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The Somerset reporter., 1897-09-30
NOTICE.
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(Abstract OF Cert hcate
Somerset ss.-Clerk OF County Ofice.
Skowhe gan, October ~ A. ID. 1895.
september term q. J. Court, sth day OF said
term 1885,
Divorce from the Bonds OF Matrimony was
duly decreed between Flora B. Allen OF Corn
willie In the County OF Somerset and Charles
II. Allen, as will more fully appear by the
Record OF Proceedings, as set forth At large in
this Office, and all persons are required to
govern themselves accordingly. Care and GUS
4tody OF minor children given to libellant.
sw87' (signed) N. W. BRAINERD,
(seaD Clerk.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-09-30

A large meeting was held, Monday, In
Concorde square, Athens, Greece, where
resolution was adopted calling upon
King George and the cabinet to renew
the war with Turkey rather than accept
the terms of peace offered by the peace
conference.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-09-30

Editor Abbott OF The Busy Bee gives
this advice: Keep your comb honey in
a dry, warm place Do not put 1t In
the ice chest or in the cellar There
is not a cellar in the United States that
is SO dry that it wiz not injure che
flavor of comb honey If kept in it. Bet
ter by far pat it III the garrer, as 1t Is
sure to BIZ dIy aud warm there for some
tima - 49,.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-09-30

Have Just received another gross of
our cough remedy-Compound Syrup of
White Pine and Tar. Sampson, the
Corner Druggist.
The Somerset reporter., 1897-09-30

won't underbid some
other concern in or
der to get it, who is
now doing your work
if they are doing it at
a fair and reasonable
price.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
Fighting Cigarettes.
the Cleveland Leader.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Representative Woodman, OF Illinois,
has introduced a bill which increases the
internal revenue tax on cigarettes from
90 cents TO $50 thousand.
Mr.. Woodman says he will make a dos
peIate effort to secure the passage of the
bill, for he believes that is the only way
in which the growth of the injurious habit
of cigarette smoking can be checked. He
declares that the proposed tax would make
cigarettes so costly that only millionaires
could afford to smoke them and in that
way thousands of boys and young men
would be saved.
1t is doubtful. however. if the passage of
the bill can be secured. The tobacco trust,
one of the greatest corporations In the
country, is the principal manufacturer of
cigarettes, and it would spend an unlimit-
ed amount of money, no doubt, to prevent
the passage Of such bill.
The states ought to be able to accom-
plish much in the way of stopping the
smoking of cigarettes. The Ohio law pre-
venting the sale to minors, IL vigorously
enforced, would be effective. and other
states are being provided with laws sim
liar to that in Ohio. The Indiana legis-
latUre enacted a statute the other day
which provides fine and Imprisonment as
punishment for the sale to minors, and
everywhere the movement against the use
of cigarettes is growing.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08

From the Chicago Tribune.
1t is stated that the committee on ways
and means has adopted for the agricultural
schedule of the tariff bill it is framing du-
ties which gre the same in most instances
as those of the Mckinley law.
The higher duties on vegetables, eggs
poultry, etc., will be likely TO displease the
Canadians, who have been finding a good
market for so many of their products in
the United States, but who have kept up
their high duties on American imports and
have shown no inclination to reciprocate.
The American farmers on the long north
ern frontier who have felt Canadian COM
petition keenly, are entitled to the protec-
ton which the Mckinley law gave them,
and which the Wilson-Gorman law took
away. The Western cattlemen are also
entitled to protection against the cheap
Mexican cattle of which many have
been imported under the present tariff law,
which imposes very small duty.
But, while the restoration of the old du-
ties on agricultural products is commend
able many of those duties will not pro-
duce the revenue they used to. In 1886 this
country imported over 100000 worth of
barley, and exported sl66,OOO worth The
revenue derived from the imported barley.
the duty being only 10 cents a bushel, was
a little over a million dollars.
But during the first eleven months OF last
year. 1900 bushels of barley, worth
s26s. 700, were imported. During the same
period the United States exported AI57o 900
bushels of barley, valued at $j.J55,000 This
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
MISSOURI POINTS.

The street commissioner in Joplin has
adopted the somewhat unique method of re-
pairing wooden sidewalks with gravel.
AS striking an illustration of a sublime
unquestioning faith in the future as has
been observed recently was afforded by
the Joplin furniture dealer the other day
when he placed an order for fifty baby
carriages.
The fog of unwonted denseness which
prevailed in portions of Jasper county last
week reminded some of the older citizens
of n similar condition of the atmosphere
there seven years ago, when the sun was
obscured for twenty-siX consecutive days.
Shelbina yields precedence in Missouri
only to st. Louis and Kansas City as a
mule market, having handled 100000 worth
of the animals last year.
The municipal hotel in Shelbyville having
become entirely too popular with the walk
ing gentlemen, the council has made an
order that hereafter the menu for guests
at the city calaboose shall include only corn
bread and water.
Berenice Costello. the talented Lawrence
county girl who captured the New Workers
with her readings at the Waldorf hotel a
few days ago, is to sail for England March
with the purpose of getting a London
verdict.
Two trainloads of California oranges are
shipped into Carthage over the Frisco
every day now-and out again few min
utes afterward, on their way to the East
ern markets. from Los Angeles.
Another delegation of Joplin miners, 100
strong, has been sent to Colorado.
The enterprising and patriotic Carthage
women who constitute the Soldiers Monu-
ment Association in that city hope to be
able to SO expedite the labor of love in
which they are engaged as to arrange for
the laying of the cornerstone of the memo
rial shaft on Decoration day.
Jefferson City's charitable association has
accumulated u fund of more than $780, and
statesmen out of job who are gathered
there complacently defy the grounding
for the time being.
One man monopoiizes the saloon business
in Centralia, the council refusing to grant
a license to anyone else, and he pays 81 900
year for the privilege.
Fifty years ago last week the legislature
enacted a statute loaning the university
$l0,00O out of the first moneys received from
the university paid interest 10 the state.
Shelby county and its two principal towns
have decided to chip in together and put
up the $S25 necessary for buying n rock
crusher, which they will use jointly in
keeping the roads in shape.
The Sedalia Capital insists that place
in history awaits Representative Hood. of
Barry county, who introduced the anti
flirting bill in the house the other day,
right alongside those accorded his two emf
nent predecessors in Missouri statesman
ship who endeavored to secure the enact
ment of a law compelling circuses to ex-
hibit everything they advertise, and one
prohibiting goats from eating the bills
from the deadwalls
Judge Horace Hutchinson, of BoonviIle
sold a walnut tree on his place for SIS the
other day 10 Sedalia man for shipment
to London. The shippers business with
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
Nonsense About Hydrophobia.

From the Washington Post.
A few days ago a small item appeared IN
the newspapers which seems to have ex-
cited no comment. The substance of the
matter was that gentleman in one of the
Western states died in the agonies of hy-
drophobia, and the bite of a dog thirty-five
years before is alleged to have been the
cause of the catastrophe.
During the winter we have been treated
to quite number of hydrophobia stories,
and some ingenious and entertaining dis
sertations on the subject of rabies have
been added to the already voluminous lit
erature in that line. Some curious conceits
are entertained by people as to the origin
OF rabies, and lengthy descriptions have
been given of the way the victim acts when
suffering from that dreadful affliction. How
the patient snaps and snarls; how he barks
like dog; how he froths at the mouth and
goes into spasms at the sight of water are
minutely described, but exactly how a mad
dog acts Is evidently not understood, either
by the person suffering, or by the one de-
scribing the performance.
1t has been stated by persons who have
carefully studied the subject that a mad
dog does not snap and snarl; that he does
not bark; that he does not froth at the
mouth, and that he does not go into spasms
at the sight of water. Yet we are con-
stantly called upon to peruse accounts of
persons having rabies and almost invaria-
bly, they are described as doing these very
things which a genuine mad dog does not
do.
Possibly the persons who have hydropho-
bia placed to their credit are really aff1ict-
ed with that disease. but their imagination
plays fantastic tricks with them. They go
through such series of acts they be-
lieve mad dog would, but the fact that a
canine does something entirely different
would indicate that there is something out
of joint. That hydrophobia is not thorough
ly understood is clear. 1t is evident that
the fear of 1t is deep seated and hard to
control, but thirty-five years seems long
stretch. Possibly the imagination can pro-
duce rabies. If it can, many otherwise un-
accountable things would be explained
Anyhow, more information is sadly want
ed. If we must have hydrophobia. by all
means let US have it in correct way
Train the mind in the proper rabies chan
mel, so that persons attacked with the dis
ease can act in manner in harmony with
the technique, or let us say. the ethics of
the art. really artistic case of hydro
phobia, strictly correct in detail. would be
something new and highly appreciated.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
KANSAS ANp THE auAcks.

If they were not fraught with so much
danger TO the people the performances of
the Kansas legislature would be mirth-
provoking beyond the power of pen 10 de-
scribe No less than seven hundred bills
have already been introduced. and most
of them have for their purpose the "regu-
lation" OF some of the industrial and COM
mercial relations. or the building of a
royal road to fortune which has none of
the stumbling blocks of industry, capacity,
fruSality and patience along its course.
1t is suggestive of nothing so much as a
convention OF medical quacks. each of
whom takes turn in exploiting his own pat
ent nostrum. Talk of the Arabian Nights
and the feats OF Jack the Giant Killer; of
innocent people who walk uninjured on
redhot iron; Of AIaddin's lamp; of the dead
who arc made TO rise again. These are
as nothing 10 the feats OF the Kansas en-
chanters, who, without education, without
experience, without sense, and solely by
the aid of legislative quackery. propose to
turn the experiences of six thousand years
topsy-turvy and cure the Ills of all human
ity at one ircantation.
Imagine, if you can. the doctors and dem
lists who draw teeth without pain, and
cure the toothache forever with mysterious
drops; who have syrups, plasters and pan
aceas; lip saIve; pomatums that never fail
TO restore bald heads; tointments for FROST
bitten toes; all SO cheap as to be within
reach of the poorest-an SO certain to cure
that they are never known to miss their
aim, and there you have the Kansas legis-
lature! Go a little further and imagine a
bald-headed man selling ointment for the
hair; a tnin-chested candidate for the
tomb hawking a sure cure for consump-
tion; a sweII-jawed sufferer offering tooth
ache drops. and a sallow-featured pirate
displaying cosmetic for the complexion,
and you have the personnel of the legis-
lators. Among them are money doctors
who in private life have never developed
enough OF financial skill to become owner
in fee simple of even SO much as a white
faced shoat; constitutional doctors who
have never read the constitution; legal
doctors who know no law; assessment doe
tors who own no property; railroad doc
tors whose transportation experiences have
been confined TO evading road tax; school
book doctors who couldn't tell a noun from
a participle; and, indeed, doctors of every
conceivable variety who shake their mud
dy nostrums and declare that in these
alone can health and happiness be found.
Thera is just one consoling thought in
contemplation OF all this legislative quack-
ery-Kansas will not die under the treat
ment and ever after she will beware of
quacks. For years now she has been all
ing. She sat at the feast too long and
gourmandized Not content with the slow
but sure recovery which nature was GER
tain to work, she sought out the miracu-
lous healers. She is now under their treat
ment and siclSer than ever. Presently she
will kick them out of the house, recall the
gray-haired old family physician. and ever
after avoid any cure-all which has Popu-
lism blown in the bottle.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08

From the New York Sun.
The development OF the trolley has been
one of the most striking features of con-
temporary life. This new invention entered
so unostentaciously into the utilities of
modern existence that few knew whence it
came, who was responsible for it. or how
it grew Comparatively unknown a few
years ago, this novel and effective method
OF transportation has been adopted in al
most every city of respectable size in the
Cnion,and there are thousands of compara-
lively small cities which enjoy a trolley
system of their own, while villages, ham,
lets and crossroads settlements have,
through the intervention of the trolley,
been brought into "a direct contact with the
outer world which otherwise would have
been impossible.
The cheapness of trolley equipment
coupled with the low rate of fares which
generally prevails on trolley lines, has been
responsible for this, and another factor by
no means slight. has been the real estate
speculative movement, which has given a
field of investment to the trolley capitalists
As Il result. both the trolley and the real
estate industries have thrived, each exert
ing a benefcent influence ON the other.
To what extent the trolley will affect, or
has affected, railway travel is Il matter OF
statistics. 1t is well known fact that in
some places the trolley has practically
superseded the railroad over a certain
stretch of travel. while in other sections
the competition of the trolley has had the
benign effect of reducing railroad rates of
transportation. In some communities.
moreover. the railroad owners have been
keen enough to protect their interests by
acquiring control OF trolley lines parallel
ing their tracks.
1t is not likely that the trolley will ever
be used for long journeys. In that field of
transportation it can hardly hope to COM
pete with the more thoroughly equipped
and speedier railroad trans. For shorter
journeys, or for a succession of Journeys
it has furnished an effective means of
travel, and 1t is probably this feature
which has induced well known capitalists
to conceive project of a trolley or a sue
cession of trolley lines from Jersey City to
Philadelphia. No one, it is safe to say, will
think of riding by trolley from New, York
to Philadelphia, even if the line should ever
be completed, except for the experience.
But undoubtedly there are thousands who
would utilize this line for travel to stations
between the termini because of the con-
venient time schedule of the trolley and
the easy accessibility of the road. The
experiment viii be worth watching as an
interesting combination to the improve
ments which mark the close of the century.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
In Niizzoury.
From the Chicago News

From the Chicago News.
The Missouri legislature, in effect, serves
notice upon the world that it proposes to
place its iron heel upon the wriggling head
of corporate monopoly and scrunch said
head into the warm, clayey soil of the
corncob state.
The attempt to reduce passenger fares to
. cents per mile was mere scotching
of the snake; a mere innocuous prelude to
the retributive devastation which was to
follow.
After careful cogitation the stern anti
monopolists devised measure of so ingen-
ious and comprehensive sort that. after
its passage. bankruptcy will be condition
of railroad corporations in Missouri just as
inevitably as heat is condition of fire or
humidity condition of rain
This Samsonan measure provides that it
shall be unlawful for any brakeman or
conductor to fiirt with any female passen-
ger on any train within the state. Violation
of the law is punished by fine and the fine
| is assessable, not against the brakeman or
conductor but against the employing COM
pany.
The railroad statisticians wasted their eff
forts in trying to controvert the principles
of the comparatively harmless 2 cent fare
law. The Irritation law is the point to
which they should address themselves. Let
them abandon their tables and calculations
showing that cents per mile for passen-
gers means depleted treasury and pre-
pare some statistics proving that under the
Irritation law one young, handsome and vi
vacous passenger could bring any road in
Missouri to a receivership in three weeks.
Indeed, if this bill is passed raiiroading
in Missouri will be possible only under one
condhion-namely, that the roads employ
only female conductors and brakemen. For
tunately the bill as 1t stands does not pro-
hbit brakeman or conductor from cast
ing arch glances at male passengers lux
uriant whiskers, and through this ioophole
the roads may escape.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONTEST


In yachting. in pugilism, in foot racing,
and in half a score of other sports Amer
ica holds the emblems OF championship
over England. Commencing next Friday
morning. another great championship con-
test will take place between chosen experts
of the two nations. this being for the Sir
George Newnes Angio-American chess tro-
phy.
Thus far but one OF these contests has
been held, that of March, year ago, ia
which the Americans were victorious. Ten
men will play on each side, andit is hardly
necessary 10 say that the most proicient
players have been selected in each of the
countries. At $3.50 a. m. in New York, and
2:5O p. m. in London, the contestants take
their places at tables numbered from one
10 ten. Player at table No. l in New York
plays with player at table No. in London,
and so on down the list. Five of the Lon
doners will lead off with the first move, and
nve OF the New Workers will have the same
privilege Before each player clocks are
placed and time registered, for each player
must move at least twenty times within
an hour. AS soon as a move is made it is
cabled across to the rival player. As the
average of championship game is about
fifty moves on each side. this will necessi-
tate about 500 cabiegrams.
Chess players everywhere will be inter
ested in the personnel of the two teams.
Those chosen TO defend Americas side are
Harry y. Pillsbury. Brooklyn; Jackson w.
Showalter Kentucky; A. B. Hodges, New
York; Edward Hymes, New York; Eugene
Delmar, New York; +. NJ. Teed. Brooklyn;
Herman Helms. Brooklyn; John +. Barry.
Boston, {. f. BariIle, Boston. and David
Graham Baird, New York. On the British
side will be Il. Blackburn, champion blind
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08

the English market in that line amounts
TO many thousands of dollars annually.
The Missouri editors will probably make
trip either to Washington. D. c.. or to
Colorado Springs, at the conclusion of their
next annual meeting, which is to be hello
at Meramec Highlands, near st. Louis,
June q, 25 and Is.
Archibald Lincoln, the first white child
born In Clay county, is now more than 10
years old.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08
Conflicting Jurisdiction.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Nevada is achieving distinction In more
ways than one about these days. Follow
ing up the legislation opening the state to
prize fights when every other state in the
Union has made prize fighting penal Of
fense, the supreme court of the state has
handed down a decision calculated to make
trouble for the state and local authorities
The editor of local newspaper printed
something uncomplimentary TO the United
States district attorney at Carson. If it
was untrue and libelous the district attor-
ney had legal recourse, but he chose an
other way. AS the editor was on the post
office steps the district attorney attacked
him, 1t Is claimed with brass knuckles, and
pounded the editor severely. The editor
invoked the law which the lawyer dis
dained to use and the district attorney was
indicted for assault.
The answer of the lawyer to the indct-
ment was, couched in legal phraseology,
None of your business He insisted that
the assault having taken place on property
ceded by the state to the United States the
laws of Nevada did not run on the post
office property and that the offense was
punishable only in the United States court.
In effect the claim was that the belligerent
district attorney could only be tried in the
court of which he was the prosecuting Off
GER, and that he was both prosecutor and
defendant in the case. The court de-
INJURED to this and the question was car
ried up until it reached the state supreme
court, which held the point well taken and
ordered the case dismissed.
If that is good law in all other states.
on which point, be it observed, we do not
usurp the functions of the supreme court
by passing upon, grave questions are not
unlikely to arise some day in such a place
as Cleveland, where the United States holds
several pieces of property more or less open
to the public and on which crimes against
person or property. or violations of state
law in other ways may take place. II hon.
est people venturing on those pieces of
property in the legitimate exercise of their
rights citizens are beyond the protec-
tion of the state and municipal laws, and
dishonest people are beyond the interfer-
ence of state and municipal officials, the
situation may become unpleasant. But
there is mitigating consideration. A law
breaker brought before the United States
court is usually in worse case than if he
had to face 4 state judge or jury. United
States juries have Il tendency to convict
when the evidence is, reasonably clear. and
the sentencing judge, not having considera-
tion of votes to warp his judgment, gener-
ally serves it UP hot" to the criminal.