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The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

afke-l told my wife she could sell
cue desired the furniture that had
|,ome too bad for use.
ane-she was prompt to take the
t was she3
%ke (sadlyl-Was she? There isn't
~'us ieft.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

Oregon is still doubtful State, but
the doubt is whether that State will
give $1,000 majority for Mckinley in
November, or only 10000 or $4,000.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

The Chinese are reported to be en-
trenching outside of Pekin to oppose the
International column. Affairs seem to
have reached a crisis. Pekin appears to
be isolated.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

Senator Frye will address the Repub-
ican State Convention ut Bangor. We'd
nesday, the 9th instant, but he Is re-
ported as saying that the speech will
Dot be big one. 1t may not be long
one, but Senator Frye would find it
difficult to make political speech that
would not be intensely pithy and highly
Interesting to Maine Republicans.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14
A MARTYR

mats the way" cried the forger as
Eu'ehce of ten years was imposed,
|sl OF us great writer's are compelled
suher for giving full freedom to our
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14
SkOwhegan Markets.

Corrected Weekly by u. H. rARTLErf
PRICES PAu. r..,' us,H>.
BurrkR-t1rst quanJy, stan Iv.. a :. per b
BEEF-Ox beef, 10 cts.
BEANs-Hand-picked yellow eyes 8. oo - g IS
pea beans. S2.25
tlAFS- 35'ts
EGGs-l3 cts. per dor fresh
HIDES AND SKINs-hides 81 cts arae skins %
each calf skins, q to sIoo earh
toULTRy-Fowls. stole CTS per chickens
TO Is CTS.
ROUND HoG-6 cts.
WooL-UnwRshed ~ st.
TALLow-Rough ca. per Do
RETAIL MARKET
New Maple Moiss>es 2s cts FER qt
tHEEsE-i5 per no.
FLouR-SprMg wheat Patent g IS; Winter
to 81 q. extra, So 10 2,15.
CoRN-Sl.iS per bag meal and cracked corn rs c
for 20 10. bag
c.. MEAS. 40 per bag.
FEED Middlings. Sl,oS to ll,eper cwt. Chicago
gluten 90 sack
TkAs-49 to 61 cents per 10.
CoFFEE-l1la to - cts. per u.
LARp-nomestic, 10 cts Pure cts.
MoLAssEs-l'ure Ponce. 81. lure Barbados.
So.
CHOICE COOKING MoIAssEs 2s>
DRY FIsa-Cod, to cts. per b. pollock
{ cts.
OSIoNs-9 C. per 10
ECGs-l4 cts 4 uoz fresh
SvGAR-Gunulated, Sugar hest quality IL
pounds tor S10o
brown. Is pounds for 81,
BUrrER-l6 10 ?0cts per 10
OArS-WeSteru old - cts.
pntatoes-10 TO 81 cts bu
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

The convention held by Republicans
Coburn Hall, Tuesday last, was a
urge and harmonious one and the ticket
lominated is strong one. With the
1ception of three, the gentlemen named,
now serving acceptahly 10 the places
which they are again nominated.
lhs is good evidence Of Efficiency. The
pew men on the ticket are, DIR. E. c.
'yant of Pittstleld for senator, Hon. M
Merrill Of ST. Adams for county COM
missioner and Geo. w. Cover, Esq. tor
Ouoty attorney. The two former have
e''ed in the Maine Legislature, and Mr..
power is successful lawyer in this
'Wn' All are men of ability and ex-
stlence In business affairs and will,
uen elected, serve the county faithfully
|nd well.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

Hellebore kills currant worms or worms
ON rose bushes. The best can be found
at SIMPSONS drug store.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

J. D. Rawles & Co. sell the paint that
wears twice as long as lead and oil
Devoe lead and zinc, ground by machin-
cry. 4ml0
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

SIMPSONS insect powder Is full
strength and the quality is guaranteed ;
sold in bulk.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

While the British troops in South At
|1ca do not seem to have everything in
|aeir favor and suffer some minor de-
ffeats, Gen. Roberts and Gen. Butler are
making substantial progress and grad
|pally closing in upon the Beers. Lang's
Rek and Majuba, important stategic
Points, have been evacuated by the Boer
0rces and occupied by Butler, this week,
Fad Methuen and Kitchner defeated the
Soer commander, De Wet, at the Rhen-
ater river, Tuesday.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

For County Commissioner:
MILTON L. MERRILL of ST. Albans.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

For Representatives to the Legislature:
EDWARD P. PAGE of Skowhegan.
WILLIAM L. WALKER of Starks.
WILLIAM +. GREENE of Madison.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

For County Treasurer:
ROLAND I. PATTEN of Skowhegan.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14

ENTERED AS SECOND GLASS MAIL NATTER.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-06-14
REPUBLICAN, NOMINATIONS.

For County Attorney:
GEORGE w. COVER of Skowhegan.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
NOTHING SLOW ABOUT HIM.
An Aged Lover WHO Believed in thu
Maxim, "Make Hay While the
Sun Shines.''

A novel courtship which has the
flavor of the olden times took place re.
Gently in Androscoggin town. An old
gentleman who had been very depend
emit upon his wife, and who seemed
hardly able to do anything without her,
was suddenly bereft of her by death.
The daughter was full of gentle SYM
pathy and took her father home with
her. Everything possible was done for
his comfort. When he was at home
from the store he was not left alone a
moment, for fear he would be lone
some.
Six months after his wife's death he
coolly announced that he was going to
marry "Jane" in week. In vain the
daughter expostulated, only gaining a
little longer time. Then she went to
see Jane, distant neighbor, who owned
a farm, to find out if it was really so.
Receiving an answer in the affirmative,
she ventured to ask another question:
''When did my father ask you? He has
hardly been left alone IL moment"
The intended of the aged lover, whose
years were almost fourscore and ten,
smiled. "He did make the most of his
opportunity" she replied. HE came
here to get my firkin of butter, and as
he was driving off asked me to marry
him. I said I could not decide so quick.
ly. Tell me when come again next
week to bring back your empty firlzin,
was his reply. So I told him yes when
he came with the frkin." Augusta
(Me.) Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
A Matter of Temperature.

The little ones mother had said:
'Now, doctor, if there is any rise Of
temperature'-she was great on tenn
perature, by the way-'I will send for
you at once. AS you know, have a
clinical thermometer, and can take the
temperature myself, without troubling
you to come in for the purpose" Just
as was going to bed was startled by
a violent ring at the bell, and, hasten
ing to the door, saw terrified domes-
tic, who gasped: "Oh, sir, please, sir,
do come round at once! Miss Marjory
is worse. Missus said I was to tell you
her temperature is 1os, and is risin'
fast" Scarcely waiting to put on my
hat, I rushed round to the house of my
little patient, and discovered the whole
family assembled in the sick room
awaiting the end of poor little Marjory,
the mother wringing her hands in ag-
ony and crying dreadfully. What's
the temperature now?" almost Shout
ed in my agitation. 'Oh!" sobbed the
mother, Il haven't dared to look since.
My poor darling! 1t was 1OS, and they
say that 1o5 is always fatal" and she
broke down completely. Without vast
ing any more time, turned down the
blanket, and-found that the Their
mometer had been thrust between the
child's side and arm, and the bulb em-
bedded in freshly applied hot poul-
tice!-Chambers' Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
THE VELVET BEAN.

peas and usually three or four are found
in each pod. The pods are short and
stout, nearly black in color and covered
with coat of velvety hairs. The velvet
bean belongs to the same family as the
cowpea. 1t is legume or ieguminous
plant, and, like the cowpea, the velvet
bean is renovating plant, having the
power to enrich the land on which it
grows.
In any comparison of velvet beans
with cowpeas as renovating crop,
there is one point in which velvet
beans are conspicuously superior.
When frost comes the vines and leaves
settle down together in such a way
that the force of falling rain is broken
and the network of vines is so complete
that the leaves, the most valuable por-
ton, cannot be blown or washed away.
With cowpeas the case is somewhat diff
ferent, the bare stems standing erect
and affording no means of retaining the
leaves in place. On the other hand, bet
ter implements are required to turn I'M
der vines of the velvet beans than to
plow under cowpea vines. 1t is not adj
visable to attempt to grow this bean in
the north.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
Over Twenty Uses for Corn.

The Indian corn propaganda at the
Paris exposition and the conventions
recently held in the west in the interest
of corn producers have brought out
the fact that over 20 important prod
ucts are now manufactured from corn.
One of the most important products is
distilled spirits, the demand for which
has increased greatly since the inven-
ton of smokeless powder, in the manu-
facture of which the spirits are largely
used. Among the other products made
from corn are mixing glucose, crystal
glucose, grape sugar, anhydrous grape
sugar, special sugar. pearl starch,
powdered starch, refined grits, flourine,
deNtrine, British gum, granulated gum,
gum paste. corn oil, corn oil cake, rub
Der substitute, gluten feed, chop feed,
gluten meal and corn germ. With the
present economical methods of manu-
facture not particle of corn is wasted.
There is no refuse.-California Vine
yardist.
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COLOR VERSUS QUALITY.
Why the Matter of Mere Beauty
Should BE Secondary Consider
alton to Bee-IAceperA-

There has been quite rage for yellow
bees, and breeders in this country have
catered to the general demand to such
an extent that bees of the Italian race
are produced much yellower than those
found in Italy. But the tide seems now
turning, and the demand is rather for
bees that give large surplus than for
handsome bees. Z. 3. Root, editor OF
Gleanings, says:
Il hope the race for color has had its
day; and while there have been several
specimens of bees that have been good
workers, as well as beautiful, the ma
jority of those we have tested have had
some bad traits, either in temper,
swarming propensity or a lack of hardi-
ness for wintering. Let the matter of
color be only secondary consideration.
Put first, ability to get money; second,
wintering qualities; third, disi%:siina-
ton to swarm; temper next, ara color
last of all. But other things Aeing
equal, I should very much prefen gentle
bees if at the same time they $50 have
the other three desirable qualities. COL
or really amounts to nothing.
''Of color or markings it may be said
that, of whatever blood the queen may
be, she must be pure, whether Carni-
olan, black or Italian. A hybrid queen
with an ancestry of hybrids back ten
years might be able to reproduce her
kind without sporting toward either
the blacks or Italians. DR.. Miller has
such queen. Her bees outstripped
everything else in the apiary last sea-
son, and he is going to use her for a
breeder.
"Hybrids are apt to be more or less
cross. It has been observed, believe,
that the cross or ''snappy" kind are the
ones that produce results in honey. Did
you ever notice that it is often the
"snappy" kind ofpeople who can get out
a big days work, even though they are
not, perhaps, the most popular among
their fellows?"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
EGGS FOR HATCHING
How to Keep Them So That the Germ
Is Not Killed ana the Esq Thus
Made Useless.

AS to keeping eggs for Matching, the
incubator people remind us that the
yolk is specifically lighter than the al
.bumen, and is buoyed up by it, and the
germ, which always lies at the top, is
only kept from pressing against the
shell by the weight of the denser al
bumen forming the chalaza, this hav-
ing tendency to drag tie yolk down
and steady it. If the eggs are kept at
TOO high a temperature, the albumen
will get somewhat fluid and the yolks
will be pressed upward against the
shell, and, if allowed to remain so,
will become fixed to it. Any length of
time and temperature that would re-
suit in this would have killed the germ
and thus rendered the egg useless. The
more handling the egg has the quicker
this arrangement will be effected.
Place eggs for Matching in basket or
box with regard to position, cover
with a cloth to prevent undue evapora-
ton by direct exposure to the air, and
leave them undisturbed until wanted.
They will be better than if handled
and turned. Any cloth will give suf-
ficient ventilation to keep the air
around the eggs sweet if the apart
ment is pure.-Plowboy and Country
Farmer.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
NOTES FOR BEEKLEPERS.

Keep bees to make your honey, but
begin with only few hives.
Strong colonies protect themselves
from robbers and bee moths.
Young queens, like young stock Of
any kind, are superior to old ones.
Bees are profitable because they gath
er up and store what would otherwise
be lost.
To avoid in and out breeding it is
we'll to introduce new blood from time
to time.
The point in favor of the Italian bee
is that it is the most prolific and is gen
tie and energetic.
In rendering beeswax tin, brass or
copper vessel should be used. An iron
vessel will darken it.
Comb honey will last for years if al
ways kept dry and uniformly at about
so degrees. Under these conditions it
will improve.-St. Louis Republic.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
ever known in Texas. Hardin had mur-

ever KnOWO IN leAdS. I1dTul III udu MUIR
dered over q score of men, and there
was a reward on his head of $4,000.
Hall wanted the reward and determined
to get it. He learned of Hardin's
whereabouts and started for the place.
Before arriving there he was told that
Hardin had five or six men with him
and that they were all encamped at
the edge of lake. Their camp could
be approached from only one direction,
and that was over an open space sew
eral hundred feet wide.
Hall summoned posse of six men
and started for the camp. When he
arrived at the edge of the open space
he and his men dismounted and tied
their horses in the brush.
"Now," said Hall, "we'll run right
in on them. We don't want any long
distance shooting. The only way to
get these men is TO rush them. Follow
right after me and We'll have them
before they know it,"
The posse agreed to this, and Hall
started on a run across the open space
straight for the desperadoes' camp,
carbine in hand. Suddenly the des-
peradoes opened fire on his advancing
figure. Hall stopped and blazed away
with his carbine. Then he glanced be-
hind him and discovered that he was
alone. The firing in front grew hotter,
and he turned and ran for his life. The
desperadoes yelled and laughed and
shot at him. They cried to him to
come back and called him coward
and many other unpleasant things, but
he was too wise to attempt to fight
half dozen of the worst men in Texas
single-handed, and he made straight
for his horse. It was where he had tied
it, but the other horses were gone. He
had bullet-hole in his hat and three
in his clothing. Hall spent the rest
of the day hunting down his posse and
''cursing them out" process they
submitted to with becoming meekness,
for the deputy sheriff was in danger
Gus mood.
Long afterward John B. Armstrong,
at that time second in command Of
Lee Halls company of rangers, cap
tured John Wesley Hardin in Florida
and brought him to Texas, where he
served long term in Jail. Hall visited
Hardin in the prison and congratu-
lated him upon being the only man
who had ever made him run. Hardin
was killed a few months after he was
pardoned out of Jail. He was shot in a
barroom in Ell Paso by a man whom
he had sworn to kill on sight.
1t was my privilege to serve in the
Texas rangers under Hall in the late
seventies, and I know he can win the
love and admiration of those under him
as well as he can fight. If he has the
luck to get on the firing-line in the
Philippines, Jesse Lee Hall will make
another Funston, or all Texas will be
nightly surprised Saturday Evening
Post, Philadelphia.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
WANT AMERICAN FLOUR.
In the Course Of n Few Years Siberia
Will De n Splendid Market for
Our Product.

William Mitchell Bunker, an Ameri-
can travelling in Siberia, writes: eve
never saw large loaves of bread until
we reached Blagovestchensk. The
bakers made them round and square.
Eighteen inches square or two feet
across are the popular sizes with the
peasants. Siberian -four is inferior,
very inferior, and to strike an average
it is mixed with American flour. After
seeing these loaves and seeing Siberi-
ans eat them, the Siberian demand for
American flour is no mystery. The
soldiers are nearly all big fellows, and
I was SO favorably impressed with
their rugged appearance that I asked
Russian officer to name their rations.
The soldier gets daily three-quarters
of a pound of meat, three pounds of
bread, porridge and cabbage soup, and
tea or tap. When maneuvering his
portion of meat is increased to one
pound. So the army also assists in de-
creasing the visible supply of flour and
increasing the demand for the Ameri-
can product.
AC olbC1loA VI
astonishes even after one has seen the
sacks stacked at Vladivostock. Every
boat and junk leaving that port, and
every craft leaving Nicolaievosk, the
great distributing point at the mouth
of the Amur river, carries to the in
terror flour brought from the Pacific
coast, and every steamer stopping at
village or woodpile leaves sacks OF
flour. At Khabarovik we were puz.
zled at the foury appearance of steam
ers, barges and boats and the whitened
clothes of roustabouts and teamsters.
Our journey on the Amur river solved
the problem. The steamers dropped
-four every few hours, and peasants
who came to the riverside brought for
sale loaves of bread. as well as milk
and eggs. And the demand for flour
must keep pace with the growth of the
Siberian population"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
Hints on Storing Potatoes.

Tke following plan for preventing
them from sprouting in spring will be
found useful when many are placed in
the cellar for family use; it destroys
the eyes or buds, after which they
never start, consequently the tubers do
not become shriveled and tough: Be
fore placing them in the cellar leave
the tubers for an hour in solution of
sulphuric acid, about IA pints to %
gallons of water, the whole being thor
oughly mixed; after removing from
this bath they should be spread out to
dry, then placed in barrels. The solu-
ton also prevents decay. Such potatoes
will never grow under any circum-
stances, so those intended for planting
should not be so treated.-Farmers'
Review.
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Hens Need Lots Of Light.

The size of the windows has much
to do with the comfort or discomfort
of the fowls in winter. Sad to relate,
most of the poultry houses owned by
farmers have but small windows,
though we believe that the idea of
having large windows is growing. The
poultry house that has to accommodate
say so hens, and has a single window
two feet square is an abomination,
and it is no wonder that in flocks so
kept diseases are frequent and de-
structive. If but one window can be
put in a poultry house, it should Ger
taiuly be large one, but it is better
to have number of windows.-Farm-
ers' Review.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL,

Any artist in any country may COM
pete for the annual prize of 5000 left by
Rosa Bonheur, to be awarded the best
painting in the Paris salon.
One of the quaintest characters at
the palace of Westminster is an old
man named Wright, who for 40 years
has been doorkeeper of the press gal
lery in the house of commons. Illness
has retired him at last.
Just as decree of divorce was hand.
ed to woman in court in Vincennes,
Ind, young man was procuring mar
rage license from the clerk of the same
court; and before the writing on the
two documents was fairly dry squire
made the couple man and wife.
A girl of Troy, Kan, regrets her in.
ability to attract beaux. But she COM
forts herself in peculiar way. In the
evening she attaches pieces of lighted
punk to the porch, and people driving
past are thus led to imagine that she
is surrounded by young men smoking
cigars.
There was man charged the other
day in New York with scorching. His
name was John Spqs. He gave his name
and told how it was spelt. But nobody
could pronounce it. "As uttered by the
prisoner" said the clerk, "it seems to
be the commingling of hiss of pune
tured tire and the wheeling of an in
fator."
A humorous touch in connection
with Lafcadio Hearn's naturalization
as japanese was the reduction of his
professional salary from $50 to 50
yen month. AS foreigner he drew
larger salary than the native in
structors; but at the dinner in cele-
bration of his change of nationality
the president of the university rose
and observed that now that Prof.
Hearn had become one of them the
last insidious distinction would be re-
moved by cutting down his salary.
And the American-born professor tried
to look as though he enjoyed it.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-02-22
BETS AND SUGAR CANE.
More of the Former Is Manufactured
Than of the Other
Variety.

The worlds production of sugar for
the year now ending has reached the
enormous total of s,414,OOO tons. The
production of this staple commodity
has increased 31A times since 1872, when
the output was only 2,619,O0o tons. The
average price per pound, however, has
declined considerably more than one
half during the same period, or from
5.37 cents in the earlier year to 2.39
cents for the year 1s9s-the average for
the current year not yet being ascer-
tainable.
Beet sugar production slightly sur
passed that of cane sugar for the first
time in 1888, when 2.147 900 tons of the
former were produced, as against 2,1O7,-
600 tons of the latter. Notwithstanding
the growing cheapness of the commod-
ity and the European bounty system for
beet sugar, the quantity of cane sugar
produc continued to increase from
year to year until 1895 when it amount
ed to 100000 tons. The destruction of
the Cuban plantations accounts for the
fact that the output of cane sugar has
declined until the quantity manufac-
tured during the current year amount
ed to only 100000 tons, as compared
with $4,000 tons of beet sugar. 1t is
not likely that the limit of the world s
demand for sugar has even nearly
been reached, and with the introduc.
tion of improved methods the West In.
dian cane growers should be able to
meet and overcome the competition OF
in the nature of things that an essen
TALLY tropical product should be per
manently displaced by a substitute
grown in the lighter soil and under the
less fervid rays of the sun of the tenn
perate zone.-Philadelphia Record.