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The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01

Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or
pat of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarSo'
ness, one hour; muscleache. two hours; sore
throat, twelve hours-Dr. Thomas EclectrIc
on, monarch over pain
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01
COUNTY Dire TORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.

Clerk Of Courts;
WILLIAM T SEEKlNs, -............... Skowhegar
County Attorney
THOMAS J. YouEe,.............. ............Su lor
Judge Of Probate;
AUGUSTINE SIMMONS. North Arson
Register Of pfobate;i
NATHAN FOWLER. .....S kowhegan
Register Of Deeds:
LLEwELIyN GOODWIN. -. ........... Skowhegau
Treasurer:
T. = DfER,. 's.s.......... .....+.. 'HaItane
Sheriff and Jailer:
ClYpR H SMITH. .,..........,.... 80. Skowhegan
DEPUTIES: J. D. Ring, Cambridge, George
Rhoades, Harmony: Ernest A. Cook Athens, J. A.
Goodrich Skowheean; W. W Nye Fairfield: Will,
c; Emery, North Anson E. l. Perkins. Madison;
Abel W. Rowell, Solon; c. S Adams, Jaekman
W. A. Bigelow, St. Abansi A. F. Buker, Hartland
Z. E. Frederick, Starks; w. E. Vies, Flagstaff
Fred H Kimball, Mercer; E. E, Atwood. New Port.
land; F ]. purgin. The Forks; E A. Piper Smith
FIELD; ]; D Foster. Pittsheld: Sullivan Newton, lack
man; Fred Horne, Canaan; |. I. Pierce, Bingham;
Lhas. J. Savage, Norridgewook.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01
YOUNG WOMEN WANTED.

Al the Worcester Insane Hospital as at
ehdants Good wages with two years course
m training school. For circular of lnforma-
ton address
DIR. II. VI. Quincy, Supt.,
|moA Worcester, Mas,
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01
PRIVATE TUTORING.

st nS Edith NJ. Brown, assistant at the
~ wv hegan High School, will accept limit
IN IN nun Der OF pupils for private instruction
modern languages or any OF the branches
s rssnl IN the Skowhegan Schools Of any
taue during the months OF July and August.
"iP5y by letter or in person at,
uS l2 MADISON AVENUE.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01

Some people are as afraid of a mi
crobe as others people are of mad
dog
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01

One way to make something out OF
nothing is to start fight about it.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01

If a woman treats her husband like
dog she must expect him 10 growL
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-01

For sale by all Dealers. Price p
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York. Sole Agents for the United
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no substitute.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
The Moors Disguised.

Any one who understands the jealousy
and hatred which these Moors have for
Christians can easily see how unpopular
such actions on the part of their Sultan
must be. The better classes are no fools,
and 1t is hard for them to respect even
Sultan who does such foolish and irrelig-
ious things. They are opposed on Moham-
medan grounds to pictures and photo
graphs. and it is almost impossible to get
them to pose before the camera. With
this view the Sultans golden kodak is in
striking contrast, and the fact that he Is
really good photographer does not bet
ter the matter. They do not approve of
his buying a yacht and having it carried
inland to Fee to be played with on the
little river near there and they are angry
at the crown he ordered at cost of n
hundred thousand dollars or so. 1t is
against the Mohammedan religion for the
Sultan to wear crown, and his people
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

val in Washington. in March. 1872 OF
John Braidwood, a grandson of the Edin-
burgh professor and himself teacher OF
deaf mutes, seemed to offer a happy So
luton. Mr.. Braidwood, indeed, had come
to America for the purpose of establish
Ing a deaf-mute school in Baltimore and
the Honorable James Peasants. then n
member of Congress from Goochland, ac-
quanting him with the situation in Colo
mel Bolling's family put the two gentle
men in communication with each other.
This resulted in Braidwood's acceptance
of an invitation to Boiling Hall, where
they might together discuss his plans.
He arrived in May, 1872; his proposal to
make his grand-fathcr's school the model
of his own, being heartily endorsed by
his host, who pledged to it his patronage.
placing in his hands an advance payment
of 5000. Upon his departure he accompa-
MED him to Richmond, whore Braidwood
took leave of him with the assurance
that he would keep him constantly in
formed of the progress of the enterprise.
BY June 1t had so matured that he adj
vertised for pupils in the Richmond En-
quirer, stating that the school would
! open on July 1st Meanwhile his prom
Used communications falling to come,
Colonel Boiling dispatched a letter of in
uuiry upon the subject It ELECTED no
response, and nothing further was heard
of Braidwood until the last of August,
when Colonel Boiling received a letter
! from him from a New York jail. There,
| according to the custom of the period, he
was confined for debt, his own version of
! the matter being that the war between
Great Britain and the United States had
cut off his income from holdings there,
while number OF gentlemen in Phila-
delphia and Baltimore, who had promised
him pupils with an advance payment of
5000 for each had failed to meet their
obligations. The truth was that he had
no property either in Great Britain or
elsewhere, and no pupils had been prom
ised him. While in Richmond he had met
n recently arrived Englishman, who i'm
posed himself upon the public as the son
of n nobleman, assocating himself after
his departure with him, TIE two visited
Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia,
where they lived in much style Colonel
Bolling's 5000 was soon squandered, ana
becoming involved Brnidwood fled to New
York, where he was pursued arrested
and imprisoned. No suspicion OF false
dealing entered Colonel Boling's honest
mind. however. his correspondence with
Braidwood in his humiliation charmnsly
illustrating the Virginia gentleman of
that day. and. too, OF the present day
of THE unadulterated type. Your
letter from New York. he writes him,
shas filed me with establishment and con-
5cern. In it you refer TO two others IN
I, which YOU offer VOW ,serVises as private
tutor to my children, Neither reached
me, and all the dlstressful occurrences
! which have since happened have been
| the consequence of their failure. Bnt
/ why. my dear Sir. did you walt for an
answer to such a proposal or think ~
necessary to write at a!l2 Hau you re-
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In Debt on Millions a Year.

In the meantime the Sultan's foreign
friends who have ordered these things for
him are making fat fortunes, and they
are working the young man for all he is
worth. Every foreign thing he subscribes
to costs him ten times what 1t Is worth,
and his ministers and foreign friends abb
sorb the profits. They are already rolling
in luxury, and every one about him steals
both from him and his people.
am told that the whole income of Mo-
rocco has gone into cxtravegant expendi-
lures. The empire pays something like
five million dollars year and is now
several hundred thousand dollars in debt.
One of the Europeans here tells me he
thinks that the Sultan has saited down
pretty penny of this for a rainy day, and
another courtier says that he is. strange to
say, almost mean In the expenditures
which come out of his own Immediate
treasury He will bubble about an outlay
of one hundred dollars. If the money is to
be paid down on the nail, and. at tho
same time, will dash Off, without think
ing an order for one of his custom houses
to pay sum of ten thousand or more.
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tan, surrounded by large concourse of
people. One of the holy preachers first
sings out sermon, after which the sheep
is handed over TO His Majesty. He cuts its
throat, and as the blood gushes forth the
bands play and the cannons thunder. The
news Is sent out all over the city and
thereupon the sacrificing begins, extending
to all parts of Morocco.
Bairam is the great festal occasion OF
all the year. The Moors then come out
in their good clothes. the soldiers have
new uniforms, and the people, who, like
good Mohammedans have been fasting
throughout Ramazan, which is their Lent
give themselves up to rejoicing. The chiefs
OF the various tribes are then supposed to
send presents 10 the Sultan, and In the
past vast sums have been so received.
Some tribes bring money often running
into the thousands of dollars, some horses
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
&c HAIL. HOME or DESCENDANTS or POCAHONTAS.
SEAT OF THE FIRST AN ERICAN SCHOOL FOR DEAFMUTES

land Court House playing on several in1
struments. while the same talent has del
scended to a grandson living in Rich
mond.
Boiling Hall, where are buried Colonel
William Boiling and his wife, with thei
son and daughter, William Albert an
Mary, the first deaf-mutes educated Id
America, and the rest of their childrerl
and children-in-law, is now in alien handsI
The last of the family to occupy it wal
Jane, the youngest daughter. who mar
ried Robert Skipwith and died without
heirs In 1869 1t was sold to JudgeI
Breathed. Of Maryland, and 1t Is noY
owned by Mr.. Alfred Pleasanton. Q!
Pennsylvania, son OF General Alfred
Pleasanton, an officer OF the Union arrl1N
during the Civil War.
The old Cobbs mansion, then unoccu-
pied and unprotected, was burned in 1927.
The graveyard however. With brick wal
enclosure and containing tho graves OF
four generations of Bollings remained IL
tact until the occupation of the place dtlt
ing tho siege of Petersburg by Generfy
Ben Butler, when the stones We're use
MS hre-backs In camp cooking, and artery
wards broken In pieces and utterly del
stroyed ~ handsome monument has1
since been placed there to Judge Wynn
ham Robertson, whose mother was
Miss Boiling, and who wrote the yalu
bic book: 'Pocahontas And Her Descend
ants" Judge Robertson died at his homi
In Abingdon, Virginia, in 1855, directing
his will that he should be buried
Cohhs. OF the building wherein w
started the splendid movement which h
liberated thousands of those imprison
by Nature, not trace remains. the pls
presenting to-day an aspect OF utter de
lation and desertion. The faces of tn
who sleep in the graveyard near, he
over, with that OF Robert Boiling,
first of his name in America, are presei
- y altable collection Of portrGt
owned by Mr.. Richard Boiling, Of Rid
mond, the eldest son of Thomas and tf
grandson OF Colonel William Boiling,
Boiling Hall.
Interesting relics, too, are preserved
the Yoltra Bureau In Georgetown, Al
under Bells institution for the presar
ton of knowledge concerning denf-muf
the nucleus of which was the ann
prize of $4,000 established during
poleon Bonaparte's reign by the ltal
scientist, Alexander Volta, and conferl
mon Or, Bcll hv the French Soyernifit
for his invention Of the telephone.
These relies illustrate the perseyeri
energy of Honorable John aitz. forme
the Swiss consul to America, and now
superintendent of the Bureau Amo
them is an Oh painting OF John Belitf
the Etiinbnrg pupil, a drawing OF Cob
Dv William Albert Boiling, the first de
mute educated in America; William
herts notebook containing his diary "
| many other things, MI OF which VIII
| in thu Volta Bureau coiiection WHICH y
iHitz Will exhibit at tue jamestown q
| position.
Copyright lse7 BY Gilhesta u Whitsl
4 i u 4 4 " .Aa u
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expenses to Boiling HALL Should this
be done he would take charge of Colonel
Bolling's children until these advances
were returned. Contrary to the advice of
his friends, that gentleman agreed to this
proposition. and the following October
found Braidwood ensconced at Boiling
Hall having as his pupils William Albert
Boiling. thirteen years old; Mary, three;
and the hearing children of the house
hold Thomas and Anne Meade. Here he
continued faithful to his duties proving
most accomplished teacher, and delight
ing Colonel Boiling with the progress of
his deaf-mute SON In the spring OF lSl5
that gentleman was placed in command OF
a body OF Goochland cavalry and ordered
to Norfolk. remaining in military service
for six months. During his absence
Braidwood relaxed, and upon his return
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

had almost abandoned his duties, Realiz-
ing his dependence upon him, however,
he refrained from demonstrating, hoping
as was the case, that his presence would
produce amendment. Meanwhile Colonel
Bolling's widowed mother died at Cohbs,
and the home of three generations of his
ancestors descended to him.
While Braidwood was at Boiling Hall
unwilling either to discriminate or to con-
vert his house into AN institution and
synpathizng deeply with the parents Of
deaf mutes-Colonel Boiling was constants
" panied by having to refuse to admit
these into his family. The situation of
Cobhs, with the Appomattox flowing to
the north of 1t and the spires of Peters
burg distinctly visible. was commanding
and attractive, while the building was
large, we'll furnished and thoroughly
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
Sacrifices for His People.

The Emperor of China has number OF
days when he goes out in Picking 20 the
Altar of Heaven and performs sacrifices
for the whole Chinese nation. This young
Sultan does the same by killing a sheep
on every Bairam. or Mohammed Easter.
AT this time every good Moorish family is
supposed to offer up sacrifices, and it IS
estimated that as many as thirty thous
and sheep are killed on that day in the
city of Fee. The sheep are brought in
from the surrounding country. and NUT
ton raises in price to such an extent that
good fat ram or eve will bring thirty
dollars. If it We're so in America the
market would surely be cornered.
The sheep killing is started by the Sui
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

turned here instead of taking your un-
fortunate trip north, you would have
been most joyfully and gratefully re-
eeived and all your subsequent suffer
ings avoided"
Unable at that time to go so far from
large sums to the mails, Colonel Boiling
then suggested that he write to the gen
tleman to whom he was indebted. asking
that lie would either come personally or
send an agent to Richmond, at which
point he would nees him, prepared to.
discharge the obligation. Before this
could be done, however, as Braidwood
wrote him, he would be obliged to es-
tublish credit for the amount with some
reliable New York firm, while an add-
tional sum Of 5000 would be necessary to
pay his jail fees and defray his travelling
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
BY elLeERTA S. wHIrTLE.

Now that the jamestown Exposition has
awakened an international interest in the
Old Dominion and Pncahontas as the in
direct preserver of the Colony is In the
public eye, 1t Is interesting to know that
the first American school for deaf mutes-
the seed from which l26 similar insttu-
, lions have sprung-was established in 1915
upon Virginia soil. at Cobbs, nine miles
below Petersburg, the ancestral home OF
Thomas Boiling. the Indian Princess
three times great-grand-son, while John
Boiling, that gentlemans son and her de-
\ scendant in the sixth degree was the first
American deaf mute to receive an educa-
|etion.
The Bollings. of ancient English stock
and wealthy as far back as the War of
the Roses, had their seat at Boiling Hall,
Yorkshire. Their first American represen-
tative was Robert Boiling. who married
Jane Rolfe, Pocahontas' granddaughter
and only descendant in that generation;
and it is a significant fact that there were
no deaf mutes In the family until the
marriage of Thomas to Elizabeth Gay,
another great grand-child and his ,wn
drsrt cousin. of which union three deaf
children-John. Mary and Thomas-were
tho fruit 80
Born before the Revolutionary war,
when no institutions for those thus han
dicapped existed in the Colonies, Major
Boiling sent these children to Edinburgh
to the famous Braidwood school, John
going in It'll and Mary and Thomas in
1875. All remained throughout the war,
learning to speak articulately and to read
language from the motion of the lips.
In 1888. three months after their return,
John, then only twenty-one, died. Mary
and Thomas, however, continued for years
to illustrate the power of art over nature,
the former living until 1876 and the later
ten years longer. Thomas. indeed. who
had a brilliant mind, attained high cul-
{ture with some literary reputaAon. Els
articulation was so distinct that he was
perfectly understood both in speaking ana
reading aloud while his ability to modu-
late his voice from a call to the lowest
whisper was marvellous in one totally
deaf. With graceful, polished manners,
fine discrimination and tact, and a Won
derfu gift of imitation, he was a general
favorite, and being often In Washington
mingled freely With diplomats and states
men and in the prominent social circles
of the Capital.
Owing to the cases among his fathers
children hearing brother OF Thomas,
Colonel William Boiling, of Boiling Hall,
GooGhland county, Virginia--who also
married a cousin, Mary Randolph, near
relative OF John Randolph, OF Roanoke
took n warm interest in the establishment
in America of schools for deaf mutes,
an interest which did not take definite
shape until after the birth, in 1887, of his
own deaf son, William Albert, followed in
1909 by that of "a deaf daughter, Mary,
I Dreading a distant and protracted sepa-
ration. from these children, their educa-
ton now became to Colonel Boiling a
{peTplexinS problem. to Which tho arr1-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

and some slaves, a negress being com
mon gift
During the present year the gifts were
few, and the horses poor. This was the
result OF the recent rebellIons. and was
brought about by the association of the
Sultan with Europeans and the Jealousy
and distrust with which his neople regard
him.
The Sultan and the Christians.
Indeed. the sultan's tastes seem to be
Christian rather than Mohammedan. He
is fond of Western methods, and he would
If he could, introduce them into his empire
He has made some attempts TO do so, but
his people object, and this is one cause of
his appropriately. He is. notwithstanding,
an Independent young man and persists in
counting the favor of the foreigners.
am told that he spends a mart Of every
day with Europeans, and that he is not Mt
all exclusive in his selection of them. One
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

equipped with servants. 1t now occurred
TO him, therefore. to establish school
there with Braidwood in charge, and thus
it TRANSFERRED that the home in which Po-
cahontas early descendants were nour-
ished became the first institution for deaf
Inutes in America For two years 1t
fiourished, Braidwood doing excellent
work Then his old enemy-a love of
strong drink-regained the mastery, and
becoming heavily involved with Peters
burg merchants, he again took refuge in
flight,
In 1918 he appeared in Richmond friend
less and destitute and applying to Colonel
Boiling for aid he established him in
Manchester, associatns with him, as q
restraint the Rev. Mr.. kirkpatrick. then
living there. and placing William Albert
under his care. For six months all went
we'll: then Braidwood fell into such dis
sipation that Mr.. Kirkpatrick dissolved all
connection with him and the school was
closed. He became a barlSeeper In Man.
chester tavern, and during the winter,
1879 and 1920 died a victim of intemper-
ance. Being a Mason he was buried by
that order, and stone placed over his
grave. This was later removed, and q
large public school building now covers
the spot where he lies.
Thus seemed to end Colonel Bo!ling's
for deaf mutes But as in tho world Of
matter, so in that of endeavor, nothing
is DESTROYED. Things only seem to die.
and the plant when 1t withered had cast
n living seed to spring up In time, bring
ing fruit to perfection, which Helen
Keller exempliiles, who, to quote Oliver
Wendell! Holmes, "has so broken down
the walls which shut her in that her
outlook Is brighter than that of many
who see and hear, making it almost ap-
pear that the world would get on as Well
without eyes and ears as with Them
Neither Mary nor Thomas Boiling, the
deaf mute children of Major Boiling. OF
Cobbs. ever married., Upon the death of
Thomas, which occurred at Gaymont in
Caroline county, Nlrgania, in 1896 he be-
quoathed his property TO his deaf-mute
nephew, William Albert
Under the desultory teaching Of Braid
wood the latter never gained the mastery
of artcuate language ACQUIRED by MS
uncle. A nephew now living in Richmond
who remembers him says that the only
words which he knew We're papa and
mamma Els gestures, however We're so
expressive that he could make himself
perrectlp understood even in the }ellins
OF an intricate story, He was good
tlrauehtsmun. and also learned the trade
the yard mt Boiling Hail, and making
amy desired article of furniture He mar
ried Miss Eliza Christian, and OF the
five children born TO them none We're
Geuf-mute while, no deat-mute cases are
reported na later generation. OF these
five children four We're musical, the daugh-
ters having fine voices, and the sons
William Boiling, OF Waynesboro. Nirsi-
mia, and Thomas Albert Boiling OF Gooch'
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His Gold Camera.

one of his extravaganccs is a camera of
solid gold which cost him $1,000 AT the
same time he bought 5000 worth of print
ing paper and $4,000 worth of other sup
plies. Ills Photographic outfit. in addition
to the camera. cost him all told $4,000, a
large part of which went. as n matter of
course, into the pockets of those who or
dered 1t.
Another extravaganza is bedstead of
crystal mirrors with penants like a
chandelier. [ understand that he sees
three images of himself whenever he
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high-class Moor complains to me that His
Majesty allows common merchants and
other tradesmen TO come to the palace.
and others tell me that he has spent mil
lions of dollars on all sorts of foreign
kniclfnacks which some of his Christian
friends bov. hoe, oal him TO buy.
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crawls into bed, and that the pendants
Jingle when he turns over.
The Sultan has bicycles made Of alum
mum, and he delights in playing bicycle
polo with his friends. He learns all sorts
of games easily. and can do no end Of BIZ
cycle tricks. He will ride up n steep
plank and down again, and in his polo
games he has ruined several fine wheels
by crashing into the walls.
The sultan has n number of automobiles,
a London hanson and coach of state.
There are no roads in this country, and
these things are practically useless. His
gold coach, which cost many thousands of
dollars, now lies outside the palace at the
mercy OF the weather
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and that he is nov ruling n large section
of country. This would seem to be u
premium on second rebellion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
BRICK WORKS WRECKED
EXPLODING CYLINDER CAUSES
DEATH OF THREE woRKMEN.

SCHENECTADY, N. z. June pa ten
ton steel cylinder loaded with brick Of equal
weight and filled with steam at a pressure
Of 40 pounds to the square inch at the
plant Of the Schenectady Sandstone Brick
Company was opened by mistake this morn
ing without first reducing the steam pres
sure, and as q result exploded. The cylinder
head killed two men, wrecked q portion of
the plant, twisted a steel water tower into
scrap iron, wrecked big water tank and
windmill. ,deluging the scene Of carnage
with water. The big cylinder, five feet In
diameter and forty feet long, went through
the end Of the building and a pile Of brick
five feet thick, across the highway. hit
carload Of coal and telegraph pole
glancing blow. killed track repairer and
skidded up the railroad track to point
fully 500 yards from its original position.
The dead are c. Wheel and w. Sefvey. a
brickmaker, and John Curns, a track re-
pairer.