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The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Insurance Com'r. Reports.

The 35th annual report OF Insurance
Commissioner Stephen W. Carr has just
been made public. The risks written by
fire insurance companies Of other states
and countries on Maine property and re-
ported to the department for 1902
amounted to 1926 33l.0s and are
81, 657, Gill less than the amount writ
ten during the year preceding.
The year 1902 was not, however, an
unpr1 fitable one for the insurance com
panies In Maine, as the premiums col
lected 10 this State aggregate S2,012,-
1888 06, an Increase of Sl65,59 81, while
the losses incurred during the same
period amounted to $l,0s4 ,423 0S, a
decrease of S21S, 242.08 over the losses
of years preceding, reducing the per-
centage Of losses paid to premiums re-
ceiyed from 70S4 per cent in 1901 to
5000 per cent Ia 1902, thus reducing a
heavy loss to small margin of profit,
It being generally conceded that about
40 per cent of the premiums are required
for the payment OF commissions and the
expenses incident to the business.
The total of the risks written by the
companies of other states and countries,
by the Maine mutual companies and
special brokers amounted to Sl44 ,425,-
OF 08. The total premiums received 10
1902 were S,072,3S 63, aud the total
losses paid 81, ia 603.9l.
Licenses were granted to 142 COM
panies and nearly 5000 agents. The
total amount received in fees from life
insurance companies amounted to S16,-
6a4 80. The tax assessed on insurance
companies on business of 1902 and pay
able during 1903 amounts to $50, 933 81.
This is quite In contrast to the yea
1885 when the total receipts were only
SIS, 60l "a.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
4 FRIENDS ADVICE,
Will Often Help You Greatly. Read
What a SkOwhegan Citizen Says.

You may hesitate to listen
to the advice of strangers, but
the testimony of friends or
residents OF Skowhegan is
worth your most careful at
tention. 1t is an easy matter
to investigate such proof as
this. The evidence must be
conclusive. Read the follow
ing;
F. D. Claek, living near Smithfeld
village, says: kidney complaint stole
on me slowly and quietly for two or
three years until it finally developed into
serious case which caused me no end
of misery. l doctored and used no end
OF medicine, but was unable to check
the trouble, let alone cure it. In its
later stages, after a hard days work, my
legs even ached and I awoke in the
morning as tired as when l went to bed
4 AO0h ulblN AAldu Nht AOliAhl CAENNAldh
the rest would improve my condition,
but it did not make particle of diff
ference. Finally trouble with the kidney
secretons set in, very distressing, and
believe it is always a sure indication of
acute Inflammation Of the kindeys.
When suffering from one of these spells,
think more aggravating than any of iU
predecessors, friend recommended
Doan's Kidney Pills SO strongly to me
that l went to George f. Sampson's drug
store and bought box. I followed up
the treatment until l had taken three
more and the last attack disappeared.
now know what to do if symptoms of a
recurrence appear
For sale by all dealers. Price soc per
box Foster-Milburn CO., Buffalo, n.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-DOAN'S-and
] take no other.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

Portland Argus The announcement
from Washington that Russia has given
a formal assurance that it will not oppose
China's agreement to open several ports
in Manchuria now closed to the worlds
commerce, is apparently official and
authentic. If this prove to be the fact
American interests in the Msnchuran
question will be fully conserved and
Uncle Sam need NOT lie awake nights
worrying over the Far Eastern question.
All he wants is guarantee of the "open
door," that secured he can regard
Russia's attitude toward China with
comparative indiffence. But it will be
something unusual in Russian diplomacy
ii he does not find string attachment to
the Russian "open door" assurances,
when he comes to act upon them.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Gov. Bates Presided

Governor Bates of Massachusetts, son
OF Rev. DR.. L. B. Bates of East Boston,
leader of the Christian Workers League,
presided at the csmpmeetine at Old
Orchard, Sunday afternoon. The meet
ing was held In the Tabernacle because
Of the storm. A chorus of children
greeted the Governor with patriotic
songs and the waving Of flags.
Congressman Amos L. Allen of the
First Maine District occupied seat on
the platform and introduced the Govern
or, who made brief address. "Christ-
ian Citizenship" was the the theme OF
the afternoon.
10 the course Of his remarks Gov.
Bates said: 1--WE may need guns for
defense, but guns cannot organize or
carry on government. We are living
under government in which every
citizen, however humble his calling, has
part. The duties of citizenship are
not fully discharged In the payment OF
taxes or In participation if caucus.
We must be constantly on the alert to
perform our part in carrying on the
warfare against that which tends to
undermine the government"
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
To Improve Maine Butter.

The dairy commissioner recently APP
pointed, purposes to make his place of
practical good in the state by making an
effort to improve Maine butter. In this
he is correct.
The following appears in the Ameri-
can Agricultulist:
We propose for time to go to those
people who are not sending first. class
quality OF cream to our creameries and
assist them II possible to locate their
difficulty, and carry any ideas we may
have gathered from others who have
remedied just such conditions. We hope
to get to the home of the dairyman, and
II he desires any knowledge or advice
we may possess we shall be glad to
impart it.
1t is our aim to do away with, so far
as is possible, all the poor cream which
Is now coming to our factories and being
made into grade Of butter which gives
the state the unenviable reputation as a
producing state. While our in
terests are largely centered in the sweet
cream business, yet we do not wish the
consumer to believe we cannot produce
butter second to none, when we are sure
it is our peculiar condition which is the
cause. S. c. THOMPSON.
Winterport, Me.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Mrs. Blaine's Funeral.

President George Harris of Amherst
college officiated at the funeral of Mrs.
James G. Blaine at the Blaine mansion
near the State House at four O'Clock
Saturday afternoon. DR.. Harris, who
was close friend of the family, used
the Congregational service.
Floral tributes from every section OF
the country nearly buried the casket
The singing was provided by triple
quartette of local people. The body was
taken TO the railroad station Immediately
after the service and placed in a special
car which was later attached to the 10 &c
train. The interment will be beside the
body of her husband, the former secre.
tary of state in Rock Greek cemetery,
Washington.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Foreign Crops.

The foreign crop report Of the depart
meut OF agriculture at Washington. Just
out, based on advces received by the
foreign statistical agent Of the depart
ment at Loadon IA late as July /, is in
brief as follows;
In Russia, meteorological conditions
have been in the highest degree fayora-
BILE for the development Of cereal crops
in most parts Of European Russia and
harvest prospects are considerably i'm
proved, even In regions where conditions
At the beginning Of -pfng were unfavor-
abb. In Hungary great improvement
~ the winter cereals, particularly 10
winter rye has been shown the past
month. Only approximately good me-
dunn harvest 0f the -prlng crops In
Austria is 70 be counted or At beat.
Maize promises well there. 10 Hungary
unless there j. more Improvement before
harvest, which i. hardly expected, this
years out-.urn Of cereals will fan con.
siderably below that II 1902. the dth
cheney In the case Of wheat being about
l5R per cent Most Of the Bulgarian
crops are reported IN very good eondi-
ton. Storms and floods have caused
extensive damage 70 crops and vineyards
In Italy. Ia France the estimated area
OF winter wheat ia Gsl, IA acres less
than 10 1902. A marked Improvement
in wheat and other crops occurred there
during June and the crops now are doing
well. Generally favorable reports come
from Denmark. Ia Great Britain the
wheat crop is everywhere somewhat
better and hardly can come up to az
average yield. Advices TO the depart.
ment from the government of India
estimate the total wheat crop harvested
there 10 the spring of 1903 at 29O, 2G1, l04
bushels, against yield OF 226, 80 500
bushels In the previous wear.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Rrutally Tortured.

A case came to light that for persis-
tent and unmercful torture has perhaps
never been equaled. Joe Golobick of
Colusa, Calf, writes, "For 10 years en-
dured insufferable pain from Rheuma.
tism and nothing relieved me though |
tried everything known. 1 came across
Eclectric Bitters and its the greatest me-
dicine on earth for that trouble. A few
bottles of it completely relieved and cur
ed me-" Just as good for Liquor and
Kidney troubles and general debility.
Only SOC. Satisfaction guaranteed by Geo.
e. Sampson, Druggist.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Kodol Gives Strength

by enabling the digestive organs to
digest, assimilate and transform all of
the wholesome food that may be eaten
into the kind of blood that nourishes
the nerves, feeds the tissues, hardens
the muscles and recuperates the organs
Of the entire body. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Ca
tsrrh of the Stomach and all stomach
disorders. Sold by Geo. e. sampson.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

Word comes from the Eastern State
Fair to be held in Bangor the last week
of August to the effect that the show OF
cattle promises to be the best ever shown
in the history of the fair. The manage.
ment is receiving daily a large number
of letters from breeders all over the
state saying they will be in attendance
at the exhibition with their blooded
stock. This fair is apt to be good one
and to attract wide attention and large
attendance. The managers know how
to get together an exhibit that draws.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Treat your Kidneys for Rheumatism.

When you are suffering from rheuma-
tlsm, the kidneys must be attended to at
once so that they will eliminate the uric
acid from the blood. Foley's Kidney
Cure Is the most effective remedy for this.
"After unsucoessfully doctoring three
years for rheumatism with the best
doctors, tried Foley's Kidney Cure and
it cured me. / cannot speak too highly
of this great medicine Sold by +.
w. Buchanan, Skowhegan.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Working Night And Day

The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. These pills change weak
ness into strength, listlessness into ener.
gy, brain-fag into mental power. They're
wonderful in building up the health,
Only 25c per box. Sold by Geo. E.
Sampson.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clerk OF Courts:

Clerk OF Courts:
gnls4 T. sREElNs, ............,'....Sko whegan
County Attorney
Cos W. COVER, ................ Skowhegan
Judge Of Probate;
FpwAsD F. DANFoRTH,. ..........,...,..sko whegan
Register of Probate;
NArHAN FowLRR,..'''.... .....'...... Skowhegan
Register OF Deeds:
LLsustlYN GOODWIN, ..................Sk owhegau
Treasurer:
R. H. REED. ................... $3.50. Harmony
Sheriff and Jaier:
ALFRED II. LANG. ............. 80. .Skowhegan
Drffr1ge c. Z. Duren, Fairfield. Anon Baker,
BINGHAM. William (. Priest, Pittsfeld; Lewis Fish,
Hartllni, Fred Lucas, St. Adams; Charles f. Var
ney, Mercer; George Aver, Athens; Wallace Emery,
ctbarles Dunbar. Madison William f. Briggs, Show
segan. Orlando Bracket, Starks Herbert Eaton,
SCION, F. C. Holt, Noridgewock; J. Frank Durgin,
The Forks.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

Mrs. Minerva Smith of Danville Ill,
writes 81 had bronchitis for twenty
years and never got relief until l used
Foley's Honey and Tar which is a sure
cure" Sold by F. W. Bueknam, Skow.
hogan.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
Terms of Courts

Supreme Judicial:-The third Tuesday In March,
and September and fourth Tuesday in December Civil
and Criminal
Probaie:-The second Tuesday of each month.
County COMMISSIONER The first Tuesday In
March and August and the second Tuesdayain Decem-
her.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

The Kelley institute in Portland,
Maine; on Munjoy Hill, is successfully
curing drunkards and drug users.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

Portland Argus If the municipal
campaign In New York is not interesting
and picturesque it will not be the fault
OF Mr.. William Devery. He has started
his candidacy for mayor, and has an
nounced that he will spend 800, 900 IN
the campaign. He is going to deliver
200 speeches, starting next month at the
roof gardens, and appearing between the
acts of vaudeville shows at Coney Island.
Subsequently he will conduct a cart-tail
campaign in the thickly populated parts
of the city. Tammany disparages
Devery's strength, but it may find him a
factor to be reckoned with before the
campaign is over.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
HOOD FARM
Gdrget Cure

In garget the udder becomes iniamed,
hot red and painful, and the milk seems
thick, stringy, bloody or watery
A tablespoonful of Hood Farm Garget
Cure mixed with damp feed two or three
times a day will cure any ordinary case.
One Of my cows had bloody garget and
l fed her Hood Farm Garget Cure night
and morning for six days, after which the
milk was all right A. f. LOOMS, North
Wolcott, VT.
Prices 81 and $50.
Hood Farm SaIVe - especially pre-
pared to be used in connection with our
Garget Cure. Also excellent for cracked
teats, sores, bruises, 81. Call for treatise on
garget and its causes. Prepared by c. l..
Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. For sale by
FRANK W. BUCKSAN, Skowhegan Ne.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

4 girls idea of a swell hat is one a man can't
tell from lampshsde.
Lives Of CRATE men Oft remind us that we
must get mp ano light the fire.
Women love a clear, healthy complexion
Pure blood makes 1t. BurdoCk Blood Bitters
makes pure blood
Instead OF occupying a place on the table
the turkey gobbler sits in a chair.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23

"Any fool can fall in love-" says the Cyni-
cal Bachelor, but it takes genius to get out
again"
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
No Pity Shown.

"For years fate was after me contin-
uousy" writes F. A. Gulledge, Serbena,
Ala. 81 had terrible case of Piles caus-
ing "a tumors. When all failed Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured me. Equally good
for Burns and all aches and pains. Only
% at Geo. E. SIMPSONS Drug Store.
boon TO travellers. DR.. Fowlers Extract of
Wild Strawberry. Cures dysentery, diarrhGA-
seasickness, nausea. Pleasant TO take. Perfect
ly harmless.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
County Commissioners :

County Commissioners
IogyEsiETcAlF. New Portland
MILTON L. MERRILL, St. Adams.
L. {. WILLIAMS, Athens.
The Somerset reporter., 1903-07-23
The Foundation of Health.

Nourishment is the foundation of
alth-life-strength. Kodol Dyspep-
STA Cure is the one great medicine that
enables the stomach aid digestive or
gans to digest, assimlate and transform
all foods into the kind of blood that
nourishes the nerves and feeds the
tissues. kodol lays the foundation for
health. Nature does the rest. Indi.
geston, Dyspepsia, and all disorders of
the stomach and digestive organs are
cured by the use of Kodol. Sold by Geo,
f. Sampson.
With an umbrella it is always case OF put
up or shut up.
The first six months of mstrimony is novelty
the rest OF IL is habit.
The average man finds 1t much easier TO pay
compliments than debts.
Women laugh oftener from q sense OF duty
than from 3 sense of humor.
The independent., 1903-04-23

published the following editorial on
the prosecution of the trusts
"We do not think there need be any
fear that the administration of Theo-
dore Roosevelt will ever institute any
more antitrust suits. According to
the best information from Washing
ton, Attorney General Knox and other
members of the cabinet have been
hearing things during the past three
days that must have made their ears
burn. A gentleman who is on the
inside of the situation says: THE
interests of men very close to the
administration are bound to be af
fected by a general collapse. of cor
porate values. | understand that a
great many prominent men political
ly yesterday sent urgent kilograms to
members of the cabinet urging the ad-
ministration to desist from any fur
ther attack at the present time. They
had been asked to intercede with the
president to prevent financial disas-
ter to the country in the midst of the
greatest prosperity. / have seen cop
les of these kilograms, and they were
of the most urgent character. AS a
rule they beg the president to let
we'll enough alone One more dose
curities case would prove a financial
emetic that would probably result in
making somebody besides Theodore
Roosevelt the next president of the
| United States"
The independent., 1903-04-23
THE RAILROAD MERGER
WHICH is CALLED THE NORTH
ERN SECURITIES COMPANY
FINDS AN OBSTRUCTION 1t
THE COURTS, BUT
THE LIFE INSURANCE TRUST
Meets No Obstacle Save, Only, the
Home Life Insurance Companies
of the West.

The J. Pierpont Morgan syndicate
met a serious situation in the federal
court which decided that it's plan of
merger represented by the Northern
Securities company was illegal. Stock
in the combine fell off several points.
The merger process will in the mean
time await further results and the ten
dency to combinations of great indus
tries will be stayed for a period at
least
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE
is the chief obstacle In the west to
the successful Vaccinations of the
great eastern life insurance trust. The
eastern combine of life insurance in
terests is the great mother of all the
trusts. No other aggregation of capi-
The independent., 1903-04-23

New York politicians of the Hill
stripe have long been declaring that
the Endorsement of any candidate in
that state by Bryan was sure defeat.
Now the chairman of the New York
state democratic committee comes out
in statement and declares that Bryan
defeated Coler. He says that a spe-
cial messenger was sent to Lincoln
to get Bryan to publish an indorse-
ment of Coler and that Bryan refused
and remained silent. When the Hill
crowd publicly acknowledge that they
can't elect a man, even in New York,
without Bryan's aid, it would seem
to be time for them to drop their re-
organizing propaganda.
The independent., 1903-04-23

George Gould bears testimony to the
fact often stated by The Independent,
namely, that Wall street will not fool
the western bankers again as they did
in 1898. He says: Il heard no talk
of money shortage while l was in the
west. The banks are holding their
own balances in their vaults and will
not have to draw on New York money
to move crops" One of the weapons
with which Wall street has always
driven western bankers to do their
bidding has been destroyed. A west
ern banker with all his funds in Wall
street was a helpless creature.
The independent., 1903-04-23

tai is able to finance these overstocked
and top-heayy mergers of industrial
enterprises. The great alien life com.
panies with millions for investment
make combinations of immense pro-
portions possible.
B. H. ROBSON, PRESIDENT,
and his associates in the Bankers Re-
serve Life Association, has been fight
ing the alien life insurance trust from
the day the company was incorpor-
ated. Agents of these alien companies
have resorted to the tactics of the
highwayman and the stiletto Of the
assassin in their efforts to hinder the
progress of this growing western COM
pany. The people, however, have re-
fused to be cajoled, brow-beaten or
driven from their loyal support to
THE STRONGEST WESTERN co.
thus far organized for life insurance
under the laws of Nebraska. The
legislature rejected every proposition
intended to cripple the Bankers Re-
serve Life and other home companies.
The young, aggressive western in
stitution has set its pins for $780,
100000 of insurance by 1910.
The management desire to employ
at once additional special, general
and state agents for opening new ter
ritory. Producers of character and
ability can secure good territory on
most liberal terms. Address,
BANKERS RESERVE LIFE,
OMAHA, NEB
The independent., 1903-04-23

The meat trust walked up to the
captains Office and handed over $27.-
1876 that the Missouri courts fined the
packing companies composing it for
operating a combination to raise the
price of meat. The republican attor-
ney general in this state has managed
to get all the antitrust suits dis
missed that were begun by the fusion
attorney general, Smyth. That is what
the trusts and corporations put up
their money to elect Prout to Office
for. According to the modern defini.
ton, Prout is an honest oficeholder.
He stays bought.
The independent., 1903-04-23
THE TRUSTS PROTEST
They Demand That Trust Prosecutions
Stop and That the Destruction OF Conn
petition Become the Policy

Since the article, Rough Seas
Ahead" was in type, the following ar
ticle has been sent to The Indepen-
dent. 1t shows that there is no pros
pect that the republican party will
do anything that will seriously men,
ace the trusts. 1t may be said that
in the very nature of things, consid-
ering the sources from which that
party draws its support, it cannot do
anything. The Hartford Times Is the
organ of some of the most powerful
concerns in the United States. 1t