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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-08-14
THURSDAY, AUGUST II, 1913
Labels for the Lobby

Few realize how completely a jury
man Is guarded against outside IN
1uence during the trial of a case. II
CHEAP cigar. given him by an attof-
ney or litigant. is cause enough Tor
setting aside a verdict. Every pre-
caution is taken that his decision
shall be based upon sworn testimony
given in open court. This care TO
secure justice in the application OF
law is Just as it should be and may
well serve to Ak our attention on the
utter lack of such provisions for II
laws In the making. We elect repre-
s~entatiyes and send them to Augusta
to revise old laws and make new ones.
From the time of their election until
the end of the session in which they
take their seat. they are harrassed by
persistent and powerful forces, turned
lose upon them from every quarter.
Unlike the juryman whose verdict Is
made invalid by n cheap cheroot, a
legislator might smoke himself to
death, every day, on the best a
grown, at the expense of the ever
present lobbyist, with no loss of pres
tige. He may accept favors and at
tentions of most any sort. and yet be
regarded as entirely unbiased in his
legislative acts.
The lobby Is made up of the keenest
men In the State. They are usually
of the legal profession-special
pleaders, trained in all the arts of
that calling. They are sent to Au-
gusta sometimes to ask for justice,
more often for some special privilege
always to get results. They receive
liberal salaries and never seen limited
as to funds. What can be expected
when the average legislator, no mat
ter how honest his intentions, meets
a lobby of this character at the out
set of his law making career Have
we reason to look for any legislation
In opposition TO the will of the Third
House?
Now the lobby actually serves some
useful purposes and its evils are
chiefly in proportion to the amount
of work it can do in secret. There
can be little objection to William
Smith passing the winter at Augusta
at the cost of himself or his clients
IL everybody knows what he is there
for and who SEN him. In the same
connection it would be well to know
what he gets for his services, and
what he %expends, If anything, in Sc
curing the legislation he is after. The
only hope for the reform or control
of the lobby Is along this line, PUB
LICITY. Measures, called Anti
Lobby Bills, have been introduced
at several sessions, during the past
ten years, but have received very lit
tie attention. The lobby is some
times divided In its sentiment but not
on this question. To them, any
meddling with this time-honored pre-
negatives Is wholly pernicious. Per
haps 1t is to much to expect that a
legislature will eyer pass such a
measure.
Under the Initiative. however, the
people can put a tag on every lobby
list If they so desire. By compelling
him to register, with full particulars
as to his Third House activities, they
can 80 label him that at least he need
never be taken by mistake. 1t would
seem to be very appropriate ques-
ton to submit to popular vote. An
Anti-Lobby bill, should it ever get
before the people, would doubtless be
approved at the rate of about 400 to
one.
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Years of Suffering
Catarrh and Blood Disease -
Doctors Failed to Cure.

Miss Mabel F. Dawkins, 1914 Lafay-
cite St, Fort Wayne, Ind, writes:
"For three years l was troubled with
catarrh and blood disease. tried sew
eral doctors and a dozen different rem
edies, but n of them did me any
good. A friend told me of Hoods Sar-
saparilla. ! took two bottles of this
medicine and was Is we'll and strong
as ever. l feel like a different person
and recommend Hoods to any n suf-
fering from catarrh."
Get 1t today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called SarSatabSs
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Canaan-August s. Frank Weymouth,
aged about 50 years.
Canaan-August 9. Alfred Priest.
Canaan-Mrs. Belle Furber.
observation-disclosures IL, Mrs. Sarah II.
DeIano. formerly of Fairfield, aged 90
years and 8 months.
North Acknowledgment s, Mrs. Ellery
NJ. Wing, aged So years,
Long Pond-August 9, infant son OF
Noah Redmond, aged s months.
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South Norwalk, Conn. 2w39'
wANTED-Two good men, must
be good mixers and used to horses.
Steady work and good pay. Tel. S23
NJ. Bangor Road, Augusta, Me. o.
Crawford. 4w32a
$3.50 VACUUM CLOTHES WASHER
S3.5O-This famous labor saving washer
can now be bought in Skowhegan. A
representative viii call on receipt OF
card and address, or your order will
be filled from city office. by mall. It's
the best washer extant. See a demon
Row. New York City, and 1853 Main St,
Skowhegan, Maine. Post Paid on re-
ceipt of price. See also Lowell Ever
Ready CIndoor) Clothes Line Holder.
With line ready for use. from same adj
dress. Postpaid for 800. tf3l
FOR sALE-Farm AZ acres land. 2 IL
story house, large barn, rs acres In TIL
Mercer village. Address Watson Nye,
Mercer. Me. 4w3l
YOUNG MEN-Any 1925 course In the
International Correspondence School OF
Scranton, Pa, will be sold at a fraction
of Its cost. Inquire at this office. 4t3l
O RENT-House on Summer St,
8 rooms. bath, electric lights, aqueduet
water. nice garden. j. A. Morrissette
or Ernest Butler. 4w31'
$500 TO $500 wEEKLY-for women
at home. No ~canvassing or peddling'
light. easy, agreeable, profitable work.
Can be made a permanent business.
Send no money. Ask for free facts.
Address Auburn Supply Co, Dept =.
Box 282, Auburn, Me. 4w3O'
ECON HAND PIANOS-priees
from $500 to $4,000, In good repair.
Organs from $500 to 1884, 90, some as
good as new. Send for list of bar
gains. Lord & Co, Masonic Building.
Portland, Me. Sw30'
TWo-sEATED sURREY-light rid
ing wagon and mud wagon for sal,
VIII be sold very low. w. II. Emery.
tf27
FOR sALE-Lees Island, 200 acres;
good house. 8 rooms, stable. hay. barn,
high land canting south to lower Ken
nebec; ocean field 30 acres, large pas
30x40; 1-2 mile to %postofice: 2 boats
daily TO. Bath. Inquire OF II. l. w
man, Phippsburg, Me, Sw27.
TWO SEATED TRAP AND A TWO
Seated Beech Wagon, for sale. VIII
make very low prices on either. c.
w. Day. tf26
FOR RENT-Three houses. one OF 7
on Middle ST., and one OF 8 rooms and
stable on Middle st. Inquire of Mix
Corey. tfS
TENEMENT TO RENT-6 rooms. To-
cat I'd on the electric car line, three
miles from Skowhegan, opposite. me
Kilcare Farm. Jos, Butler, R. F. ID
No. 8. ttz5
PORTABLE MILL-wanted to buy or
hire. Green Mountain Lumbe Co, 5S
Fiske Bldg, Boston. Mass.
TIM ND wANTED-Green
Mountain lumber Co, So Fiske Bldg
Boston, Mass. tfzo
FOR sALE-Four or Ave tons OF hay
at Baptist parsonage stable. Norridge-
wock. Inquire at parsonage or OF Rev
Wylie H.. Smith, Hallowell. tfzV
AUTOMOBILES & MOTORCYCLES
second hand, for sale. Agency TOT
the famous Studebaker cars. lmper-
ial Auto Repair Co, Madison Ave.
FOR SALE-Indian Motorcycle. lsls
model, 4 h. p. Run less than I9V9
miles. Practically new machine. VIII
be sold at a great sacrifice. lnquine
of NJ. H. Elliott, Bingham Me. t1zA
OLDsMOBILE AUTO FOR sALE=at
a bargain. Inquire Of A. G. Blunt. Finn
ST, S~kowhegan. Ills
1 U l. KINDS OF LIVE POUL-
TRY-If you have any to sell, drop me
a card. Harry Cohen, School and Hes
elton SITS, Skowhegan. tliA
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OUR OPEN FORUM

The Observation-Disclosures can
serve It's most useful purpose by pro-
noting a comparison of opinions
through It's columns. To a reasonable
extent W extend a welcome to anyone
who believes he has ideas which will
be useful IN settling the controversies
Of tie tIme. whether political or other
vs. In preparing material for pub,
II should be borne in mind that a calm
discussion Is much to be preferred. We
be obliged to exclude any mat
ter that was violently partisan. In
an Independent paper, also. attacks and
aspersions upon the character of any
one should be avoided.
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We are in receipt of a communica-
ton from a Bingham Progressive,
replying to the article which we ran
in last issue under the title, Demo
cratic Opposition Should Unite on
Peters. It will appear in this col
umn next week.
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WANTED-Two good men, must
be good mixers and used to horses.
NJ. Bangor Road, Augusta, Me. O..
Crawford. 4w32s
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wANTED-reliable

AGENTS WANTED-reliable men
and women to sell household special
ties, easy to handle, easy to sell: many
repeat orders. Write for particulars.
Acme Sales Co, rs Woodward Ave
South Norwalk, Conn. 2w32t
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Concord Wagon for sale-Ordway.
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sa.ho xAcuuM CLOTHES WASHER

FOR SALE-Farm AZ acres land. 2 Ia
story house, large barn, rs acres in til
lage; some timber; l 1-2 miles from
Mercer village. Address Watson Nye,
Mercer. Me. 4w3l
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
THE RED BUTTON

! while she was thinking. For Rosa
lie, after thirty years of expert
ence, produced Laughing Eyes with
her left hand, SO to speak. The cnilo
patter came by instinct; 1t required no
effort of the conscious will; her minu
was free to think and plan. NOW,
however, she wove Laughing Eyes
into her web.
Lady is gone!' said Laughing
Eyes. pretty lady! Another spirit
OH see pretty things! Tney
shine-oh-go away. Come pack!
No, he will not stay" she paused
here.
And now Miss Estrilla spoke again.
and in such a tone that Rosalie knew
she might hurry to her climax
Cant you bring him back, Laugn-
ing-Eyes?" she said. "Oh, please
bring him back. Tell him. oh, tell
him that l am not angry" A dry
sob shook the silences of the room.
mo. He is afraid. And he Is weak
in spirit" babbled Laughing-Eyes.
Maybe he will come again-maybe!
And Laughing-Ey giggled and bah
bled of Miguel and Victoria and
dozen spirits impertinent to Miss
Estrilla. Yet always in her babblings
she seemed to hold the atmosphere
of truth; she referred casually and
in remote ways to a dozen facts
about Miss Estrilla's family and her
past. Presently her voice died away;
and Rosalie lay silent and impassive,
waiting for Miss Estrilla to wake her.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
Gossip Of the Toilers

A general strike on the railways of
India and Burma has been ordered by
the Amalgamated Society of Railway
Servants. The men complain of long
hours and short pay.
officials of the Coopers' 1nterna-
tional Union are making an effort to
secure the cooperation of the distil-
leries in Maryland to use the label of
the Coopers' international Union on
their barrels.
Eighteen thousand cotton operatives
at Nelson, Lancashire, and their en-
ployers are making preparations for a
struggle on the question of the en-
ployment of nonunionists.
Delegates of the Swiss Typograph-
tcal Union met in the new home of
the union in Berne recently. Nearly
1000 members from all parts of the
land were assembled on that occasion.
Leaders of the Toronto, Canada,
labor movement have started cam
paign of educational work among the
trade unions in earnest, which, IL con-
tinued. will have the desired effect in
making the men in the labor move
ment more active in municipal and
political affairs.
Westminster (Eng) City Council
proposes to dress all its workmen in
uniforms at a cost of four guineas
per year per man. Masons and
paviors are to have corduroy trous-
ers and vests, and painters will have
| white coats and dungaree suits.
A national wage scale for bakers
has just been concluded in Norway.
Same applies to nine towns with SOC
| workers. The minimum wage is
raised by amounts ranging between
SO cents and s1.40, and the working
| time reduced from sixty-three to
fifty-seven hours per week; nine
hours per day on the first five days
and eleven hours per day on Satur-
! day.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

A cry of Murder" a wild scramble
---lights-the discovery that Captain
| Hanska had been killed. That is what
followed Bobby Norths drunken ar
| rival to Mrs. Moore's boarding house.
When feeling his way up the stairs
ne had seen sparkle as of jewel,
and. STOPPING to pick 1t up. found his
| hand in something warm and sticky
blood. Then 1t was that he had cried
| out in terror.
Arrived at the terrible scene the
boarders all could account for them
| selves except North, the unfortunate
discoverer. There had been four
men friends of the stenographer's.
who had sung in the parlor the. en-
tire evening-Estrilla. the Spaniard,
who had visited his sister. an invalid.
Wade. who had called to see Captain
He had called several times before,
but this time he had bag, and some
| one remembered of hearing sounds as
| of a quarrel coming from Hanska's
room. Everything seemed to point to
cious as he was taken by the police, as
he was boarding a boat for Liverpool. :,
During the excitement woman dressed
for the opera had appeared in the
crowd about the house and, forcing ner
way in, had taken charge of things be
fore anyone realized 1t. As the house
was TO be sealed until after the Inquest,
she told him her name, Rosalie LIE
boarding house across the street ana
took them all over with her.
Resale LIE Grange. ex-trance medium,
had given up the practise of her profess
sion since coming into a fortune.
Having been present when Mrs. Han
ska, accompanied by her friend, Betsy
Barbara, tells Inspector MCGEE, an old
friend of Rosalie's. whom she had
helped on several cases, her story, she
determines to vindicate Mrs. Hanska's
story, duplicates him all the. more,
for she was trying to get divorce
from Hanska. Wade was her lawyer,
whom. she confessed. was in love with
her.
Resale works secretly. not even
telling MCGEE her. plans. Searching
the house for a clue. she finds red
shoebutton on the fire-escape which
leads from the third floor by Miss
Estrilla's rooms to Hanskas, ana
among Miss Estrilla's clothing red
shoes with one button missing. With
the aid of detectives the real name of
the Estrillas is found-Perez-and de-
tails of their early life. Getting the
girl interested in spiritualism by using
in her frances the items she has
learned, she discovers by bringing
in message from Hanska that Juan
Estrilla, or Perez. the brother. was
the one who held the knife, which
he had picked up, in self-defense as
Hanska came toward him-falling on
1T as he died of sudden attack of
apOpleXY.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
WIPTNG OUT THE FRANCHISE TAX.

THE lawyers of the Pennsylvania railroad establish
the principle that trolley line which connects with railroad
and which railroad sells tickets part the railroad
main and therefore exempt from the per cent fran
che trolley roads, payable to the municipalities
legislation will be necessary protect the municipalities In
Atlantic City the trolley line is owned by the Pennsylvania
railroad the trolley carries the railroad through
to Longpo after change of bill passed by the Iegs
aue this provides against such claim of exemption but
the railroad denies its cOnstutiona In New England the
New Haven Railroad Company has secured control of most
the trolley roads and the policy carried out in New Jersey
in the future would out the franchise tax the claim made
by the Pennsylvania railroad can be made good.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
REVELATION OF INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT.

M COLONEL MULHALL makes the emphatic statement tnat
the National Association Manufacturers created and solely
the tariff This association part of the
nysble OF the Taft administration 1t had to
do with the tariff and political matters appertanng thereto
There another invisible government in financial ahas
another regard natural of the nation another
relating transportation and the most contemplate one con-
of the food laws The people ddn
these invisible governments and knew nothing about
them something about them since Taft went
and they know of the hidden springs OF his
when President that could not then be accounted
for IN o. Judgment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
THE LORDS THROW OUT HOME RULE

AS WAS anticipated, the House of Lords last night threw
the home rule bill But that ends the of the Lords
this bill 1t will be introduced and passed by the Com
year. unless for Parliament should be
dissolved and election ordered and will then become
Lords Lords The hereditary legislator in England
has had his day and it long but day has
dawned the nation Caste and privilege longer hold
absolute veto the aspirations of the people The Commons
by the people, the rulers of the land Popular
had slow and painful development in the British
has had frequent reapses since the day Charles
sent to the block, but today England republic with
nonarchist trappings
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
CONTINUED from Yesterday

BY this time Rosalie had begun
| to receive cable reports from Port
| of Spain. The detective, 1t appeared.
was a policeman Of singular fidelity
or of singular acumen. Taking lit
orally the order about little de-
tails" he had filed one of the most
curious dispatches in the annals of
| the New York Police Department.
1t glittered with gems for Rosalie LIE
Grange. Especially was it strong in
facts concerning Miss Estrilla's re-
lations with her father. Their rides
together when she was a little girl
and the family was conspicuous on
the island the circumstance of an
accident to one of the horses, even
pet names and small coin of domes-
tic intercourse-all this he set forth
fully. Beyond doubt, he had found
the "old family servant" mentioned
in the telegram of instruction and
MIXED him dry.
So at this fourth seance Rosalie
brought not Miguel-that were too
great strain ON her Spanish-but
Observation-Disclosures her, as usual,
with vague sentences, growing always
more definite, and crystallizing finally
into the vital, startling fact. Rosalie
was speaking freely now, her pose
! that of dead trance
do you remember" she asked,
"the time they carried you home, as
| though you were dead, from the
stable. and you revived and spoke to
| me when they brought you in the
door? Do you remember-Margy dear?
| The telegram from Detective Hawley
had informed Rosalie that the bap-
| tismal name of Miss Estrilla-or Miss
Perez-was Margarita, and that her
mother used the name in it's English
form and her father in Spanish
DO you remember, Marcy dear?"
! repeated the voice of the spirit"
through the entranced lips of Resale
lie Grange.
Eyes" said Miss Estrilla, SO sud
denly that it nearly shook Rosalie
out of trance. II remember, mother
dear. What was his name-that
horse?"
C'Still a little skeptical: but it's the
last gasp. I'll fix her right now. Lucky
I've got it!' said the mind of Rosalie
corlling rapidly behind her mask).
I'VE had Billy and-but it wasn't
he-it was the black horse Vixen
which you would ride against my
wishesl' said the voice. Rosalie heard
Miss Estrilla heave a long sigh;
heard her settle herself against the
pillows as though quite overborne by
emotion.
But Rosalie did not proceed directly
along the road of treacheries which
she was travelling. Victoria went
away with the capricious suddenness
Of all Rosalie's spirit friends. The
voice of Laughing Eyes, the child
control, burst in. Upon Miss Estrilla
Rosalie used Laughing Eyes spar
ingly. With an ignorant and over
impressionable sitter she was an in
valuable feature, this Laughing Eyes
To a person of greater discernment
the child impersonation was likely te
be ridiculous. Resale usually EN-.
ployed her therefore, only to fl
in the chinks, to occupy the time
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
MIR. BRYAN'S THRIFT.

SENATOR BRISTOW'S resolution in the Senate relating
to the salary the secretary state considered from literary
standpoint of the finest sates that has appeared in
American politics. and it will find place in literature While
there broad humor in the resolution there also keen
which goes right Mr. Bryans explanation
of his for abandoning his official duties make
him credit any quarter and
will read queery his Western adherents while it exces
derson in the East Personal thrift is audabe but the
average person will regard it excessive in the of
with $4,000 year, who apart from that salary put
$4,000 in investments and who regards that duty
paramount highly important official duties and the
honors of n exalted position
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16

Indians. In 1913 he went as far as
Lake Nipissing and the eastern shore
of Lake Huron; but turned back.
When Quebec was surrendered to the
English in 1929. Champlain was taken
a prisoner to England. on the res
toration of Canada to the French he
returned to his post as lieutenant
governor in 1888, and died there on
Christmas, 1885.
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IN the States disposed to look down
upon intelligence of the people of the West and to regard
Western ideas of habaked although the East
lately extensively adopting them 1t may therefore
surprise many people to know that the Western States have
teracy than the East The lowest rate is Idaho where
the rate for males p q in thousand In eighteen
Western States the teracy rate from q to as in
The lowest for Eastern Southern State
So In In New Jersey the rate is &c. in New York
so; Pennsylvania 49, and in Massachusetts, 81 In the
South negro iteracy the rate the highest being in
louisiana with 2S6 terates the thousand of population
Leaving the negroes the twenty-five States that show the
of teracy all Western States Surely the
East cannot put airs of superiority the West.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16
STATE PURCHASE OF WATERSHEDS.

THE ACQUISITION of the Mulica river watershed for
South Jersey State board having been egaized the is
opened for the purchase in the of the 10000 acres OF
watershed in northern New Jersey the acquisition of which
was Fort in his annual in
This land held by five and adons $4,000 acres
York mostly owned by the Hartman estate
the entire watershed of 10000
results would be protected of great value He
had from Mr. Hartman then living that
could be effected for the transfer of his
land to States for watershed protection and future
supplies The purchase of the Wharton tract the first
step by this State in the direction of conservation and
South Jersey gets all the benefit of it. much larger problem is
North Jersey with it's greater population rapidly
growing the limit of the available water supply