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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08

The Main" Temperance Record quotes
the RElpErlA; a, ia favor Of III" " drug
gist bill. We are in fayor Of a law pro-
vding Tor he dispensing a liquor. for
medicinal purposes by apothecaries. REG
istcred under lie iaW> Of Maine. instead
of the present method ol -;llc- Tor This
purpose ma'b by town and city
agents. which method. ,eNe.-.ight- Of
the people Of Main regard n lailun.
We have not given thr "details ri this
plan much Thought. Iha matter j. mot
free fromsdiilirule- hW - brlia>e llrv
can be- overcome. The bill IL carls this
plan into effect Woah hay Ia lr drawn
with greH care and alI po,-jhia .alc-
guards throws around this method a,
well a. ANY otl"f. good IA w.. Emli
lar with thu praIi3itor iWor Inv ct
Maine, Who l1- aag Experiences in ell
forcing His law. could render N3ia1bI.
assistance in framing the Till. and il
should be drawn in The interest al pro
lihition and moi hf f. eiremuNe0tiou.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08
Freight Shipments

BY the 'lhirty-iirsi Annual rrpolt af
the Maine Central Railroad Company fpr
the year ending sept 30, lsa2. we find
There has been a falling on in passengers
from ~lloWhrgnn and in the passenger
earnings here "a, compared with the pre-
NiouS wear. AMI also in tons Of freight
received. hut there WIS an increase in
freight shipped from here and in earning
on the >ame hat more than offset tie
loss on passengers. 'l'hc passengers ior
the year from this station numbered Is
the previous year The freight received
here for the year amounted to l3.s13
tons. falling OF Al 1850 tons. The
freight forwarded amounted to ls.lg3
taHs, an increase of 2,592 TONS over the
previous year and oi i,f3G ton- over ls9O
The town OF pitt>iirld show, an in
GREASE of freight forwarded OF | ,lGG tons
over ls9l and 1912 tons over l>g0. The
town OF Fairfield shows a cain of ls32
ton, of freight Forwarded oyer 1~9l and
,. Ill tons over lS9a.
THUS the three largest shipping point
on the Maine Central >y,tcm in Souler-
,et SHOW increase il freight FORWARDED
which i, TIN hc>l indications, they ean
ha1c of prosperity hNmul, Pr-hon',
Ferry and Detroit, die o,h.f A1ue { III
,.,,j .,,,fa,4 II, N..t...., -, =,
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08

Douglas ,Terrold wrote Black Eyed
Susan when he was twentv-onc. ana
contributed to Punch the immensely
popular "Caudle Lecture" not long aft
erward. But AT nine years of age your1
Jerrold had been scarcely able 10 rra&.
and il was not until he WAS appreniicrG
TO printer. after serving for some tina
as midshipman at sea that he showed
either desire OF capacity for intellectual
improyemcnt.--Lo London Standard.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08

The kenuoiee Reporter and Home
journal Of Gardiner arc IA pool their
issues, JanuTy Ii and i.-ue "a Duly pa
per, ! pase aud. weekly page paper
\ stock company has heeu formed
to run the combination ami f. W Mri-
rill of the liome journal i-tp be editor
and ". /. Landes Of tine Reporter. is To
be the cuisines manager rhev Will
make a fousing Jem aud cannot fail to
make thu Reporter journal GOOD
paper. success L. III rrnlerpri-e.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08

An Indictment has been formed against
Miss Lizzie Borden of Fall River Mas,
for the murder of both her father and
step-Inother.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08

The second and last session oi the
Fiftv-sccond Congress met at Washing
ton Monday.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-08

Per order committee.
NJ Is. lir~IlInN. Secretary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16

raging at Liverpool, Southampton and
London, and had actually engaged trans
portation to the United States"
While experience teaches US to make q
liberal grain of allowance for the diner-
ence between profession and performance
of municipal authorities, especially In
New Fork, the course referred to Is ex-
actly the right one to take. 1t Is not
necessary on account of cholera alone
The presence of that plague In Eastern
Europe gives cogency to the gospel OF
cleanliness and health; but there are just
as good reasons for keeping cities pure in
the diminuton. of indigenous diseases
as In the fear of an exotic importation.
The thorough sanitation reported in New
York should be adopted by every city in
the country. If all our cities are put in a
state of complete cleanliness, not only
will the cholera find no breeding ground
if it should ever reach our shores, but
other diseases will be checked. Typhoid
fever, scarlatina. diphtheria and score OF
other plaques are susceptible Of having
a check put on them by this means, which
is well worth the effort.
Every city should establish thorough
sanitary system. Even if the cholera
never reaches our coast line the work will
be the most remunerative that can be done
for the public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
THE PARTY TAPE LINE.

The short-lived rumor that Judge
Gresham was about to take the stump for
the Peoples Party gave one or two Re-
publican journals of the peculiarly organic
stamp a chance to make a record for
themselves. This was done by assertions
that Judge Gresham was controlled by
'inordinate ambition" and disappointed
greed of power" The fact that these strong
qualities were dependent on his support Of
the Third Party stuck out between the
lines of some newspaper comments; but
the Milwaukee Sentinel placed the matter
beyond doubt by frankly saying: "This
is supposing that he makes this speech as
reported"
This peculiar attribution of moral quail
ties, conditionally on circumstances, is
phenomenal. If Judge Gresham holds
one class of views he is swayed by am
bition, vanity and greed; if he sticks to the
party of the organs he is all right. The
partisan measure of public acts has been
worked very vigorously in times past, but
the organ of the present was the first to
conceive the test of making the purely
personal qualities of a man depend on
his party ties.
Judge Gresham did not make fool of
himself, but that did not prevent some of
the organs from doing so.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
DISCUSSING THE CANAL TOLLS,
How the Newspapers OF Canada Regard
Their Governments Action.

How the Newspapers OF Canada Regard
Their Governments Action.
TORONTO. ONT, Aug. 15-The Mdn says
ga proposition is to be made to the United
States Government to the effect that the
rebate on grain shall cease with the present
shipping season, the reason put forward for
this delay being the reluctance of the
Government to interfer with or disarrange
the contracts already entered into
by vessel owners. This is a rather
weak settlement of the bu siness. The pro-
posal is neither dignif cd nor statesmanlike.
Either the Governments are right with re-
gard to the rebate or they are wrong. If the
present arrangements with regard to canal
tolls and rebate are tenable, they certainly
ought not to be relinquished on account of
the threats of q foreign power. IT, on
the other hand, they cannot be valid,
doned at once. If vessel owners, who
have made contracts for the season,
are liable to lose through the Govern
ment revising its fiscal arrangements
It is plain the arrangements previous
to the revision was faulty. 1t is
imburse them and not to seek their reim-
bursement at the hands Of neighboring
state"
The Montreal Herald (Liberal) says edi-
torially on the Governments decision in re-
gard to the canal tolls: 'If the authorities
is no reaeon why any Canadian should OBJ
ject. 1t is cheap solution of an interna-
tional difficulty Of much gravity. The Gov
ernment has done wise in holding out an
olive branch to Washington. II the WASH
ington Government is in a generous mood it
Canadian Governments desire to have
peace.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
FLAMMARION AND MARS.

Elsewhere will be found a comm unica
ton from NJ Camille Flammarion on the
state of affairs in Mars, and also a short
description of what is visible to Prof.
Eeeler at our own observatory over in
Allegheny. Monsieur Flammarion is an
astronomer remarkable for bis visionary
and speculative inclinations. He knows
as much as most scientific stargazers, and a
good deal more than many But he
scandalizes number of his fellows by his
readiness to theorize in a way which
makes the chief charm of his writing to the
general public. He does not always assume
more than other astronomers, but he gen.
orally INDUCES more in may-bes than is
the way with most dry-as-dust scientists.
Every fresh observation adds a little
ore to mans knowledge. of his red
neighbor. Science progresses, and in as
tronomy no less than its other branches.
But the progress is slow and steady.
Views and theories as advanced by Flam-
marion and other spectators are enter
tanning and instructive, but they must
confessedly wait for the light of the future
to confirm them as facts or dissipate them
as mirages. Professor Keeler's devotion
to astral studies is rewarded by an i'm
provement in his instrument And his
careful drawing of Mars will prove by no
means the least valuable among the null
tftudinous contributions to the research
On that planet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
GRESHAM NOT 4 CRANK.

JUDGE GRESHAM is having another seance
with the Peoples party. Chicago Globe.
JUDGE GRESHAM probably appreciates the
fact that the bench isn't u place for stump
speech.-Bostop Herald
GRESHAM will begin to make speeches for
Weaver at about the same time that Blaine
begins to make speeches for Cleveland
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
As WAS to be expected, there is no truth
in the report that Judge Gresham had
promised to make speeches for the Third
party ticket. The Judge has not yet lost his
wits.-Bahimore Herald.
THE report that udge Gresham is to stump
Indiana for the Third party is. of course,
unfounded Judge Gresham has to high
respect for the office he holds to drag his
errnine into politics-Atlan,a Journal.
JUDGE GRESHAM is still politically sane. He
denies the ridiculous story that he would
take the stump for the Peoples party. The
hard pressed promoters of political lunacy
will have to try some other sensation
Cleveland Leader.
JUDGE GRESHAM might favor free silver, for
other able men have favored and do still
favor unlimited coinage, but that he should
support some of the crank ideas Of the Peo-
ple's party, including the sub-Treasury
scheme, is Philadelphia Call
The report that Judge Gresham is to take
the stump for the Peoples party is undoubt-
edly without foundation. A Circuit Court
Judge on the stump would be something
new in our politics. But for a Judge to ad-
vocate the free coinage Of silver, the sub
Treasury Alliance scheme and other such
isms would be extraordinary.-P Philadelphia
Press
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
AN ABsURDIrY SOMEWHERE.

Commenting on the fact that a battle
ship has been constructed at the Worlds
Fair out of stone and cement to look just
like the real article, the Buffalo Enquirer
finds something anomalous in the fact
that the United States cannot exhibit a
real battleship at the Exposition. 1t as
serts that it is on account of the "moss-
grown treaty" that the Exposition draws
on stone quarry for material for man.
of-war, and, further, that it is absurd that
the United States cannot sail its ships
wherever it sees fit in its own waters
This species of comment exhibits a re-
markable failure to take into considera-
ton two points. The first, that if there
were no treaty restrictions in the way the
United States could not exhibit a battle
ship at Chicago The smallest gunboat
in the United States navy could not reach
the lakes without asking a foreign Gov
ernment for the use of its waterway. No
cruiser, much less battleship, could go
there by any route. Naval science has
not yet reached the art of picking up
armored cruisers and carrying them over
the land or of sailing ships drawing 25 sr
80 feet through canals IL feet deep. Es-
teemed cotemporaries should take
natural possibilities into consideration be-
fore talking of absurdities.
The other point is that; while it might
be pleasant to have a real battleship at
Chicago, it is the reverse OF absurd that
the United States and England have set
for Ga years the example of disarmament
on the great lakes. 1t is triumph of
pacific civilization that these two great
Governments have shown the world how
a chain of vast inland seas can be used for
commerce without maintaining expensive
armaments. The treaty of 1878 was one
of the measures of craftsmanship that
should not lightly be abandoned The
United States should provide itself with
ship canal connection with the lakes as
Canada has done. But to attack the
treaty of 1918 is trying to turn the progress
of civilization backward.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
pITTsBuRG TUESDAY. AUGUST ls 1897.
PAGES
ARBITRATION NOT SOVEREIGN.

Concerning the Homestead wage dis
pute the Boston Globe refers to the fact
that Massachusetts, has State Board of
that Pennsylvania, like our own Common
wealth, possessed duly accredited and
Justly honored State board of arbitration.
Suppose that both sides in the Homestead
controversy had laid their cases before
such an impartial tribunal, what an enor-
nous outlay of money, what terrible
loss of life, might have been prevented !"
But while our cotemporary is supposing
why not suppose the whole case. Sup
pose that Pennsylvania had by law pro-
vided for voluntary arbitration and the
parties on both sides did not believe in it.
Suppose that two separate strikes against
the result of an arbitration had proved
that arbitration was not final; and sup
pose that every sensible man saw that
compulsory arbitration could only be
tyrannical in order to be effective.
Arbitration, conciliatlon and conference
are great things for settling labor troubles
when the parties In the dispute are ready
to resort to them. But Pennsylvania has
got further along than Massachusetts, in
learning two points from experience. One
is that arbitration is useless where the
parties will not arbitrate; the other is that
when both sides are willing to settle the
matter by reason they can generally dis
tance the arbitration method by coming to
an agreement among themselves-as was
done last week by the iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated Association.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
COSTA RIcANs cHAGRINED,

They Lay the Blame for the Colonization
Failure on the New York Company.
PoRr LIMoN, Aug. 15.-The Government of
Costa Rica Is much chagrined to hear re-
ports from the United States that colonists
have returned disguised with the opportu-
mites afforded them in Talamanca. Poor
management on the part Of the land COM
pany that recently obtained a 30,000-acre
concession in return for an agreement to
settle, it is alleged, is the reason for the
failure. The Hornellsville Association
started in with the brightest prospects, but
it appears that the management has allowed
itself to be overcome by tho temptation to
look for rs large profits as possible, while
paying as little attention as possible to the
comfort of its subscribers and pioneers.
An investigation will be made at once in
the interests of both the country and the
colonists Congress has just ratified the
reciprocity treaty with the United States.
While duties are removed from various
fresh and dried articles Of food, a high tax
remains upon canned goods. A new colo
mixing force Is expected in the early autumn
from Oklahoma. 1t Is to be composed ex-
clusively of able-bodied and experienced
farmers, accustomed to privations and phys.
ically capable of coping with these and
other difficulties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
NEW KIND OF MONEY.
woodsn Currency Issued by a Slick Yankee
In MaviC~p To-n

Woodsn Currency Issued by Slick Yankee
in Mexican Town.
PUEBLO. Mex, Aug. 16-There Is great
scarcity of copper coin in the town Of San
Jose-a-C Catana, and the merchants and peo-
pie have for several months been suffering
much Inconvenience on that account in
carrying out business transactions.
An snterprising American named Jerome
Walter conceived the unique idea of issuing
wooden money, and few days ago he
stamped the wooden pieces with a seal and
sold them to the merchants at an enormous
discount. The merchants put them in cir
culation ut l oent each and succeeded in
getting enormous Quantities out.
Then they refused to redeem them and
that caused trouble. The State Government
will put an end to the circulation Of wooden
coins. Walker has disappeared with hfs
profits and Is supposed to be In the United
States by this time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
CONGRESSMAN wARw1cK's FUNERAL,
Preparations for thu Last Rites at His
Home in MassilIon.

Preparations for thu Last Rites at His
Home in MassilIon.
MAssILLoN, O., Aug. 15.-[SpectoL IA largo
number of kilograms Of sympathy and con-
dolence were received to-day by the family
Of Congressman Warwick; nearly all Of his
colleagues responding. Among the number
was one from General Adlaf Stevenson, and
among the first received was particularly
touching letter from Governor Mckinley.
The remains and the Congressional Com
mittee will be met at the station at noon to-
morrow by a committee of prominent citi-
zens and escorted to the Episcopal Church,
where the body will lie in state for an hour,
the funeral service being held at Q O'Clock.
A largely attended public meeting Of citi-
zens was held tonight in response to a call
from Mayor Reed and fitting remarks were
made by ex-senator Howells, Hon. R. H. Fol-
ger, Judge o. e. Young, David Atmater and
others and appropriate resolutions adopted.
The City Council, the Young Mems Demo
cratic Club and the Warwick Junior Club
took similar action tonight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
Social Chatter.

MISS AMY FAY, who is a sister-in-law of
Theodore Thomas and a relative OF the Null
Ter family In sewickly was n among the quests guests
day. or course, there was music, and CLASH
cal music at that, or doubtless Miss Fay
would not have favored swell Newport with
a view of herself
Mr. R. M. GuL1cK, of tho Bijou Theater, will
not return from New York until Wednesday
morning, which will give him short vaca-
tion of five days or thereaDouts. of which
one day was his birthday, and pleasantly
celebrated by the members OF his family.
THE town house of the watson family on
Lincoln avenue, Allegheny, has been thrown
open again to receive the family, Mr.. Mark
W. Watson, Mrs. Watson and Miss watson
having returned from Europe on Sunday
evening. They came In on the limited.
Mr.. WALTER LAwMAN, of Ben Venue Place,
met with a serious accident last week in at
tempting to Jump across q stream, which re-
sufting in the breaking of his ankle. He is
now resting at home ana receiving the SYM
pathy OF his numerous young friends.
Mr.. HENRY K1RKz PORTER will sail in few
days for the Mediterranean, to join. Mrs.
Porter and Miss Hegeman In Greece. with
the intention of con tinuing their travels
until December lands them In Pittsburg for
the winter season.
AMONG sojourners at Babylon, L. L, are
Mrs. Albert A. Horne and her daughters,
Miss Maud Palmer and Miss Helen Horne,
who await at that pretty resort the coming
uOul0 Oi MI aOruc IrOIu u Trip aDrOdu
MRS. BALDWIN of Rochester, in swinging
around the circle of her Pittsburg friends,
reached Mrs. Starts house yesterday, and
will be the recipient of that 1ady's social at
tentions for some little while.
Mr. AND MRS. JOHN ROBE, Of the Kenmawr
Hotel, a bride and bridegroom of q years
standing. will take up an establIshment of
their own in the East End, to which Mrs.
Robb is greatly attached.
Miss GERTRUDE CoseRAvE, of Penn avenue,
East End, will join her aunt, Mrs. CharlesW.
Scovel, in the country some time next week,
after short visit at Ligonier.
The manager of the Academy with Mrs.
Walker and the Misses Walker have re-
turned from visit to Denver. Col.
Miss NOLAN. of New York, who is the
guest of Miss Nina Shields, of Sewickley, will
leave for home next week.
Mrs. W. P. HERBERT of Bellevue, has as
her guests at present Mrs. and Miss Hogan,
of Minneapolis, Mich.
Mr.. AND MRS. E. NJ Quincy, Of Forbes
avenue, Oakland, are among the summer so
journers at Newport.
Mrs. e. KIN, OF Larimer avenue, and her
daughter, Mrs. Msnzsr, are visiting at
Berkeley Springs.
Mr.. AND Mrs. VoRHEEs, of Oakland, left
yesterday afternoon for Atlantic City.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
NOT JEKYL, BUT HYDE


A trusted Boston Man b8COndA With All
Left OF Two Estates.
BosroN, Aug. 16.-[SDecfaL1 1.-The more the
affairs or James E. Gilman are probed the
worse they appear. It begins to look as If
his th1eving began long ago-nine years
ago, when he took the Walker estate
in hands. There are no records among
the estates papers to show how
$l50,000 of property has been dis
posed of, whether It was taken
pecemeal or in one grab prior to his absond-
Ing. Those who have investigated say that
instead of thousands only s92 is left
There is good reason to believe that Gil
man took $45, 900 in cash or easily convertible
securities when he went away. The figure
that his liabilities will reach cannot be
told yet with certainty, but as his mothers
property was in his hands his embezzlement
will reach in the neighborhood of $500, ,OOO
When one of his associates was
asked If there was q woman in the
case he promptly secuted the idea,
but one who speaks on authority says there
was a woman and that Mrs. Gilman knows
who she is; further, that the woman lived at
the South End.
Appearances now indicate that this man
in high social and business circles will
prove to have lived a Dr.-Jeykl-and-Mr.-
Hydge existence, and that his name will
stand conspicuous in the list of Boston's
default0rs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-16
THE LIBERTY STREET SIDEWALKS.

The announcement that the Mayor mas
taken the warpath with regard to the OBJ
struction of sidewalks on Liberty street
calls attention to reform which is made
every few years, but will not stay re-
formed. At least twice before the enter
prising commission merchants of that
street have been temporarily convinced
that the majority of their goods should be
kept inside their warehouses. But after
each agitation the irresistible pro-
clivity of the barrels of potatoes and
apples, the crates of poultry and the boxes
of peaches, to stray out to and beyond the
curbstone has reasserted itself.
Liberty street ought to be the finest bust
ness avenue of the city. 1t is the back
bone of the downtown region as Broad
way is of New York, and it resembles
that great thoroughfare in the other re-
spect of being the widest of the business
streets But two causes combine in keep
ing that arterial way below Its real Dig
nifty. One is the occupancy of the roadway
by the Pennsylvania Railroad track; the
other the tendency of the merchants to
blockade the sidewalk. Possibly the latter
think that the example of the railway
track justifies them in making the block
ade complete. Whether from that cause
or from the conventionalities of the trade,
it is the fact that a large number of the
merchants use the sidewalk not alone for
unloading and loading goods, but for the
display and sale of merchandise to such
an extent that the expert pedestrian who
is in haste always takes another street.
We wish the Mayor success in his effort
to clear the obstructed sidewalks. 1t is a
work of public necessity and should be
done this time in such way that the side
walk will stay cleared. When the Mayor
has accomplished that much needed re-
form he might address himself to the
larger task of keeping railway freight
trains off that important avenue during
business hours.