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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

The editor of the Review of Reviews
finds several incidents in this falls pol
itical situation on which to comment
with III CT in "rhe Progress of the
World for October; the part play, by
the liquor question in the New York
campaign is very clearly Described
The present difficulties of the L. 5.
Treasury and the bearings thereof on
national politics are discussed. The
opening of the A lanta Exposition and
the recent patriotic gatherings at Louis
Vile and Chickamauga, are among the
topics included in the months survey.
The Madagascar campaign, the massacre
of missionaries in China, the Armenian
question and progress In South Africa
under Cecil Rhodes are matters of inter-
national interest which also pass under
editorial review.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
CORRESPONDENCE
Concord.

1t is quite sickly in town.
Miss Lena Robinson is very sick, she
was teaching in town.
Mrs, Lizzie Thompson. has been on the
sick listIfor a. week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludlow Boise of Lewis
ton has been.in town visiting relatives.
Mr.. aud Mrs. O. o. V.ttum of Scion
were in town Sunday.
Coney Robinson of Pleasant Ridge.
moved onto his fathers old FARM in this
town last week.
\ crew of six went up river fishing
last week; they report poor luck.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
Spading HarroWs.

Have you seen the New
Spading Harrow If not take
a little time when in town and
look it over. You will find
it at the Fletcher Store, where
you will also find anything
you want in the Agrie ultural
Implement line. Flows a
Specially. If you want any
kind of Plow give us call
as we can save you money on
price. We are paying Cash
and the Highest Market Price
for Hides, Calf and Wool
Skins. Satf
BARTLETT & CAIRNS.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALyE.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands.
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or nc
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded
Price 20 cents per box. For sale by r.
L. Patten.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
Browns Corner.

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Spaulding Of Alton,
have been visiting relatives in town the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nye of ,Skowhegan,
and Misses l. hnle and Annie Nye former
ly of this town were calling on their
friends in this place Sunday.
Saturday afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. C. f.
Burrill enjoyed pleasant drive to Burn
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Among the curiosities found in the
Aroostook potato crop are potatoes
growing on vines above ground. The
vines are about eighteen inches long on
which are several fair sized potatoes,
hanging in clusters, about five inches
apart They were grown by Geo. +.
Cutler of Island Falls.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Nail biting, according to a French
doctor, is hereditary. Almost one-third
of the French school children bite then
nails, and the girls are worse than the
bows
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Harry Miner went to the Syracuse
convention aud REGISTERED I'll. c. Miner
and valet" The next delegate to take his
pen in hand WIS an lrishmau, who regis
tered michael Murphy aud valise. !"
That WAS very Pat.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
ALSO READ THIS

Mechanicsvlle, ST. Mary County, Md
sold bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm
to man who had been suffering witt
rheumatism for several years. 1t made
him II we'll man. A, J. MCGILL. Fol
sale at 80 cents per bottle by Bixby &
Buck Druggists.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Artist painted this picture sir, to
keep the wolf from the door.
Dealer CATER inspecting it)-Well,
hang il ON the knob where the wolf can
see Pick Me Up.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
All Recommend It,

Ask your physician. your druggist and
your friends about Shiloh's Cure fol-
Consumption. They will recommend it
Geo. +. Sampson, Corner Druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

"Where was Magma Chata signed O.
asked a teacher in south of London
boarding school. please. sir, at the
bottom"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
If Troubled with Rheumatism Read Tn


Annapolis, Md, Apr. l6, lS94-I have
used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheu-
matism and found it to be all that is
claimed for it. | believe it to be the
best preparation for rheumatism and
deep seated muscular pains ON the mark
ct and cheerfully recommend it to the
public. JNO G. BROOKS, dealer in boots,
shoes, etc, No. Is Main ST.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke
Your Life AWAY

Ia the truthful, startling title of "A book about
NoTo- BAG, the harmless, guaranteed tobacco
eliminates the nicotine poison, makes weak
men gain strength. ygor and manhood You
run no physical or financial risk as No To
BAG is sold by Roland T. Patten under a
guarantee to cure or money refunded. Book
free. Address Sterling Remedy Co.. New York
for Chicago. For sale by r. 7. Patten. 1y2i
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Beecham's pills for consti-
patton 100 and 25e. Get the
book at your druggists and
go by it.
Annual sales more than 6.ooO.oOo boxes
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Virtue is rich stone, best plain set
Bacon.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-10

Skowhegan, Oct /, 1895.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
IF SILVER WAS REMoNETIzED.

We are obliged to assume that the
Penny Press, the sole organ of sill
yer monometallism in the Twin
Cities, is candid in its argument for
it's hobby, although the admission
discredits it's intelligence. For in
stance, it says editorially:
Suppose silver were remonetiZed,
placed on an equivalent with gold,
thereby compelling every creditor to
accept payment in silver, if the debtor
chose to make it in that metal? If sill
yer were remonetiZed-if bimetallism,
instead OF monometallism, were the
rule-then the money which the cred
itor would be compelled to receive
would be just as good as any other
money, and with it the creditor would
buy just as much land just as much
timber, build just as many houses and
procure just as much in a commercial
way as he could procure with gold. If
this be true, then how does the debtor
''pay his debts at so cents on the dol
lar or with an ''unsound money" or
how is the creditor injured?
The suppositions are insupposable.
Law cannot make values. If it
could we could all be legislated into
wealth. Silver ''remonetized" would
not be ''the equivalent of gold" be-
cause no one having gold would eX-
change it dollar for dollar for silver.
Again, if it were ''remonetized," we
would not have bimetalEsm, but sill
yer monometallism, for the simple
reason that the dearer money would
be held back and the cheaper money
paid out. Prices would remain the
same in gold and would increase,
if paid in silver, to whatever was the
difference between the value of gold
and silver
If the Penny Press will recall how
it worked during and following the
war until resumption it will under
stand how it would work now.
Greenbacks were the standard then.
We had monopaperism. Silver, for
precisely the same causes and in
obedience to the same imnautable
law, would be the standard if ere
monetized," and we would have sill
yer monometallism The vital de-
feet with all these suppositions is
that they hinge ON that eff this be
true" and it isn't.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
DEBTOR AND CREDITOR CLASSES

DEBTOR AND CREDITOR CLASSES
We are hearing a great deal Of
nonsense nowadays about debtor
and creditor classes, and even a
man with so horizontal a head as
has Col Morrison says on AN issue
between silver and gold monome-
tallism 1.-The debtor classes would be
in favor of the 16 to l side" This
talk assumes that there are. two dis
tinct classes in the country, one of
which is in debt to the other.
The only strictly debtor class that
now occurs to us are the tramps.
No one owes them anything, even
the world does not owe them a 1iy-t
ing, and they are perennially in debt
to charity for that. Men of business
to whom men owe debts are them
selves debtors to others. Every
bank note, every greenback that cir
culates, is a debt, and every man
who holds one is creditor of the
issuer, vitality interested in the SOL
vency of that note and its maker.
The bankers, those much berated
nlortals, are the debtors of their de-
poSitorS to the amount of some four
thousand million dollars, while they
are the creditors of the men who, in
turn, have borrowed it.
But there is very much larger
class of creditors in this country.
1t embraces every man and woman
and child who works for wages.
From Monday morning until Satur-
Gay night, or from the first to the
last days of the month, they are the
creditors of their employers. How
much they are creditors is shown by
the census tables OF wages paid in
the manufacturing industries. They
amount to over $500, 900 annually.
Add the wages of those engaged in
trade, transportation and domestic
service and the amount is doubled.
And any one Of these is the cred
itor of his or her employer from one
payday to another. We can un-
derstand how the employers of this
army of workers might like to have
some cheap money with which to
pay wages, but we confess that it is
utterly beyond our comprehension
why this horde of workers should
want to be paid in cheap money.
And we don't believe they do. in
spite of the assertion of Debs that
they do.
Even the man who is in debt is a
creditor. The farmer, with a mort
gage on his farm or cha.ttels, is a
creditor from the day he starts his
seeder until he markets the produce
Of his fields. He is a creditor from
the time he begins to put up his
steers and pigs for fattening until
he has sold them. No man in the
country is any more deeply con-
cerned in the continuing solvency of
the money into which he is to change
his grain and stock than is this same
farmer. If there is any better
money, any dear money, any money
that will buy more than another
kind of money will, this hard-work-
ing son Of toll is the one who should
be most insistent on having it. And
some experience in farm life and
work warrants confidence that this
is just the kind of money the ma
jority of farmers do want. But
isn't it about time to drop this can't
of the demagogue about debtor and
creditor classes? 1T won't hold wa
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
THE SAME OLD STORY

Nobody blames the incumbents of
the county offices of Ramsey county
If they object to the reduction in
their salaries. Human nature is
built that way. Twelve to fifteen
Thousand dollars a year is a very
comfortable thing to have in the
house these hard times, and the
visitor who comes proposing to cut it
IN two is certain of an inhospitable
reception.
But it takes two to make a bar
gain, and salaries of officers, like
those OF people employed in private
industries, are made by this rule of
two. When the business Of the boss
Fails away, when collections slacken.
when prices of his products fall. he
has either to take in sail or go on
the rocks. SO he and his employees
agree ON a reduction of wage, or
II they can't agree, the EMPLOYEES
take walk
We know of no divinity that
makes a public officer different from
private employe. He is made of
the same clay. He is hired to do
his work by majority of the peo-
pie he works for, and they pay him
the compensation the times will af-
ford and both agree on. If the
times get hard and expenses have
to be cut down we cannot see why
the public servant Should be ex-
enlpt while the private one is made
to work for less. Nor do we see
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
LODGE POWER SOMEWHERE.

The senate bill confers on the
councils of cities the power to regu-
late the quality and price of gas.
1t was referred to the judiciary COM
mittee after reaching the calendar,
for examination, retaining it's place
on the calendar. When reported
back the power to regulate the price
was stricken out. The president of
the senate sustained the point of Or
der that unanimous consent was
necessary to the amendment of a bill
on the calendar, and this rather
singular action was nullified.
With such am amendment the
cities would be in the dilemma of
having created by grant of fran
chise. a creature they could not con-
ltrol in its most important feature.
1T would leave the users of gas to
the mercy of the gas companies.
They might, if moved by rapacity,
make what price they would, or, if
conducted ON good, broad, far-seeing
business principles, they would sup
ply gas ait a price that would cause
no complaint. But the power to
regulate is a provision against ra-
pacity only and should exist some
where. If the state refuses to ex.
ereise it's power in the case it GER
ttahnly should not refuse the power
to the cities.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

why the public servant should ask
that his salary be reduced only at
the end of his term of employment
any more than the private servant
should. make the same demand II
expenses need to be reduced they
need it at once, and not in the
future.
So, while we have approved Of
the proposition to put the salaries
of the officers of the county on a
basis comporting with the times, we
want to put in a protest against
having the reduction take effect
twenty months from now. We put
ut on two grounds. First, if it is
right it is right now. Second, if 1T
isn't done now it won't be done at
all. We have had one experience
and THAT is enough. It will be again
the same old story and the same old
game.
In 1891 the salaries were reduced
I'm spite of the logrolling, the whin-
ing and begging Of the incumbents.
With weak good nature the legisla-
ture, or the Ramsey county delega-
tfon, deferred the operation Of the
act until the end of the terms of
the officers in 1894. When the ses-
sion of 1893 came the incumbents
worked through secretly and sur
reptifiously a bill repeating the act
of 1891. No one knew that the bill
was pending. Not lisp of it
caught the public ear. The report
ers of the daily papers doing the
legislature were singularly remiss in
reporting the bill, and it was not
until it was pc ssfd and waiting the
governors signature that its exist
ence was known, and then not gen.
orally.
1t will be the same old game
played again in the same old way
if the present reducing act is post
poned until '97. The same kind of
men are interested and will sit in
to play it. 1t will be farce as the
other one was, and it would be more
creditable to kill the bill now than
to leave it in shape to be quietly
strangled two years hence. So, gen.
tlemen of the delegation, make the
bill accord with what you know is
the wish Of your constituents with
hardly an exception, and cut the
salaries off right now.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
Not n Word About Silver.

washington Post
The extremes of politics in the United
States were represented on either side
of a chafing dish stew at Chanberlin's
last night. The two representatives
were those lights of journalism. Col.
Henry Watterson, of Louisville, and
Murat Halstead, of Brooklyn. 81 will
submit to an interview on one condi-
tion," said Col. Watterson to the re-
porter for The Post "The condition is
that you let me tell short story first.
from which you can draw your own
inference. All of Cripple Creek, Col,
was assembled at the burial ground
in that city one day recently, for one of
the leading citizens had recently died
and as he was a leading silver man his
demise was sincerely mourned. The
good preacher felt it involved on him
to make long and impressive service
He talked for an even hour and a half
before the final amen. Just as this
word left his mouth the corpse rose out
OF the coffin, pulled savagely at his
hair. and said: All that talk and not
one word about silver
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
SPRING FISH STORIES.
Report That the World Is to Re-
come n Silver Organ.

WASHINGTON, April II. = At the
headquarters of the new silver party
in this city the opinion is expressed
that the work of education and con-
version has so far progressed in the
East as to obviate the necessity of
purchasing or establishing an organ
in New York City. 1t is pointed out
that the Mercury, which here is all
legged to have been selected by the
silvrites as a silver representative, is
alrady practically free coinage adyo-
cate. The additional assertion is made
that the World is rapidly developing
a strong silver sentiment, and the pos
tive prediction is made that within
Tour weeks 1t will come out flat-footed
for bimetallism as advocated by Sena
tors Stewart and Jones, ex-Representa
tive Sibley, Gen. Warner and others.
The point is made that Joseph Pulitzer
has virtually decided to espouse the
silver cause, and If he possess the con-
trolling power, it will accordingIy
change the policy of his paper, The
silver party representatives here say
that no necessity now exists for an or
gan in Chicago or any other Western
city. So many papers have fallen into
line that the cause Is fully protected
without the establishment of distine-
tive organ.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
johnson Kicked Out.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April IT,
John S. Johnson, the bieyclist, was
suspended from the League of Amer
lean Wheelmen today, by order of
Chairman Gideon, who refused to
state what the charges were. john
son will be given thirty days in which
to answer the charges.It is generally
understood that the charge upon
which the well-known rider has been
dropped lis professionalism. Thomas
Ech, Johnson's trainer, is also in
cluded in the suspension. He declared
that they could clear themselves of
the charges, and that they would 20
ahead With their training.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

Congressman HeatwoIe is evi.
IDENTIFY praeticing on his maiden
speech in the FIfty-fourth congress.
Some parts of it strike MIN as being
so fine that he can't resist putting
them in print in mis- paper, just to
give the Third district a taste of
what is in store for them when he
taps his rhetorical tank in the hall
OF representatives Here is a speci-
men brick, and, reluctantly, grudg-
ngiy, We ARE obliged to confess
that it is real pretty:
Ihe Republican party stands for
every governmental policy that ap-
peals to patriotism. 1t rests it's case
not on what 1t has done in the past,
glorious though the past has been, but
on what it proposes to accomplish for
the American people in the future.
1t believes in the dignity of honest
labor. 1t holds that every American
Workingman should be paid wages
high enough to live in comfort, to edu-
cate his children and to preserve his
personal independence. Tt would
make the laborer not serf but a.
sovereign. The Republican party be-
lieVes in the greatness and grandeur
of the United States.-Northfield Nev
Neither Bird-o'-Freedum Sawin
nor Col Elijah Pogram could excel
that.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
TO MAKE A FULL BENCH.
Judge jackson Will Take Part in
Income Tax Rebenrinr

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April lin an
interview to be published in the Amer
lean tomorrow, Associate Justice How
ell f. Jackson, of the United States
supreme court, says: 81 wrote few
days since to the chief justice simply
expressing my willingness to go to
Washington and make a full bench in
case the court should desire a rehear-
ing Of the income tax case at this term
of the court. L have heard nothing
since then. The court usually adjourns
between the 18th and Goth of May, and
If rehearing is ordered. say early in
May, L shall go and make full
BENCH
Judge jackson is improving and
growing stronger daily and expects to
go to Washington when the court
meets in October.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

Vest said today: ''The talk about NOM
mating Southern Democrat for presi-
dent in 1896 is absurd. We must lose
or win on free coinage, a revenue tariff
and the income tax, and it would be
suicidal to invite war prejudice and
sectional feeling unnecessarily. The
struggle will be in the Northwest in
stead of in the Northeast"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

Col. William R. Morrison is disap-
pointed in the presidents letter. He
would have it more explicit. He
wants definition of what the presi-
dent means by safe currency" Mr..
Morrison must have been out of the
country since last December. In a
message or two the president made
1t quite clear what he regards as a
safe currency.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
Purse for Bur~e and smith

BOSTON, Mass, April 1.-THE Ma
tional Sporting club, of London, has
sent word to Billy Smith that it will
give purse for him to meet Dick
Burge in June, providing he will wager
$500 on the side. James Westcott,
Smiths hacker, Immediately cabled
that he would accept the offer and
would make a side wager of anywhere
from f5O0 to Fl 200 side
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
Smith and Ryan Matched.

/ CHICAGO, April H. Parson Da-
vies has signed and forwarded to
Billy. Smiths manager an agreement
calling for twenty-five (or more)
round contest between Smith and
Tommy Ryan, to take place on May
27, before either the Seaside or the
Atlantic club, of Coney Island. The
mem are to weigh 142 pounds at 8
o'clock on the afternoon of the con-
test
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

If the farmers about Mabel don't
know any more than the chump
whom Providence, as Greeley said of
others of this kind, for some inscru-
Enterprise there, they don't know
enough to mix swill. This ignoram-
US tells them that the reduction in
the duty on barley made the price
last year mot much more than half
what it was formerly
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
EUROPE BEGINS TO PROTEST..
Newspapers Voice the Sentiment
Against Jupan's Terms.

LONDON, April ia dispatch to
the Daily News from Berlin says the
National Zeitung declares that all
nations interested in commerce
in China must lose no time in pro-
tecting their interests against a treaty
which will completely paralyze
European competition as against
Japan. All the papers agree that in
regard to territorial concessions, Rus1
sia has the first voice. e
Editorially, the Times says it pre-
sumes that the independence of Corea
really means a more or less thorough
Japanese protectorate. 1t adds that
when the exact terms of the treaty
are known European diplomacy will
probably make d show of considering
them, but if the Japanese -efuse, as
they probably will, to listen to dipIo-
matte exhortations, it is difficult to
conceive that any more effective in
terference with their plans need ba
seriously apprehended.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

There are distinct signs of light
in Illinois. The whole Democratic
ticket was elected at Streator, which
last rail- went $50 Republican. At
rockford, by the largest vote ever
polled' the a. P. A. ticket, headed
by Republican for mayor, was
showed under.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
.Rncko Hinnichsen saus tha :

''Buck" Hinrichsen says that the
presidents letter ''feM fiat on the
Democrats of Illinois" Some day
the sharp realization that Mr.. Hin
richseu has made an egregious ass
of himself in trying to wag the
Democracy with his silver tail will
fall fiat ON nm, and he will think
a heap less of his own cuteness than
he does now.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

The English make fun of American
Jockeys bectuse they ride on the
horses necks. There is no chance
for sustained merriment in this.
line art of getting horses nose un-
der the wire first is more important
than the point on the horses an
atomy the jockey sits.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18
AK Somebody Older.


Boston Herald.
Senator Cushman K. Davis. of Min
nesota, agrees with Gov. Levi P. Nor
ton that a statesman of seventy-five
years is not to old to aspire to the
presidency. IF you want to know
when darkies cease to love-" said Aunt
Chloe, you must ak somebody older
than I is
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-04-18

Having committed everything else
to the judgment of the railroad and
warehouse commission, why does
not the legislature constitute that
commission a court before which di-
vorce cases and libel suits can be
tried?