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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

"Basking In the sun" Is In itself of
real and considerable benefit, and 1t Is
no compliment TO our human intelli-
gence to find that cats and dogs under
stand that fact much better than we
do. The love of sunshine is naturally
one of our strongest instincts, and we
should be far healthier and happier If
we followed and developed 1t instead
Of practically ignoring and depressing
1t How a sparkling sunny morning
exhilarates us and makes us feel that
ITS too fine day to spend indoorsp'
And yet how few holidays are taken
for that reason!
The wealth of the sunbeams is poured
out lavishly all around US, and we turn
from 1t to struggle for few pitiful
handfuls OF something else that is vel
low and shining. but not half 80 likely
to bring us happiness and often has
strange red spote upon It. Give nature
a chance. and w. shall find that there
is more than a mere fanciful connec-
ton between natural sunlight and that
sunny" disposition which, after all, Is
the true philosophers stone"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

In some parts of Europe an omelet
made from the eggs of the long cared
owl Is believed 10 be an effective cure
for drunkenness.
In Germany the raven is supposed to
be able to procure magic stone that
gives invisibility to the wearer. 1t is
apparently not simple matter to OBJ
tain, for In the first place, after dis
covering the nest, you must satisfy
yourself that the old birds are at least
over century old. Then you climb to
the nest and must either take out an
egg, boil 1t hard and replace 1t, or II
there should be young you must kill a
male nestling-it must be q male-and
replace 1t also. After this the spot
must be most carefully marked, for
the parent bird. If he is old enough,
will return with the magic stone, which
will render the nest invisible, and 1t Is
apparently from the spot where you
judge the nest ought to be that you
must pluck the ze.-Westminster
Gazette
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

The Methodist general conference at
Los Angeles on Saturday performed one
OF Its most delicate as well as painful
duties. 1t retired from all active partic-
ipation In church work five of its ven
cradle bishops They are Bishop Ed.
ward q. Andrews OF New York, Bishop
John M. Walden of Cincinnati, Bishop
John Ii. Vincent of Zurich, Switzerland
Bishop Willard II Mallalieu of Boston
and Bishop Cyrus ID. Poss of Phila-
delphia.
At the closing session of the Maine
Association of Colleges and Preparatory
>chools the following officers were elect
eb by the Modern Language Association:
Prof. o. T. Lewis, University. Dart
mouth high school, vice president; Prof.
George c. Files, Bowdoin College, sec
retary-treasurer; Prof. Arthur NJ. Leon
ard, Bates College, Bertha Russell, Rick
or Classical Institute, Houlton, Bertha
soule, Bangor High school; executive
eommittee.
Domestic trade movements for the first
quarter of the current year, as reported
to the Department of Commerce and La
Dor through it's Bureau of Statistics,
make favorable comparison with preced-
ihs yoals oh Lho OUTPUT Vi uNo-s lOCk Ic-
ceipts at Western markets and lumber
movements in the South and on the Pa
cifc coast. In all branches OF trade de-
pendant on river and lake navigation
there was much lighter movement
than in 1903, owing to the latter opening
of the season of navig ation.
An official dispatch to the foreign
| office at Paris from Constantinople con-
firms the reports that Turkish troops
have burned villages throughout the
Sassoun district of Armenia, killing the
Inhabitants. The French ambassador,
N. Constans, has joined with the Rus
sian and British ambassadors in send
ing consuls to Erzeroum in the hope of
limiting the bloodshed. However the
| official advices although brief, indicate
that the work of extermiuating the
Armenians occupying the mountainous
district of Sassouu, is practically ac-
eomplshed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

A most unpleasant sensation is caused
by the violent excitation of the ulnar
nerve due to a blow on the elbow. This
nerve passes down on the inner side of
the arm and then rather inconsiderate-
ly bends round and enters the forearm
at the back of the elbow joint. Any
one who has felt his neighbours elbow
sticking into his ribs knows that the
elbow is remarkably deficient in flesh.
The nerve is therefore at this point
very near the surface and has little to
shield 1t from a blow. II we are SO
unfortunate as to give our elbow a
smart tap we obtain a practical con
hrmation of the fact that the ulnar
nerve is the principal sensory nerve OF
the forearm and hand.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
A Criminal Paradise.

SPANS criminal settlement in the
Zafarina islands is said to be quite n
paradise of conyicts. Their liberty is
restricted only so far that they must
not leave the Islands and must return
at night to prison unless they obtain
leave Of absence for the night At 4
O'Clock in the morning the convicts
leave the prison. Some do a little
work, but the majority go straight to
the various wine shops and hostelries
where they pass the day drinking. sing
Ing and occasionally breaking the
monotony of life with a little knitting
for each respectable prisoner carries
his "faca' Cknife, day and night with
him. This idylllc state of things ap-
pears less strange If one considers that
the prison warders-the "capatares"-
are the liquor sellers of the islands and
that a good deal of Illicit trading is
carried on in those places of resort.
the prisoners buying reyolvers. ammu-
milton, housebreakers tools and SINH
lar articles. Chicago News
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

II am a cockney, born In the sound
of the great bell of Bow, In London, "
said an Englishman. II am a genuine
cockney. That term can be properly
applied only to native of east Lon
don-a man who was born within the
sound of the bell of Bow. The dis
trlct is composed Of foreigners, who
take refuge there while fleeing from
countries where they do not have lib
erty. This floating population, COM
posed Of anarchists, nihilists, and, in
fact, every one who cannot live else
where, composes the largest proportion
OF the inhabitants of the true cockney
district. louisville Courier-Journal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

The Italian who travels In Corsica
is delighted to hear almost everywhere
around him the obsolete expressions
and examinations of Dante, while even
the Englishman unacquainted with
the Comedy" is surprised at the
sound of Latin words which he thought
had fallen entirely into oblivion, such
as "Nimo" for "Nessuno" and "Greve"
for "Pesante," or with Latinized forms
of current words, such as "Piuva" for
"Pioggia," "Ista" for "Questa" and
"Ejo' for 40"
The Corsican, however, is an older
italian than that even of the medi-
aeyal poet. 1t Is less specialized on
the whole than his. having points OF
contact with the other dialects, par
ticularly those of Calabria and Sicily,
and with the literary languages OF
Spain and Portugal.-"studies In Cor
sica"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
People Who Rarely Wink.

There are people who rarely wink.
How they manage to get along with
out doing so is a marvel but somehow
or other they do. Some eyes are natu-
rally more moist than others, and the
very moist eye does not 80 much need
the assistance of the lids to keep the
eyeball bright. 1t Is constitutional
matter, for winking. though under the
control of the will, Is done so quickly
that 1t is practically an involuntary ac-
ton. Men wink when they feel that
the eye is uncomfortably dry. and
when 1t does not become dry the neces-
sity for winking is not felt
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

A New York magistrate and his
friend were returning from a banquet
arm In arm and were giving way to
mirth and song when they found
themselves confronted by the police
The magistrate made his escape. but
on the following day us lie sat on thu
bench grave. digniiied and alert, rs
usual" he saw his dear and valued
6. u charged with being drunk and
lis, uerly lie listened to the charge
unmoYed beyond II panied expression
on Ills face ana after calling upon the
prisoner to explain his conduct, ad
dressed him in lis most severely judi.
cial manner and in scathing tones
Never had he heard n more disgraceful
case, and ii OILS so much the more dis
graceful from the fact that the pris
oner evidently WAS respectfully con
nected and moved In what was called
(here he became very snrcastici good
society He felt it WAS n matter where
leniency would be slTcly out of place
and the fine must lie the maximum
which the law allowed.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
The American Attitude.

Japan's splendid successes In the east
have, from time to time, stirred up more
or less enthusiasm In the U. s. This ma
ton has held itself to strict neutrality,
as was lite duty, yet there has been little
disposition on the part OF Americans as
individuals, to conceal certain measure
OF satisfaction over the course Of the war
thus far. And yet the United States is
by no means unfriendly to Russia and
there Is no cause for Russian complaint
In our attitude. There are those who do
complain, however, and who bring up
the old contention that we owe the
Cars government a debt of gratitude
for Its course at the time of the Civil
war. Taken in its most liberal con-
struction the incident was as follows
France and Great Britain proposed to
Russia that the three nations jointly
recognize the Confederate States of
America. Russia refused, intimated
that 1t would consider recognition on the
part OF the other two powers as a cause
OF war, and despatched a feet to this
country under sealed orders. This Is the
story as told to Wharton Barker by Gar
Alexander III, who frankly added that 1t
was not love for the American Republic
but desire to injure Great Britain
through the rise of powerful rival ma
ton across the seas, which prompted the
act.
Deeds prompted by selfish interest do
not entail debt Of gratitude even though
they minister to our good fortune. Rus
sa did not claim to act as our friend i,
but rather as the eneny OF Great Britain.
So, even though she did US a kindness
we are not bound by the memory thereof
10 forever approve OF all Of Russias acts.
We certainly have no right to aid or
hinder either Of the two contestants in
The eastern struggle. But our individual
likes and dislikes, approval aud disap-
proval, are our own and are not under
more restraint than is necessary to pre-
serve proper regard for The position Of
neutral power, far removed from the
scene IF action, and under no special OBJ
legation to either party in the struggle.
Portland Advertiser.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

one of the most renIofkabie legal pa
peers on file in the archives of the world
is one now in thc National museum OF
Paris, labeled sentence on II hog, exc
cutcd by Justice In the copyhold OF
Clarmont-Ayin and strangled upon II
gibbet at that place 1t is sealed with
red WAX kept under glass, bears
date Of June II. 1891. and reads as fol
lows I'VE, the jury, in detestation and
horror of this crime and in order to
make an example and to satisfy JUS
tice, have declared, judged, sentenced,
pronounced and appointed that the
said hog, now detained In the abbey
as prisoner, shall by the executioner
be hung and strangled on gibbet near
the gallows which now stands within
the jurisdiction of the monk, being
near the copyhold of AVN. In witness
of which we have sealed this present
with our seals" Following the above
are the signatures of the jurors and
the project of the department de la
Aisne
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

does not hesitate to recommend Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure to his friends and Gus
toners Indigestion causes more i'll
health than anything else. 1t deranges
the stomach, and brings on all manner
of disease. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure di
gests what you eat, cures indigestion,
dyspepsia and all stomach disorders
Kodol is not only a perfect digestant but
tissue building tonic as we'll. Renew
ed health, perfect strength and increas-
ed vitality follow its use.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
AFTER MANY YEARS SUFFERING
Dyspepsia Indigestion General Run Down System Mrs
Mary E. Grondon permanently cured with Bloodne.
Diseases of the Stomach 0

digestion will the proper
digestion and of
flesh The blood also becomes the weak and the
bowels onsi
medicine BLO0DNE
Debility
therefore of YoN be
Mrs MaE of saws
General he
I0oDINE t
d.
guarantee BLOODINE. box
FILLS canteed and
ness2 5c a
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

All birds have a systematic arrange
ment in depositing their eggs in the
nest, and there are very few species,
If any, in which some peculiarly is
not to be seen, If careful observation
is made. Many birds so plainly and
invariably show a tendency to set
arrangement that their habit Is gener-
ally known.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

More than 10000 Japanese women have AL
ready volunteered to go to the front to act as
nurses
The first train run electrically on a main
line has been making experimental trips be-
tween Liverpool and Southport.
Canada is capable OF furnishing more than
the q 0 00,oc0 bushell OF wheat which Britain
has to import every year.
Leeds like other large towns In England, is
being connected by telephone with Paris and
other places in France.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
To Preserve the Color of Flowers.

To Preserve the Color of Flowers.
A way to preserve the colors OF flow
ers when pressing them Is to immerse
the stem of the fresh plant In a solu-
ton of 81 grains of alum, 4 of inter and
1S6 Of water for a day or two. until
the liquid is absorbed. then press the
plant in the usual way, sift some dry
sand over the flower and submit to a
gentle heat for about twenty hours.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

Why destroy present happiness by
distant misery which may never come
at all, or you may never live to see
It? Every substantial grief has TWEEN
ty shadows, and most Of them shad-
ows Of your own making.-Sydney
Smith
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
Double Action Springs.

First Patient lat the fashionable
springs)-W What are you here for? Sec
ond Patlent-To flesh up little. And
your First Patient-To reduce my
weight.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19

Ibid she consult the groom in fixing
the date for the wedding|
"Oh, no; only the dressmaker, ~
Chicago Post.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
VEGETARTANS SAY

we should eat no meat. DR.. J. A. Deane
says We should eat of all kinds of nourish
ing food, and IL the stomach and bowels
are lazy and rebel we should make them
digest it. DR.. Deane Is the greatest
authority on diseases OF the digestive
organs
Dr. Deane's Dyspepsia Pills aid digestion
md assimilation of food and cure all forms
~ Dyspepsia White wrapper II constr
rated, yellow II bowels are regular.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
NERVOUS DEBILITY

Vital Weakness and Prostra-
ton from overwork and other
causes. Humphreys Homeo-
pathic Specific No. 20, in use
over 40 years, the only success
full remedy. 81 per vial, or spec
ial package for serious cases, $5.
Sold by Druggists sent prepaid receipto price
Humphreys Med. Co., William John Sts, NY.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
For Piles.
Sample mailed free.
One application gives relief.

The continued use OF Hum
phreys' Witch Hazel Oil per-
manently cures Piles or Hem
Orrhoids-Externa or Internal,
Blind or Bleeding, Itching or
Burning, Fissures and Fistulas.
Relief immediate-cure certain.
Three Sizes, 26c., soc. aud G1.OO. Sold by
Druggists, or sent prepaid on receipt OF price.
Humphrey Medicine Co., Cor. William and
John sts., New York.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-19
c. r. FOCC, Druggist.
What Becomes of II

his
and
supply o the a
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12
FIOGGED PRINCESS.

Rustend Pasha, formerly the Turkish
Ambassador at London, relates the fol-
lowing sensational episode in the life OF
the late Princess Mathilde, with whom
he was on terms Of close friendship:
Prince Andtoto Demidof, her hus-
band. was the son of a manufacturer Of
arms. who amassed an enormous fortune.
When the Princess promised to marry
the Count he had her beautiful hand
clasped in his own carved in marble,
with the inscription, 'Forevcr." Soon
after the marriage the Princess decided
that she could not endure the cruel
treatment of her Russian husband. She
was exceedingly popular in ST. Peters
burg so ,iety, but her husband held her
aloof from it, using every means to pre-
vent her seeing the Car. One winter
night " hen Demidoif was very certain,
toT good reasons, that the Princess would
not follow. he went to court ball IN
the winter palace. The reception aud
nresentation were just over and the
dancing was ABOUT 10 Oes'h "n0" 'u'
Princess unaccompanied and unattended,
entered the ballroom in a magnificent
toilet, all her jewels about her graceful
person. She walked majestically up tC
the Car, at whose feet she knelt. Iher
Withdrawing the lace scarf that covered
her bare shoulders and bowing her heaC
low she displayed her white back stTeaEe(
all over with blOoded marks left by ne
husbands whip, and with upliited hands
begged the Gar to rid her of the mar
who had thus treated her. No wonder
the Car (Nicholas y granted her
legal separation, ordering Demldoii 7 7
make her yearly allowance OF 500, ooV
The Princess afterward went to Paris Il
live
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12
MISS FAY LEE,
p,..,dent of the Shakespearian Club Kansas City

nervous tension. The nerves
soon begin to give way under
the strain. Yonperhapsj jump
at any unusual disturbance,
or laugh or weep, hysteri-
cally, at no apparent cause.
That is what Miss Fay Lee,
6O31l North Seventh Street,
Kansas City, Kansas, was
coming TO when she rescued
herself by taking Wine Of
Cardui. The Wine made
her a strong, healthy woman
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12
CRAZED BY LOVE.

Lucretia Vallotti, daughter of sunny
Florence, is years old and beautiful, was
a model Of propriety as we'll as a model
for the artists of Mount Parnasse, IN
Paris. SO beautifully proportioned was
the girl that no other model was neces-
sary for any part. Her figure was per
feet for the ensemble, while the outlines
of her foot were as lovely as those of her
bust. Artists mere mannikins to Lu-
crctia until she met Castor Mirmiton.
Him she loved from the first time she
posed for him. Castor proposed mar
riage, but Lecretia's mother refused per-
mission, fearing she would lose the reye-
nue. from her daughters posing Gas
ton brooded, and finally absinthe killed
him in three months. From the day o
his fuaeral Lucretia never was seen tC
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12
MIR. BRYAN IN NEW HAVEN.

VIM. j. Bryan was the guest OF honor
Yesterday at a banquet in Warner Hall,
New Haveu, Conn, at which about l5O
democrats were present. Gov. Garvin,
of Rhode Island, and Congressman De
Almond, of Missouri, were among the
guests from other States. The Occasi n
took the form Of 4 celebration of JACK
son Day and was also declared by some
of its promoters to be intended as sort
of prelude to the opening Of the presiden-
tial campaign in New England. w. IL.
II. Hewitt was toastmaster Mr. Bryan's
topic was "A Conscience Campaign, "
He sud in part
'Tle word campaign suggests war
fare. Its good tactics to strike the en-
envy where he is weakest and to use the
weapons which are most effective. The
weak point Of every bad policy is that it
sacrifices human rights to selfish inter
ests and to-day to prO;e system evil we
only have to show that it violates sense
ofiustice that is satisfied with nothing
less than equal rights to all and special
privileges to none. The only appeal that
is permanent in its effectiveness and en-
dearing in its usefulness is the appeal to
conscience, and while it may seem weak
ness to the brutal and folly to the sordid,
it arouses a response that is at least ire
sistlblc. If we would touch the conscience
of others Ne must give evidence that our
conscience have been quickened. The
great issue at this time is the issue be-
tween man aud mammon--between plu-
tocracy and demociacy. All surface
questions of policy of taxation and OF
regulation and of finance are but phases
of that century-long, that world wide
struggle between the common people
and organized wealth. To say that 1t
does not pay for nation to violate the
rights Of The people OF another nation iu-
wolves so much Of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division, that mahy
get lost in a maze of mathematics. But
TO say that the wages Of sin is death IS
TO give an epitome ofhistOry that accord>
with each PERSONS experience. In deal
ing with the trusts, with finance, with
labor problems, and with all the Other
questions at issue, we must view them
from a moraI standpoint and afraign
every evil at the bar of the public con-
science. "Will it win? Nothing elsC
will give permanent success. As the
martyrs, who, eighteen hundred year
ago kneelug in prayer while hungry
beasts deyoured them, invoked power
mightier than the iegions Of Rome, to
day the same, it is not only possible bn
necessary to appeal TO that moral senti
ment which, wheu aroused, will prove
more potent than the purse"
Mr. Bryan left at midnight for Wash
ingtOn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12

SERVANT GIRLS UNIoN.-A union
of servant girls is forming at Orange,
n. J. As soon as the union is strong
enough it will demand Smallest wages
to he s25 per month eight hours day, $
work half day off Thursday and all
day Sunday the use of the parlor three
nights week the use Of the piano for
practice between 10 and / a. m. fam.
ily's breakfast to be served at 10 o'clock,
luncheon at o'clock and dinner when
it is ready no non-union food to be
handled, no remnients Of meals to be
saved one servant lady to be employed
for every three members of the house
hold the woman not to receive more
than four callers in one afternoon, or,
if she does, she must answer the door
bell herself.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12
A million suffering
WVYEAJE TT "A U EHEIH have found relief in
w Elm N<OH NkANA~DV4 Wine fCardui.

smile, and she was strangely silent;
One night last week her mother awOke
in inexplicable terror and saw her child
standing over her with an up-lifted dag
ger and heard hersay: awake mother,
whose cupidity killed my lover; mother
who trod on my happiness, who saeri-
feed me to her selfshness. Awake an |
look death in the face" Hearing these
words and seeing the dagger about to de-
scend, the motLer caught her daughter )
wrist, and, after a desperate struggle,
disarmed the child, who had gone stark
mad. Deprived of the dagger Lucretia
seized the aged woman by the throat,
and only the arrival of neighbors saved
her from being cboked to death. Lucre-
tia has been taken to an asylum. She
still thinks she is a model and poses for
the other patients. The mother is in a
hospital.
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FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS

AN OLD AND WELLTRIED REM EDY.-
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over sixty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect success. 1t sOOthes the child,
softens the gums, ailays all pain, cures wind
collie and is the best remedy for Diarrhea. is
pleasant to the taste. Sold by druggists in
every part of the world. Twenty-Five cents
bottle. It's value is incalculable. Be sure
and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
and tnEn No ofher kind