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The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

articles chewing gum, wines and SINH
lar goods. Then comes the tobacco tax
of SS04, 900 and tax on beer of 81 ,463,-
600, which is the additional over and
above what was required by law prior
70 the middle of June.
Here Is an immense revenue, and what
is most remarkable it is paid with little
or no complaint, and, as told by the rev.
enue clerks who came in contact with
he public, quite willingly, with very
few exceptions, which are among the
smaller taxpayers, having little capital.
Diigent inquiry shows that the con-
sumer mas practically escaped the tax.
and that the poor directly bear none OF
it, and incidently are hardly affected by
it. The people generally, the great
mass of consumers, pay no more to
bankers and brokers aud drawers OF
checks than they did before the law
went into effect, the amusement loving
public is charged no more by tax paying
managers, the consumers of beer and
chewers Of gum pay the usual prices,
and the users of medicinal proprietary
articles are charged no more for them
than before, excepting rare instances,
where perfumes, cosmetics and some
other luxuries have had slight increase
in price.
What exceptions there are effect only
the well-to-do, so far as can be learned
from dealers. Sellers of the finer grades
of cigars and more expensive wines have
in instances raised their prices. These
appear to be matters OF Indifference TO
the ordinary citizen, whose nickel cigar
remains the same and whose five cent
glass OF beer has not changed, excepting
in instances where the quantity has
shrunk little.
Because the man with a bank account
pays two cents on each check he pays no
less in wages, and though the landlord
may stamp his receipts he charges no
more for rent. So it appears to be all
through The tax --Nelo York Herald.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

Williams Pink Pills for Pale People to me-
Finally she said they only cost so cents,
and she wanted to know if would try them
To please her | consented and the first box
gave me relief | continued to use them for
about two years before | could get strength
enough to walk 1t came slow but sure, but
what | am to-day is due wholly to Dr.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
"Nearly everybody in Detroit knows how
long | was confined to the bed, and of my
wonderful cure. It is almost miracle to
some people that saw me when the doctors
had given me up, but DR.. Williams Pink
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
South Madison.

Mrs. D. F. Wescott is stopping at
Madison, this week.
Mr.. Josiah Magoon of Larone, was in
this vicinity, Friday.
Mr.. D. F. Weseott went to Skowhe-
gan, Sunday.
Mrs. Harrison Russell from the viii
lage has been visiting Mrs. |. S. Wheeler
for the past few days.
Irwin Ames went to North Cornville,
last Friday.
Gardner Will of Arson, was in this
vicinity, Sunday, to see his sister, Mrs.
A. H. Ward
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Warren Blackwell
celebrated their wedding by a dance last
Friday night. Refreshments were SER
we'd during the evening.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
Maine Central R.R.
NSMaNaMfNN@
eAaM!M..! y. g,1slel=.zst
Arrangements OF Train Eject
Nov ~ 1909

Trains leave Skowhegan as follows: $40 A
boro, st. Stephen, Houlton, Woodstock, St.
John and Halifax-1.35 P. NJ. for Waterville
Oakland, North Arson, lewiston. Augusta,
Gardiner and Brunswick Portland and Bos-
ton, Dexter, Dover and Foxcroft, Greenville
Bangor, Old Town, Pstten and Houlton via B.
& A. R. r. Il Mattawamkeag; $40 P. NJ.
(mixe d. for Waterville enabling passengers to
connect for Oakland and to take night Pull
man 70, Portland and Boston.
ARRIVALS:-7.0O A. NJ. mixed from Water.
yiile daily EXCEPT Mondsys;n1o'10 A. NJ
Waterville, Augusta and Bangor;-6.15 P. n
from all points.
GEO. F. EVANS, Vice Pres, and Gen. Mgr.
F. u. BOOTHBY. General Pas'r Agent
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

Pills for Pale People cured me surely
enough.
"Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale PEG.
pie made me what | am to-day. | only wish
could persuade others to do as | did, and
take them before it is too late"
(Signed) GAMES CROCKETT
Before me, Notary Public, personally
appeared James Crockett, who signed and
swore to the above statement as being true in
every particular
ROBERT f. HULL. JR..
Notary Public.
Wayne County, Mich.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
DenniStOWn.

There will be divine service in EN-
manuel church, both morning and even.
ing on Sundays Dec. 18th, christmas
day, Jan. LIST, 9Th and 10th; also ser
vice on Friday morning, Jan. 9th, the
feast of the Epiphany. At this latter
service there will be celebration of the
holy communion and public eatechising
of the Sunday school children.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
LIKE A MIRACLE.
HOW A LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA
SUFFERER WAS CURED.

The Story OF a sturdy Engineer-His
Death was Decreed at n Consultation
OF Physician., bat n Changed
Medical Treatment Saved
His Life.
From the Evening Ne,Os, Detroit, Mich.
James Crockett, Q sturdy old Scotchman,
living in Detroit, Mich, at SO Montcalm
Street, wasaask ed about his wonderful cure.
First" he said, ~ must tell you some
thing of my life before my almost fatal sick
ness. was born in Scotland in 1922, and
came to this country in 1848. am ma
rine engineer by trade. and have been up
and down the big lakes hundreds of times.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

Early Depravity: LET 1t alone Willie"
said the bad boys mother Don't try to tear
it open. It will be beautiful butterfly next
year" "Mebby it will, and meboy il won't,
"All cocoons look Alive to me-
In all stages of nasal catarrh there should be
cleanliness. As experience proves Ely's Cream
Balm is a cleanser, soother and healer of the
diseased membrane. 1t is not drying nor irritat-
ing and does not produce sneezing. To test it a
trial size IS mailed forio cents or the large for
30 cents by Ely Brothers, So Warren street, New
York Druggists keep it. Upon being placed
into the nostrils it spreads over the membrane
and relief is immediate. 1t is an agreeable cure.
"Oh, John, send for the doctorl Baby has
swallowed that counte rfeit dollar you gave
him!" cried Mrs. Wigs. Nonsense" re-
piled Wigs. "fm not going to send good
money after bad
Half the ills that man is heir to come from
indigestion. Burdock Blood Bitters strength
ems and tones the stomach makes Indigestion
impossible.
The Snow Shovel: This is a cold day for me.
The Furnace: Yes, and coal day for me.
Please pass the Anthracite.
Accidents come with distressing frequency on
the farm. Cuts, bruises, siings sprains. DIR.
Thomas Electric Oil relieves the pain Instant
ly. Never safe without it.
Mrs. Fifthwed: Really, my dear. you don't
know how to manage husband.
Mrs. First: No; all know is how to keep
one alive.
It's the little colds that grow into big colds
the big colds that end in consumption and death
Watch the little celds. Dr. Woods Norway Pine
Syrup.
Dobson: $50 the factional fight is on again
in the First Baptist church," Hobson: "Yes;
half the congregation are opposed to the new
pastor" what has he been doing?" Hobson
"Pleasing the other half
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

@-*Flag stations; at which trains will atop
on signal or notice to Conductor.
twin not stop except to leave or take Freight.
mixed train between North Arson and Bling ham.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mercer, and Smith
field land Electric Cars to and from Skowhe
GAM
At Arson TO- Sawyer's Mills, (Starks).
No. Arson, for North and West New Portlano
Dead River, Flagstaff and Eustis. At BiHghan
for Forks, Moose River, Mayheld, Kingsbury
and Abbott
W. M AVER SUPT.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

Oysters, after they have been brought
away from the sea, know by instinct the
exact hour when the tide is rising and
approaching their beds and So of their
own accord, open their shells to receive
their food from the sea, as if they were
still at home.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

A French statistician has calculated
that the human eye travels over two
thousand yards in reading an ordinary
sized novel. The average human being is
supposed to get through $500 miles of
reading in a lifetime.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy can always be depended
upon and is pleasant and safe TO take.
Sold by II. W. Cushing, skowhegan
sullivan Newton, Jaekraau.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
COrnyille.

The Seventh day Adventist will hold a
general meeting at No. 4, school house,
beginning Friday evening, Jan. 9th and
continue over Saturday and Sunday.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF SKOWHEGAN.

OF SkOWHEGAN.
The Stock holders OF The First National Bank
OF Skowhegan are hereby notified that their
Annual Meeting for the choice of Directors for
the ensuing year and the transaction of any
other business that may legally come before
them, will be held at their Banking Rooms on
Tuesday, the 10th day of January A. d. 1892 at
10 o'clock a. M.
5w4a GEO. N PAGE Cashier.
Skowhegan Dec. Z, 1898.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

No bird can fly backward without turn
ing. The dragon fly, however, can &C
complish this feat and outstrip any swal'
low.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
Somerset Railway,
CHANGE OF TIME
Commencing October z 1898

Trains will run as follows, connecting ut Oak.
land with Maine Central Railroad Trains to and
from Boston, Portland Lewiston, Wstervillt
Augusta, Gardiner, Bath Skowhegan and Ban
gor.
For Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Watervillt
Augusta. Skowhegan and Bangor,
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
The Registered Thoroughbred
Hereford Bulls, Sidney, and PeIeg,

will make the Season OF 1899, at my Farm in
Athens. Terms to Warrant $l.00. Season 70
cents Payable at time of Service. Calves
holden for Service of Bulls. 2w51+
NJ. l.. FUTILE Athens, Me
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22
M EKvES must be fed on pure, rich
II Il0oI c. l. Al

~ blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the
best nerve tonic. By enriching the
blood it makes the nerves STRONG.
Father: My boy has just swallowed five
cent piece.
Pawnbroker: The doctors Office is just
across the street.
Father Yes: but can't you lend me a
quarter on himY
Relief In Six Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder disease re-
lieyed in six hours by NEW GREAT SOUTH
AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE" 1t Is q great sur
prise on account OF it's exceeding promptness
in relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and back,
in male or female. Relieves retention Of water
almost Immediately. II you want quick relief
and cure this is the remedy. 1y5l
Sold by Horatio W. Cushing, Druggist.
lo7 Water st. Skowhegan, Me.
He: The sight Of an old schoolmate is-er-
well, 1t might be called both meat and drink
She: Yes; that's what you men usually do
under the circumstances.
He: Eth?
She: Meet and drink.
For Over Fifty Years.
MRS. wINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over fifty years by millions OF moth
ers for their children while teething, with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child, seftens
the gums, alays all pain, cures wind collie and
is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. 1t will re-
lieye the poor little sufferer immediately
ooiu ny DIuebisbs III every part VI bHc WoIiu
Twenty five cents q bottle. Be sure and ask
for "Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup" and
take no other kind. ly38
The Good Man Visiting prison)-How did
you come to get in here?
Prisoner-I didn't come to get in; they
dragged me here and chucked me In by force,
Distressing Stomach Disease
Permanently cured by the mastery powers of
South American Nervine Tonic. Invalids need
suffer no longer. because this great remedy
can cure them all. 1t is cure for the whole
world Of stomach weakness and ind igestion.
The cure begins with the first dose. The relief
1t brings is marvellous and surprising. 1t
makes no failure; never disappoints. No
matter how long you have suffered. your cure
is certain under the use OF this great health
giving force, Pleasant and always safe. 1y61
Sold by Horatio w. Cushing, Druggist,
lo7 Water st. Skowhegan. Me
| Clerical Friend: l hear you are having
| trouble in your church.
The Rev. Dr. Fourthly: Not word OF truth
in It, The trouble is in the choir.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-12-22

Father: My boy has just swallowed a five
cent piece.
Pswnbroker: The doctors Office is just
across the street.
Father: Yes but can't you lend me a
quarter on him9
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12

interests of the state. They want a
chief executive who will devote his
time in the direction of increasing the
actual wealth of the state; to the pro-
motion of immigration; the building
of factories; to the betterment of our
railways and to the encouragement of
everything that will enhance the
value of our farms and make living in
Kansas more profitable and more en-
joyable. We have had eight or ten
years of the cheapest kind of jim crow,
flap doodle politics, whose CAB and
gall double-discounted experience and
honesty. But Kansas is at last sick
of it; the state is ashamed Of the street
fakir spectacle it has made of itself
and will get back to the old business
stand, next November, by electing
w. e. Stanley governor; and will try
to make the world forget its crazy
political antics by staying with him
until the former prosperous business
conditions are thoroughly re-estab-
lished upon most enduring basis.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12

crat and not one will publicly say he
is Democrat. All are pal ernalists
and socialists. All want stronger
government, government that Uoes
every thing from midwifery to bank
ing, from cattle shipping to insuring
property, and from picking geese to
owning aud operating the railroads,
mines, mills. factories, stores and
telegraph lines of the country.
The preservation of the name, char
acter and life of the Democratic party
of Kansas; the welfare, credit and
honor of our state; and the rights of
man under government that derives
its only just powers from.the consent
of the governed, all demand the de-
feat of the Populist nominees, state
and congressional
The time has come for actiou-bold,
decisive action. Let the paternalists,
their dupes and those Ii Click,
Johnson, OvermytT and MARTIN, who
seek personal gain through this i"-
famous surrender, call Us what they
may, we cannot, will not vote the So
called fusion ticket. We will work
against it and vote against it. The
only way to break dog of killing
sheen is TO kill the dog
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
AND STILL TaET COME.
Emporia Republican.

MG> G. NJ. McIntire, formerly of
~ this city, but now editor of
~ the Traders Exchange at Ar
kansas City, has declared himself a
Republican. In responce to quoe-
ton asking him why he left the Dem
ocrat party, of which he has been a
life long member, he said
"There are many reasons, but in
the first place, there is nc Democratic
party in Kansas to leave. Ten years
ago the Democrats had an organic
alton and polled the full Strength of
the party at each annual election
"To what do you attribute the dis
Indignation OF Kansas Democracy"
"To the inaction of the rank and file
and the greed of the boosters who
have sacrificed the principles of the
party and bartered its name ON the
sacratlcial alter of fusion. No less a
person than Grover Cleveland himself
urged fusion with the Pops when he
was candidate in 1892. When scores
and hundreds of us counciled against
the sell-out for pelf for a few Office
seekers, we were told Just this one
time; there Will be no more fusion
We believed them then and humbled
ourselves in the dust before Weaver,
Lewelling and Dick Chase, and each
succeeding year we have been told
Just this one time, with similar re-
suits. For nearly seventeen years ]
have been advocating Democratic
principles and other so-called Demo
Gratis have been reaping the rewards
through fusion with party which
is at enmity with the state and
nation
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
A pOPULIsT IN,UEGrNr.

Ms The Blue Mound SearchHght
- is Populist paper of the rank
~ est sort. Heretofore nothing
the Populist party has done has been
too rank for it. But the nomination of
Mr.. Peters is a little more than it can
stand, and as it puts on it's thunder
and starts to leave the reservation, it
remarks as follows:
Tuesday of this week that hireling
of the corporations and state house
lobbyist, NJ. 5. Peters, was nomi-
mated by the populist convention at
Olathe as their candidate for congress.
Sixty days ago no Populist or free sill
yer Democrat believed this nonenity,
even by the help and influence of the
stock yards company's Doodle, would
be able to purchase his denomination.
But since we have witnessed the work
of that convention we are forced to
acknow ledge that in swaying the
minds of men, money is more power
full than brains. In the past we have
sOIutlllllts MllDtSstu SUN tOTIupllOu
In Republican politics that the stencil
was as dense as the whirling fog of
dust that precedes "A cyclone, but
never have we seen or witnessed work
of the most putrid and vile of the
leaders of thar gang that surpassed
the downright rottenuess OF the crowd
that manipulated the cords in this
Olathe convention. The men of this
district who believe in the honest
principles of Populism and Bryan
Democracy did not want Mason :.
Peters as their party candidate FIR
congress. They knew he was the
plant tool of the corporations, and
that he is now and has been for years,
the property of those concerns, and
with this knowledge of his true per-
sonal character 10y the masses of the
party in the district, the bosses were
forced TO resort to measures that
would even humiliate the most vile OF
Republican tactics. The result in
November will show to the country
that the time has not yet arrived when
the Populists can be driven 10 the
support of a corporation hireling as a
candidate for the United States con
/ gress.n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
Basket Meeting.

The second quarterly meeting OF
LaHarpe charge will he held next
Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and
IA at Diamond, Quarterly conference
Saturday at 8 p IN. The servicses
Sunday will be held in the grove /
mile west of school house, Preaching
at II a. M, by Rev Fem, of Hum
bolt. Sacrement of Lords supper at
close of that Service. Quarterly Love
feast at 8 p. M, and preaching at La
Harpe at s p. m. Come with well fill
ed baskets and bring your friends.
w. M. STRANAHAN.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
BARNEY woN'r SWALLOW 1T.

@s Barney Sheridan, of the
S Paola Spirit, il an old time
~ Democrat. He has supported
the fusion heretofore because he
thought nearly anything was justif-
able to beat the Republican party.
But he has supported it each year
with more i'll grace and this year his
stomach goes clear back on him and
refuses to retain the dose. Here is
what he says about it-and we COM
mend his remarks to the few good
men left in Allen county who still
claim to be- Democrats:
No. We can not support it without
leaving the Democratic party. This
We will not do.
Though the Wichita convention in
1880 adopted fusion against the pro-
test of the solid vote of the Miami del
egation, we put up the ticket and sup
ported IL because three-fourths of the
men of that ticket we're Democrats,
and because we We're promised at
shall be the last time
Fusionists have dealt falsely with
the Democrats. They have betrayed
the Democratic party into the hands
OF the Populist party Their plan is
to be with the Populists in a Presi-
dental year and then 90 with them
in escn of the succeeding three years
because there is another Presidential
year coming, till the fourth year
when the Democrats must again sup
port Popnlism Thus there is to be
no end to it. The Topeka platform of
1898, on which the present State ticket
stands. is pa,ernalism run mad to i'm
perialism and Republicanism. No
man can support ii or the men on it
and still he Il Democrat.
1t demands government ownership
of all public utilities; that the State
shall 90 into the insurance business on
capital raised by taxation of the peo-
pie and that stock yards shall by the
same means be established and main
tanned; ii declares for cumbersome
and undemocratic method of legisla-
tion through the initiative and refer
endum-an European method imprac-
ticable and foreign to our American
system of government; ii endorses the
Populist ST Louis platform of 1896, to-
gether with the sub-treasury loan
Office scheme from the Omaha-O cala
platforms, and government postal
blanks added-the latter copied from
the kingly government of Great
Britain and Germany; and it declares
by endol sing the st Louis platform,
for the Henry George single tax her
esy-all taxation to he on land
These are the principles that we as
Democrats must support if we vote
for the Populist State ticket. The
Atchison platform declares in favor OF
them by endorsing the present Popu-
list administration.
Therefore, the clean cut issue for or
against paternalism is squarely before
the Democrats of Kansas. We cannot
dodge it. The die il east The con-
test is on. II II fight to finish. We
are against it-aga INST paternalism
and for Democracy.
Not man on the ticket is a Demo-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-12
ANOTHER ENTERPRISE.
lola Gas Attracts the Favorable Attention Of a
White Lead Works-A New Plant
Probable.

Some time ago reporter for the
REGISTER had the pleasure of meet
ing Mr.. Il. A. Wright, representing
the Denver White Lead Company.
Mr.. Wright was sent by his company
to Kansas City to look for a location
for u factory in this part Of the coun-
try, AS the firm wished to get into
more eastern market. He came to
Kansas City and in some way ran
across II. b. stevenson, who no soon
or learned of his purpose, then he in
formed him ABOUT lola and her nat
ural gas.
Mr.. Wright came to lola He had
with him box of shredded lead,
which Is the material from which
white lead Is manufactured. A test
furnace was rugged up in A. w.
Beck's store and n thorough test was
made Of the gae. The shred ded lead
arranged on shelves, was subjected
to a slight heat from the direct burn
ing of natural gas. The chemical sc-
ton of the carbon OF the gas on the
lead resulted in the lead corroding to
pure white. That was the point
which the experiment was made to
settle, aud il settled II, The lola gas
IL pure. An impure gas would dis
color the product and consequently
ruin il.
Satisfied in his own mind that the
lola gas was what he wanted, Mr..
Wright took his box of white lead
and returned to Denver. A letter
from him to Mr.. Beck states that the
product lie perfect and that its pre-
sentation before mem bers of the COM
pany created a sensation.
The old way of making white lead
required II long and tedious process.
Wooden tanks were filled with the
lead. Uuder these were placed n lot
of oak bark. In the course Of mont Ia
the oak bark in decaylng gave off a
gas which cOrroded the lead. The
tank of course decayed at the same
time and bad to be rebuilt. With nat
ural gas the process will require only
about ten days, making great saw
ing both IN time and expense.
The Denver Lead Co. owns immense
lead mines and produces its own raw
material. Il 1t decides to come here a
huge plant will he erected and huge
output manufactured. There is moth
ing standing in the way and all that
remains IL the final decision of the
company, when is slow from the fact
that it is stock company aud hard
TO get together. The location of the
plant is practically assured, however
and lola will beyond n reasonable
doubt, soon have another manufac
turing enterprise added to its list.