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LIFE IN THE FARM HOME
Living In the Country Should Be the
Panacea Against All Diseases.

Living in the country" should, of
right, be the panacea against all dis
eases arising from impure air, impure
water and adulterated or unfit food.
But, population considered there
would appear to be little difference in
the extent to which such diseases pre-
vail in country or city. AS says
contemporary:
Every case of tuberculosis, city, or
country, proves that with pure air
40 miles deep over our heads we have
chosen to breathe impure air. Every
case of typhoid fever-and we cannot
deny that the farm home has them
proves that the drainage from stables
or outbuildings has somehow gotten
into the we'll, or that our worst enc
by, the common housefly, has washed
his dirty feet in our food Every
case of diptheria proves that filth is
not far off"
Lack of ventilation in sleeping and
living rooms-a superstitious dread Of
cold airs probably responsible for
a large majority of the cases of tuber-
culosis occurring on the farms. Peo-
pie who sleep practically out of doors
that is, with windows wide open
seldom contract tuberculosis. So long
as the bed is warm, it matters little
how cold the room is. The arctic
traveller, ensconced in a fur sleeping
bag, and with no canopy but the stars,
takes his rest under almost ideal con-
,ditions. The Eskimos never have
consumption until brought south and
compelled to live In houses like ours
Typhoid fever will never originate
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Teacher the Emancipation of
History

Therefore my people are gone into
captivity for lack of knowledge
Isaiah's explanation of the downfall
OF his people will answer for all
time A thinking man cannot be
kept in slavery. A man who will
not think can not be kept out of slav-
cry. 1t was the lack of knowledge
not the armies of the East, that en-
shaved the Jews. We too. suffer slav-
cry. and for the same reason. 1t Is
not because of the strength of our
masters, but because of our own ig-
norance. The mind is the seat of
slavery Eye shall know the truth
and the truth will make you free, "
The teachers are the saviours of man
kind. They are the great emancipa-
tors of history. There is no task so
difficult and none so important as
this, to teach men to think.
What are protective tariffs, ship
subsidies, fifty year franchises. land
monopoly, vice. crime and pauperism,
but proof of the -mindedness of
the race. These things are because
we don't know any better. We have
gone into captivity for lack of knoWl-
edge.
1t almost seems that there must be
invisible mental deformities CORES
ponding to deformities of the body,
and that people who believe in private
ly owned public highways, in the in
fallibility of nine nice old gentlemen
in wigs and gowns at Washington, in
the ineyitableness of poverty, etc,
must have mental defects which
would be as palpable as hunch-backs,
If they were not invisible.
If the political thinking of Adams
county could be photographed | sus-
pect it would look like the scuryy,
needing bath. Much of the religious
thinking of the world is tubercular,
needing freer air, better nourishment
and more exercise. When | see the
crowds on election night dangling
their chains in glee and rejoicing in
the triumph of their masters, say
with Isaiah: MY people are gone into
captivity for lack of knowledge. -
Rev Herbert S. Bigelow
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sKOwHEGAN MARKET.
Prices Paid Producers.

Prices Paid Producers
Wool-Unwashed. zoe to 22c per Id.
lamb skins 25c to S5c each
Beans-Hand picked. yellow eyes
$3.50 TO S3.00; pea beans, $500 to $2.25
Beef-Ox beef, &c to &c
Pc ultry-Fowls. lac to Ice per lb. /;
chicken. Ice to 1Sc.
Round Hog-Sc
Tallow-Rough, &c. per Id
Butter-First quality, stamped 30c
per Id.
Potatoes-35c per bushel.
Cheese-16c. to 1Sc per Id.
Retail Market.
Flour-Spring Wheat Patent, $3.50,
winter wheat pat, s5.75.
Oats-New western, soc; Domestic
Al 1-2c.
Meal and cracked corn-s1.15 per
bag
Corn-s125 per bag.
Spring bran-$1.45.
Winter bran-$1.45.
Cotton Seed-$1.65.
Mixed Feed-$1 so cWt.
Salt Pork-15c by thu Dbl. 200 lbs,
s2S.
Cheese-2Oc TO 22c per ID.
Butter-30c per h.
Eggs-23c per dozen, fresh.
Teas--25c. to soc. Per Id
Cofree-20c. to 35c per Id.
Lard-Domestic tic; pure 1bc; COM
pound lac.
Molasses-Pure Ponce. 40c to soc.
Sugar-Granulated sugar. best quail
", II lbs for 800; brown, Is lbs
Potatoes--4oc per bushel.
Onions-5c per lib.
Poultry-Fowls, lac to 1Sc per Id.
chicken. lee to 22c per lb.
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Lowells Democracy" was given by
Mrs. Frank Steward, followed by the
reading of The Hanging of the
Crane" from Longfellow's works, by
Mrs Daisy Merrill. Miss Lena Lam
dry then favored the club with a
piano solo, 4Thorns and Roses" Miss
Landry is a pianist of unusual talent
and her solos are always thoroughly
appreciated.
After recess Mrs. Daisy Merrill
gave two other poems, one from Eu-
gene Field and the other from James
Whitcomb Riley.
The paper for the evening was a
most interesting one on Democracy
in Switzerland" written and read by
the President. Miss Gledhill. 1t out
lined a most popular government not
so unlike our own In this country.
Miss Landry again favored the club
with a solo by Ethelbert Neyin.
The President then announced that
the next and last literary meeting
would be a most interesting one. in
charge of Mrs. Myrtle Lamb, April
4, on New Zealand, its Problems and
Policies, and Land Without Strikes"
The hostesses for last Tuesday ey-
ening were Mrs. Annie Hackett and
NIise L'li,oba+b Nyabh
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THURSDAY, MARCH %, 1911.
Haines on Industrial
Education

The Waterville Board of Trade fol
lowed their complimentary banquet
TO the visiting delegates Wednesday
March IS, with feast Intellectual
Hon. William T. Haines is known all
oyer the State as one of Names big
men. and his mastery discussion OF
economic conditions in the common
wealth was a treat. The applause
which followed it was also remark
able. We wish every citizen in
Maine might have heard his mastery
plea for industrial education, extracts
of which follow:
we spend lot of money for COM
mon schools, free high schools, acad-
emies and colleges but there is
great deficiency in our system OF edu-
cation. The whole system of business
and life has changed in the last
quarter of a century, and the educa-
ton of the youth is in no way keep
ing up with it. We are living on the
results of science. But a very small
percentage of the great body OF the
rising generation can have the ad-
vantage of college education, and it is
the intelligence of the masses that
counts. 1t is what the boy gets in
the primary, intermediate and high
school that fits him for life. The
wage worker of the future must be
the director of machinery of some
kind or other, and after teaching the
three Rs, why should we not, in our
educational system develop the boys
mind by some kind of industrial
trade that will lead him to some per
lection in some occupation. Wincon-
sin through its state university has
declared and provided for the educa-
ton of every man, woman and child
within their state upon any particu-
lar line that they want knowledge of.
IF q fireman of a donkey engine
doesn't get the desired results from
the number of pounds of coal used,
he can call an expert from the state
university to tell him what the trou-
BILE is.
I'VE are a day of corporation, and
our legislation is necessarily legisla-
ton relative to industrial and bust
ness matters, in which the corpora
ton is the principal factor. There
lis very little business of any magnl-
tude done by individuals. How many
boys, coming from our high schools
know the difference between stocks
and bonds of a corporation? How
many members OF the present Legis
Iature or of any other Legislature
that we have had in Maine for the
last twenty years actually know any
thing about our system of taXation.-
that system which has grown up dur
ing the last twenty years, necessar-
lily from the development of our
State? Were any of them ever taught
in the common schools or academy
anything about the science of the
government of our own State?
IF we are to develop in the State
of Maine in agriculture and in manu-
featuring. make the best out of our
great natural resources, a part of
which | have spoken of. and of our
mankind and our morals, we must
lay the foundation in the education
of the youth, that will best meet the
conditions of the time and the age"
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SOrOsis.

Democracy" was the subject of
the fifteenth meeting of Sorosis, held
last Tuesday evening, March 81, in
the club rooms. After the reading
and acceptance of the secretarys re-
port, Charles Turner sang Thy Sen
final Am H. by Michael Watson, re-
spending to an encore. Mr. Turner is
considered one of Skowhegans best
soloists. He possesses a fine bari
tone voice and sang at his best last
Tuesday evening. A reading from
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vote with their eyes open. Human
nature is about the same under I
Democratic label as with a Republi
can tag, and what the people want is
not merely a new set of office hold
ers. but businesslike methods in car
rying on public affairs. The com
mission form of government has
made good, and Portland needs 1t.
Likewise the other cities need It, and
their business men generally know 1t.
Better give willingly what is bound
to be taken sooner or later any
how.
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Writing for a Boston paper. DR..
Laura c. Hughes says: THE morals
in Maine are dreadful, although
think they are improving somewhat"
From reading in the Republican jour
nal, descriptions of the man that Bel
fast elects mayor year after year. we
had about concluded that the above
would apply down there, but Editor
Pillsbury brands it as "a wicked and
wholly unwarranted SANDER on Maine
people," Now we won't know what to
think until he explains.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23

Press dispatches state that the
largest company engaged in the man
ufacture of fireworks in this coun-
try. has gone into bankruptcy. The
reasons assigned are the falling off in
the business due to the magazine and
newspaper agitation for safe and
sane" celebration of the nations
birthday Score another hit for the
muckraker
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23

The enemies of popular government
are laying great stress upon the
amount of money spent in connection
with the late Chicago primary, but
they are saying very little to bring
out the fact that the Organization
candidates of both parties failed of
nomination. Nothing is more certain,
however, than that this primary
marks the beginning of permanent
departure from a system fondly cher
ished through many years by the
friends of bad gcyernn ent.
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Square Deal Or None AT All

Free trade for the farmer high pro
lection for the manufactures, de-
scribes briefly but accurately, the
agreement with Canada that President
Taft has summoned Congress to con-
vene in extra session and consider. II
the proposition has many friends In
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Farms-E. 4. Strout.
save Money!. 7. Goodrich
Nottces-James +. Hewey.
feoholism-Neal Institute
New Goods u Ordway.
Statements-John c. Griffin.
Statement-First National Bank
overland Cars-G. +. Avore.
Farm Crops-Fred e Davis.
Auction Sale-C. J. Worthen.
Success--Dinsmore & Bickford.
our Aim Skowhegan Savings Bank
slothing Repaired-Edward Hes.
Probate Notiees-Nathan Fowler.
Sotice-Selectmen of Skowhegan.
Spring Season-Sampson * AVore.
\ Theatrical Agency-Opera House.
Notice-Inland Fisheries and Game.
Gollegian Glothes-Smith d Bussey
Flaming Arrow-Skowhegan Opera House
Free Lecture-Christian Science Hall
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SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIsTs.

Mission on corner OF Madison av-
enue and Russell street. Sabbath
School at 2 p. m. Saturday Meeting
Sunday evening at 7,30 p. m. Prayer
and praise services Tuesday and Fri
day evening at 7.30. The public Is
cordially invited.
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BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH.
George Merriam, Pastor.
Residence. so Madison Avenue.
Telephone. 1873.

Morning service at 1915 with ser
mon by the pastor, II o'clock Sun
day school 6 o'clock Y. =. S. c. Il.
: o'clock evening worship.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 100.
Chorus rehearsal Saturday evening
at 100.
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CHRIsTIAN sCIENCE.

The Christian Science Society Midi
son avenue. corner Russell street. Ser
vice Sunday morning at 1045. Sub
ject: Reality" Service Wednesday.
evening at 7.3O. The reading rooms
are open Wednesday afternoons from
230 to 5.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Robert Morris, Pastor.
Residence. "a Main Street
Telephone, 1892.

Morning service at 1915 with sermon
by pastor. Sunday school at II. Even
ing service at !.
Prayer meeting at 7.30 Thursday
evening.
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Spring Debility

Is due to the facilitating weather ofthe season,
and to the impure, impoverished, devitaIized
condition of the blood caused by too close con-
flnement, too little outdoor air and exercise, too
heavy diet during the winter.
1t is cured by the great constitutional remedy
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Call and select what you want or write
for designs and prices.
l am doing large business in fine
monuments, of Quincy, Barre, Westerly
and Foreign GRANTEES. Also, have
American Marble, VERY CHEAP.
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TVERYBODY,C
a. COLUMN - ~

Advertisements in this column not
to exceed five lines inserted once fol
25 cents. four times for so cents. Each
additional line five cents. In comput-
ing lines reckon on an average of Z
words Stamps taken.
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POTATO COMBINE IS TALK
May Investigate Swedish Method of
DistilIatiOn-The Action of Insur-
ance Companies.

According to reports that come to
Skowhegan from Aroostook county, a
number of important questions are
being agitated among up-riyer resi-
dents, particularly among the potato
growers. There Is talk of potato
combine, the dstillation of potato
spirits and finally the action of some
of the insurance companies in can
ceiling policies on potato houses,
caused, it is said, by the numerous
losses recently on such structures.
Speaking of the proposed organiza-
ton of so-called potato combine, the
informant, in the course of CONVEX
sation, said that Aroostook potato
men, after the losses of the past two
seasons, are beginning to feel that
there should be some sort of organi
cation among them. They think that
strong association of some kind
would prove of inestimable benefit to
them and they cite, as examples, the
fruit growers and poultry associa-
tions that have been formed in Ger
tain sections of the country, the or
ganization of which has tended to Sc
cure a good market for their pro-
ducts.
The bane of the Aroostook potato
man." said this Bangor man, lis the
potato Spectator. who is very numer-
Gus in that section of the country in
the fall of the year BY clever dick
ering the Spectator forces the price
of tubers down and the AroostoOk
man suffers.
The spectators work a pretty
clever game up-riyer and the farmers
are just getting wise to their meth
DDS. The way the spectators buy is
something like this, Three or four of
them will go to a town together but
ostensibly on their own hooks. They
have plan already laid down for
dickering with the potato men. One
of the spectators will offer a Ger
tain price for potatoes, a second will
offer few cents less, third will go
still lower and SO on. the result be-
ing the farmer does not know where
he's at when he gets through with
the buyers and it usually happens
that he sells his crop considerably
less than he ordinary would.
On my last trip up-riyer,' contin-
ued the Bangor man. Il happened
on number of the biggest potato
men in Aroostook county. who told
me that they were thinking of or
ganization for the protection of the
potato grower. They said that they
favored an organization similar to the
so-called Tobacco Trust, but with the
night-riding and other unlawful fea-
lures cut out.
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Born-March %, to wife of Fran
co.'s X Poulin, a daughter.
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Hoods SarsapariIIa

which effects
but twenty
Huged preparation good
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incorporated
C. H Smith. President.
T. E McNeelie, Business Mgr
Consolidating
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POTATO DISTILLATON.

There is some talk up-riyer Of
sending a number of well-informed
potato growers to Sweden to investi-
gate the distillation of potato spir-
its. The Swedes have found a meth
cd for distilling the so-called spirits
so that a perfectly satisfactory me
chanical agent is obtained. They ev-
en- use it to run their automobiles.
THE Aroostook men would make
denatured alcohol if the government
would allow them to do so without
the calling-on for an inspector, but
this is out of the question at the pres
ent time. The up-river men are cast
ing about for means to make their
tubers more valuable and if they find
that they can distill potato spirits
they will have a good way to dispose
of their crops in an off-season.
"On account of the recent burning
of number of potato houses, some
of which the insurance agents be-
lleye were set, a number of policies
are being cancelled on this kind of
risk. Some of the potato men are
rather sore about this action and in
tend to see if something cannot be
done in the matter"
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tracts made.
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WANTED-General purpose horse;
buy or hire for summer. Box 173, No,
Arson, Me. I'll
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EGGs For HATtHTNH-W hIIt IIE
mouth Rock, $3.50 per setting Of Is.
Pens headed by Fishel and NinsloW
cock and cockerels \ limited num-
Der of settings of partridge Wyan-
dottes. f. b. league, X. f. d. 3,
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SPIRELLA CORSET is designed for
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teed. Olive S. Dealey. 81 Pleasant
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Arizona republican., 1911-12-10
TWENTY SECOND YEAR

It has often seemed to the writer that one of the qualities most needed in this world, is that of appreciation. Very few persons are designedly self ish. they are simply so busy with their own work worries or amuse- ments that they have no time to think of the efforts of others. one does not care of course. for the per Son who is insincere, with flattery ever "trippingly on the tongue, but it is not necessary to be untruthful m order to be kindly.
 It is the practice to speak nothing unbecoming of the dead but would it not be better if one did as the old lady suggested when she heard a strange clergyman eulogiZing d de- parted neighbor: 'I know that he must have learned all those nice things he said of her from her hus- band" Then turning to her own bet ter half. she remarked: If you have anything good to say about my pies or my principles. say it noW-don't wait to talk about it at my funeral or to write it on my tombstone"
 The flowers piled upon our graves may be greatly approximately the spectators and the loving words spoken of our virtues may prove soothing in their sympathy to the sorrows of our families-but they will come too late to save us from the cynicism. and perhaps despair, of '. hich we became victims, because our most earnest endeavors, went unnotic- ed by those for whom we thought and labored.
 If a person. be he parent in structor or employer. first takes the trouble to comment kindly upon the good work of those under his direc- tion. he will have then paved the way, whereby he can censure them for their misdeeds or unlovely characteristics, without having his words resented.
 It seems to be much easier for hu- man beings to criticize rather than compliment each other
 Certainly continual cOmmendation without necessary censure. would be stirling to ones mental development. and therefore improbable but criti- cism without compliment. is also un- lTollldDle ana utClutulA ullpltdSsiill.
 It might be a unique method of remembering ones friends at Christ mas time. to write to them in some such manner as this: My friend: I am writing to you, not only to send the usual greetings for a happy Yule- | tide but to -rcif-y you how much your steady and faithful work in behalf of the cluh has been aDpreciated for realize that you have many calls upon your attention"
 Or. one might say to another: T