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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19
Talk to Have New Census for Lewis.

Talk to Have New Census for Lewis
ton.
Talk is made of securing a new cen
sus of Lewiston as the impression
prevails in certain quarters that the
real population is at least 10 per cent
higher than was reported. Names
and places are given by a corresnon-
lent of the Lewiston Journal which
/ is claimed were not visited bt The
enumerators.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19
FREE. BOOK
For Every Living Thing ON the Farm
Humphreys Veterinary Specifics.

800 Page Book free, on the Treatment and
Care of Horses, Critic, Sheep. Dog.
Hogs and Poultry. also Stable Chart 70
hang up, mailed free
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19

There are all kinds of boys In their
teens today who misuse or at least
waste their spare hours who when
they get to be forty will be blaming
Providence or the government or some
body else because they have not Jared
better In a financial way. These same
boys overlook the fact that the men
who achieve aud make good tomorrow
are the boys today who. while they
have their playtime, aud very rightly
so, devote the hours not given TO
healthful recreation TO self improve
ment by reading. thinking and storing
their minds with a fund of informa-
ton which will stand them in good
stead In future days. And usually it
is these same level headed boys who
tend to business in school and make
the study hours of their sehoolmates
and the work of their teachers pleas
ure instead Of a bane aud bugbear.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19

Red Squirrels Are the Thieves.
A Phillips man who raises few
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19

A good many Of the so called stock
foods and tonics. while containing a
certain portion OF wholesome food
elements, contain more or less grain
bulls and mill sweepings, which at
the high prices asked make them
more expensive and less effective than
the same quantity of standard feeds.
such as bran. brewers grains. faxseed
or cottonseed meal bought In bulk. A
relish IS given these prepared foods by
the addition OF herb or two aud a gen
erous amount of salt. which average
farm animals get all too little Of. The
fact of the matter Is that the stock
feeder can buy his own ingredients.
get them pure and free from trash and
weed seeds and manufacture a tonic
on his own hook at less than a third
of the cost of the foods put up in fancy
packages, with pictures of fat steers.
hogs and horses on them.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19
Life Insurance.

The first life insurance society was
started In London In 1893 and another
in 100. Neither was successful
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-01-19
The Vatican Library.

The library OF the Vatican was begun
1.400 years ago. 1t contains 10000
manuscripts.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17

crease very holly in you If you look
with faith to Him.
Bear with what you cannot avoid.
Do not brood over it, but make the
best of it. Keep your own mind calm,
your own temper unruffed, your own
heart hopeful, and your life must lose
most of it's bitterness. Nay! Your
own patience will produce patience in
the mind and heart to which you are
welded.
And remember, thirdly, that much OF
this seeming or actual incompatibility
may rise from germ of seldshness
in both the husband and the wife.
Alas! who among us is not tainted
with this defect? We want our own
way, our own will, instead of yielding
very often, gently, patiently, yes and
lovingly, to the will and way, and
even to the tastes and whims of an
other. We are not yet versed in the
important method OF making homes
happy by our own readiness, our own
delight, to bring sunshine into others
hearts. After all, what is the ideal
of a Christian marriage?
Husbands, love your wives as
Christ also loved the Church, and
delivered Himself up for il" Did
Christ count the cost? Did Christ
measure the devotedness of His love?
So, too, Christian wives, reverence
your husbands. Thus the truest, ten
derest, mightiest friendship of earth
shall knit your two hearts into one
love of home, so that even in this vale
of tears you shall journey in happy
peace, hand in hand, heavenward.
Glad shall we be if these few but
important thoughts shall win readers,
among our home-makers, to Father
Kane's very practical book, sThe
Plain Gold Ring''-the wedding ring,
that type of the pure and holy family
circle, Christian home.
Sacred Heart ReVie10.
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till dinner-time. OF course Elva, who
was their best friend, was in the plan,
| too.
| just little while after breakfast a
pink sunbonnet and white sunbonnet
and blue sunbonnet met in the clov-
er-feld, and the great searching be-
gan.
If we find more than one four
leafed clover, Of course we can get
more than one WISH said Mabel. q
mean to find as many as T can, and
with every clover I shall wish to go
to the seashore." eve will, too" said
the other two little girls.
But they had scarcely settled down
to hunt before voice called from the
house: Girls, can't one Of you come
and take care Of the baby?"
i sha'n't," said Mabel. "Our teach
er said we ought to stick to whatever
we undertook until we have carried it
out. I've made up my mind to find
some four-leafed clovers, and I'm 60
ing to do it. Mother didn't say we
must go in. She told us yesterday we
had worked SO well that she meant to
give us all this morning for ourselves.
1t would be too bad to have every
thing upset by a cross baby"
Marion didn't want to go any more
than Mabel did; but she remembered
mothers tired face.
I'm afraid I ought to-" she said
half-ashamed. Mother might get a
headache. I'll co.
And up and down she trudged with
the cross baby in his cab all morning.
you're foolish. You give up things.
You never carry out your purposes,
the way teacher says we should" said
Mabel. She was quite cross, because
she felt in her heart that she ought to
take care of the baby at least half the
time. She began hunting with all her
might, and found ever so many four
leafed clovers and wished her wish
with every one. But it wasn't so much
fun as it was at first.
| While Marion was amusing the
baby some company came to see
mother. It was an old school friend,
a very charming lady indeed. IT have
little daughter just the age of this
one," she said "She has not been
well, and I have taken cottage by
the seashore for this summer. But my
little Madge is lonesome, and the doc
| tor thinks she would be better for
another girl in the house. Mary,
won't you let me have Marion for a
months visit?"
How Marion's eyes shone! eyes, .
said mother, smiling too. ''She has
been such a good little daughter to
help that think she has earned some
pleasure"
Mabel pouted when she came in.
"She got the good luck" she said,
land she never found one single four.
leafed clover, and got fifty. 1t isn't
fair!"
II think it is fair" said mother
"And you will always find that kind
ness is ever better to bring good luck
than four-leafed clovers.'
Bertha E.. Bush.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
MY CAT.

Our neighbors' cat is Persian, the
Jones' is Maltese,
Aunty's big Angora has feathers to
her knees,
Cat least they look like feathers, and
tail so big and Whitley
When that kitty meets a puppy dog,
I tell you, it's sight!
But when I ask, what breed is mine
my pussy, sleek and fat?"
They laugh, and pull my curls, and
say, II fear-just cat"
It's true her eyes aren't yellow, and
her tail is rather small,
I don't know if she ever had a pedi.
gree at all.
(That big word means her mother,
her grandma, too, they say,
That they all took prizes at a show,
were marked a special way.)
What do I care for markings, for
prizes and all that?
My kitty's just as precious if she is
just cat!
She was the dearest kitten, all scam
per and fur!
Not one of all my pets could make
me laugh like her;
She may be very common, but know
she's good and true,
For she meets me when I come from
school with a loving little new;
And when she's round we never see
naughty mouse Or rat,
And I b'lieve I love her better cause
she's just plan cat!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
BUSY Mr.. FROG.

Hello, Mr.. Frog, what are you
doin' in my garden?" said Jimmie, to
the big, brown toad that was sitting
in the middle of the lettuce bed in his
corner" of his fathers garden.
Hello, Mr.. Frog, I said, what are
you dom in my garden?"
But Mr.. Frog answered never a
word. He just sat there and looked
solemnly out of his bright, beady eyes
well, Mr.. Frog" Jimmy persisted
eff you won't tell me what you are
doin' I'll just wait and see what you're
doin'"
So Jimmy sat on the ground close
by and looked at Mr.. Frog, and Mr.
Frog, in turn, looked at him. Pretty
soon little red bug flew down and
lit on the lettuce near Mr.. Frogs
nose. Jimmy saw something flash out
of Mr.. Frogs mouth, and back again
quick as wink" And Mr.. Red Bug
was not on the lettuce leaf any more
Jimmy was sure Mr.. Red Bug didn'i
! fly away, but he wasn't sure about
! what had happened.
| He thought, 'PIl watch Mr.. Frog
better next time" Again a bug
stopped close to Mr.. Frog and agair
something jumped from Mr.. Frogs
mouth and back again and Mr.. Bug
was gone. And this time Jimmie was
sure that little Mr.. Bug had gone into
Mr.. Frogs mouth.
Before. his mother called him tt
supper, Jimmie had seen Mr.. FROG
catch twenty-seven bugs. He asked
his father how Mr.. Frog could catch
bugs SO well, and was told that he had
long, slender tongue, with sticky
end and when he tipped it against q
bug, Mr.. Bug would just stick on and
go back into Mr.. Frogs big stomach.
"Mr. Frog is Mr.. Toad, and he is q
good fellow to have in your garden
son, and you had better take care oil
him." said Jimmie's father.
And Jimmie said: Eyes, sir, sure
will. I'm goin' to be partner with Mr.
Frog" The ChiId's Gem.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
FIGHT THE FLIES.

A special bulletin, issued by the
f1y-fghting committee of the Ameri-
can Civic Association of Washington,
d. c., declares that war to the death"
should be declared upon the common
house-fiy.
Either man must kill the fly, or
the fly will kill the man." it asserts in
bold black headlines. The following
'don'ts' and summary of advice are
given in the bulletin:
Don't allow the flies in your house.
Don't permit them near your food,
especially milk.
Don't buy foodstuff where flies are
tolerated.
Don't have feeding places where
flies can load themselves with ejec-
tons from typhoid or dysenteric pa
tents.
Don't allow your fruits and confec-
tons to be exposed to the swarms of
flies
Don't let flies crawl over the baby's
mouth and swarm upon the nipple of
it's nursing bottle.
Clean up your premises, inside and
out, and then, as much as you can,
see that others do the same.
Strike at the root of the evil The
house-fiy breeds in horse manure,
kitchen offal and the like. Dispose
of these materials in such a way that
the house-fy cannot propagate
Screen all windows and doors and
insist that your grocer, butcher,
baker and everyone from whom you
buy foodstuffs does the same.
There is more health in a we'll
screened house than in many a doc
tors visit.
After you have cleaned up your
own premises inspect the neighbor.
hood for fly-breeding places. Call the
attention of the owner to them, and
if he does not remove them, complain
to the Board of Health.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17

Coryza is an Inflammation of the
mucous membrane lining the cavities
of the nasal passages and may be
In its acute form it is generally called
ga cold in the head" The reason for
this is that, given certain conditions
of the system which tend to inf1ame
mucous membrane, the acute attack
can very often be traced to exposure
to cold, draughts or damp. 1t can per-
haps just as often be traced to heat,
dust and STIFFNESS, but whatever may
be the final touch it is certain that
the victim of the coryza was in con-
dition in which his powers of resist
ance were reduced or he could not
have caught cold'
1t is of great Importance that those
people who spend many months of the
year travelling from one attack of
coryza to another should learn just
where to place the blame for their
trouble. 1t is pity to get into the
habit of blaming every open door or
window or dreading every unexpected
breath of air, because this only leads
to the course of life most to be avoid
ed If person finds himself with
the catching cold' habit increasing
winter by winter, depend upon it
there is something wrong and that
something is not fresh air, because
that is the very thing he of all people
most needs In such a case the daily
habits should be carefully overhauled.
Does the sufferer overeat, and espe-
food and too little exercise? This
mistake is at the root of the coryza
habit in many cases. 1t is simply the
sign of rebellion on the part of the
overloaded system. Often the trouble
may be traced to too much heavy
clothing, to rooms kept too warm and
to an atmosphere dried up with steam
heat and no ventilation. People who
sleep in shut-up, stuffy bedrooms
ought to live in state of graceful
surprise If they do not have constant
colds.
The change that can be produced in
the human constitution in this respect
by a continuous course of common
sense applied to daily life is almost
like miracle working. But the course
must be begun today and kept up at
least 365 days in the year. The cold
catcher must pay minute attention to
the digestive process, and is probably
better or to eat meat not more than
once day at the most. His bedroom
window must stay open winter and
way down. He must accustom him
self to cold-Water bathing. This does
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
UNHAPPY HOMES.

Unhappy homes-how incongruous
are the words. Should not home be
always happy, whatever sorrows,
caused by bereavement, illness or the
like, may occur there? Oh, only too
often there are unhappy homes from
other causes than these. The Rev.
Robert Kane, s. j., in his useful book
called "The Plain Gold Ring" says
very forcibly: Cali the causes from
which may come the unhappiness of a
home may be grouped under three
chief ideas; in the first place, there
may be downright sin or wilful faults;
in the second place, there may be nat
ural unsuitedness or the inevitable
clash of uncongenial characters; in
the third place, there may be selfish
ness, whether it be conscious or I'M
conscious. The first heading includes
all unhappiness which is distinctly
blameworthy. The second heading in
cludes such unhappiness as is directly
beyond ones control. The third head
ing includes that unhappiness which
arises not from deliberate fault, nor
from indeliberate unftness, but from
the failing to appreciate or to apply
the real source and standard of Chris
tian friendship"
Let us pause, each for himself, and
consider which of these three causes
seems to be the one that makes ours
If such be the pitiful case-"an I'M
happy home" Then let us also ask
ourselves if the unhappiness is so
deeply rooted that it must last while
life lasts; or, on the other hand, is
there remedy for this painful state
of things?
Thank God there is a remedy. If
our home is unhappy through deliber-
ate fault, that fault may be crushed
by the grace of God, through the use
of His divine sacraments, through the
clear accusation of ones self in con-
fession, through the help derived not
only from absolution but from priestly
direction in the tribunal of penance.
Do as Father Kane plainly advises
First, let the honor of your married
love be ever without spot or blemish
Let no faintest trace of unworthy fir.
tation, let no slightest speck of unbe.
coming levity, ever tarnish the chaste
beauty of your marriage VOW. Sec.
ondly, keep far from you, or, if ii
come near you, crush with desperate
determination, the demon that breeds
every disorder within each unhappy
home, the demon Drink. Thus keen
sin from your door,
/ But another cause of unhappy
homes lies in incompatibility of tenn.
per, the antagonism of natural un-
fitness or the clash of uncongenial
characters" What remedy can be
found for this trouble? How can that
home ever be happy where tastes diff
fer radically, where deeply rooted
habits are contrary one to the other,
mind and sentiment prove to be un-
congenial, and two people mated for
life, find out too late, or think they
find out, that they are absolutely un-
suited to each other?" Oh, never say
this! Is not God all-powerful, all
loving? He can find remedy for
even such situation as this. He
can help you to win love by love, not
the first blind, wild love of youth, but
the tender, patient love, the source OF
which is in the Sacrament OF Matri-
mony itself, and which God viii in
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
MARIoN's GOOD LUCK.

If you find four-leafed clover, you
will get your WISH" said the summer
boarder
Mabel and Marion were very much
excited. They had a wish that they
had been wishing for a long time. 1t
was to go to the seashore. They made
up their minds that they would go out
to look for four-leafed clovers the very
first thing after breakfast, and hunt
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17

not necessarily mean ice-water bath
ing, A bath thermometer is cheap
purchase and IS degrees is cold
enough for most persons.
Deep, slow breathing with the
mouth closed should be constantly
practiced, and never more faithfully
than at the moment when cold
seems to be in the act of getting
worse. Youths Companion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-06-17
THE BELLS OF sHANpoN.

sabbath pango;
Funera plango;
Solemnia clango.
Inscription on an old bel
With deep affection
And recollection
/ often think of
Those Shandon bells,
Whose sounds so wild would,
In the days of childhood,
Fling round my cradle
Their magic spells.
On this / ponder
Where'er ! wander,
And thus grow fonder,
Sweet Cork, of thee,
With thy bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters
Of the River Lee.
I've heard bells Ginning
Full many a cline in,
Tofling sublime in
Cathedral shrine,
While at a GLIDE rate
Brass tongues would vibrate;
But all their music
Spoke naught like thine.
For memory, dwelling
On each proud swelling
Of thy belfry knelling
Its bold notes free,
Made the bells of Shandon
Sound for more grand on
The pleasant waters
Of the River Lee
I've heard the bells tolling
Old Adrian's Mole in,
Their thunder rolling
From the Vatican,
And symbols glorious
Swinging uproarious
In the gorgeous turrets
Of Notre Dame.
But thy sounds were sweeter
Than the dome of Peter
Filings DER the Tiber,
Pealing solemnly.
Oh! the bells of Shandon
Sound far more grand on
The pleasant waters
Of the River Lee.
There's bell in Moscow,
While on tower and kiosk o
In st. Sophia
The Turkman gets,
And loud in air
Calls men to prayer,
From the tapering summit
Of tall minarets.
Such empty phantom
l freely grant them,
But there's an anthem
More dear to me:
TITS the bells of Shandon,
That sounds so grand on
The pleasant waters
Of the River Lee.
e., Father Prout.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-31

W"et'nsron. July 3I:-The so
called money trust" headed by
wall street fnanciers and described
as the most gigantic combination OF
capital in the world, is to be inves-
ttgated by congress. After a hearing
the rules committee of the house of
representatives decided to report ia
vorably the resolution of Represen-
tative Lindbergh, Republican of
Minnesota, providing for a most
thoroughgOing examination into the
affairs Of the alleged money monop-
oily. A combination of banks, rail-
roads, insurance and industrial com
panies, through a community Of In
terest" arrangement, has been
charged to exist for the purpose of
controlling the circulation of money
in large business operations. John
P%ierpont Morgan Is said to be the
guiding factor in the combination.
Chairman Henry of Texas of the
house committee on rules has long
favored Mr.. L~indbergh's resolution,
and he and Congressman Hardwick,
also a member of the committee on
rules, were instrumental in having
the reported out for consid-.
Grafton by the. bcoss"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-31
MATAWAN

Mrs. Nellie Crokan, Of New Bruins
wick, returned home IN Saturday az
ter spending a week with Mrs. James
Fury, at the Matawan House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwood Van Brackle
were Asbury Park visitors on Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Patten and
daughter are spending a few days at
Asbury Park.
William Romell, Of Jersey City,
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Romell.
town on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. V. Simpson and
son Frank took a party Of friends to
Asbury Park In their Automobile on
Saturday afternoon, returning home
in the evening.
Miss Lila Greben and Miss Irene
Bower are spending a week at AS
bury Park.
Mrs. w. S. Stryker, of Marlboro,
was a recent visitor of her mother,
Mrs. J.. 8. Sickels.
]. S. Sickels, of Brooklyn, spent
Sunday with his brother, Mr.. Theo-
dore ickels.
Mr.. Mclean and family spent Sun
day at Bay Head, motoring there IN
McLean's car
Clifford Hulsart and family are
camping for a couple of weeks at
Belmar.
George Applegate, of Perth Am
boy, was a Matawan visitor on SUN
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Clark, who
have resided in Matawan for the
past few years, have stored their
furniture and will spend the rest of
the summer at Keansburg. Prior to
their leaving MataWan, they were
guests at the Matawan House for a
few days.
Mrs. NJ. Shock and daughter
Thelma, spent Sunday at Spring
Lake, guests of Frederick Shock.
George Banks was a New York Wis
it9r on Sunday.
Mrs. J.. T. Cloves has returned
home, after spending a couple Of
at Asbury Park.
Mrs. D. G. Mealio, of Bayonne, is
her daughter, Mrs. J.. T.
Cloves.
DR.. and Mrs. Bayles and family, of
were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Shepherd on Sunday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-31
KEYPORT

H. w. Davis, of New York, Wes a
Sunday visitor in town.
Mrs. Albert Duelf sang a solo yes
terday morning In the Calvary M. E.
church.
The Misses Kathleen and Gardina
Hoagland returned Saturday from a
two weeks visit at Salisbury, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Jack, Of
New York, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Tempelton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D. Harris, OF
Main street, are entertaining their
nephew, Roy Harris, Of Brooklyn.
Charles Rose, of New York, Is
spending a few days in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Carhart, of
Oatisville, N. Y, are the guests OF
J.. P. Carhart, in Osborn street.
Miss Marion Ogden, Of East Or
ange, is the guest of her grandfath-
er, Rufus Ogden, IN Main street.
Frank Smith is confined to his
home with an attack of rheumatism.
Miss Elsie Bowen, of Elizabeth, is
thefg est of Miss Beatrice Mason.
William Cahill and son Edward, Of
Jersey City, spent yesterday at the
home of w. A. Tilton.
Mrs. George Conant and daughter
of Alabama, are guests of friends r.
town.