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The Washington times., 1912-08-02
Choice-of-the-House Clearing Sale of >
MenIsS18, 0,$22.50&S25S Suits
At $13.65 for Choice

This radical affects remaining the and
unlimited choice
consider the fact that Godne notably than other cloth
charge for the high quality clothing the savings will appear greater
than first glance We after clearance cos-and this remarkably low
price will give clear field for the stock.
Is
sesped blues plain fine twd Conservative and
70 fol
200 MEMS AND YOUNG MEMS FINE QUALITY AL-WOOL
SERGE SUITS we'll tailored trimmed Values
$780, $780, and $500 VOsfS
The Washington times., 1912-08-02

oval shape MirrOrS, with
metal frames, In black, brown.
and gilt enamel; complete with
easel and hanger attachment.
9th Floor)
. SIS Rugs, $S.9S.
sxl2 IT. Largest Room-size
all-wool Brussels Rugs, made
In one piece. Choice of floral
and medallion designs. W. a
J. Sloane make.
59c MOhair, SOC.
H-in. iustrous quality Mo-
hair Brilliantine, dust and salt
water proof; strictly reversible.
In black and navy blue.
SOC Storm Serge, 33c.
8-in. Storm Serge, a hard
twisted, close woven quality. in
navy blue and black.
Boys SOC Caps, 19c.
Boys Fancy Cashmere and
SILK Mohair Golf Caps, light
weight for summer.
Boys soc Bathing Suits,
25c.
Boys Navy Blue Jersey
Bathing Suits, two-pieee style;
sizes 22 to "a chest measure.
Boys IS and $3.50 Suits,
S1.69.
Boys Fancy Cashmere
Suits, in double breasted style,
with Knickerbocker pants;
sizes Z to 16 years. LIght, me-
dium, and dark patterns.
Boys 25c Belts, 15c.
Boys Leather Belts, in
brown tan. and black.
esd Floor.)
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
G. X. FOGGS SUCCESS.
Great Popularity OF Plan to Sell Medi-
cine at Half Price and Guar
antee a Cure.

G. r. Fogg, the enterprising drug
gist rather than await the ordinary
methods of introduction, urged the
DR.. Howard Co. to secure a quick
sale for their celebrated specific for
the cure of constipation and dyspep-
STA by offering the regular soc bottle
at half price
So much talk has been caused by
this offer, and so many new friends
have been made for the specific that
the DR.. Howard Co. have authorized
druggist G. r. Fogg to continue this
special half price sale for a limited
time longer.
In addition to Selling a soc bottle
of Dr. Towards specific for 25c G..
r. Fogg has so much faith in the
remedy that he will refund the money
to any one whom it does not cure.
When your head aches your stom-
ach does not digest food easily and
naturally when there is constipation
epecks before the eyes, tired feeling
giddiness, bad taste in the mouth
coated tongue, heart burn, sour stom-
ach. roaring or ringing in the ears.
melancholy and liver troubles DR.
Towards specific will cure you If
it does not, it will not cost you a
cent 1910
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29

If you blush, put on glasses, ad.
vises Dr. H. Campbell, an English
physician. Not tin ones to conceal
the object which caused your flush.
Or no-but~ regular glass glasses,
strong convex lenses" he says in the
Practitioner. And this is how he
demonstrates his propositions;
The artificial myopia thus induced
by blurrlng the surroundings tends to
diminish self-eonsciousness. The fe-
male sex Is more apt to blush than
the male sex, although more men
than women seek medical help for
morbid blushing"
Among the horrible examples"
which DR. Campbell came across in
practice were those of a Young man
who was obliged to leave the army
because of blushng; of a physician,
forty years old, who abandoned his
practice because OF it; OF a minister,
thirty-two, who "blushed" himself out
of the pulpit.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
Still His Little Wife.

In little shack at Sparkhill, Mrs
Ellen Peck, aged 50, the confidence
queen,' released from Auburn peni
tentiary, Is being guarded by her aged
husband as carefully as though she
was the best woman in the world.
MY Molly made mistakes" said
the aged husband, but she's come
home to me now, with her nerves
shattered and her health gone. No
you can't see her; she's suffered al
she's going to, and in future I'm going
to shield her from the world. Why
she's the best little woman that even
lived, and l won't have anybody both.
ering her"
So great is his loyalty that he will
permit no one to say a word against
the woman who yictimized men OF
more than 81 100000 and brought dis.
grace to him and their children
shes my little Wife," he says.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
IMMENSE POWER OF WEALTH
Ingenious Writer Shows What Worlds
Blk Rlchest Men Could Do
" They Combined.

In the Strand Magazine appears q
unique article with the title, What
Six Rich Men Could Do" The author
has taken as the worlds six richest
men John d. Rockefeller, Pierpont
Morgan, Aston. Lord Strathcona, An.
drew Carnegie and Lord Rothschild.
He calculates that between them they
own s5,000000.000. What might they
do with such a sum II they comb
forces? What things could they not
achieve with $4,000 100000? Suppose
they were aggressive and inclined to
wage war. They could put 900. 900
men In the field and maintain them
for ten years, perhaps for twenty. The
American Revolutionary war cost
s700.000000. The wars with Napoleon
from 1890 to 1916 cost Great Britain
$3,250,000,000. The Crimean war cost
$3.50, 100000 for two years. The South
African war cost England 81 ,250, 600.
900. The rich sextet could have borne
the costliest of these wars and had
good sum over.
, II they turned their attention to the
sea they could with half their capital
build a feet that would be unique
overpowerlng. irresistible The big
gest feet in the world-that of Great
Britain-could probably be duplicated
for $1,000, 100000 Again these irwin
chile six could give 800 each to every
man, woman and child in the British
Isles They could buy all the automo.
biles in the world and then have
enough left over to purchase the Pa
mama and Suez canals, and after that
SUFFICIENT to buy up British shipping.
These are few of the startling
things these six elderly gentlemen
could do with their combined wealth
If they only possessed the requisite au-
1acity, imagination and agreement.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
AN IDLE SON OF THE RICH
How Fathers Money Was Running
Stomach and Digestion of
Pampered Fool.

DR.. ]. n. Hurry, secretary of the
state board Of health. told of a young
man he saw in dining car on a re.
cent trip from New York.
He was evidently one of the idle
sons OF the new and very rich" said
Dr.. Hurry. "He sat at the table
across from me, and | prolonged my
dinner just to watch him. He first
had a cocktail and then SOME raw
oysters, a special pick for which he
tipped the steward generously Re
ceived, he sailed them heavily, then
peppered them as heavily. Then he
covered them with tabasco sauce and
finally with catsup. With these he
ate some dill pickles. Then he went
down the course with two kinds of
meat. done very rare; two kinds of
salads with pastries, hot bread and
two kinds of dessert. and much more,
all served in courses, topped off with
a pot Of two or three cups of coffee,
followed by a cigarette He was
young and his face was covered with
those little pimples, signs that the din
ner he was consuming was not an un.
usual one.
"All the while he watched me and
others in the car from the corner Of
his eye, to see how we we're taking
him. 1 don't know whether he read
my thoughts or not. A half dozen old
err men, myself included, who had
learned from experience, were eating
simple food, and plying the poor,
pampered fool whose fathers money
was running his stomach. Two of US
left the dining car together. The 9TH
err said to me:
Zone grain of satisfaction you and
|, who have to travel and eat on din
ing cars, can get from that Either he
will die early from that sort of thing,
or he will be SO laid up with stomach
trouble that he can't travel IN
News.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
Estlmatlna Power of Sea.

The Give power of furious sea is
estimated by multiplying the mass of
the surge by the square of its speed.
When the surf, impelled by the drive
of the broad sea, meets a solid OBJ.
stacle, its pressure is thirty tons per
square meter Of water. This estimate,
which Is close, explains how water,
when continually sapplng the foot OF
a cliff, breaks down the land, forces
back-the shore line, and little by lit.
tie. constantly and surely, increases
the seas domain. A wave from 33. to
80 feet high, and 625 feet long-such
a wave as the sea produces every IS
seconds-represents power of about
1850 H. P.-steam-per square yard.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
GOT IN WRONG WITH WRIGHT
Either Never Write, or Never Lie
About Your Writings, Is Moral of
Murdock's Experience.

Back in the days when Wilbur
Wright was demonstrating that the
art OF splitting clouds wide open with
an aeroplane was both easy and prac-
teal. Victor Murdoch, who owns a
newspaper In Kansas and occupies q
seat In congress, wrote for his paper
three-column article, praising Wright
In glowing, glittering, and dazzling
phrases.
Shortly after that Murdoch, who, for
political and other reasons, always
says he never writes anything that ap.
pears In his paper attended an aero
plane meet. and was approached by a
quiet young man who was evidently
a newspaper correspondent.
Mr.. MURDOCH said this intruder.
Il enjoyed immensely your article on
aeroplanes, and l was wondering If
you would tell me how YOU
mo, no! And again, mol" exclaim.
ed Murdoch, Il never write anything,
and | never give interviews on what
appears in my paper
Whereupon the young man subsidized
into the crowd.
That might at a banquet given In
honor of the aeronauts, Murdoch was
seated opposite Wilbur Wright, and In
break In the chorus OF talk, Muir
dock leaned across the table, and said
urbanely:
Mr.. Wright, hope you saw that
article l wrote and published In my
paper about you, and"
He got no further. Right there was
the blowup, the crestfallen finish. Will
bur gave him stony stare, and In the
fash Of a moment Murdoch had roc
ognized in Wright the man who had
accosted him earlier in the afternoon.
THE moral of that" said Murdoch,
in telling the story, "is: Either never
write, or never lie about your writ.
ings. '-Twice-afMonth Popular Maya.
zine.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
FEVER DAILY NEWSPAPERS.
Statistics for Past Year Show They
Are Diminishing in Number.

Newspaper census figures for 1911
complied by the American Newspaper
Annual and Directory, published il
Philadelphia, Indicate that multiplied
ton of daily papers in the United
States has come to a halt. A yeal
ago the number was 2472; the 1871.
Annual lists 10 less, showing that the
trend is now in the downward direc-
ton. according to this authority
greater mortality than birth rate is
explained by suspension or consoli-
dalton of Newspapers in crowded and
unproductive 4. fields. New England
has lost four dailies, New York four
middle west states nine, and the west
ern states have thirteen less than a
year ago. Gains have been heaviest
in the southern states, while the mid
dies Atlantic section has an increase OF
three.
Weekly and seml-weekly newspa-
pers also seem to have reached their
limit in numbers The 1912 Annual
names and describes 1929 weeklies
20 less than in 1911, and COS semi
weeklies, as compared with Gil in
1911.
The 1912 Annual marks its forty
fourth year, contains more than 1900
pages describing 24.345 newspapers
and periodicals, presents ten distinct
items about EACH including it's circu-
lation rating. and gives 1910 census
populations for the 1000 towns in
which newspapers are published
Aronautics, moving pictures and
Esperanto are responsible for new
lists of publications devoted to these
subjects. There are over two hundred
of these lists in the book just from the
press. Religious publications number
S65, agricultural journals total 1853,
and there are no less than 129 separ-
ate divisions OF class and trade peri
odicals. Exponents of more than for
~ secret society orders are cata-
logued. Foreign language papers
printed in thirty-four different forms
OF speech are described in a classifit
cation of their own.
These statistics are gathered from
returns by the press of the country
and sifted, varlfied and arranged by
the publishers of this directory, who
are engaged in such revision through
out the year. The importance of the
newspaper publishing industry, like
wise the development and rapid in
crease of advertising, is impressively
illustrated in the magnitude of this
work
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
His Own Idea.

Walter Wyman, surgeon general Of
the United States public health sery-
ice, was at one time visited by the
then principal representative of Tam
many in congress-. While waiting for
some papers to be brought TO his desk
relative to the subject of the congress
mans visit, the surgeon general sought
to draw his visitors attention to the
importance and effectiveness of the
public health work of the service by
handing him a rather large bound vol
ume containing public health reports
for the year just ended Upon the
arrival of the expected papers, DR..
Wyman turned again to his visitor,
naturally expecting some encouraging
comment. To his surprise he found
the representative of Americas fore.
most commonwealth balancing the I'M
opehed volume upon his palm. Meet
ing the interrogative glance of the sur.
geon general. he solemnly remarged:
Great colt, general If you drop
ped that on a man 1t would kill him.
wouldn't IT,"
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
Farm for Sale---l35 Acres
l.

Situated in the town of Norridgewock, on the
river road and only miles to Madison. where there
is a good market for wood and lumber, only one
half mile to good R. r. siding. where all kinds of
farm produce is shipped direct to the big outside
markets direct from the fields Only three miles
to Norridgewock Village where there stores.
churches and r r. depot, One and one-hah story
house with ell ard wood shed, all painted and in
good repair; two barns, 36x40 and the other
3Ox36, they connected by manure shed; one
store house and hog house 16x45 shinRled and
painted and plenty of other outbuildings water
piped to house and barn from failing spring
This farm Is especially adapted to potato raising
and is in high state of cultivation; 30 acres in
wood and quite a quantity of lumber. Pasture for
or 10 cows. am going West and for quick sale
will include pr. of young horses. l COW. / potato
planter, digger. sprayer. riding cultivator /
walking cultivator, horse hoe. jigger wagon.
riding wagon and express wagon, | grain har-
vester> seed sower. MASSEY Harris). moving
machine, horse rake. hay fork land roller. 2
plows. harrows, grain separator. dirt SCRAP er,
long sled, set bob sleds l two seated pung and
one-half interest in new manure spreader and
IN fact everything needed to carry a frst-class
potato farm. Here II an unusually good oppor-
tunity for some fellow to start in with everything
TO work with. Price If taken now, only S4s00. 90
with one half down. balance easy terms.
LEE A. KETCHUM, Madison, Me.
uS r. F. d. No. q
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
YOUR FRECkLES
Need Attention in February or Face
viii Stay C9ered.

Now is the time to take special care
of the complexion If YOU wish it to
look we'll the rest of the year The
February winds bring out freckles
that Will stay all Summer unless re
moved now with othine double
strength.
This prescription for the cure of
freckles is the discovery of an emin-
ent skin specialist, and is so uniform
ly successful that it is sold by G. r.
Fogg under guarantee to refund the
money it it fails. Get an ounce OF
othine-double strength. and even the
first nights application will show a
wonderful improvement, some of the
smaller freckles even vanishing en-
tirely.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
AMERICAN MUSIC ISN'T BAD
David sispham Says Much of 1t Com
pares We'll With Best of For
eign Compositions.

At recent recital which he gave
There is just as much bad music
written abroad as there is In this
country, only We do not always hear
1t. When we get foreign music We
always seek the best. We buy the
works of the best composers and we
give no attention to any others. Here
at home We hear all that is published.
We cannot avoid the bad If we would
We hear it on the streets in spite OF
ourselves, and we grow to think, I'M
less We take pains to study American
music, that the most of it is poor
This Is not true. Some of 1t is very
bad, but much of 1t ts>as good as that
written py the best foreign compos-
ers."
In proof of his faith in the good
quality of American music Mr.. Bisp-
ham makes it rule to devote a por-
ton of each of his programs to the
work of American composers While
all of his audience may not agree with
him that these songs equal the best
of the foreign works, it certainly
should be an inspiration to American
composers to have so excellent an ar
fist place such faith in them and
prove his faith by\giving their works
the benefit of his renditions. Mr..
Bispham laments the prevalence of
ragtime, and urges his audiences to
lend all their influence toward it's
adjustment. To him music is worth
less unless taken with sufficient seri-
BUSINESS to express lofty, or at least
an intelligent, idea.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
and parties Interested, that certain
hemlock, pine and Eastwood logs, white
birch lumber and nemlock bark in the
situated on the land of kinsley W
Foss, in Embden and Concord. in
Somerset county, State of Maine, In
tiers or piles, or yards, or landings on
and Concord, and on land of B. F
Moulton in said Concord, as follows
viz:
Twelve tiers of logs lying between
the dwelling house of said Foss. in said
Embden, and Witham brook. near log
bridge over said brook, and on west
side thereof. In said Embden, and on
land of said Foss; also one tier of logs
yarded on land of B. F. Moulton, in
said Concord; also two tiers of logs
yarded in the woods of said Foss. in said
Concord; also three tiers of logs yarded
in woods of said Foss in said Embden
also ninety seven piles of white birch
lumber lying on both sides of the road
leading from North New Portland vii
of the Bert Williams place on land of
said Foss, in said Concord also one
pile of hemlock bark standing on the
weyt side of the Horseback Road in
SAID Concord. being the first pile north
erly from the dwelling house of said
Foss on said road.
On the twelfth day of December A.
D 1911 at ten o'clock and thirty min
utes In the forenoon. were duly attach
ed on a writ in favor of Raymond f.
Skilings, of said Embden for the sum
of three hundred dollars and against
J. Osborne whitney of said Emblem,
in order to enforce and secure the said
plaintiff lien thereon for his personal
labor performed in hauling said logs,
lumber and bark during the months
of September. October November and
December. A. d. 1911.
Said action was made returnable to
the Supreme Judicial Court, then next
to be holden at Skowhegan, within and
for the County or Somerset. on the
fourth Tuesday of December A. d. 1911.
and was tuly entered in said court.
The writ In said action was dated
December 8, a. d. 1911.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Commissioner Buckley Advises Towns
and Cities to Purchase Standards.

Commissioner Of Agriculture John
p. Buckley. Tuesday, sent out letters
to the municipal officers of the various
towns and cities urging them 10 make
provision for the purchase of such
standard weights and measurers as
may be required by the towns and
cities 10 comply with the provisions of
the act passed by the last Legislature.
making the commissioner Of agricul-
ture the sealer of weights and meas
ures and providing for a strict en-
forcement of standard weights and
measures throughout the State. He
says that the purchase of the required
standards will cost the municipalities
about $50 for a complete working set
and advises the towns to take some
action in the matter at the coming
town meetings
He explains that it was necessary.
after the passage of the act, to pur-
chase new set of standards for the
State and therefore the State sealer of
weights and measures has not been
able to do anything in the line of COM
pairing the weights and measures of
the different cities and towns We
expect to have these State standards
and be able to take up the work about
the first of April, so that it will be
necessary for the WIS to take up the
work at once, as 1t has been sometime
since our different standards in this
State have been corrected" says Mr.
Buckley.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
NO REASON FOR BLINKERs
Tens of Thousands of Horses Are Now
Working Satisfactorily Without
Them.

1t is said that the use OF blinkers.
or binders, as they are called In this
country, had its origin in the desire
of certain fashionable folks for con.
venient place to display the family
crest or course, the common excuse
ing.
There Is no reason why horses
should wear blinkers," says a writer
in the Bulletin of the S. p. c. A This
is shown by the fact that there are
tens of thousands of horses working
satisfactorily without them, not only
in private carriages, but in cabs, vans
and ambulances and in towns where
the traffic is thickest.
mo riding horse is ever seen with
blinkers; they would be considered to
look ridiculous with them; the draft
horses In the army do not wear them
and the large brewers and the chief
railway companies have long ago dis
pensed with them.
I'VE recently read in German pa.
per that their use had been done away
with by the authorities In Berlin
Dusseldorf, Aachen, Koenigsberg>aNi
Cassel In Darmstadt they are allow.
ed only in special cases, and Hamburg
has lately decreed that they shall be
permitted only If they stand we'll away
from the horsess eyes.
THE difficulty of dispensing with
blinkers in the case of horses which
have been accustomed to them, even
for years, Is largely imaginary We
have known several cases where the
change has been made and there has
been no difficulty at all"
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
To DistiIl Ocean Water.

Santa Monica, Cal, Is considering
a unique plan for solving the serious
water~ problem which it faces. The
supply is already inadequate, and an
application for a part of the Owens
river from Los Angeles has not been
granted. Now 1t is proposed to distill
ocean water for domestic PURPOSES,
and the municipality may purchase
the Burning Mountain several
miles up the coast In the Santa Mon.
lea range for use as heating plant.
1t Is believed the sea water could be
carried through a u" pipe deep to
the hot interior of the smoking hill
and distilled at practically no cost.
Power might be produced, some engi-
neers think, that would enable the
municipality to maintain an electric
lighting plant.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-02-29
Mountain in the SKY.

Probably few persons are aware that
some Where, many miles away from
his earth, an enormous mountain
twenty miles high Is flying through
space. This mountain is known as
Economically as the planet Eros. The
ordinary man has long taken it for
granted that all the planets are more
)r less round in shape. The small
planet Eros, however, Is an exception
% this rule. According to the latest
astronomical information it is a mere
mountain in space, without form and
void,l and as il turns upon Its axis
FIRST one corner and then another is
presented to view. These small
worlds few are over ten or twenty
miles acrossl are not large enough to
have sufficient gravity to draw their
structure into symmetry and remain
as when launched into space-mam.
moth meteortes. A tantalizing fact
for astronomers is that Eros passed
close to us about Jan "a 1S94-before
the planet was recognized-.and that
quite so near an approach is not due
again till 1875.