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The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28
4 Isusy Woman

Mrs. Arthur &. Peck Of Denver is the
executive Of four incorporated in-titu-
tions--the HayInarket Haven. On Broad
way, nome for young girls, whore
they are taught useful arts and are fit
ted IL become domestics the Belle
Lenox nursery, a spacious building with
large yard, d refugs for little ones; the
Working Girls home, where working
girls find home when newly arrived
in the city or when thrown out Of en-
ployment, and the Colorado Conference
Deaconess home, Just incorporated. The
Rocky Mountain Advocate says, "A bso.
lutely free from ostentation ofiicious
ness or self seeking, reticent and timid,
Mrs. Peck bears all these enterprises
in detail AID conducts them without
friction. " The right of suffrage evi-
IDENTIFY does not absorb all her energies
or necessitate the Abandonment Of char
liable work, ar we are told would he
the cast Mr. Peck Is much interested
in his wife's work and contributes lib.
orally To all her benevolent institutions
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cents each is given. II you care to put
it down in dollars and cents, you might
average it in this way:
az hem food for year at cent IA week 90
$50 eggs per year at cents each ... s. ~
Balance in treasury nj end of year, per
hen. 49,. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~
Balance in treasury per 900 hens. $50 W
Balance in treasury per 1000 hens 900 w
II intend having at least 1000
fowls, and then | may clear Sc, 600 :
wages, taxes, etc. will take IL good -,
600 or 81, 800. At present have only
one man to help me, and pay him S32
month, or 1894 per year. Three men
will require i'll wages 81, 1872,
Ducks are more profitable invest
ments, for the reason that their food Is
not so expensive. Where it costs Il pen
ny week to feed IA hen the bill of fare
for duck may be of variety and quail
ity to please the most fastidious duck
ling and cost only half penny per
week.
In the expense account it will be no
tioed that "broiers'' are not mention
ed. They are small gold mine IN
themselves and should pay the expense
of the chicken farm, leaving clear profit
for the eggs. Mrs. Bliss has never found
any difficulty in disposing of her eggs
GOO every week going to one hotel. She
considers the Cochins and Wyandottes
the most profitable breeds
In regard to her work as publisher
Mrs. Bliss conceived the idea three
years ago that Brooklyn was languish-
ing for blue book. Its novelty to the
staid Brooklyn mind caused Juror and
not few heartburnings to those who
found that they We're not of the elect.
A compilation was made with many
conscientious scruples as to who consti
tuted society. Some important names
unfortunately were omitted by inadvert
ence, mistake which was rectitied in
another edition.
Mrs Bliss devotes the business hours
of the day to her publishing enterprise,
coming in to her office in Brooklyn
about O'Clock, Up to 10 o'clock in
the morning, attired in rubber boots
and cap, she has been feeding her chick
ems, many of them coming to her when
called by name. New York Cor. Louis
Vile Courier journal.
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Emma Walker Herr gives the follow
ing apologize in The Philistine: "Once
at the gate of great city, to which
only good people were admitted, sat the
gatekeeper, wise old man, whom for
convenience we will call St. Peter.
Along came lawyer, who said, st.
Peter, may l come in:'
Ono, said the good old man, no
LAWYERS can ever enter here.
"He of the green bag turned sorrow
fully away and sat down by the way
side to await further developments.
Just down the road, tripping along,
with a little red umbrella over her
head, came female disciple of Black
stone, wearing IA smile intended to van
quish all Argument and act as pass
word to the Leautiful city. OF course
st. Peter LIT her in. The poor man on
the outside straightway headed for the
gate again and demanded of St. Peter
that ne should show cause, You just
let that woman Inland she's lawyer
from Ann Arbor.
"'Oh, said st. Peter, with a tired
smile. the woman is not lawyer. She
only thinks herself one And be raped
the lawyer over the bead with big
key and babe him BECOME.
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THE POET AND THE CHILDREN,

With glare Of winter sunshine
over Lis ioeEs 81 4inr,
In the old hi.tei il L Z ~
He sat ON his last h.ru.-ay.
With his books and his pleasant pictures
And his house. old AM his LIN.
While sound as Of II: 81" -insng
From far and near ole in
1t came from his OWL fair city,
From the prairie 5 toTndless plain,
From the Golt.en Gate Of sunset
And the cedarn woods of Maine.
And his heart grew warm within him,
And his moistening eyes grew dim,
For he knew that his country 3 children
We're singing the songs of him.
The lays of his life's glad morning,
The psalms of his evening time,
Whose echoes shall float forever
On the winds of every cline
All their beautiful consultations,
Sent forth like birds of cheer,
Came flocking back to his windows
And sang in the poets ear.
Grateful, but solemn and tender,
The music rose and fell,
With Joy akin to sadness
And a greeting like farewell.
With q sense of awe he listened
To the voices sweet and young.
The last of earth and the first of heaven
Seemed in the songs they sung.
And waiting little longer
For the wonderful change to come,
He heard the SUNNI oning angel
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SHERIFF SALE

STATE or MAISE. SOMERSET s..
Taken this twenty. fifth day OF April, A. D.
1885 on an execution dated the sixth day of
April, A. d. 1898. and Issued on judgment
rende red by the supreme Judicial Court for
said Somerset County al tie term thereof be-
gun and held at Skowheean. in said Somerset
County, on the third Tuesday OF March. A. d.
lsas in favor of William Deering. OF Chicago.
in the state of Illinois. doing business under
the name and style of William Deering x Co,
and against Milford Boynton. of Solon. in
said Somerset County, for one hundred and
tity-nue dollars and forty-oue cents sl594t},
debt or damage. and eleven dollars and forty
sold at public auction to the highest bidder
in Arson in said Somerset County. on Tues
da, the thirty first day of May \. D. 1898, at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon, the following de-
scribed real estate and all the right. title. and
interes' which the sale :. Milford Boynton has
in and to the same or had on the sixth dag of
December, 4 D. 1897, Al seven o'clock in the
forenoon. the time when the same was attach
ed on the original writ in the same suit, to
Wit; A certain lot or parcel Of land situated
in Scion village, in said Somerset CouatY, on
Ferry street and bounded and described as
follows on the north by the road leading to
the ferry acf osS the Rennebec river on the east
by land of Joseph Drew, the south and
west by land OF Mrs. William Hopkins. mean
ing the same premises mortgaged to Frank NJ.
Nlttum by said hoynton On September sixth,
\. l.. ls93 3wI7
JOSEPH ATKINSON. Deputy sheriff
North Auseu, Maine. april Is, a. u. 1895
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
1 WOMAN WHO MANAGES HENS AND
PRINTS A BLUE BOOK.

"Move Up" Dinners-That Troublesome
Title Question.-A Chicken Skin Dress.
Laundering In the Kitchen 49, Physical
Exercise For Women.
To combine book publishing and poul-
try keeping is All idea which it takes an
enterprising woman to carry out.
This woman is Mrs. Sarah l.. Bliss
who is the publisher of the Brooklyn
Blue Book and at her country place,
just outside the borough of Brooklyn
and within the limits of Greater New
York, she has started chicken farm.
Commencing less than year ago
with 20 chickens, she has now over
/, 900 fowls, ducks and turkeys.
rs there any money i'll keeping poul-
try was the question asked of Mrs.
Bliss at her Brooklyn office,
q will give you some notes from my
expense book, was the reply, land
then you can judge for yourself. OF
course, the first year one cannot expect
to reap great profits.
1T costs penny week to feed a
hen She will lay about $50 eggs per
year. For these an average price of
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28

The tailor goVned girl is confronted
with host 81 telling new models from
which to cht.ose This season. Everything
is fresh and new in design, from the
graceful clinging skirt to the snug
sleeve and nolieeably short coat. An
attractive costume of tins sort Is made
up III il soft creamy shade of face cloth,
of IA weight sufficiently light to be worn
comfortably through cool summer
weather over wood brown taffeta, the
sort warranted not to rustic. The mar
row skirt fits closely about the hips,
with but few inches of fullness direct
ly in the back. At the knee "a circular
flOunce is fitted in so that while it gives
the necessary graceful flare it shows
not particle of fullness. The joining
is hidden beneath wide trimming Of
black soutache.
The Jaunty little jacket fits the form
like glove, almost meets at the bust
and then flares apart, revealing "a tight
fitting vest of dead white corded silk,
fastened with flat gold buttons. Sou
tache finishes the edge of the coat and
adorns the top of the small sleeve,
while the lapels are faced with blacl,
satin. With it is worn fetching tiI
tilted hat Of golden brown straw, with
for its decoration IA single glossy black
plume nodding toward the front and a
widespread bow of corn yellow liberty
silk reaching across the hat. At the
back nestle yellow button POSES and fots
of yellow silk. New York Tribune.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28

Far on in March, when the thermom-
eter bad long been i'll the eighties, says
f. Whitmore in The Atlantic, the wind
whipped suddenly into the north and
the air cooled 90 degrees in night.
We Wffe III the field perspiring i'll
linens when the change came, with an
abrupt overcasting of the sky. A Whit
like the breath from glacier struck us,
the wind blew each moment keener, and
before we fairly saw how it was our
teeth We're chattering. 1t seemed unbe-
hevahle, but presently there was no
doubt that II January norther was upCu
us two months out of SEASON. When we
realized this, we set all hands at work
to earth over the half grown potato
vines. Only few hours of the day were
left, but the men worked desperatelJ
with hoes and plows through the bleak
twilight, and much Was done, but not
all. When we came out, sniKerlng, III
the first daybreak, we saw that our
short harvest WAS to he lameutably
shortened
We perceived now at last how it was
with u.s. We were not farming hut
gambling with the elements. The eli
mate had been merely toying with Us, "a
trump card of spring trosts lying in its
sleeve,
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(l(ol{1[l[|lIl3|
Sickness

Which is better, to thoroughly
cleanse and purify the blood just
now, or make yourself liable to
the many dangerous aim en- is
which are SO prevalent during
summer? Impurities have been
accumulating in the blood all
winter, and right now is the time
to get rid of them. A thorough
course of Swift's Specific is needed
to cleanse the blood and puri-
fy the system, toning up and
strengthening it all over. Those
who take this precaution now are
comparatively safe all summer;
but to neglect it is to invite some
form of sickness which is so COM
mon during the trying hot season.
1t is now that a course of Swlft's
Specifc
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but they have been pronounced SO alto
gether delightful that the innovation
will unquestionably develop into a tad
Society, you know, is ever quick to
grasp at anything which tends To relieve
the monotony of things.
The progressive dinner really explains
itself. 1t is just like any other progress
i've game. The guests are seated at
small tables, and at the end of each
course half of them move up. In this
way there is constant changing OF
faces, and conversation is never suffered
to lag,
To show how new the progressive
dinner is it is only necessary to state
that it is the outgrowth of breakfast
recently given in Washington by Mrs
Davis, wife Of Senator Cushman X
Davis of Minnesota, IN honor of Mis-
Dole, wife Of the Hawaiian president
The several tables at this especial func.
tion were grouped about the room. the
largest being occupied during the first
course by the hostess and guest of honor
alone. This left four places vacant,
winch were Hlltu Ill turn uN GUESTS from
the other tables, SO that every one III
the room during the II courses was al
forded the opportunity of chatting with
the hostess and guest of honor.
The plan of the progressive dinner,
however, is somewhat different The
guests are placed at small tables, seat
Ing four persons AT the conclusion of
the first course the hostess taps "a bell.
That is the signal for the grand
change"
Two of the diners. lady and gentle
man, facing say, north and SOUTH move
up to the next table from which two
others have moved up, and SO on until
every table has new personnel. The
pair remaining at each table change
their positions so that they are no longer
facing each other, and i'll this way when
the end of the second course is reached
no two of the guests are permitted to
remain at the same table. New York
Herald
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S.S.S.fT3ss s Blood

will accomplish SO much toward
rendering the system capable of
resisting the evil influences which
are SO liable to attack it during
the summer when sickness is 30
abundant. 1t is the best tonic
and system-builder on the market,
because it is real blood remedy
and is made solely to search out
and remove all impurities, and
supply an abundance of pure, rich
and red blood. S. S. S. is made
exclusively of roots and herbs,
and is Natures own remedy. 1t
is purely vegetable, and is the
only blood remedy guaranteed to
contain no potash, mercury o.
other mineral. Be sure to get S.
S. S. There is nothing half as
good.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28

When the conqueror came out upon
the hills that overlooked tie doomed
city, hi5 stern + &C ngnted
Nuts Tor Us rs exclaimed.
|, II your eXcelaney. wish, asked
an oil er Of the artillery. galloping up
just then int the town be shelled:''
y IAN fefIUt laughed loudly i'll the
ranks, bat IT, trained soldiery merely
groaned - .ln~rral.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28

A Denver shoe store recently employ
ed young man for clerk who had been
i'll the bicycle business so long that he
was an enthusiast. A young lady called
at the store for a pair of shoes.
81 want pair of shoes, " she remark
ed demurely,
"What gear" he inquired, bowling.
"Sirl'
II meant what size. -
"About 2la
"What model-er, what last?'
"a Q last, | think -
"Do you like the high sad-the high
heels?'
Just medium.
He got the shoe she seemed to want,
and after fitting it carefully remarked
absentmindedly
"You can wear loose bloomers with
that frame, and it will never puncture.
Keep it well creased, and -
The lady called for another clerk. -
Denver Times.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28
]. 0. SMITH & Co., SkOwhegan
SHERIFF SALE.

SOMERSET, ss.-Taken this fifteenth day OF
April A. ID. 1893 on an execution dated April
/ l4th A. ID. 1873 issued on a judgment rendered
by the Supreme Judicial Court, for the County
OF Somerset. at the term thereof begun and
held on the third Tuesday of March A. d. 1898,
! to wit: On the thirty Il st G ay OF March A d.
/ 1898 in favor OF southwark Walker of Concord
/ in said County against Charles F. Lane and
| Mary f. Lane both of Embden in said County
| for one hundred twenty-one dollars and
| twenty three cents damage, aud thirteen dol
lars and forty five cents. costs of suit and will
! be sold at public auction at George W. Cover :
office in Skowhegan in said County to the
| highest bidder on the twenty-eighth day OF
| May A. ID. 1893 at eleven O'Clock in the fore
1 noon the following described real estate and
al the right title and interest which the sad
Charles F. Lane and Mary Lane, or either
| of them has in and to the same or had on the
| thirteenth day OF October a. ID. ls97 at nine
/ O'Clock in the forenoon, the time when the
same was attached on the writ in the same
suit, to vii: \ certain lot or parcel of land
situated in said Embden, bounded and des.
cribed as follows, to wit: On the north by
/ land owned or occupied by John skillings; on
/ the east by land OF q. A. Halves on the south
/ by land of Carroll Csswell on the west by land
owned or occupied by said 9killings, and con
tanning i25) twenty five acres more or less be
! ing the same piece OF land conveyed to Charles
+. Lane by Nathan Thompson by deed dated
/ oct % 1895 and recorded in Somerset Regis.
try of Deeds, Book 2S5, Page $50 also one other
piece or parcel OF land situated in said
Embden described as follows, to wit: Bound
ed on the south by the old town rosd leading
from Scion Ferry to the Atkinson School
house oil the west by land of Walter Salley;
/ on the north by lands OF c. Caswell and r. ".
Lane on the east by land of Mrs. Harriet
/ Buttertield, aud containing seventy. five .75)
/ acres more or less Also one other certain lot
or parcel of land situated in said Embo en-
bounded and described AS follows, to wit;
Being the east part OF the samuel savage farm
so called, lying on the easterly side OF the
/ road leading from North Arson Village to
/ Soon Ferry bounded on the west by said
! road south by land owned by samuel Bunker
River and north by land owned by Al Libby
containing seventy five acres more or less
Dated this fifteenth day of April A. H. 1895
FRANK L. HARDING, Deputy sheriff
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man of the steadiest habits, wholly ig.
bitters, at least-his fortune a reality;
briefly, a sara avis in the matrimonial
market.
1t was only this crazy abduction
scheme of his that worried good Nine.
Champonnet, with her old fashioned
way of regarding things. Still, after
all, it was merely pretense, the fool
ish notion of romantic lover, mock
abduction, in TRUTH since she, fore
warned of it. was an aceomplice in it.
Then the title of coitesse and 20, 00C
francs "a year falling to the lot of de-
scendant of the hardware trade certain
ly merited some little concession in the
way of maternal scruples.
She decided to lay the whole matter
before GeorRette.
"Abduct me, " cried she, like real
Lochinvarl Why mother, how charm
ingp'
And you are sure, you are sure,
Georgette, the mother continued, de
termined to do her whole duty to hei
child, THAT you have observed thi.
gentleman sufficiently to be certain that
he will be agreeable to your"
observed him sufficiently when ht
has followed me like my shadow every
day for month past -
Naturally, therefore, when Raoul ar
rived promptly to the moment at the
appointed hour there remained only
the preliminaries to settle for the affair
(Which will take place, madame,
Raoul concluded, ION Friday next al
the midnight hour
1.-THE hour of crimei"
For me the hour of happiness. Or
Friday, then, l say, at 1870 p. m,
stop under your window. The sound Of
mandolin played by me will be the
signal. The dead latch will be up, and
you will be sleeping-like the dead,
madame. Georgette will descend; we
spring to the carriage; I'll have it il
waiting; gallop to the station, jump
aboard the rapide, and next day find
ourselves the leading article in the
morning papers. You, by noon, will be
interviewed by all the reporters of the
Cltyj Nibltou anu COuuOieu Will ny all
your enemies, and day or two later
will receive from us letter detailing
our happiness. Now, as l have still
many things to do before my departure,
/ bid you au revoir.
Without seeing Georgette?"
"To see girl am going to abduct
would be improper, madame.
And Raoul, the case won, withdrew.
On Friday, then, at midnight, the
abduction, as arranged, came off, Nine.
Champonnet, even by happy fore
thought and an eager desire to increase
the comfort of the affair, having dis
patched, secretly, of course, to Raoul' s
address a trunk containing Georgette' 4
handsomest and thinnest clothing. II
was always SO hot in Spain
Spain? Picture, then, her oonsterna-
ton, her maternal despair, to receive
from-Norway, whole month, too,
after the abduction had taken place, the
following telegram;
did not 60 to Spain at all. Too hot
Here we are freezing. You ought tC
have sent bearskin in the trunk. Not
married yet. The religion here is Prot
estant. Tomorrow we start for Asia
to warm ourselves We do not know
the religion there. From the French.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28
Notice of Petition for Discharge.

soaERsET COUNTY torRr OF INSOLVENCY.
Ia the ease OF oliver z. Bracket of Madison,
In >ulN ent Debtor.
Notice Is hereby given that said Debtor has
filed said court for said county of Somerset,
his petition for discharge from all his debts
prov able under the lnsolNent Law ~ said State
OF Maine, and for cetltcate thereof aud that
hearing upon the same viii he held ~ the Pro
late Court Room in Skowhegan in said county
of Somerset, on Tuesday. the 10th day of May
A. u lsrs, Al one % clock in the afternoon when
and where all persons int rested may attend and
show eause, ii any they have. why the prayer of
said petition >huuhi MOI he granted
Attest w it.
NArHAN Fowl ER
Register of said Conn tor said County of SOM
efsst
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TRY ALIENS FooT.EAsE.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes At
this season your feet swollen and hot, and get.
tired easily. II you have smarting feet tight
shoes try Aliens Foot Ease. 1t cools the feet
and makes walking easy Cures and prevents
swollen and sweating feet, blisters aud callous
spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it to- day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores for pc, Trial
package FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmstead.
lie Roy, n. y.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28
PROBATE NOTICES.
To All persons interested in either Of this
Estates hereinafter named

Estates hFf1nafter named.
COURT OF PROBATE held at skow-
- hesan, within and for the county Of SOM
efcoSD TuFsD.Y op APRIL.
in the year 81 our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ninety eight the following bust
ness having been presented for action there
upon herafter indicated, Il il hereby Ordered.
That public notice thereof be given to all per
sons interested. that they may appear al
Probate Court to be holder at said Skowhegan.
at the Probate Office on the
SECOND TUESDAY OF MAY.
next at nine Of the clock IN the forenoon. and
be heard thereon and object Il they see cause.
Horace ID. Ridley late Of Athens, deceased.
Administrators PETITION for leeu,e to sell and
convey real estate presented. also petition for
allowance to widow.
Rev Cyrus A Laughton, ate Of Arson. de-
ceased Widows petition for a owance. pre-
scented
Cha.. , BAILEY late of Harmony, d cs ased
Widows petition for allowance. presented.
Walter :. Forbu-. late Of Athens. deceased.
widows petition fer allowance, presented.
Albert steward of Embden, minor. Petition
for the appointment Of James Harmon of
Skowhegan for his guardian presel ted.
J. Il. Twaddle Of Norridqewock, petitions to
have his name changed TO J B. Twaddelle.
Lila NJ Jenkins of skowhegau. petitions
to have her name changed TO Lila NJ. Cannon.
David sawyer. late of Hartland deceased.
Wioow's petition for allowance. presented.
Caroline F. Pemberton Of Madison. petit
tons to have her name changed TO Caroline F:
Nutting.
George Washburn. late OF New Portland.
deceased. Widows petition for allowance,
presented.
Chas. u. Horn. late Ct Athens deceased.
Will and petition for probate thereof present
ed by sarah Horn, one Of the executors named
therein.
Emma r. Allen late of Fairfield. deceased.
Mill and petition for probate thereof present.
ed by Clarence T Wentworth, the executor
named therein.
Edwin Il Hin. late Of Skowhegsu deceas-
ed. Viii and petition fer probate thereof pre-
sen ed BY Ralph X. Hill. one OF the executors
named therein.
Elbridge Jones late Of Fairfield, deceased
VIII ano petition for probate thereof prese ut
in.
L. Mountain Rogers, late OF Madison. de-
ceased. Will and petition for probate thereof
therein.
deceased Final account Of John Metcalf,
adm, presented.
sally : Maxim late Of Palmyra deceased.
presented.
Chas. Il. Clark late Of New Por' land. de-
ceased First al d final account OF Chss. Fl :.
distribution.
+. +. DANFORTH, Judge.
Attest:-NATHAS Fowler, Register.
Post Office address. Judge and Register
>kowhegan, Me. swls
The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-28

Now we have progressive dinners!
We have had progressive euchres, pro
gressive salmagundi parties and pro-
gressive what not, but the progressive
dinner is brand new. Only two or three
have as yet been given in New York,