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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-06
FLAGSTAFF

Mrs. Hattie Rogers has sold her
farm and moved to the village to live
Mrs. George Lincoln is still in a
critical condition. She is attended
by Dr.. Simmonds of Kingfield
Mr.. and Mrs. d. c. Durrell have
gone to Massachusetts to visit their
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Bemis.
VIM. NJ Viles is in the Moosehead
Lake region surveying a township for
a division.
Rev. Howard Gilpatric will teach the
High School till arrangements can
be made for another teacher
The body of c. R. Fish, principal
of the High School who was drowned
Friday was sent Saturday to his home
in Appleton. The accident was due
to FIsh's skates cutting through and
causing him to fall forward upon the
thin ice which broke under him.
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tons on the birth of a son. which oc-
CURED the 25th
II. E. Newton went 10 Bingham on
business on Monday
Mrs A. c. Moore from Little Big
Wood Sporting Camps spent Sunday
with her children in town.
Mrs. Matte Quietly has moved into
Ambrose Colby's rent
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-06

Mrs. Woodbury. Russell of Scion
was in this place last Tuesday. She
came to be present at the meeting of
the Spiritualist Ladies' Aid Society OF
which she Is a member.
Sumner Ward with his daughter,
Miss Sadie are ro start for Boston,
Mass, next Friday, where they are
to spend the winter.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-06

quietly in this place. Several houses
being closed as the families were in
vited away.
Fri Bickford expects to open his
grocery store the last of this week.
Mott Moore of East Madison was at
the home of Miss Olive Hayden last
Saturday evening to see his mother,
Mrs. f. p Moore.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-06
FAIRFIELD CENTER

II. S. Holt has closed his cider mill
for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harper Mitchell spent
Thanksgiving with Mrs. MitchelPs pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Emery OF
Winslow
Miss Margaret Adams, Colby 10 OF
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-06
~ The News of SOmersets Busy Towns ~

stories, Verne Merrill. Robert Martin.
Ed. Martin, Fred Brown. 1t was de-
cided that the young ladies would have
to furnish the supper. Next Satuf-
day there will be election of officers
and an all day meeting will be held.
Forty-three were present at the meet
ing lust reported
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-06
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO

LUCAS COUNI1, SS.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner of tn firm of F. j.
Cheney & Co, doing business In the
city of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said frm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use Of
nails Catarrh Cure
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
In my presence. this 9Th day of Decem-
Der, A. ~, 1885.
A. w. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
situation.
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u S e
Billiards. Golden Oil
AND GET WE'LL QUICK

All throat troubles quickly relieved we'll 1t
nfamaton loosen and quickly
surely; opae acohol pleasant to take
All dealers medicines,
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following of the c.
by me
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MADISON CENTER

Thanksgiving Day passed very
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County Treasurer.
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BILLS OF COST

STATE MAINE-CoUNTY OF SOMERSET
County
Skowhegan, 1918
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NOVEMBER TERM

JAMES FELLOWS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27

Society note in the Lthol Record:
1t has been very interesting to see the
young ladies casting shy glances at
the new young man clerk at Feelys
store this week.
In view of the many railroad acct
dents, it occurs to the Troy Chief that
it would be a good idea to order the
engineers not to speed up when they
see a danger signal
Greeley county is in western Kansas
And in refutat ton of the reports that
hard times are pressing heavily in that
section, the Greeley County Republican
reports that more autos are being
bought by the farmers there this year
than ever before.
A few weeks ago feterita was rushed
into the limelight an almost I'M
known crop. And yet, in almost every
rural newspaper in Kansas there ls
an item these days reporting that one
or more of it's neighbors has raised
some of it this year.
Attention is called by the Washing
ton Palladium to the fact that st.
Cyprian wrote: Extra eccleSiam non
salus. But the Palladium insists that
he never said a man couldn't be saved
because he went to see a girl who
didn't belong to the church.
man by the name of J. L. HolIey,
passing through Council Grove on his
way from Wichita county, said, ac-
cOrding to the Council Grove Guard,
that he had to use bailing wire to tie
his trunk with as the grasshoppers
were so bad hemp rope would not last
till the trunk was put on the train.
All the trouble with the fellow who
was recently dishonorably discharged
from the penitentiary for theft
amounting to about $3.50, thinks the
Harveyville Monitor, was that he didn't
steal something bigger like a railroad
or government lands. In the matter
of getting justice it doesn't pay to be
too small u fry.
Been some dry at Ogallah, reports
the WaKeeney Western Kansas
Worlds correspondent there. 1t was
so dry here that wagons were going
around with their tongues out. Ice
has to be soaked in water all night
before it is wet enough to make lem
onade. The fish in Big Creek kick up
such a dust that Dean has to sprinkle
the creek before he goes fishing A
spark from an engine set fire to Spring
creek and burned a lot of the creek
and bu!lfrogs before it could be ex-
t1nguished. And the ground is so dry
and hard that crawfish holes in low
places are being pulled and used for
water pipes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
HOW UNCLE SAM DOESN'T DO 1T.

England and Germany to a notable
degree. and France, Russia and some
others of the great powers to a suffi-
cient degree to be noticeable, are
training men for all diplomatic posi-
tions. and promotions are made even
to the highest places almost entirely
upon the merits and suitability OF the
candidates writes James Davenport
Whelpley in his article, 1.-The Foreign
Trade of the United States" in the
October Century. The young man
who enters the foreign office service
of England or Germany in a subor-
dinate position has within his power,
if he develop accordingly. to become
in time an ambassador to some inn
portant country. He is thoroughly
tried out, step by step, as consul and
minister, before the highest rank is
given to him. He is moved about
from one part of the world to another
until he becomes in truth cosmo-
politan not only in thought and habit
but in language and knowledge. The
most serious part of the education of
these men is, first, the economies of
their own country, and, secondly. the
economics of the country to which
they are to be accredited. This edu-
cation is practical and not theoret-
ical.
This is true to so great an extent
that, when a technical matter of
trade enters into a controversy be-
tween the two state departments, the
minister or ambassador is often found
fully qualified to fight the battle him
self in aid of the material interests
of the country he represents. There
are no more practical men anywhere
than a majority of these who now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
EVENING CHAT
A Unioue Discovery.
BY RUTH CAMERON,


Young people of a certain age are
always making interesting discoveries
about themselves, and fancying they
have found something altogether new
and unique.
Its a queer thing I've noticed
about myself confided one of them
to me, that I'm chock full of contra
dictions. 1 have streak of economy
and yet there's a good bit OF the
Spendthrift in me, too. I'm tremeh-
dously energetic at times, and then
again, I'll be as lazy as the deuce. You
know my father and mother weren't q
bit alike, so I suppose that's why L m
not more consistent"
1t was so evident that the youngster
considered that he had found point
in which he was different from the
common herd that 1 couldn't bear 10
prick his bubble. And yet 1 suspect
that ever since human beings have
had two parents they have also had
contradictory streaks in their natures.
To a greater or less degree we are
all Doctor Jekylls and Mr.. Hydes. ire
good and the bad are inextr1cably
mixed up in our characters. Some,
times one gets the upper hand
and dominates the other and thus we
become at various times entirely diff
ferent people. And not only are the
good and the bad present in each OF
us but many other kinds of opposite
tiveness, thrift and spendthriftness
courage and fear, pride and humility
practically and idealism-who has not
felt these or some other warning ten
denotes struggling within himself?
And why shouldn't it be so?
Isn't all life more or less a contra
diction? Day contradicts night; Win
ter contradicts summer; birth contra
diets death. All through nature. OPP
posing forces in eternal war produce
eternal harmony and fitness. and man
nature inevitably repeats the eternd
conflict. Strength of character is moi
excessive development in any direc-
ton. 1t is the balanced develop
ment of opposite tendencies, the eter-
nal harmony of the eternal conflict and
contradiction.
There must be both warp and wool
| to make the cloth. There must be
| idealism and practicality; inhibition
and impulsiveness; thriftiness and the
| ability to forget thrift; or other ten
| denotes as opposite to make up the
warp and wool of character.
Invariable consistency is the mari
| of q small and simple nature. Pro
| gress and force often contradict theil
| past by present performances. "Tht
| old order changeth yielding place tC
new, and God fulfil1s himself in many
ways lest one good custom should cor
| rupt the world"
So do not be surprised to discover
! in yourself complex and warning ten
| denotes. Do not think it is sign thai
YOU are different from the rest of the
world. 1t is merely a sign that you
are of a piece not only with other
human nature but with nature in gen
eral.
That may not be as interesting an
explanation of the phenomenon, but
it has the merit of being true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
GLOEE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GrnRE

II II occurs to US that it isn't important
now rlch man earned his first dollar
Anyone can do that.
1t Is hard to convince a woman that she
Souldnt support the family on her hus-
bands cigar money.
Jude Johnson is trying to be frank. and
cneerfully admits that when he is scared
he wants to yell and can't.
A family reunion is usually held at
Mother to get her to do the cooking re
CURED on such momentous occasions
If the weather is satisfactory for raising,
turkeys. the wolves get them, take If
from the women in the turkey business
After having assisted at five funerals
lately an Atchison woman is finding 1t
hard to break herself of an undertaker's
tread.
People know so little about the causes of
many past events 1T is a wonder thew are
SO generally inclined to predict about the
future.
If the fashions for women become any
more radical the newspapers will have to
quit printing fashion plates. Oh, Septem-
Der Morn.
Then there are the hopeful people who
regard second hand machinery as bar
gain because it is cheap. See Junk Quota
lions before buying.
lawyer says the smarteSt man is the
man who makes freight rates. What by
the way, is your selection for the apex of
mentdI acumen?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27

represent the progressive Industrial
countries of Europe as foreign min
listers or ambassadors. This particu-
lar feature of their equipment for the
office is not unnecessarily paraded,
however, for their social and political
qualifications are more in the pubnc
eye. 1t is in the private talks at the
state department at Washington, in
London, Berlin, Paris, st. Petersburg,
or elsewhere, that their real fighting
strength is disclosed. 1t is not
question OF private fortune with them,
for their governments remove any
anxiety on that score by an adequate
and even abundant allowance of
funds not only for salaries, but for
housing and maintenance. The Brit
ish ambassador to Washington re-
ceives more in salary and expense al
lowance than does the president of
the United States in proportion to
the necessary expenditures of his
office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFron the Ch6caeo Nevl

lF>rom the Chicago News.1
A fool and his money are soon spotted
A soft answer never turns away a book
agent.
And many man who tries to live right
gets left.
Theory is all right in its way, but it
won't wash dishes.
A little learning is almost as dangerous
a little widow
Blessed is the woman who can get along
on short allowance.
Anyway, a married man doesn't have to
worry: he knows the worst
Many a woman has been able to reform
a, man by keeping him guessing.
When she expresses a wish her husband
usually has to pay the freight.
One enemy will give a man more free adj
rertising than a dozen friends
The kicker is bad enough. but he has
several advantages over the man who
whineS.
Consider the innocent babe in its crib:
if tolls not, neither does it spin, yet it
groweth like the interest on a promiSsory
note.
The third wife of a shoemaker in Kan
sas, who has been divorced twice, has
just inherited $4,000. He will now be good
and stick to his last.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
rFrom the nlIadeIphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
In enumerating his virtues, many man
counts his money first.
Time works wonders, and so would some
people if they We're as tireless as time.
Mighty few people can make trouble for
others without sofling their own fingers.
All things are possible, except losing an
opportunity that never belonged to you.
Wigg-''Is Closefist given to drink p"
Wagg-"Only when it is given to him.
Tell a weeping woman that tears are
pearls, and she will think you are string
ing her.
The hardest work some people do is to
figure on getting money without working
for it,
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure. but it is just as well to be sup
Piled with both.
The self-made man can't understand
why a woman should prefer a family tree
TO a business plant
Muggins-'.I wonder why there are SO
many women playwrights-' Buggins-''I
suppose because it comes natural to a
woman to make scene.
Blobbs-''women are dead easy" Slobbs
II don't know about that There was
Lots wife. who was turned into a pillar
of salt. She died hard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
Famous Lighthouse.

The Manora lighthouse, which is sit
uated on the Manora headland on the
west side of the harbor. is one of the
most Interesting sights for the visitor
to Karachi, by reasons of the fact that
it carries the most powerful light east
of Suez. and, indeed. one of the most
powerful in the world.
The lighthouse was first erected in
1877 on the point of the Manora head
land but was moved back in 1889 to it's
present position. which is about 400
yards from the point. 1t was originally
stationary light, but was converted
in 1907 to a single-flaSh revolving light
of 5000, 900 candle power, having a fire.
quency of 10 seconds, that is, the light
is exhibited for 21A seconds in every
10 seconds.
The elevation of the light above sea
level is $50 feet, and it's range of direct
visibility is 10 miles on the water-line,
and q miles at height of 30 feet above
the water-line. or, roughly, the height
of ships bridge above the water. But
the range of visibility Of the ray
thrown out by the light extends far be-
yond this distance. On dark nights,
when the atmosphere is perfectly clear
4 it can be seen from so to go miles out
| side Karachi.
The lamp in use is a modified form of
the Kitson lamp. burning the ordinary
kerosene oil. and its burner diameter is
only 3 inches. a surprisingly small
/ burner considering the intensity and
brilliancy of the light. 1t stands in the
center of the lens chamber, exactly op-
posite the center of four huge COM
pound lenses, which revolve around it,
making one complete revolution in 40
seconds The circular frame which
holds the lenses rests in a bath of mer-
curry. thus reducing friction to a mini
mum. and is propelled by means of
compressed air.
Each compound lens is made up of 21
circular prismatic lenses, split up into
sections to allow of setting, and these
are so arranged that the light from
the lamp is directed outward in parallel
rays which combine and form a single
broad shaft of intense light. No light
is visible to the outside observer until
any one of the four lenses. is exactly
facing him, so that the flash is pro-
duced, not alternately obscuring and
/ exhibiting the light, but by directing
its rays.
! construction on Cape Nome, 10 miles
distant from Karachi. and it is expect
ed to be completed shortly. In order to
distinguish it from the Manora light. it
will be arranged to emit a double flash
every 10 seconds This light will be of
great assistance TO ships approaching
Karachi. especially during the mon
soon, when the atmosphere is often
very hazy at night. 1t is being built
in response to strong representations
from ships captains and others during
the past few years, and the port trust
will shortly add a lightship to the Khai
mouth of the river Indus.-Karachi
India, cable to the New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
Our Boys Opportunity.

Luther Burbank, by experience and
accomplishment doubtless the best
qualified man in the world today to
make such a statement. says the great
opportunity for cur boys and young
men is in agriculture. He points out
that after the young man has spent
eight years at hard study of medicine,
the law or engineering, he has not
made a success: he is only prepared to
commence the battle for it. Whereas,
t. add but one kernel or corn to each
ear grown in this country in a single
year would increase the supply five
million bushels. One Improvement in
the potato is already paying back SIT
100000 a year. Everything we eat
and wear comes out of the ground.
With less than half our population
raising things, should there be any
wonder that the cost of living has in
CT eased So per cent in Is years? To
quote from Mr.. Burbank:
What the world needs, urgently
and now, is men who can increase the
that 16 cents will buy a pound of the
choicest sirloin. as of old, instead of a
pound of rump, as now.
What the world needs is not
theory. OF agitation. or college lore:
there are plenty of these, and at n
cost of one hundred and eighty million
dollars per annum in money and who
knows how much time, they have sue
ceeded in increasing our crop yield
only a bare three per cent.
What the world needs is men who
car do to agriculture and to horticuI-
ture what Edison did to electricity,
Carnegie to Steel and the VanderbiIts,
Hills and Harrimans to transportation
develop their efficiency.'-H H.
Windsor in the September Popular Me-
cnanicS Magazine.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

An over-rated man cannot continue
that way indefinitely.
= + +
Most men enjoy a pipe in preference
to cigars because it's cheaper.
+ + +
Pat a man on the back too much and
you're likely to enlarge his head.
+ + +
If every man could go as far as he
liked most of them would go too far.
r +
Life's disappointments are probably
not more numerous than its realiza-
tons. More attention is given to them,
that's all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
LOVE.

will fling the coinage of my days
Clanking upon the counter:
Give me my days worth of frenzy
will shout to the weigher of goods.
My days are silver
And my months are pure gold:
Give me the worth of my coinage,
will shout to him.
There are twenty-eight silver days in q
golden month
But the banker keeps four of them for his
trafficking.
He puts kisses in her hand:
A kiss at the end.
A kiss at the beginning,
To pay me for the loss of them
-Skipwith Cannell in October Smart Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
HUAOR or THE DRY

"Have you placed your interest i'm tho
estate in the hands of a lawyer "Yes.
and in his pocket, too. '-Buffalo Exnress
Staylate Cat 12:1O)-"Your father 10
early riser, isn't he?" The Cirl-"y.es,ii
did you hear him stirring ?''-Boston,
Transcript eOi
Bingo-"I think l will take a trim e.
Niagara next week. Every Amer1 80 ~
ought to see it. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -s.,
been there? Bingo-"Yes on my honeVI
moon."-Puck. heS-
Cholly-"Is this horse inte1iiga,.
good fellah? Groom-"Veryi I,ooE a 1n
he don't kick you, sirY'-Puck W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27

MSS MISS BAILEY he IS gong TO s2,fing ms
to follow TO use to enlarge the work. And
l have persuaded him to stipulate that
$4,000 at least is to be spent model
flats. didn't want to tell you till 1 was
sure. 1 was afraid he would change his
mind Wadley had taken both her
hands and Clarice, in her joy at the an
nouncesnent, pressed his hands in hers.
And now Clarice, you won't say no, this
make today famous for a double gift
Copyright. 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)