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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-14

by Charles Volkmar of Methuchen, n.
j., one of the foremost potters of the
times and internationally famous for
his work in ceramics In addition to
the manufacture of pottery and cera-
mics, there will be a school of cera-
mic art which will attract students
from the country over. Plans already
make it evident that Bangor will be
the possessor of an institution which
will attract visitors from wide range
and will be one of the most interest
ing places for tourists in Maine.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-14

Maine has reason to be proud of its
colleges. Out of Colby's 1900 gradu-
ates one has founded college, 81
have been college presidents, 80 col
lege professors, two Governors, u
United States Senators and Congress-
men, 8 members of State legislatures,
and 30 foreign missionaries.
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+Gki INCHES

half inches in width, and half an inch
in thickness must be procured, and
the corners rounded with a sharp
knife.
This board is then covered with silk
or any other suitable material, folded
in plaits, so that it forms a series of
pockets, turned over the edges and
tackled down securely at the back.
Diagram A at the right hand side
Of the sketch shows a section Of the
material and indicates the manner in
which the silk should be folded SO
that it forms pockets when stretched
tightly across the wood. The edge of
the board can afterwards be finished
off with ornamental braid and tiny
brass-headed nails driven in at inter
walls.
Two small picture rings are screw
ed into the upper edge for %suspending
the rack from nails in the wall. In
the rack in the sketch, four pockets
are shown, but any number can be ar
ranged in the same manner If a piece
of board of longer length Is used, and
1t is a good idea, when possible, to
make a pocket for each member of the
household and work his or her initials
upon it, so that by glancing at the
rack any particular person may see
at once for whom it contains letters
without having to examine each let
ter separately, a thing which always
has to be done when letters for diff
ferent people are placed In a rack mix
ed together.
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ECZEMA ON BABY'S SCALP

1857 So. Paxon ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
MY son, one year old, had suffered
with czem on his scalp and occa-
sional outbreaks on his face and body
ver since he was a small baby. The
first sign Of any disturbances Of the
scalp was the appearance Of dandruff.
Within a week large sores or scabs
had formed, covering the top of his
head where the hair was thickest. His
scalp was full of large watery scabs
that caused intense itching and loss Of
sleep. He would scratch his face until
blood appeared many times, and was
unusually fretful during the day and
cried at times both day and night.
Some of his hair fell out.
Il tried some remedies that were
recommended to me but these were Of
no help in relieving him. Through a
friend l heard of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. The parts that were affect
ed l washed in warm Cuticura Soap
suds, and applied the CutiGura Oint-
ment afterwards. In about two weeks
they cured it entirely" (Signed) Mrs.
S. R. Emurian, Jan. Is, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
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REPORTED BY THE CROUCH
Here the Original Hiram j. Tells of
His Attendance at Country
Function"

Having nothing else to do" re-
marked the old codger, 9" attended
a function while l was over at Tor
pidville the other day. The affair
was held in a dispirited grove at the
ED of a road In which every time
a horse popped down his foot the dust
shot up in the air like a skyrocket.
A band was playing without the
slightest remorse. A statesman, with
a neck as wrinkled as a pickle, dron-
ell forth redundant nonenities with
out end. A sad and rickety merry
go-wabble wound round and round
to the sound of its own plaintive pee
d~le-deedle. In a tipsy pavilion a
hoarse person was endeavoring to sell,
in brazen defiance of the pure food
and drug act, what looked alarmingly
like horned toads fried in ~axle-gTease.
A gentleman In a striped tent e
by h%oarsely stated that he preferred
pent. There was the usual balloon
which seemed perfectly willing to do
anything but go up. Scattered around
through the festal scene were a few
old soldiers, grumbling; q smattering
of farmers, also grumbling; sundry
honest voters, likewise grumbling;
and various other folks, nothing about
whom is worth mentioning except
that they, too, were g%rumbling. 1t
may have been a reunion, a fair, a
rally, a picnic, or what-not; but what
ever they CHANGED to call it, twas an
excellent example of one of our most
cherished Observation-Disclosures City
Star.
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lined with sateen and bound at the
edges with narrow pale green ribbon.
Two smart little bows and a long
loop of the same ribbon are attached
to the bag at the top, for singing it
owe the wrist.
On n side, in the center, there
is a small hole, finished off with a
b~uttonhole stitching in pale green
silk, and through which the wool or
cotton may be drawn at will.
On both sides of the bag a simple
design of pale green leaves is en-
b%roidered, and this design ca4 quite
easily be worked from our sketch.
in The first place, an exact circle
should be marked upon the material
with tailor's chalk, and then it is a
simple matter to draw the little
leaves on either side of the line as
indicated in the illustration, and af-
forwards embroider them with pale
green silk of various shades, and this
must, of course, be done prior to max
ing up the bag.
A work bag Of this kind is always
well worth the trouble of making, as
though the wool or cotton can be
easily drawn off as required, the ball
cannot possibly escape and roll about
the floor, a mishap which SO often
happens with an ordinary little bag,
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WOMEN OF KABYL|A
Are Even More Beautiful Then
Their Circassian Sisters.
But Beware of These Beauties, "a
They Also Have a Violent Temper
and May Place a Yataghan
Between Your Shoulders.

TiziOuzou, Kabylia.-Though the
haired beauties of Circassia combine
a remarkable loneliness of features
and complexion with a certain
v%oluptuous elegance, they compare
with the dignified, graceful, insolent
Kabyle women very much as the
show girls of a light opera chorus
compare with the star.
Even the humblest peasant girl,
grinding the family flour between the
upper and the neither stone In the
doorway of a mud howell, possesses a
distinction of form and feature which
would attract attention in any assem-
blage. With all her dignity, however,
the Kabyle woman does not rise SUI
perior to the Africans fondness for
personal ~adornment, being so laden
with bracelets, anklets and necklaces
of gold, silver, turquoise and coral
that when she moves she sounds like
an approaching four-in-hand. Her
approach is likewise heralded by the
reek of an exotic and almost over
towering perfume, which, like the
celebrated parfum de Bey of Tunis,
is composed of nearly a score Of
blended scents, the odor changing
from carnation to heliotrope, to rose,
to violet, and SO on, every few min
utes.
Lest this glowing description of
their charms should start you post
haste for Kabylia, let me warn you
hat these insolent- eyed beauties are
headstrong and hot Of temper, and
that if you happened to say the wrong
thing to them it Is more than prob
able that you would find the double
bladed' yataghan, which every Kabyle
maiden a very much as an Ameri-
can girls wears a bunch of v~iolets,
planted between you shoulders.
They are fond of cold steel, are
these Kabyles, for at the conclusion
of a wedding ceremony the bride
groom, walking backward, holds aloft
a naked dagger, and the bride, follow
ing him, keeps the point of it be-
tween her teeth. Another marriage
custom Of Kabylia, even more bar
barrie, consists in the part %martyrdom
of the BRIDGE, who, clad in her we'd
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WELL PEOPLE TOO
Wise Doctor Gives Postum to Con-
V~aIescents.

Awise doctor tries to give nature its
best chance by saving the little
strength of the already exhausted pa
tient, and building up wasted energy
with simple but powerful nourish-
ment.
Five years ago." writes a doctor
II commenced to use Postum in my
own family instead Of coffee" Cts
a well-known fact that tea is just as
injurious as coffee because it contains
caffeine, the same drug found in cof-
fee.) Il was SO well pleased with the
results that 1 had two grocers place
it in stock, guaranteeing its sale.
Il then commenced to recommend it
to my patients in place of coffee, as a
nutritious beverage. The consequence
is, every store in town is now selling
1t, as it has become a household me-
cessity in many homes.
Tn sure l prescribe Postum as oft
en- as any one remedy In the Materia
Medica--in almost every case Of indi-
gestion and nervousness l treat, and
with the best results.
when l once introduce 1t into a
family, it is quite sure to remain. /
shall continue to use 1t and prescribe
it in families where 1 practice.
I'm convalescence from pneumonia,
typhoid fever and other cases l give
it as a liquid, easily absorbed diet.
You may use my letter as a reference
any way you e fit" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read "The Road to MELVILLE" in
pkgs. There's a reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. The
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
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Got His

When Oscar Wilde came to the
United States to lecture on aesthet-
les in his highly aesthetic velvet cos
tume-and incidentally to prepare the
public mind for the proper apprecia-
ton of Gilbert and Sullivan's PA
tience," in which the aesthetic move
ment was held up to ridicule-he used
to complain that America was very IN
interesting since 1t had mo antiqui-
ties and no curiosities." But he ven
tured on this disparagement once too
often, for in the course of his travels
he uttered it to the American Girl,
and she replied with the demure de-
pravity Of candid innocence that this
was not quite a fair reproach, since
1--WE shall have the antiquities in
time, and We are already importing the
curiosities."
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ding fnery, stands through an entire
morning against a pillar in the vii
lage square, her eyes closed, her
arms pressed to her sides and with
only the narrow base of the column
for a foothold, the while a ring of
villagers criticise and comment on
her appearance. l might add that,
despite the stern stuff of which the
Kabyle women are made, the bride
usually faints during the ordeal.
If, after learning of these quaint
whims and customs, you wish to see
the Kabyle women with your own
eyes, you have only to take passage
10 Algiers and a train thence, for
some twenty-odd hours, over a rail-
way which appears to be suffering
from commissions, to its terminus at
Tizf-Ouzou. Thence, on horseback,
astride Of a donkey or afoot, but al
ways with your Arab guide in front
Of you and with your hand in you
jacket pocket, and in that hand a
serviceable revolver, you can pene-
trate with greater or less safety into
those wild Businesses of the Atlas
range, where one can buy a dozen
beauties outright for the price of a
limousine motor car.-Metropolitan.
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Really Had Best of Il.

John Burroughs is well known as
one Of the foremost of nature writer's
in this country. Some time ago he
visited his brother, Eden Burroughs,
who lives In the Catskills, at a place
called Hobart. The two brothers went
fox hunting together. The honor of
the hunt came to Eden, who shot the
only fox. 1t SO happened that fox
skins were worth five dollars at that
time, and the successful Nimrod took
much pride in telling how he got the
better oil the sage of Slabsides. Later
n boasting to a few friends about it
/ n the presence of his brother, John,
he was interrupted by, You have
Dragged about that fox hunt long
enough. You shot the fox, sold the
skin and got five dollars. l wrote a
little account Of the hunt, and got
SIS from the magazine which publish
ed it. So there you are!"
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M)@DM@GG7h
@lND HER@aK
TODlETQTAi

To remove canker in the mouth,
touch it frequently with ~bicarbonate of
soda-the ordinary kind used in bak-
ing.
To remove rings from a finger swol-
len by their t~ightness, dip the finger
in ice cold soapsups, and the ring will
come off easily.
A good camphorated tooth powder
is made from precipitate chalk, six
drains; orris root, two drains; pow
dered camphor, one-third dram.
A sponge for washing and bathing
purposes is not sanitary, as it is i'm
possible to be thoroughly cleansed.
For insomnia, lie straight and in
hale deeply for Is minutes, placing
the hands at the waist line and send
ing the breath down, forcing the hands
apart.
Rose water, four ounces, and a third
of an ounce of tincture of benzoin has
the quality Of bringing the blood to
the surface of the skin and giving it
a delicate pink color.
To harden the gums, try a wash
made Of hot water, one pint; borax,
one ounce, and a teaspoonful each of
spirits of camphor and myrrh. Dis
solves the borax in the hot water and
let cool before adding the other in
gradients.
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PRESERVING BEAUTY OF NECK
Tightness of Collar Worn There Must
Be Matter of Serious Con-
s%ideration.

The ideal neck is most readily oh-
tanned and retained by those who
wear collarless gowns, or, if a cover
ing for the neck is essential, use trans
parent materials of white or lined
with that color. If a woman would
have a pretty throat it is imperative
that she should give careful atten-
ton to her collars and neck-bands of
all sorts, and this includes underwear.
Through this a ribbon is often drawn
at the base of the throat of child or
adult, where It exerts a pressure that
is not only bad for the contour of the
throat, but for the circulation as
we'll.
Another important essential In the
care of the neck is to keep it thor
oughly clean. In this connection a
man who is probably the greatest
beauty specialist In this country de.
clares that hot water has ruined more
skins than has anything else"-this
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lily, but I tell them of my good friend,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and that there will be no back
ache and bearing down pains for them if
they will takei it as I have. l am scarcely
ever without it in the house.
81 will say also that l think there Is
no better medicine to be found for young
girls. My eldest daughter has taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for painful periods and Irregular
ity. and it has helped her.
~ am always ready and willing to
speak a good word for Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1 tell every
n l meet that / owe my health and
happiness to your wonderful medicine"
Mrs. j. G. JOHNSON, Scottville, Mich,
RID. 8.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and herbs.
contains no narcotics or harmful drugs.
and today holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for woman's ills
known
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Scientific management, like any
other good thing, may be carried to
excess"
The speaker was r. Marriott
Thompson, the San Francisco scienti-
fc management expert. He continued,
says the New York Tribune:
1--WE scientific managers mustn't go
as far as Hustler went.
"Hussler was the proprietor of a
tremendous factory where scientific
management had reduced the mo-
lions of every hand from 500 to II.
Hustler attended a very fashionable
wedding n day, a wedding where
the ceremony was performed by a
bishop, assisted by a dean and a
canon, and in the most impressive
part Of the writ Hustler, overcome by
his scientific management ideas, rush
ed up to the altar and pushed the
bishop and canon rudely back.
Here, boys he said, ones quite
enough for a little job like this"
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Trimmings for Fall Suits.

A report from the recent style con-
gress in New York says:
plain silk binding braid as used O.
mems coats for the severe tailor made.
Heavy wood silk braids, plain or fig
ured, for the more fancy suits.
Buckles for belt effects; this is an
American idea adapted from shoe
buckles. Small ball buttons of ivory
and celluloid in all colors. Striped
and figured velvets for collar. cuffs
and vestings. Sash and necktie ef-
feet; the sashes can be made of braid
and velvet combination in place of the
old-time satin ribbon. Chenille in
knotted effects will be very popular"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Mothers LlnquaI Attainment.

The mother Of a little boy in Kan
a City, Kan, recites negro dialect
stories charmingly. Her small son is
quite proud of her accomplishment
and frequently boasts of it. One day
recently, when some of his. playmates
were Wanting the achievements of
their several mothers, the little boy
braggingly remarked:
my mother is smarter than any of
yours; she can talk two languages"
What are they?" demanded his
companions.
white and colored."
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Killed by Rldlno Into Wire.

Avon Smith, a young lad of Dinuba,
Colo, rode against a barbed-wire
which was stretched across a road
and cut his throat from ear to ear.
Young Smith was riding in the early
twilight to the home of a neighbor,
and took a road through an open field
-one which he has travelled for sew
eral years-unaware that a wire had
been stretched across the highway
that afternoon to keep out teams.
The wire was stretched taut and at
just a height to strike him across
the throat.
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How He Left.

The servants were discussing the
matter below stairs.
Master and mistress 'ad something
of a row last night, I ear" said the
butler p~onderously.
you should have heard EN-" an
swered the parlor maid in a shocked
tone. 'Scandalous is what l calls i'll"
"They tell me e ran out, cranked is
motor car and left in it."
NO" said the maid, positively, che
didn't leave in his machine; 1 dis
tinctly heard the mistress say he left
in a huff."-London Answers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
RO0KERIEs FOR WILD BIRDS
Audubon Societies of United States
Are Busy in Their New Con-
s~ervation Plan.

New York.-The National Associa.
ton Of Audubon Societies as part OF
its conservation plan hopes to obtain
for the wild water birds of North
America permanent and undisputed
possession of the islands, marshes and
lakes where their largest colonies are
found. The societies have obtained
either by purchase or gift some of the
most populous rookeries left in Maine,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Flori.
da and Louisiana.
1t is hoped that in the next few
weeks other rookeries equally i'm
portant with these will be taken over
by the organizations.
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Quaint Towels

For use in the summer cottage Japa-
nese toweling is the quaintest of new
items. 1t comes about ten inches wide.
and is priced at Is cents a yard. The
effects are mostly blue patterns on
white grounds, though an occasional
pale green and white piece is to be
found. There are few designs shown
in the blue and white and each design
is complete within the measure of a
yard.
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JUST MATTER OF ECONOMY
Sometimes Expensive Materials Are
Not a Necessity or Even of the
Best Worth.

The girl whose skilled fingers add
the dainty touches to her wardrobe,
instead of paying for them ready
made, may find the experience of a
sister needle woman valuable In pre-
venting a bad mistake. An ambitious
little maiden had just purchased some
handsome plain cream silk net for a
guimpe with sleeves and was turning
away to seek the counter where chif-
fon for lining it could be purchased
when a friend at her elbow remarked:
why don't you just use plain cream
colored cotton net Of a fine quality
for the lining? My dressmaker ad-
vised it, and 1t gives a much more
lacy effect"
No soone said than done. The cot
ton net was purchased and carried
home, and vas cut out exactly the
same as was the silk net. The guimpe
vas an entire success, 80 far as ap-
pearance went. 1t fitted well, and
had a very good effect with the CO.'S
tune of cream colored cloth. But 1t
had not been worn three times when
its owner saw, with dismay, that the
edges of the silk net, at arms eye, at
elbow, and where 1t Joined the collar,
were fraying out, inch lengths Of the
heavy silk thread standing out from
the goods in every direction, though
she had allowed ample at the seams
to prevent any such thing.
On examining it, she discovered that
while the silk net is firmly woven, and
will not stretch perceptibly, net Of
cotton is quite the opposite in weave,
and stretches decidedly. 1t had stretch
ed, in this case, putting all the strain
on the silk net, which had yielded "all
along the line" 1t had to befdarned
down on the cotton net, with sewing
silk, and little tucks had to be taken
in the cotton net to keep even that
darning from giving out.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Moving Pictures PopuIar.

In a recent number of the Daily
Consular Reports are collected memo
randa from cities and towns in vari-
out distant parts of the world showing
the universal quality of the popular
interest which the moving pictures
excite. England, Japan, Turkey, Mex
leo, India, Australia and the islands
Of the sci all have the same story to
tell; wherever the cinematograph
goes 1t finds an instant and sustained
welcome.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23

with reference to steaming processes
and hot congresses.
In order to cleanse the skin scrub
the neck with hot water and the best
imported bar CASTLE soap o~btainable.
After the hot scrub battle the throat
with cold water. Some women even
use ice-cold water, and ice packs for
ten minutes. The cold treatment
tones, tightens and imparts brilliancy
to a skin that is relaxed from the hot
scrub.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23

etableC Compound and
Sanative Wash have
done me. / live on a
andhaveworked
very hard. I am
f~orty-fve years old,
and am the mother
of thirteen children.
Many people think
it strange that I am
not broken down
with hard work and
Al
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Case Of Mistaken Identity.

President Taft was out for his aft
ernoon walk in Washington one day
when a flaxen-haired little girl ran out
in front of him, held up her finger
and exclaimed, in a shrill voice:
81 know who you are!"
The president, thinking 1t not at all
unusual that she should possess this
information, but willing to crafty her,
asked:
well, who am II"
Jaw" she said teasingly, you're
Humpty Dumpty."-Popular Maya.
zine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Maids nNot Gadaboutsy CO. cash

London.-Money gifts left by Isaac
Duckett fog maid servants who can
prove long service with the same fam
lily and are not gossips or gadabouts,
were distributed in the parish of st.
Andrews, Holborn, London, the other
day.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Cow Produces SO Pounds of Butter.

Newark, N. ito Valdessa Scott
H., a Holstein Friesian, owned by
Bernard Meyer of Ffnderne, N. j.,
goes the honor of being the best dairy
COW in the world. The COW has just
completed a seven-day official record
in which she produced $3.50 pounds of
milk, 1880 pounds of butter fat and
41.87 pounds of butter.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Autocratic Assertions.

Are you a servant of the people?"
asked the constituent.
YES" replied Senator Sorghum.
"Only it should be observed that a
really f1rst-class servant may come
pretty nearly being a boss"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-23
Dress

Old muslin dresses that are unfit
to veal and useless to give away
make excellent protectors for good
afternoon and evening gowns. Place
he frock on a padded coat hanger,
and slip the muslin dress over it to
keep dust off.
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Job Not Satisfactory,

I'm a self-made man." said the
proud individual.
We'll, you are all right except as to
your head" commented the listener.
"How's that?"
1.-THE part you talk with is too big
for the part you think with"