visited his mother,
Mrs. Alonzo Wyman, few days, re-
Gently.
Friends of Miss Katie Lewis are pleas
ed to learn that she has found such a
good home in the family of Mr.. Aaron
Drew at the village.
The moist weather of few days, is
fast settling the snow. The roads are
very soft.
G. H. Wheeler had a horse break leg
on Wednesday of last week, while haul
ing boards to East Madison.
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Snithfeld.

Mrs. Sarah Russell of Norridgewock,
has been spending few days at Hiram
Robinson's.
The road commissioner has filed his
bond and it is accepted by the selectmen.
Mrs. Lutte Marston has gone to Read
field, where she will make her home
with her parents for the present.
A. b. Cole was in Augusta and Bow
doin, last week, on town business.
The roads are very bad and there is
very little travel.
Have been having some very good sap
weather, and nice crust every morning
Parties from Fairfield were In town,
last week, looking after good horses, and
bought very nice one of Mrs. Afford
Withsm.
Mr.. Lysander Stevens and family have
moved from the Shirley place.