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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-17

ciety girl Of Pensacola--Montgom
Advertiser.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-17
They're welcome back.


Lots of our friends of the
Fall haven't been missed
during the joyous Summer,
but with the change of the
season they fill once more a
not long felt, but equally
earnest, want.
Fall Suits in all the sea-
sons latest shades, SIS TO
I$35.
The John White Store
"Fsorsda's Leading cIothisrs-"
2os-ef1 PaIafox Street.
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Malaria Causes Loss Of Appetite.
The Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives
out malaria and builds UP the sys-
tenn. For grown people and children
Soc.
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FREESAMPLE

No matter how long or
how much you've suffered
from eczema and itch, get a
FREE sample of LENOIR'S
ECZEMA REMEDY from
your druggist in Pensacola,
or write to us. This ;nedi-
cine has cured thousands and
will cure you. The sample
will prove its curative value.
Cawthon-Colernan Co,
Selma, Ala.
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SOCIETY

CONTINUED from Page Ftve.)
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-01-04
Bar Harbor Outgrows Town
Meeting

Last summer the beautiful Hancock
county town containing Bar Harbor
woke up suddenly after a protracted
financial debauch The immediate
cause was an Indignation meeting of
nonresident owners to protest against
the prevailing tax rate of $3.50 per
thousand. There was so little to be
said in favor of things as they We're,
that a committee of seven resident
taxpayers was set promptly at work,
investigating the cause OF the trouble
and seeking the way out. Their re-
port, just submitted, brings out some
very interesting facts.
During recent years while the popu-
latien was increasing l-6 per cent
and the valuation 6 $40 per cent, the
tax rate jumped GA per cent and the
appropriations ~ per cent. After
making a careful study of the NUM-
cipal affairs, the committee concludes
that a tax rate of $25 per thousand
should be ample to meet the towns
necessary expenses, provided the pro-
basis. How to get that done is the
principal problem, and the solution
recommended by the committee is in
line with modern municipal exper
fence.
At the first opportunity, they recon-
mend that the town apply for char
ter making possible the commission
plan of city government. Meanwhile
they suggest that the board of select
men be increased to five, elected on
joint ballot, and that the chairman be
paid a salary and required to devote
his whole time to the management
of the towns affairs. They also
recommend that the road commission
er be displaced by a board of three
men with power to employ the super
intendent of streets not one of their
own number. Under the present sys-
TEN" says the committee, there is no
other officer in the town who is SO
peculiarly under obligations to the
men in his employ as the road COM
missioner"
Thus the struggle to "unscramble'
the present unhealthy combination of
politics and business in the conduct
of public affairs. goes on apace.
Skowhegan will watch Bar Harbor's
efforts with peculiar and sympathetic
interest.
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Where is The Leak -?

The Tariff Board is reporting on
Schedule X, asserts that the wool
grower gets a profit of 68 cents from
$23 suit, the cloth manufacturer %
cents, the wholesale clothier $2.28 and
the retailer $3.50. In the latter case,
however, the profit mentioned is the
gross, rather than the net. These
figures should make every American
interested in the cost of living prob
lem sit up and take notice.
For the consumer to pay 40 per cent
for the services rendered by the re-
taller is little short of extortion. Yet
where Is the leak? Competition IN
the retail trade is more keen than
anywhere else in the mercantile world
and under competition excessive pro-
fits are impossible. That 40 per cent
rake off bears the unmistakable ear
marks of monopoly. Somewhere be-
hind the excessive cost in the retail
ial privilege. Find it, and the biggest
factor in the cost of living problem
can then be dealt with.
Failure to keep the cost of liyins
on a normal basis has not only
emptied the seats of the mighty from
the dawn of history down to Diaz. but
time and again has swept great ma
tons from the face of the eartn,
/ Special privilege was the insidous fac
/ tor that overthrow Rome. Today IL
| lies behind the decadence of France
and England, while it works almost
unchallenged in our midst. Race
suicide and the dwindling population
of the rural New England towns bear
witness to its power, but the end OF
its sway is in sight.
Hunger and cold are sisters of pro-
gress and will not be denied. The
taste of that to come. For the first
present era of unrest is but a fore
time in history a people enjoying man
hood suffrage, education, free press
and free speech is pausing to ask
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sKOwHEGAN MARKET.

Wool-Unwashed zoe per ID.
Hides and skinS-Hides 8Mc to &c
per Id; calf skins. 15c to 1Sc per ID;
lamb skins. Acc to SOC
Beans-Hand picked. yellow eyes.
$3.50 to $500; pea beans, $500 to s2.2S.
Beef-Ox beef. &C to &C.
Poultry-Fowls. IL to lac per h.;
chicken, IA to Ice
Round Hog-Sc.
Tallow--Rough, &c. pei. ib
Eggs-35c per dozen fresh.
Potatoes-75c per bushel.
Butter-2Sc per lb
Cheese-16c. to 18c per Id.
Retail Market
Flour-Spring Wheat Patent. $3.50;
winter wheat patent, 1915.
Oats-Old western. 62 IL.
Meal-$1.65 per bag.
Corn-$1.75 per bag
Spring bran-$150 per bag.
Winter bran-$1.55 per bag.
Cotton Seed-$1.70.
Mixed feed-$1.60 cwt.
Salt Pork-13c by the Dbl, zoo lbs
500.
Cheese-20c to 22c per Id.
Butter-34c per pound
Teas--25c. to soc. per ID
Coffee-20c to 3Sc per pound
Lard-Domestlc 12c. compound 10c.
Molasses-Pure Ponce, ACC to soc.
Sugar-(franulated sugar. best quail
ity 10 lbsfor 800: brown Il lbs.
for 800
Pot atoes-s1.0O per bushel.
Onions-5c per ID.
Poultry-Fowls. 14c to 16c per ID;
chicken 16c to 22c per III
Eggs-40c per dozen. fresh
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At meeting of the joint committee,
representing the different churches,
relative to the work concerning the
Men and Religion Forward Move
ment" campaign that is at present
being agitated over the entire state
the following matters were taken up
and disposed of. Leslie E. Jacobs, was
chosen as permanent chairman of the
committee. 1t was voted to unite with
Madison and engage speakers well
yersed in the work to address mass
meetings as soon as convenient after
the Portland convention. The follow
ing delegates were chosen to attend
the convention which will be held in
Portland, Jan. to the 18th. w. A.
Bailey, E. c. Butler, E. E. Harris, VIM.
Snow, G. r. Fogg, w. II. Jones, E. T.
Goodrich A. II. Lang, Judson Packard,
Emmons Head, L. w. Gerrish, J. n.
Smith. L. E. Jacobs. The delegate
convention days are Tuesday and We'd
nesday the 9th and 10th.
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TONGUES Betray Them,

The man who In Massachusetts says
Le-o-minster at once reveals himself
as a rank outsider
But II the Massachusetts man goes
up into New Hampshire and inquiries
for what he calls Goose county or Cooze
county the natives of Coos county
wonder where he went to school.
And, In Maine. Saco is the test word
that betrays the stranger within the
state. For variety of pronunciation by
those who don't know that word of
only four letters Is believed to hold
the record.
They used to tell the story that as
each train bearing summer visitors
started up from Biddeford, just across
the river, the brakeman announced
thus:
THE next station is Sayko-Sacko-
Sarco Sawko- Sayso Sasso Sarso Saw
so!''
Maine people will tell you that 1t is
pronounced exactly as 1t is spelled
S-a-c-o, Sawko.
Any Maine man recognizes fellow
Maine man at once by his pronuncia-
ton of town name.-Boston Globe.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1912.
The Stumpage Tax

Taking emphatic exception to the
stumpage tax portion of the report
by the State Grange Committee on
Taxation, the Rockland Opinion says:
THE fact that. as the commit
tee have a definite assurance, the
wild land owners would cheer
fully" pay the tax, should put
everybody on their guard. or
course they would. for the excel
lent reason that not one cent OF
it would come out of their
pockets; the tax would all be paid
by the ultimate consumer"-the
farmer of the Grange and the
people engaged in all industries.
That the owner of timberlands
could actually pay 81 stumpage tax
for every 81 now annually paid to the
state, and still save money, is a fact.
BY and large he has to wait about
thirty years for his returns. AS the
money to pay the annual tax must
come from some outside source. the
land owner is out not only his actual
payments to the state, but the inter-
est Oh we'll SOhipOuhdih5
these at per cent and making no
allowance for the fire hazard, the tax
payer is actually out of pocket $2.62
for every 81 that the tate gets.
AS for the shifting of the tax onto
the consumer, the Opinion is wrong
there also Lumber prices for Maine
are fixed in the New York market.
The value of stumpage varies with the
cost of getting it to the consumer.
The timberland owner charges all the
traffic will bear, just the same as does
the urban landlord. The stumpage
tax could no more be shifted than
could a tax on land values.
Continuing the Opinion also OBJ
serves:
THE report gets off the track
when it undertakes to divide real
estate into three elements-land,
improvements and standing tim
Der; and then regarding the latter
as a crop If it really were
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crop, it would be a product of
labor and capital applied to land,
and should not, on the principles
laid down. be taxed at all. But 1t
is not crop, any more than Is
granite, limerick or slate in
quarry. or ore in a mine. 1t Is
a product of natural forces I'M
aided by human effort. 1t Is then
a part of the land-of the re-
sources of nature provided for the
use of all the people-and when
reduced to private ownership and
then monopolized, should pay a
tax amounting to the annual rem
tai value every year
But Webster defines a crop as any
thing cut of or gathered" The
Grange Committee on Taxation is
therefore likely to wait for some
higher authority than the Opinion
before abandoning the conclusion that
timber is "A crop. Furthermore both
labor and capital are now devoted to
the growing of that crop by way OF
fire protection. and with a rational
system OF forest taxation, the eXpendi-
lures for scientific management would
be vastly increased. If the Opinion is
to argue that timber should
not be taxed at all, probably there
are some people in the state who
would agree, but as for us the
is a bit too much.
When Brother Otis says that tim
berlands should pay tax amounting
to the annual rental value every
year" we don't believe he really
knows what he is talking about. Just
to prove it. we are going to ask him
how to determine the annual rental
value of land producing but once in
three decades?
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HINCkLEY.

H. N. Holway of Madison was the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Helen Smith,
Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Anna G.. Boyden is very i'll.
Miss Clara Steward Skowhegan is
with her at present.
George T. Tibbetts and Melvin Pal
mer went to Fairfield Thursday even
ing to attend a Masonic meeting
Henry Crocker who has been visit
ing friends in town and at Good VIII
Farm. the past few days left Dec. LIST
He has a fine position as teacher in
Putnam, Conn.
Allen Parmenter who has been con-
fined to the house several weeks by
rheumatism, is out again.
Mrs. w. b. Blanchard was the guest
of her brother e. c. Joy over Sunday
returning to Wateryille Monday after
noon.
Mrs. Jennie Malbon and Miss Mary
Wentworth were callers at Melvin
Palmer's Thursday afternoon.
The friends of J. w. Walker and
family will be glad to know that word
has been received of their safe arrival
in Florida. They had a pleasant jour
ney.
Mrs. G. w. Hinckley entertained the
Kennebecside club Saturday after
noon. The attendance was small on
account of sickness but q very pleas
ant afternoon was passed by those
present. A Christmas tree with its
brilliant decorations was the chief at
traction from which each guest re-
ceived dainty remembrance. Christ
mas cakes and tea were served
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS MARRIED.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles futile Observe
Their Wedding Anniversary Friday
Evening.

The elegant farm of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. futile on the Notch Road
was the scene of large gathering of
people last Friday evening, when they
received in observance of the 25th an
niyersary of their marriage.
Included in the receiving line were
Mr.. and Mrs. futile, Mrs. Mabel Pat
ten, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith, Miss
Marion Smith and Miss Mildred Smith
of Augusta the guests in attendance
numbering about lis persons. The
event was largely attended by Show
hogan people. guests also coming from
Waterville, Augusta, Cornyille, Athens
and Canaan.
During the evening music was fur
nished by kendalls orchestra which
was stationed in the living room, and
a program of songs was given by P.
]. Shannahan Mrs Charles Moody
and Miss Winifred Gardner Remarks
were made by Leroy Sanford and
y
by Mrs Mae c. Parsons Tooker, of
Westfield, \. J., formerly of Cornyille
was entertainingly read by Mrs. Ella
Crowell. There were also piano solos
played by Miss Gertrude Whittemore,
a student at the n. +. Conservatory of
Music, Boston.
Refreshments of ices, cake, fruit and
coffee were served under the direc-
ton of Caterer n. II. Lambert, and
the dining room was most attractive
in holiday decorations, the table
being draped in smilaX with a center
piece of carnations, while streamers
hung from various portions of the
ceiling, combining with the beautiful
gowns made a very pleasing effect
The gifts received by the bride
and groom of % years were numerous
and of great beauty, and included
table linen, cut glass, silver, hand
painted china, beautiful chair and
lamp An unusual gift came from
Mrs. George Neal and was bas-
ket of natural apple blossoms, while
a solid silver crumb tray was the
combined remembrance of several
residents of the Skowhegan House.
Mr.. and Mrs. futile proved them
selves very admirable entertainers,
their well made plans for the pleasure
of their guests maturing most success
fully and the well wishes of Show
hogan people go with them for a
happy continuance of the past %
years.
Among the attractive gowns worn
by the ladies present might be men
toned that of the hostess which was
of peacock blue satin and which wa
her wedding dress.
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If THE PERSON who was seen
taking a robe from a team hitched I'M
der the Steward Bros shed. Saturday
night, Dec. 30th, will leave it at Stew
ards grist mill they will avoid further
trouble. 1w1"
NY HOME PLACE on Parlin street
also my dining cottage at Lakewoo4
with equipment for doing business. also
six boats Mrs. Sarah Dore. 10 ParliR
St, or w. A. Smith at Parker & Nay
Store Will be sold at ence. First come
first served 4w"
MEN WANTED at once to learn the
auto business in our garage. Good
particulars. Hamlin Foster Auto Co.
Asa Fore ST., Portland. Me 3mosl
NICE TENEMENT TO RENT, S
rooms and bath room and electric
lights. l. J. Smith at Smiths Music
Store. tf52
FOR SALE--A new Royal typewriter
and desk shelf at liberal discount.
Inquire A. r. Jewett tf52
HATCH CHICKENS without care
The Natural Hen Incubator will do 1t,
Will bring circular w. A. Bigelow,
st. Adams, Me 4w52s
TRANSFERS. LUMBERMEN AND
FARMERS bring your heavy rubbers
process. Sure to stick. / do shoe re-
pairing OF all kinds all work guaran-
teed. Geo. +. King, Brown BLOCK,
Water St. 4w52%
TO LET-0ne new cottage house of eight
rooms, electric lights, near Falrview Park,
one minutes walk to electric car. Inquire
OF Joseph Butler, Klcare Farm. tfi9
WANTED-500 cords OF peeled pop
lar delivered at our mill. highest cash
price paid; also spruce and fir bought.
Skowhegan Pulp Co tf50
FOR sALE-Deslrable village estate.
house of rooms, spring water, cement
buildings In good condition; for parti-
culars Inquire of w. c. Wheeler. SHOW
hogan. 4wbO~
NOTICE. have moved my rug & rag
Carpet Weaving business to East Madi-
son and am prepared to take care of all
orders at short notice. J. j. Harvell.
Skowhegan r. F. ID. or s. Sw46"
FOR SALE-Large coal furnace COM
plete with registers and pipes. In good
condition. DR.. w. M. Pulsifer. tf46
VACUUM CLRANING-I am still in
position to do vacuum cleaning and small
Jobs OF electric wiring Leave orders with
Ralph Cleveland, is Mechanic street Tel
6S-3. tfS
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why? Just now the politicians feed
ing at the public crib do not think it
worth while to seek the answer, but
their places will soon be filled by
men of a larger mould. Then will
Special privilege be put before the
American people in all its hideous
ness. and dealt with as decisiyely as
was chattel slavery half century ago.
The coming presidential campaign
looks like the first real skirmish in
the mighty struggle of a great peo
pie 10 be really free.
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A Monument to Cheerfulness.

The following quaint epitaph Is to
be seen in Crawford churchyard, Kent.
It strikes one as one of the prettiest
monuments to cheerfulness In all Mer-
rie England: Here lieth the body Of
Peter Isnel thirty years clerk Of this
PARISH. He lived respected as a pious
and a mirthful man and died on his
way to church to assist at wedding
on the 31st day of March. 1911, aged
seventy years. The inhabitants Of
CRAWFORD have raised this stone to his
cheerful memory and as a tribute to
his long and faithful service. "-London
Standard
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Yucatan's Water Caverns.

Since Yucatan where the Mayas
built their strange cities. Is of coral
limestone formation, it follows that 1t
would have been a desert but for Its
subterranean rivers and the cenotes,
or water caverns. which give access
to them. The Mayas noted the courses
of the underground streams and built
their towns round the cenotes. Many
cenotes are now found surrounded by
ruins and give indications of the
methods employed by the Mayas to
reach their cool waters. In Uxmal a
cenote about forty feet deep is inhabit-
ed by a peculiar species of fish. At
Bolanchen there Is a cenote having
five openings in the rocks at the bot
tom of the cavern. Ladders made by
tying three trunks together lead down
total distance of 1,400 feet. but the
perpendicular depth from the surface
to the water Is not more than 800 feet.
Exchange.
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CRIPPLED BY
RHEUMATISM
Could Not Use Arms
Even to Dress.
One and a Half Bottles Of
Medicine Cured.
1t was Hoods Sarsaparilla -
1t was Hoods Sarsaparilla -
The Peoples Medicine.

DIXON, Ill-"When I was all
crippled up with rheumatism, could
not use my arms to dress or even do
up my hair. one and half bottles of
Hoods Sarsaparilla cured me. Yes,
cured me!
Il had been suffering most intensely
from pains and aches In my arms,
shoulders and knees. l knew my blood
was out OF order. but none of several
medicines that / took relieved my
great misery until l began to take
Hoods Sarsaparilla. l was soon con-
viIced that this medicine was all
RIG hit. In little while 1 could throw
my arms around any way, do up my
hair and do all my homework with no
aches or pains whatever.
Il am sure Hoods Sarsaparilla
cleansed my blood and that 1t reno
waited my whole system, In fact, made
q new woman Of me. ! advise any
ono suffering from rheumatism or bad
blood to take Hoods Sarsaparilla l
reoeat, 1t cured me, and l believe 1t
win cure others. l have tested several
of the Hood medicines and find 1t to
be true in every sense that If Made
by Hood It's Good" Emily ]. Blaine
Hoods Sarsaparilla is one of those
proprietary medicines that are indis-
pensable to thousands of families
the millions of intelligent, prudent
ard economical men and women, who
are really the bone and sinew of the
country, but who have so little to go
ard come on that professional services,
in case of sickness. are out OF the
question except where absolutely
necessary.
There is no real substitute for
Hoods Sarsaparilla. II urged to buy
any preparation said to be Just as
good" you may be sure 1t Is inferior,
costs less to make, and yields the
dealer a larger profit.
Get Hoods Sarsaparilla today IN
liquid form or tablets called Sarsataos'
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Chinsse and Chinaman.

On the subject of surprising modern
words 1t is notable that the Oxford
dictionary finds no earlier instance of
"Chinaman." In the sense of native
of China, than 1854. when Emerson so
used 1t. The previous word was "Chi-
nese," from which the plural Chi
neses" was formed by Milton and his
contemporaries. and the false singular
"Chinee" by modern Americans. But
"Chinaman" in another sense, that OF
n dealer in china, was in use long be
fore 1854. The oxford dictionary gives
three instances of it from London d.
rectories of 1772. 1901 and 1910. but
does not notice that In 1853 one John
Crowther, Chinaman," was gazetted
bankrupt "Chinawoman" in n SINH
lar sense goes back to Ben Jonson.-
London Chronicle.
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HARMONY MAN STABBED
HIS BACK
Joshua Davis Alleged TO Have At
tackled Joseph SENEGAL, who Lived
With Him.

While doing chores at the barn
Thursday evening Joseph SENEGAL, a
farmer living some two miles north of
Harmony village, is alleged to have
been stabbed in the back with large
jack-knife by Joshua Davis, making a
wound two inches deep just under the
left shoulder blade.
Some four years ago Mr.. SENEGAL
and wife went to live with Mr. Davis
to take care of him for the farm
Davis is a widower with one adopted
daughter. The daughter was given
her portion of the property and has
worked out, making her home there,
where she kept a horse which Davis
used when he liked Mr.. SENEGAL
blanketed the horse Thursday evening
according to Miss Davis instructions,
and Davis started to remove the
blanket when some words ensued, and
it is alleged that Davis suddenly stab
bed SENEGAL DR.. Dyer of Harmony
and DR.. Dorr of Cambridge were
called and dressed the wound and at
present the wounded man is com-
Portable.
Davis was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Ralph Denning and was taken
to Athens where he was arraigned be-
fore Trial Justice j. F. Holman He
was charged with assault and was
taken to Skowhegan by Sheriff Mooers
who met Deputy Sheriff Denning in
Athens.
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MARRIAGES

Norridgewock-Dec. 81. by Rev. Jud-
son Conklin, DR.. Florence S. Morrow of
Norridgewock and Charles Wagner of
New York City.
Long Pond-Dec. IS. George Gagne of
St. Francis, p. O.. and Miss Martha
Redmond, Long Pond.
West Forks-Dec. 81, by f. H Sterl-
ing, Esq, Archie T. Berry and Miss
Ethel NJ. Waugh.
Athens-Jan. l. by Rev B. II. John
son. John II. Curtis and Miss Helen
Hur dboth of Athens.
North Anson-Dec. 49, by Rev. c.
Wellington Rogers. Ross I. Knapp and
Miss Mabel Moulton, both of New Port
land.
Cambridge-Dec 80. by Rev. J. F.
Thurston of Harmony, Arthur Earl
Packard of Parkman and Halle ely
Watson of Cambridge
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Here are two specimen jokes from
Dutch papers of the day:
Mr.. Newly Rich Ito landlord - !
hear you have raised all your rents.
Why haven't you raised mine as we'll 7
can't imagine how l have merited
such an insult to my dignity.
Al wouldn't like to be standing In
your shoes Just now. B.-Why? A
Because they are in the cellar. and
twenty tons of coal have been dumped
over them.