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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

There was an effort last year Ia adopt
the turkeys claw as fetch of good
luck, but it did not succeed. Some en-
terprising genius in search Of novelties
has now brought out the gobber claw
In a new fashion.
A real turkeys claw is treated to a
varnishlike finish, is silver tipped and
has a small thermometer fastened to it
and is thus transformed into mantel
ornament.
This is "a hint TO the farmer wife
that she hold in reserve her turkey legs,
tip them with hit of ribbon tied with
a big bow at the side and fssten on one
of the little thermometers which she
oan get at any stationer S. She might
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee on Legal Affairs viii
give public hearing in its room at the
State House in Augusta, on Thursday,
February I'd, 1899, at 80 p. m. on an
act establishing town council in the
town of Skowhegan for municipal pur-
poses IVA
EDGAR F. GENTLEMAN, Secretary
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
SquarIDR Up.

Freddie $ Papa-W What do you intend
to do with the hole in that doughnut
when you get all the cake eaten from
around it2
Freddie (after serious thought)-I
guess II give it to little sister to pay
fer the bite she gimme out of her ap.
Chicago News
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

"What will happen to you if you are
a good little boy asked the kindly old
woman
IN get a stick of candy for being
good
And what will happen to you if
you are badI
IN get two sticks of candy for
promising to try to be good. Chicago
Post
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK 3?

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tri,d
the n W food drink called tiRAIN-Os II is de-
licous aud nourishnR and takes the place II
coffee. Th more Grain O YOU give the child
rem the III re health You distribute through
their systems. Graiu.O is made Of pure grains
and when properly prepared tastes like the
choice grades OF cof but costs about =. az
much. All grocers sell it. l5c and &c.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee on Judiciary will give
public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta, Tuesday, Feb. 7. 1899,
at ?. 50 O'Clock p. m No. oS. on several
proposed acts to remedy defects in the
Australian Ballot Law. 2w4R&U
WALTER Z. PERKINS Secretary
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The Committee on Judiciary will give a
public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta. Wednesday, Feby S.
1900 at $50 o'clock p. M. No. 20. on an
act relating to the sale of Paris Green and
other poisonous preparations. 2w4RNU
WA TER p. PERKINS. Secretary.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

tie ON little calendars, banner fashion
and there she has dinner souYeDir- or
prizes for progressive euchre party.
The girl With slender purse nay al.o
take hlbt from thie for her cotill1n ar
whist n euchre party this winter
New YORK Herald
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

Although Mr. Astor had led life
mainly devoted to business interests,
he found great pleasure in the society
of literary men. says Mrs Julia Ward
Howe in The Atlantic DR. Cogswell
made his home with US for some years
after the closing of his fame Is school,
but finally went to reside with Mr. As
tor, attracted partly by the latter 8
promise to endow a public library in
the city of New York This was accom-
plished after some delay, and the doc
tor was for many years director of the
Aston library He used to relate some
humorous anecdotes of excursions which
he made with Mr. Astor In the course
of one of these the two gentlemen took
supper together at a hotel recently
opened Mr. Aston remarked, This
man will never succeed
"Why mott inquired the other
Don you see. replied the inan-
cier, "what large Jumps of sugar he
puts in the sugar bowlY'
Once, as they were walking slowly to
u pilotboat which the old gentleman
had chartered for trip down the har
Dor. DIR Cogswell said Mr. Aston. /
have just been calculating that this
boat costs you p cents minute Mr.
Astor at once FASTENED his pace, reluc-
tant to waste SO much money
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
FOR ECLOSUR RE.

Whereas. Ira F. Loring of Norridgewock,
county Of Somerset state of Maine by his mort
gage deed. dated the twenty second day Of
Octobt A, ID. 1879, and recorded in the Somer
set Registry of Deeds, Book le4 Page 1858 con
yeyed II Betsey Loring late of Norriigewock
deceased, certain parcel OF re al estate situate
in Nor1idgewock, in the county OF Somer
set, and bounded as follows: Situated on the
south side of the road leading from the Nor
riGRewock bridge along the north ban K OF the
Kenne bee river to Skowhegsn; Beginning on
the northwest corner of Edward p. Loriug's
land thence sontl erly by the ne sa d Edward
p. Lorings land to the river, thence up the
river ore hundred and twenty five feet 10 the
east line OF Bittlefields shop lot thence. north
erly by the line OF said shop lot to the south
line of land sold to VIM j. Bickford, thence
easterly on line OF said BiCkford forty feet to
the southeast corner of said Bickfords land
thence north thirty six feet to the Littleield
house lot, thence east forty feet to the south
east corner Of the Little6eld house lot, thence
north TO the aforesaid road fifty feet thence
east on said road to the first mentioned bound
forty five feet. And whereas the condition OF
said mortgage has been broken, now II ere
fore, by reason OF the breach OF the condition
thereof, claim a foreclosure Of said mort
gage. Sw4
January 70, 1899.
Administrative
n. w. LORINI Of Estate of
BetseV IQring.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

Germany has uperabundance of
race horses and an insuticiency of
heavy horses. The latter are annually
imported in large numbers, while the
others are drug in the market
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTICE.

The committee on Judiciary will give
public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta, Tuesday, Jany 81.
1899. at 50 O'Clock p. m. No. 70. on an
act to authorize the Skowhegan Electric
Light Company to issue bonds. IVA
WALTER p. PERKINS. Secretary.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

= y - ~ =. II -
Date Of Is nit July D., 80 AH#ear.t 4sa sl5g.
Writ relurf ap#e au8 entered ssp term l-'ss.
Action - the case, - tnat tn defer d
ants al Skow hsgan Aforesaid 90 N r. dsy the
purchase ~ this Ii icing indebted % the
Piaiutits u the sum of Sky five ard 20 100
collars ACCORDING 70 the acc fait annexed in
conside ion thereof then and there prom ised
the plaintiffs TO pay them sai1 sam On demand.
skawhegan Sc. JaIy 18th, Isso.
Hayes Amusement Co
1898, To Nackie < WALKER n
July Is. To services al LAKEWOOD Grove
Madison. Ne, from July Il 20
July IS. ls9s, one week al fifty
dollars per week, ESQ 90
To Railroad fares, 1893
co 50
A. X. BUTLER SkowheRan. Me.
Attorney for PLAINTIFF.
A true copy OF the order OF Court. with
abstract OF writ 3ws
Attest. y " BRAISgRn. CLERK
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
NOT TO BE "HOBSONlZED.'
Young Woman Who objected to De-
Ing Kissed by the Merrimac Hero.

" W no OujFPtFd w IL
Ing Kissed by the MerrimHc Hero.
Miss Douglass Quarter is the one
girl in all America who decisively OBJ
jeeted to going through the process now
popularity known as Hohsonization. !"
She would not be kissed. Miss Quarter
Glands at the opposite extreme from
Miss Arnold of St Louis, who won
quick and high fame by being the first
pretty girl to be "smacked' by the
hero of Santiago bay Now not to have
been kissed is exceptional. The gallant
lieutenant struck snae when he came
to Louisville. The incident which has
given Miss Quarter such sudden prom
inencc occurred at MacGauley's theater
during Hohson's Louisville visit. The
young lady is the daughter of high
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
Desirable
Farm Property
or Sale

Farm of 800 acres, situated in Palmyra,
miles from Newport Village. One of
the best stock farms in Somerset county
Buildings in first class condition; barns,
one 6ox46 feet, thoroughly finished water
in barn One of the best farms in the
in the county for producing milk for New.
port Condensed Milk Fa, tory, as the
demand invariably exceeds the supply.
Also 20 head OF cows and heifers, !
heavy farm horses, pair colts, flock of
sheep and several shoats
Farming tools, all new. All sold to-
gether or separately
Will sell for small amount down. Have
other business and must sell
Address all enquiries or letters to
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
E. F. Fairbrother,
Insurance Agency,
Skowhegan, M aine,
Represents seven of the
leading Fire Insurance
Companies of the world

The Royal, The Pennsylvania, The
Queen, The Manchester Eng, The Con.
cordia, The London Assurance Co., The
United Firemen; also the oldest and
largest accident CO., The Fidelity and
Casualty Co. and the old and reliable
life ms. CO., The Massachusetts, Mutual.
Please give me a call. tt
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26
3. Grant skowhegan, Me.

p. S.-There is on this farm enough wood
and lumber, properly managed to pay for
same. VIII give reliable man grand oppor-
tunity.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-01-26

| Al m ulstfAlflA
N, W. LORlN 7 of Estate OF
BetseN IorIng.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
PRAY FOR ENGLAND.
Hindu Priests Hold Special Service
For Valuable Consideration.

New York. Dec. 27.-Hindu astrolo-
gers. according to Bombay papers,
which have just been received, are con-
Meeting the famine, plague and British
reverses with the peculiar conjunction
of the planets when on the 18th of No
vember seven planets were in the sign
of ScorpiO. The Hindus of Bombay,
therefore, to avert further calamity and
ensure success to the British arms. ar
ranged for special prayers and religious
ceremonies at one of their great tenn
pies. Seventy-five learned Brahmins
Officiated. The first act was presenta-
ton of gifts to these priests of valuable
shawIs and money.
The priests then invoked divine bless
ings on the rulers and ruled, and the
people sang hymns in Marathi and GU
jarati of which the Indian papers give
the following translation:
God grant that the illustrious and
merciful Victoria may always enjoy
perfect peace and happiness, that feel
ings of loyalty may remain deeply root
ed in the hearts of her subjects, and
foreign invasiOns. May all differences
between the rulers and ruled vanish;
may her majesty's subjects move on the
path of righteousness; may all treason
disappear; may famine and peStilence
fly away; may the people of the Trans
vaal come to repent their acts Of folly,
and may her majesty's forces gain
glory and success on the fields Of battle
in Africa"
At the close Of the service three
cheers were given for the long life,
glory and success of her majesty, the
queen empress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
VIII. SEARS DISCHARGED
Senator Harris Thought His
Private Secretary Talked
Too Much.

United States Senator Harris has dis
charged his private secretary. W. H.
Sears.
The announcement will be made jan
uary 1 that Sears has resigned. He
may secure work in some other depart
ment in Washington or may return to
Lawrence. An effort has been made to
let Mr.. Sears down easily so that it
might be given out that he had resign
ed to accept a better position but it is
known that Senator Harris delivered
his ultimatum before he returned to
Washington.
Sears offense is that he talked too
much. In his capacity as private sec
rotary to Senator Harris he naturally
heard much that, while it was intense
~ interesting, would not look well in
print. Some of the incidents did filter
through and appeared in the neWspa-
pers and Senator Harris held Mr.. Sears
responsible.
But the direct cause Of the rupture
was the publication in a Kansas City
paper of a sensational story to the
effect that Senator Harris had been Of
fered $50, 900 for his influence by a rep
resentative Of the Union Pacific Rail
road company. OF course it was told
that the offer had been declined with
scOrn.
The story was embarrassing to SEN
ator Harris as it would have been to
any one in his position. He was not
only Vexed, he was angry and he placed
the whole burden of his wrath at the
door OF his private secretary
Senator Harris did not wait for an
explanation. He simply wrote Mr.
Sears a note informing him that his
services would be dispensed with. The
senator afterward relented sufficiently
to allow Mr.. Sears to hold the title of
private secretary until January 1 but
the work has been done by some one
else and Senator Harris has been look
ing for a new place for his loquacious
secretary.
Whether this place has been found or
not is not known but Mr.. Sears has not
returned to his home at Lawrence nor
has his resignation as private secre-
tary been announced.
Sears is a well known POpulist poll
tician- He was an officer in the Kansas
National Guard under Governor Leedy
where he earned the title of General -
Soon after Senator Harris was elected
he appointed Mr.. Sears as his private
secretary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
WOLFsOHN MYSTERY.
Another Chapter to the Story Added
In ST. Louis.

st. Louis, Mo, Dec 27.-NI. Sale, at
torney for Benjamin Wolfsohn, the
father of Aaron Wolfsohn, the young
man who added another chapter to the
now famous $4,000 insurance suit at
Chicago yesterday in an interview to-
day stated that he had no doubts about
the genuineness of the telegram men
toned in the Chicago dispatch
Mr.. O'Bryan, the insurance COM
panyS attorney said Mr.. Sale. was
here last Friday. He had a picture OF
the corpse found in the O'Nel woman s
room in Los Angeles and we went to-
gether to the Wolfsohn home and com
pared pictures. The corpse did not look
at all like Young WOlfsOhn. except
some person had brushed the hair in the
style that WOlfsOhn usually wore his.
Mr. O'Bryan also had afHdavits signed
by the supposed suicide that he was
alive. Mr.. n. HesselbOrg, a brOther-in-
law, at once recognized the writing as
that of Aaron WOlfSOhn. In order to
complete the Identification OF WOlfsOhn,
Mr.. Hesselborg went to Chicago Satur-
day with Mr.. O'Bryan and he is the
brOther-in-law referred in the telegram
received Christmas day by the public
administrator at Los Angeles
Concerning the woman in the case,
Mr.. Sale added that she now claimed to
be WOlfsOhn's cOmmOn-law wife.
She had said Mr.. Sale, evidently
kept quiet until the present time in the
hope of securing the money, not know
ing what evidence the insurance COM
pany had accumulated. The burden is
now thrown on her. She will have to
answer where and how that corpse came
to be in her room"
Young Wolfsohn has not been in St.
Louis for nearly two years.
This strange story had its beginning
on July last. Aaron WolfsOhn was then
living in Los Angeles, Cal. On that
date his father, Benjamin WOlfsohn, a
cutter and manufacturer of men S
clothing at us Lucas avenue, st. Louis,
received news that his son was dead,
having breathed his last by inhaling gas
with suicidal intent, in the rooms of
a woman who at that time refused to
give her name. The sons life was in
sured for $4,000 in the New York Life
Insurance company Evidence was pro-
duced purpOrting that the dead man
was none other than Aaron WOlfsohn.
The insurance was paid to the public
fore the money could be turned over
reported to have been recognized in the
flesh and travelling the streets of Chi
cago. The discovery was made by an
uncle residing in that city and the
young mans parents were notified and
on August IL, the attorneys, Sale &
Sale, of St Louis. wired to the head
quarters of the New York Life Insur-
ance company, which at once made a
demand on the public administrator for
the amount Of insurance upon Wolf
sOhn's life which is still held by him.
Later the report that he had been
identified in Chicago was denied and
thus matters have stood until the pres
ent time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
MADDEN'S PLAN,
Tt Will Be Accepted by Contractors
and Workmen in Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-The joint confer
ence committee of the Building Con-
tractors and Building Trades councils
has unanimously Endorsed Martin B.
AIadden's plan for the establishment of
a permanent arbitration board They
will recommend to their respective or
ganization the adoption Of the plan.
That the unions and the contractors
associations will accept the plan is re-
garded as almost certain
Madden's plan calls for the establish
ment of a permanent board of arbitra-
ton of ten members Not all the de-
tails of the plan have been settled. An
amendment was made to the original
plan, limiting the time for arbitration.
This Overcame one of the serious OBJ
Jections to the plan, workmen fearing
the contractors would take advantage
of the plan by completing buildings
While the board was at work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
WHAT IS COMING.
An Eastern Author Holds Topeka Up
to Ridicule.

The following is from the lola Regis
ter:
One of the books of the month is
novel by Brander Matthews. entitled
"A Confident Tomorrow" The hero
of it is a young Topeka journalist,
Sartain by name. who goes to New York
and is conducted by the discerning and
sympathetic author through a long ser
les of experiences through all of which
he remained a consistent and unlearn-
ing ass, loutish in dress, boOrish in
manner, and unable after long years Of
city life to speak when spoken to with
out blushing and stammering after the
manner of a country boy away from
home for the first time.
The book itself is tough enough on
Topeka But here comes the critic of
the BoOkman, Mr.. Harry Thurston
Peck, and takes Mr.. Matthews to task
for thus misrepreSenting the culture of
the west. And this is the way he does
it: ''Of course a certain amount of
gaucherie is quite in keeping with what
one would expect of a young Topekan,
but Mr.. Matthews has SO stressed Sar-
tain's greenness and his a.wkwardish-
ness and his general incapacity for do
ing the right thing at the right time as
to make him an unsympathetic figure"
Now in the language of the free and
untrammeIed and bully west, wouldn't
that jar you? "A certain amount of
gaucherie is to be expected of a young
Topekani' Why SartainIy. How alb
surd to suppose for one moment that
a young man fresh from the wilds of
Topeka should be any other than awk-
ward and embarrassed in the presence
of the superior culture of New York
The utmost to be hoped is that after
many years of close contact he might
absorb some of the grace of manner and
the readiness of speech which distin-
guished the New Yorker in every court
in Christendom- That he might ever
acquire the delightful provincial snob-
berry, the sweet assumption of superior
ity, the supplemented conviction of
personal impeccability, which combine
to render the manners of New Workers
as seen through the literature made by
Mr.. Branner Matthews and criticised by
Mr.. Thurston Peck, SO delightful and
refreshing, is Of course too much to be
even hoped.
He halls from Topeka and therefore
"a certain amount of gaucherie is TO
be expected Hats of to Mr.. Harry
Thurston Peck. He is a rare contribu-
tor to the worlds nirth.
Ia Topeka man is now on the staff of
the New York World Another is in
charge of the Chicago Tribune bureau
in New York. Topeka claims an author
whose books have been more generally
read than those of any other writer.
Mr.. Brander Matthews knows nothing
about Topeka or Kansas and his char
acter study is consequently as uninter-
esting as it is untruthfuL1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

A premier danseuse in a frame Of
''black faces" is something of a novelty,
and was one of the noticeable features
Of the performance Of Sweeney and
Alvido's minstrels at the Crawford the
alter Tuesday night. Another noticeable
feature was the duration of the per
Torrance. 1t was II o'clock when the
curtain was rung down, and as the
work of the company does not consti-
tute cleverness long drawn out, the
management would favor audiences by
cutting out sufficient to materially
shorten the space of time consumed
The first part is conducive to the
impression that the organization of the
Sweeney & AlvidO company was rather
the result of a remnant sale in minis
trelsy, Messrs- Sweeney and AlvidO
simply securing artists" who remained
after the big selection was over. The
comedians failed in their attempts to
be comedians. and perpetrated jokes as
old the --Cofferdanl' and "ROtter-
dam constructions. and the vOcaliStS
were comparatively but little better
AividO atOned somewhat for the work
of the first part with a clever juggling
turn and rapid crayOn work but in this
particular his example was not followed
TO any extent by other participants in
the second part The OliO included,
among other turns. considerable clog
dancing and an acceptable musical act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
A SYNDICATE RICE FARM.
Iowa Parties Buying Up Texas
Lands.

Houston, Tex, Dec. 27-An Iowa
syndicate headed by D. B. Hurd and
A. n. McVey has secured options on
IL, 424 acres of the rice land in Jefferson
county, for which they have agreed to
pay S1S5,OOO. The same parties have also
secured a ninety day option on another
to cost them S225. 900. The gentlemen
act as trustees for a syndicate now be
ing organized in Iowa to go into the
rice business on a large scale. This
syndicate is projected with a paid up
capital of $500 900 and in addition to
raising the rice it is to be cleaned and
graded on the farm. The plan has pro-
crossed so far that the trustees say
the options on the land were necessary
TO the completion of organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27
AFTER PENSIONS.
31S Members of New York Regiment
File Claims.

New York, Dec. ga special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Applications for Spanish war pen
SiOns still continue to be received at
the pension Office from members of the
list New York regiment and the total
filed on behalf of members Of this regi-
ment has now reached 318
Commissioner of Pension Evans said
today he had no idea that any consid-
cradle percentage of the applications
would be allowed, as it would probably
be found when the cases were looked
into that the disabilities on which pen
siOns had been asked were of a tenn
porary character and not pensiOnalble.
The commissioner said that there was
no way by which an estimate could be
made of the total amount that would
be paid to the members of the list reg
iment if all their claims should be al
lowed, for the claims do not set forth
the amount of the pensions They state
the disabilities, leaving the rating to be
fixed by the medical examiners of the
pension office.
Most Of these claims are filed under
the law of 1890. The average amount
paid on each pension granted under
that law is about $109 a year, so that
if all the claims filed by the list New
York should be allowed at the same av-
erage they would cause an annual ex-
pendfture of 1862. Should all the 25,-
600 Spanish war pension claims be al
lowed at the same rate it would in
crease the pension expenditures by 81
725.00Q