Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-07-30

the Wanderer. Havana reports describe
the landing as failure and say that four
of the landing party. including the lieu
tenant. were killed This Is the usual
exaggeration. One-third of the sup
plies carried by the Wanderer had been
landed and sent into the territory beyond
Spanish reach when an overwhelming
force of troops appeared and compelled
the abandonment of the attempt to land
the remainder. None of the American
party was killed, but four men were
wounded Their injuries were slight
and they will be put ashore in Key West,
| to which port the Wanderer returned.
Washington, July 2S.-Thc commits
sioner of internal revenue has issued
| an important circular in which he gives
an Interpretation of the last clause Of
section 20 of the new revenue act as to
what medicinal preparations or articles
are subject to tax hereunder The
commissioner CONSTITUTES this clause as
follows: ANY medicinal article which
Is compounded by any formula, pub
ishcd or unpublished, will he held to
be taxable under schedule b, when 1t is
put up in style or manner similar to
that of patent, trademark, or proprie-
tary medicine in general. or is advertised
on the package or Other wise as remedy
or specific for any ailmcnt, as having
| any special claim to merit, or as ha wing
any peculiar advantage in mode of prep
aration, quality. Use or effect. Any
medicine will be held to be put up in
style or similar manner, etc. when the
package. carton, wrapper, label, bottle
or container resembles in one or more
particulars any make or brand of patent,
trademark, OF proprietary medicine in
general.
For example, the use Of q trademark
upon medicine makes it taxable: also the
use of the makers name or any other
persons name in the possessive form
Immediately before the name of the med
icine, as Smiths pills or the use of
any name Immediately following the
name of the medicine. This shall not
be construed, however, to prohibit the
maine of the physician who was the
author of the formula immcdiat ely fol-
lowing the name of the medicine; nor
shall it be construed to prohibit the
name of the manufacturer being blown
In the bottle. or printed inconspicuOusly
on the label or wrapper.
ANY medicinal article will be held to
be advertised on the package or other
wise as remedies or specifics for any
ailment' If there Is any statement what
ever in any part of the article of any
disease or affection of the human or
animal body for which the contents
cpp iobf ha oh
be construed, however as prohibiting
the printing of the formula and the dose
on the label. or words Indicating the
therapeutic action of the medicine in
purely technical language not in COM
mon use.
ANY medicinal article will be held
to be advertised on the package ar
otherwise as having any special claim
to merit. or to any peculiar advanta &c in
the mode OF preparation, quality, use
or effect when any description of 1T
either on the package or otherwise in
oludcs any statement to the effect that
1t has a special or peculiar merit ~
value over other like articles of the
same class; or when it has any word,
| phrase or sentence, either in the title
or formula, or otherwise, which indi
Gates it's superior merit over articles
of it's class-for example. tasteless quin-
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article' OF tne "orus' sram"'".cu'
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or MANUFACTURE ana Wh,cn 'n"'r''.'
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! ous OF manufactures
Was Not Hofrman's Corpse.
Clinton Mass JuIv 95-A remarkable
,ccunvinr The minds of the residents of
,,i, town moro especiaIly those who