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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Left and Right Limbs.

Psychologists and scientists In gen
eral have been making some curious
experiments with q view to determine
the relative length and strength Of
fright and left limbs" Fifty and nine
tenths per cent of the men examined
had the right arm stronger than the
left, 1874 per cent had the two arms
of equal length and strength, and 32.7
per cent had the left arm stronger
than the right. or women, 1863 per
cent had the right arm stronger than
the left, and 24.5 per cent had the left
stronger than the right.-London Fam
lily Doctor.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The fol-
lowing are the real estate transfers re-
Gently recorded at the county registry :
Fairflrld-Eugene Wyman to Ii. W.
Taylor, Sl15O; II. w. Taylor to Mary f.
Thompson $3.50; Msry E. Thompson
to II. W, Taylor, $1,000.
Cornville-Emma j. Written to A. II.
Davis ct ais, 81 90
Hartland-C. NJ. Jewett to J. H.
Baker, $3.50.
Harmon Melinda Sthrkey 10 Geo.
H. Rhoahrs. Sl.00
mithfrld-Bpfayeft Clark to f, II.
Clark, $500; Harper Allen to j. j. Mark
ham ct ais, $3.50.
Anson-Samuel and F. w. Bunker to
n. w. Murphy, $1.00.
Lexington-R. K. Peterson to Jeu-
kirs 81 Bogert Mfg. Co., $l00
Skowhegan-F. A Written to Sylvia
S. Arnold. 81 o.; j. L Herrin to Charles
Herrin, $l.00.
Madison-Harriet N. Longley to J. p.
LongleY, $40; j. p. Longley to K. E.
Longley, S25.
Canaan-Geo. T. johnson to William
Harris, 5000.
Athena. w Fuller to Wm. H..
Moody, 81 90.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
a Deep Mystery.

backache, headache, nervousness, sleep.
dizzy spells hen thousands have proved
such troubles ~ suffered for years
with kidney troubles" writes Mrs.
Phebe Cherley of Peterson, Ia. land a
lame back panied me 50 l could not
dress myself, but Electric Bitters wholly
cured me, and, although 10 years old, |
now am able to do all my homework
1t overcomes constipation, improves
appetite, gives perfect health. Only 800
at r. Il. Wings drug store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Skowhegan, Me.

been in the employ Of the company as
conductor for y years Of uninterrupted
service. He has always been courteous
and gentlemanly with all and his asso-
ciates, desiring 10 express their regard
for him, desired to do so il a very sub
stantal manner Mr. Nace naturally
cherishes the GIT very highly, not only
for the value represented, but for the
many pleasant associations connected
with it and the generous impulses which
prompted it.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Literary Notes.

No man has been more prominent in
the discussion of the Hay Pauncefote
Treaty than Senator Lodge Of MassN-
ehusetts. He therefore speaks with the
highest authority when he writes in the
January Seribner's on "fhe Treaty.
Making powers of the Senate He
clearly explains aud defends the action
of the Senate on the former treaty, and
makes evident the lines along which the
new treaty will have u be made. The
Senate has coordinate power with the
executive in making treaties, and Sena-
tor Lodge here makes q vigorous defense
of their attitude.
DR.. W. Dewitt Hyde, President of
Bowdoin College, discusses in the jan
uary Forum some of the more urgent
"Problems of our Educational System"
with respect alike to elementary schools,
high schools and colleges. He expresses
Incidentally the opinion that 1.-THE TWEEN
tieth century finds Us just bit tired of
The Germans peculiar type of scholar
ship, with its zeal to heep up new ac-
QUESTIONS of knowledge regardless Of
relative worth, SENSE OF proportion, at
Effectiveness OF form or either aesthetic
or practical USE
In several large ubserVatOries correct
time is kept by the transit of partieu-
lar star across the meridian, and trans
mitted automatically by telegraph TO
points hundreds of miles distant. Many
interesting facts in this connection, about
the master Clock" ut Washington,
time balls, etc, are given in an article by
". 5. HaIwood in St. y cholas for Jan.
uary, entitled How We Set Our
Watches by Star" with illustrations
showing how the work is done.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
CASE AFTER CASE.
Plenty More Like This in SkoHhe-
gan,

Scores of Skowhegan peo-
pie can tell you about Doan's
Kidney Pills. Many happy
citizen makes a public state
ment OF his experience. Here
is a case OF it. What better
proof OF merit can be had
than such endorsement
Mr Il. f. stevens OF Middle St, neaf
Spring St. says Il Vas troubled at
intervals with my back aud an Annoying
urinary difficulty. Every time that
was not feeling just right or caught lid
my back was sure TO hurt me If re
NAMED in a STOPPING position for little
while it was painful to straightet again.
1t WAS foI this trouble that took Doan's
Kidney Pills. | WAS hayius rather
severe attack of lame back Of ,he time I
got a box al SIMPSONS dr. store. After
the treatment did nos frel Symptom
of my oli complaint
For sale lay all dea.es-; price IT. cents
Foster Nilbum Co.. EgtIalo, \ y. sole
agents fer the L. 5.
Remember the name-peau' and
take no other.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Hood Farm Remedies.

dost Successful Ia the Treatment II all
Diseases Of stock Prepared By {. J.
Hood Co. Lowell. Mass. and Originated
- Nr. Hood who il both Thoroughly
Edg ated Pharmacist aud large Owner
and Experienced Breeder u f!ue Stock
In Constant Lse at Hold farm When
Required Different Remedies f9r Dif-
fererf Ttfspgg44
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Hood Farm MIX Fever cure

Improved schmidt Treatment Com
pletef. j positive cIre. save tie mort
valuable COW. Can be successfully ad-
minI.tered after COW j. Unconscious. SO
previous experience ursdea y -
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
A Card.

We the undersigned do hereby agree
to refund the money on a so cent bottle
of Greene's Warranted Syrup of tar if it
fails to cure your cough or cold We
also guarantee 25-cent bottle to prove
satisfactory or money refunded 6mo45
F. w Buchanan. Geo, E Sampson.
G. r. Fogg, w. II. Fuller, F. II. Wing
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

Clerk Plummer of the Board of State
Assessors says that if the farmers of Maine
do not breed more horses there will be
horse famine before many years. Reports
this year indicate falling off in nearly all
counties in the state, especially in the
number of colts. One or two counties
show a slight gain in the various classes of
horses, but most of them show quite
reduction. 1t seems as though the Maine
farmers had begun to depend upon West
ern horses instead of those of their own
raising. The number Of one, two and three
year old colts has been growing less year
by year since 1892 While the total mum
Der of horses has increased the past nine
years from 1882 to I2S, 500. the total
number of one, two and three year old
colts has fallen from 1880 to 500.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Child Worth Millions.

"My child is worth millions to me-
says Mrs Mary Bird Of Harrisburg, Pa,
yet l would have LOST her by Group had
not purchased bottle of one Minute
Cough Cure One Minute Cough cure
is sure cure for coughs Group and throat
and lung troubles An absolutely safe
cure which acts Immediately. Geo. L.
sampson.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

authority, finds as a result of expert
ments that the drinking of tea retards
the "waste" of tissue and so diminishes
the demand for food. This is especially
true of Chase & Sanborn's teas, which
are almost foods In themselves.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

THERE is no fixed rule for making
= a cup Of good tea, for there is
no easy way Of measuring strength.
The better the tea the less you use.
With Chase & Sanborn's Tea (the
highest grade irnported) you Use only
one-third of what would be needed Of
ordinary tea. That is what makes this
tea the cheapest in the world to use,
because it goes SO far and lasts so
long. One package proves the asser-
ton. Try it.
ORIGINAL
Foa
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Maine Teachers.

The teachers In convention at Augusta,
last week, adopted new constitution
and changed the name of the society
from the "Maine Pedagogical Society" to
''Maine Teachers Association" The
following officers were chosen: Presi-
dent, F. w. Johnson, Waterville; vice
president, w. Z. Russell, Gorham; sec
rotary and treasurer, c. +. Triton, Ban
gor; corresponding secretary, David s.
Wheeler, Waterville. These officers,
with w. G. Mallett of Pennington, con-
stitute the executive committee.
A change in the time for holding the
annual meeting was made so as not to
occur during the Christians holidays.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

sad but I5ue-Mfs Reubam-'who invent
ed the Coruetss BeubAm-"What difference
does it make now: It's TOO lste o make him
uffer"
Two million Americans suffer the turturinc
panEs OF d} dyspepsia No need To Burdock
blood Ritter> cures. At ANY drug store
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
County Commissioners:
ALoszo SMITH, Cornville, Post Office, Revere)
JOINS METcALF New Portland.
MILTON L. MERRILL, St. Aban
Terms of Courts.

Supreme Judicial: The third Tuesday in March,
and september and fourth Tuesday in December. Civil
and Criminal.
Probate:-The second Tuesday Of each month.
County Commissioners The first Tuesday in
March and August and the second Tuesday in Decem-
Der.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

Impossible to foresee an accident Nnr imros-
sible TO be prepared for H. Or. Thomas Eclec-
tric Oil Monarch over pain.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
SOMERSET REPORTER,
A Weekly Republican Newspaper
SKOwHEGAN, MAINE.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.

Clerk oil Courts:
WILLIAM I. SEEK1Ns,.. .Skowhegan
County Attorney:
GEORGE w. COVER, ..........,..... Skowhegan
Judge Of Probate:
EDWARD F. DANFoRTH.. ................Sk owhegan
Register of Probate:
NATHAN FOWLER. .....,.. .....'-'..'.S kowhegan
Register OF Deeds:
LLHwHLLYN GOODWIN, .skowhegan
Treasurer:
R. T. PATTEN,. .skowheean
Sheriff and Jailer:
FRANK PEssELL,. 80. skowhe an
DKpur1Rs:-C. E. Duren, Fairfield; F. L. Harding.
Madison. S. W. Herriek. Harmony; c B. Haskell,
Pittsheld: f. 5. Parsons, No. Arson; R S.
Williams, Hartland; Hiram NJ. Waugh, Starks;
Charles F. Ham, Bingham; F. F. Caswell, New
Portland Sidney I. Baker, Sooni Calvin II.
ones, Athens; Chas. W Farrand, So. Norridgewocki
W. Guy Pennell, skowhegan.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02

School Board Inspector is it tina sits
idly by doing nothing while everybody else is
working2" Bobby-"The teacher"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-02
Hood Farm Careet cure

81 and $40. HOOD FARM SAVE 81.
HOOD FARM Hoo POWDERS. for the pre-
veution and cure Of hog cholera and to
keep hogs healthy. 81.
Large sizes are most economical % use
Fog sALE BY
FRANK w. BUCHANAN,
Skowhegan, Me.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-06-14
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA.

body OF this institution. which was
opened i'm 1873. is board of trustees ap-
pointed by the governor and confirmed
by the senate. The original endowment
has been frequently supplemented by
special appropriations. The university
is divided into six colleges.
one of the oldest state endowed uni
versities is that of lndiana-founded in
lS20-which now has 20 instructors and
more than l,100 students. The Univer-
sity of Iowa has more than so instruct
ors and 1000 students, being next in age
to Grinnell. which is the Oldest In the
state.
The keystone Of the public school sys-
tenn of Missouri is Its university. found
ed i'm 1889 at Columbia, near the center
of the state. Its endowments. aggre-
eating more than a million dollars, are
held by the state. which pays interest
and makes liberal appropriations.
Buildings and grounds are worth 81, 900.
900: the students number more than
1000 and the instructors l09
Both Michigan and Wisconsin have
universities founded more than sixty
years ago and supported by the state.
That of Michigan. situated at Ann Ar
Dor, was established in 1887 and opened
i'm 1S4l, congress in 1926 having set
apart two townships for the future
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-06-14
sIBLEY HALL, CORNELL.

colleges and universities I'm general.
there is an almost unbroken chain
across the continent from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific. between the great lakes
and the gulf of Mexico.
1t seems quite probable that i'm this
country at least the first quarter of the
twentieth century will be known in his
tory as the educational era" During
the two centuries past there has been
a great sowing Of seed, beginning in
New England. New York and Virginia
and extending across the country until
now the entire continent has been prac-
tically won for education. There is no
longer opposition to college education
per Sc on the ground that IT is i'm
practicable and units rather than fits
one for life's vocations. The educators
themselves anticipated and so far as
possible met those objections, so that
now the ratio OF students to the gem
eral population of the country is meas
urably increasing instead of decreasing,
as il was some fifty years ago.
There has been a rigid seeking after
true educational values that shall be
both practical. cultural and disciple
nary The tendency now liz toward a
departure from the antiquated methods
OF the earlier colleges. which them
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UNION COLLEGE, 1895.

selves have been regenerated, and the
student of the university is fitted TO
follow out the highest attainment of
human thought. He is led toward, IL
not into original investigation, guided
by the ripest intellects and highest
types of professional mentality. There
have been cordial cooperation and fed
Grafton. followed by an amplitude of
endowment. in every part of the United
States until there is now no large sec
ton that cannot claim TO possess a
i'm it's truest sense-in other
words. an institution where nearly all
human knowledge may be co-ordinated
and disseminated and where the stu
dents may be so trained that the
brightest mind OF all may perhaps
reach up 10 heights hitherto unattained.
While Il is recognized that there must
he universality i'm our education. that
all the people must be embraced within
it's scope. yet the twentieth century tend
ency is also toward the evolution of the
highest product possible from the va
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the value OF $500. 600, productive funds
TO the amount of 100000, i30 instruct
ors and 1890 students. The University
of Tennessee was originally chartered
in 1894. having borne it's present title
since 1879, and availed itself OF the va
rious endowments from the national
lands for the promotion of agriculture
and mechanical arts. Its instructors
number IS and it's students $50.
Although not so old as some OF its
sister colleges. the University of Vir-
ginia, located at Charlottesville and
chartered i'm 1919. may be with reason
called the first 10 adopt and develop
the university idea as IL prevailed in
Europe, for Jefferson. it's founder and
promoter, says in letter to a Harvard
graduate:
II am not fully informed OF the prac-
tices at Harvard. but there is one from
which we shall certainly vary, although
IL has been copied. I believe by nearly
every college and academy in the Unit
ed States. That is the holding the stu
dents all TO one prescribed course Of
reading and disallowing exclusive appli-
cation to those branches only which
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being in excess OF 100000. 1t has s34
teachers and 5000 students.
Although organized within eleven
years. the University of Chicago, with
it's vast endowments from John ID.
Rockefeller of practically as many mill
lions as the university requires and
with it's $500 students. seems destined
TO outstrip all other educational insti-
tutions in the state. 1t Is magnificent in
conception and wisely cautious i'm the
application of the great wealth placed
al its disposal.
Another university of its class near
Chicago. is the great Northwestern at
Evanston. which, with the two just
mentioned, forms a trio of which the
state of Illinois may be justly proud.
Among the universities OF relatively
recent years is that of Minnesota. char
tered in 1868 with an endowment con-
sisting of 202, 900 acres of land granted
by the national government or the pro-
ceeds of the sales thereof. with a per-
manent fund of over $l.000.000. IL has
25O instructors and 1850 students.
Utah has a university at Salt Lake
City. founded in 1850. supported by di-
rect appropriations from the state
treasury. It's 600 students receive in
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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.

are to qualify them for the particular
vocations to which they are destined.
We shall. on the contrary, allow them
uncontrolled choice in the lectures they
shall choose to attend and require
elementary qualification only and suffi-
cient age. Our institution will proceed
on the principle of doing all the good IL
can without consulting its own pride or
ambition of letting every one come and
listen TO whatever he thinks may i'm.
prove the condition OF his mind"
Jefferson, as all who have seen the
beautiful buildings OF this university
can attest. impressed himself not only
upon the curriculum of the university
but also upon it's architecture. Ii is
and always has been under state pat
ronage now receiving an annual appro-
priation of $4,000.
All, or nearly all. the colleges OF the
colonial period had been erected on
English models, cast in conservative
molds, and were 10 that extent restrict
ed in their work. Jefferson's plan was
a differentiation between the simple
college and the university in favor Of
the latter. and while the earlier colleges
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OKLAHOMA TERRITORIAL UNI
VERSITY.

ans and Roosevelt--were Harvard
men: three-Jefferson, Monroe and Ty-
ler-attended William and Mary; Mad
ison is claimed by Princeton. William
III. Harrison by Hampden-Sydney, Polk
by the University of North Carolina.
Pierce by Bowdoin. Buchanan by Dick
inson, Grant by West Point. Hayes by
Kenyon. Garfield by Williams, Arthur
by Union and Benjamin Harrison by
Miami.
The aims and scope OF the colleges
founded prior to the beginning of the
nineteenth century, such as Harvard.
Yale. William and Mary. Princeton.
Washington and Lee. Rutgers. Dart
mouth. Brown. Hampden-Sy Sydney. Dick
inson, Washington College of Mary
land, Nashville university Western uni
versity of Pittsburg, Franklin and Mar
shall. st. Johns. Georgetown univer-
sity, the University OF Vermont, Will
liams. University of Tennessee, Bow
doin, Union. Washington college. Ten
nessee and the University of North Car
olina. are amply set forth in the orig
inal charter of Columbia university.
New York, Oct. 81, 1854. during the reign
OF George H., providing for the estab-
fishing OF a college for the instruction
and education of youth in the learned
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has spared no efforts or money TO make
the buildings architecturally as fine az
possible, California's university Is one
of the most powerful I'm the land. Like
its friendly rival at Palo Alto. the Le-
land Stanford, Jr., university, the state
institution Is for the coeducation OF the
sexes. The many millions OF dollars
that in recent years have gone into both
these universities may wei. have at
tracted the amazed attention of the
world
The Pacific slope is strong I'm its uni
versities comprising notably the two In
California and those of it's sister states
TO the north. The University OF Ore
gon with its 81 instructors and $50 stu
dents. was organized in 1872. while that
OF Washington Is somewhat older. The
University OF Washington. located at
Seattle. is well called the elimination OF
the states system of public schools IL
originated in the granting by cosSress
In 1854 Of two townships OF land FOR the
establishment OF a university. IL was
opened In 1862 and seven years ago was
transferred 10 it's present picturesque
location, with a campus of $50 acres.
between Lakes Union and Washington.
In 1893 the state gave the university an
endowment of 900 acres of land and
has always been generous in providing
fer an institution that has given 1t an
enviable reputation. There are 53 in
structors at the University of Washing
ton. and the average number Of stu
dents Is about 700.
From the foregoing il will be seen
that not only is there an American uni
versity. but there lis truly a continental
chain of universities extending from
ocean TO ocean. Each institution is iso-
late and self centered, yet there is an
! interdependcnce in the system that
makes for the highest In human en-
deavor. The American university
stands on high plane. and If IL be
/ true. as an eminent educationist as
serts. that three -fourths of our scien-
! tific discoveries originate in the univer-
stiles. they will play a very important
part in the future development of our
| country.
CLAIMING A. BARLOW.
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languages and in the liberal arts and
sciences"
Union college Schenectady, was the
second college incorporated in the state
of New York (Feb. 25, 1880. and its
name was derived from the fact that
several religious denominations coop
Grated in its organiza ton. Cornell uni
ve-sity, Ithaca. n. Y, owes its origin
TO the congressional lard grant from
the national domain, but its existence
and success are due TO Hon. Ezra Cor
nell, who gave a foundation fund Of
$500, 900 and by his careful management
of the land scrip realized several mill
lions for the university. the great work
OF which is well known. First opened
in 1868, Cornell, has forged rapidly to the
fore and today has $50 instructors and
nearly 5000 students.
Another college that is indebted to
the congressional lands for aid liz the
University of Vermont. which though
founded in 1871, organized it's faculty in
1900, graduated its first class in 1904
and was revivified in 1895 by incorporat-
ing with II the state agricultural coll
lege and experiment station. 1t has an
income of between $50. 900 and $4,000. 62
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

More than any other country the Unit
ed States has advanced toward the
realization OF a universal education
without distinction of sex or birth, and
the higher education" is open TO all.
whether rich or poor so numerous and
so amply endowed with material means
for the accomplishment of their elevat-
ed aims are the colleges and universi-
ties. Very few female colleges, how
ever. have. like Wellesley in Massa-
chusetts, debarred men entirely from
the teaching force. Vassar. Smith.
Radcliffe and Bryn Mawr employ both
men and women, while in the coeduca-
tional institutions male teachers are
predominant. Still there is always the
rivalry between the students of either
sex. and no one may say that the in
trusion of women into the colleges has
not been OF value. Coeducational in
sttutions are more numerous in the
central and western states than in the
southern and eastern: but, as with the