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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
NAMES BANKRUPT TOWNS.
Creditors Selling the Citizens Prop
erty for Town Debts.

erUy Tor T0Wn DEBTS.
Lewiston Cor Boston Advertiser.
There is a little town of barren farms
and decayed industry down in Hancock
county named Otis. Just now the neigh
bors are calling it Owe'tis. Otis fur
nishes the champion hard times story
of the week
1t seems that Otis has been running in
debt in one way or another. Town or
ders We're issued upon which the hold
els We're unable to realize. Taxpayers
were dtlatOrY, and there was not much
ers Of the orders consulted lawyers, and
the lawyers have started after Otis IN
fashion that makes that town the most
picturesque section in Maine just now.
A Bangor attorney accumulated orders
amounting to $3.50, and then secured
Judgment against the town of OTIS The
law is that In such case the party Sc
curing Judgment against town may
levy on the property OF any inhabitant
1t ism t once In a dogs age that such
step is ever resorted to-but it has been
done in the case of Otis.
A deputy sheriff rode over into the town
armed with the requisite papers. First
he went to the farm of First Seiectman
j. r. Grant. pair of his oxen were
taken. from the barn and driven away
He had no horses, and therefore the oxen
We're exempt, but if he had not let them
cows.
pucker his lip and say nothing Then the
sheriff kept on his travels. Arden Young
was compelled to stand and behold three
OF his best cows driven away. J. %
waved farewell to- a couple of faithful
noodles. The officer also took other prop
erty in other places in town.
When he reckoned he had collected
samples enough from the flocks OF Otis
to satisfy the Judgment he drove the as
sorted herd out of town to Amherst
There the plumber was sold at auction.
But the prices were iidiculously low. The
entire bunch brought only $780, The pair
of oxen alone were worth that
Just as soon as that action on the
part of the Bangor lawyer got noised
ABOUT this week, other creditors of the
advices We're that about every COW and
cx in the town had been seized and driven
OH. Inc supply ran short and now the
creditors are after real estate.
Sheriff Hooper has seized the Sixty-acra
farm of F. w; Hogg, and has advertised
1t for sale. No man in the town con-
siders that he himself is worth a cent.
Some creditors of the place can come
bit OF his property except the cook
stove and his clothes
OF course, the people who are thus
held up at the point of the legal bayo-
action against the town and recover the
real value of the property seized, re-
gardless of the price it brought at auc-
ton. And they may recover interest at
II per cent.
But this will be like trying to lift ones
necessary for each one bringing ouch
action to levy on the goods of his neigh
must seize and sell other property TO get
his money.
Therefore the chances appear to be
that Otis will find Itself in the hottest
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

itigious squabble that ever disrupted a
Maine town-with each taxpayer grab
bling for his neighbours property This is
game Of tag, you're it, that is mighty
profitable for the lawyers, but 1t comes
high to those chiefly concerned.
1t will be about like a man suing him
self over and over again, with the fees
piltng up all the time.
All things considered. Otis isn't in a
very CHEEKY frame of mind just now The
people are not planning on many Christ
mas trees.
Up TO this time Somervllle, in Lincoln
county, has been receiving all the adj
vertising as the champion bankrupt
town in Maine. But Somerville has not
been subjected to any such raid as has
been visited on Otis. Somerville has
been in a bankrupt state for half a doz-
en- years.
The people have become so snarled up
and discouraged that they haven't paid
any taxes for at least five years All
the property in town has been sold over
and over again for taxes. The high
sheriff has been to town many times
and attempted to collect the county tax
The town fathers YEARLY tell him to go
ahead and find the money If he can-they
can't.
The town cannot get any school money
from the state, for Somerville has given
up paying it's state tax. The teachers
won't work, for there are no taxes and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
REQ,

Louis Brecke in The Pail Mall Gazette
REQ was a short, squat Malay, with
a face like a skate, barring his eyes,
which were. long, narrow Sits, apparent
~ expressing nothing but Indifference to
the world in general. But they would
light up sometimes with a merry twinkle,
when the old rogue would narrate some
of his past villanies.
He came to Samoa in the old days,
long before treaties and Imperial Com
missioners and other gilded vanities were
dreamt of by us poor, hard working trad
ers. He seemed to have dropped from
the sky, when one afternoon, as Tom
Denison and some of his friends sat on
Charley the Russians veranda drinking
lager, he marched up to them, sat down
on the steps and said, Good evening
Hello" safd Schluter, the skipper of
the Anna Goddeffroy. "Who are you:'
Where do you come from?"
He waved a short stumpy. and black
clay pipe to and fro, and replied vague
ly, ooh, from somewhere. "
Someone laughed, surmising correctly
enough, that he had run away from the
ship. Then they remembered that no
vessel had even touched at -Apia for a
month. Later on he told Denison that
he had jumped overheard from a Bak-
er's Island guanoman as she was running
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

with the Tongan, some with REQ. and
IN few minutes free fight took place
on the village. green, and REQ stood in
his doorway and watched it from his mar
row, piglike eyes; then being of a mag
unanimous nature, he walked over and
asked three stout youths who had beat
en- the Tongan into state of uncon-
seriousness and were jumping on his body,
not to hurt him.
About midnight 'Reo's house was seen
to be In flames, and the owner, uttering
Wild, weird screams of Ella ola!" Fla
Ola!'' Mercy 'Mercy!'D fled down the
beach to his boat, followed by his wife a
large, fat woman, named appro-
priately enough Taumafa (Abund-
ance)' They dashed into the
water, clambered into the boat
and began pulling seward for their
lives. The villagers, thinking they had
both gone mad, gaZed at them in aston
ishment and then went back and helped
themselves to the few goods saved from
the burning house.
AS soon as REQ and his good wife
were out of sight of the village they put
about, ran the boat into little bay
further down the coast, planted a bag
containing $500, with the best of
the trade goods (salved before the fire
was discovered), and then set sail for
Apia to get justice from the consul"
The consul said it was shocking out
rage; the captain of the United States
ship Adirondack concurred; and so the
cruiser, with the injured, stolid-faced
REQ on board steamed off to Leone
Bay and gave the astonished natives
twelve hours to make up their minds as
to which they would do-pay REQ $1,000
in cash or have their town burned They
paid social they could raise-and then
IN a daZed sort of way sat down to medi-
tate as they saw the Adirondack steam
off again.
REQ gave his wife a small share of the
plumber and sent her home to her par
ents. When Tom Denison next saw him
he was keeping boarding house at
Levuka, in Fiji. He told Denison he was
welcome to free board and lodging for
year REQ had his good points, as I
have said.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
Through Trains to Omaha, with
Sleeping Cars TO Kansas City.

The Minneapolis & st. Louis r. r..
extended It's through sleeping car service
to Kansas City. Get the best. civ
Ticket Office. Ne. 1893 Robert Street,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

therefore a town order doesn't amount
to anything. When the property has
been advertised for taxes and sold, the
town, as a municipality, bids in the prop
erty, with much placidity and the thing
goes on as before.
Not an inch of progress is made Now
no one knows how the town stands, the
mixup is so great. If some man cared
to own whole town in Maine he could
get one cheap. if he bought up the tax
deeds of Somerville. 1t is probable that
most of the people would let their
property go without redeeming it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

matches and four Bolivian iron half
dollars. He got up and went across to
Volkner's combined store and grog shan
ty over the way.
He's gone to buy a bottle of square
face, said Hamilton.
He deserves it." said Denison gloom
lily. IA man of his age who could jump
overheard and swim ashore to this rotten
country should be presented with a case
of gin-and knife to cut his throat with
after he had finished it,
In about ten minutes the old fellow
came out of Volkner's store, carrying
two or three stout fishing lines, several
packets of hooks and half a dozen fish
biscuits. He grinned as he passed the
group on the veranda, and then squat
ting down on the sward near by, began
to uncoil the lines and bend on the
hooks. Denison was interested, went
over to him, and watched the swift,
skilful manner In which the thin brown
fingers worked.
Where are you going to fish, he in
quired.
The broad, fiat face lit up. "Outside
in the dam deep water-sixty, eighty,
ia am
Denison left him, and went aboard the
ancient, cockroach infested craft of
which he was the heartbroken supercar-
go. Half an hour later REQ padded
past the schooner in a wretched old
canoe, whose outrigger was so insecurity
fastened that it threatened to come adrift
every instant. The old man grinned as
he recognized Denison then, pipe in
mouth, he went boldly out through the
passage between the lines of roaring SURF
into the tumbling blue beyond.
At 10 o'clock. just as the supercargo
and the skipper were taking their last
nip before turning in, the ancient slip
ped quietly alongside in his canoe and
clambered on deck. In his right hand he
carried q big salmon-like fish, Weighing
about twenty pounds. Laying it down
On the deck, he pointed to it,
PLENTY more in canoe like that. You
want some more
Denison went to the side and looked
over. The canoe was loaded down to the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

was on record breaking run to the
engine house. In a twinkiing tie horses
were in their places and feaping into his
seat Stanley was guiding the dashing
team on its run to the scene of the fire,
which was at the Halfway Park resi-
dence of ex-Common Councilman o. C.
Boyd.
While the apparatus was returning to
surrendered his post to one OF his COM
rades, and returning to the church, the
ceremony was performed, this time with
out interruption.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
ANSWERED DUTY's CALL.
Fireman Left His Bride When tho
Alarm Sounded.

Lebanon, Penn.,) Cor. Philadelphia Led
ger.
Only an instant did Charles ]. Stanley
wayer between love and duty when as he
and pretty Annie L. Biever, standing be-
fore Rev Dr.. T. E. Schmauk, were about
to be Joined in wedlock, the fire alarm
sounded.
Stanley is driver for the Good Will
Steam Fire Company, and had won the
love of the Youngest daughter of Amos
III. Biever, President of Select Council.
They had decided on a quiet, unostenta-
tious wedding, and in order that no one
might know in advance of the event,
he did rot make a request of the fire
company for leave of absence. Without
exciting any attention, the young couple
reached Salem church shortly after z
o'clock last evening. DR.. Sehmauk was
there, ready to tie the knot and as no
time was to be lost, the couple stood be-
fore him. The opening words Of the
ceremony had been spoken by the minis
ter when the groom was startled by the
first sound Of the fire alarm. Instantly
he realized that there was no one at his
post to drive. Excusing himself to bride
and minister, he left the church, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

down the coast and swan ashore, lard
ing al a point twenty miles distant from
Apia. The natives in the various vii
l&ges had given him food, so when he
reached the town he was not hungry.
What do you want, anyway?'' asked
Schluter.
Some tobacco, please And dollar or
two. 1 can pay you back
When said Hamilton, the pilot, in
credulously.
The pipe described semicircle ooh, to-
morrow night; before, perhaps"
Ihey gave him some tobacco and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
MUNYON'S
RHEUMATISM
CURE

when Prof. bEuhyon says lis RheQ.
Matls1n Cure wifi cure rheumat 1sIn
there isn't any guesSwork about it..theSR
simply cures # does Just 6xaofiy What
he says 1: viii do. It cures more quick
ly than people expect. 1t cures WITHOUT
etornach AND nerve tonic as Well as q pos
itiye cure for rheuma tisTQ.
All tie Mvnyon repsdles are just as
reliable. Any druggist, PC vial The
guido to Health IS fee; so is rnedicaf ad-
xice Il you write TO Broadway and 18th
g.. New York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30

ISLANDERS of a vile Tongan pig from
mission school He would, he said, go
back to Apia, where he was respected
by all who knew. him Then he began
to pack up. Some of the natives sided
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
sCROF il A

is bad blood" A little break
of the skin becomes a sore !;
you come to have a good many
perhaps. There are other
manifestations of scrofula.
This is the plain one.
There is a germ to be killed.
You kill it with vital force.
What is that?
It's the power that life has.
Full life is strong; scant life
is weak.
Take SCOTS emulsion Of
rs &c ss%
cod-liver oil to cultivate life.
Astounding Life is, perhaps, the
cure of all diseases.
Wen send you little 70 try If you like
SCOTT 8 BOVINE, 4os Pearl street, New YsrA
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30

40 one TO whom 1t happened to
M N read Grace El1ery channings
NNu first volume of short stories,
III M 1.-The Sister of a Saint" will
A " need to be told twice to pos
sess themselves of "The For
tune OF Day on learning that it also
IL q book Of tales of Italian peasant-llfe.
The author has the by-no-means-com
gift OF writing a perfect short story. and
over those which she has written OF Italy
is thrown certain delicate atmosphere.
d haze OF tenderness and sympathetic
feeling, which II Is easy to feel but most
difficuIt to describe Perhaps one comes
nearest II by saying that the author is
"simpatica," as her beloved Italians
would say. and that the quality shows
In every line of her work in prose.
"Simpatical When you are that, there
is nothing else you can be; and when
you are not that. nothing that you can
be IL OF any use. When everybody, down
to the newsboys and cab-openers. loves
you and doesn't know why. you are SIM
patica: when people would rather do
things for you than not, and don't care.
about the payment. then you may be
sure you are simpatica; when the express
voice change insensibiy when they look
at and speak to you. there is no room to.
doubt that you are simpatica. You may
not be rich nor beautiful. nor educated
tsuch very different thing from book
fcd), but you do not need to be. Simpa-
tica Is the comprehending sky of praise
in which separate stars of admiration are
swallowed up"
Now the quality of Mrs. Claiming Stet-
sons Italian stories. whatever you may
choose to call It. is the same beautiful
and tender quality that has carried "The
Cardinals Snuff-Box" into the hearts of
so many readers In the last five months,
and has brought JOY to the hearts OF the
publishers, In that It has sold fifty thou
sand copies--a most unusual record for
any book having grace. charm. artistic
merit and human feeling. to make. One
Is tempted to say to the publishers of
'"rhe Fortune of Day. "You have an
exquisite thing there. OF the kind that the
best people like Do. for heavens sake.
20 ahead and exploit II. Make some
thino OF your chance. Advertise even
~ Mr.. John Lane advertises. 1t ought
to pay you in cold. hard shekels to do
20. and. moreover. the success of the
book. II II should have the success II de-
serves. would comfort the detected critics.
even a. the successes OF Monsieur Beau
caire' and The Cardinals Snuff-Box'
have comforted them. by encouraging
them to believe that as yet all sense Of
literary style. Of grace, OF the exquisite.
has not died out In the heart and brain
Of the American reading public" II
only this little hoax OF stories and Miss
Halls "April's Sowing" both adorable
after their kind. might "go" as fifty dull.
Henseless. tasteiess books have gone Of
late. there would still be hope for the
public taste.
('"rhe Fortune Of a Day BY Grace
Ellery Claiming. u.25. ri. y. Stone a
Co. For sale by Lowman q Hanford)
= = =
In "Expansion" Josiah Strong discusses
the subject OF our national policy In the
Hight OF the new conditions by which the
twentieth century Is confronted. 1t is a
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clear and comprehensive statement OF this
most important subject. The next ques-
tion--the first question-in world history
Is. Shall the Anglo-saxon or the Slav i'm
press his characteristics upon the world?
The time is coming when one or the
other of these races will be the supreme
power on the earth This Is "the spinal
column Of world politics, OF which all
other political questions are only the
ribs" The Anglo-Saxon is at present the
supreme representative of civil and re-
ligfous liberty; the Slav represents absolu-
tism both In church and state. The one
civilization Ia based on the development
of the Individual; the other on his sup
preston. On supremacy In the Pacific
in the twentieth century much will de-
pend. Absolutely against our viii as a
nation, we have found ourselves in the
forefront of the struggle whatever its
ultimate character may prove to be. The
internal and external conditions which
have placed us where we are; the bearing
OF the exhaustion OF arable public lands
and our new manufacturing supremacy
upon the problem; the effect of the
Nicaragua canal, are all discussed clear
~ and buoyantly. The author is good
man for the optimist to read. He be-
lieves In destiny and in our racial force
OF character One warts to go out and
help push the universe along after read
ing him.
("Expa nsion," by Josiah Strong, 81. The
Baker 4 Taylor Co. For sale by Lowman
& Hanford)
1.-The Argonaut Letters" of Jerome Hart
are published In handsome volume by
Upham. Payot & Co. They consist Of inn
prcsstons Of foreign travel contributed to
the San Francisco journal whose name
they bear. Mr.. Hart Ia Flip" and original
and frequently amusing He has no sense
OF color, which is az unfortunate In
Europe as deafness at a symphony con-
cert, but he has a good serviceable sense
of humor OF an excellent American brand.
and he records his observations courage
ously and frankly. He does not bore the
reader by telling him Thousand things
that he already knows. He gossps en-
tertalningly about out-of-the-way trifies.
("Argonaut Letters" BY Jerome Hart.
g. Upham, Payot g. Col
"Chloris of the Island" ia one OF Mr..
II. b. Marriott watson's most charac-
teristic romances. He does the romantic
with a little difference from the hordes
Of other writer's who handle similar SUBJ
jects. He has a sense of style, a taste
for deft expression and gift at delineat-
ing character. His people are usually
something q little more definite than the
ordinary marionette Of romance. In
Cohorts" there is a savage heroine and
very square. deliberate British hero.
The father and brothers OF the heroine
are engaged In uhe smuggling business.
albeit they are country gentlemen. and
one of them Is intriguing with the
French (ail this in 1860 for the landing
OF Bonaparte and his troops ON the
English coast. The square and stolid
hero sets himself to.thwart their schemes
and to ayenge the death Of a friend at
their hands. He has q vast number OF
absorbing adventures. and the book Is
certainly an excellent one OF Its class.
(.'Chlorls OF the Island" N.5o. Harper
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a single order for 1850 copies of David
Harum." Four hundred and ninety thou
sand copies of this wonderful story have
been printed. and the sales at present
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aides who accompanied Sheridan to the
front: and the last is .'The Closing Scene
at Appomattox Court House"
These are all the accounts of an eye
witness, told in clear and vigorous words,
and ali are wonderfully interesting, as,
with such subject matter. they could not
fail to be. The illustrations are by
Zogbaum.
C'Thrilling Days In Army Life BY
Gen. George A. Forsythe. si.5o- Harper
a. Bros. For sale by Lowrnan & Han
ford)
: {.
r. II. Russell Il Co. have Just issued
very attractive souvenir of Maude Adams
in L'Aiglop. The cover is by Ernest
Haskell, the photographs are unusually
good for stage scenes. and the publication
is gotten up in the artistic manner in
which this firm is past master. We re-
produce here the anal scene.
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& Bros. For sale by Lowman & Han
ford)
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The Filibusters." by Cutcliffe Hyne
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NOTES AND NEWS.

d. Appleton & CO. have within a few
days received from a Western bookseller
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average not less than 500 copies a day.
so that the half million mark viii be
shortly reached. II is said that the new
illustrated edition has been received with
an exceptional favor, which shows that
MIR. c4inedinsts pictures have obtained
the stamp of approval II is evident that
David Harum'' has become n type %
appeal TO all classes of American read
ers
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