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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
The Island Gaum.

General joe Wheeler has made re-
port to the War Department on the
Island of Guam which Is valuable con-
tribution to literature on the subject of
our governing tropical dependencies.
The general was ordered to stop there on
his way back from the Philippines and
see how Captain Leary was getting
along. So he put In about week trek
king across the Jungle, observing the
natural features and customs of the ma
tives-and of Leary. Little Joe" found
lot of interesting things. 1t seems
that foxes fly in Guam, and the report
says they may be seen sailing about In
the daytime like buzzards. They are
one of the staple articles Of diet for the
natives. Like ireland, Guam has no
snakes; and the one dstillery there has
been closed by order of Leary. 1t rains
every day In Guam, and there Is no dis
tinction between the wet and dry season
because 1t is wet all the time. The
island is shaped like the sole OF shoe,
and has presumably total area of about
$50 square miles, although it has never
been surveyed. The narrowest part has
q diameter of seven miles and 1t is about
fifteen miles In length. There are few
iCpCio Ill oiC ioiuuu, puC uooouy pay
any particular attention to them, and
they appear to do no harm. The water
there is not good to drink, but 1t Is not
missed, for when General Wheeler or
anybody else is thirsty native climbs a
tree and throws down cocoanut, the
milk Of which ia refreshing beverage.
Great honor was paid to General Wheeler
by the native inhabitants and during his
entry Of one of the villages the six-yesr.
old son of the ruler walked by his side
playing the scordion. They also rang
the church bells by way Of accompani.
ment. There are no courts and cOnse-
quently no lawyers. The salary paid to
school teacher there is dollar and a
half month. Then, there are a number
of things Guam did not have until 1t got
Leary, such as marriage ceremonies,
real estate titles, taxes, liquor licenses,
dog taxes and Sunday holidays.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
Nothing can Equal Maine.

John j. Valentine, president of the
Wells Fargo Express Co., whose home
is In San Francisco, CAL, writes home
from Jerusalem to Mr.. r. Fl. w. Dwight
general agent of the company at Boston,
In regard to former trip to Moosehead
Lake, as follows:
''I am frank to say that no lake have
ever seen out-rivals Moosehead In the
diversity of lovely vistas. Neither the
Irish, Scotch, English or Swiss, nor the
California lakes are finer. The surface
is broken by beautifully wooded islands
and peninsulas. OF lovely bays and
coves there are not few. Upon all
sides rise verdure clad hills, attaining
the greatest heights In Mt. KatahdiD,
some 5000 feet above the sea level. The
view in all directions from the Mt. Kineo
House is not to be surpassed
Mr.. Valentine Is great traveller, hav-
ing been 10 every state and territory In
the United States and nearly every
foreign country on the globe, and such
praise, from such source, is great
compliment for Names largest lake.
Exchange.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
Bryan Must Explain.
| Albany journal. J

Four years ago, when Mr., Bryan con-
structed his letter of acceptance, he
wrote, presumably after as careful de-
liberation and thought rs he is able to
give to any subject:
Until this money question is fully
and finally settled the people will not
consent TO the consideration of any other
important question"
II Mr.. Bryan still believes that to be
a fact-and he has given no sign to il
dictate that he has changed his belief
why is he trying 10 compel the people to
lay aside the money question and give
consideration to another? How is ii
possible for him to declare another ques-
ton paramount to that which he declared
must be finally settled before the
people would consent to consider any
othpr2
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13


The London Globe has been collect.
Ing a series Of lost hat stories, of which
the following are specimens:
\ father aud son were standing at
the entrance to Old Chain pier at
Brighton when the dear little boy
tumbled into the dancing waves. y
bystander Gccoutered as he was.
plunged into the sea and, buffeting the
waves with lusty sinews. succeeded al
last in setting the dripping child at his
fathers feet. And what haze We done
WI his hat?" said papa.
y correspondent sent the following
narrative; a festive blueiacket was
seen from a ship in Malta harbor dane
ing on the top of the parapet wall al
Fort r casoll. First his hat blew over.
and then, leaning over to look for ii.
he lost his balance and fell after tia
sheer drop of 30 feet or more. The
surgeon on duty was landed with a
party to bring off the remains for
identification. They found them crawl
ing about on hands and knees and In.
quired If he was seriously hurt. Hurt
be blowed! was his reply. "Where's
my hatT
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
Augusta and Lewiston Trolley.

The Lewiston Journal has talked with
Mr.. Peters, the well-known New York
capitalist, and with Mr.. Gerald touching
the project of extension of trolley from
Lewiston to Augusta.
''The road is bound to come" said Mr..
Gerald.
ut will cost about $4,000 per mile
and run about 80 miles. There is a de
cline in material, which will help mrtter
along, and If affairs next year ale favor
able, look to see something done. We
have arranged survey of the route"
Mr.. Peters is equally concerned to see
the road built. He says the business of
the l.. & A. road has increased a good
deal this year, and has faith in the fu.
ture of the trolley. He also believes pro-
founuly in the Lewiston journal, which
faith, of course, does credit to anybody
Mr.. Gerald says the franchise of the
Maine trolley roads signifies big money
eventually, since travel is constantly in
creasng. All aboard, then, for Augusta
by wire
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
A Gastronomic Cyclone.

All men and women eat. If they
don't. they won't last long. and no one
need worry as to whether they count
for much or not. But good eaters are
usually very depend-on-abl BY good
eaters | do not mean large eaters or
greedy eaters. though | may include
some of both. but | mean the men and
women who enjoy what they eat and
show no disposition, either from dys-
pepsia or other form of Indigestion, to
quarrel with their food.
Gluttons, however, are not very love-
ly. | sat at table once with a woman
at summer resort who every day for
dinner ate II ears Of corn from the cob.
That is more than the regulation mid
day feed for horse. And in the opera
ton she creased her hands and her
cheeks, and every now and again her
nose was decorated with the well but
tered grains. She was a sight. and at
the end Of the table she bred n famine
that 1t took walters to relieve. And
she was In repoSe not by ANY means a
bad looking woman. but in action-in
action at the table She was a kind of
human cyclone. leaving desolation in
her path. She had had three husbands
and Is widow again. What became
of the poor men | never knew. Maybe
she ate them.-Johu Gilmer Speed in
Criterfon
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
Letter of Acceptance.

President MoKinley's letter Of accept
ance of the nomination for the presi-
dency by the Republican party at the
philadelphia convention has been made
public. 1t is a wonderfully compre-
hensive and mastery paper, and we
wish our space would admit of giving
it to our readers in its entirety, but it
does not.
Following are some of the salient and
impressive sentences contained In the
letter:
Will the American people, through
Indifference or fancied security, hazard
the overthrow of the wise financial leg
islation of the past year and revive the
danger OF. the silver standard with all of
the Inevitable evils of shattered conf
dence and general disaster which justly
alarmed and aroused them in 1895?
Unless something unforeseen occurs
to reduce our revenues or increase our
expenditures, the Congress at its next
session should reduce taxation very
materially.
We ought to own the ships for our
carrying trade with the world, and we
ought to build them in American ship
yaras and man them with American
sailors.
A subject of immediate Importance to
our country is the completion of great
waterway of commerce between the
Atlantic and Pacific.
Combinations of capital which control
the market in commodities necessary to
the general use of the people by sup.
pressing natural and ordinary competi
ton are dangerous conspiracies
against the public good, and should be
made the subject of prohibtory and
penal legislation.
Practical civil service reform has al
ways had the support and encourage
ment of the Republican Party. The
future of the merit system is safe in its
hands.
Preference should be given to the
soldiers, sailors and marines, their
widows and orphans, with respect to
employment in the public service.
The power of Government has been
used for the liberty, the peace and
prosperity of the Philippine peoples,
and force has been employed only
against force which stood in the way of
the realization of these ends,
Nobody who will avail himself of the
facts will longer hold that there was any
alliance between our soldiers and the
insurgents or that any promise of indie
pendence was made to them.
There has been no time since the de-
struction of the enemy's fleet when we
could or should have left the Philippine
archipelago.
1t is our purpose to establish in the
Philippines government suitable to
the wants and conditions of the inhabi-
tants and to prepare them for self-gov-
eminent, and to give them self govern
ment when they are ready for it and as
rapidly as they are ready for it.
Would our opponents surrender to
the insurgents, abandon our sovereignty
or cede it to them? The effects of a
belief in the minds of the insurgents
that this will be done has already pro-
longed the rebellion and increases the
necessity for the continuance of large
army.
We are asked to transfer our SOW
eregnty to small minority in the Is.
lands without consulting the majority
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
The Word "saIary."

The way languages are built up is
very interesting, and the derivation OF
the word salary" Is curious as we'll
In ancient times Roman soldiers re.
ceived a daily portion of salt as part
of their pay Sal is the Latin for
salt, and when the salt was In course
of time committed for money the
amount was called salarium. or salt
money; hence our word salary" AMI
hence. doubtless. the expression IN
worth his salt''-that is. not worth b
salt money" or salary.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13

Maine Farmer No pool selling, no
gambling, no midway allowed on the
grounds of the Maine State Fair at Lewis
ton. President Pompilly not only re-
fused to admit but issued strict orders
to expel if anything of the kind was
found, and he and the trustees, not con-
tent with this. have personally requested
those interested in a truly representative
State Fair to be on the watch and re-
port the first evidence of the appearance
Of anything Objectionable. The old
state society is entrenching itself more
and more strongly in the hearts of the
people who believe in a clean, straight
out exhibition of the stock and products
OF the Pine Tree State.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
She Was Sensitive.

"Your face is like o. open book, J"
sighed Mr. Softleigh to Miss Gooph. ac-
companying the remark with what be
thought was his most winning smile.
"If had as big mouth as yours
would not talk about other peoples. "
shifted the young lady as she fiounced
out of the room. thus teaching the
young man to cling to the good old. I'M
mistakable taffy talk when he de-
sires to be complimentary Baltimore
American.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
The Suore.

A certain poet thus breaks forth;
"Oh. the snore, the beautiful snore. fill
ing the chamber from ceiling to floor;
over the coverlet. under the sheet. from
her wee dimpled chin to her pretty
feet: now rising aloft like a bee in
June, now sunk to the wall of a crack
ed bassoon: now tllutelike subsidi, ..
then rising again, is the beautiful snole
Of Elizabeth Jane"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
Stood Death Off.

E. B. Munday, lawyer OF Henrietta,
lex, once fooled grave digger. He
says: my brother was very low with
malarial fever and jaundice. l per-
suaded him to try Electric Bitters and
he was soon much better, but continued
their use until he was wholly cured
| am sure Electric Bitters saved his
life" This remedy expels malaria, kills
disease germs and purifies the blood; aids
digestion, regulates liver, kidneys and
bowels, cures constipation, dyspepsia,
nervous diseases, kidney troubles, fe-
male complaints; gives perfect health.
Only SOC
At F. H. Wings Drug Store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
Be Careful.
Land Agent Oak has issued the follow
ing opportune circular to guides:

Land Agent Oak has issued the follow
ing opportune circular to guides:
Owing to the long continued dry
weather, there ia very great danger of
forest fires causing immense loss. The
guides realize this danger more than the
ordinary individual and trust are doing
all they can to prevent fire losses, yet l
wish to urge you to use even greater
caution while the drought holds. Try
to impress every sportsman and tourist.
as we'll as residents, with the necessity
Of being extremely careful about throw
ing down lighted matches, cigar ends,
etc. Build no camp-fires except in
stoves or on bare rocks.
A little extra care on your part will
save much property and be greatly ap,
preciated, while even slight carelessness
will cause great damage and bring re-
proach on the guides profession.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
A Shocking Calamity

"Lately befell railroad laborer,"
writes DR.. A. Kelett of Williford, Ark.
His foot was badly crushed, but
Buckfen's Arnica Salve quickly cured
him It's simply wonderful for burns,
boils, piles and all skin eruptions. It's
the worlds champion healer. Cure
guaranteed. 25c. Sold
At F. II. Wings Drug Store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13

what kind of man Is your new
bookkeeperT
He's this kind: If you say tw,
words to him. he'll say 200" -Detron
Free Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13
More Hnnaaf.

Have you noticed any difference in
your wife since she became converted
and joined the church,
Yes; she asks me to wait an hour
for her now instead Of minute
Harper's RA"nr.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13

The pain of burn or scald is almost
instantly relieved by applying Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. Ii also heals the
injured parts more quickly than any
other treatment, and without the burn
Is very severe does not leave scar.
For sale BY Horatio w. Cushing, Show
began, and Sullivan Newton, Jackmsn.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-09-13

DeWitt's Little Early Risers are ia
nous little pills for liver and bowel
troubles. Never grippe. Geo. E. Sampson.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12
PERFUME AND DISEASE.

Nature Practical, Not Poetical, In
Scattering Sweet blossoms.
A French physician has decided that
perfumes prevent people from taking
certain diseases. During an epidemic
his attention was attracted to the fact
that persons who constantly used per-
fumes escaped taking the disease. But
he found that the more delicate per-
fumes, like violet, lavender, altar of
rose, were more efficacious than musk
and strong. rank essences.
Beccaria, the famous Italian botan-
list, long ago advised city officials to
plant trees and shrubs with odorifer.
Gus blossoms or fragrant leaves along
the highways, courts and parks of
cities, because these strong odors pro-
duce ozone, and thereby purify the an
and make the city more healthful to
human beings confined to city streets
or narrow, sunless courts and alleys.
Indeed nature, teaches us some of her
delicate mysteries and farreaching
processes when she plants tuberoses,
orange trees, the night blooming ce-
reus and ether shrubs and blossoms
with such rich and oft well nigh over
towering odors in tropic lands to neu-
traliZe the danger of fevers and mala-
ria arising from dense vegetation or
damp, unwholesome marshes and riv-
erS.
Who of us can resist the charm to
the senses Of great masses of white
and purple lilacs with countless bees
murmuring round the fragrant spikes
of blossoms-the pure, delightful per-
fume not too strong in the open air
under the radiant sun of May? And
lilacs are so vigorous, are easily grown
on any soil and very long lived. Only
an expert could tell how old some lilacs
on great-grandfather' old place are,
with the gnarled trunks and vigorous
masses of green and blossoms in May.
Boston Transcript.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12
REUNITED.

Let Us begin. dear love, where we left Oh;
Tie up the broken threads of that old dream
And go on happy % before and seem
Lovers again, though all the world may scof.
Let us forget the cold, malicious fate
Who made our loving hearts her idle toys
And once more revel in the sweet old joys
OF happy love. Nay, it is not too late
Forget the deep plowed burrows in my browl
Forget the silver cleaning in my hair;
Look only in my eyest On, darling, there
The old love shone no longer then than nowi
Tie up the broken threads and let us go,
Like reunited lovers, hand in hand,
Back and yet onward to the sunny land
OF our 40 Be, which was our Long Ago.
Ella Wheeler WilcnS-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12
IRONCLAD FEVER.
A Peculiar Disease That Was Killed
n Tn

A Peculiar Disease That Was Killed
by Ventilation.
In the fight between the Monitor and
Merrimac it was found that there was
not sufficient air in the turreted steam
er for the crew and that the suffocating
gases generated by the explosion Of
gunpowder found their way below and
rendered it practically impossible for
the men to work. Necessity therefore
compelled the introduction Of some ap-
paratus for artificial ventilation.
The old methods in vogue for hun
dreds of years had been retained even
under the new conditions and but for
the striking exhibition of direct inter-
ference with fighting capacity would
have remained for many years longer.
In the Monitor was placed rotary
blower, worked by steam. Air was
thus drawn from one half Of the steam
err through a system Of pipes and
forced into the other. Various changes
were made in later ironclads Of this
period. In, some the air was drawn
down the turrets and forced through
out the vessel, thus rendering them
more than ever liable to suffocate the
men below in battle, while in others the
supply was obtained through armored
cylinders and forced out through the
turrets. a 49, s,l
1t was in the early ironclads that q
peculiar disease developed which, be
ing confined to those vessels, was soon
designated ironclad fever. In this af-
lection the initial symptoms were
much like those Of typhus, but in q
short time severe occipital pain was
followed by complete aphonia and this
by coma and death. The Introduction
Of ventilating appliances caused the
disappearance Of this singular disease,
and in time these metal boxes, almost
entirely submerged, came to be regard
ed as probably the most salubriOus YES
sells afloat.-Cassier's Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12
A Misunderstanding.

my dear" said gentleman to his
wife, where did all those books on as
tronomy on the library come from?
They are not ours"
"a pleasant little surprise for you"
responded the lady. You know, you
said this morning that we ought to
study astronomy. and so / went to a
bookshop and bought everything
could find on the subject"
1t was some minutes before he spoke.
my DEAR" he then said slowly, his
voice husky with emotion, II never
said we must study astronomy. said
that we must study economy."-Pear-
sons Weekly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12
Order Your Ice.

I am now prepared to furnish ice,
delivering to any part Of the city in
any quantities en- very short notice.
After May !, 1 shall have a telephone
at my house adjoining the ice house.
SO that there will be no delay what
ever.
/ have an abundant supply and will
make contracts Or regular delivery
at any place in the city, at favorable
rates. Everybody needs ice and am
prepared to supply everybody.
A. L. SALMOND.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12
snake Into Your Shoes.

Aliens Foot-Ease, powder. 1t
cures painful, smarting, swollen feet
and ingrowing nails, and instantly
takes the sting out of corns and bun
ions. It's the greatest comfort discov-
cry of the age. Aliens Foot.Ease
makes tight or new shoes feel easy. 1t
is certain cure for sweating, callous
and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-
day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores. BY mail for 25c. ia stamps.
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen
S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-07-12

The statistics OF American ship
building for the fiscal year just closed
will disprove the free trade assertion
that our tonnage In the foreign trade
is being rapidly increased. Truth Is
it is being rapidly decreased, although
our foreign trade has greatly in
creased.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for liver and bowel troubles.
Never grippe. Hanson & Emerson.
One Minute Cough Cure is the only haim-
less remedy that produces immediate results.
Try it. Hanson & Emerson.
]. I. i.
Mr.. Bryan is said to be deyoting
his attention exclusively to the wheat
crop of his Nebraska farm. In this
wheat by and by he probably expects
a plenteous political harvest Boston
Transcript.
1t hes been demonstrated by experience
that consumption can be prevented by the
early use of One Minute Cough Cure. This
is the favorite remedy for coughs, colds,
Group. asthma, grippe and all throat and
lung troubles. Cures quickly. Hanson &
Emerson.
35c, $50, not 25c, not soc, $50, the price
of Rocky Mountain Tea the world over.
None genuine, unless made by the Madison
Medicine Co. Hanson & Emerson and
Fiesler & McNeice.
There are no better pills made than De-
Wits Little Early Risers. Always prompt
and certain Hanson & Emerson.
The colonies of France alone i'm
port $47, 900, 900 worth of goods a
year. This helps materially to keep
the factories busy, and to afford a
market for the farm products of that
European country.
The law holds both maker and circulator
of counterfeit equally guilty. The dealer
who sells you dangerou us counterfeit OF
DeWit,s Witch Hazel Salve risks your life
to make it little larger profit. You can
not trust HIM. DeWtts is the only genuine
and original Witch Hazel Salye, we'll
known cure for piles and all skin diseases.
See that your dealer gives you DeWitrs
Salve. Hanson q Emerson.
Over 400, 900 tons of merchant vessels
were built in the United States during
the fiscal year which ended on June 80,
1900, and yet but one, steamship OF
ITO gross tons, was built exclusively
for our foreign trade.
!. i. i.
For burns, injuries piles and skin dis
eases use OeWtt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1t
is the original. Counterfeits may be offered.
Use only DeWitt's. Hanson & Emerson.