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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13

PETERSBURG. Tuesday nigh, the
members of the y. T. Hin Rifles w,r.
PRESENTED with a beautiful silk flag. a
siit from Miss Salli, Bernard. of Pc
,erspurs. by whom it was made. Tho
~ =, ,atioh address WAS made by Mr.
acceptance by Captain NJ G. J.r,,c,,,
commanding officer Of the conpanv
Alter the presentation Of the flag tho
company marched in body to Miss
ternard's residence to thank her rnr
the beautiful gift. The speech of thanks
was made by Mr.. Charles Trotter Las
sitter, Comm"nWcalth'S Attorney for
Petersburg, who is also second li.ut,.,,
ant OF the Rifles. Mr.. Richard Il Dn-
WIS replied on behalf of Miss Bernard.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13
WAS TIE MAINE HOoDDoE.D?
y H"ilct Among Sailors That the Vessel
N-.IS nh IL.

Was Jnlucky.
There are many stories ;!ont among:
''tNai men VINO DcllcV. III ''hottiuuS
mt the Maine WAS unlurky from the
gay 81: was completed. says the New
DIRK Tribune. 1T is said that lh,. great
est care WAS taken III her constructions
as the Naval Board was rather sllS,pi-
tluliS 81 the way the previous contract
ofs mad filled the orders of thu. govern
hl"nt, and for that reason tn" M:lin,.
became the pride of Thu. navy Little
miShalS took place from tim. to time
lhat made the sailors say sin. WAS --u,l-
lucky, anu in August. 1896 when sin,
lo'iicd her anchor IN Key West and
bent the plates Of her port Keel every
body wondered how ii could have hap
pcned. The following February three.
men We're Wounded while at target
practice by the explosion of Il l-l,uli!u
shell ana in July, 1881. the bu,t!vSAil,
ran INTO AN Last river pier ana Ctit IN
Two Il barge loaded with rairuiu ears
IL Is SAID that the sailors felt uneasy
when they went with the Maine Oh its
delicate mission to Havana. rs they he
lleNcu ii was "houivOeu :"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13
THE TROOPS AT TAMPA.
They Will Soon Re on Their W-av to
Cuban Soil
(By Telegraph

(By Telegraph.)
IA MPA. May !2.-Before Saturday
night 1t is probable that the entire
body Of troops at Tampa and Por1
Tampa will be loaded on the biz. trans
ports lying at the wharves at PDr,
Tampa and all will be in readiness for
the final word Every one Of the eleven
regiments OF infantry, the Ninth cav
airy and ten light batteries of ar1i Ie
ny received orders this evening to be
ready TO break camp at moments
notice. Tonight these orders were SUP
.piemented BY orders to pack every
\ t mn except the tents. For the first
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13

judge j. w. G. Blackstone, of Ac-
r'hi;'r county was in the city ycstcr-
CAY. the guest of Clerk of the Corpora
li1m Court, u. G. Smith
Tie {. =. Huntington Republican
league club Will give Il bali at the Ca
sinn next Tuesday night.
MI. krmper u. shelley is confined
u ms residence on Roanoke avenue
nn account Of sickness
Miss Mercedes johnson, of Ports
mouth. is visiting her sister, Mrs. ]. III.
christie, on Twenty eighth street
NJ. T. T.. Drew. who has been con-
hhrti 70 MS room by sickness, is con
Na!,snrnt
Mr. J +. Parham died yesterday morn
aNs ~ : o'clock at his home. No. $40
! WrntN-SiNth street. Deceased had been
~ Tor II" past few days with a severe,
attack Of pneumonia, which resulted
in death
Mr.. rarham with Mrs. Parham :oa
lh"ir four children. came to Newport
News about ten months ago from Suf-
folk and made their home here.
Deceased was an employee of the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
DOCK Company. He WAS about So years
of ar.
n" remains Will be sent to Suffolk
Cor inpr,r1cnt.
Ihe ladies' and gentlemen of the Ohio
N@t"aa'i"n 10 the Southern Rantist
convention, which met in Norfolk ::
lt@ GAYS ego arrived in the city YES
NHt'aE morning on tho steamer Louise
"HH boarded the train for Cincinnati
"'' route home. They so on a through
car al the way.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13
ALONG The WATER FRONT
ITEMS n:' INTEREST GATilEEEi
Ahol! THE iIEES
Weather Itnr..,.l.,
liy Telegraph

WASHlNt.TpN. May 1e-Forccas,
tor N!rgini;t Fair weather; preceded
w showers III eastern portion in the
"aElE morning. Westerly Winds
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13

,,,s .one inter that makes city water
IKE lythla. Adams Racket Store ~
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13
Vessels Saii.d Yc.tcr.,,v

S'eaner indraleina ,Er,). Campbell,
Steamer Nsnia tpano Copenhagen.
iiitndt..
Large Forest Belle, Providence.
l;nrG" Oakland. I:ustoil
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13

Good screen doors, complete & m
Adams Racket Store. sA.v y.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13

Steamer t'reenbricr usr), Trnick.
f.nnt;"i.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-13
AkNlN.lLs AND nnrAnruKEs,

Vessels Al rived Yesterday.
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The remains Will be sent TO Suffolk
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

Dr. Mary Barker Bates has been re
elected to the school board of Denver
from the First district. The vote cast
i'll this, the most important district of
the city, WAS the heaviest known for
years. \ great number of women voted,
in spite of inclement weather DR.. Bates
had the Endorsement of the Civic fedora
ton and was also supported by the
Womcn's club and received the hight It
vote cast in the district The Denver
News says
DR. Bates was a charter member of
the Women's club, where she has al
ways belonged to the educational de-
partment Wherever she is known it is
as IA woman of ability and devotion to
duty. She was elected to represent the
mothers i'll District No. L. and she has
done So During the six years of her
term she has served on the kindergarten,
Sloyd and public library committees
and her later service on the committee
on public buildings and grounds, man
ual training school and domestic science
has been particularly effective. She has
the faculty of original investigation and
research i'll school matters, which is re.
freshiug and agreeable to taxpayers and
others interested in the schools Or
Bates is always quiet and moderate in
speech, but while conservative has been
progressive i'll her plans for the schools
For three years she has filled the re-
sponsible position on the board of chair
man of the building committee. No
man could have been more practical; no
man on the board has ever been as
watchful and economical With all thu
zeal of live nineteenth century edu-
Gator she has not only worked to keep
the Denver schools abreast of the most
advanced methods Of teaching but she
has watched over the sanitation of the
schools with rare intelligence and zeal
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16
STATE OLE MAINE


Somerset ss. Court of County Commissioners
May 26, March Adjourned Term, A d ISIS
pom the foregoing petition. being satisfied
that the petitioners are responsible and that
an inquiry INTO the merits Is exped lent
II l. ORDERED, that the County Commission
ers meet al the store OF Geo. ", Bates
in lornville in said Somerset County on
Monday, August LIST. \. D. 1898, at one
O'Clock p. M and thence proceed to view the
route mentioned in said petition; and imme-
diately after hearing OF the parties will be
had at some convenient place in the vicinity,
and such further measures taken in the
premises as the Commissioners shall Judge
proper.
And it is further Ordered, that notice OF the
time, place and purposes OF the Commission
ers' meeting aforesaid, be given to all persons
and corporations interested, by publishing an
attested copy OF the petition aforesaid with
this order thereon, in the SOMERSET REPORT
Err, public newspaper printed at Skowhegan
in said county, and also attested copies of the
same TO be served upon the Town Clerk of the
town of Cornville. and TO be posted in three
public places in said town. the publication.
and serving and posting of the same to be at
least thirty days before the time appointed
for said view, that all interested may then APP
pear and be heard, il they think proper
Attest y. ". BRAINERD, Clerk.
A true copy Of the Petition and order of
Court thereon. lw24
Attest: n W. BRAINERU CLERK
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

\ woman who Was noted for her eX
quisite gowns when she was a society
woman and who has been upon the
stage for several years was induced by a
well known periodical to write a little
article upon the art of dressing Her
creed could be formulated III few
words, says the Philadelphia Times, and
one often hears it from people of less
authority 1t is to put ones money into
the making of gown. The material
does not matter so much. 1t need only
be becoming i'll shade and need not be
expensive. OF course every woman Of
good taste will avoid shoddy looking
or cheap material, but she can get eX
cellent values nowadays for less than a
dollar yard Such good stutfs are now
made i'll Canada and parts of our own
country that it is no longer absolutely
necessary to pay the price of import
ed woolens when having light
weight wooden gown made. All that is
necessary is to go to reliable house,
take its advice about the materials it
sells us to quality and be guided by your
own taste III the matter OF becOmlngnesS
of design and shades.
Another matter of Importance is the
lining 1t really is far better to have a
silk lining for IA gown, especially if one
is to have that for almost every occa-
sion. Here we come to il real item Of
expense, for good lining silk cannot be
bought for less than 10 cents YARD
and even then it is not always safe o
trust it. 1t is better this year to buy the
silks with little stitfoning i'll them.
They rustic less consequently are in
better taste and wear longer. OF course
silk lining is not an absolute necessity.
1t Is honestly a luxury, and if one can
not afford tn be extravaganza on that
score it is well to turn contentedly to
the many handsome Innings which have
been described before in this column If
silk is used, it will be found that it
wears much better with the now drop
skirt effect than II did when the lining
was fastened to the outside skirt at ev-
cry seam.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

The Audubon society Of Philadelphia
held al exhibition Of trimmed mats "a
Gently thar az akened much interest
among women aud bar proved couclu-
siyely that Ito IL stylish women need
not be cruel. The attendance at tAe
exhibit Was extremely gratifying, the
most fashionable women II society pat
ronizing the affair. Not only did the
women evidence II words their appre-
citation Of the sCciety'- endeayor arts.
ticaily To Demonstrate it theories, bat
by buying many Of the hats exhibited
they emphasized their sentiments. Flow
crs, airy chouX If chiffon, ribbons aud
ostrich plumes were all Used III the
decorations. -Chieage Tribune.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

On looking at late map Of Missouri
one will find the name LOG" as post
office at the extreme western end of
Newton county and about eight miles
south west of Grand Falls. A few days
ago Deputy United States Marshal Short
had occasion to serve papers from the
Oklahoma federal court ON several per-
SONS residing in that direction, and he
was given their postoffice address as
Log. AS it was not familiar name in
this vicinity he wandered about the
hills until he came to the end of log
house extending from the brush and
concluded that it was the place he was
searching for. He asked for the post.
master, and woman replied that she
was the official, and upon inquiry as 80
her name the officer also learned that
She was one of the parties to be subpB-
naed. She was also asked why her office
was called Log and stated that she
didn t know exactly, but that when the
office was first established it was called
Lighthouse, which the postotfice de-
partment considered too lengthy, SO it
dropped the "house. kansas City
Journal
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

"There are many men in London who
have positive craze for witnessing
fires, 4" said an old fireman to the writer
land they are ready to start at "a mo
ment's notice i'll any direction when
news of fire reaches them. OF course
they are men whose time is their own,
and many of them are west end swells
but the craze isn't as fashionable as
it was in my younger days. Why, in
the early seventies there WASH t club
in the west end that hadn't got its fire
mandais, as they were called, and
there was regular system of messen
gers to carry the news of big confla
grafton. 1t was the Prince of Wales
who set the fashion, and whenever there
was big blaze he was always there
with Lord Amberley or some other
friend of similar tastes. No distance
was too great and no night too dark or
stormy to keep them away, and I've
been told that some of them had records
of hundreds of fires, from an oilshop to
the big blaze at the Alexandra palace
1.-THE prince lost his taste for this
kind of excitement long ago, but there
are dozens of the younger bloods' who
wouldn't miss big fire for anything
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

In the Sunday school room Of an Epis-
copal church i'll Brooklyn the other day
a lecture was given for the benefit of
some worthy object 1t was on a week
day, but on the hymn board in the front
of the room We're what the regular mem
bers of the congregation said were the
numbers Of the hymns that had been
sung on the Sunday before. But an out
slider was struck with something pecul-
lar about them. There We're four num-
bers arranged in line one under the
other, as is customary on the hymn
boards, and they We're as they appeared
to the audience gathered for lecture
a, II, Al, " and "7-l1."
"Why, it was the funniest thing, "
said IA woman who was present. Il no.
ticed it the minute | went in, and it
must have been done on purpose, for
there is NJ seven hundred and eleventh
hymn in the hymnal; six hundred and
something is the last. The first three
were policy numbers and the last craps.
Wasn't it fungi"
Funny" said the friend, who was
listening to the joke. ~ should say so.
But not so much tho numbers being
there as that you should know what
they meant. Now, confess, how in ever
did you?"-New York Times.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

In the ordinary working of the brain
one half is more active than the other
and exercises a superiority on its neigh
Dor lobe This lobe-in ordinary per
sons the left, of course-is the cerebral
master. Heredity, education, or what
we will-all the combined influences,
in short, which mold human life-have
tended, by some process of physiological
selection, to place one lobe over the
other in point CT Importance. The other
(right) lobe is the servant of the left in
a measure. Its education has been neg
lected, and 1t requires the control OF
its better cultured neighbor in order
that life may be conducted i'll a sensible
and sane fashion. The most hopeless
cases of insanity, Wigan would have
held, would be those in which both
hemispheres were affected. If one was
alone ailing, the other might exert
more or less control over it, and the ex.
tent of the control would depend on
which lobe exhibited the diseased &C
tion. All degrees of insanity or mental
arrangement could thus be accounted
for on this supposition of the relative
control of one hemisphere by the other
The perfect life is that in which the
better and higher half controls the
weaker and less responsible Andrew
Wilson, NJ. D., i'll Harper S Magazine.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16
Advertising In Germany.

German ways of advertising are con.
siderably different from the pushing
methods of the Americans. In the cleo
tric street cars in Lelpsic what few ad-
yertising cards there are find place on
the ceiling instead of around and below
it. In the theaters permanent signs ap-
pear above the stage setting. German
ideas of the fitness of things are better
than the Saxon s in this respect at least.
Window displays are popular, and many
of the windows of the large stores ex-
tend down to the floors of the Easements
Perhaps the chief mode of street or
public advertisement in Leipsic is the
use of large number of circular col
umns, about 4 feet in diameter and IL
feet in height, which are stationed
throughout the city in conspicuous
places On the cylindrical surfaces of
these iron columns advertisements in
great variety are displayed. The form
and style used are modest and are usual
ly only small paper placards, of great
variety of colors, announcing the name
of the article, its merits and uses. Here
also are posted the opera and theater
programmes, in type not much larger
than the ordinary newspaper size. These
advertising posts correspond i'll meas
ure to the fence display advertising so
much used in American cities, but are
really net much more than public bull
letin boards New York Press
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

The great fault with most milliners,
says LIE Grande Monde, is that they
weigh down their creations with super
abundant trimming and thus make the
hat top heavy in appearance as we'll as
in fact. True milliner's talent makes
itself manifest in the ability to allow
all the amplitude necessary for the
trimming and at the same time keep in
mind distinct idea of proportion, so
that the finished hat will look we'll on
the head. We would advise our readers
when picking out a hat to choose one
whose characteristic form is very mark
ed. This rule applies to all styles of
hats, no matter for what purpose de-
signed. 1t is IA good rule, safe rule,
and has beer tested by experience.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16
STATE OF MAINE

hENSEbEC $;
In Probate Court. at Augusta. III vacation,
on the first day Of June A. u. lSaS.
certain instrument purpor'lug te he the
last will and testament Of Edwin Is. Hi OF
Skowhegan In the county Of Somerset. deceas-
ed, having been presented fer probate aud
said Somerset, county being All adjoining
county and the Judge of the Probate Court for
said county being interested in said instru.
ment aud disqualified from taking iurisaNt-
ion:
Ordered that notice thereof be given three
weeks successively prior to the fourth Monday
of June, inst in the somerset Reporter =
newspaper printed in said Skowhegsn that a.
persons interested may attend Al Court Of
Probate then to be holden AT Augusta and
show cause, il any, why said instrument
should not be proved approved and allowed
as the last will ami testament Of said deceased.
Sw23 q. T. STEVENS. Judge.
Attest: W A. NEWCONB. Register.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16
HOW THEYWOULD SPEND
Novel Experiment to What Boys and
Girls Would Do With SIS.

Novel Experiment to What Boys and
Girls Would Do with S..
A very interesting experiment with
school children was recently made in
Springfield, Mass, by DIR. George E.
Dawson. He persuaded 1907 of them,
yearly equally divided as to sex, to
write an answer to the query, "If you
had 50, all your own, what would you
do with it?' Nearly one half of them
IA per cent? answered that they would
deposit the money in a bank, 10. s per
cent would buy clothing, 2.2 per cent
would buy something to eat, 1913 per
cent would buy toys and other means
of amusement, 2. l per cent would buy
jewelry and tinery, nine-tenths of l per
cent would buy firearms, IT per cent
would spend it for travel, IA per cent
would spend it for others and per cent
would buy books, etc.
The disposition to save shown by so
many of the children is attributed by
DIR. Dawson largely to their susceptible
ity to suggestion. While the children
do not realize the full significance of
saving, the idea has been engrafted up
on their minds and is bound to have its
influence. In noting the percentage of
those who would buy clothing it should
be remembered, he says. that many of
the children were in urgent need of
something better to wear. Those who
voted for something to eat were mostly
under years of age. In regard to trav
ell, the figures show that as children
grow older the desire to go out into the
world increases rapidly, reaching its
height at about the beginning of adoles-
cence.
The desire shown by the boys for fire.
arms is an expression of the hunting in
stinct that awakens when they are 10
Or II years of age AT that age boys
like to get hold of books of hunting aud
adventure The tendency to buy books
increases steadily as the children grow
older. This class numbers about twice
as many girls as boys. The class which
manifests a feeling of altruism also
mum bers more girls than boys, showing
that the greater generosity of women
is strikingly manifest even at an early
age.-New York Post.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16
Defects In Steel.

Different opinions have long been en-
tertained by practical experts as to the
causes of defects i'll steel, and attention
has lately been called by writer in
The Mechanical World to the fact, as
elected by the most careful and repeat
ed Investigations that most of the de
fects peculiar to rails, plates and bars
are due to blowholes in the castings
that is the ingots, such plates and bars
being rolled out of what is supposed to
be homogeneous ingot, but which is
liable to have cavity inside, not de
teetable by chemical or mechanical
tests, even though every rail were tested
in its entire strength.
The blowhole, according to this writ
or, might be in position in the ingot
that it could not be rolled out, but
would remain in the center of the head
of the rail, and that would run, per
haps, about fourth the length of the
rail. If, however, the blowhole was IN
some other part of the ingot, it mig. {
work out as flaw on the surface of the
rail when finished and this could be
detected by the inspector But how
detect the one which is hidden in Il o
head of the rail-which cannot be done
by the present and old mode of inspec.
tion--is the problem.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-06-16

me but to go under an operation
In speaking with friend Of mine
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The great and unvarying success of
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More than a million women have been
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Every woman who needs advice
about her health is invited to write to
Mrs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass.
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face on level with the knees, on which
the palms of the hands are dressed

face on level with the knees, on which
the palms Of the hands are pressed.
4 succession Of kissing sounds is next
made by drawing in the breath between
the closed teeth, interspersed with a Sc
ries of complimentary phrases uttered
with great volubility in a sort of under
toned falsetto, each trying to outdo his
friend in rapidity and extravaganza Of
language, while the palms are diligent-
ly rubbed against each other.
At last the climax is reached, and
each endeavors to give the precedence
to the other. For some moments, per-
haps for full minute, the polite con-
test continues. Then the ceremony alb
ruptly ends, as if the difficulty were ca
pable of none but a brusque solution
and the two pass on hurriedly, with a
look of extreme relief.