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The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
South y mithfield.

Have you got your Thanksgiving tur-
keyP
Rev. Mr.. Colbroih of Dover came here,
last week, to hold series of meetings
but was called home on Thursday to at
tend funeral. He held three meetings
which were we'll attended. He is OK
pected here this week to hold evening
meetings until saturday. Asa Blaisdell
has an appointment here, next saturday,
Earle Holmes came home, last Friday,
having finished his work IN Oakland.
The funeral of Nrs. Martha Grant,
whose death was briefly noted, last
week, was held AT the church, on Tues
day last, attended by large gathering
of relatives and friends Rev. MIR Hay
wood, pastor of the church, conducted
the services, assisted by Rev. Mr. Col
broth. Mrs Grant was woman of
noble Christian character and will be
greatly missed in her home, in the com
munity and also in the church, where
she was a Jealous worker She leaves a
husband, son and a daughter and a
large circle of friends to mourn her sud-
den death.
Henry Richardson Is in very poor
health. He has been to Portland for
advice but did not get much encourage
ment. The doctor advised him to go
into the pine woods and we hear he is
preparing to go.
Mr.. Geo, Robinson of Oakland was IN
town, last Friday, and purchased a nice
pair of Hereford calves of A. P. Holmes.
Chauncey Warren is ren,odeling his
house inside.
Howard Crowell is expecting his
brother, Frank, from California to eat
Thanksgiving dinner with him. He has
not been here for many years. H
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
A Wonderful Echo.

Many wonderful echoes are known,
but the one which takes the first place
seems to be that of the old palace of
Simonetta. near Milan, which forms
three sides of quadrangle. The re-
port Of a pistol is said to be repeated
by this echo GO times, and Addison,
who visited the place on a somewhat
foggy day, when the air was unfavor-
able, counted So repetitions At first
they were quick, but the interva /,
were greater in proportion as the sound
diminished.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
East Mercer.

Fred Wiley is very sick with rheumatic
fever.
Winifred Stevens is home from Farm
ington where she has beer attending the
Normal School.
Nine persons took the third and fourth
degrees in the Grange, Saturday night.
Four of our schools in town began last
week with teachers as follows: Eva
Brown, East Mercer; Nellie Ford
Hampshire Hill; Rosa Whlcom5, L4dd
town; Nellie Collins of North Arson,
Chapman. T
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
Browns Corner.

H. L. Purinton has been on the sick
list for several days.
Lem Lancaster got another deer one
day last week.
A little daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Hayden on Saturday Nov. %.
The schools in this vicinity will begin
the winter term next Monday.
Selden Poland OF Athens visited his
sister, Mrs. Tom Donahue, on Sunday.
Leon and Enrol Donahue are visiting
their grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Poland
in Athens
Ralph Buzzell of Pishon's Ferry attend
ed the meeting at this place on Sunday.
Erwin Lewis who has been attending
the Higgins Classical Institute, Charles
ton, is home on vacation.
Madison Center.
Eugene Lawrence has moved to Madi-
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
South Madison

Mrs. Ray Head of Fairfield is visiting
her sister, Mrs. John Ward.
School on Ward Hill closed, Friday.
Mrs. A. II. Ward came from Skowhe-
gan, Tuesday, and is gaining slowly.
Mrs Elva Wescott closed her fourth
term of school at the Twelve Corners,
Friday.
Mrs Charles Houghton has gone to
the Massachusetts General Hospital for
treatment.
Miss Eta Chase has gone to Brighton
to live with her aunt. ULA
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
North Madison.

c. V. Bailey of North Arson was in
this vicinity the first of last week and
bought G: d H. Robbins eighteen graded
Hampshire Downs also one thoroughbred
and five graded lambs OF c. E. Dean and
six lambs of Albra Adams. They make
up fancy flock and it took fancy price
to get them Probably one of the best
focks in town. K
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
mmissioners' Notice.

The undersigned having been appointed by
\the Honorable Judge of Probate for the Coun-
ty OF Somerset on the second Tuesday OF No
vember A. ID. 1901, com m issioners to receive
and examine the claims OF creditors against
the estate OF Aaron Drew, late of Canaan in
said County, deceased, represented insolvent,
hereby give notice that six months from the
date OF said appointment are allowed to said
creditors in which to present and prove their
claims, and that they will be in session at the
office OF Phillips Mills in Skowhegan, said
County, for the purpose of receiving the same
namely: On Wednesday, the twenty. second
day OF January A. D. 1902, and Wednesday, the
sixteenth day of April A. d. 1902.
Dated this 23d day OF November A. ID. 1901
CHESTER II. MILLS,
ORRIN A. PRIEST,
3w4S Commissioner
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
New Portland.

A party consisting of nine ladies and
one gentleman. members of New Cen
fury Rebekah Lodge, l. o. o. F., i'm
proved the good moon and fine sleigh
ing, last Saturday evening, by going to
North Arson to visit Emerald Rebekah
Lodge. They were Hospitality enter
aimed and passed very pleasant even.
ng. The degree was conferred upon
one candidate
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28

day last week, and an excellent photo
graph taken of them by L. R. Hussey.
Chas. Magoon was in town, the first of
this week.
Mrs Julia Dinsmore is visiting friends
in Gorham, instead of in Rhode Island,
'as stated last week.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
All Charged bnt the Cork.

a good 5.l i, tod of a digger who
had ridden iuto Western Australian
town to cou~uIt doctor Having done
So he went to have the prescription
made up.
How much is this LOTT" he asked
the chemist.
"Well, let me see" was the reply
""There's seven and sixpence for the
medicine and a shilling for the bottle"
He hesitatcd narprtain whether he
had charged Tor everything.
"Oh, hurry Up boss" said the impa-
tient miner: put a price on the cork
and let US know the worst. London
Tit-Bits.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
SOlOn.

j. D. Gilman, general agent for the
Mosley Manufacturing Company, was in
town, Wednesday
P. j. Hill of Bingham was in town
Friday.
c. w. Clark and L. S. Merrill went
down river, Friday, and returned, Satur
day.
T. ]. Young and j. Goodwin were at
Skowhegan, Friday.
The Whist Club met with Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Cross, Friday evening.
Amos johnson of Madison passed
through town, Friday, with a fine deer.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
w. PittsfieId.

Hon. Don Powers visited his mother
Sunday, and took the train for Augusta
Monday morning
Robert Seekns cut his foot quite badly
while cutting wood one day last week
Fred futile started Saturday for the
woods somewhere on Roach river where
he h IS hired to work for the winter.
Bert Fairbanks shot two deer one day
recently on the farm OF Moses Witham.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28

logs for which they will pay cash or do
custom work. They will handle birch
another season. The mill wi be run by
steam and located near the railroa .
There is quite crew at work building
a turntable at the terminu, of the ROAD
The side tracks are completed.
The company intend to build a new
and commodious freight house. this
season.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
Mainstream.

Small & Norton of Guiford have
bought of w. S. Merrill ten acres of land
on which they are going to build mill
for saving all kinds of lumber. They
have advertised for one million feet Of
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28

Ely's Liquid Cream Balm is an old friend
in new form. 1t is prepared for the particular
benefit of sufferers from nasal catarrh who are
membranes. All the healing and soothing prop
critics Of Cream Balm are retained in the new
preparation. 1t does not dry up the secretions.
Price, including spraying tube, rs cents. At
your druggists or Ely Brothers, So Warren Street,
New York, will mail 1t. 2wl8
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28

A French judge has declared that "A
man must be mad who writes poetry.
However that may be, the editor he
sends it to generally is.-Los Angeles
Times.
The Somerset reporter., 1901-11-28
NOTICE OF
Dissolution of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the late part,
nership existing between the undersigned and
w. X. Peabody, doing business as blacksmiths
in Bingham, Maine, Is dissolved and no fur
Their bills are to be contracted by either party
against said partnership. All accounts no"
due said late partnership are to be paid to me
1T Bingham, Maine.
Dated at Bingham, Maine, this 26th day OF
November, 1901.
3w4S HERBERT K. PIERCE.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
AN ANTARCTIC OASIa
Queer Discovery Made Durin. ta,1
 Recent Expediti3m

Recent antarctic discoveries by aat Belgian expedition, are described in the Century for January ys MF. Fred erick A. Cook of Brooklyn, whose arti- s.e is very fully illustrated. An oasig in a snowy wilderness" is the phrase he employs il ehatacterizing q certain 0lt of the antarctic land. Betns seiiI unwilling to advance into the unknown teglCa before Us while enshrUUded i'll mist, We drew near a prominent motn- ain peak to make .. deharkment. 1h. tiff Was perpendicular cliff, freo of snow to the se2shore. It was one of a aumber attending far into the south~ east, as We learned on the following iaJ. We made a debarkment It it's 9ase. Here was life in profuson, as l~cccd there was on every rock where life could gain a footing. The noise from the birds, which re-echoed from tiff to cliff, was desfeDing. The lower rocks were lined with snoring and grunting sea-leopards. Columns of 8apCH rose above the water, followed 5y q hiss like that of a steala engine, 5nd . secoat. later the blue Lack of q is'k2ie, with it's long fin and rondcrous taH. lashed tie water into foamy whirlpool. The great wall of land-ice sOse to each side of the black cliff, @l95uh gave Us q shelf as landing 4iaee. From this wall came frequent sounds like tie explosion of 8 cannon. which were followed by a splash and 3 eomm0ti0n in the water. With such fsRofts parts of tAe wall would com stant1y hrcak away and fal. into I nil aon pieces, streWing the water with small fragments Of ice, but not with tce9ergs. Above Us rose q cliff to an altitude Of about 2,000 feet, out from his were projecting maatei-Iilsa rocks. which served as resting places for he 12rlnorants and sea -gu!ls Here the yCang ones dressed in gray down, e3aXed tbeif mothers for food. Ne ex- aected to see the little things drop fram their narrow resting places 10 be de- stroyed on our heads or on the rocks below, but such an accident rarely hap pened. Our greatest surprise here was he discovery of large quantities of moss and Hchens, which gave the spot m unexpected appearance Of vegeta- ole life and color After seeing noth- ing but ice and black rocks for so many days, this sight af green and brown and red amid an endless expanse Of Icy desert was a great relief. 1t was
 o.~:s .an --t1e" ~s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
CURIOUS EFFECTS
sn ntu,, but Not Serious, Accidents Hass
 Upon Some Peopl,>

ct has been my i'll luck" said Hor- ace Ma.ston, Of Portland, Me, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, several times to witness painful accidents, and they bad once or twice ] curious effect on the sufferer. Years ago 1 was stand !ng beside gun at a state muster al Augusta, when salute to the gov" ernor, who had just come on the field, was being fired. The cannon used was of the old-fashioned kind, and it was prematurely discharged. with the sa suit that the index finger of the right hand Of the mar ramming the load home WAS blown off. The shock, to, sether with the Judgement Of flying particles of powder, had the effect of driving the blood back from the wound during which fragment of time ihe injured man calmly examined his iaangled hand; but when the blood did come back 1t came with a rush, anG fairly bubbled out in Q torrent. The mans calmness left him as if by magic at the sight of the blood, and with loud scream he keeled over in a dead faint. They used to tell a story there ot two men who were working on op posite sides of buzz saw. The atten ton of one becoming moueNtarly dis tracted, he ran his finger against the saw, and the severed piece dropped CT the other side where his partner was working. That worthy picked it up and with the casual remark, Bill you've dropped something, handed il back to its owner. Bill didn't faint but 1t Is only owing to the superior burst of speed developed by his part ner that he is not dolng time for homicide with extenuating circu.Ja stances at Thomaston today
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
The Highest Tower

He highest tower n the world Is presently to be built as one of the great attractions of Buffalo during the Pan- American exposition, which is 70 be held in that city in 1901. It ls to be i,152 feet high, and 400 feet square al the base, and will be a much more or namentn building than the Eiffel tower, It will be served by no fewer than $ electric elevators, sixteen of which will run only to the first .andng, 225 feet above the level of the ground. The whole journey from the bottom to the top will ntressitate four changes of elevators, and will take about six minutes, while the elevators will have a carrying capacity of 10,006 an nour. The estimated cost of this lower, which will be built of steel, is AS00.000, or about twice a3 much as that of the Eiffel tower.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
ELECTRICAL RESEARCH,
Come Things That Have Not Ycp Beex
 Found Out


 Prof. McAdie says that before lr-S science will succeed in measuring ths energy of a lightning flash, and als in demonstrating the nature of the n.y. "ora. That the aurora is an electrical phenomenon has long been rtCsgaized Az intimate relation seems t1 exist h8, tween the aurora and sur sT0ts. Ta 1882 the astronomer at Greenwich sent put notification of the appearance oC an enormous sun spot uu Nov. lz og That year. Fer three hours on tha toorntng of that day net wire of the Western Union Telegraph company could be used and not even the mar ket quotations could be distributed. At night there Wa brilliant auroraR display and all telegraph service was again interrupted. Cables to Europe and wires Q Chicago were alike un~ workable: but some messages were sent as ar as FOO miles by cutting eH she batteries and utilizing tho atmoss pheric electricity. Over hali os Nortr. America, across the Atlantic and 0VsT northern Europe It seemed as if le- 6ions of ethereal demons were busy melting electric and magnetic appara- GUS to stIange and mischioYeus antics, The artificial production of an electric fae-bail by F2of. Kiehmanl is unique, though electricity in this form is ret unfamiliar. Sometimes sucl. balls are seen to TuA along the surface Of tho sea, and when thex appear on land they usually burs; with loud noises often with disastfozs effects. Nobody aas yet been able to explain these balls, which appear 10 he q very con rentrated form e electricity. Mha1 she experts saf, as most of them dcs ttat electricity is merely q fern of no tion, the explanation is more or Issa unsatisfactory, bat low is one to ac= count for the presentation of form od a motion in tho shape Of lumInol& spheref Bosten Transcript
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
EGG M E w ; KANE
psed at Substitute For Skin Grarins
 For SGrf2ee Wounds

New York Special Chicago Tribune: Medleal science has discovered that the hens egg provides an admirable substitute f, r human flesh to graft on human open wounds. The substitute IS the delicate embrane that imme- dlately lines the Inside of a hens egg. The German surgeons first found that this membrane gan be successfully used as the nucleus so. granulation ot open wounds. IEt surgeons of ths oeney Hospital in Brooklyn were the first in this country to adopt and prac- tice the Germans discovery Conse> quently Edgar A. Garbut will leave the seney Hospital, Brooklyn, and again sake charge of his laundry. Garbut, 36 years old now, feli f7am his bicycle two years ago and so seve- e-ely injured himself that as the disease of the bones advanced it was necessary to remove the bones of his left arm, his shoulder blade, and the left end, of his collar cone. While Carbut rallied, the sur geons soon Jaw that the wounds lei. by the Operations would not heal oa the surface. Garbut's wife, his nephew and a young man in his employ G- fered of their cuticle to graft On Gar. but's wounds. But on December 10 ths last one of the surgeons in the Seney Hospital remembered that the German surgeons say that the hens egg pro
 vides a substitute for human cuticia In such cases. So the Seney Hospital surgeons procured some fresh eggs and from them took the membrane tha. lines the shells, and pieces O. mem brane were planted on Garbut'a wounds. Soon new skin was formed. The egg membrane did not form any part of the new membrane skin, bul stJuplr was i9r 1t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
Sfookedest rsivsc 1n Amcrien.

From it's four heads in the Boston mountains to BatesVille, where it leaves the 0zarks and enters the Ar kansas lowltnds, White river is sue, cession of astonishing curves. Nc other river on the continent so ofteD and so nearly doubles upon itself, From the source to the flat country is a distance on a straight line of per aaps 150 miles. White river between these points has q course of over cot niles; some estimates make it 1.Q9 Gliles
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
Amazing Expansions of Great Erlir,rl

IT. l7S0 the area of the British for eign possessions outside and exclusisa of the British Isles. but including Can ada, the West Indies, and India, may be set down as about 31a millions VI square miles, with 2 population ot less than two millions of white peop1a and perhaps forty-five millions of colored races. These figures, though little as compared with those of 1899, art ye quite respectable. They were vastly greater thar ottef aauons of that tim could show. lnaoad they are graate than ary natlan ea: eY9u now sAos for fol. .2n r5ssessjons. In lH9J .a" BIi1sb galH.se 1aagtil.- I"er t22 ne lions o1 sgaafe .l es and 4lQ mItIt9 e aoPu5a4ef af whom a5 millions ' hifc pe9IHe tl.t E f9 1a,iion5 i'll U 0sel3.a 6atzz.. zl=l t5 millions fn ts ea.sl.:a4- Wi-. te3aindeI ar ceos. ra@a represents sa5 ao.l.,. c.lo-f. .lzs.- t.Ie Ga1i9a0ic l5 and sro4e x#a z eXpaLs!0n s-a t.l sLe
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
FURIOUS SEED LABELS.
Odd Ma.ist:.g< on Free samples frosS
 

Odd Ma.isi.-gs on Free samples frcES
 Censressn4en.
 Persons who receive seeds from tho united States department of agricul- ture through the courtesy of their rep resentative ia congress find some curi- oHs information printed on the pack cts. Thus, ca1na8, which convey to the ordinary m4nd an idea of a large leafed plant attractive for grouping III large lawns, are stated on the agri zaitGr2l department packages to be "an interesting genus, the under ground stems of which are eaten in 2e2a, Also, from some unknown =R5sies the famous tous-les-mois, a valuable arrow root is made The sscd, which is said by Lindley to be ssed as substitute for coffee. is soma- tines used as shot, The lonely su. burban dWeller may find this hint use. tnl: Tt will keep for thirty years and ghen vegetate." The old-fashioned narigold is said to have "repute in domestic medicines as cure for measles; used in soups, also to make |; kind Of vinegar" The common zin~ 1ias derive their name from "Profes- sor Finn, a German botanist." Lark spurs botanical name is "delphinum from dolphin, dolphin, referring to he supposed resemblance in the nec- 9ry of the plant to the imaginary fig :Hes of the dolphins." All the papers T seeds sent out by the department car the request. Please report the result of your trial to this depart 1sont." These reports must be inter- sting especially those turned in by amateur gardeners.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
ON TIN eDEYArEls.
An fncide@t with Cc,n plicntioni Jnst /.
 Little Out Of the Usual

Little Out or tho Usual,
 It always dlStughs me, aaId M Ellington, Ito see man OF the ela- vated road offer his aeat to q wolnaa when he is about 10 get off; he na4 perhaps let hcc stand in front O. iin for blocks. and now when he is abullt to give Up his seat anyway he makez a show of giving 1t to Der curious exhibition of about thro4 quarters co1 ceit and the rest cheek Usually tla woman pays no attention to this m9r: the takes the seat without thanks vii bout taking any notice Of the mar whatever. But occasionally there is variation Of this incident Sitting ir an end corner seat by the door, war 2 tired man, who, m a crowded car had tept his sea. seemingly because hf Thought t was right that he should If he ha, thought t out at alI-but Who now wlon me was d50it t8 IeaFe aaitcd to have the right passa. ee, the seat lie was leaving H.tb lhas iGca iii afs mind and not @tth any cJa ceit of gaIlantry, he, eAsu V I5t yise1. touched tie sleeve os yaa as woman who had beer sta7 !fTg 5y .H door on Che other sIdc= os tha e4za4 posite 10 him. to indicate ta har14 her. was q seal He wls 5@ a this with the slownrss o1 or Or anaeeastomed to ass a 4iz and ~ailo he aas staHp
 small boy wh9 ha2 befr =#7 the door slid in back of h.la y 4 gas ish ceieris7 and toek the seat. 444 ae kept i& New York Sun.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
IS /. THING 5F TIE phsr.
toas -uorned sfee,. Took Too Much spap
 and Held Toe Decided Opinions.

Ten years from HOW the visitors a$ the stock yards in Chicago Mil l0el at the massive horns nearly six feet from tip to tip that hang over tho doorways of offices and hardly be able to believe that they were taken from the head of q beef critter" on the Texas ranges, and that hundreds Oi thousands Of cattle with such horRR once ran half wild on the ranches ah6 plains of the Lone Star stats. For tha passing of the long horned, long legged unce1 tain cGlored and still more uncertain tempered Texas steer is 8, thing Of today, and ill his place nDe finds a stockily built, red or roan ani- nal. with short. stubby horns, or no horns at all The Texas steer of to- day is not properly descended from the Texas cattle of the past. He has sim- ply supplanted the others on the ranges, and the former animal has either migrated fartler south or has gone out into space and is no more, The improVemc1!t-as t most certainly is--has been brought about in many ways. The first great change came when the cattle mah decided that ear space that could bc filled up by good saiable beef, WIS more profitable than that taken up hy lhe picturesque horns of the Texas steey, ant, began to dehorG the ycarlings and yonlg steers. Mors could be gotten into q car, as they could stand closer together. 1t was but step to thln begin to improve the quality by crossing the cows Wlth fine bred bulls, Durham, Hereford and Angus, and the Texos steer of 1900 will compare very taVorably with the cat tie in Missouri He has taken oB
 weight, and will average 19G to 19& oonnda heavier than lu former a2fs
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
Nations as Nerchants

America sells three times as much Gs she buys. Germany bays over $25e a00.0ot wortb more every year than sbe sells; while Great Britain last yeaf bought twice as maaA IS sho sfsf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-02-12
Varying Effects of Frost.

4rost has variety of effects upon different products. Under the same !n auence eggs will burst, appIes will con tract and potatoes turn black.