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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-12-11

does 1t that way, and that Is "Gets-1t."
II Is because OF this fact that Gets
1t" is today the biggest seller among
the corn-removers on this planet. 1t
means the end of orn-fddling." For
hard corns, soft corns, very old corns,
Young corns, corns between the toes
and calluses. 1t means a quick, certain
finish. "Gets-It" is applied in or
seconds All you need Is 2 or drops.
AS easy to do as signing your name
1t does away forever with tape. plas-
tiers. bandages, knives, corn diggers,
scissors files and blood bringing
raz3rs Ease your corn-pains. be
corn-free at last.
"Gcts-It," the only sure, guaranteed
money-back corn-remover, costs bu' a
trifie at any drug store. MID by
L. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, Ill.
Sold in Skowhegan and recommended
as the worlds best corn remedy by
G.. II. Fogg.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-12-11
NO MORE CATARRH
This Simple Home Treatment u,.
stood The Test of Time

Every fall and winter, for more than
twenty years, thousands of people ha1a
made IT daily practice to breathe the
air of Hyomei and SO keep themselves
free from Catarrh. Coughs, Colds
Bronchitis. Sore Throat and influenza
This is certain and you should try
it. If you Will breathe Hyomei dailv
as directed, it will free you and kee,,
you free from all these troubles or II
won't cost you a cent.
G. r. Fogg or any reliable druggist
can supply you with the Complete
Hyomei OUTFIT. including a hard rub
Der pocket inhaler. The inhaler Will
last a life time and extra bottles of
the liquid 1Iyomei cost but a few cents
A few dro of oil in the inhaler Will
last for DAYS and its pure soothing
antiseptic healing air, breathed deen
in the air passages of your nose and
throat should keep you free from
coughs, colds. influenza and catarrh Ali
winter long. Pleasant to use, takes
but few minutes daily and is guar
nateed to satisfy or money back.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-12-11
NORTH CORNVILLE

Miss Lizzie Curtis is boarding at
Leonard Leighton's this winter.
The Kinsman school opened Mon
day. December s, with the same teach
err Miss Ida Spaulding of Athens.
Mr.. James family Of four children
from De Queen, Arkansas, came
Thursday and the family are nicely
settled in their new home.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-12-11
ACHES AND PAINS
QUICKLY RELIEVED
You'll find Sloan's Liniment
softens the severe
rheumatic ache

Put 1t on freely Don't rub II In.
Just let 1t Penetrate naturally. What
sense of soothing relief soon follows
External aches. stiffness, soreness,
cramped muscles, strained sinews,
back "cricks"-those ailments can't
fight off the relieving qualitie. of
Sloan's Liniment. Clean, convenient,
economical. 35c, 70c, $l.40
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-12-11

Sampson & Avore sell the Pitts
field Advertiser. Madison Bulletin,
Dexter Gazette, Piscataquis Observer.
Houlton Times and the Independent
Reporter.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-12-11
'Gets-It" Peels Y our
Corns Right Off
Two Drops VIII Do 1t Without Fuss
or Trouble. Never Fails

There's only one way to get rid of
corn and that is - peel it off as you
would a banana skin. There is only
one corn remover in all the world that
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Concerning Box Wocd-

The manufacturing of boxes and
crates in the United States consumes
one-tenth of our output of lumber
every year. In some cases. says the
American Forestry Magazine, the odor
of wood adds to the value of the ar
ticle shipped in the package. Cigars
in Spanish cedar boxes furnish an ex-
ample. 1t is widely believed that bur
ter is better if it touches no wood ex-
cept ash and a similar belief prevails
regarding tea, which, il is said, should
be shipped and kept in the Chinese
wood in which the orientalS pack it. The
notion in regard to the tea might lose
some of its popularity if it were gen.
orally known that the wood of which
the tea boxes are made did not grow
nearer China than several thousand
miles. Some of it comes from Rus
sia. The Chinese paste paper over the
boxes, stamp them with Chinese char
acters, and fill them with tea for for
eign markets.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Ersezinn an Easy Death.

Freezing to death, writes medical
authority, is preceded by a drowsiness
which makes the end painless-the
body actually feels warm and goes
comfortably to sleep. Experiments
have been made with animals to show
just how freezing to death proceeds.
In one of these experiments, in
which the animal was placed in tenn
perature of 125 to $50 degrees below
zero, the breathing and heart beats
at first were quickened, the organic
heat OF the body actually rising above
normal.
This rising showed a sudden and an
intense effort on the part of functions
to preserve the body's temperature.
Then the violent heart action gave out;
suddenly and death came when the:
temperature OF the body dropped to.
II degrees.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
SOME FAMOUS BEST SELLERS
Often, Like "Innocents Abroad" They
Have Been the First Books Of
the Authors.

Many best sellers have been the
first books of their authors. Mark
Twain, then an impecunious newspa-
per man with little more than a local
reputation for journalistic practical
jokes, persuaded the publishers OF a
western paper to pay his expenses on
the widely exploited excursion OF the
Quaker City. The letters which were
the result of this journey grew into
the book The Innocents Abroad and
the name of Mark Twain became an
American household word.
Archibald Clavering Gutter, who had
been a mining and civil engineer and
O. broker on the San Francisco ex-
change, possessed a manuscript that
no established publisher could be in
dueod to touch. So he issued it at
his own expense and in very short
time the question of the hour became
Have you read Mr.. Barnes of New
York;"
The pastor of a church in small
town on the Hudson river visited Chi
cago just after the great fire, saw in
the catastrophe the background OF a
novel with strong religious appeal,
and in the course of few months
awoke to find himself famous as the
author of Barriers Burned Away"
An impetuous southern woman, the
author Of one or two books that had
been lost in the turmoil of the great
civil struggle, went to New York at
the close of the war with the manu-
script Of a novel and a year or two
later the traveller in southern states
was progressing on land by st. Elmo
coaches, on water by St. Elmo steam
boats, staying in ST. Elmo hotels,
smoking ST. Elmo cigars and drinking
st. Elmo punch.
1t was very different matter with
Frances Hod8son Burnett's Little
Lord Fauntleroy," says the Bookman.
That book was the work, not OF a
novice, but of a writer who knew her
meter, who had. years before won a
reputation for imagination and good
workmanship and who had already
produced eight books Of conceded
quality
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23

DR.. ]. w. Sever, an English surgeon,
urges that school desks should leave
room enough for the knees, and
should be low enough so that the ell
bow and forearm may rest comfort
ably on them without bending the
back
The slope of the desk theoretically
should be about 80 degrees, but as
that is too steep an angle to allow
books and papers to rest on it, with
out sliding off, compromise angle of
from 12 degrees to Is degrees has
been selected.
The seat should be no wider than
the width of the hip, for wider seats
predispose to slouchy attitudes. 1t
should be about two-thirds the length
of the thigh. 1t may or may not
slope very slightly backward, but this
is of no great Importance. Any great
slope is distinctly bad.
The height from the floor should be
such as to allow the feet to rest
equally and comfortably on the floor,
A seat of too great breadth, as well
as one of too great depth, compels
bad postures. The seat should have a
back which supports the lumbar spine
when sitting, at work, as we'll as at
rest.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Smile Means Much.

"The smile is one of the greatest
assets of the successful salesman or
saleswoman," says the manager Of j
Gapartment store linen department.
''It makes friends for the store as
readily as do moderate prices and
good goods.
''The ability to smile for eight hours
a day is a trait hard to acquire and
possessed by few store help Yet 1t
can be gained by constant practice
the watching of oneself and not per
mitting at any time the slightest indi-
cation of frown.
Il recall my first purchase in a New
York department store. 1 was direct
ed to the counter where could find
the special article of my choice. I
was met by a gruff What is it? from
the salesman. / recall l said, Moth
ing, and haven't been in that store
since"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Human Goodwill.

With all your exuberant goodwill
you haven't altogether got beyond the
theory that the first cave-dweller be-
slowed on his neighbor the bone he
himself didn't need, and established
the pleasant relation of benefactor
and beneficiary. 1t gave him such a
warm feeling in his heart that he nat
urally wanted to make the relation
permanent. First cave-dweller felt a
little disappointed next day when
second cave-dweller, instead Of COM
ing to him for another bone, preferred
to take his pointed stick and go hunt
ing on his own account. 1t seemed a
little ungrateful in him, and first
cave-dwelIer felt that it would be no
more than right to arrange legislation
in the cave so that it should not hap
pen again. Christian charity is beau
tiful thing but sometimes it gets mixed
up with these ideas of the cave-dwell-
ers.-Samuel NJ Crothers.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Wnrld,s arnest Index

On Beacon Hill, in Boston, under the
golden dome of the statehouse, is one
Of the largest indexes in the world.
In fact, the Russian public index is
the only one known to be larger.
More than 100000 names, births,
marriages and deaths in Massachu-
setts from 1943 make a complete rec
ord, showing not only where people
were born and where they died, but
also statistics which are vital in maxi
ing up calculations. Before this
time, says the National Magazine, the
records were kept in the different
towns, but now they are all concen-
trated in the statehouse in Boston.
In a relatively small space all these
records are preserved, and as births,
marriages and deaths come in, differ
ent forms of cards are used, and a
great variety Of names, Grecian,
Assyrian, Italian and others now.
mingle with good old New England
names that have been on the records
since the landing of the Mayfower.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23

A quaint petition has just been pre-
sented to the French Minister of Pub
tic instruction. At the famous cafe
de la Regence there meet daily and
nightly groups of chess players who
nave formed themselves into an as
sociation known as the Chess Fedora
ion Of the Cafe de la Regence. Here
the most important class champion
ships in Paris are decided. The com
mittee of the association have just
approached the minister with the re-
quest that a series of chess manuals,
which they themselves have select
ed, shall be distributed with other
books as prizes at the end of the
school term to the pupils of the va
rious lycees The chess players are
anxious that knowledge of their ia
vorite game should penetrate among
the younger generation, conscious as
they are Of the Importance OF chess
in building UP character and forming
the mind The minister has grant
ed the request, and France may ex-
pect to see. grow up among them a
generation of f"chess devotees, just as
1T is now nurturing a generation of
football players.-Paris Correspond.
ent London Globe.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Mr.. DOLBY IMPOSED ON
WHY HE BROKE A SELFISH RES
OLUTION.
Had Resolved to Play Part Of Hog
on a Crowded Street Car, Until
Woman With Borrowed Baby
Appeared.

Dolby likes babies. That is why hs
gave his seat to the good-looking
young woman in the triangular
brown hat. She carried a baby. If she
had not been so incumbered she would
have been condemned to strap hang
ing, so far as Dolby was concerned,
for he vowed at the beginning of
the trip that he was going to play the
hog.
I'm dead tired" he said to Mr..
Bowler. Thank heaven, I've found a
seat. l am going to stick to it, too.
Nothing short Of an accident or a wo-
man with baby can rout me out till
l get home.'
Bowler said "Humph," as did sew
eral other passengers who overheard
Dolby's selfish resolution. The young
woman in the brown hat stood within
hearing distance as Dolby thus de-
clared himself, but she did not say
"Humph." She merely thought it,
Presently she edged down the car un-
til she stood directly in front of Dol
by. About that time the baby began
to show off. He kicked at Dolby's
hat, first with the left foot and then
with the right, and then with both
feet simultaneously, and said, 10000
co." very plaintively.
Dolby looked up and met the baby's 8
eye. The youngsters gaze embar-
rassed his somewhat, so he allowed
his eyes to travel little higher. That
time he encountered an appealing
glance from the young woman. Dolby
became still more embarrassed; he
sat still a few seconds longer.
Madam" he said, will you have
this seat?"
Thank you," sighed the young wo-
man. you are very kind"
It really was not worth while to tell
Dolby that. He already had an exag-
gerated notion of his own magnani-
nifty, so, to even things up, he retired
to the back platform and picked a
quarrel with the conductor. When he
got tired Of that he stepped inside the
car again. Directly in front of him,
but under different guardianship, sat
the baby that had so ruthlessly as
saulted the rim of his hat few min
utes before.
4 100000" coed the baby.
Hello" said Dolby. Aren't you
the kid that took liberties with my
headgear a little while ago? How
did you get down to this end of the
carp
The baby's reply was not exactly in
telligible, so his mother supplemented
it with a more lucid explanation.
He belongs here" she said. "The
lady sent him back. She just bor-
rowed him for a few minutes"
With one quick glance Dolby re-
treated to the platform, and there he
stayed.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Cracker Lunches.

New York city alone has nearly
10000 children attending the public
schools What splendid opportunity
to provide this vast army of healthy
youngsters with a wholesome and ap-
petizing cracker lunch, done up in a
neat package and still cheap enough
to be within the reach of even the
poorer parents.
We once saw one of these cracker
lunches as got up by a large biscuit
concern in Germany The paper box
contained six delicious crackers with
a marmalade filling, and there was an
empty compartment for a nice red
apple or a couple of plums, which of
course were added by the mother of
the child. These school lunches, ex-
elusive of the fruit, were sold at 5
pfennings, or about Ia cents-Ba-
ker's Weekly.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Calling New Jersey Spain"

Referring to New Jersey as Spain
came about in this way: Joseph
BOnaparte, the eldest brother of Ma
poleon, came to America and occupie -
the place called Point Breeze, at Bor-
dentown, n J. He was ex-king Of
Spatn but, discIaiming his legal rank,
he lived there for several years under
the title of Comte de Survillierx, en-
dearing himself to his neighbors by his
liberality and graciousness of man
ners. He was chosen member of
many learned and philanthropic insti-
tutions, and in 1917, an act was passed
by the legislature enabling him as an
alien to hold real estate within the
state Ardent Republicans, as we'll
as neighbors out of good-natured rail-
lery, for this reason called the state
his kingdom of Spain.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
BROKE OFF BAD HABIT
WOMAN TELLS HOW SHE OVER
CAME PRoCRAsTINATlcN.
Strict Mental Drill Enabled Her to
Learn Promptness and InteIligently
Work to Accomplish Her
Daily Tasks.

OF all my many bad habits, think
procrastination was the very worst.
/ used to put things off and quiet my
conscience with the easy excuse that
another time would answer every pur-
pose, or that, if circumstances had
been easier, l would have done it in
time enough had a startling realiza-
tion of the strength of this bad habit
one day when serious consequences
had resulted; so l determined then
and there with all the force of my will
that / would break it up and rout my
enemy, foot and horse. Little did I
dream of what was before me.
tried-God knows how l tried!-but
the habit was victor more often than
!, till at last one night after had
gone to bed almost in despair over my
many defeats, like fash came back
to me the psychologist basis Of habit
making: that our habits are paths
running through our brain With that
thought in mind began intelligently
to combat my foe.
The rules | worked out for break
ing my bad habits are these: Since
good habits are as powerful as bad
ones, determined to replace my bad
habit of procrastination by the good
one of promptness. Ia fact, to let the
old pathway disappear for lack of use
and to develop new one. That this
new pathway might soon become
strongly marked by much use, l
made important engagements that
must be carried out on the minute or
not at all, plans in which an instant
of delay would result SO disastpOusly
that l shuddered at the thought
never allowed an exception. 7 set
every ounce of will power 1 possessed
against one slipbaok. If l said at
night that I would get up the moment
my watch said seven o'clock, l got
up, even though the town clock had
not yet struck the hour.
After a time, as 1 gained my victor
les, I devised all kinds of things as a
test of my growing power Of prompt
ness; things that were not at all nee
65adIy, SuCu DIS COupASIlAS DOOA III
a certain time, arriving on q specified
corner at a definite moment, or
reaching an appointment one minute
before the appointed hour. Thus
practiced my new habit every possible
opportunity. After many trials
observed that my will was having an
easier time than before, until, in the
course of a year and a half, prompt
ness was so much second nature to
me that never thought of procrasti-
nation.-Lucia Bosley, in the Ameri-
can Magazine.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23

One of the most difficult problems In
practical mechanics is to make q
straight edge. How difficult it is may
be judged from an incident that oc-
CURED in the shop of celebrated as
Economical instrument maker.
A patron asked what would be the
price of "a perfect straight edge Of
glass SO inches long"
ut cannot be made perfect" said
the instrument maker; "but it could
probably be made with limit of error
amounting to only fraction of a
wave length of light"
How much would that cost?"
"About forty thousand dollars"
It turned out that the customer
wanted the straight edge for scraper
and that an error of one sixty-fourtA Of
an inch would not bother him
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Stranger Than Fiction.

Among the advertisements on the
first page of an Austrian rural news
paper appears one tradesman's praise
of the beautiful fresh bread" he dis
tributes, and another tradesman's ac-
claim of the beautiful Cavendish ba,
nanas" he has for sale. After reading
further and finding with relief that at
least one individual deals in "beauti-
full art" in this day of post-postism
one is naturally led to wonder just
when Lewis Carroll was exercising his
Imagination and when he was merely
setting down faithfully what he had
heard when he penned such poems of
praise as that Alice in Wonderland
lyric which concludes:
Soup Of the evening,
Beautiful soup.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Life Made Beautiful.

"The part of life which we really
live is short" said Seneca. "Exigua
pars est" Perhaps it is true, as this
wise old pagan has said. And yet ii
ought not to be true. All of life should
and can be made beautiful. The best
that is in US should not assert itself
infrequently, but at all times. The time
we spend in the effort to satisfy our
greed, the time spent In envy Of our
neighbors, in anger. in any unworthy
spirit whatever, is assuredly time spent
I'll. 1t is that part of life in which
we really do not live at all.-Los An
geles Times.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23

The air-sacs of the pigeon constitute
q system of interstices the value of
which lies in their absence of weight
and resistance.
Flying is possible only to a body of
high mechanical efficiency divested
of all superfluous material. The orig
inal reptiles, which by evolution be-
came birds, were divested of super
fiuous material, and the body spaces
thus obtained were filed with air
sacs. The body wall, adapting itself
to the mechanical requirements, be-
came hollow cylinder serving as
support for the organs of movement
the mobility of whose parts was as
sured by the surrounding air-sacs. The
air cavities in the bones of other birds
are similarly explained.-Harper's
Weekly.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Soup Of the evening
Beautiful soup.

A machine has been built which will
shape masts up to 100 feet In length
and three feet in diameter. The tim
Der is SET. up in the machine and re-
volved at a speed Of 80 revolutions a
minute, and it is shaped by a cutter
head which is electrically driven at the
rate of roe revolutions a minute. This
cutter head is mounted on a carriage,
which is moved along the timber
against a rail set to give the proper
profile to the mast Heretofore this
work has been done by hand and re-
quired skilled workmen At best it
has been a slow and Iaborious task.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Consequences.

Consequences are Implying. Our
deeds carry their terrible conse-
quences. quite apart from any fluctua-
tions that are hardly ever confined TO
ourselves. And it is best for US to fix
our minds on that certainty, instead
of thinking what may be the elements
of excuse for us. Sooner or later what
we really believe will work its way into
action, and what we think and what
we do will one day be in accord. That
is one great danger of unrestrained
thought.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Too Good to Lose.

your husband is willing to allow
you the custody of the automobile,
the poodle, and the rubber plant, with
liberal alimony, while he takes the
children and the graphophone."
Stop the divorce" sobbed the wife.
''Il never get another husband like
that"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Delivering the NeY. Suit

Customer (telephoning tailor)
send out the clothes and if they're
0. K. l will send you my check" Tailor
Wont do it. You send me the
check first and if it is o. K. l win send
-nn thn clothes f-Tud0n
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Her SpecialtN.

81 thought you said George had
married a good manager"
He did"
81 called on her yesterday and the
house was in terrible disorder. It
looked as if everything had been left
to take care of itself"
But you should see her managing
George"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
Superior.

They're very superior people
aren't they?"
Very They play nothing but
grand opera records on their phono-
graph"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-08-23
WaYs of Women.

"Wimmen certainly ain't got no con-
sistency."
whats the matter, Mixer
Me wife chased me out wild roll
ingpin this morning, and then cried
because I left home without kissing
her good-by"