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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15
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ors). paper package containing pa
per comb, wash cloth wrapped In oiled
paper and paper towel, fine when pic
nicking. and all for 10 cents. There
are also paper tubs. pals. jelly glasses.
paper cases of many lengths for hang
ing coats, gowns for maid. mistress or
master.
Cooking bags of paper was the sub
ject of a previous article, and many
housekeepers IN and around our city
had no baking pan 10 wash when they
cooked their Thanksgiving turkey this
year, as ii was baked in the paper bag
and when done the paper bag was
thrown into the waste basket We
have baked many ginger breads in the
ordinary cracker box so that. as the
cake bakes and expands. the box will
not get out of shape When 1t comes
from the oven with sharp knife cut
down the corners of the box take out
the ginger bread and throw the box
in the waste basket. Each time this
experiment has proven perfectly sue
cessful, and we enjoyed the ginger
bread all the more for not having 10
wash pan.
one Of the best and most sanitary
4 tGlflSS winch mas 1Dujtl Il place III OuI
kitchen during the past year Is the pa
per roller towel. How glad we We're to
say f'goodbyef' to that roller towel
which | was always trying to turn
around. so as to have the clean side OF
it had any) BE in front AS the cook
once said Sure, am wipin the
dhirt on the towel. or is it wipin the
/ dhrt on me hands,"
We find 50 many uses for it besides
! drying our hands and faces. In fry
! ing doughnuts, the paper is so absorb
! ent ii takes up all the grease and
| leaves the doughnuts, croauettes, fish,
I oysters, or whatever else is being fried
! perfectly dry. A little piece torn Oft
one corner is better then a brush foi
greasing pans for baking. When can
ming fruit or making Jelly these towels
| are used, as ii saves stains on linen
! towels, besides much laundering. But
best of all, In public places, where dis
| ease is so easily carried through the
pores of the skin from the common
roller towel. they are now using tbs
paper towel. II has come to stay, ane
every other good thing made from pa
per VIII surely be welcome in everN
home where sanitary conditions are
Il desired
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15
GIRLS NAMES
Bore the NameIhe Hams ~
tory
Copyright. /. by Fischer

small children depending upon her'
And 1t Was the regret of her declining
years that She was not permitted 70
follow her great son to st. Helena, nor
to see her grandson, The little king o.
Rome, prisoner Of the Austfians. She
survived most of her children and
grandchildren. Am l. then condemned
to bury ali to whom | gave life and
whom leved2" asked Corsica ;
Niobe" shortly before her death.
Tire aowager duchess OF Austa WIS
named after her great grandmother
Letizia,
The heroine of Mrs. Conveys cone
dy. "a'he Rele's strategem,' Is Laetitia
Harvi. a character that has become fa-
nous.
Next names; Gornelia. No. ~ Mag
delen, No. 10; h'rieda, Ne. IA
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15
LAETITiA-(No. 7tl.

LAETlTlA-{No. ~.
Joy comes ana goes" is the senti
meilt Laetitia French fashion, The
Italians who use the name more FREE
quently than other nations, spell It Lee
tlzia.
The diminntiye of 1.aetftia is let
~ which form is popular IN lrtsh
farmers families, Lefty Lind, the En-
glish dancer. Who delighted New York
in the early nineties. is web remem
bered by that pet name.
Al the time Of Elizabeth the Latin
form of the name was English. Let
tioe. The best known representative
is Lettiee Knollys, who vas the earl OF
Essex,s spriehtly countess.
The original Latin form of the name
used d the head Of this article means
10y
Tile thorn apple is the emblem "
LaetiIia, and this. like The sentiment
Joy Comes and Goes applies i'll Il
singular degree IL the history of the
woman that made the name famous
Napoleon's mother. whom the French
bard of liberty, Beransefe,, called The
Noble Dame" and whose grave Is
marked Maria Latizta Romolins
Bona parte, Mater Regum, the Mother
Of Kings
She was a widow at 30. with eight
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15

| "a | in the front door of her new
~ home taking leave OF caller,
IL ~ was much dismayed to see
fallen leaves and cobwebs on
the steps. she had carefully swept the
porch that Nj orning, so she immediate
~ began 10 apologize for their being
there.
Her guest an older woman, sail,
my dear Net me give YOU a little
pointer. Ne Ner cali attention to the
disagreeable things Of life. Had ] been
in your place, / would have exclaimed,
oh, Mrs. H. -.. do see that glorious
sunset yond er and then you would
have directed my attention from the
porch and i should never have seen
the leaves and dust at an.
Let il ealdr come i'll, and II we see
Il Bit of dus on our paror table we
Immediately fear that we sha be
published as slack houseHeeper, So
we begin to offer apologies. whereas,
undoubtedly, By keeping UP a clever
entertaining conversation with our
guests. they would never notice the
furniture al ltll.
Calling attention 10 things AWAY
magnifies tn hni. BY talking of and
dwelling on ur errors, We make theAl
thousand ines larger aud more Sc
rious.
There are 50 many beautiful and
pleasant things in life 70 see and think
and talk of, That II seems a pity that
amy Of us shohid waste our time IN no
ticing the d|isasree1ble unimportant
trifles that present themselves i'll the
daily rputiup Df life.
TO overeol ne faut. the New
Thoughts ten Us we must not dwell
on IL. 1t is Well to have a conscience
bur to be eteriastingly conscience
stricken over mistakes. is far from .
eommendable virtue. To try to forget
ones mistaken by merely resolving e
do better neN time is vastly better
| than 10 be forever talking about pas
errors. Everything grows bigger b.
repetition froH faults to gossip.
The words of St. Francis de Sales
come to me, and | give them TO YOU.
| Have patiend with all things. bu'
chiefly with yourself. Do not lost
courage by considering Your own i'm
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15
r. he Sunday Chit-Chat
BY Ruth Cameron.

projections, but instantly set about
remedying them. Every day begin the
task anew
We used to stamp the person who
was able to throw off his griefs or
troubles easily as light minded. and
not deeply affected by serious things.
Today we consider the man or woman
we'll poised who is able to present a
smiling face to the world in spite Of
his worries.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15
FINDS MORNING PAPER FAILURE.

ing edition OF the Chicago World published in that news
paper recently, the writer says:
fundamentally
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15

William F Jackson, Republican ma
tlenal committeeman for Maryland,
who has been appointed by Governor
Geldsborough TO succeed the late lsa-
dor Rayner in the United States sem
ate. Is "A years old and a native of
MARYLAND He Is reputed to be a mil
lienaire, with large and varied bust
ness interests. chief of which Is the
manufacture of lumber.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15
Birthday Calendar

Keep calm and try 10 foresee events.
thus saving yourself many annoying
situations, Practical details must be
reckoned with in putting the most
carefully thought-oat theory into ac-
ton.
Those born today win have many
fine qualities. but in youth these will
be so obscured by unreasonable inn
pulses and natural untruthfulness that
they will require the most patient care
to bring them to perfection.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
Some Questions For Answers

How are you spending your Sun
days, this Summer?
Are you being counted in your seat
at the Sunday morning church ser
vice?
Are you touring over the country in
your automobile and calling it proper
Sunday recreation?
Are you spending your entire Sun
day forenoons in "wallowing" through
the Sunday newspapers?
Are you sneaking out the back-door,
fish-rod in hand, for the ponds and the
lakes, to spend the whole day in a
fruitless endeavor to lift your soul
to finer things?
Are you, good housewife, deyoting
all your forenoons to the preparation
of those Sunday dinners" that must,
by this time, be the nightmare of the
week?
Are you sleeping the forenoon
away in vain endeavor to make up
for lost timer
Are you visiting for the day, making
trouble for such other people as want
the day for quiet and rest and glad
some duties?
Are you, like the Scrooge and his
Christmas, fighting the day as use
less cessation of business routine?
Are you so engrossed in the max
ing of the Almighty dollar that you
keep pegging away all day long Sun
day at the old tasks, and trying to call
the day well spent?"
Or
Are you making the day-the old
New England Sabbath day-the best
day in all the week?
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25

when he said that Senator Benjamin
r. Tillman. of South Carolina, is the
best posted man in national life on
the subject of plants and shrubs.
If more statesmen would study ma
ture as Ben Tillman has, the world
would be a far better place in which
to live. Ii was because he tried to
get closer TO nature that Senator Till
man got closer to humanity. He
came to Washington with a gift for
vitriolic speech and a fighting spirit.
At first his attacks were none too
kind but in time he learned from ma
ture the great truth that all men are
brothers and that the strong must
lend helping hand to the weak.
In the Senate the other day Senator
Tillman spoke of the miracle of his
rescue from death by paralysis. 1t
was his own fine spirit that wrought
the miracle His study of plants and
shrubs and flowers has brought him
to a calmer, saner view of life.
Senator 1illman, according to Supt
Reynolds, spends hundreds of dollars
yearly in experimenting with new
plants for his home in South Carolina
Every dollar that he spends in this
way brings big returns. There are
times when it seems that plants and
animals know much more of the art
of living than human beings know.
1t is profitable to study the tranquility
Of the garden.
To many persons, the Tillman of
the ptchfork" may have seemed a
thrilling figure but to those who
know the Tillman of today his view
of life is broader, his spirit finer, and
his character nobler The garden to
which Senator Tillman gives his leis-
ure time has aided him in giving
better service to his State and has
undoubtedly renewed his grip on life.
Becoming a horticulturist, he has be-
come a greater statesman. And it is
to be hoped and expected, that many
years of usefulness are before him.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
OFT OF THE ORDINARY
Is the Great London Shows.

Something out of the ordinary is
a remark that can properly be made
of Howes London Shows Consolidated
which will exhibit in Skowhegan,
Saturday July p.
The big circus has a reputation for
producing remarkable surprises in
its arena until the public has learned
that it can attend an exhibition of the
Great London Circus expecting to see
something new and different
There is an unusual number of fea-
lures with this show this season. 1t
is difficult to pick the best Some
will like the trained wild beasts ex-
hibition or horse wonders. Others
will prefer the Zanfretta family,
Meredith Troupe, the Riding Lowan-
des. the Glasgow Royal Horses, the
Elite Troupe, while some will spend
most of their time laughing at the
host of clowns, listening to the Julius
Winslow famous band, enjoying the
races admiring the animals or petting
the beautiful Dublin Prize Horses
No matter which way one looks while
under any one of the Howe tents, he
is sure to see something ont of the
ordinary
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
LOCAL NEWS.

B. Frank Davis of Hartland was a
guest yesterday and today at the home
of f. Z. Davis.
Mrs. Eden Pratt of Sherman depart
ed this morning after a visit with Mrs
G. Davis Miller
Alonzo Richardson of East Skowhe-
gan, will pass his 92nd birthday, next
Monday, July 20,
Mrs. c. L. Sprague and daughter
Lucy, of Lexington, Mass, are the
guests of r. T. Patten and family.
Mrs. I. c. Trufant and daughter
Delight, arrived home last night from
a visit of some weeks with relatives
in Bath.
DR.. and Mrs. Joe X. Goodrich OF
Kirksville, Mo, are here for visit
with the Drs parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
T. Goodrich.
Guy Conant has accepted a position
in shoe shop at Auburn and has de
parted for the purpose of entering up
on his new duties.
Mrs. George Moody of Mt Pleasant
Ave, has been entertaining this week
Mrs. Alice Williams and Miss Grace
Green of lewiston
Mrs. P. A Brooks of Portland, who
has been visiting in the family of DR..
]. E. Wadsworth for several weeks,
has returned home.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25

Are you rising in good season, get
ting the household ready for the SER
vice of the day-the Church service
and having the best time in all the
world doing it?
Are you not only counted in the
seat at the morning service. but are
you among the ones who make point
of meeting the good minister after the
service and asking for something to
do?
If touring in your automobile, ere
you touring to some purpose, carrying
flowers to the sick good cheer to the
bed-ridden, roses to the graves OF
those you love, food to the poor?
If reading, are you reading the best
novels, and not forgetting a chapter
or two from the Good Book?
Are you getting a simple meal at
Sunday noon time, mindful that the
stomach is not to be gorged like the
beasts before whom a plenty is a
surety for oVer-eatng!
Are you for that single day forget
ting business. and thinking only of
the higher, better things of life?
Are you spending a little time at
the writing desk. sending messages of
good cheer to the mother, or the faith
er, brother, sister, or sweetheart.
whose thoughts on the day of days
are turned towards you2
Are you, an intelligent American
citizen, making a real study of our
present New England Sunday, trying,
with the rest of us, to determine how
it can best be spent?
In fact. how are you spending the
one great day out OF the seven?
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
Another Example

Speaking of the crucibles through
which men must pass before they re
ceive fair judgment from a critical
constituency, we are reminded of a
clipping from the Washington Post
1t relates to Senator Tillman.
"Pitchfork" Tillman, they used ia
call him.
Now that disease has laid strong
hold upon him, and he faces the Great
Judge, people have softened their
criticisms and he is meriting the good
will of those who could not formerly
see aught but evil in his makeup.
Here is the Posts editorial:
No finer tribute could be paid to a
statesman than the one paid by c.
Leslie Reynolds, the new superintend-
ent of the National Botanic Garden
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25

Whereas Helen Z. Winning. of Blns-
ham in the County of Somerset al
state OF Maine. by her mortgage deed
dated the eleventh day of July, a. u.
1911 and recorded in Somerset County
Registry of Deeds. Book 500. Page "a,
conveyed to Skowhegan Savings Bank
a corporation duly created and exist
ing under the laws of the State of
Maine. and located at SkoWhegan, in
said County Of Somerset, certain
parcel of real estate with the build
ings thereon, situate IN said Bingham
and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning on Main Street. in said
ngham, at a post fourt cen and one
half feet Northerly from the under
plning of the Lucinda Baker House,
SO called, at land of James Oharo, and
running thence Southerly along said
Main Street. one Hundred and Eighty
seven feet and nine inches to land of
Henry Chase; thence Easterly, along
said Chase's land. One Hundred and
post at land of said James Oharo;
thence Northerly, along said Oharo's
land. one Hundred and eight feet and
eleven inches to post at land Of
Twenty mine feet and two inches To
a stone set in the ground: thence
Northerly seventy seven feet to land
of said Oharo, fourteen feet from land
of, Elizabeth Rollins; thence Westerly
one Hundred and Forty-eight feet
and three inches to the point of be-
ginning; and whereas the said SkoW-
hogan Savings Bank by its deed of
assignment dated the twenty-thrd day
of January A. d. 1912. and recorded
in Somerset Registry of Deeds, Book
30S, Page 210 conveyed to me, the
undersigned, its rights title and in
terest in and to said property by vir-
tue of said mortgage; and whereas the
condition of said mortgage has been
broken:
Now therefore. by reason of the
breach of the condition thereof, | claim
a foreclosure of said mortgage
Bingham, Maine July 18th. 1912
ROY NJ. SAVAGE.
BY Harold |. Goss.
3w30 His Authorized Attorney
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
Old Slogans Useless

1t is the popular thing nowadays
for candidates for high political Office
i to claim a safe election early in the
campaign
Here's William |. Sterling. of Water
vile, to be sure not a well-knoWn
public man, but the Prohibition candi-
date for Governor of the grand old
State OF Maine,-just the same
William says he is as sure of his
election to the gubernatorial office as
any man can be, In fact, he uses the
word confident"
He has just left on a trip to some
temperance convention in the woody
west, after which he will return TO
Maine and dip actively into the cam
paign.'
The Prohibition party in Maine polls
about 1900 votes.
William needs to get only 6O,599
votes, or thereabouts to get the elect
ion.
But what matters it to William?
He can feel confident" just the
same, can't he?
And Sam Connor has just been talk
ing things over with William T.
Haines, the whole of which interview
was published in full in last Saturdays
Lewiston Journal.
William I. is even more confident
than William l. William T. pounded
a table with his big fist" and said,
I'm going TO win
The only difference between William
T. and William l., is that William l.
didn't have a table upon which to EN-
phasize his confidence.
Col. Fred Plaisted, so they say, is
just as cork-sure as either of the Will
liams. He believes his friends will
stand Loyalty by him until the State
is once more in safe hands"
The only one who isn't confident of
his election is George Allan England,
Socialist candidate for Governor
George is much more sensible We
think we read somewhere an abstract
of one of his interesting addresses in
which he expressed the idea that he
did not expect to be elected, He was
serving simply as a cog in the great
wheel of social reform.
William T. and William l. and Col
Fred could we'll learn a lesson of
modesty from the redoubtable Mr.. Eng
land.
Claim everything" is the old-time
political slogan.
But in these latter days of general
enlightenment the old claim, when oft
repeated, simply tickles the smile
bump.
1t has long since lost its tickleble-
ness.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
Bankrupfs Petition for Discharge

In the matter Of The partnership of Knox
Bros. the individual co-partners In which
are Warren Knox and Harry NJ. Knox
and they individually, Bankrupt In Bank
ruptcy.
To the Hon Clarence Hale. Judge OF the
District Court Of the United States for the
District of Maine.
The partnership of Knox Bros, the lndl-
Vidual copartners In which are Warren 8.
Knox and Harry NJ. Knox and they individ-
ualiy OF Anson in the County ofSomerset
and state OF Maine, In said District, respect
fully represent, that on the 9th day of Sept
ember, last past, they were duly adjud ged
bankrupt both individually and as co-part-
ners unoer the Acts OF Congress relating to
bankruptcy; that they have duly surrendered
all their property and rights of property,
and have fully complied with all the re-
quirements of said Acts and OF the orders
of Court touching their bankruptcy
Wherefore they pray, that they may be de-
creed by the Court to have full discharge
from all debts provable against their estates
both individually and as co-partners under
said bankruptcy Acts, ex cept such debts as
are excepted by law from such discharge.
Dated this 18th day of July, A. ID. 1912.
Warren ;. X uox,
Harry NJ. Knox,
Rank r. MT
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
and saved the State thousands of do

and saved the State thousands of do
lars
Just what have they done?
They cut down the appropriations
Tor charitable. benevolent and educ
tional institutions nearly one-half.
They made no appropriation for Free
High Schools for the year 1912. This
will necessitate an emergency bill
early in the next Legislature for APP
proximately $4,000. They referred
tWenty-eight State pauper bills,
amounting to nearly $4,000, to the
next legislature They referred near
~ one hundred other bills to the next
Legislature. thus illustrating their
ideas of the application of good bust
ness principles They did no new
construction worthy of mention.
They called a Special Session of the
Legislature, which enacted just one
bill into law. This bill provided that
the Secretary of State should furnish
a ballot box for each voting precinct
in the State. over 600 in number, with
a suitable lock and key to each. These
boxes were to be sent by express, and
the whole expense to be paid by
the state. The bill further provides
that within twenty-four hours after
an election the ballots cast shall be
sent to the Secretary of State and that
the express charges shall be paid by
the town. II a recount, or an eXamina-
ton of the ballots, is desired in any
town journey to Augusta will be
necessary at the expense of the per
sons whose interests are involved
They passed an appropriation bill
amounting to $7S,45t.13. They passed
an order for the delivery to each mem
Der of bound copy of the record of
their important proceedings. This is
a book of 266 pages, printed in double
columns of very fine type. They then
drew their mileage and per diem and
adjourned.
The whole performance was politi-
cal whistle, which cost the state for
primaries, printing. elections and the
direct expenses of the Legislature it
self. about $4,000
Great economy, wasn't ii?
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-25
Wiseacres Still Live

The tariff is not the complicated
question some people would make it
out to be- Reduced to its elementary
principle the tariff is easily under
stood"
The above is from a learned edi-
torial from the Fairfield Journal, a
county newspaper that has but re-
Gently blossomed out into full
fedged democratic Organ of Plaisted-
ism
We would suggest that the Fairfield
Journal editor get into immediate
ouch with Senator Charles F. John
son who, some weeks ago, very freely
admitted that he was considerably
in the dark on a number of these ma
tional issues which are pretty difficult
for the average man TO see through
but perfectly clear to the Journal
scholar.
We would also suggest that the fell
low who penned the Journal effusion
get right aboard some fast moving
train and give a ten minutes speech
before the United States Congress.
They need light on this tariff ques-
ton. and the Journal mans light is
surely not under a bushel.
The Journal fellow ought to be a
Vice Presidential candidate with
Teddy as President If Teddy must
be ct" the Journal editor could be
En-" Great pair.
All, yes, so easy.
Just like rolling off democratic
log