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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28
Furnished House Wanted

Small family wish to rent desirable fur
nished house.
MRS. CHARLES ALEXANDER.
1w13' The Oxford
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28

Ladies are cordially invited to the
first showing of Pattern Hats, at Miss
Withee's, April Ord and 4th.
It's about time to take care of your
Furs and Winter Clothing Why not
pack them in an s & F moth proof
bag? You can buy them at Chas. F.
Ward Co. Come In and see them.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28
NOTICE

have given to my son. Charles l.. Parker
his time during the remainder OF his mi
norlty, and shall not claim any OF his
earnings or pay any debts contracted by him
after this date AARON PARK T. X
Lexington. Me-, March 20 1912 3wl3
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28
NOTICE

The Lewis Coal Co. viii dissolve;
on account of his health Mr.. Anderson
wishes TO retire from the business, and
it is imperative that all accounts due
to the Company be settled at once.
We have a good stock OF coal on
hand which we will sell at a low price,
but all coal sold after March 1st will
be for cash on or before delivery. tie
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28
A Good Sample of Economy

But often little economy is a big extravaganza
A candle costs less but an Electric Light brin
YOU business and good cheer.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28

Ladies are cordially invited to the
first showing of Pattern Hats at Miss
Withees, April 3rd and 4th
Mothers are invited 10 call at Smith
& Busseys store and see their new
stock of Boys Easter Clothing, in
Guiding the Hercules shower proof
suits.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28

X.
Alton Rolfe of Canaan was for sew
eral days last week, a visitor in Show
hogan.
Fred Turner of WaterYile was at
the home of j. c. Perkins a few days
last week.
Adolph Stevens of Monhegan is
guest this week at the home of Hon.
S. J. Walton.
About 200 trees were tapped !,
week at the Sacred Heart Farm by
Father Lacroix.
George Day and Herbert Griffin are
at their homes here for vacation
from their studies at Hebron Acad-
envy.
Hon J. W. Manson OF Pittsfeld and
IL d. Eaton of Wateryille were ont-or-
town attorneys in attendance at court
Tuesday
Miss Lois G. Steward returned to
Portland, Saturday, to resume her
studies at a business college in that
city Miss Anna G. Kennedy accom-
panied her as far as Waterville.
The annual inspection of Mt. Moriah
Council will be held Friday evening.
Frank j. Cole of Bangor, grand mas
ter of the grand council of Maine will
be present. A banquet will be served
during the evening.
Everyone interested in the selection
of site for the new post office should
attend the meeting of the Board of
Trade this evening, in the Municipal
Court room at 30. A full discussion
Of the matter will be had. and a vote
taken to indicate the choice of the
Board of Trade.
Mrs. Helen Brown who has been
visiting he~e ana al aar'~aa ~.
her mother. Mrs Henry Washburn,
departed Saturday for Hayerhill for
4 visit with her sister before return
ing to Bunos Ayres. Her mother ac-
companied her as far as Hayerhil.
Hon. and Mrs. T. N. Porter and
daughter Esther, of Mapleton. have
been guests in the home of ID. A. Por-
ter during the vacation of the Legis-
lature, in which Mr. Porter is the
representative from the Mapleton dis
trict
The friends of J. {. Perkins will
regret to hear that he is again on
the sick list after having improved
enough from his severe Illness TO ride
out several times He is at present
confined to his bed quite a portion o.
the time.
The speaker at the Bethany Baptist
church last Sunday evening was
George Merriam, formerly Boys sec
rotary of the Y. NJ G. A. in Portland.
who is soon to become State Boys
secretary of the Y. NJ {. A. in Penn
sylVania. His subject was He
Grew in Stature and in Favor with
God and Man He spoke of Christ
having development as a normal boy
and his talk was made most interest
ing by incidents in his own personal
experience.
A County road meeting will be held
in Skowhegan, April II, at / O'Clock
p. m. by the State Highway commits
sioner under the auspices OF the Coun-
ty Commissioners Town officers.
road commissioners and inspectors
are especially invited and all others
interested in the good roads question
In view of the interest manifested
throughout the State and the progress
siye movement which is apparent, it
would seem important, and OF mutual
benefit, to get in touch with repre-
sentative road builders from the diff
ferent localities
Two table girls wanted at Hotel Co
burn at once.
Ladies are cordially invited to the
first showing OF Pattern Hats, at Miss
Hithee's, April 3rd and 4th.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28

Two table girls wanted at Hotel Co
burn at once.
Ladies are cordially invited to the
first showing of Pattern Hats, at Miss
Nithees, April 3rd and 4th.
There will be showing of trimmed
hats, Thursday and Friday of neXt
week at Curtis Millinery Store.
Spring Opening of the finest quality
and classy styles of shoes that car
be found in any large cities at A. e
Bison & Son.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
A Joke on Our "unclss.v

II one can imagine a New York
pawn broker beaten at his own game,
he may have a chance to laugh; for a
newspaper writer of Gotham says
these widest of mankind are weeping
.copiously as the result of their discov-
cry that they have been made the vic
Tins of sell" Bad as this Is the sit
uation is made still more gloomy be-
cause of the fact that 1t was the mem
bers of the police force who turned
the trick.
For many years it has been the GUS
tom of the city's "uncles" to advance
money on winter police uniforms dur
ing the summer months and vice YER
sa, thus affordng the officers some
ready cash and relieving them of the
necessity of slowing away clothing in
moth balls. Last fall the summer uni
forms were hung on the racks. There
they still remain. for a new design OF
UNIFORM has been accepted and the pa
trelmen have so little use for their old
clothes that they will not come for
them. The unredeemed uniforms are
, all but yalueless, the pawnbrokers say
AT the auction sales they bring exceed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
The Measure of Man.

The old earth veered from its beaten
track
In its journey round the sun:
And breaking the bars that bind the
stars,
1t rushed and grappled the planet Mars,
AS a renegade would run.
The thunders crashed to the ends of
space,
With the shock of the planets doom.
And a flame swept over the earth's hot
face,
And left the ash of her pigmy race q
Like dust in darkened tomb.
And the Mars men came when the flame
had died.
And the smoke had blown away:
And they measured the marks of man.
To picture what was his hight and
stride
And the sweep of his arm in play.
Surely a giant he wasa said one;
For the ruined arch's span
Is vast; and his twisted temples run
Steel tier on tier to the MONDAY sun,
Yes; giant race was man.
But a wise old Marian answered, No.
These works are our deceit,
BY fire and steam did his towers grow
Till the mason gazed on his kind below
Like ants In canyon street.
mans time was brief like the glow
worms CLEANS.
Then his form turned to dust again
| But the greatest things upon earth, II
seems,
Were the dreams, the daring and death
less dreams,
The dreams of these pigmy menr
Kansas City Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
Scientific Possibilities.

on Tuesday of this week, large
number of scientists sailed from Seat
tie. Wash, for Seward, Alaska, there
to take passage for Kodiak, to study
the scientific probabilities suggested
by the recent eruption of Mount Kat
mai. The possibilities. according to
reports coming down from the north.
are somewhat startling. 1t is believed
that permanent alteration in the ell
mate of the Alaskan coast is now TAX
ing place. This is being brought
about, it is believed through the shift
ing of warm ocean currents by lifting
of the sea bottom, the opening of new
fishing banks, of unestimated value,
and the eventual closing of Behring
straits, Various geological parties,
and men from several revenue cutters
are exploring the bottom of the sea;
to determine how far submarine geog-
raphy has been changed. So far as
the surface of the earth is concerned
in that part of the world, the eruption
was beneficial, the volcanic ash having
already stimulated plant growth.
Biologists assert that the tops of
submerged mountains which form the
Aleutian mountains, are rising steadi-
ly. through pressure on the sea bot
tom from enormous amounts of sedi-
ments. and that eventually, Behring
sea will be cut off. In the light of
these suggestions, we may expect to
enjoy an automobile trip from the
Capital city of Maine calling upon the
Car of Russia, and visiting other cap
ital cities of the continent of Europe.
without preparation for any sort of
water travel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
years was supposed to be incurable. For
a great many years doctors pronounced
il local disease and prescribed local
cure with local treatment, pronounced II
incurable Science has proven Catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by
Il. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the
only Constitutional cure on the market;
1t Is taken internally in doses from u
drops TO a teaspoonful 1t acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system They offer one hundred dollars
for any case II fails TO cure. Send Tor
circulars and testimonials.
Address F. j. Cheney * Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

llngly low prices. Generous amounts
were allowed thee owners because il
was believed to be certain that they
would be needed again, and 1t also was
well to be on the good side of the po-
lice 1t is said that one broker sent a
circular to all patrolmen, advising them
of the large amounts allowed, and as
result he had as many as 500 police
outfits in his lofts.
The good uncles" are so glum that
they are even thinking of appealing to
Commissioner Waldo. However, there
is nothing to prevent a patrolman
pawning his uniform if he is so in
|elined, provided the buttons, precinct
numbers or other city property are re-
moved. None the less, il is intimated
that action of some sort will be taken
at the next meeting of the Pawnbrok-
ers' Association. A pawnbroker said
recently he had allowed four patrol
men eighteen dollars apiece on their
last years suits. Sold in the Bowery
they Melted him each four dollars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
To Combat the Loan Sharks.
(PhiIadelphia Press.l }


One of the special hardships of pow
erty has always been usury-an exor-
bitant charge for the small loans that
the poer man or woman occasionally
must have. The law forbids the levy
ing of such charges and Insurer has
ever been a term of reproach. Yet the
business of the usurer has flourisled in
spite Of the law. Usury is levied usual
ly under the guise of storage. or
commissions" and the borrower pays
twenty-five. forty or fifty per cent.
sometimes for loans which ought to
have been had for six per cent, the
maximum interest charge permitted by
law.
About nineteen years ago the present
Mayor of Philadelphia devised a meas
ure and got it through the Legislature
that ON its face would have put an eff
fective chec.S ON the loan shark busi-
ness and provided method by which
small loans might be secured by those
unaLlc to furnish bankable security
without the payment of usurious
charges. The Attorney General of that
time saw some technical objection to
the bill and it was vetoed and the lean
| SiidfhS got IL new fedSe III lie. Il ne new
organization to fight extortion and ben
eft the men and@women of small cred
it, which has enlisted the cooperation
of many leading Philadelphians. seems
to have much the same purpose as
Mayor Blankenburg's vetoed bill and il
ought to succeed in it's aim.
1t is painful anomaly that the more
a man needs money the more he has to
pay to get it. This is possibly natural
law. as in theory the risk incurred by
the lender has to be considered in the
charge imposed but in practice un-
fair and often cruel advantage is taken
of the helplessness of the borrower to
impose charges upon him out of all rea-
son. These charges are extortionate
and oppressive and intensity rather
than relieve the borrowers poverty.
If the new organization that proposes
to loan money at six per cent. to wage
earners can cure this evil even in part
it will do a great practical good. Its
plan has worked successfully in Other
cities and will be watched here with
hopeful interest. Men who have sufiic-
lent credit to borrow money at all ought
to be able to do so without being
compelled to pay several times whai
| the loan is worth or would be paid b.
any one not overwhelmed by extreme
necessity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
The Spruce Bud Moth.

Among the native species OF insects
which from time TO time cause the
destruction of vegetation there is per-
haps none which at the present mo-
ment is exciting so much attention in
Maine as the spruce bud moth tTor-
trix fumiferana), the caterpillar of
which is so injurious 70 the new
growth of spruce. fir and sometimes of
hemlock and larch.
Three years ago the species was re-
corded from New York and Canada,
and it became numerous in Maine the
following year. This season the pest
is widely distributed. over the State,
reports having been received at the
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton from localities in Aroostook, Pc
nobscot and Piscataquis counties, and
it undoubtedly occurs in others.
About 100 years ago the spruces
west of the Penobseot river and along
the coast were badly injured and
many killed by the attacks of an in
sect believed ~ be this species. Thir-
ty-five years ago another outbreak of
the spruce bud moth occurred lasting
4 or years During these years many
of the sprtIees and frs along the coast
were affected, many of the trees If not
killed outright, later, owing to their
weakened condition, fell prey to the
bark beetles. Or. A S. Packard in a
paper written at that time says -
The pleasure of driving over this pic
turesuue road, with its striking north
ern harsh and wild scenery and fire.
quent glimrses of Casco bay in former
years greatly enhanced by riding
through bits of deep dark spruce for
ests, has been not a little married by
the acres or even square miles of dead
spruces. stripped of their dark sea
green foliage. reduced to skeletons,
ard presenting a ghostly, saddening,
and depressing sight, which border the
road and, indeed, one may travel
through the spruce forest of the coast
from Portland to Rockland and meet
with similar sights"
The insect which is responsible Tor
all this destruction is small cater
pillar about q of an inch IN lenslh
when full grown. It's head is blackish,
| the body ranges from pale brown TO
| a rich lumber brown, diffused with
green. each Joint with several con-
spicuous whitish warts each with a
dark center from which single hair
! arises. The insect pupates from the
middle of June to early in July. the
prpal stage lasting about one week
BY the middle of July most OF the
| moths Will have emerged.
| The miller or moth is about y an
| inch in length, measuring when spread
| out nearly an inch from tip to tip OF
| wing. The legs, body and hind wings
are a glistening lumber brown, the
| fore wings have a ground color OF
blush gray and when freshly emerged
marked with several conspicuous
| brown blotches and dashes. The eggs
which are laid soon after emergence
of the moth are pale green, scale-l like,
| fiat beneath and slightly convex above
| The caterpillars hatch in July and be-
I come partly grown before the end of the
| autumn, passing the winter among the
terminal shoots Of the tree to finish
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
Editorial Comment
Candidate and Platform.
washington Post)


Will putting the candidate before the
platform really matter? The change of
procedure looks like triumph for Nj.
Bryan. But is it? only for the reason
that he proposed it. As matter of fact
1t is of small consequence.
Let us take look backward. AT the
Chicago convention of 1892 the tariff
was the issue. Mr. Cleveland's nomi-
nation being assured, his friends sue
ceeded in controlling the platform COM
nlittee and securing the adoption of a
tariff deliyerance which was a plain
straddle Its trainers remembered that
Gen. Harrison haaSdofeated Mr., Cleve-
, land in 1888 on the latter's free trade
message to Congress in December of
the previous year, and they We're bid
ding For the protection sentiment which
they knew existed in democratic circles
in New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut.
But the free traders appealed from
the committee to the convention, and
whipped the straddlers there The COM
mittee's tariff plank was rejected by d
large majority and a substitute adopt
ed which held the party TO the policy
OF tariff for revenue only. In sub
stance, the Cleveland tariff message
of the previous December was indorsed.
Did this Tfght-about-fae on the tar
if affect the Cleveland candidacy for
the nomination. Not in the slightest
Mr.. Cleveland would have accepted the
nomination on the straddle plank, just
as he was ready now-to accept, and in
n few hours did accept. the nomination
on the free trade plank. He considered
himself the platform, tariff and all, as
in fact he became.
So now. What does Thomas f. Ryan
care about the platform. Let Mr. Bry-
an construct it to suit himself, and adj
5yocate 1t before the convention with all
.he eioquence he can command. No as
airant for the nomination is going to
quarrel with the platform because of
anything il may contain, or may lack.
All viii signify willingness to accept
it for better or for worse for richer or
for poorer. until the polls close in No
vernber.
OF course the candidate, either by
professions or performances. or both.
should fit the platform. But. in a large
measure. he himself is going to be the
platform. And the influences that OBJ
tanned at the convention. at one time
as DIT another during the meeting must
undergo examination.
At the start Mr.. Ryan's influence pre-
vailed. Ollie James was kept out of
the chair. Mr.. Bryan wanted him Sc
lected for the place, but Kentucky
would not support his candidacy. Two
thirds of the states strength went to
Judge Parker, Mr. Ryan's man. All of
New York's strength. manipulated by
Tammany, went to Mr.. Ryan's man.
Then. as a tactical maneuver. Mr..
Ryan appeared to fall back. But let the
platform be what it may. or the eaudi-
date ever so emphatic in his profess
sions of progressiveness democratic
victory at the polls will show Mr. Ry-
an. through Tamany. a power at the
White House. He has demonstrated
through Judge Parker both his
strength and his purposes. and, later.
he will move according to develop
nients. Even Mr.. Bryan in office would
have to dicker with Mr.. Ryan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
Some of the Chances.

With the prospect of Bryan defeat
ing wall street. the Hearst organs got
up on their hind legs and squalled.
They tore the reputation of Bryan an
Wilson into shreds and gave away
many secrets for Republican campaign
purposes On the other side, the still
more mighty and infinitely more hon
Test because not selfishly interested. the
New York World hammers away a
the Wall Street candidates and their
corruption, as evidenced by Tammany
approval
One of the Munsey journals declares
that Tammany was never known to
deliver its votes to any man unless a
deal had been made whereby it got
something, or the man was perfectly
satisfactory to the Tiger.
With Wall Street Boss Ryan con-
trolling the actions of Tammany Boss
Murphy. it is pretty safe guess that
Speaker Champ Clark is acceptable to
the alliance. Tammany, defeated by
Bryan and Wilson, the ticket loses
Wall Street support.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

|
New York City has an larson trust
with which it is struggling. 1t is one
of the evil growths of the quagmir
of the underworld For five years the
authorities have talked of it and have
pretended to be endeavoring to tear it
out, root and branch. Now the fire
department of the city announces that
the devilish organization is TO be brok-
en- up and some of the leaders taken
into the clutches of the law. A cor
respondent writes:
According to the fire marshal. this
gang in the conduct of it's ingenious
pursuit, has caused the loss of more
than 100000 in the last five years
through small fires. Although its ex-
istence has long been known the make
up of the organization is apparently
of the Black Hand" It is sometimes
|called the "Firebug Syndicate and is
said to consist of number of quick
witted and rather ingenious seoun-
drels whose usual plan of campaign is
to make bargains with persons willing
to defraud insurance companies by
which the firebug receives a stated
sum, ranging from S25 to 500 for
starting blaze in small apartments
with the connivance of those who live
there who have previously insured
their petty belongings for as large
sums as they can get. So bold has
the "F'irebug Syndicate" become of
late, however, that as a result of their
recent operations and the assistance
of member of the underworld in the
of the police, it is now be-
lieved that within very short time
evidence Will be completed which will
ensure the elimination of one of the
strangest and certainly the mast dan
eerous of New York's many trusts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
Where Wilson Is Strongest.

1t looks as if Wilson would carry the
continent of Europe hands down. They
indorse him over there because he was
once a college president, and they
think, after reading the boisterous re-
ports of the party conventions, that u
college pedagogue is just about what
the American people most need.-Mon-
treaI Star
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13
Maine Gossip
Sunrise and Sunset.

Above the grandeur of the sunsets
Which delight this earthly cline
And the splendors of the dawnings
Breaking DER the hills of time,
Is the richness of the radiance
of the land beyond the sun,
Where the noble have their country
When the work of life is done.
There is the mysterious problem
OF their earthly life made plain;
All the bitter turned to sweetness,
All the losses turned to gain.
There the rapture of the new life
Far exceeds the griefs of this.
And earth's toiling is. forgotten
In the restfulness of bliss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

Wish the Eastern Yacht Club would
furnish a pronouncing chart for use
with the account of its cruise. Nova
days. the essential part of nautical
education consists OF ability to give
correct accent to "sl1iyessa. . "Taor-
NINA" '-wyanno, "sakantala" and
.Shimna"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

It's too hot for street corner politics
but we can hear. Gee! Ted Meredith
is tie speed kid. thought from any
obviously perspiring groupl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

The Prohibitiorists are proving their
right to the demanded title, "The Real
Progressives," By opening up with
prospects of beautiful scrap.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-13

We'll now that woodrow Wilson is
in position to "knoek Bryan into a
cooked hat what is the "dignifed
method to be employed?