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Cardinal Newman.

A friend of Cardinal Newman says
in The Cornhill that that eminent man
spent every day from to or 8 o'clock
In his study. "Ie always kept on his
table the edition of Gibbon, with the
notes of Guizot and Milman, Dollng-
er's 'Heidenthum und Judenthum;' al
most always the copy of 'Athanasius'
which had belonged to Bossuet and
which contained in the margin notes in
the handwriting of the great bishop
the last of the fathers as Newman
delighted to call him. Newman had
also always near at hand some Greek
poet or philosopher.
Talking to me one day about Greek
thinkers. he said - and | believe he
has mentioned it to others-that he
owed little or nothing intellectually to
any Latin writer. with one exception.
The exception was not st. Augustine,
but Cicero. lie always maintained
that he owed his marvellous style to the
persistent study of Cicero. This will
strike, no doubt, many people as most
strange. St Augustine one would
think. would have appealed to New
man, and his Latin was more pi, r
esque than that of Cicero.
again, authorities say that Newman
in. Nevertheless he constantly insist
ed on his obligations to the great Ro-
man statesman"
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WORTH 100000, 900.

The President of a certain big Oil Com
pany is said to be worth $500 900 900 A
tidy bit of money and no mistake. And
yet he isn't happy. In an address to Bible
class lie spoke of trials and troubles of the
rich and the loads they have to carry. A
young lady whispered to friend that he
might wear a Benson's Porous Plaster on his
back or, better still, divide the money among
the members of the class. | don't know
why her idea about the plaster makes me
want to laugh, but it does. All the same
have seen plenty of people laugh after
putting Benson's Plasters on their backs
or chests, or on any other spot where there
was weight, heaviness, weakness or pain.
1t may be the sharp stabs of neuralgia, the
aches and wrenches of rheumatism 1t may
be colds in muscles or bones; it may be
those kidney or lumbago thrusts that make
You yell as at a dog bite; or it may be a
strain or cramp, anything that wants quiet
ing and comforting Don't bother with
salyes, liniments lotions, etc, or With any
of the stupid and useless old style plasters.
Clap ON a Benson's. 1t relieves at oncc
and cures quickly. 1t stops the pain and
makes you laugh for the very ease and good
feeling of it. But watch out against i'm
itatons and substitutes. All druggists, or
we will prepay postage on any number
ordered in-the United States on receipt of
25c. each
Seabury & johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
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HIaCk noya.

In the calendar of the nations there
are quite a number of "black" days.
"Black Monday" was April IA, 1860. a
day so dark and cold that many of the
armr of Edward Ill, king Of England,
which lay before the city of Paris,
were frozen to death. An immense
bush fire occurred on "Black Thurs
day" in Australia, Feb. 6, 1881. Two
events are COMMUNICATED by BLACK
Friday" in England-Dec. g, 1855, when
the news reached England that the
pretender had arrived ut Derby, and
May | 4, 1866, when the failure of Over
land, Quincy q Co. brought on a most
disastrous panic. \ panic in New
York occurred Sept %, 1869 which
was afterward known as "Black Fri
day" "Black Saturday" is the name
applied to Aug !, 1921, when Il great
storm occurred at the time parliament
was sitting to enforce episcopacy upon
the peoulp
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or two Sundays in the more than two
years she has been at work, not count
,ng the few times she was absent from
the city.
Mrs. Slosson, besides being the only
woman prison chaplain. was the frs
woman to receive the degree of Phi. ID.
at Cornell university graduating well
up toward the head of class of young
men.
She was born at Iion, n. Y, in the
early sixties, but went with her par
ents to Kansas when she was a small
girl. From the village school she went
10 Hillsdale college, Michigan, where
she took the degrees of b. S. and NJ
S.; thence to Cornell. completing the
three years postgraduate course In two
years-all this before she had reached
the age of twenty-one. For n little
while she held the chair of Greek in n
Presbyterian college at Hastings. Neb
Ten years ago she became the wife Of
Mr. Slosson, professor of chemistry in
the University of Wyoming, and since
then has been II resident Of Laramie.
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Mexico. = New York Commercial Ad.
vertlsLr
ToIstoi Grows Gallant.

Count Tolsloi has jus paid q tribuy r
10 Carmen sylvia, the queen Of Kouma-
MIA. which is all the more noteworthy
IL that the grizzled old Russian Is not
In the habit Of saying pretty things to
women.
The queen had written congratulate.
Ing him on his recovery from his re-
cent illness. He answered II by OK
pressing his great appreciation Of her
work and telling her that her collie
ton Of fhr songs Of her country Wa
most commeudable, those seas- beng.
In his opinion. the best literature In
the world. Ia closing be said. You
have in high measure those gifts If
poetry and the idealIzation of things
which are alas, found much 9fteuer
among women than among men
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secretary ROCK Island Literary and Ar
Society.
with the close confinement at my desk
brought on nervous prostration,
50 much so that for a year l doctored
continually, | tried different rem
edies which only succeeded in poison
Ing my system, and my stomach re-
fused food. A neighbor who had suf-
fered with ovarian troubles and
was perfectly cured, called my
attention to your Vegetable Compound,
and l made up my mind TO give it a
two months fair trial. However, be-
fore one month had passed ! was like
new woman, and after six weeks
faithful use of the Compound l was in
perfect health. 1t certainly is of great
benefit to women, and l wish every
poor suffering woman could have a
chance to try it, Yours very truly,
MISS w. CHILDsB BLACKBURN, 1922 Fifth
Ave. Rock Island Ill."-S5ooo forfeit If
lboue testimonial is not genuine.
Nothing will relieve this dis
PRESSING condition so surely as
Lydia f. Pinkham's Compound.
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick wo-
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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The first organized entry of French
women's clubs into the field of politics
Is marked by the preliminary arrange
ments Of the new "Frenchwomen's
league which Is designed to fight
what the progressive members Of the
Sex there consider the socialistic tend
encies Of the government.
The league intends to reach every
home throughout the provinces and to
establish branch associations In every
town, village and hamlet of France in
order to create n universal sentiment
against the Waldeck- Rousseau cabinet
before the elections of next May.
The president of the league says that
the organization has come to stay. be-
ing modelled after the American Wo-
mans Christian Temperance union,
(which is the only example in the
world" she said, "of a woman's organ
lzation that yields real influence in
the field of politics"
The women say they do not expect to
be able to do much effective work in
Paris, but in the provinces the women
really rule, and a few burning words
from the mothers of France will have
greater effect than any one believes
Chicago Record Herald.
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Oh. my darling, how shall live all the
long weary years of my life without
your
"Hushp she cried sharply. "Sir, do
you know-do you know who | amT
Indeed, yes! The sweetest little girl
In the wide world"
mo, sir, | am not. Colonel Hal
brooke, | am your grandmother
Ny grandmother! Talk of sudden
shocks after that won't you? | tried
to speak, but my voice failed me.
reached out my hands and touched her.
Yes, she was there real enough, and
was not dreaming.
"rell me allr' | gasped.
And standing there by the broad
stone coping she told me all-how her
parents had died when she was little
more than an infant, and Sir John, her
guardian, had watched over her with
jealous care; always keeping her at
school, however until he brought her
home to The Towers a young lady.
She had heard of me. She knew all
about her guardians intentions and my
persistent refusal to see her And
when Sir John lay dying and appealed
to her to marry him, in order to secure
certain property which would other
wise pass to the next of kin she CON
scented.
Not for myself, Colonel Halbrooke, -
she continued, "for | inherited a for
tune. but for you. The property has
been sold, according to instructions,
and the money coming from the sale is
yours. Sir John wished you to take it.
He often said that your allowance was
paltry compared with what should
have been yours and would have been,
too had your father not left so many
debts behind him."
you are privileged to speak as you
please about my father" | murmured.
Were he living you would be his
mother"
Don't be ridiculous sir! cried her
ladyship sharply. And you are try
ing to mortify me you may as well UNI
derstand that you cannot succeed.
meant to do right, and regret nothing
that | have done. | did not know any
thing of your grandfather's foolish
wishes about us unit lis will was
read"
do l understand tha' he money is
really mine, HelenY
Yes; all yours"
"Well, | want it."
you shall have it. Never fear. But
are you so frightfully in debt| asked
my companion in low, awed whisper
her big eyes full of gentlest sorrow.
"In debt? Thank heaven, mol But
l can receive nothing from you unless
you give yourself to me also"
"Would you marry your grandmoth.
er" she asked between a sob and q
laugh.
81 would! And my great-grand-
mother, too, If she came to me like
this"
Then a smile like the full sunshine
wreathed my darling's perfect lips, and
-and-well, to me that prim old ter
race became then simply Eden. a gar.
den of all delights.
She is my wife now. l like my fam.
! lily far too well to think of marrying
out of it.
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VIII RingIets cone Bnckr

The early Victorian fashions are slow
ly returning low cut dresses, the
bell sleeves, the fichus, the pelerines,
the hair drawn over the ears and gath
erd low In the neck VIII ringlets come
back too? Our mothers loved those Gu
rious appendages which framed the
face, half hiding, half revealing It N
the most coquettish manner possible.
The poke bonnet, the ringlets which re-
CURED constant attention, are surely
unsuited TO quick movements TO the bi-
cycle the hockey field or the lightning
drive on motor car. Still, they may
return.
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Unexpected Erudition

IAN absentminded professor of Ian
guages dropped into restaurant one
day for a luncheon.
What Will you have, sir2' asked
the waiter.
"Fried eggs" replied the professor.
"Over?' said the waiter, meaning, of
course. to ask whether he wanted
them cooked on both sides or only one.
"Ovd?' echoed the professor. sur
prlsed at his apparent familiarity with
Latin. Certainly. That Is what or
dered-Ova gallinH."
This the waiter interpreted as mean
ing extra well DONE and that is the
way they came to the table.-Youth 5
Companion.
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Never was fashion more comforta-
bic. from the corset to outside gar
ments. How sensible We are nowadays.
We never pinch anything, Lot even our
feet, and our waists are IN due proper
ton TO the rest Of our bodies. The days
of pinched waists and tight shoulders
have disappeared with the yapors and
Mysteries Of our grandmothers. The
cleyerness of the tailor has also done
away with the craze for hldeous ath-
letic garments, and nowadays the
sportswoman or country girl IS as par
ticular about every detail Of her toilet
as her town cousin. We must be on TIE
side of beauty and suitability.
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w. XM~.S
HER UNIQUE POSITION.
Woman Who Is the Chaplain In
Wyoming's Penitentiary.

There Is only one woman chaplain of
II prison In the United States, and 1t is
doubtful If there Is a woman filing Il
similar position In any other part Of
the world. The penitentary in Lara
mic. Wy, has this unique distinction.
Its chaplain is Mrs. May Preston Slos
son. wife of the vice president of the
faculty of the University of Wyoming
and for over two years she has presid-
ed over the spiritual welfare Of the
conyicts.
Mrs. Slosson is a quiet, modest, ear
nest, unassuming little body, just fit
ted for the work. Rain or shine, she
is In her place, having missed but one
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

Turner, the painter, was ready wit.
Once at dinner of artists and literary
men a minor poet. by way of being ia
cetious, proposed as toast the health
of the painters and GLACIERS of Great
Britain
The toast was drunk, and Turner,
after returning thanks for 1t, proposed
1.-The health of the British paper stain
ers."
The laugh was turned against the
poet.
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Good Ground For Discouragement.
A woman who has been refurnishing
her house this season and has depleted
her purse and her strength says that
she was not discouraged until friend
travelling In Mexico wrote to her that
rosewood and mahogany were so plen-
tiful in that country that some of the
copper mines were finished with rose
wood, and mahogany was used as fuel
for the engines"
The recipient of this CHEEKY bit of in
formation had just ordered a set of
bedroom furniture in birch stained to
look like mahogany, because she had
set her heart on an empire bedroom,
but found she couldn't afford the real
thing. She didn't countermand the or
der for the masquerading birch, but
she sat and went over tho Late" f'o---
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Modern Girls Are Tidy.

The girl OF today is a regular scrub
woman. When she isn't scrubbng her
face, she Is laundering her gloves. clean
ing her belts or hanging out of the win
dow trying to sight the laundryman's
chariot full OF shirt waists. clean and
starched. Today untidiness is the un-
pardonable sin. 1t Is beyond forgive
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oRnfR 0f NOIIcF rHrEfoN.

us kIt-T u v Wy
Ou this 8 h day of becrWbeT A. u. lael. OF
reading the foregoing petition. II is
Ordered by the Court that "A Et. rfuE he hao
upon the same on the nth day 90 January A,
II. lU2, before said Court AZ Portland, ia said
District, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon. ana thai
notice thereof he published m The Somerset
Reportet, a newspaper printed I'M sud District
AMI that all known creditors. and other Per
sons in interest may appear at the said
time and place, and show cause, If any they
have why the prayer of said petitioner should
not he granted.
the clerk shall send by mail 10 al known credi-
tors copies of said petition and this order, al.
dressed to them al their places of residence a
stated.
Witness the Honorable Nathan Webb, Judge
of the said Court, and the seal thereof, at Port.
land in said District, ON the 2Sth day of De
cember A. u. 1901.
H.. S. A. II, DAVIS. Clerk.
A true copy of petition and order thereon.
lwl Attest: A. h. DAVIS, Clerk.
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Csc Doctor
Lightbody's Headache pills.
Pennington. Ne. Dec. Ie. Isal.

FATmlngIonl Me, DEC. 10, It3'
Gentlemen
take pleasure in stating that your HAD
ACHE POWDERS have given almost instant re
lief in SICK headache. We keep the Powders
in the house and have several times given one
to visitors who were suffering from headache
ana in every instance they proved effective
l cheerfully recommend them.
Mrs. l. b. RUSSELL, Perhan ST
Look for additional evidence next week
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Shall We Drop Headgear Altogether
1t is not such a huge step as it ap-
pears. Already the average woman's
hat has little or no value as a shield
from rain or shine. while the bare
headed bluecoat boy shows one most
effectively how to be happy though
hatless. Bluecoat boys are not more
subject to colds and sunstroke than
other boys, and it is interesting to learn
that they are far less liable to bald
ness. 1t is certain that hatless races of
men do not suffer from badness.
Fashion is responsible for most femi-
nine coddlings. Fifty years ago young
women wore low necked and short
sleeved dresses. Today they mutiie up
with fur necklets. Comfortable though
they may be, these mufilers nfalllbly
produce weak Threats and tonsilitis.
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NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
Miss ". Childs-Blackburn Tell
How She Was Cured.

DEAR Mrs. PTNKHAM take
pleasure in acknowledging the effects
OF Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. In my estimation there
is no female remedy to equal it. Weak
ness not PROPERLY attended To. together
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Frank W. Buchanan
nRIINCICT
ness.

ness.
There's nothing SO cheap as soap and
water. There Is nothing so necessary
to good appearance and self respect
as cleanliness, commonly of which
one cannot have too much. Besides. it
is healthful. Many dreadful skin dis
eases come from filthy epidermls. CThe
word is fearful. but 1t is expressive.)
The pores collect dust. these collections
of smoke and SCOT cause inflammation,
germ diseases result, and-you know
the rest of the story.-Exchange
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BILLS OF COST.

sIATE OF MAINE-soMffsFr Coe<ry.
County Treasurer,s Ofaee, skowhegan,a
December 20, 1901, !
The following bills of cost were allowed at
the August adjourned term Of the County
Commissioners. Court. 1901
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DR.. Humphreys.

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7-COughs. Colds, Bronchitis. ............ .25
S-NeurnIgia, Toothache, Faceache..... rs
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1O-Dyspepsia Indigestion, Weak Stomach. "a
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19-Catnrrh. Influenza Cold In the Head .25
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Paint spots on glass can be removed
by moistening with a strong solution Of
soda, the common kitchen variety. This
Will soften th..<n, when they can be
rubbed off, and the glass should then
be rubbed with alcohol
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Farmers Attention.

Insure your buildings in the DIRIao Mutual
OF Gorham, Maine. Assessments in lsa9 and
1900 averaged only sl.o1 thousand Flo
particulars address &. s. BUTTON, Agt.,
Skowhegan. Maine. 5mS5'
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The following Ills + cost were allowed a,
the August adjourned term Of the County
Commissioners Court, OCT 20, 1901.
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sgcoaB TUESDAY oy DKrpu4ta

a 7 \ PROBATE COURT held Al sko, he
FAgaD, In and for the county Of sou erset,
the -
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APPROXIMATION!


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PROBATE NOTICES

I" All persons interested in either OF thu
Estates hereinafter named.
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Court, 1901.

The following bills IT 5as; we're allowed al
the September term aith Supreme Jga.5ial
Court, 1901
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-06-06
Foreign.

A large number of arrests have beer
made in Russia in connection with re
ported plot to assassinate President Lou
bet of France during his recent visit tc
the Gar
Acting President Steyn, of the Trans
vaal, according to dispatch from Pre-
toria, is suffering from paralysis and will
take no further part in the peace con
ference.
A detachment of friendly natives, COM
manded by a French lieutenant, had q
battle with Tuaregs in the Sahara and
routed them
Recent murders committed by the no.
torious Kenniff brothers in Queensland
recall the terrible crimes of the bush
rangers.
King Edward quarreled with Premier
Salisbury because the latter refused tC
recommend Sir Edward Cassel for a
peerage.
Michael Henry Herbert, nominally
secretary to the British Embassy at
Paris, but in reality minister to France,
will, it is generally believed, succeed the
late Lord Pauncefote as British Ambas
sador to the United States.
Lord Rosebery, in a speech at Leeds.
referring to the South African negotia
tons. warned his hearers that the Gov.
ernment was not concluding peace with
a crushed foe to whom no further atten.
ton need be paid.
Lieutenant Commander Tcmplin NJ
Potts, who succeeds Commander VIM
II. Beehler as naval attache at Berlin
October I next, was presented to En-
peror William.
The Shah of Persia divided with En-
peror William the attention of the vast
crowd at the spring parade of the 10000
German troops OH the Tempelhof field.
A community of interests" agreement
has been effected between the Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company and the
German potash syndicate.
Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India,
narrowly escaped being accidentally shot
on a recent hunting trip.