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ed the commission as sham. q
fraud and a delusion-"
Senator Mallory offered an amend
ment providing that in filling vacan-
cies on the commission that may here
after occur, appointments shall be
made 50 that not more than nine MEM
bers OF the commission shall belong to
the same political party. This amend
ment was accepted by Senator Jones
In lieu of his amendment and ft was
agreed to.
Senator Jones said he had under
stood from persons who had appeared
before the commission that their state
ments had beeen 'outrageously gar
bled."
Senator Chandler said Ii was evident
that some testimony had been elimi-
mated.
Senator Caffery. OF Louisiana declar-
ed that the discussion had convinced
him that the commission ought 10 be
abolished.
agreed to. the amount appropriated
being increased from sl22, 800 to sl2S, 500.
At 5:35 o'clock p. m the senate ad-
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
This was a dull day in the house.
considering the near approach OF the
final adjournment The Alaskan civil
government bill was completed and
passed and some odds and ends OF leg
islation were cleaned up.
Mr. Dalzell gave notice that the
antitrust resolution and bill report
would be considered Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday OF this week.
under a special order.
The house held an evening session
devoted to consideration of the D.s-
trict of Columbia code bill.
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LOCATION OF NEXT BATTLE.

London, May 25.-Another advance
along the railroad toward Pretoria
has brought Lord Roberts troops to
Vredeport road, a few miles north of
Prospect, where they arrived at noon
Thursday. Meanwhile, General Me-
thuen is progressing along the south
ern bank of the Vaal river, with the
object, possibly, of making a dash Il
Klerks dorp when the arrives opposite
that railroad terminus.
General Hutton'S column is appar-
emily in the neighborhood of Vrede-
port. fifteen miles west of the railroad,
whence it threatens the federal right
flank.
The best opinion is that the next big
engagement will be fought just south
of johannesburg and that the fight
there, and possibly one at Langs mex
will prove the last pitched battles of
the war The latest indications almost
point to the latter being the more
stubborn of the two. 1t is hoped here
that General Butler will delay until
Lord Roberts is able to detach force
to seize Heidelberg and sever railroad
communication between johannesburg
and Laings mex.
Warrenton, Thursday, May A.-Ope-
rations have been pushed forward
eight miles, one of General Hunter
brigades having occupied Vryburg last
Vredefort, Thursday. May A-The
British columns after an unopposed
march, reached the Vredefort road at
noon today and are now only two
marches form the Vaal river.
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THE SITUATION GRAVE.
Affairs in China Fast Coming to
Crisis

Tien Tsin, May 2S-The British and
Belgians have left Fingtai and the
Boxers are expected there today. A
relief train is bringing the refugees to
Tien Tsin.
Train service between Pekin and
Tien Tsin has been suspended since
noon today.
The United States cruiser Newark
and a French man-of-war have arriv-
ed at Taku.
Pekin, May 28.-The diplomatic corps
is now in session, considering the stu
alton caused by the Boxers" The
foreign guards will certainly be brought
here. The position of affairs Is alarm
ing. Railway communication with
Tien Tsin is interrupted.
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is not chance remedy. Its good effects
are readily experienced by ali expectam
mothers Who use il. Years ago it passed
the experimental stage. While il always
shortens labor and lessons the pains ol
delivery, it is also Of the greatest benefif
during the earlier months OF pregnancy.
Morning sickness and nervousness are
readily overcome, and the linimenfrelaxes
the strained muscles, permitting. them to
expand without causing distress. Mothers
Friend gives great recuperative power %
the mother, and her recovery is sure and
rapid. Danger from rising and swelled
breasts is done away with completely.
Sold by druggista for 81 bottle.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR co.
ATLANTA. GA.
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AZ WOMEN
AGREE.

A druggist in Macon, Ga, says: "l
have sold large quantity OF Mother .
Friend, and have never known an in
stance where it has failed to produce the
good results claimed for IT, All women
agree that it makes labor shorter and less
painful.'
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ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS
THE SCIENTIFIC MEN SATISFIED WITH
THE RESULTS.
PERFECT WEATHER PREVAILED

Observers at the Stations Throupbout
the Southern States Have Unob-
structed View of the EcIinse-Tbafr
Work in Photographiug, etc.. Salts
factory-some Supposed Important
Information Gafned-The Planet Eros
Rediscovered.
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THE WAR NEARLY OVER
THE BOERS ANXIOUS TO PUT AN END
TO H0STllITIES.
KRUGER PREPARED FOR FIGHT

General Roberts Within a Days
March OF Johannesberx-TheT Trans.
vaafers Panic srricken-No Efforts
Made TO Defend That City or Pre-
toria-The Enemy Abandon Position
After Position In Front OF Roberts
Advancing Forces.
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Admiral Kempff goes to Taku, China,
with his flagship, the Newark.
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Linen handkerchief. Are Bad.

An exchange declares, on the author
ity of specialist, that the practice of
using linen handkerchiefs Is one Of the
most perniclous countenanced by polite
society. Colds, catarrh and influenza
are steadily propagated by this means,
It's possibility of bacill multiplication
being endless. Instead of their use be-
Ing fastidously neat ii Is intolerably
untidy, and we shall have gone but a
little way into the twentieth century,
the specialist predicts. before science
will convince us of the truth of his ut
terances. The practice of the japanese,
who use fire white paper handker-
chiefs, which they buy in blocks and
throw away after using, Is recommend
ed, 1t would be more satisfactory to
burn them, for If thrown away care
lessly they would obviously become a
most facile source Of contagion. Paper
handkerchiefs have already been ad-
vised for the use of tuberculosis pa
tients. but this authority urges that
they should entirely supersede the serv-
Ice of linen handkerchiefs. The fact is
impressed. too. that In family in
which two or three persons are affected
with catarrh the greatest care of hand
kerchiefs and towels should be observ-
ed. Paper handkerchiefs are the only
sanitary means of meeting the condi-
lions, and their use would be likely to
narrow very perceptlbly the limit of
conta gion
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College Women.

The higher culture gives resources
for Joy and action. 1t gives worth and
dignity to unmarried life, but II takes
away none of the joys of true mar
rage. | know that the idea Is preya-
lent that the educated woman is spoiled
for humber duties, that she will play
the plano in the parlor while her moth
er cooks In the kitchen, that she Is
weak in nerve and fabby In muscle,
less fitted for the stress of life and less
willing to do her part In 1t than her I'M
trained mother or her unlettered grand.
mother. AS to this can only say ii is
not the fact. writes David Starr Jordan
In Harper's Bazaar.
A little learning without training is q
dangerous thing. In these days OF
many books the uncultured woman Is
exposed to many new dangers which
our grandmothers could not know
Half educated mothers are too often
caught by passing fads-medical. liter
airy and religious. 1t Is among the
partly educated women that worthless
books find their readiest sale. 1t Is
from among them that the societies fol
the promotion Of the higher foolish
ness" draw their membership-Chris
tian science, Ralstonism. vegetarian.
ism, faith cure, relic cure, osteopathy
psychic experience and a variety of de
lusions which real knowledge would
disspate and which now add unprece,
dented terrors to matrimony.
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eff were girl again, do not think
| would be quite 80 set as | was on my
own intellectual development" says
Mary Lowe Dickinson, general secre-
tary Of the Society Of Kings Sons and
Daughters. You think so much IF
whether people are clever or lot as a
friend Of mine said 10 me when vas
a little over %. and SO little Of any
thing else Well, time has its re
venges, and | can honestly say thai
am inclined 10 think Of anything else
good deal more than Of cleverness in
the men and women that / meet. I
think far more Of cheerfulness and
honesty and truthfulness and amiabili-
ty than / did in those days, and
would rather that some Of my young
friends were a little less concerned
about being clever and much more con
cerned about being good.
Il know that it means 50 much 10 us
In our youth that our friends should
honor as well as love US, that the world
should begin to know that we exist.
We like TO see our names Ia q newspa-
Pfl VI at lh' dfdh Va dli f8A III Id AIOll
list. We long for the advantages that
other girls haye-the lectures, the col
lege life. the foreign travel, the elabo-
rnte training Ia science. music or art.
Right ambitions enough II they are
kept In their right place. But how
about the years at college for which
some one else is kept toiling IN an Of
fee or at desk, breaking himself or
herself down with overwork for love of
you? How about the loneliness of one
whom perhaps you leave behind when
you set forth airily upon your foreign
tour? You must learn that your own
improvement. your own education and
training may not be the thing that you
ought to put first of all The cultiya.
ton Of your intellect is not so impor-
tant as the cultivation of your soul"
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Miss Alice IL. Luce of Wellesley col
lege, who recently accepted the posi-
ton of dean of Oberlin college, will en-
ter upon her duties in the autumn
Miss Luce is a graduate of Wellesley
of the class of 'S3. After leaving col.
lege she taught successfully in the high
school of Putnam. Cal: In the Welles-
ley High school and In the Girls Latin
school, Boston. Miss Luce then spent
several years in study abroad and re
ceived the degree Of Phi. d. from the
University of Heidelberg. After her
return she taught at Smith college and
then at Wellesley. Miss Luce is re
garded as one Of the ablest professe-s
In the department of English literature
and language.
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Magnetic Clay.

Most kinds of clay contain a consid-
cradle proportion Of iron. The red col
or of bricks. for example, is due to the
presence of oxides of iron. Whenever
an object nodded of clay Is baked at
the temperature of the potter's furnace
In the presence of n magnetic field or
influence. the otherwise homogeneous
clay shows when cooled traces of mag
netism In a definite direction. This in
herent magnetism Is sufficient to show
the direction and give an idea as to the
Intensity of the magnetizng force that
acted while the clay was in the fur
mace.
This peculiar property has been used
to solve some questions of great inter
est to scientific people In general. An
accurate knowledge of the direction of
the earth's magnetic force in early his
torical times has been deduced by sew
eral Italian physicists from study of
the traces Of magnetism shown by Etru-
rian vases and other objects of clay
exhumed from old tombs. The con
clusion reached Is that the direction of
the earth's magnetic field has varied
very greatly in the 5000 or 6,000 years
represented by the age of the objects
examined.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-06-14

For exercise in expression the teach
er daily asks her scholars to describe
some of the happenings of the day nj
home.
Little Minnie, loquitor: when my
papa went to go down into the wood
shed the other evening, where 1t was
dark, he slipped on the stair and strain
ed his foot, and now he can't walk"
Here another little girl was evidently
reminded of something. and she raised
her hand and huttered 1t to get the
teachers attention.
"Well?" suggested the teacher.
Please. ram, when our COW came
home from pasture last night she slip
ped in the mud right in front of the
house and strained her milk. but she is
able to walk Just the same" Lewiston
Journal.
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uted time and energy to furtherinS the
the remains of Martha Washington.
Ten years of travel and study abroad
have made Mrs. Gibson familiar with
German, French and Italian. all of
which she speaks with great tiuency.
During her stay in Europe her associa-
tons were with the best society of dip
lomatic and court circles. This en-
vironment was improved to the utmost.
and Mrs. Gibsons rare memory has
kept for her and her friends ncdPn :
of life and manners In the most eXclu-
sivc sets of Europe that have never
crept into print. Mrs. Gibson's knowl
edge of tie languages has made her
sought for as n translator of foreign
books. Besides translating for others
she has also put group Of German
and Italian fairy stories into English
for the benefit of her Ch ildren. The YER
satility of mind which made the acqui
sition of languages an easy achieve
ment has ena bled Mrs. Gibson to write
n large number of dainty verses. Which
are soon to appear in book form II is
n singular fact that, while the writer
Is distinctly feminine in appearance
and name. these verses are written
entirely frolu II mans standpoint
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-06-14
Keepthe Summer Baby Warm.

A summer baby requires nearly the
same amount Of clothing as one Dor a
In the winter. The little cashmere
shirts may be of lighter weight, bur
they must still be chiefly of wool, and
the flannel skirt, or pinning blanket,
cannot be dispensed with. The hlan-
ket in which the child is wrapped need
not be as thick one as In winter. yet
one is still needed 4 newborn baby
requires warmth and even the summer
breezes are too harsh for the tender
flesh until 1t becomes accustomed TO
the atmosphere
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-06-14

played poker for IL years and new
ar saw a straight flush. A few nights
ago woman In a millionaires' row
palace held one and, dlsdaining the
small pile of cash on the table, called
for her check book. Everybody ex-
cept an old bachelor who had learned
the game in the Union club laid down.
He, scorning to take advantage of a
weak woman, said:
Mrs. B., let me advise you to be
careful. 1 shall see you for any amount
and raise you. The limit is off, sup
poseW
She said 1t was and cast check
for $500 in the pot.
Before | see that may | ask n ques-
tionI" he said to the assembled play
ers. Il want to know this-in case
there are two straight Pushes, each ace
high, which suit winsY'
Diamonds" was the unanimous re.
ply.
lie handed to Mrs. B. her check and
laying down ten, jack. queen, king
and ace of diamonds. remarked that
Sic was a very brave woman. But
she assured him that her hand was
worth $500 and exposed ten, jack
queen, king and ace of clubs.
How far would you have gomez
some one asked her, to which she made
answer:
Il shouldn't have thought of stopping
under 5000. and | am half angry
that he didn't give me a chance to bet
it's such glorious fun" New YorI
Press
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A GIFTED WOMAN.
She Has Been Appointed Historian of
French Explorers In America.

french Explorers In America
Mrs Ida Preston Gibson of Chicago
has received the appointment of histo-
rian of the French explorers In Amer
lea. The office was bestowed upon Mrs.
Gibson by the educational department
Of the Paris exposition. The writing
allotted to this Chicago woman was
bound and forwarded to Paris in time
for the opening of the fair. Mrs. Glib
son Is one of the most brilliant women
in Chicago. For years she has been
noted in intellectual circles for her wit
and charming literary style. She was
among the first women lecturers Of
Chicago, having given profound
course In German literature over 20
years ago. This course was afterward
repeated in Springfield and it was at
tended there as here by men OF culture
as well as women. Mrs. Gibson has
been active in the work of the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution since the forma-
ton of the society and has also contrib
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-06-14
ADNiCE-MASCUlINE.

While Cupid sways this mundane sphere
And men are only human,
She is most wise who won't appear
Too reasonable a woman.
Alsck that fate ordained 1t sol
'Tis passing melancholy;
But naught that reason e'er can show
Is half SO sweet as folly.
In arrant whims some witchcraft lies
That logic ever misses,
And common sense looks plain to eyes
That seek capricious blisses,
While unto every lovers fire
1t adds wealth OF fuel
II she who doth his love inspire
Is sometimes rather cruel.
Know what you will. mesdames, but know
The acme Of all knowledge
Is tact, albeit we cannot show
Its chair In any college.
Keep some small foibles--for deem
You have them. being human
And so be what you do not seem
A reasonable woman.
Beatrice Hanscom In Century.
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"Why did your COOK leave so sudden
ly?"
'She baked two cakes last Saturday.
one for us and one to take to her mar
ried sister When she wasn't looking,
exchanged them and took for our own
use the one she had intended to give
y."-Chicago Times-Herald.
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Powder Burns In Shooting Cases.

Powder Burns In Shooting Cases.
Powder burns have played a curl
ously important part before the courts, "
remarked a New Orleans lawyer who
has large criminal practice. Their
presence or absence is often depended
upon to determine proximity in mystic
rious shootings. and they have fire.
quently settled the question Of suicide
or murder where the fact was In doubt.
II was interested in a case of that
kind in the early days of my practice
and prevailed upon a prominent sur
geon of this city who Is now dead to
ascertain for me by practical expert
ment upon a body In the dissecting
room exactly how far away the ex-
plosion of pistol would produce burns
and powder marks. He used a 80 cal.
iber revolver and found that the fame
of the discharge made a distinct burn
ut distance of 2h feet, and powder
marks were left at a distance of more
than two yards.
"Of course the grains were not actu.
ally driven into the skin as they are nj
shorter range, but the marks were
clearly discernible and could not be
easily removed. | was surprised at the
result and 1t satisfied me that many
erroneous conclusions had been drawn
from such evidence In the past 1t is
generally supposed that the weapon
must be held almost against the skin &c
leave traces of flame and POWDER
New Orleans Times Democrat.
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Parrot. Natural Gymnasts,

The curious gymnastic fcats which
parrots sometimes perform in their
cages have been ascribed TO the desire
of the birds 20 vary the monotoaY OF
their life In captivity. That was tho
opinion of Mrs. Mandsley. the wife of
the Central American explorer. un;il
she lived In the forest region near
Copan. where sEG saw the parrots in a
state Of perfect freedom indulging in
all the feats practiced by their Gagged
cousins.
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Point of View.

The beautiful Griselda deprecated his
passionate praise.
Il am but worm, after ALL" she
sighed. the traditions of her Puritan
ancestry being strong upon her.
But you look nice enough to eat"
protested the youth.
"Oh, you're bird" the shy girl fal-
tered, as If to indicate that she deemed
his attitude of mind largely a matter
of point of view. Detroit Journal
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sunpICinus ApprovRI.

He-Why don't you wear your new
bonnet. my dear?
She-Oh. there's something wrong
with it. and can't find out what it is.
He-Then how do you know there is
something wrong with 1t?
She-All the women in the neighhor
hood say it Is just too lovely for any.
thing. Chicago News.
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Trusts and Wages.

Did you say thai trusts were the
means of raising wagesy'
Certainly" answered Senator Sor
ghum. Il know the president of com
bnation who has raised his salary four
times in the last two years. Wash.
ipgton Star
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-06-14

Kind words are benedictionS. They
are not only instruments of power but
of benevolence and courtesy. blessings
both to the speaker and nearer of them.
Frederick Saunders.
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Law is like n sieve. a man may see
through it. tut If he gets through 1t he
Will find himself much reduced.-ChI
cago News.
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A girl can't speak OF any one being in
love without using the word 'desper-
atelr. "-Atchison Globe.
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Welcome Change.

my dear" began the eXtrayagant
young wife. i've got several things |
want TO talk to you about"
"Ah. that's relief" exclaimed the
husband.
What is
ITO lie assured that you've got the
things you want to talk about You
generally discourse upon things you
need. Philadelphia Press.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE,

Whereas. Perley s. Kicker OF Canaan in the
County OF Somerset and State of Maine. by his
mortgage deed dst ed the fou rth day OF March
A. D. 1893 and recorded in he Somerset
County Registry OF Deeds in Book 2l7, Page
S71, conveyed to me, the undersigned, a certain
parcel of real estate situated in said
Canaan and bounded on the north by land of
Howard Kicker, land o Msnley Goodridge and
land of heirs OF Wallace Kicker. on the west by
land occupied by owen and Charles Hussey,
on the south by land occupied by said Husseys
and land OF Morrill, Nelson, and OIL the east by
land OF Eugene Goodridge, containing ninety
five acres more or less and being the home
stead farm OF stephen Kicker, late OF said
Canaan, d ceased and same pre- misses occupied
at that time bv said Perley :. Kicker; and
whereas the condition of said mortgage has
been broken, now therefore by reason of the
breach OF the conoition thereof, I claim a
foreclosure OF said mortgage. 3w2l
FRANK I. RAND.
Canaan. May 3. 1900
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