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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1915-01-14
Somerset Traction Co.
Winter Arrangement of Cars
Effective Monday, September 2Sth, 1914
FROM SKOwHEGAN

Leave Skowhegan-6.OO, 100. 500
300. 100, A. M. 100, 200, $50 500
Leave Lakewood-s3O, 7.3e $50, $50
11.3o A. M. 40, $50, 400, $50 7,So
Arrive in Madtson-7.Oo, 500, 500
500 P. NJ.
FROM MADISON
Leave Madison-7,00, 500, 900, 40. 80
A. NJ. 1910, zoo. $40. 500 500 500
Leave Lakewood-7.So, $50 $50, 100
A. NJ. 1876. 2.30, 400, $50, $40, $50
Arrive in skowhegan-s.Oo. 900, 1000
800 p. NJ.
Extra Local Cars leave for Cold
Brook at 1910 a. m, 1905, sos, 900
p. m.
M C. r. r. TRAIN CONNECTIONS Eff
FECTIVE SEPTEMBER 2S. 1914
Close connection with trains leaving
Fkawhegan at sos, 11.55 a. m. and 2.2s
D.. m.
Also with Maine Central trains arriv-
Avg at Skowhegan at 1852, 10.45 a. m,
and 452 p. m.
Close connections with Maine Central
trains leaving Madison (going north) al
1921 a. m. for Kineo and 4.42 p. m. fo1
Bingham.
Close connections with Maine Central
trains leaving Madison (going south
at 7.45 a. m: from Bingham and 1905
noon from Kineo.
SUNDAY CAR SCHEDULE
Cars leave Skowhegan for Madison a,
sac, $50, 11.3o a. m, LOO zoo. $50. 300
Cars leave Madison for skowhegan a,
$50, 1890 a. m. 1890. zoo. $40. 500
Special Cars Furnished at any Time
Baggage car.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1915-01-14
Annual Report of Fish and Game

Seven thousand four hundred and
thirty-six deer, 1873 moose and 191
bears were killed in Maine during the
last hunting season, according to the
annual report of Hon. Harry B. Aus
tin of Phillips. Hon. Walter l. Neal
of Belfast and Hon. Blaine S. Viles
of Augusta, commissioners on inland
fisheries and game.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1915-01-14

Six for a quarter. Cigars at that
price are a good trade. but we will
send you IS issues e months) Of the
Reporter for the same money.
Evening star., 1915-06-05

going up to find out. Old nests were
very interesting things. and this looked
like big one So up the tree
scrambled Bumpy while the others
watched him. The nearer he got to
that dark mass the queerer it looked.
1t was very rough. 1t seemed to be
made of little sharp sticks, queer look
ing little sticks, and something that
looked like hair mixed with them
Those sharp. little sticks were like
long, very long thorns. Bumpy touched
one of them. and it pricked him so that
he cried "Ouchr'
Then he decided that he would climb
around and above it SO that he could
look down into it. He had just started
to do this when suddenly without
warning at all that old nest shook it,
self so that all those queer little sticks
ratified. 1t frightened Bumpy so that
he forgot where he was and let go his
hold. Down he tumbled. bumpity-
thumpity- y-thumpity- bump. hitting one
branch after another. He was almost
to the ground when he managed to
dig his claws into the bark and hang
on. Then the worst frightened little
Possum in all the Green Forest looked
up to see big, strange looking ami
NAL looking down at him and grin
ming. 1t was Prickly Porky the Porcu-
pine. who had been curled up in
crotch of the tree taking a nap
And down on the ground Grumpy
and Frumpy were rolling over and
over with laughter
Evening star., 1915-06-05
The Three Little Possums
Meet Granny Fox.

Bumpy. Grumpy and Frumpy, the
three little possums who were out to
see the Great World, had been away
from the old hollow tree where they
were born for so long that they felt
quite as II they had been out In the
Great World always. This was their
third day, and three days in strange
places can seem like a very long time
to little folks. you know. Bumpy was
still very sore from the bumps he had
got when he fell from the tree in
which he had mistaken Prickly Porky,
the porcupine, for an old nest He was
very quiet as he trudged along behind
the others. Somehow the frights that
Frumpy and Grumpy had had when
they poked their heads into hollow
trees and found others there before
them didn't seem funny at all now,
Before his own fright he had chuckled
and chuckled every time he had
thought of how they had rum Now they
were chuckling at him, and he couldn't
see anything funny In it at ALL
Presently they came to the Lone Little
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Famous Rat Catcher.
From Farm and Fireside.


John Dalton made fortune as a
rat catcher. and died wealthy at the
age of ninety-one.
For 200 years the Dalton family have
been rat catchers, and were awarded
many fat contracts for ridding
wharves, ships. warehouses and other
premises of rats. They claim to pos
sess a secret method passed down from
father to son and carefully guarded
Mr.. Dalton rode in a fine carriage and
kept a coachman. He could OCCASION
ally be seen coming out of a building
carrying a bag of rats in his hand,
which he handed to his coachman, and,
1T may be guessed, washed his hands
of them at once.
The rat is the worst animal enemy
of the human race. He is the most
cunning of beasts. He can live wher-
ever man can exist, and has learned to
meet human intellect with a resource
fulneSs as great as human efficiency
He ruins billions of property yearly
and kills millions of human beings by
carrying germs of bubonic plague and
other diseases.
If there is a secret method by which
the rat can be vanquished the govern
ment could do no better work than to
pay for it and make it public Prob
ably the proposal to endow a chair of
laughed out of court, but there are
many learned doctors who would be
better employed than they are now If
they were discharging web the duties
of Dalton, professor of rodent eXtermi-
nation.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
LEGEND.
Copyright. 1915, by DR.. Frank Crane.)

Legend is truer than history History
is what happened. legend is what ought
to have happened.
History is an attempt to record
facts. But who can be trusted to un-
derstand fact well enough to tell 1t?
Sir Walter Raleigh set about once to
write a history of the world: one day
he saw an occurrence under his own
windows. and afterward when he
heard a half dozen discordant witnesses
tell Of 1t he was amused at his own
temerity in presuming to record events
years after all the witnesses were dead.
Who knows the secret springs of his
tory, the story behind the story We
nave Genesis, but the genesis of Cen
esis has disappeared forever. We have
Matthew. but where is the sub-Mat-
thew?
The forces behind history are as
strange as those behind the inscrutable
face Of nature.
But in legend history becomes sim
pie. understandable. 1t is q true pic
ture of a races inner life, of its
dreams. ambitions. fears.
There is no history of Greece SO true
as it's mythology. The people probably
lived along, fought loved and died. and
struggled in the sordidness Of circum-
stance, very much as we; but the best
part Of themselves were the golden
1anc1es with which they populated the
heavens. the seas. the woods and the
dark.
Legend Is tougher and longer lived
than fact. Hercules and Perseus
Theseus and Orpheus are still vigorous
personages in the worlds mind, while
the leading citizens that discussed the
plays of Eschylus are vanished into
thin air.
Besides. to tell the truth is dIficult:
1t is an art few have mastered. It is
in its purely imaginative work a peo-
pie most truly expresses itself. So
Wagner went to myth and not to re-
corded history for his motifs There
is more truth about the English people
in Percy's Reliques than in Macaulay's
history.
The games you played, the longings
you entertained, the visions you
glimpsed. when a child. have more to
do with your character than any hard
happenings of your maturer years.
To understand any man you must 70
back to the cat and the oak.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Passing of the Gypsy.
From the Philadelphia Press.


There is nothing in the memory of
youth that has more of the element of
fascination than the wandering gypsy
In it was the fearsome as we'll Meas
ured by the conventional standards of
life, it was a strange and uncanny ca
reer. There was mystery in its every
movement, and change in its every
day. There were no confining rules
of conduct to be observed, no confine-
ment in prison-like schoolroom when
the world outside beckoned SO inviting
ly to the spirit of youth, no compul-
sion to do aught else than fancy
prompted. Nor has this envy of the
gypsy freedom been confined to the
young. There is many moment in
mature life when the thought of drift
ing hither and yon in the open air ap-
peals strongly to the man who is
chained to office or factory To have
the power to move or to tarry as you
will, to have a home Wherever you
choose to light campfire, to see the
world and all that in it lies. these are
not unpleasant thoughts to the person
burdened with the daily round of
duties.
To the gypsy the things that harass
and worry the normal life are but the
merest bubbles in the air To him there
is no such thing as the high cost of
living. Taxes are as unknown to him
as the irregularities of the Greek verb.
Not even the income tax can mar his
pleasure in life. In the gypsy lexicon
there Is no such word as landlord, and
no such thing as rent. He Is above the
conventionalities that hedge us about.
He Is free from responsibilities of
| every type and kind. Panics pass him
by, and good times and hard times
are to him just the same. But like the
other things of the world that smack
of freedom and irresponsibility, the
gypsy is fast disappearing. Like the
Indian and the buffalo and other in
stitutions of the America of the past
he is fading away.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Preparedness Against War.
rom the hattanooga Time

FROM the chattanooga Times.
One of the definite effects of tbe
European war and the pending issue
between Germany and the United
States is the changed attitude of the
majority of the American people touch
ing the quality of our navy and the
size of the regular army establishment
1t has been the habit of public men.
the press and pulpit Of the country for
many years to cry down every move
ment looking to the increase Of either
the army or the navy, and 1t has not
been long since 1t was regarded as an
unnecessary extravaganza to provide
for the building of even one battleship
year for the navy; as for the increase
of the army-that was militarism gone
mad. The other day there was a meet
ing of the Mohonk council for peace
and arbitration" and 1t appears to
have been discovered that the best way
to secure peace was not so much arbi-
tration but the ability to enforce the
DEGREES of arbitral courts 1t was de-
cided that 1t was all right to have an
International court, but there will have
to be likewise an international police
establishment. The ruthless manner in
which treaties and agreements have
been violated and the easy-going way
In which international law has been
disregarded have convinced even the
most highly emotional pacifists that
something must be done to enforce the
observance Of international codes.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
made in U. S. A."

From the Springfield ReENblfcdn
It is bad enough to have the Ger
mans hate us because their enemies
can buy war supplies in this country,
but what shall we come to IL the allies
also learn to hate us because we cheat
them on the supplies we sell. The Dry
Goods Economist is publishing this
week the statement that boots fur
nished to the French government
proved to be of such inferior quality
that the soldiers tore them into strips
and that 100000 pairs of socks pur-
to be 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent
cotton instead of the mixture being
the other way around"
Regrettable as such disgusting ras-
cality must seem to every honorable
citizen of the United States. the Econo-
mist adds that there Is no reason to
doubt" the statement it publishes. The
revelation is. perhaps. the more dis
quieting because our Amerfcan-made
shells have earned reputation within
the German lines Of being a deadly
product; they kill every time.
The army contractor in the civil war
earned no enviable reputation among
northern soldiers who had to wear his
boots and uniforms and sleep under his
blankets. In the Spanish war Ameri-
can canned beef became a national
at home and could be disposed of as
family affairs. This is different. Made
in U. S. A" should not become in Euro
pean countries a synonym of fraud on
account of the fnyeterate scoundrelism
of a few American manufacturers TAX
ing unholy advantage of the necessities
of hard pressed foreign governments.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Little 0orle,
20 Bedtime
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1918. by J. G. Lloyd)
Bumpy Lives Up to His Name.

Bumpity- -thumpity -thumpity- bump.
People who climb often fall with a thump.

Bumpity- -thumpty -thumpity- bump.
People who climb often fall with a thump.
The second night after inc Billy
Possums three runaways. Bumpy.
Grumpy and Frumpy. had started out
to see the Great World was passed
very comfortably in a hollow log. 1t
was open at one end and the opening
was too small for Reddy Fox to more
than stick his nose in. SO the three felt
very safe and comfortable and went
to sleep without any worries at all on
their minds. They quite forgot that
Shadow the Weasel could slip in there
as easily as they could, or perhaps
they would not have slept so soundly
and comfortably. But they never had
seen Shadow and didn't know much
about him anyway. so he didn't once
enter their minds, which this time was
just as well, for Sharow didn't happen
along that way.
They were astir very early in the
morning and had had their breakfast
by the time the Jolly Little Sunbeams
came dancing through the Green For
est to make glad their hearts. So in
high spirits they started on once more
to see the Great World. They were
Just as eager as ever to see all that
was to be seen and to explore every
hole and hollow they came to, but
they had learned that very important
lesson, caution, through the dreadful
experiences of Frumpy and Grumpy.
and they no longer poked their heads
into holes until they had stopped to
look and listen and make sure that
there was no one there before them.
Every once in a while Bumpy would
chuckle as he remembered how ter
ribly frightened Frumpy and Grumpy
had been.
Laugh If you want to-" grumbled
Grumpy. TT may seem funny to you.
but it wasn't funny for us. And just
watch out that we don't have chance
to laugh at you
Then Bumpy chuckled harder than
ever. He didn't say anything. but just
made up his mind that he wouldn't
give them a chance. He would be too
smart to get into any such scrapes
as his brothers had. Alas! How often
1t is that pride goes before fall 1t
was to be that way with Bumpy,
though he would not have believed 1t
If he had been told.
Presently they came to a tree half
way up which was a dark mass. 1t
looked as II 1t might be an old nest.
Right away Bumpy declared he was
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Wen go down the

ways is the leader. Wen go down the
Lone Little Path.
Neither of you can Iead me-" an
nounced Bumpv. You ought to know
that where aherc is Il path there will
surely be people 10 use 1t. Whether We
go up or down il we VIII he almost
sure to meet some one. and II Will he
as likely to he an enemy AS not to. So
well keep straight on where there Is
no path"
''Oh. We will. viii we?" snapped
Grumpy. Well. We won't do anything
of the kind. 1t liz very much easier
travelling in path. BESIDES a path
must lead somewhere, and IL Is likely
to be to ii part of the Great World we
want to see. So Well go up the path"
But to this Frumpy and Bumpy
wouldn't agree, and 50 the three foolish
Lone Little Path and qiiarreled. Each
lone little path and quareled Each
grew angrier and angrier he tried
to make the others give in to him and
like most people who lose their temper
they forgot everything else They for
Great World with dangers on every
side. They forgot to watch out
Ana TINS Is how 1t happened that old
Granny Fox on her way down the Lone
ram came very. very near to break
Tasting on tender young possum. She
mad been trotting along with nothing
IN particular on her mind, hut watch
ing out every minute as she ALWAYS
ooes. "hen right ahead OF her she saw
the three little possu!ns. She stopped
instantly and her eyes snapped with
pleasure. Here was a feast indeed Sh.
looked this way and that way on all
sides to make sure that old Mrs Pos
sum was nowhere near. When she was
sure of this she began to creep for
ward very very slowly and carefully,
putting each foot down with the great
est care so as not to SO much as rustic
a lear: She was almost within spring
ing distance when Bumpy Just hap-
pened to turn and look up the Lone
Little Path He never had seen Granny
Fox before. but he remembered what
his mother had told him about her red
coat. and he didn't wait for another
look With a warning cry he scram-
bled up a tree at the foot of which
they had been quarreling. and without
looking to see what the trouble was
the others followed him Then from
the first branches they looked down at
Granny Fox.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Cross-Atlantic Flight.


Gabriel Voisin is a famous scientist
and manufacturer of aeroplanes. War
has taught him something. He says
that even now it Is possible for an
aviator to fly from France to America
and he predicts the establishment of a
regular aeroplane transatlantic serv-
ice in the future. He is positive that
it will come. French aviators and en-
gfneers have mastered the science of
aviation and aero flight across the At
lantic. they say. is more than a dream
War irresponsible for many marvel
Gus Inventions. German scientists
point out that costly dreadnaughts are
a thing of the past and that the little
submarine is responsible for their un-
doing. Some ocean liners will be
knocked out of commission and tour
lists will cross the Atlantic in wonder
full palaces of the air. We are lust
emerging from the dark ages of civili-
zation. There are wiser people and
more sublime civilizations coming.
Evening star., 1915-06-05
de~sM
q The Search!li8h ! ;E;s}|st zeIsI;7 ;sE;saEs !
1o1nu~ I1GE
TIPS for Autoists.

A southern California auto club has
entered into an anti-noise crusade in
which all of it's members are equally
interested. Tests are given Of the va
rious warning devices and committee
Is now making comparisons with a
view to selecting a warning which will
be the least obnoxious to the ear.
Previously to this the autoists Of this
region backed a movement for placing
warning signs at the beginning of all
places surrounding which a quiet zone
was desirable. The hospitals were en-
circled about a block away with con-
spicuous signs surmounting white
posts. A red cross and the two words,
"Hospital-Quiet," were judged sufii-
cient to warn the most careless autoist
against unnecessary noise in that vi
cfnity. A similar arrangement with the
sign, "School-Careful." about a block
from a schoolhouse upon every street
has materially lessened the noise
against which both teachers and chill
dren in a busy locality had been vainly
struggling.
The signs placed near a fire station
are for the protection of the autoist
himself. warning him to slow down to
avoid the possibility of collision with
an outgoing fire company.
Evening star., 1915-06-05

contentment which go with such lne
Now that Sunny Knoll consists or
eighteen acres instead of eight. 1t has
taken on new and inviting possibi!i-
ties. 1 have been studying up on the
subject and consulted experienced men
and I have yet to find one who doesn't
tell me that / can make good living
and something besides on my eighteen
acres when l have them all cleared and
ready for cultivation and necessary i'm
provementS made.
These experienced men agree also in
urging me not to be In too big hurry
Boiled down and averaged up, their
advice is about as follows: Get all
my tillable land cleaked and in a good
state of fertility: get all fencing done
and necessary buildings erected; de-
eide on program that I know l Will
like and stick to; have working cap
ita1, in stock, implements and half
cash. of not less than $50 an acre,
then cut loose and go ahead
Five Years to Get Ready.
If follow this advice, it will be five
years before I am ready to "cut loose
and go ahead" But in those five years
1 ought to gain a lot of valuable ex-
perience, and when they are up I still
will be on the sunny side of fifty, in
good health. 1t Is to be hoped. Injured
to the hard work of a farm, and with
an appetite like a horse and diges-
tion like an ostrich. I don't need need
to wait f1ve years for the appetite and
the digestion. Jane used to become
downright alarmed at the way I ate
last summer, but last year l was
mere dilettante at the table compared
with the able trencherman l am today.
Five years. Jane contends, will seem
but short while when we are work
ing toward a definite objective. We
spent the first thirteen years of our
married life simply working. without
anything much in view except to pay
the rent and get food and clothing.
We were thankful If we came out even
at the end of the year. and we had no
vision of any happier or more hopeful
life until this back to the soil" ambi-
tion laid it's hold upon US
Honestly. as 1 look back now I don't
see how ! endured those thirteen years.
1t isn't that our home life was un-
happy or that we lacked the interest
normal parents have in their children;
but the years were so empty of pur-
Evening star., 1915-06-05

Path. Frumpy wanted to go down the
Lone Little Path. Grumpy wanted to go
up the Lone Little Path, and Bumpy
wanted to cross it and keep on where
there was no path at all. So very fool
ishly they fell to quarrelins.
I'm the biggest, so of course I'm the
leader. and you have to do as I say"
said Grumpy rather Grossly.
mo such thing" declared Frumpy.
Tn the smartest, and the .smaxtsst al
Evening star., 1915-06-05
Safety First.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Ibid any man ever kiss you before
did?" he asked.
Yes, dear
'Tell me his name, that may thrash
him.
I'm afraid, Algernon, that he might
|be too many for you"
Evening star., 1915-06-05
No Loafng for Jane.

Besides, Jane isn't planning to become
have help in the kitchen. Her jelly
making and preserving will give her
plenty to do this summer, and she is
ambitious to take more personal charge
of the chickens. When we first went
into the poultry business 1t was supposed
to be James personal undertaking, but
that idea has been abandoned The
chickens overlapped and were interviewer
OF the general farm program and for a.
number Of years, at least, probably will
be our chief source of revenue The
chickens overlapped and were nterwoven
with other farm activities to such an ex-
tent that 1t didn't seem practical to
handle them AS a separate business
Moreover. they are to constitute SO i'm
portant part In our permanent pro-
gram that it was inconsistent to look
upon them as side line.
This matter Of a permanent program
is one that cannot wait much longer
several reasons. to wait until the end
Of the present season before finally adopt-
ing 1t. but II we are going to make any
real progress toward our goal, begin
ming next spring every days work done
and every dollar expended should be in
strict accord with plans thought out
and to be followed year after year. The
not afford Is aimless expenditure Of
work, time or money.
1t goes without saying that we can
not practice general farming and
make an income equal to my present
3alary on eighteen acres OF land We
couldn't do 1t on the best eighteen
acres Of land anywhere between
Evening star., 1915-06-05
The Perfect Cure.

From Judge.
Mother-Ella, what has happened to
your doll?
Ella-The doctor says it's nervous
breakdown. and he has prescribed
mucilage,
Evening star., 1915-06-05

10 farm life and isn't afraid OF the
work that goes with il. He says he
wants to be a farmer, and Al he Is of
the same mind when he has completed
high school / am going 10 give him
course in the agricultural college at
Cornell or some equally good institu-
tion.
offers opportunities to the young men
OF the coming generation fully equal
TO those in any other walk of life and
far superior TO those of the law and
medicine and other overcrowded
Learned professions. And the calling
OF the farmer, am equally convince, is
going TO command the respect II had
fifty or a hundred years ago, before the
terms "rube" and "hayseed" were in
vented