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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23
Those Were The Last Words of Robert Fazcon
Scott Telling the World of a Braue, Hopeless
Struggle Against DEATH
The History Of Heroisn1 Is That of Souls Who
Might Haze Written as Captain Scott Wrote, These
Notes end Our Dead Bodies Must Tell the ToZe"

new truths and wanted to teach the world. Ignorance,
bgotry and hatred of truth seized upon him and
burned him alive
AS he stood fastened TO the post, while execuGoners
piled the wood around his feet, little child think
ing TO make itself useful gathered UP small stick and
added il to the bonfire.
Sacred simplicity, said the great man. looking
down without anger upon the child, he looked with
out anger upon the ignorant eXccutioners piling
iagots to burn him TO death Who doubt that Bruno,
as the flames wrapped about him and the horrible
pain seized upon him, felt himself a FAILURE?
He has been for generations of the worlds
GREATEST successes His last words, his quiet,
brave DEATH have done more perhaps, than he could
have done by living to teach for half century.
His eNecutoners set FIRE TO their own damnabe sys
tenn OF persecution and torture and destroyed that by
which they expected to live.
In day in Strassbourg six hundred Jews were
burned to death because they would not deny their
faith. Every of them could have saved his life
by swearing 10 lie.
Probably they also felt that they failures Each
might have written, Scott wrote in his diary, "Our
dead bodies must tell the tale
Those six hundred dead bodies in Strassbourg, those
mutilaed charred copses and hundreds of thousands
of others, tell the tale of persecution that has end
cd, at least in civilized lands; of marvellous courage
that has endured through tens of centuries to conquer
at last.
Among the earliest, most daring and greatest ex-
porers OF the country in which live mission
aries. priests from France. These men explored the
North and the West. They lived among the Indians
,ried TO change their hopeless sayagery into human
kindness One after another dozens of these devoted
men were tortured and killed by the sayaees whom
they sought to berriend
imagine one OF those missionary priests alone in the
western woods, tied to tree. tortured slowly and
y. "iay Tor hoars perhaps for days and permitted to
we o".S "hen all power of suffering had gone.
ouch man, but for his religious faith, would have
ieH nlrnseh failure Yet those were the men that
OF the pioneers ahead of the fortune seekers and
The gold seekers marked out the paths of this country
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23

who died In the day When that Shall happen zen thou.
Sand or a million years from now, the truth will re.
main the same That success often means failure and
the greatest apparent failures often greatest
And unfortunately, this. too, will remain true: Sue
cess in achievement glory in failure will be reserved
for THE FEW.
The mass of those that work and share the risk and
the suffering will remain unrecognzed and unknown.
The whole world talks OF Scott, and he deserves it,
But what Of the men, unnamed, unknown, who vol.
uneered with Scott; what of those who took every
risk that he took, WITH NO HOPE OF THE GLORY
THAT NIGHT BE HIS?
What about Seaman Evans i'll because of exposure
grant In physical strength, Scott testified who
struggled with frozen feet until he lost his mind?
When this man started on the expedition he had mn
hope of glory He knew that his name would scarcely
be remembered heard OF except among his own
friends and family
Yet he did everything that the greatest explorer
could have done, since he showed ali courage
"hat Seaman Evans " did on this expedition
countless thousands and millions of ordinary men,
ordinary workers. have done in generations gone by,
and ARE doing at this moment.
hen there Captain Oates, the cavalry officer
VINO deliberately wandered Off alone into The colo and
The storm that the others might be compelled to so on
leave him, and not be burdened by him.
Back of all the great achievements in the world are
men and women unknown, whose names are forgot.
ten, or heard of.
You see Napoleon coming back from Russia Ieav-
ing his dead scattered along both sides of the road,
SO thick that the journey could be made over again
by following the bleaching bones.
How many of those do you suppose died IN
ORDER THAT THEIR LEADER NIGHT BE ABLE
~ LIVE? How many unknown without praise, or
the faintest hope of glory have, through the ages, given
UP their life for the sake of a cause?
You read of the discovery of Pole the taking Of
Quebec, the stormng Of the Bastie, OF all the great
deeds in history. And you hear Of men for
whom the limelight and the glory reserved.
But you do not hear of those who, like the common
sailor Evans started out without hope Of glory and vol
UNFAIRLY died Gin order not 80 interfere with the prog
ress of the Others"
And the Seaman Evans type of human being is not
found in Polar expeditions or in battling armies alone.
There such working night and day to keep
their families going, working wtFout hope, knowing
that the best they do is TO keep things going-yet
working desperately to the last. II
1t will not always be SO, perhaps but to-day those
that deserve the most heard of rewarded
1t would be good thing if the heroic death Of Cap
tain Scott could remind the world of those who like
Seaman Evans live without reward glory and die
cheerfully and heroically.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23

pairing statement Of success.
Others blundcrcd: he did not. Others undoubtedly
used up the stores Of The fuel that should have brought
him to safety. But he made complaint accused no
one since he lacked positive information and when the
time he died as he had lived, with absolute adj.
mrable, physical and spiritual courage.
Captain Scott typifes above all others in recent
days, the extraordinary qualities that have made the
history of England great history, and that have made
the men OF England rulers great part OF the
earth.
First we learn from the work and the death of this
brave Englishman that to the world as whole failure
Is often more valuable than
In his own eyes. Of course, Captain SCOTS noble
effort failure
He reached The Pole only 10 find that anolher
Amundsen had been there before him. He could not
therefore, claim enjoy the glory of original dis.
covery.
he fought his way back after that first bitter dis
appointment only 20 find fuel missing where il SHOULD
nave BEEN only TO realize that in The end he must die
IN tat barren land never to the child born to him
in his absence
AS ne wrote his last message with stiff fingers Scott
felt that his effort HAD FAILED
but now far from failure il is: how this dead man
ms BODY lying near the frozen PoIe stands bio, ,ho
me most successful cscoverers and adventurers of
his age. VI
his short message has done more for humanity
man ne could possibly have done by discovering botb
oies or IN any other way. proving once again, which
was moi necessary, that Englishmcn arc cour,aoar
ana reckless of life with object in view
nose few words from the land of perpetual snow
ahe zee. hese rough notes and dead bodies rnus
ieii the tale are worth to the world than all tho
ii's accounts OF success; worth infinitely more 10
humanity and TO the inspiration of humanity Than Tho
success o. Peary tmundsen or dozen like fbar,
and as II is with Scott glorious useful an insn;r,
hon TO humanity in what HE thought was failure so
II mas been from the beginning OF hstory-one failure
aiter ano'her' failure so called has set before the
"orio tne examples that il needed. and lifted human
ity up to greater than any for wh;ch H.
failure had ever hoped
.acn enapter oil history tells Of man. "fail-
ure" in his own estimation vet powerful, and ,eaf,,
beyond any Success of his day.
Giordano Bruno studied. THOUGHT, discovered
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23

HAT lesson do YOU find in Captain
SCOTS last message to the world?
Dying slowly of cold and starva-
ton. with his companions dead or dy-
ing near him. in a tent near the frozen
Pole, this man wrote as calmly as
Gunnison news-champion., 1913-11-14
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again In his BLANKETS, he fsu hoGanfly
ssleep. Hughes returned. mnnGiea
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though"
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heree beating against the apur, the
shriekins of the storm-hsn1 sasDm-
passing them about
Gunnison news-champion., 1913-11-14
Sugar Beets Make
PalatAble Food

Very few people sssm to be &C.
quainted with she fsct that the sugar
beet grown 30 sbsndsntly in North:
srn Colorado 10 an article Of food for
the table. The beet when cooked %
iss sspssior 10 osr osdiSsfy table
bset, due 70 its high per cent Of saG-
sr The sugar beet contains froa
Is to IL per cent Of sugar, while the
red bset averages 10 70 II per cent
II may be cooked ~ the table bset
but requires . longer time because
Of its else.
Aside from the fact that it 10 not
~ attractive in appearance az the
red beet, | think 1t will find general
favor among those who test IT,
Below are directions for the cook
ing and serving of the sugar beet:
Wash the beets but do not remove
the skin. Leave a portion of the
top on so as to retain the Juices.
Cook in boiling water until tender.
Peel and quarter or cut In slices.
Make sauce of melted butter, salt
and pepper, pour over beets and
serve hot.
NJ NJ. Haynes,
Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, Colorado
Gunnison news-champion., 1913-11-14

sick. The trouble seemed to be the
stomach and liver. She suffered
great pain Was unable to ret any,
thing to help her She was s-r9v.in,
weaker and weaker. She became
tired Of life.
Somebody suggested that she write
TO the Peruna Co. She did SO.
Through their advice she began 10
use Peruna- In letter from her a.
this time she says: Through IN.
use OF Peruna / have regained INV
health. 1 took only a bottle ana a
haif when 1 was able to sleep and
eat again ard my nervousness disap-
peared- No wonder Mrs. Mueua,
Keeps Peruna in the house. Under
similar circumstances Peruna woujd
be In every house IN the land.
Any one taking Peruna ourb, 4.
have a free copy Of the Ills of LIFE
Address Peruna Co.. Columbus. ohio
esspss ~dhs sejses ss Essid r,.d;-
essss een NV obtain esrvaa rab,et,.
Gunnison news-champion., 1913-11-14
IT00N PE.RU.nA
Was Able to Sleep and Eat
Again

Mrs. Mueller
says: II k G q y
Peruna in the
house constant
ly. When L am
not feeling well
l take a few
doses. 1t always
restores"
Mrs. Muellers
story of her ex-
perience with
Peruna fully ex-
plains why she
always keeps
Peruna on hand.
A few years ago
she was very
Gunnison news-champion., 1913-11-14

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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
"LiOn Pretty Smart"

The New York Herald always has
been a reliable newspaper and we
have no reason to believe the follow
ing faxed.
Samuel Cline. who keeps the store
in Knightsyile, Me. and here to see
the sights, thought he would see the
mcnagcric. He first went to the lion
house. He was dressed in his sum
mer clothes and wore straw hat.
When he got to the cage in which
Akbar is imprisoned he found the
young lion sleeping peacefully. TO
attract his attention he leaned over
the rail and waved his straw hat
In a tWinkling Akbar awoke from his
apparent lethargy and a huge paw
reached through the bars and Cline's
open season on straw hats ended
then and there. Cline shouted and
when George Sechert keeper, reach
ed him, complained of the ruin of his
hat. Il intended to wear it until
winter mournfully said Cline. 81
guess that lion is pretty smart, I'll
go get derby hat right away. -
Kennebec Journal.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
An Expensive Dredging Operation

One of the most extensive dredging
operations ever undertaken in Maine
waters has lately been completed at
Bangor when contract covering five
years and an expense of $l24,90O was
finished. The operations have cover
ed a general Improvement and deep
ening of Bangor harbor and the
cutting of a deeper channel, mostly
through hard ledge, which has becu
pulverized, blasted, scooped by Dip
per drcdges, and towed off and dump
ed. The work has included the
dredging to IA feet at mean low wa
ter of an area on the Brewer side of
the river about 200 feet long and 40
feet in width, also the clearing of a
channel about 800 feet wide from the
High Head docks to the pier of the
Eastern Steamship Corporation near
ly a mile. The harbor can now ac-
commodate as large vessels as can
come up the river.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Fire At JOnesp0rt

Jonesport was visited by the first
serious fire which it has had for two
years, the other night, when Melvin
kilton's buildings were burned to the
ground. An overturned lantern was
the cause. A strong wind was blow
ing at the time. The kerosene ignited
and the flames spread rapidly to the
hay NOW. In a few minutes, the sta =
bic. house and ell were in flames
All of the live stock in the stable
was saved with the exception of a
three months old calf Nearly all
of the furniture on the ground floor
was saved. but that in the cellar and
the upper rooms could not be taken
out. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000 upon which there was an in
surance of $1,000. Mr.. Kilton will I'M
doubtedly build again, owing to the
fact that he has large dairy and
furnishes milk to a large number in
the village.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
An Interesting Deed

A most interesting deed was record
ed, recently, at the register of deeds
office in Pennington and conveyed the
largest estate ever recorded in Frank
lin county, with the exception of one
other, that being the transfer to Barn
jun of timber lands The transfer
is of large township comprising 3d.
O4O acres of land at Kennebago to
the Kennebago Land Co. The deal
is unusual in another way as a Ger.
man baroness is among those giving
the title. 1t reads as follows: Lily,
Baroness Treusch Won Buttlar Brand
enfels of Weisbaden, Germany. form
erly of En- gland, Louise Stetson Foote
Pennbury Eng, formerly of Cairo,
Egypt, Eleanor M. G. Stetson of Cam
bridge, Mass, Mary Stetson Taylor
of New York and l. X Stetson of Ban
gor convey to the Kennebago Land
Co, etc. Thu land has been in the
Stetson family since 1860 The Ken
nebago Land Co. is a corporation for
the purpose of buying and selling
real estate. 1t was organized, July II.
1913. The president is George r
Goodspeed, Wilton treasurer, II. A.
Furbush, Rangeley; directors. w. L.
Butler of Pennington; secretary, r.
W. Butler, Pennington; Frank O.
Goodspeed of Wilton; II. A. Furbush
of Rangeley George f. Goodspeed of
Wilton.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
A Champion Pie Eater

AS a result of a pie eating contest
at the Point of Maine, Frank Allen of
Machas has broken the pie eating
record for Maine and New England.
Mr. Allen easily defeated D. G.. Field
and Loring Beverly. also of Machias
despite the fact that they put up
game struggle. Mr.. Aliens record for
the session is IS pieces, all of which
were of the ordinary size served each
morning at breakfast in this section
of the pie belt. In addition to the pie.
Mr. Allen ate pieces of II different
kinds of cake and three-quarters of
pound of cheese This was all by way
of desert and was consumed at the
close of his ordinary dinner.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
An Aged Mason Dead

Brunswick: Capt William NJ Otis,
the oldest Free Mason in Maine in
point of years. died last week, lack
ing only four months of being 100
years old. Capt. Otis became a mem
Der of United Lodge, f. & A. NJ. of
this town in 1916. There are posi-
bly, one or two men in Maine who
joined the order previous to that date.
Capt. Otis was married several times.
He is survived by three daughters,
Miss Harriet NJ. Otis of Brunswick
Mrs. George H. Cummings of Portland,
one son, Capt. Albert Henry Otis Of
California.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Bridge Falls

The bridge at Center Montville over
the east branch of the Georges river
was undermined in the recent severe
rainfall of the line gale storm and
fell into the stream about IS feet
Harold Cushman and his sister, Cas-
sic, had just crossed the bridge When
it went down. The road commissioner
had made repairs on the bridge and
had given it a new planking. The
abutments of this bridge had stood
the test of more than 100 years. One
abutment has now given away. This
mishap means a large expense to the
town.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Obadiah Gardeners Son Married

A wedding of much interest to peo-
pie in Maine occurred, Wednesday
evening at Bangor, when Miss Zelma
Florence Oak of that city, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Oak, was
united in marriage to Albert Kinsman
Gardner of Rockland. son of Former
Senator Obadiah Gardner, at the home
of the brides parents, AZ Fifth street,
at s o'clock Rev. Alya r. Scott, pas
tor of the First Unitarian church
oAiciated. The wedding was marked
by simplicity and only immediate rel
atives and immediate friends were
present.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Here and There In Maine
Recommends the Building of Road

At one of the most important meet
ings of the directors of the Maine
Automobile Association held in this
city last Friday, it was voted to rec
ommend to the Maine State Highway
Commission that a road be built to
Kineo Station, either from Greenville
or from the so-called Quebec road,
and thus open up this vast Moose
head Lake territory now almost who'll
ly inaccessible, except by railroad.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Catarrh
Sufferers
Get Immediate and Effective Relief
by Using Hyomei.

Hyomei is natures true remedy for
eatarrh. There is no stomach dosing
you breathe it.
When using this treatment. you
breathe healing balsams and effective
" reach the most remote air cells Of
the throat, nose and lungs, the ca
tarrhal germs are destroyed-quick
and sure relief results.
Hyomei often restores health to
chronic cases that had given up ali
hope of recovery. Its best action Is
at the start of the disease when the
breath is becoming offensive. and con-
slant sniffiing. discharges from the
nose, dloppings in the throat, or that
choked up feeling begin to make life
a burden. At the first symptom of
catarrhal trouble. surely use Hyomei.
Ask G. II. Fogg for the complete out
fit S1.0o. He will refund the money
if it does not give satisfaction. 2w39
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Football Players Injured

l.. e. Moulton, a member of the Ed
ward Little High school football team
of Auburn, son of the principal, and
Fred Hall, Jr., member of the Lis
bon Falls team were seriously injur-
ed during the game at Lisbon Falls,
recently. The Moulton boy had his
right arm broken and the Hall boy
had his left leg broken in two places.
The game was called off
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
Drowned In Cistern

Ralph. the 8-year-old son of MI.
and Mrs. Napoleon Poulyette, fell into
a cistern at the rear of his home on
the Sidney road out of Wateryille re-
Gently and was drowned.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
4 Appendicitis Book Ereei

The Adler-i-ka book, telling how you
can EASILY guard against appendi-
citis. and how you can relieve consti-
patton or gas on tie stomach IN
STANTLY, is offered free this week by
G. r. Fogg.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
A Free Shave for the Rest of His Life

The bet between b. F. Maxim and
II. f. Riggs, barber at North Wayne,
at the last election for representative
to Congress was won by Mr. Maxim.
renee receive the most votes, Mr.. Max
i'm was to pay double price for a
shave; be it Mr.. Peters, Mr.. Riggs
was to give him a free shave the rest
of his natural life. The result of the
bet is very pleasing to Mr.. Maxim.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02
ShilOhites Return

About 35 Shilohites have returned
to Shiloh from the yacht Coronet in
Portland harbor. They brought all
their belongings
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02

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Itching. torturing skin eruptlons dis
figure annoy, drive one Wild Doan
Ointment is praised for it's good work.
soc at all drug stores.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02

When he keeps his wife in a fer
ment of emotion a man shouldn't be
surprised if she gets a sour dispo-
sition.