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The Irish standard., 1916-08-05
MORE B1GOTS.

In our last issue we commented
on the small number OF patriots
to be found among those who ell
listed in the National Guard for
service on the Mexican border and
called the attention of our readers
to the number of Catholics who
are members Of our fighting force.
Various members of the G.. of l..
have taken exception to Our re-
marks and patriot i'll Cam
den, N. ]. has gone SO far as to
send us the following on post
card. with the notation to read
careiully and digest
y papal captain last Sunday
combed our regiment with fine
tooth comb. to find Romanists so
that he could take them to mass,
and he certainly got every last
man OF them. Out of the entire
regiment he got less than one hun
drcd-about ten per cent. In
many regiments from other states
the Romanists do not number five
per cent.
The tough regiment near here
is called the Irish NINTH" made
up OF Irish papes from Boston
They seem to be doing their best
to get us into war with the Mexi-
cans, by their false reports and
acts OF lawlessncss.
What a lodge we could form
here ii we had a big hall!
The officers arc largely Masons.
Say. it would be a shame for
Uncle Sam to make war on these
poor, half-starved Mcxicans. Their
condition and their sins are the
result OF priestcrait.
Did you notice the slur cast up,
on the gallant Irish Ninth OF
Massachusetts. Very clever
wasn't it, and so original. Of
course they are all that way, l
mean original.
1t will be observed that who
ever sent this cpistlc didn't think
enough of himself to sign his
name and so we should have TO-
nored the communication alto
gether, but believe this is fair
example OF the methods pursued
by these people and that the best
way i'll which to call attention to
their underhandedness is to let
the spotlight OF publicity shine on
all their efforts to discrcdit the
Catholic Church.
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05
A RARE PRIVILEGE.

Writing to a friend who seemed to
grieve over his daughter entering the
Good Shepherd convent, the late emil
nent French writer, Louis Veuillot,
says:
my dear friend, weep as much as
you please, congratulate you. Ser
want of the poor, that sounds good, but
servant of the poor sinful women that
sounds better still Just think of it.
To run through thorns and briars to
find the lost and scabby sheep. l
have five daughters! l would will
ingly distribute them among various
religious families. And yet God knows
how l love them. Our children do not
belong to us any more than the fruits
of the tree. When they are ripe, they
fall off. Happy those who fall into
the hands of God! Happy the virgin
who follows the lamb! Happy the
father whose daughter is sheltered in
the shadow of the cloister!"
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05
IRELAND HAS LOST MOTH
i}s85 ING.

\ Sir Horace Plunkett does not
think that Ireland has lost ANY,
thing by the collapse of the COM
asIpromise Home Rule scheme. He
says:
III THE government was anxious
NIX seize the opportunity for an
between Sir Edward
larson and John Redmond to put
ile Home Rule act into immediate
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05
IN MEMoR1AM.

Sir Roger Easement is dead.
Another name has been added to
the ever growing list OF Irish Mar
tyrs. England has again evil
denced her Unborn hatred of Ire
land and all things Irish by con-
demning to an ignoble death, a
man who was actuated by the
highest motive ever found in
human breast, the love of liberty.
He was dreamer. He dreamed
of free and glorious Ireland, un-
oppressed by tyrants and enabled
to work out her own destiny. A
wonderful dream and wonder
full dreamer. This was the chief
incentive OF his life, his whole
being was stepped with this pre-
dominate motive, the obtaining
OF freedom for his native land. He
tried to achieve his purpose. The
world says he chose a most in
opportune time for the undertake
ing, and events have since shown
that its Judgment was correct.
He tried and he failed, and be-
cause he did fail in his attempt
he was called a dreamer, an ideal
list. a fool. A failure always re-
ceives the condemnation OF the
world; only upon the successful
are the plaudits of the crowd be-
slowed. Such is the judgment Of
man.
Easement was murdered and
by that nation who stands before
the world as the friend OF the op-
pressed, the succor OF the needy.
CONDEMNED to hang by the
neck until dead, for high treason
against the Crown" was the vcr-
dict rendered by the jury. Trea-
son against the Crown, against
the same Crown that has been
numbering Irish men, women and
children for seven hundred wears,
the bloody Crown of England.
His last words were character
istic of the man, II die for NV
country" All! and so he did, but
not in vain. His sacrifice has
awakened the Irish race round
the world to a iresller realization
of lreland's problems and to a
greater determination that the
spirit that emanatcd from Sir
Roger shall be instilled in every
member OF the race throughout
the world. There will be other
Easements. Not until the doom
OF English rule is proclaimed in
Ireland and Ireland is a nation,
one and indivisible. will her sons
be content to dwell in peace.
Sir Roger Easement, we honor
thy memory we glory in thy mar
.tyrdom; we revere thy name.
Yours was life we'll spent and
.nobly ended and in the golden
years to come when out of the
,maelstrom of the worlds events.
Ireland shall rise, a nation, men
will call you blessed.
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05
HYPOCRISY.

What sort of a blighted hypoc-
risv is it that affects the minds OF
rational Englishmen that they
cannot understand the condition
of Ireland when they can so east
ly pulsate with humanitarian emo
ton regarding Belgium:
One hardly blames the English
man for this cant. He got it with
his first breath. He cannot es-
cape it. He cannot see things
i'll proportion or with justice.
Great Britain trains and sends a
magnificent army to fight for what
that army thinks is humanity, and
for what the British leaders know
is policy, but the same Great Brit
ain which is honestly emotional
about its mission as the savior
OF small nations cannot deal len
iently with Ireland.
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05

Ii Belgium deserves protection,
why does not Ireland deserve fair
dealing? If Belgium needs the
protection of British force, why
does not Ireland deserve the pto-
lection of British clemency:: Is
it more important that political
nation such as Belgium should be
protected from German imposition
than that a real nation such as
the Irish should be protected from
English imposition?
1t was outrageous to punish
the Irish dreamers as traitors.
They were traitors to nothing.
They never had accepted the con-
ditions of government. They
struck for freedom, foolisl1ly, but
grandly. They gave their lives
without whimper.
Poor infatuated England, with
a Tory mind working in a shell Of
ase-thickened prejudice, can de-
vote one part OF it's thought to be
relief OF Belgium and another to
the punishment of Irishmen who
think that Ireland ought to be
what the English fight to make
Belgium.-Chicago Tribune.
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05

The fidelity of the Irish to the land
of their birth and their willingness to
Loyalty serve the country of their
adoption was exemplified in Water
bury, Conn.,, one day last week. An
1rishman who had volunteered for
service at the calling out of the ma
tional guard by President Wilson ap-
piled for his first papers in the local
naturalization court. Administering
the oath. in which all would be cit
liens are obliged to denounce allie
glance to their native governments,
the clerk read the part which says
that all British subjects "renounce al
iegiance to the king of Great Britain
and Ireland" Here the enthusiast in
terposed. Il refuse to swear disal-
legiance to Ireland. If you can leave
out that part about Ireland, but in
clude that part about King George,
then I'll continue with the OATH"
Finally persuaded that the part about
Ireland could not be omitted, he was
sworn.
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05

earnest in his belief that when
peace comes it will be lasting
peace that the peoples of the war.
ring nations will not be brutal
lied by experiences of war and
carnage; that the spirit OF mater
ialism that has marked the world
in recent years will give place to
loitier spiritual ideals of humanity
and brotherhood that the nations
will emerge from the struggle re-
alizing the Christening that they
have brought on themselves from
Almighty God, and that in future
they will more humbly fulfill
their destiny. He believed that
the spirit of humanity inculcated
and exemplitied by the philanthro-
pists of America. especially in
such great deeds as are being per-
formed by the American Ambul-
ance Hospital in France, must
stimulate all the world to feelings
OF charity and deeds of mercy.
Speaking of the foreign-born
in the United States, the Cardinal
insisted that while it is right that
in every mans soul there should
be a tender feeling for the land of
his birth. when he comes to
America to make it his home he
must realize that to our country,
its flag and its institutions he
must be utterly, irrevocably 10y
| al; that there is no place in
America for men of divided allie
glance.
The Cardinal, in conclusion, let
it be known that he is favor of
military training Tor young men,
as great step toward the forma-
ton of character as we'll as a
means OF warding off possible evil
from our shores-cvil, the danger
OF which a state OF unprepared-
ness, as history clearly indicates,
is always to be reckoned with
Standard and Times.
Geo. Bernard Shaw says, "that
month ago Britain had bright
hopes OF America coming in on
our side Of the war. These hopes
have been shot away by General
Maxwell in Ireland for the pres
ent."
IT'S true; IT'S a Pity; but tits
fr.r1a
The Irish standard., 1916-08-05
DUBLIN ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

0.'S -SS'NSN'sS sS'SS'
Dublin, July l3.-Lloyd George, Sec
rotary of War, announces that within
three months the unemployed will find
work in Dublin munition factories on
which the government is expanding
1924, 100000. There are $4,000 idle
workingmen in the city. The cost Of
living is estimated at an increase of
50 per cent since the war.
Meat and butter have nearly
doubled in price, coal is $12 ton.
AS an inducement to join the army
soldiers will be favored as to land al
lotments under the Land Purchase
Act. The farmers are having most
prosperous year owing to the extraor-
binary demand for food in Europe on
account of the war and they are send
ing to Dublin for laborers. The banks
have a large supply of funds to loan
on low rates to grain and cattle deal
ers. There are some appearances of
potato blight. The Dublin markets
report great scarcity of horses and
hay.
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CONTINUED on Page 81
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
ROAD TO HEALTH IS
THROUGH THE KIDNEYS

No person alive is stronger than his
kidneys. The minute the kidneys be
come disarranged or clogged with
waste the warning is flashed through
out the entire system. The greater
part of all sickness today can be
avoided by keeping the kidneys work
ing properly.
G. r. Fogg. the popular druggist, can
tell you of many well-knoWn people
in this town whom Solvax, the stand
health, often after they have tried
ard kidney remedy, has restored to
many other methods of treatment
with little or no benefit.
This remarkable kidney remedy is
guaranteed to help the worst case OF
I lazy sluggish, or clogged-up kidneys,
or the general headachy, kinky-
backed, played-out condition that af-
lcts people suffering with kidney
trouble. Solvax does not simply re-
such a large percentage of cures as
| lieve. 1t aims to cure.
No other kidney remedy has made
Solyax. 1t is so large that G. R. Fogg
is perfectly safe in standing ready to
refund the price to any customer
whom it does not help.
ouv1
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
Real Estate Transfers

The following real estate transfers
have lately been recorded at the Of
fee of the Somerset Register of Deeds
Anson-Owen E. Savage ct al to
lydia B. Savage Gland in North An
son village bounded on the west by
the road leading northerly across the
Carrabassett River and through No.
Arson village)
Detroit-Harold H. Hovey to Archie
l.. Bickford.
Madison-Mrs Vyrtline Tate to c.
O. Small ct al Gland and buildings
on east side of Pine St. in VILLAGE;
Albert j. Libby to Geo. b. Fairgrieye.
Moscow-Sarah D. Chadbourne to
Lorenzo D. Spaulding Gland with
buildings also a piece of land on road
leading to Hiram V Smiths house)
Pittsfield-Josiah j. Bailey to
N ]. Karam.
Norridgewock-All w. Stanley to
Frank f. Caswell Gland on road lead
ing from Norridgewock village to
Mercer Village.)
Solon-Lewis G. Whipple to Fred
Murphy dot 80 on plan of Turner
BuswelD; Fred A. Coolidge to Phin-
cas- Chase wild land near Phineas
Chase property
Fairfeld-Horaee B. Flood to
Maine Central Railroad Co.
Jackman Pl.-Joseph Julian Jr. to
Armidos Foster ct al (piece of land
beginning on the south side of Moose
River at mouth of Half Way Brook
where it flows into said river)
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
Good Bye,
Painful Corns /!

When your feet are not right
paining you-corns continually on
edge-makes you hate to put your
feet down solid, it makes life just
about unbearable-you're wrong
all over, day in and day out.
One of the simplest yet most eff
fective methods of removing cOrns
is to apply
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
.SKOWHEGAN LOCAL MARKETS

Wool-Unwashed, CSC to SOC per Id.
Hides green, 15c pound; Lamb
pelts 75c to $125 each; hides, cured
171ac; Horse hides, $3.50 to S2.75
each; Calf skins 21c per h.
Beans-Hand picked, yellow eyes,
$3.50 to 400; pea beans, 1926 to $3.50
Beef-Ox beef, &c to 12c.
Poultry-Fowls, lac to 16c per h.;
chicken, 16c to zoe.
Round Hog-11c per h.
Tallow-Rough. &c per ID
Fggs-20c per dozen.
Potatoes-95c per bushel
Butter-28c TO 3Oc per Id.
Cheese-16c to 1Sc per ID.
RETAIL MARKET
Flour-Spring Wheat Patent, $500
Winter Wheat Patent, $725.
Oats-62hc per bushel.
Gluten--Sl.70 per bag
Corn-$l.S0 per bag
Meal-Sl,65 per bag.
Middlings 81 60 per bag
Cottonseed meal--s2.00 per bag.
Spring Bran--$l40 per bag.
Winter Bran--$1.45 per bag
Mixed Feed-s1.50 per bag.
Wheat-$l.40 per bushel.
Salt Pork-l5c by the bbl., 200 lbs.
s24
Cheese-23c to 25c per ID
Butter-30c 10 &c per h.
Teas-25c to Coo per h.
Coffee-20e TO 35c per pound.
Lard Domestic Ice: compound l2c
Molasses-Pure Ponce. Acc TO soc.
Sugar-Gran. sugar. best quality.
II lbs for $780, brown Is,
Potatoes-s0c TO 1880.
onions--5c to &c per ID
Poultry-Fowls. lac TO zoe per 10;
chicken. zoe to 25c per ID.
Eggs zee per dozen fresh
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

Business OF Probate Court

Among the items of business trans
acted at the monthly session of Pro-
bate Court last week were the fol-
lowing:
Accounts presented in the estate of
Edith Watson Haynes, late of Har-
of Fairfield (fnaD; Gerald Mccarthy,
late of Skowhegan (finaD.
Petition for license to sell real es-
tate in the estate of Sherman Hough-
ton, late of Arson; Elisha Wey-
brant of Madison (guardian's); Harry
Townsend Berry (guardian's).
Accounts allowed in estate of Chas.
S. Smith, late of Skowhegan; Thax-
ter Reed. Madison; Lucy w. Taylor,
Scion; Anne Lumsden, Skowhegan +.
Augustus H Conant, Merose, Mass. );
Frederic c. McRae, Seboomook and
Jane Halliday, Pittsfield
Wills presented for probate in the
estate of Christopher c. Hoyt, late of
New Portland; George w. Neil, late
of Cornville; Mary A. Brooks, late of
Arson; Abbie N. Gardner, late of An
son; Lucinda McPheters Palmer. late
of Ripley; Hiram S. Rice, late of
Scion; Amherst Spofford, late of
Brighton; George W. Jewett, late of
Scion; Luther Temple. late of Bing-
ham; Preston Jersey. late of Pitts
field; Ezra Worthen, late of Pitts
field; Catherine n. Gray late of
Athens.
Wills allowed in the estate of Olive
Dunton, late of Mercer; Wilder S.
Gates, late of Scion; Loyina B.
Haines. late of Norridgewock; Sam
uel f. Remick, late of Madison
Administration asked for in the es-
tate of Elmer D. Mcfarland, late of
Palmyra; Henry Irving Carville, late
Of Flagstaff; Malone Hutchins, late of
New Portland.
Administration granted in the es-
tate of Fred W. Allen, late of Athens !;
Cordelia c. Brown, late of Caratunk !;
William Fl. Winslow. late of Fairfield j;
Frank Y. Veilleux, late of Jackman !;
William r. Kendall, late of Fairfield !;
Mary Ellen Mitchell. late of Norridge-
wock
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

If you want daily paper. let us
get you the Portland Press for So. the
Boston American or the Boston Post
for $40 a year.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

The date for the dedication of the
newly finished basement of the Meth
odst church has been set for March
"a. Bishop Jon W. Hamilton, District
Superintendent D. B. Holt and other
visiting clergymen will deliver
addresses, There will be a ban
quet in the new dining room at the
supper hour. This will be followed
by an appropriate program, the prin-
cipal feature of which will be the ad-
dress by the Bishop.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
A LESSON FROM THE WEST
Communication from the Owner OF
Eaton Farm
Waterville, Me, March 81, 10

Waterville, Me, March 81, 1916.
Mr.. Editor
The facts mentioned in this
weeks ad of the Wesserunsett Valley
Fair seem worthy of more than pass
ing notice. Four hundred seventy
one animals changed hands at auction
for the enormous total of $204,S3
These figures certainly smell like real
money from the farm. Probably
this was an unusually good week but
ii was only one week and the COM
ing sales announced in the same pa
per number 70 running up to June
q. Needless to say scrub stuff is
not handled in these sales. Only
pure bred and registered animals are
dealt in and the rewards are not won
without effort O. Harris & Sons
for instance have been raising and
selling Herefords for almost 80 years
and have held annual sales for more
than twenty years. Time, patience,
energy and good Judgment have been
used without stint. But what a
recompense! $76025 for 81 Here
fords sold in one afternoon,
THESE safes uStu " Stcll UNI CuI
to me but a little personal attendance
changed my feelings. Several hun
dred bidders and spectators are us
ually present. As soon as an animal
sis bid off the purchaser steps to the
clerks desk and lays down his cash
or check and takes his purchase away
while the auctioneer gets the bidding
started on the next. Opposing bid
ders and spectators are keenly inter
ested and see and hear everything
No taking or underhand work is pos
sible The results and frequently
a complete list of prices are publish
ed in the papers. Every sale re-
ported represents an actual business
transaction.
Why has Maine no part in this
business? Better clover timothy
and redtop does not grow elsewhere
in the world. Oats, roots and other
forage crops flourish. Land for pas
turage is cheap and abundant Let's
raise something
Very truly,
HARVEY d. EATON.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

Mrs. Ella y Jewett has brought to
this office "a sketch about and picture
of Old Abe the live Eagle which was
carried through a three years cam
paign and many battles by the Sth
Wisconsin Regiment The bird was
according 10 Major Dawes. who COM
manded a company of the Eighth
Wisconsin chicken about half or
Wo-thirds grown in the spring of
1861 II was enlisted after being
brought into camp and was ohrIsten-
cd old Abe" while one of thy tall
,st men IN the regiment MAS detailed
'u carry and take care OF him with
rhe understanding that Al the end Of
,hr VII Ae was to convey ham "a
Washington and present him 10 his
uamcsahe far president The mat
ter is gwen % touch of almost lesal
color from tlr fact that The article
ts introduced Dos the editor OF sou,
paper. Who had ,ocn the bird a, DE
Centennial ia Philadelphia ia tn
Keeping Of Mr Barrett son ~ lioa
j Bafrrtt Of CAuaan
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

State of Maine Superintendent of
Public Schools.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
DISARMAMENT
By Emily Page Webb

Disarm our troops. Pray tell me why?
Until the curse OF war shall cease,
Should We lay down our arms and
cry. w are defenseless; give US
peace"
We build defenses strong and stout
'Gainst storm and flood, and fire.
and then
We as a nation stand III doubt
If we shall guard the lives of men!
A land that honors not itself
And fails to guard its native sod
Soon ceases TO have power at home
And has no honor from abroad
In olden days, when England's court
Babe our brave sires their fealty
yield
Did they hew down their log-built
forts?
Lay down their arms Give up the
field
A thousand times they answered
No"
From mouth of cannon laundering
far
Across the winter wastes of snow
Across the oceans moaning bar.
Those battles were not fought in vain,
For out of darkness came the dawn,
And from the hosts of patriots slain
a mighty nation there was born.
And while We daily pray the more
That all Wars frightful horrors
cease,
Yet Right and Honor go before
Even the heavenly form of Peace
Meanwhile Wars CORY banners fly;
In strife. new nations will be born,
Men fight to live, and risk to die,
That Gods great purpose may
20 on.
And like our valiant patriot sires,
While in our veins the red blood
runs.
Lot us, Dy even our altar fires,
Amid our prayers. stand by our
guns
In dark and threatening days like
these,
When every wind brings fresh
alarm
OF death on land, and wrecks at sea,
Is this when soldiers should disarm
We all are part of one great soul,
And have our nations glories
shared,
Then let each part defend the whole;
Whatever comes, lets be prepared.
The above poem was received
through Mrs. NJ T. Pooler who with
MI Pooler have been spending some
months in California visiting with her
sister in Los Angeles. They have
also taken occasion to visit with Mrs.
Emily Page Webb and family and
with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank r. Steward
| former Skowhegan people. The poem
which Was written by Mrs. Webb was
clipped from a California paper, AT
ter visits in San Francisco. San Die
go and CaleXico, Calf, Mr. and Mrs
Poolcr will return 10 Los Angeles for
few weeks stay before returning
/ home
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
Valuable Hereford Records

We can put some of our patrons in
the way of getting valuable Hereford
cattle record books. entirely without
expense. Any owner Of Hereford
Stock should apply.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23
NYAL'S
CORN REMOVER

that's all there is to it - just apply
it and don't fuss with bandages.
1t relieves all pain, banishes dis
comforts and removes the corn
when you've forgotten you ever
had one. There is absolutely no
danger of infection-it is thor
oughly antiseptic-forms coat
ing over the corn, softens and re-
lieves the pain following pressure
of shoe.
Price IS Cents
6. r. FOGG'S, Water Street
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

George H. Weston, a we'll known
breeder of Guernsey cattle, owns two
high class driving mares. One is a
black PAGER by Stirling s, and the
other is a good gated trotter by Gov.
Patterson. Maine Farmer.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-23

G. R. FOGG'S, Water Street