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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

A sweeping law in regard to free
passes on railroads, steam or electric,
came into force the first of this
month. Federal, state, county and
municipal officers must now pay their
fares just like common, ordinary
folks. And why shouldn't they?
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

Numerous cases occur to illustrate
|he fact that elderly persons should
|mt live entirely alone. Disease is
|hble to descend at any time with its
badly stroke, or sickness ensue, with
|wrelief until the neighbors, seeing
|ro signs of life about the premises,
are obliged to break in.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

More of the conspirators to defraud
the city Of Boston have been found
guilty, after due trial, and will re-
|eeive all that is coming to them.
| Dishonesty seems to have been the
characteristic of every department;
the trail of the serpent" was over
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08
SKOWHEGAN MARKET.


OATS-67Lq cts.
WooL-Unwashei 7s to 80 cts.
HipEs AND SkiSs-Hides, 8 TO o cts. tn ned VT
lamb skins IS cts TO 50; calf skins, y IS cents
per pound.
BEAss-Hand, picked yellow eyes. ss.so 1885,
pea beans, 81 So
BEEF-Or beef. to cts.
PourTRY-Fowls IA TO 10 Cts, per h.; -cken, Is
to 40 cts.
Lamb-Is cts.
ROUND Hoo cts.
TALLow-Rough, cts. per ID.
BurTRR-Firs, quality, stamped, Is cts. PER ID
EGGs-s7 cts. per doz fresh
POTATOES, IS per bushe
CrHESs-I6c 10 ISc per h.
Strawberries-i7 CTS.
RETAIL MARKET.
FlouR-sprinc wheat Patent, $7.ss to S. 90. Win.
CoRS-SI S. per bag; meal and cracked corn, $40
per bag; Oats 70 cts a bu.
I. 5, MEAL, SI.7s per bag.
FEED-hiddhues, $40 per ewti Gluten. sI.os pei
cwt.
SPsiSG BElS-SI,ss per ewt.
MINED FEsD-sLts per owt.
SALT PoRK-Is cts b 10y the h5i., 400 lbs, Szo.oo.
CHERsR-IS TO 20 cts per 10.
BU1TER-7s cts. per 10,
ECGS-74 cts. per dog, fresh,
1EAs-~aS to oocts per 10.
CoFFER-1o to IS cts per 10.
10 cts.
MoLAssRs-Pure Ponce. 40 to 50 cts. Pure Barba
does, 80 cts.
StGGR -Granulated SuCar,bes, quality, y lbs. for
S. 90; Brown, IS lbs. for Sl.o0.
PoTAToES-.Go per bushels
DRY FISH--C0d 10 10 cts, per To, Pollock, s cts.
OSioSS--s cts. yer 70,
Pou1vKY-Fowls, 10 cts. per ib; Chickens az cts.
per b
Strswberries-Is cts.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

The executive committee has de-
oided to hold the next annual meeting
of the State Grange at Bangor next
December, 81, % and %. 1t is ex
Oected that 1000 delegates will attend.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

Don't hasten the haying; the grass
h still growing. We know it is custo-
mary to strike in heavy after the
Fourth. but don't do so this year, un-
less you have grass that is drying up,
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

Visitors From Worlds Metropolis.
DR.. G. Cooke Adams and Mrs.
Adams of London were in town last
week visiting at the home of Miss
Orlinda F. Weston. The two ladies
are cousins, Mrs. Adams being the
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

FOrty-one years town treasurer of
Winthrop, marks a portion of the
Dublic career of John M. Benjamin of
That town, who has just died at the
ooo of sc,
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08
The Somerset Reporter
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-. If Thanks, Resolutions Of Respect
Cn CARO- If presents accompanying accounts
Weddings receptions ,sS ebc
lnsei uatiees 10 cents per line. No charge
les thal mr. mailing list of nearly 5000 names,
WlI WIN writing the REPORTER with re-
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08
WATCH THE VOTE GROW.
A Substantial Gain Received fol-
Many of the Contestants This
Week.

The count is made on Wednesday
morning and votes received after
nine O'Clock a. m. do not show in
this report until the following week.
CLASS ONE
Mrs. G. S. Adams, Jackman ,..... 1880
Bingham Grange. ...............l 3oOO
Norridgewock Grammar School,
Care Mrs. l.. r. Folsom ......1l200
Della McDaniels, Cornville 49,. 1907
Lana Nottage, East Madison ......4 2O
Verda Crymble, New Portland .... 2s5
Gala Giles, Solon.... ......,...'...lO
CLASS TWO
Beatrice Smiley. ..,..............23 300
Lois w. Hubbard ......,........l94 1880
Frank Hucki:is. .....s...........10 10000
Letha Savage. ........... ..,....'. QUO
Hazel Porter ................' ...''oIuu
Alta JeWett. ....,..' 2Zl3
Eonie Z. Eaton ..........,........ 1850
Amelia Newton. .................. l290
Ella Emerson. ......... 1920
Skowhegan Grange 500
Mildred Philbrook. .,........ 200
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

The person who will steal flowers
and ribbons from a newly-made grave
n the cemeteryl Well, what shall
ne say about him?
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

Some people have the knack Of
saying the right thing at the wrong
time.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

The man who is tied to woman
for life gets many tongue lashing.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

vsrp AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

INVERSION. Travelling Representative
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
Spain picking Up"

The sad straits for money into which
other European countries have been
driven by eXtravagant expenditure make
a dark background against which the eX-
cellent financial condition of the Span
ish government is set off like a bright
light. Her surplus income of late has
ranged from S10,000,000 to $4,000 900
year, and while her neighbors have
been piling up additional debts, she has
been whiting down hers and lowering
the amount annually due for interest.
Never in the memory of the present gen
Grafton has the credit of Spain stood so
well at home and abroad as at the pres
ent time.
The fact is that, to borrow a homely
figure, Spain was kicked up stairs as n
result of the war of 1898. The loss of
her colonies, while humiliating to her
national pride, lightened her of bur
den that had been keeping her poor.
Her spirit is returning with the increase
of her material prosperity. She is now
lndulging hopes of extending her trade
relations with foreign nations. The fact
that she has no military aspirations
that she does not expect to cut a path
for her commerce with the sword, makes
friends for her i'll quarters where a high
handed carriage would provoke suspicion
if not hostility. The United States
stands ready to welcome closer trade
relations with Spain. The wounds of
war will be healed with the oil of mu-
tual interest
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

saying great DEAL for she does not come of class
given to raising quiver-ful Dr. Smiths comparison
OF college women with their non-coege relatives
to show that neither had an average of quite two lv
ing children, with the college woman trife below the
average of the other account of her later marriage
Emerging from the thicket of figures and contradc-
lions which surrounds the marriage of the girl gradu
ate there arises another difficulty but happily less
perplexing If she decides the Of
matrimony and rear small but admirable family, what
happens to her? How does she living?
In the old days wellbred and weleducated
could teach she could do nothing else Nowadays
while professions to her, she still chooses
this career In preference to other although the
proportion of graduates it claims is not large for
merly The lines of work opened up by modern sociol
ogy are attracting great many. Such professions will
doubtless begin to rival teaching and professors
of economics in women's colleges bear this In mind
Turning again to the admirable statistics of Bryu
Mawr finds that 145 students teaching. Deduct
ing the number of graduates without occupation there
left about 450 who living. OF this number
las is high percentage. The percentage is not how
ever keeping up to quite this level Forty-fve girls
put down paid philanthropists." AS of
this number observed, this Is dreadful to call
anybody, but 1t indicates the tendency OF college
to turn toward social work of kind another
Physicians next with IL, and the profession of
private secretary counts H. This latter work is at
tracing girls than formerly Lawyers four in
number. On the side of art II girls have taken up
music and three chose art Other occupa.
tons include photography inn-keeping, managing a
shop bookbindng illustrating, hand weaving trained
nursing wood carving, millinery. jewery work, jour
naltsm and library work Several of colleges
there is agent in government office and title
searcher in a law Office
The of 1900 showed among workers
so 100 architects 40 civil engineers and
80 mechanical and electrical engineers These cannot
be traced to their respective colleges but they
have degrees their account as have also the 5000
cergymen.
1t would that the college woman married or
unmarried gets a good deal out of life Unmarried
she has interesting profession Married she has
healthy child and statistical fraction of another
healthy Threehfths of this child and fraction is
a boy. What more could the heart of a woman desire?
OF she marres late but civilization brings that
to pass all the world. The world has wagged con.
siderably since the days of Romeo and Juliet
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
The Early Leprosv Scare.

Peoples nerves have been wrought
upon by awful stories of lepers since the
acquisition of the Hawaiian and Phil
ippine Islands by the United States.
How many of these stories were true?
Supposed victims of leprosy have been
subjected to isolation and to deportation
for fear they would start an epidemic
of leprosy in this country. How many
of these reputed lepers were really at
ficted with that much-talked-abou but
little understood disease?
The outcome of the case of John X.
Early is likely to cause a great deal
Of skepticism the next time any news
paper reporter or doctor tries to get
up excitement over n case of leprosy
For year Early was held in quar-
antine by the health department ~
Washington, on the ground that he was
afflicted with leprosy. Now DR.. Dun
can L. Buckley of the New York Skin
and Cancer Hospital, after thorough eN-
animation of the patient, declares that
his disease is not leprosy and never
was-that he has been suffering from an
acute infammation-"d ermatitis veneh-
ata"-and that he is recovering.
The patient Of course is overjOyed
He plans taking a trip round the world
in company with his wife and child. He
has been the victim of medical ignoT-
ance. of which there is a good deal here
and there, even in these opening years
Of the Twentieth century.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIoNs.
BY Clarence L. Cullen.


You'll never get more than one view
of the face Of the woman who has but
one cheek dimple.
Ever notice the constrained smile
Of the woman whose upper front mo-
lars are all pivot teeth.
Some women's idea of facing advef
sity Is to pay 10 cents for the hair
nets that they formerly paid two bits
for.
When she sees a woman friend bear
bands going to law is that 1t affords
plucks you by the sleeve and says:
our attorney"
A woman considers 1t sacrilegious
70 visit a cemetery without crying a
little. even II nobody she ever knew
Is buried there.
What she chiefly likes about the
sorgiving business is that usually
you're moved to buy her something
for forgiving you.
What some women like most about
settlement work is that it gives them
CnanCe 10 loOh eeAu anu o"SSS "hSA1
they talk about 1t.
When a woman wants to deprecate
another woman's attire she puts 1t
something like this: Your little
dress is quite nice. This years."
IT isn't meant at all, but Is pure
bamboozling bunk. when she exclaims,
INV. how grand and strong you are!"
after you've helped her from the sad
die or some other elevated perch.
Have you noticed how her eyes be-
come suffused with a dreamy wistful-
mass when she's reading about the d.
vorce figurante who says she never
wears the same $500 gown twice?
Ever notice the patronizing hauteur
NJ the woman with the corsage bou-
ouet of orchids when she espies an
other woman with the corsage bou-
ouet OF mere carnations or Jacquiemi-
not roses?
It's queer why a woman with a
14x2o back yard, containing a tired
looking rose bush and few holly
hooks. should imagine that she needs
garden shears, gardening gloves and
sunbonnet.
When a woman wants to Intimate
that the just-taken photograph of a
sister-woman is a fiattering one, she
nuts 1t something like this: 'Um-
wees. it is quite pleasing-but rather
unduiy idealized, don't you think, my
dear?"
The woman who declares TO folks
that her husband, during all of the
twenty years of their married life,
never has said one cross word to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
|klmsn Science
N aR&S9s ANo
| (sss7s'ssE11VentiOfl

1t takes 1882 cubic feet of air to
weigh pound.
Electric power Is used on 2,2S6 miles
Of street railways in Great Britain to
las miles operated by other means.
Probably the worlds swifest battle
ship is the British Bellerophon, which
recently made 25t4 knots In an official
trial.
The total pig iron production of the
United States last year was 15,936,01S
long tons as against 25,7S1 1861 tons in
1907.
Recent additions to the French
army's field equipment were several
automobile refrigerators for the trans
portation of fresh meat.
Up to a certain point exposure to
radium rays stimulates the germina-
tion of seeds, but if that point be pass
ed the growth is stopped.
Ivory which has become yellow may
be bleached by dipping 1t in soapy
water several times and exposing it to
sunlight after each dipping
A new instrument for use when
stropping razors includes a guide
which prevents the blade slipping ant
injuring itself or the strop,
A match box containing a cigar cut
ter, which clips off the end Of a ciga,
when the box is closed, is the recent
invention of a New York man.
The clock of the tower of Column
bia University, New York, is said {,
be one of the most accurate in TIT
world, varying but six seconds a year
Prof. c. Davidson points out that tn,
great Messiua earthquake had tire,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

centers Of maximum disturbance, the
sina. and the other two near Palma
and Monteleone in Italy. On other oc-
casions some OF these centers have
been successfully active, but this time
they were simultaneously In action.
This appears to indicate some deep
seated connection between them. The
total area disturbed by the Messina
earthquake was about 10000 square
miles. In the San Francisco earth
quake the disturbed area covered more
than 100000 square miles.
Commenting on the recent announce
ment of the discovery OF new rival
of radium," called radio-thor and to
which wonderful properties are said to
have been ascribed by its discoverer,
DR.. Bailey. of Chicago. Frederick Sod
dy remarks that the description of this
substance bears an obvious resem-
blance to radio-thorium. which has
been we'll known for some time The
cheapness of the new substance Is ex-
DtOljEus
tanned from the thorium salts which
are manufactured by the ton In the
Welsbach mantle industry. and PROBES
sorRutherford long ago suggested that
1t might servo as a cheap and effect
i've substitute for radium for many
purposes. Thorium produces meso
thorlum, and from meso-thorium come:
forth radio-thorium. Its activity Is mo-
permanent. like that of radium, but Il
would last for many years, and TO
most purposes would be as valuabl,
as radium.
Just as the British Association 70
| the Advancement of Science has &C
/ cepted invitations to hold sessions II
Canada and South Africa, so the Amer
lean association bearing a similarnam
is now seriously considering the ad
visibility of accepting the invitation
of Hawaii to meet in 1910 in thos
islands. At its recent Baltimore meet
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

Here's another new food discover
An OmG "a organization of young me-
is demonstrating the possibilities of q
falfa as an article of diet for human be-
ings.
The alfalfa is carefully selected an.
the bright and tender leaves and a sm23
portion of the upper parts of the staiN.
are ground together. The grist is run
through a boiling machine that turns
out a meal like flour and having nc.
brown color. The meal is then bleached
This having been done, it is ready to e
to the culinary department of the Oma Na
club. where it is cooked into a lar@.
number of palatable dishes.
1t is asserted that on meal of alta
mullins man can do as much work
if he had eaten a beefsteak. Cakes '
all kinds may be made of alfalfa tiodr
and it is excellent also for bread. In.l5
Of this. victims of Patterns wheat cor
ner-and try the new recipe for hra.
to see if you like it, before Patten GEL
a corner on alfalfa!
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

Professor and Mrs. Hadley were on
a train bound for New York, where
Yale's president was to speak before
a national convention. He made use
Of the hour and twenty minutes he
spent In the train by rehearsing his
speech in low voice, using his hands
to emphasize certain passages.
A kindly matron who was sitting
directly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hadley
and who had been watching and listen
ing, leaned forward. and. tapping Mrs
Hadley on the shoulder, said feelinglv
You have my sincere sympathy. my
poor woman; have one just like him
at home. Success Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
THE SOUTHERN sTEvEDoRF
He is Happy, Musical, Sober and Eve,
Industrious


VI there is any mortal more contentol
with his lot than the stevedore of tE'
south he must have been born in a Lai
of roses with a pair of rose colorai
glasses; but the steved0re was not mr.
in a bed of roses. nor would he cara -,
be. lie prefers the sweety-sour smaI.
of the docks, the rumble of the barr,
trucks and the whistles of the big Whit
packets. Unlike many of his bile brotI
ers who loaf around the Waterfront bs
likes to labor, and the harder he Iahnrs
the happier are his songs and the lnudar
his jests.
From far down in the hold of som.
big vessel comes Il medley of old Di,i-
ballads:
Or Missus manly VIII de weabeh,
Willum was a gay deceibeh;
When he put his aims aroun' her
He looked as fierce es a forty pouuGeh
Look away Look away,
Look away down souf in Dixie,
When All was young All used to wait
On Mastah : table, han de plate.
Pass de bottle when twas dry
En- brush away to blue tail n.y.
Jim crack cohH, All doan keen
OF Mistahs gon' away!
Eft rained so hahd de udder night
De weddeh ct was dry;
De sun so hot All froze to def
Susapnah. doan' 70 cry.
oh, Susannah, etc.
When the noon hour strikes you NAV
see the perSpiring, dust begrimed steve
dOres emerging from the docks and holds
and making for the tiny little eating
stands that are scattered about the wa
ter front. These little stands and shan
ties are conducted by the typical Old
southern nanny cooks with fiaring tur-
bans and gayly figured calicoes 1t is
here the SteyedOres can feast on such
favorite dishes as jowl and green's, pigs
feet and pigs face, yellow corn ponps
and tOothsome pies. Other steyedores
bring their lunches in tin pails--lunches
that some industrious Lucy or Melinda
prepared before dawn.
When lunch is over the stevedorr
lights his pipe or rolls over on some con
vmient cotton bale for short siesta.
hut soon he is back at his labors and
he rumble of the truck, the creak of
The cranes and the songs of the workers
toat over the waterfront. Here by the
tlrpentine dock is a big coasting schoon-
err discharging her cargo. while across
the slip a long line of dusky men are
passing huge lunches of green bananas
from the hold of a West Indian fruiter.
Down among the sidewheeled river pack
cts is a never ending procession of bar
| rel laden trucks and creaking wheelbar-
rows. So labors the stevedore.
When the evening fogs settle over the
waters and the west begins to redden.
the stevedore climbs out of dust and
CRIME and makes his way hOmeward He
may stop in the little greasy grogshop
on the rivers rim to get drink of
cheap gin, but he does not loiter long.
Compared with the Shiftless roustabout
who spends his time playing craps
around the docks the hard working
stevedore is the ant beside the drone-
New York Sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

Ing the association reafirmed the reso-
luton adopted at Chicago In 1907 to
the effect that it Is desirable to go to
Hawaii. Keen delight" is said to
be expressed in Hawaii over the pros.
pect that the invitation will be accept
ed. and the wonderful attractions OF
the islands for scientific visitors are
set forth-their great volcanoes, their
tropical vegetation, their wealth of
animal and vegetable life, their eth
biological offerings. The association is
sounding its members on the subject,
with the prospect that there will be a
strong sentiment in favor of the pro-
tect
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

town its hill q central meeting
" place where
Of defense ofnse
- ucts of their labor for such things could
FI offer Them lacking
Sl mixtures the gigantic
which to to
center a the early roads would naturally lead to When the people
meeting place stayed there any
time the fear
ditch the raising wall which in later made for
circng bouevards primitive
found the the nucleus of the modern city
AS
population also increased both number and writes B. Chamber
picturesque
the principle that beauty city dependent not adon
men The underlying principle structural cities utility
though the uaansm highest cleanliness
and various other things sadly needed in the older and must admitted
in of the cities
what harmony and beauty resulted from plan and design the
beautiful why could applied the designing
the possibility Improvement
The aroused interest designs
ways in the different cities Chicago connection be
the North
may ideal plan
has been
contributing generously
of plan
Chicago
a capitol adequate and
pleasing
committee consider
and views of other city buildings
lem and recommended three 100000
cey Architects financially supported organizations
Independently of the brought
certain in the city plan could be filled
philosophical appointed
city plan This committee outlined be
plan covered involving the expenditure millions dollars
In
Aldermen appointed city
though had the Burnham in its possession the
quake has yielded to the xgencs the present and done little toward
realizing that architects dream of beauty
embodiment
forth Even Rome with Nero to command rebuilt in day