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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08

Several physicians treated me, bot no
permanent benefit was derived.
-Four times was stricken with nervous
prosiratioa twice with gastritis.
kese attacks would throw me into
spa&ms.
/ could eat neither meat or vegetables
II my bare feet touched the floor was
Immediately seized with cramps
was used up; helpless, hopeless.
commenced to take DR.. Willian1s'
Pink Pills !or Pale People. One box was
consumed and felt no better. This dis
couraged me.
My wife urged me to try the pills
some more, feeling that my Lie depended
upon the result.
| continued to take them.
Since then, and ii has been several
months, have enjoyed life.
Have preached all summer and held
revival meetings for fifteen weeks.
have had no muscular exercise for
years, but recently, have done considerable
hard work in my garden, my muscles
standing this test remarkably well.
Every Sabbath | preach three times
and now think | am good for another
twenty years, if the Lord wills
To add weight to his words, Rev. Nc
Cready made affidavit before J. D. Bfookea,
Notary Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale PEOPLE
exert a powerful influence in restoring
wasted nerve power and in purifying and
enriching the blood. Druggists consider
them the most effective remedy which
they dispense.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
Meeting of County Commits
SiOnerS.

An adjourned meeting of the county
commissioners was held at the court
house, Thursday and Friday last. Com
missioners Weber and Smith were
present.
Petition of Edwin II. Bates ct al for
discontinuanee of road in Fairfield, the
road known as Gallagher road, was re-
ceived and a hearing was ordered there
on, Monday, Oct. 10Th, at the Fairfield
House, Fair field.
Petition OF Abraham Newton ct al for
location of highway IN Jackman was
received aud hearing was ordered
thereon Sept. 23l, at Colby's hotel,
Jackman.
Petition of Chas. b. Fillibrown for
abatement of tax in the town of Arson
was received and a hearing will be held
thereon October -, ut Somerset Hotel,
No. Arson.
Reports were made on the following
cases: Petition of Albert Holt and for
alteration in road in Cornvlle. Petition
denied.
Petition of H. l.. Wyman ct al for
discontinuanee of roads in Brighton.
Petition granted.
Petition of E. Z. Atwood ct ais for
location of highway in Embden, Concord
and Lexington. Petition denied.
Petition of Charles Holden ct ais for
location of highway in Jackman and
Holdentown. Petition granted in part.
Adjourned to meet October 18th.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
ENDORSED AT HOME.
One Line Of Skowhegan Evidence Is
Worth a Column Of Foreign
Testimony.

This is Il purely local event
1t took place in Skowhegan, Me,
Not in Buffalo or New York
You are asked 10 investigate ii,
Asked 10 believe citizens word,
To confirm a citizens statement.
Any article that is endorsed at home,
That obtains resident advocates,
Is more worthy OF confidence
Than far-otf foreign article
Testified To by unknown people.
Mr. j. \. Dealey, tailoring and gent 5
furnishings, 80 Water St. says: "I was
annoyed with dull aching across the
kidneys which convinced me that they
were not in AS good condition as they
might be. When bending over the cut.
ting table at work felt il more perhaps
than at any other time sometimes it
made me quite miserable aud if | took
cold my back was sure To ache. | was
always able To get around and attend to
my business, but that aching in nv
back was anything but pleasant had
an attack of il for some time and went
over To Patterns drug store and procured
a box of Doan's Kidney Pills | had
read considerable about them as RENE
dy for the kidneys and they proved to
be just what was claimed for them in
my case. | took one box. They re-
lieved me after using a few doses and [
was entirely well when | stopped the
treatment.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by all
dealers Price 80 cents. Mailed by
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, y Y, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name DOAN'S and
take no other.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08

Hon. Z A. Gilbert, the agricultural
editor of the Maine Farmer appears to
be inclined to practice as well as preach.
On the oath day of August he complet-
ed his grain harvest, six hundred and
four bushels, all threshed from the
field, and the straw stored in safe con-
dition. This was done with his own
machine and with his farm team and
regular farm help, thus being not a
very expensive job. This grain with a
large field of yellow corn now filling
out it's long ears in the summer heat,
will render his farm chiefly independent
of western grain for the year to come.
1t would be grand thing for farmers
in Maine to follow Mr.. Gilbert's exam
pie in this particular.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
Merited Praise.
Noteworthy Enterprise of the Boston
journal In These Days.

Noteworthy Enterprise of the Boston
journal in These Days.
Nerited praise is given y newspaper
which has proved its right TO rank
among the leading papers of the country
in this note, published in recent num-
Der Of the Brocton Enterprise;
1.-The Boston Journal evidently has
the inside on various phases of war news
both at Washington and at the front.
Last week it scooped the whole country
on the news of the resignation of the
officers of the Sixth Massachusetts Vol
unteers, and 1t has been leading the
other Boston dailies right along on i'm
portant bits of war news. Evidently
the journal has good corps of news
gatherers at the capital and in Cuba"
In Porto Rico, the latest centre of in
terest and the scene of the most recent
army movements, the Boston Journal
has correspondent who combines the
faculties of acute observation cool ,ndg.
ment and ability TO tell interestingly
what the people want to know OF this
new and strange country. He is Freder-
rick Roy Martin, to whose credit belongs
the honor of scooping the country on
the resignation of the officers of the
Sixth Massachusetts. His letters, de-
scriptve Of the scenes and events sur
rounding the American Army, are now
appearing almost daily in the Boston
Journal.
The Journal has also 10 Porto Rico a
special photographer, Mr.. W. F. Turner,
who pictured the New England troops
In their camps through the South. His
work will appear, reproduced by the
accurate and expensive half-tone process,
in the Boston Sunday Journal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
Somerset Pomona.

Somerset Pomona Grange will hold its
mkt meeting with Scion Grange, Tues
dav, Sep. 18th, 1898. at 10 a. m.
Programme for the meeting: Open
ing exercises music; business; address
of welcome by w. w. Russell; song by
Brother S. P. Tinkham reply to address
welcome by Ansel Holway; recitation,
sister Ella Smith; song by Brother and
Sister P. S. Longley essay by Sister 5.
Is. Pierce; recitation, Sister Fannie
Clark music by Brother and Sister Tina
Norton; essay by Sister H. F. Thomp-
son paper by Brother p. S. Longley
music; recitation by Sister Eva Russell
question, What course should our gov
eminent persue in relation to the inhab-
iran's of Cuba?" to be discussed by A.
B. Walker, L. c. Jewett, Abel Thomp-
son, d. NJ. Norton and others; music
remarks for the good of the order; clos
ing ceremonies.
c. II. ALLEN, Lecturer.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08

The Portland Press very pertinently
says: severe as the sickness has been
among the soldiers it is slight compared
with what it would have been If the adj
ministration had given heed to the
howlers who demanded an immediate
advance on Havana. The malaria of
Chickamauga has slain its thousands,
but the malaria and yellow fever of
Havana would have slain their tens of
thousands. 1t is not too much to say
that if the army had advanced on Hav-
ana more than half of it would have
been dead or permanently incapacitated.
And yet some of the newspapers which
are making the greatest amount OF
noise over the mismanagement of the
army were the strongest advocates OF
a move on Havana in midsummer. In
deed some of them went so far as to
accuse the administration of delaying
the advance ON Havana in order to pro-
long the war until after the fall cleo
tons.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
The Dreyfus Affair.

Alfred Dreyfus, a Hebrew, formerly
a captain in the l4th regiment of
French artillery, is now undergoing
an unhealthy spot of the. coast of
French Guinea. He WAS formerly on
duty at the ministry for war, was con-
sidered brilliant young officer, mar
ried the daughter OF a wealthy banker
and was himself man OF means.
In the autumn OF 1894, apt. Dreyfus
was arrested on the charge of selling
important documents regarding the
French army to the agent of a foreign
government. His house was searched
but it Is claimed that no evidence of
an discriminating nature was found
there. he charge against him was
based upon memorandum of a pack
age of documents which the prisoner
is alleged to have sold to the represen-
tative of foreign government, gener-
ally believed 10 be Germany, though
another power has been mentioned.
The handwriting of the memorandum
was supposed 10 have corresponded
with that of Dreyfus. Three experts
in handwriting declared that Dreyfus
had written the memorandum. and
wv JULIUS oosCAAVN AlIdl 4IC udu DOl.
In spite of Dreyfus' repeated protes-
tations of innocence, he was tried by a
secret court martial, the exact nature
of the evidence against him was never
revealed, and he was sentenced to inn
prsonment for life in fortress and
to degradation from all military rank
and honors.
Dreyfus was publicly degraded on
hn - la
Paris, Jan. 5, 1895, in the presence of
about 5000 troops.
His epaulets, stripes and buttons
v ere cut of, and his sword was broken.
Dreyfus, however, again protested his
innocence and cheered for France. He
was eventually taken 10 DEVILS island.
where he has since remained.
His faithful wife, his brother and
other friends, including NJ. lola, have
made repeated but Intellectual efforts
to have the prisoners case reopened
which has resulted in a number of in
terpellations from the chamber of dep
uties and in the sente ncing of NJ. lola
to one years Imprisonment and fine of
8 600 francs for alleged libels.
Later developments show that the
documents which Dreyfus is said TO
nave S'Iu were IoIEtu pN Lieut.. tol.
Henry of the French army, who sup
posed he was acting in The country 8
interest even in forging the letter,
which would satisfy the nation of the
justice of the sentence with out proving
the real evidence whi,h would be I'M
desirable ON political grounds. He
was summonsed before the minister of
war and accused of forgery and owned
up to it, and later committed suicide
Several officers of the staff of Gen.
Gonse, assistant chief of the general
staff have resigned. The minister of
Justice NJ. sarrien has already taken
steps to grant Dreyfus re.trial
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08

The hotel stood on a corner of main
street and comparatively unfrequent-
ed side street. One evening | overheard
the little old black man talking very
savagely with another around the cor
ner on the side street. and among other
things he said:
"Yes, sub, an eff l hits you dey
woan' be but two ticks struck. I'll hit
you an you'll hit de groun'
"You done heah whut l say. :"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
Buckiin's A fnica SaIve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per.
feet satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box.
c. W. Folsom's Drug Store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08

a rock in such a way as to break off a
large piece of the hoof. The hoof is
not broken into the quick and the
injury is not serious, yet she will not be
in condition to start in any races this
year. The mare has been acting we'll
this summer and was to have been
given few races late in the season,
had not this accident happened to her.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-09-08
A Minister'S
Trials.

TIN, Narrative Iy0m minister IS a greatest 0aA4e
10 Mose whose nerzes are nnsfrNn9, healtA shattered
or ob4e,Dtss a'lng. II IS bart1cuar qbbrQbrlale IN
tbs age ct acttae, netzol1g eAake5s kal1t.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07

While eating breakfast last Satur- day mording Roderick Wooster was stricken with paralysis which affected his right side and also his speech. He was promptly cared for by MT and Mrs Herriman, by whom he is employed, and will recover from the shock with the aid of the doctors care. Rod" is an old retainer in Mrs Herriman's fam ily-the Peets-having been in the em- ploy of her father, grandfather, and great at-grandfather.
 Henry c. Warner, of Great Barring ton, Mass, historian and genealogist, has recently added to his library "The Story of Methodism, by Hyde" It is a book of over 900 pages, profusely H. lustrated. Mir Warner already had quite line of Methodist histories, be- ginning with rare and valuable copy of Jesse Lees history published at Bal timore in 1Sl0. Without doubt Mir Warner is better informed as to Metho- dist histories and its older literature than the majority of Methodist preach CTS.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
LIQUID FORGE.
CelA Water Successfully Used to Make
 Iron Redhot.

CeA Water Successfully Used to Make
 Iron Redhot-
 Few operations look more like a mir acle than heating piece of iron to a cherry hue or an even more dazzling in- candescence by thrusting it into tank of cold water. None of Herrmann's H. lusions could be more startling than this feat, which as now performed is a practical reality and not merely an en- tertaining trick. Hitherto the black smith has plunged horseshoe or other product of his art into bath beside his forge to lower the temperature of a piece of metal which has already been heated in the fire. It is now proposed to do away with the broad hearth, the coals, the blaze and the bellows, but to retain the tank and its contents. Then simply by immersing the iron therein it will be quickly brought to the desired temperature.
 Two or three trif1ing changes may be made in the tank. A metal lining will be provided perhaps. Possibly some other liquid may be substituted for common water, although it has been proved beyond 0 doubt that the latter is entirely adequate for the work. The most important modification of the ap- paratus-the only essential one, in fact -is provision for sending powerful electric current through the tank in the proper manner. On this account the in- vention is known as the "electrio liquid forge"
 Over in Newark, N. J., the other day, when tests of the device were being made, it was found that a railroad spike fully an inch in diameter acquired a cherry tint 50 seconds after it was dip- ped into the cold bath, while half inch screw bolt came to a white heat in IS seconds.
 When the new system is brought to perfection and introduced into boiler shops, carriage factories. smithies and similar ablishments, 1t is likely to show its superiority over the old one at two or three points For instance, in the liquid forge only that part of the iron which is actually submerged re- oeives the direct action of the heating process, and it is acted upon uniformly along that much of its surface, whereas when it is poked down into live coals on hearth the chances are that either more or less of the iron is heated than the workman wishes, and that one part will be much hotter and softer than an other.
 Then, again, when iron is worked in the common forge it oxidizes and gives of scales, thus wasting the ma terial, weakening the article and per haps spelling the fit in some job There is much reason for believing that the electric forge will prove more econom- ical and more convenient for certain classes of work than the other styles now in common use.-New York Trib- nna
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
POINTERS.

Dressmakers wanted. See adv.
 I. G. Perry Las gone into bicycles. See adv.
 Fassett < Pulver advertise an Easter opening.
 Everything for Easter at E. P. Hunt < Co.'S. See adv.
 New things for Easter at Parsons < Sons. See adv.
 Easter opening at Kittie Whites millinery parlors. See new adv.
 Read the new advertisement which tells you what you can find on Nisbet's Corner.
 Now present your claims against the Cornwall Bridge Iron Company. Read Receiver Smiths notice.
 Just read the cheery greeting and the cordial invitation of the Leader. the new store in Hotel Winchester block at Winsted.
 Don't fail to read the dog law, and the sslectmen's notice thereunto ap- pended. which are published in this issue of the NEWS
 Business is just as good as ever at the Old Red Mills. Ashley Falls, Mass. As you will see by the new advertise ment there is change in name of firm but not in the mill. The mill is just theIsame and is prepared to do all that comes as heretofore iu the shape of milling,
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
Twelve Years, Mystery.

In April 1886. Gilbert Dykmsn, ,a flag man on the Central road below Rhine cliffe, near Bsrrytown was murdered and no one could be convicted of the crime. At that time Herman Hevenor was edi- tor of the Rhlnebeck Gazette and had as printer one John l.. Holdridge. Hevenor was then 20.and Holdridge 15. Hevenor had his suspicious at the time but never said much. Monday morn- ing of this week, Hevenor and Hol- dridge met in New York and Holdridge confessed the murder. He says Dyk- man caught him in the act of assaulting g girl near near the flag shanty, and that he killed Dykmsn with coupling pin. Holdridge is in custody.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
DIMMING ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
A Device by Which Five Different Grades
 May Be Obtained From One Lamp.

A Device by Which Five Different Grades
 May Be Obtained From One Lamp.
 Electric lights for household use have always heretofore been open to the ob- jection that they could not be turned down without putting them out. Where they were used in bedrooms persons who needed a dinner night light were forced to resort to gas, candles or kero- sene. Recently this objection has been overcome, and a number of manufac- turers are now offering for sale sockets for incandescent lamps which enable a person to regulate the amount of light produced within wide limits.
 These sockets can be put up in place of the ordinary ones with little trouble or expense, and the light given out by the lamps which they carry can be regu- lated as readily as can gas jet. This result is attained by the introduction into the socket of coils of fine wire which act as resistance coils. In one style of these sockets there are five of these coils, and the light of 16 candle power lamp can be reduced by two or three candle power jumps down to two candle power. The work of a resistance coil is to absorb some part of the cleo trical current which seeks to pass through it, allowing only the remain ing force to act upon the carbon fila ment of the lamp to produce heat and consequent light. In the new sockets the button, which turns the full current into the carbon filament, is so arranged that it turns on the current at the first movement, but instead of directing it through the carbon at once 1t passes it through the whole five of the resistance coils These coils absorb so much of the electrical energy that the carbon is heat ed only to a red color and its glow is dim.
 By further turning of the button one of the resistance coils is left out of the circuit, and the carbon gets more energy and rises in temperature and light giving qualities. Another move ment cuts out a second coil and gives more light, and so on until all the coils are cut out and the carbon gets the full strength of the current. These new sockets do not make any saving in the cost of the dimmer lights, as is done when one turns down gas jet or lamp wick, for the full current is al- ways in use for each grade of lighting, but they are convenient.-New York
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
SPECIAL NOTICES!

We have over on the corner added . market garden, 8 poultry yard and a daughter yard. We have. they say, (they ths. calD place where we slaugh- ter groceries for cash. J. L. BRAGG.
 Over on the corner we have & board ing house "The Naples" a grocery store, feed store, meat market, wagon runs days in week, bakery, a car risge repository, also lumber, shingle, lath, brick. Portland cement, fertilizers, Deering's moving machine and farm implements. Keep track of this notice.
 J. l., BRAGG.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
DIED

BUELL-At Litchheld, March 24. Kath. crime l. Doolittle, wife of William A. Buell., aged 6i.
 MoREHoUsE-At New Milford North ville) March g, Jair Morehouse, ged SS years and s months. rALLMAN-Suddenly at Poughkeepsie, N. ' March 3l. John c. Tallman. in the 67th year of his age. NARKs-At Ct Burlington, April f, Jo- seph Marks. aged Fl. LINDSEY At Ashley Falls, Mass April 6. William Lindsey, aged about 65. FRANCIS s-At Lakeville, March 31, Mrs Francis. widow of Patrick Francis, aged about 70.
 LANDoN-At Lakeville, April 1. Mrs Mary R Landon, widow of Nelson Landon, aged so years and f months TANNER-At Ore Hill, March 30. Mrs Morris Tanner aged 70 years. HoAG-At Ancram, N. Y, March 29, Hattie Williams. wife of Asa Hoag, aged 19 years and months. WMcox-At Pine Meadow, March 26. Geolge F. Wilcox, aged 5S, veteran of Go. D. 18th Regiment, Conn Vol unteers.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
AlaSkan Eoresta.

The gold of Alaska, on which the at- tention of mankind is just now fixed with brilliant anticipation, may not in the end turn out to be the greatest treasure which that land possesses The Alaskan forests appear to be among the most valuable in existence. Extending from Cross sound, a little south of Mount Fairweather, to the strait of Juan de Fuca, partly in Alaska and partly in British Columbia. lies what Garden and Forest describes as the greatest continuous body of timber of the cone bearing or pine family in the world, "almost unmarked as yet by the ax. safe from fire and of easy access" Security from fire due to the moist oli- mate is regarded as one of tho chief causes of the continued existence of these magnificent forests.-Popular Sci. epoe News
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
Suicide.

William Lindsey of Ashley Falls, Mass. committed suicide yesterday morning by hanging himself to a hook in the wall of his bedroom shortly after 2 o'clock. He was about 65 years old and had no family. but lived with a housekeeper, Mrs Rogers. He built a new house year or more ago and had gotten into debt and was discouraged about money matters. He arose yester- day morning, took care of the cows, went back to his bedroom. and when he failed to come to breakfast. he was found hanging to the hook where he had strangled to death.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07

''I feel it my duty to give you a truthful statement of what Chamber laiu's Collie. Cholera and Disrrhoea Remedy did." writes s. Collins, of Moore. s c. "I had a child about two years old, that had the diarrhoes for two months. tried all the best known remedies, bnt none gave the least re- lief. When this remedy came to hand, I gave it as directed. and in two days the child was completely cured. Sold by W. H. Camp, Canaan; Geo. H. Clark. Salisbury; c. E. Frink. Falls Village.
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07

Somebody sent to Mark Twain at Vi enus a marked copy of the "New York Evening Post" giving statistics of the increase of crime in Connecticut in the past seven years. He returns the clip ping. with the comment penciled on the margin: "This just the time that l have been absent from the state. - Hartford Courant
Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07
MAR R HE'D.

MoULAND-SYEI In this village, April f. by Rev $. A. Burnsby, M. Jsc. MoHland. and Mile. Celestine Syei, both of East Canaan.
 SHERWOOD -GooDENoUGH-At the Con- gregationsl church in Winchester, March 30, by the Rev Arthur Good enough. Mir Myron N. Sherwood, of Now Hartford. and Miss Mary A. Goodenough, eldest daughter of the officiating clergyman.