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The Somerset reporter., 1907-01-03
9 IEENmIa8
Of Trains In Erect
December 8, 1906.

Trains leave Skowhegan follows: Sis, as A
M for all points west; also to Bangor, Vaneeboro' st
Stephen Houlton, Woodstock. ST John and Halifax, =
tao p M, for Watervile, Oakland, Bingham, Lewis
ton Augusta, Gardiner and Brunswick, Portland and
Boston, Dexter, Dover and Foxcroft, Greenvile Ban
gor, Oldtown, Patten and Houlton via b 4 A; K X.
and NJ attawamkeag - 40 p. M, (mixedl for Water
Vile enabling passengers connect for Oakland and
to take night Pullman for Portland and Boston :,
ARRIVALS;-7.ss A NJ mixed from Waterviile
daily except Sundays,-1o 30 A. NJ. Passenger from
Portland, Oakland Waerville Augusta and Bangor-
II 40 A. NJ, mixed from Waterville' Sunday only =
i. IS and g. 20 P. from all points Sundays only
iI.3o A. NJ, from Portland, Augusta and Wa,ervile
GEO F EVANS, Vice Pres and Gen Mgr.
F. f. BOOTHBY, General Pas'r Agent
The Somerset reporter., 1907-01-03

Group can positively be stopped IN 40 min.
utes. No vomiting nothing to sicken or
distress your child. A sweet pleasant, and
safe Syrup, called DR.. Shops Group Cure,
does the work and does it quickly DIR.
Shops Group Cure is for Group alone,
member. 1t does not claim to cure dozen
ailments. It's for Group. that's all. sold by
q K. Fogg.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-01-03

Can't look well, eat we II or feel vel 18th IL
pure blood feeding Your body K6p the blof
IKE exercise, keep clean and you will have Ion
life.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
TRUE splRIr OF COURTESY
Impulse Prompted by Owners NO0'S
ness of Heart.

courtesy is a quality of the nears
and suggests a forgetfulness OF sen, !"
retinement and delicacy Of tempela.
ment that prompts the charmins @o'
as impulse. he.
The gentle spirit of courtesy
trays itself in the manner OF ADDRESS,
ing a servant or weary assistant "
hind the counter as well as 1rlenos
and acquaintances. A lack OF courtesy
often results from mistaken 1dea %
to ones own Importance. The thoughe
is born in the heart; but false losa
of independence presents action. II
merely is an act of courtesy ana
mark of nobleness of mind voluntarily
to resign ones right in favor OF an
other.
It is the same mistaken idea tnae
confuses frankness with rudeness. 1t
is a virtue not to resort to the many
petty deceptions that mar our socaai
system. While we turn with disgust
from the woman who bids her friend
an affectionate farewell one moment
and breathes a sigh Of relief at her de-
parture the next, we can but admit
that a truly courteous heart will re-
frain from speaking an unpleasant
truth without imperiling the person .
Y2racity,
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

sail succeeded in reaching Australia,
more than 1000 miles away He
walked 1,500 miles to Sydney, shipped
as sailor, reached the Levant, and
for nine years was at liberty working
as a seaman. Then a French mou-
chard (spy) wormed his secret out
of him, and for the sake of the reward
gave him up to justice.
The Dutch government recently
transported about 200 conyicts from
the big penal settlement in Sumatra
to Merouke, the new pearl fishing vii
lage in Dutch New Guinea. The men
were kept in a stockade, and every
one of them knew that to remain there
was their only chance of safety. The
surrounding country was infested with
head-hunting saYages. One night a
large number of the prisoners cut the
wire and made dash for freedom,
running straight inland. Every one OF
them fell into the hands of the saw
age Tugaris, and all that was ever
seen of them again by the expedition
sent in search was 13 decapitated
heads stuck on poles, mute but grim
" eloquent recorders Of the horrors
they had gone through.
The horrors OF Russian revolution
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

would take too much time and space
to enumerate here, but among which
may be mentioned the rule which con-
strues it as an insult when a man in
filling his neighbor's glass slants the
bottle backward instead of forward.
More than one sanguinary duel has
been fought to the personal knowl-
edge Of the writer in Austria for a
breach of etiquette of this kind. In
the same way in the orient, II in
showing the blade of sword to an
acquaintance one happens to turn the
edge thereof toward him he will con-
slider his honor impugned, and if by
any chance he is japanese of rank
he is capable of going off and commit
ting suicide by ripping himself open,
leaving document stating that hav-
ing been insulted honor demanded
that he should commit hara-kiri, and
calling upon his nearest relatives to
aVenge him.
In Relation to the ThaW Case.
With regard to the application Of
the unwritten law to the case Of
Harry ThaW, there are several con-
siderations to be noted in endeavoring
to bring it to bear upon the tragedy
of Madison Square roof garden. II
young Mrs. Thaw had been without
any stormy antecedents, and had been
subjected by Stanford White to indig-
mites and insulting proposals since
her marriage, her husband would have
been justified, according to the terms
of the unWritten law, as understood
abroad, in shooting him, though of
course it would have been more chiv-
alrous to have given him chance of
defending himself instead of taking
him at disadvantage and unarmed
But, unfortunately, young Mrs.
ThaW is not without past; that she
was educated at the cost of White,
and had known him firstaas a school
girl, then as a model, and finally as a
chorus girl, for several years prior to
her marriage, cannot be denied. Her
relations with White before becoming
Mrs. Thaw, and also her career in
New. York and Paris prior to her mar
riage were of nature to debar her
husband from shooting White unless
he had actually caught him in the
very act of insulting her. That at
least is the status of the Thaw-White
drama from the point of view of un-
written laW.-NeW York World.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
Malua Of the Newspaper.

Some Republican congressman were
discussing the presidents suggestion
to shut out from the mails such news
papers as have been printing indecent
details of the Thaw trial in New
York. Mr.. Littlefield Of Maine 1nr
dulged in a general review OF the
press, it's powers, functions and priv
ileges. 'If it were not for the vigilanf
press of this country, with it's trained
corps of representatives in Washing
ton," he said, Il don't know whether
would care to serve in congress. My
experience here has taught me that
the newspapers perform a service OF
inestimable value to the country.
sometimes think that congress would
drift into many excesses if the press
gallery were not here to keep US in
bounds"
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

ary jails have driven men to strange
risks. On bitter day in February.
1905, Swedish fishing vessel sighted
a small boat tossing on the gray
waves Of Hernesand. In the bottom
was a man, hatless and coatless, and
nearly dead from hunger and expos
ure When he recovered he told his
rescuers that for six days he had been
rowing or drifting through snow
storms and gales He had been ar
rested at Vasa, in Finland, brought to
st. Petersburg, and thence had made
his escape.
A couple of years ago eight con.
victs made an extraordinary escape
from the United States ship Grant,
while she lay in Manila harbor.
Breaking the chains of their handouts,
they climbed an air shaft and slid
down the anchor chains into the
water.
The peril from sharks was well
known to them all, and they were all
weighted with leg irons, yet they at
tempted to swim ashore. One was
pulled down, but the others, after
hours in the water, succeeded in find.
ing q boat and pulled on along the
shore.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

he was recaptured he would suffer Sc
verely and lose the ordinary rem.s-
sion of sentence, says Answers.
In May last the German steam er
Willehad brought back to SYd-
ney story which we'll illustrates the
desperate risks that man will run for
the sake of freedom. The Willehad
had just returned from the Bismarck
islands, and there she discovered, in
a remote part of New Britain, six
French conYicts in deplorable state
of starvation and want. These were
the survivors of IL men, who, nearly
IL months before, had escaped from
the French penal settlement of New
Caledonia on two rats chiefly COM
posed of the slaves of beer barrels.
On one Of these craft rigged with
mat sails these six desperate adven-
turers had succeeded in crossing near
ly 1000 miles of stormy sea, only to
find themselves cast away on a saw
age island.
There are many true stories of es-
cape from the sea-girt prison of New
Caledonia. There is an Arab there
who, now "a years ago, stole a little
16-foot boat, and, with a branch of a
tree for mast and an old shirt for a
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
WHERE THE HlPPos BATHE.
South African Lake for Which Big
Beasts Have a Liking.

| A few miles from Muhokya we came
to Kikarongo, a circular lake, once a
crater, about half a mile wide, writes
correspondent of the Westminster
Gazette from Uganda. The water is
slightly salt and is greatly appreciated
| by the hippos, who come here in large
parties from Lake Ruisamba to bathe
! The lake is shallow for few yards
only and then deepens rapidly, so the
| hippos, who do not like deep water
never go very far from the shore.
/! On a still day it is an amusing pas.
time to sit by the lake and watch the
great brutes enjoying themselves
For moment nothing is to be seen
| then suddenly score or more of huge
heads burst through the water with
loud snorts and squirting jets of water
through their nostrils; they stare
around with their ugly little piglike
eyes, yawn prodigiously. showing a
fearful array of tusks and cavernous
throat, ther sink with satisfied CUR.
gle below the surface, to repeat the
performance minute or two after.
| ward.
Sometimes one stands almost up.
| right in the water; then he rolls over
with sounding splash, showing a
broad expanse of back like huge
porpoise. Or too venturesome young
bachelor approaches a select circle
Of veterans, who resent his intrusion
and drive him away with roars and
grunts. There is something irresisti.
bly, suggestive of humanity about
their ungainly gambols. Only bathing
machines are wanted to complete the
picture.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
THE STORY.

HE IOHYs
7 SRAEL did not realize how com
/ pletely they were under the infiu-
ence of the people of Moab until
the king of that neighboring kingdom
demanded an offering from them. Up
to this time they had mingled freely
with them without apparently compro-
missing the integrity of their own ma
ton, for the strength and prestige
which Othniel had brought to the
nation continued for several years
after his death.
But as the people began to yield
to the evil enticements of the Moab
ties, and share in their idolatrous
feasts, they were gradually weaned
away from the worship of their own
God. And this was not all, for they
married the daughters of the Moab
ties and in turn gave them their
daughters to wife.
Thus it was when King Eglon
placed Israel under tribute that they
had not the strength or courage to
resist. True it is that some of the
more courageous who had not al
together forgotten their God and
turned from him withstood the humiI-
iating demands and refused to make
payment, but when the king sent his
army through the country and had
crushed all opposition he increased
the amount of the tribute money and
made the burdens of the people griev-
Gus. And to prevent any armed re.
sistance he removed all implements Of
metal out of which weapons of war
might be made, leaving the people
only such simple tools as they need
ed for the cultivation Of the SOIL
Now there was a mighty man, a
Beniamite named Ehud who was
among those who offered bold resist
ance to King Eglon, but when the lat
ter had driven him into the noun
tain Businesses and had scattered his
followers he sued for peace, and, hav-
ing apparently accepted the yoke and
rule of King Eglon, Ehud was re-
stored to his lands again.
This had much to do with subduing
other rebellious spirits, for they rea-
soned that if Ehud, the mighty Ben
jamite, was going to yield to the
Moabitish king, it were folly for them
to withstand him and refuse to pay
tribute.
AS the years passed the oppression
became more bitter until at last the
people began to cry unto their God
for help. meeting in the caves and
the mountain Businesses. and secluded
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

this instance, however, the tragedy
was followed by separation of the
noble couple involved. Baldwin of
Belgium, in spite of his popularity,
was universally regarded as having
received his deserts, and his assailant
looked upon as having complied with
the requirements of the code Of social
ethics. Nor was he ever troubled by
the authorities in connection there
with, and remained a respected mem
ber of his class, and of the communi-
ty in general, and OF society, both at
home and abroad.
When the late Edward Parker Dea-
man and race horse owner, in the
apartments of Mrs. Deacon on that
memorable night in the hotel at Nice,
and shot him as he endeavored to
conceal himself behind a sofa, he
acted strictly in accordance with the
demands of unwritten law, and it may
safely be assumed that If he had been
| Frenchman instead Of foreigner,
and an American at that, he would
never have been sentenced to even
the brief term of Imprisonment to
which he was condemned.
UnWritten Law and the DuelIo.
Duelling is even more strictly for
hidden by law in England than on the
continent. But If a member of the
English diplomatic service, or an Off
Ger of the English army or navy, re-
ceives while abroad a challenge to
| fight, or is made the subject of an in
dignity calling for redress to fight, he
is forced to resign not only his COM
mission but also the membership Of
his clubs. Not even all the immense
social influence of colonel the Hon.
Frederick Wellesley, brother of the
late Earl Cowley, and now husband
| of the widowed Duchess of Yelling
ton, was able to save him from fate
such as this while acting as charge
d'affaires Of Great Britain at Vienna
some II Or Is years ago. Col. Welles-
ley who was also A. D. C. to Queen
Victoria, became involved in the Aus
trian capital in a quarrel about wom-
an with an Austrian nobleman, Count
K, who resented to such an extent
his behavior, as we'll as his remarks,
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

IL immeasurably more severe than
anything that statute could devise.
For instead of being restricted to
himself, it extends to those who are
nearest and dearest to him, and he
has no alternative but either to kill
himself or else to disappear and seek
his fortune in some remote foreign
country, where, disguised as to ap-
pearance, silent as to his origin, and
under an assumed name, he passes
his time in fear and trembling lest he
should be recognized and be once
more driven forth like the wandering
Jew of old from his temporary refuge.
Construed Insults.
There are all sorts of minor pro-
visions of the unwritten law which it
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
Called to Task by His General.

Called to Task by Pis General.
Wellesley was at once relieved Of
his office of charge d'affaires at the
suggestion of the Viennese court,
which did not relish the idea of being
compelled to accord diplomatic hon
ors to man who had thus shown the
white feather, and shortly after his
return to London one of his fellow
officers of the Guards, Capt. John Del.
acour, who had witnessed the affair
at Vienna, brought the matter before
the notice of the other members of
the corps. In due course it reached
the ears of the old duke of Cambridge,
cousin of Queen Victoria and general
issimo of the British army. He sent
for Col. Wellesley and asked him if
it were true that he had taken shelter
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
sERMcNETTE.
Copyright, 1907, by

SERMcNETTE.
: "The Lord strengthened Eg-
lon the king of Moab against Is
raeI." "The Lord raised them
. up as deiverer."
Judgment and mercy.
. However unconscious man 4
may be of the divine interven-
! tion in the affairs of men, this
fact Scripture emphasizes over
. and over again that God maketh
the wrath of man to praise him.
. Psalm 1910.
!. Here in this story of the pun
. ishment of Israel at the hands of
. EgIon, and the deiiVeranee
! through Ehud we have an in.
! sight into the divine purpose for
: man and the divine method of
operation to, bring his will to
, pass.
. The one purpose of God in
the world is to bring man into
harmony with his will and his
character.
! Ard every force In the world,
consciously or unconsciousIy, is
! working to bring this to pass.
The good forces are the posi-
tive elements, and the evil
!. forces are the negative, but even
. the latter are overruied and con-
: trolIed to the ultimate triumph
. of Gods will.
This only can be appreciated
! and understood as one gets
Gods viewpoint and sees as he
: sees.
In this story before us we be-
hold two forces at work, those
of good and evil, and yet both
operating to the accomplish
ment of Gods will.
: Israel sins grievousIy. God
must punish. How? Since the
: beginning of tise God has op-
Grated through the natural
forces of the world, and SO in
! the story before US, God
strengthens a neishhoring king
against Israel and makes him
the instrument of his Judgment.
! And why does he punish?
Many an earthly parent pun
! ishes his child because of anger,
ehagrin, disappointment, with
! little thought of making the pun
ishment a means of gracious dis
! cipIine.
!. But not SO God. His punish
! ment always fits the crime, and
Is administered with the one
: loving purpose of weaving his
child from the evil to the good.
! And the power and oppres-
! sion of evil forces is only the
: result of sin vitiating and weak.
! eninq the forces of righteous.
ness. Righteousness would
! sweep the earth if ali of Gods
children were putting away SIN
!. and standing together for right
: eousness and truth.
! But though we do sin and sin
!. brings It's punishment; though
. we do yield ourselves to the
evil influences about US, and
: that evil turns at last and
rends us, there is mercy with
! the Lord. He hears the cry of
! the repentant heart and sends
= deliverance.
Ehud broke the power of Eg-
: lon and restored Israel to. the
] pure worship and service OF
: God, but Jesus hath wrought
! more nightly for US for he hath
broken the power of Satan and
. restores one eternally to the fell
: Iowship of God.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16

that he struck him with his glove
across the face and challenged him to
fight. Wellesley refused, however, to
accept the challenge on the ground
that by so doing he would render him
self liable to dismissal from the army,
owing to the fact that the English
articles of war prescribe the penalty
of being cashiered for every officer
involved in a duel either as a princi-
pal or as a second.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
ynzvritten Lau >; ;;
Notable Instances
Of It's Application.

sAts Application Bereaved the
Emperor ofAustr1a. Who Took
No Revenge for tbe Killing of
IT'S Son-Prince Baldwin of
Beleinm. Heir apparent to tho
Throne. Violated Its Prov.
aions, and His Slayer. an Indja-
nanf Husband. Was Never
Troubled BY the Authorities
q Has q Relation, Too. in En-.
fopean Countries TO the Duel,
20 Cheating and to Su,c1de.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
Australia Against Opium.

Although it means heavy loss in
revenue, all the Australian states
have prohibited the sale and growth
of opium in their commonwealth
Queensland alone cut of an income
Of $4,000 yearly.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
III MRs DkNCuN. |

behind the army regulations to avoid
| the consequence of quarrel at
Vienna, thereby bringing discredit to
the corps of officers of the famous
regiment to which he belonged. Wells
ley, of course, was obliged to
admit that he had been guilty of the
charge. Then" said the duke, ''you
had better leave the army
Leave the army, sir?" exclaimed
the colonel. But what am 1 to do if
1 leave the army?"
Turn dancing master and be
damned to you!" replied the burly
old royal prince, swinging On his heel
and ordering his aide-de-camp in wait
ing to show the colonel to the door.
A few days later it was announced
that Col. Wellesley, who in his boy
hood had been page of honor of
Queen Victoria, had been ''graciously
permitted to resign his commission
in the army.
| Unwritten Law and Perjury.
Perjury is according to every Grim
inal code of Europe felony, yet the
correspondent in a divorce case, no
matter how guilty, is compelled by the
unwritten law to perjure himself in
the witness box like a gentleman" "
and failure to comply with this re-
quirement entails an ostracism which
by many is regarded as worse than
death, as one of the most eminent
of English statesmen found to his
cost. In endeavoring to exculpate him
self of the unfounded charge of hav-
ing betrayed young married woman
whom he had known from childhood,
he admitted under examination that
he had been guilty of too great in
timacy with her mother. This confes-
sion, extorted from him in moment
of evaporation and when smarting
under a sense of injustice, resulted in
the ruin of his political career and in
his being blacklisted by English So
ciety.
Perhaps the most mortal of all sins
in the eyes of unwritten law is unfair
play at cards, and there are few fami-
lies of birth and breeding on either
side of the Atlantic who would not in
fnitely prefer to have murderer
! among their relatives than man
who has been caught cheating at the
card table For it inflicts stain upon
the family escutcheon which can
never be effaced, and which is remem-
| bered against the house concerned
from generation to generation. A
man caught in the act of unfair play
is exempt from punishment by the
| tribunals of the land. But the penalty
imposed upon him by unwritten law
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
Women in Business,

One Of the largest typewriting con-
Germs in the world is in New York
city and conducted by two sisters.
Women writ servers are a success in
many of our large cities.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16


According 10 IL the Co respond.
emf In q Divorce Case Is Ex.
pected to PeJuyc HimseLfLike
Gentleman -Cniess Stan.
ford White Was Actually
Caueht IN The Act of Insulting
Mrs Harry Tbaw. Der Hds-
hand Vas Not Justified IN Kill.
ing HIM Under the Cnwritteu
Lag.
OF all the popular phrases of the
English language there is none that
as more misused and misunderstood
than that of "unwritten law" And
Just at the present time it is on every
body,s lips in connection with the
trial Tor murder of Harry K Thaw.
To Judge from popular comment,
one would imagine that its jurisdic-
ton was restricted exclusively to one
or at the most two particular classes
OF homicide. But it covers a far
larger ground and affects almost
every phase Of our life.
Among the several stories current
concerning the mysterious tragedy of
Meyerling, which robbed the vener-
able emperor of Austria of his only
son, the most generally accepted
version is that he was slain by the
hncles of Baroness Marie Vetsera or
else that he was subjected by them
70 such bodily injuries that he blew
his brains out, the men having learned
of the princes intention to cut adrift
from the girl, in compliance with his
pledge to his parents, instead Of
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
DESPERATE RISKS
FOR FREEDOMS SAKE

Mo Chance Too Great for Unhappy
prisoners TO Dare If Liberty But
Reckons-Wonderfu Stories of Es-
canes from Bondage in the Face of
Shs Most Fearful Perils and Hard
ships--Men Plunge into shark-in-
tested Sea Weighted with Leg
Irons.
St. Tammany farmer., 1907-03-16
Prince Baldwin Paid Penalty.

f1arrying her after SECURING ol-
vorce from Crown Princess stephanie.
prince Baldwin Paid Penalty.
In Brussels, in the Avenue Louise,
foreign visitors are still shown a de-
serted house, where Prince Baldwin Of
Belgium, fayorite nephew of King Leo
poid, and heir apparent to the throne,
was killed by an indignant husband
Of princely but not royal rank. N