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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-11-27
IN The SKOWHEGAN
MARKETS

Wool-Unwashed, zoe per Id.
Hides and skins-IAides, 10c TO
lie per h.; calf skins, 15c to zoe per
lb. lamb skins, soc TO zoe.
Beans-Hand picked. yellow eyes
$3.50 to $500; pea beans, s2.75 tc
$500.
Beef-Ox beef. be to &c
Poultry-Fowls, lac to zoe per lb,
chicken. IS to 22c
Round Hog-10c per Id.
Tallow-Rough, &c. per Id.
Eggs-35c per dozen. fresh.
Potatoes per bushel.
Butter-30c per Id.
Cheese-16c. to 18c per Id.
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The matter run under this head is
furnished by the students of the Show
hogan High School.
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Instructor in Physics Glass: What
is work?
Mr.. Gerrsh (absent-mindedly) |
don't know
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Mr.. Leighton Opening door to Miss
Emorys room) Are there any extra
chairs here?
Miss Emory Cooking around room)
No, | don't think she is.
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Mr.. Benson seems to have taken a
great liking to the Freshmen boys.
Some of them stay with him nearly
every night
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The girls must be planning to play
hard games of basket ball this sea
son; for did not the manager ask Mr.
Leighton if they should take doctor
with them when they played?
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A basket ball team has been formed
by the girls and Eunice Chase has been
elected captain. Already there has
been good practice work and letter
has been received from the girls of
Coburn Classical in Wateryille. asking
for a game later in the winter.
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Miss Emory is planning to have
debate among the freshmen about
Aristides and Themistocles who were
two great Athenian statesmen. It
will probably occur before the mid
year examinations.
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The lively freshmen have selected
a class pin and are already thinking
about a class cheer.
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High School Notes

The matter run under this head is
furnished by the students of the Show
hogan High School.
Mr. Benson seems to have taken a
great liking to the Freshmen boys
Some of them stay with him nearly
every night.
Mr. Leighton Opening door to Miss
Emory's room) Are there any extra
chairs here?
Miss Emory Cooking around room)
No, | don't think she is.
Instructor in Physics Class: What
is work?
Mr. Gerrish (absent-mindedly) l
don't know.
The girls must be planning to play
hard games of basket ball this sea
son: for did not the manager ask Mr.
Leighton if they should take a doctor
with them when they played?
Miss Emory in Junior English. What
are the Two classes of nouns, Mr.. Mer-
rill?
Mr. Merrill thinking hard y Pro
per and improper
Instructor in Physical Geography.
Mr.. MeQuilan, what is the shape of
the earth?
Mr.. McQuilan feeling he had suf-
ficient eXcuse) ] don't know.
haven't studied my lesson.
Resolved that it is beneficial for
high school students to study together"
was the question that confronted the
Senior English class last Friday. The
girls took the affirmative and the boys
the negative. A lively debate ensued
in which the points made on each side
were even. But in the rebuttal the
girls argument was SO badly pecked
at that the boys were declared the
winners.
Two football games were necessary
to decide the supremacy between the
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Miss Emory in Junior English. What
are the Two classes of nouns, Mr.. Mer-
rill2
Mr. Merrill thinking hard y Pro-
per and improper
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Two football games were necessary
to decide the supremacy between the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-07-17
CHAPTER xxi.
o. 3. Again.


Whats happened? Something very
important? l ought to hope so after
this COMPOUNDED failure?"
Failure? Didn't he read the let
ters?"
Yes, he read them. Had to, but he
denies everything. Said she would
never have written such letters to
him; even goes so far as to declare
that If she did write them-(he must
be strangely ignorant of her hand
writing) they were meant for some
other man then himself. All rot. but
=" A hitch of the shoulder conveyed
Sweetwater's disgust. His uniform
good nature was strangely disturbed.
He says that, does he? Come, now!
prejudice aside, what's your honest
opinion of the man you've had under
your eye and ear for three solid
weeks? Speak up. my boy"
81 can't. | hate the fellow. | hate
anyone who makes me look ridiculous.
He-well, well, if you'll have it, sir,
/ will say this much. If it weren't
for that blasted coincidence OF the
two deaths equally mysterious, equal
ly under his eye. I'd stake my life on
his honesty. But that coincidence
stumps me and-and sort OF feeling
/ have here"
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his absorption and restored him to the
full meaning of this encounter. There
is sickness in the house and we are
very anxious. Is your errand an i'm
portant one? If not" The falter-
ing break in the fresh, young voice,
the look she cast behind her into the
darkened interior, were eloquent with
the hope that he would recognize her
Impotence and pass on.
And so he might have 6one-so he
would have done under all ordinary
circumstances. But If this was Doris
and he did not doubt the fact after
that first moment of startled surprise
how dare he forego this opportunity
of settling the question which had
brought him here.
With a slight stammer but other
wise giving no evidence of the effect
made upon him by the passionate in
tensity with which she had urged this
plea, he assured her that his errand
was important, but one so quickly
told that it would delay her but a mo-
ment But first" said he, with very
natural caution, "'let me make sure
that it is to Miss Doris Scott | am
speaking. My errand is to her and
her only"
Without showing any surprise, per-
haps too engrossed in her own
thoughts to feel any, she answered
with simple directness, eyes, am
Doris Scott" Whereupon he became
his most persuasive self, and pulling
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CHAPTER XIV.
Suspense.

0dSkCHSCs
Ten minutes after Sweetwater's ar
rival in the village streets, he was at
home with the people he found there.
His conversation with Doris in the
doorway of her home had been OBJ
served by the curious and far-sighted.
and the questions asked and answered
had made him friends at once. OF
course, he could tell them nothing,
but that did not matter, he had seen
and talked with Doris and their idol
lied young manager was no worse
and might possibly soon be better.
OF his own affairs-of his business
with Doris and the manager, they
asked nothing All ordinary interests
were lost in the stress of their great
suspense.
It was the same in the bar-room of
the one hotel. Without resorting to
more than question or two, he read.
lily learned all that was generally
known of Oswald Brotherson. Every
one was talking about him, and each
had some story to tell illustrative of
his kindness, his courage and his
quick mind. The Works had never
produced a man of such varied capa-
bilities and all round sympathies. To
have him for manager meant the
greatest good which could befall this
little community.
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| the date and address; the second O..
BIS do not
How not? Torn off, do you mean?"
Eyes, or rather, neatly cut away;
and as none of the envelopes were
kept, the only means by which we can
locate the writer is through this girl
Doris"
"If I remember rightly Miss Chal-
toner's letter to this child was free
from all mystery"
quite so. 1t is as open as the day.
That is why it has been mentioned as
showing the freedom of Miss Challon-
er's mind five minutes before that IA
tai thrust"
Sweetwater took up the sheet Mr.
Gryce pushed towards him and re-read
these lines:
Dear Little Doris:
"It is snowy night, but it is all
bright inside and / feel no chill in
mind or body l hope it Is SO in the
little cottage of Derby; that my little
friend is as happy with harsh winds
blowing from the mountains as she
was on the summer day she came to
see me at this hotel. I like to think
of her as cheerful and beaming, re-
joicing in tasks which make her SO
womanly and sweet. She is often,
often in my mind.
"Affectionately your friend,
EDITH A. CHALLONER."
"That to child of sixteen!"
Gust So"
Doris spells something besides
Doris"
"Yet there is a Doris. Remember
that o. B. says in one of his letters,
Doris is learning to embroider.
Eyes, | remember that"
$50 you must first find Doris"
Every good, sir
"And as Miss Challoner's letter was
directed to Derby, Pa, you will go to
Derby"
Eyes, sir"
Anything more?"
1--WE been reading this letter again"
''It's worth it,"
1.-The last sentence expresses
hope"
"That has been noted"
Sweetwater's eyes slowly rose till
they rested on Mr.. Gryce's face: "Ill
cling to the thread you've given me.
I'll work myself through the LADY,
rinth before us till I reach him."
Mr.. Gryce smiled; but there was
more age, wisdom and sympathy for
youthful enthusiasm in that smile than
there was confidence or hope.
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Has Been in Use Since the Dawn or
History, but Not in All
Countries.

1t is not known who invented, or
discovered sugar. Sugar has, it seems.
been known since the dawn of history,
but not in all countries. The Chinese
appear to have delighted their palates
with some sort of sugar for more than
5000 years; and it was known in In
dia earlier than In Europe, being
made from juicy reed { cane.
One of the generals 0f Alexander
the Great is said to have carried sug-
ar to Greece in the year 325 b. c.,
as Sir Walter Raleigh, some 1900
years later, carried tobacco from Vir-
ainia to England. But even SO late
as A. d. $50 sugar was still rarity
in Greece. The famous physician Ga
len used it as a remedy for certain
maladies.
Experiment has demonstrated that
sugar has remarkable sustaining pow
er when eaten by those undergoing
great fatigue. The invention of the
first process for refining sugar is
ascribed to the Arabs, and Vene-
tian merchant Is said to have pur-
chased the secret from them and in
troduced the process into Sicily. The
refining OF sugar was first practiced
III England about 1659.-Harper's
Weekly.
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How to Be an Inversor.

A retired professor of mechanical
engineering was called upon to de-
liver a few lectures on invention to
the senior engineering classes. His
first injunction was that when one at.
tempts to devise a machine to do
certain thing one must consider direct
ly the fundamental operations to be
performed and must wipe from tho,
mind all existing methods and all pre-
conceived notions. He stated that one.
so-called inventor attempted, In the
days of the scythe, to invent now
ing machine. Being familiar only
with the scythe. he designed horse
drawn machine which would swing a
scythe. He simply replaced the man
by a mechanism. 1t is needless to
saw that his invention did not survive.
The problem of efficiently cutting hay
and grain was not successfully solved
until 1t was attacked by man with
en- open mind, and he devised the knife
of the modern moving machine or
reaper.-American Machinist.
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/
gave his breast, at this point, carried
off some of his superfuous emotion.
you can't account for feeling, Mr..
| Gryce. The man has no heart. He's
as hard as rocks"
You've found no evidence against
him?"
Mo"
Then listen to this. The test with
the letters failed, because what he
said about them was true. They were
not meant for him. Miss Challoner
had another lover"
only another? / thought there
were half-dozen, at least"
Another whom she favored The
| letters found in her possession-not
the ones she wrote herself, but those
which were written to her over the
| signature 0. B. were not all from the
| same hand. Experts have been busy
with them for a week, and their re-
ports are unanimous. The o. B. who
wrote the threatening lines acknowl-
edged to by Orlando Brotherson, was
not the o. B. who penned all of those
love letters. The similarity in the writ
ing misled us at first, but once the
doubt was raised by Mr.. Challoner's
discovery of an aHusion in one of
them which pointed to another writer
than Mr.. Brotherson. and experts had
no difficulty in reaching the decision
| have mentioned"
1.-TWO o. BIS! Isn't that incredible,
Mr.. Gryce2"
yes, it is Incredible; but the in
credible is not the impossible. The
man you've been shadowing denies
that these expressive illusions of Miss
Challoner were meant for him. Let
us see, then, if we can find the man
they were meant for"
"The second 0. B. ?"
Eyes"
SWeetWater's face instantly lit up.
DO you mean that latter my
egregious failure-am not to be kept
on the ounces seat? That you will
give me this new job?"
YES. We don't know Of better
man"
THE Observation-Disclosures does he
feel about it,"
"He was the first one to mention
you"
"And the Inspector"
us glad to see us on a new tack"
A pause, during which the eager
light in the young detectives eye
clouded over. Presently he remarked:
How will the finding of another O.
B. alter Mr.. Brothersons position? To
my mind, this discovery of a more fa
vored rival, b~ings in an element of
motive whick may rob our self-reliant
friend of some of his complacency.
We may further, rather than destroy,
our case against Brotherson by locat-
ing a second o. B."
Mr.. Gryce's eyes twinkled.
THAT won't make your task any
more irksome," he smiled. "The loop
we thus throw out is as likely to
catch Brotherson as his rival"
"The prospect grows pleasing.
Where am | to look for my man?"
your ticket is bought to Derby, Pa.
If he is not employed in the great fac
IOT1CS lu6IS, We w 1OL huOW where
find him. We have no other clue
81 see. It's short journey l have
before me-"
You will start tomorrow"
wish it were today"
and you will first inquire, not for
o. b., that's too indefinite; but for a
young girl by the name of Doris Scott.
She holds the clue; or rather she is
the clue to this second o. B."
Another woman!"
mo, child-well. I won't say child
exactly; she must be sixteen"
Doris Scott
"She lives in Derby. Derby is
small place. You will have no trouble
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(To BE CoNTINUED.)
on Lies Road.

All our WEAKNESS of suffering IL
without avail to leave even a little
memory among those for whom the
work is done. All that is wrought in
despair, all that is loveless and me-
chanical, falls to the ground We live
for even so much as BRIEF life only
in that which carries the breath of
our being, the love of our heart 1t is
not in ceaseless routine and grinding
that we live, nor in what is small and
anxious. Machines will continue the
tale of that forever. No cog will ever
be missed in that endless chain. But
we shall not wholly die in the song
we carry in our heart, the love with
which we love the being of another,
the smile we give another wayfarer at
dusty noonday.-Collier's Weekly.
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he stepped down on the walk, you
say that this is a critical day with
your patient Is that why every one
whom have seen SO far wears such a
look of anxiety?"
Eyes, yes" she cried. giving him
one other glimpse of her lovely, agi.
tated face. There's but one feeling
in town today, but one hope, and, as
believe, but one prayer. That the
man whom every one loves and every
one trusts may live to run these
works.
Edith! Edith" rose in ceaseless
reiteration from within.
But it rang but family now in the
ears of our detective. The door had
fallen to, and Sweetwater's share in
the anxieties of that household was
over.
Slowly he moved away. He was In
a confused yet elated condition of
new thoughts and conjectures. An Or
lando Brotherson and an Oswald
otherson-relatives possibly, stran-
gers possibly; but whether relatives
or strangers, both given to signing
their letters with their initials sim
ply; and both the acknowledged adj
mirers of the deceased Miss Challon-
er. But she had loved only one, and
that one, Oswald. 1t was not difficult
to recognize the object of this high
hearted woman's affections in this
man whose struggle with the master
destroyer had awakened the solicitude
of whole town.
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CHAPTER discontinued.

"Letters!" Fury thickened the
speakers voice, and lent a savage
CLEAN to his eye. "Forgeries! Make
believes! Miss Challoner never wrote
the driYel you dare to designate as let
tiers. 1t was concocted at police head
quarters. They made me tell my story
and then they found some one who
could WELD the poetic pen. I'm
obliged to them for the confidence
they show in my credulity. / credit
Miss Cnalloner with such words as
have been given me to read here to-
day? / knew the lady, and know my
self Nothing that passed between US,
not an event in which we were both
concerned, has been forgotten by me.
and no feature of our intercourse fits
the language you have ascribed to
her. On the contrary, there is la
inevitable contradiction between facts
as they were and the fancies you have
made her indulge in. And this, as you
must acknowledge, not only proves
their falsity, but exonerates Miss Chal-
Toner from all possible charge of SEN
tfmentality."
Yet she certainly wrote those let
tiers. We had them from Mr.. Challon-
er. The woman who brought them was
really her maid. We have not de-
ceiyed you In this"
Il do not believe you"
It was not Extensively said; but the
conviction 1t expressed was absolute
Sweetwater recognized the tone, as
one of truth, and inwardly laid down
his arms. He could never like the
man; there was too much iron in his
fiber; but he had to acknowledge that
as a foe he was invulnerable and
therefore admirable to one who had
the good sense to appreciate him
Il do not want to believe you"
Thus did Brotherson supplement his
former sentence. For If I were to at
tribute those letters to her, | should
have to acknowledge that they were
written to another man than myself
And this would be anything but
agreeable TO me. Now / am going to
my room and to my work You may
spend the rest of the evening or the
whole night, If you will, listening at
that hole. AS heretofore, the labor
will be all yours, and the indifference
mine"
With satirical play of feature
which could hardly be called a smile,
he nodded and left the room
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in finding this child. 1t was to her
Miss Challoner's last letter was adj
dressed. The one"
Il begin to see"
No. you don't Sweetwater. The af-
fair is as blind as your hat: nobody
sees. We're just feeling along a
thread. o. BIS letters-the real o. B.,
| mean, are the manifest effusions pos
sible. He's no more of milksop than
this Brotherson; and unlike your in
domitable friend he seems to have
some heart. 1 only wish he'd give US
some facts; they would have been
serviceable. But the letters reveal
nothing except that he knew Doris.
He writes In one of them: Doris is
learning to embroider. It's like a fairy
weaving cobweb!' Doris isn't a very
common name. She must be the same
little girl to whom Miss Challoner
wrote from time to time"
WAS this letter signed o. B?
Eyes; they all are. The only diff
ference between his letters and Broth
erson's is this: Rrotherson's retain
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r.,,lu uersatlle pnstnnan

The most versatile postmaa OF any
time, writes a correspondent, was
probably the late FL. A. Major, who
was for many years familiar figure
in the neighborhood Of ST. Clement
Danes and the Strand, London, Eng
land. In his spare time, until he lost
his voice, he was an actor-he was
one of the original cast of Black
Eyed Susan" He wrote innumerable
farces and some thirteen dramas,
most Of them successfully produced.
He painted pictures, and obtained the
king Of Italy's medal for his "lifelike
representation of fruit" and in addi-
ton he achieved more than local
reputation as a violinist. Many OF
his pictures are hung In the wards Of
King College hospital.
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SYNOPSIS.

George Anderson and wife see 9 re-
Enarkable looking man come out OF the
C!ermont hotel, look around furtlVely,
wash his hands in the snow ana pass on.
Commotion attracts them to the Clermont,
where IT is found that the beautlru! MISS
Edith Challoner has fallen dead. Anoer-
son describes the man he saw. wash his
hands in the snow the notel manager tssss,
declares him to be Orlando Brotherson
Physicians find that Miss Challoner was
stabbed and not shot. which seems TO
clear Brotherson Of suspicion. Gryce. an
aged detective and SWeetwater. his as
sistant, take up the case. Mr.. ChalloneF
tells OF a batch of letters found in lis
daughters desk. signed 20. b." All are
love letters except one which shows that
the writer was displeased. This letter
was signed by Orlando Brotherson. And
erson goes with Sweetwater to identity
Brotherson, who is found In a tenement
under the name Of Dunn. He Is an in
yentor. Brotherson tells the coroner Miss
81 allOner Tepulsed him with scorn when
he offered her his love. SWeetWater re-
calls the mystery Of the murder or
washerwoman in which some details were
Toner admits his daughter was deeply in
terested, IL not in love with Brotherson.
SWeetwater gets lodgings in the same
building with Brotherson. He watches
the inventor at work at night and Is de-
fected by the latter The detective moves
to a room adjoining Brotherson's He
bores a hole In the wall to spy on Broth
yentor In his work girl sent by Sweet
water with Edith Challoner's letters Is
ordered out by Brotherson. He declares
the letters were not written by him.
Sweetwater Is unmasked by Brotherson,
who declares ne recognized him at once.