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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

foods. Refuse from the butchers
scrap cake and offal from the fish
market, furnish valuable material
for making eggs. We at one time
had access to slaughter house,
where hogs lungs could be had by
the bushel baskettul. Given to the
hens they were deyowed with avid
ity, and aided in the return OF large
yields of eggs in winter. 10 feed
animal lungs, they should have a
string tied tightly around the mid
die, and be hung on strong nails.
Then the hens can easily eat them,
bnt if thrown in loose they cannot
Vegetable food in some form is
also necessary. Potatoes and tur-
nips boiled and mashed with Indian
meal are hard to equal. Cabbage
is always acceptable, and where
there is an absence of other yegeta-
bles, provision should be made each
season, to have a good stock laid
up for the fowls in winter. For
lack of every kind of green yegeta'
blcs, not a bad substitute may be
had in clover hay. Those who have
never fed this will be surprised to
see how fond fowls are of it, at this
season. II fowls have the run OF
the grounds, and there is no snow
lying, they will manage to pick up
some green food outside; this
should not be too much counted OH
But to aid in the grinding of the
food that is going on in the gizzard
and also to afford material for the
formation of egg shells, it mnst not
be forgotten to provide la ing hens
with small gravel and grit, broker
bones, shells and the like. They
should have free access constantly
to all they will care to consume o
such things.
Properly fed, and kept in warm
well-lighted and well.ventilatet
house d lring the winter, hens vii
not fail to lay well. Provision TO
heating the house little during
| the coolest weather, is form of ex
pcndure that repays amply for thu
Ontlay, however warm the hous'
may otherwise be.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
New Mills.

The Bangor whig and Courier
says: Mr.. q. g. Moulton, of Boston
and George W. Cowen, Of Littleton,
N. H., we in city yesterday fornoon
and accompanied by Mr.. w. II.
Gloss of Bangor, left for Wytopit.
lock on the fast fraight in the after
noon. The object of their visit is
to examine q site on the Mattawam-
keag river at that place, where they
propose next season to erect a large
lumber mill, to be operated by wat
er power, and where all kinds of
long and short lumber will be man.
nfactured. They will at once put
crews in the woods in that vicinity
and push long operation vigorous.
ly throughout the winter. They al
SO intend to build a steam mill there
this winter to saw lumber for their
larger mandatory. 1t is hoped
that all the mills contemplated will
be erected, as they will be a great
aid to business in that section.
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LOST !!

BY Sickness, thirty days business
and seventeen lbs. of flesh. But Pm
on deck, where l find 30 pairs of IL
and 1874 ALL WOOL blankets
Unsold, together with fair assert.
ment of Ladies, Misses and Gents
underwear, cheap woolens in pat
ems or remnants, Shifting Flannels.
Mems Wool Hats etc. All of which
am physically strong enough to-
day, to Show and to Price to you,
which will, when accomplished in
sure the sale of my entire deck load
within 20 days) provided, you and
other readers of this Notice are in
want of such Merchandise and will
call for an exhibit of the same l
can exhibit also, a fair line of wool
en- Shawls.
WANTED, in exchange for goods,
good domestic yarn in desirable
colors, also, good Stockings and
Mittens, Hand-Knit, for men and
boys wear.
am overloaded with poor and
mediam Stockings and Mittens. l
want to purchase some good ones.
s. ID. ARNOLD.
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An Important Law.

At this season of the year when MUM.
cipal officers are beginning to think of
making their annual reports, the follow
ing taken from Chapter 359, Public Laws
of 1885, will be of particular interest:
Section l. Persons charged with the
expenditure of the money of town, shall
on or before the moaning Of each an
nual meeting, make full, detailed writ
ten or printed report of all their financial
transactions in behalf of the town, dur
the municipal year Immediately preceding,
Nth a full account Of the receipts and dis
bursements during that period, and to uhon,
and for ,chdt purpose each item Of them ,cas
paid, with statement in detail of the in
debtedness and resources of the town.
The above words in italics are an
amendment of section SO, chapter 8, of
the Revised Statues, passed at the last
session of the Legislature, and considera-
bly, increase the duties of municipal Off
GERS, and is just what each intelligent tax
payer should know, and what honest
officials will cheerfully give. Failing to
perform the duties required faithfully
town officials will be liable to play the role
of witness on town meeting day, with a
large number of interested persons to ex-
anime them.
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To Make Boys Good Farmers.

The Indina Farmer has this sens.
ible talk to farmers about their
boys: From the first, boys on the
farm should be induced to take an
interest in the stock, in the nipple
ments, and in all that pertains to
the business. Tell them all your
plans your success and your failures;
give them a history of your life and
what You lived when a boy; but do
not harp too much on degenerate
character of the young men of the
present age. Praise them weat you
can and encourage them to do bet
ter. Let them dress up in the even
ing, instead of sitting around in
their dirty clothes, as is too often
the case. Set an example before
them of attending church on Sun
day, and such other times as are
convenient, and take them out
enough in the world so they will be
bashful, awkward, or ignorant Of
the ways of genteel society. But
do not encourage strOlling over the
country, in company with other
boys, on Sunday, or allow them to
20 where they please of nights.
They may think you are a little
strict, but in mature will thank you.
In order to interest them on the
farm, and make their lives agreea-
BILE and pleasant, give them a piece
of ground to cultivate as their own,
and allow them to have the money
for their productions. A boy who
is Industrious because he is afraid
of being punished can't amount to
much as a farmer. Such boy
won't stay at home any longer than
he can help it. When they secure
money from any source which is the
fruit of their industry, help the boys
to invest a good share of it in pig,
COW or colt, and allow it to grow up
on the farm as theirs. Show them
the folly of spending their money
foolishly for everything they see,
but encourage them to invest ashare
of their earnings in useful books
and tools, for their instructions and
amusement. Provide warm and
neatly sitting and bed rooms and
brilliant light. Subscribe for sew
eral agricultural journals, so as to
get them as much interested as
possible in their occupation. Teach
them industry, economy, morality
and christianity, and steady, tenn
perate habits.
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M AXE Hens Lay.

Everybody who reads newspapers
must have noticed the advertise
mcnt of Sheridan's Powder. with
the above familiar heading, but
probably not one in thousand of
all those that keep heus have
bought the Powder or looked into
the matter at all. To mos people
the idea of compelling hens to lay
eggs in cold weather, whether they
want to or not, seems absured, but
little reflection will show any in
telligent person that it is as easy
to make healthy hen lay eggs as
it is to raise any crop. In the spring
and summer hens generally find
and eat Just those things which
with their food) are required to
make the yolk, the whites and the
shells of eggs, but in cold weather
they cannot and hence they stop
laying Sheridan's Powder is q
strictly scientific preparation, des-
igned to stimulate the egg produc-
ing organs and to supply the chem
ical constituents necessary for the
formation of the egg. When this is
done a hen cannot help laying.
Sheridan's Powder is not a hen food
ii is strickly a medicine and very
powerful, one teaspoonful to each
pint of food is sufficient. |. S. John
son & Co., of % Custom House ST.,
Boston. Mass, are the manufacture
ers and prOprietors of this valuable
article. Their business is the old
est of the kind in the United States,
and the firm is reliable in every res
best. Allpersons interested should
send for an illustrated pam
phlet, which they will send free to
any address. With eggs at 80 cents
a dozen, the hens should be kept at
work. New England Homestead.
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Sam Jones' Turn Story"

Sam Jones turn story, as told at the
Methodist church, Friday night is as fol-
lows: There was married couple with
half dozen children and only one bed
The whole family slept on that bed and
were 30 thick that one could net turn over
unless all did. So that when any one got
tired sleeping on one side he'd say turn
and over the whole family went. They
got so used to It that even when they
heard the word turu in their sleep they
would hustle over. One day the old man
was fishing on long bridge over the
river. The sun was hot and the fish
want biting, and he fell asleep balancing
on the log. One of the boys saw him and
thought he would try joke, and hallooed
out 'TurnT over the old man went kerfop
into the water. Now l want the temper
ance men halloo, Turn until the anti
men who are asleep on the bridge over
the prohibition river will hear 1t and drop
in.-Atldntd Constitution.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
Our Blue Blood.

Two ccaturier and half ago,
on trudged to work with shout Tered hoe,
A woman, barefoot, Drowned, I'D rough,
With pluck nf putrtanic stnfl
Six lusty children tagged behind.
All ha,lcss. shoeless. unconfined
And happy as the birds that tic's
Abou, them Naught OF books they kne"
Save one than read at twilight hour,
brought with them in the staunch Mayilowe
a pretty lady. thin and white.
In a hammock swinging light,
Laghuishes. and in the shade.
Deyours rhyme and lemouadci
While bending near her lover signs.
And gently fans away the flies.
She murmurs, It's so nice thatwo
Are neither OF low family,
But of old putranic stock
That landed upon Plymouth Rock ~
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POETRY.


Arouse your ambition, and act with deeision,-
whate'er your condition, find something to do
A life Of inaction has little attraction,
And dissatisfaction will follow it through.
Fen now in life morning, pay you take warning
Difficulties dawning make diligent USE
Rise higher with energy's fire,
Nor sink in the mire of sloth and abuse
Suppose yeu do stumble, y1ut coed fortune erumbe
'Tis weakness to grumhle.--still WORST It's sin
The gloom is unsightly, let patience shine brightly
And set about rightly the conquest to win.
So good an example error will trunpie,
And blessings thus ample will h'''S 'in 'ronn d.
While YOU shall inherit reward OF t-,r merit,
For in YOUR own spirit sweet peace shtil abound
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
A Wealthy Farmers
Reliable Testimony.

Take special note NJ the Joiioring history Of a
rery interesting case.
Near the thriving village Of Dundee, few
New York. Seneca, lives Mr. Dan".l supplee n
gentleman Of about 20 years. MIR. Supple owns
!, very large, and highly cultivated fa III wiicl
If being the hest farm In all that section
Every crop he plants seems to thrive. snd his
advice is much sought by younger and less ex
Mr. Supplee writes, az sun, red from yer, Sc
we're attack OF Diabetes. u duced eIn flesh
so that was only skin and bones. and my SKIN
nv Urine contained such large percentage
Of sugar thatwnen it was spilled The sugar
would asOx G5y S;ag s.as NJ aS wn maze a"s
i,nired Of by my family and physicians Com
menced urfng HUNT's Kidney and Liyrrl REM,
EDr ut this sta:e Of my sic kness, nnd improved
again persona ly to superIntend the manage
nient 0f my extensive farming operations:
HUNTS Kidney and Liycrl REMEDY H. grand
a gentleman hearing OF theme fasts and wish.
ing to know further Of the mntter for him-elf,
wrote TO Mr.. C. p. MeLenn, large Dry Goods
" eat int rity and worth, asking TOR inforfna-
tioi, In the matter. He received the following
reply. -,
Dear Sir: Yours Of 2 d. inst, at hand this
morning. ! woulh say that think the use OF
HUNTS Kidney and Liverl REMEDY In Mr.
He was going down very fast previ us to It's
use. and began o show an Improvement soon
after he began to take the II NEEDY. Mr.. w. Is.
Wightman, VI lcsalr Grocer, Providence, r.. ],
10 also knowing to all the facts IN Mr.. supplies
case. yours truly, y. r. MCLEAN.
WEST SHORE X. X. CONDUCTOR.
NEW YORK, January ~, 1885.
HUNTS REMEDY co.
GENrLsM1N:-Having been afflicted with a
severe attack Of Kidney troubles, which dtsab.
led mo from my business. was persuaded by
. fsieud on the train 70 try HUNTS kidney
aud Ltver) REMEDY. as he recommended 1t In
the highest possible terms rs sure cure for
Kidney Diseases and all troubles Of the Urinary
Organs began 10 improve rapidlt soon after
commenced taking. the. Remedy and u has
cured me, besides as believe saving me from
/, long sickness. have frequently recc mmend-
% HUNTS Kidney and Liverl REMEDY to my
in restoring them rapidly to health. 1 deem II
a duty as well az privilege to recommend SO
good and reliable medicine A. ! have proved
HURTS Kidney and Liyerl REMEDY 10 be.
Yours, w. W. 9. MERIDlTH.
1ml Conductor, N. Y. W. 3. Il. n.
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ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken OF You,
resi- by tick child suffering and crying with pam
of cutting teethi If send ut once and get bot
tie OF MRs wINrLtws SOOTHING SYRUP roR
CHILDREN TEErnIN0. II valne Ia incalculable II
viii relieve the poor little rnfYerer Immediately.
Deperd upon IT, mothers, there is mistake
about it. /. cures dissentery and diarrhoea, reg
natee the stomach andbowels cures wind collie.
softens the gume, reduces Inflammation, and givet
tone and cnegy to the whole system. MRS. WIN
SLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEErHINe
pleasant to the TASTE, aud Ia the perception OF
one OF the oldest aud best female nurses and ply
lie ansin ths United States, and isior sale by all
druggists thu oughont the world. Price Is cent?
. bot
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

l. G. Libby & Co., Burnham, Me.
have shipped to Brighton an aver
age of ten carloads of cattle and
sheep per week since the LIST of Au-
gust. and have furnished Brighton
market with $4,000 sheep in the past
thirteen weeks. A. P. & q E Lid
by (sons of l. G. Libby, but not con-
nected with him in business) and
their partners have bought this sea-
son in Aroestook and Penobscot
counties over 1900 head of cattle
which they have in the older coun.
ties of Maine for keeping purposes
of home consumption
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
Bladder and Kidney Diseases
FARM FOR SALE.

Containing 40 acres situAted IL miles East
of Athens Village in warm and level ocatioD
The farm cuts from 25 to 30 tons of hay q good
pressing quality has q well OF soft water with
In 10 feet of house stock watered IN yard In
winter Two Orchards producing from 200 TO
100 Bushels of apples yearly convenient to
common and high schools Wood shed, car.
riagc house. work room sheep shed and hog
pom all new and convenient. Barn In good re-
pair. House old but warm and respec, able
Nice pasture and wOotilot. This form can he
bought for the low prices of $1,000. cash down or
y cash and u on short mortgage. To secure
this Baaeain call carly on FREELY BARKER
3m45 Athens Me
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
POETRY.


She sits beside in the square old pew;
Two little gray,g loved hands devoutly hold
Her dainty PRAYER book and her hymn book, too
Warm sunbeams fall aslant her heads bright
gold.
The preachers words sound very far away,
The sweet-voiced singers chat unheafd
by me.
/ watch my darlings upward look and say
Within myself: "Oh. would | were like
theel
All else forget; thy thoughts have flown above,
Too pure too high for earth and such as l."
Just then with troubled eyes, my little love
Leaned close and whispered with smothercd
sigh
"That girl in sealskin just across the aisle
Thinks don't know it's plushl Well, 1 should
smile
I Brooklyn Eagle.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

The nrst prize wae awarded Church & Cos
"Arin 4 Hammer" Brand Of Soda and 6Aleratus
for its great purify and cAiteNsss, 1t the Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centenisl Expedition,
New Orlesns, 1905.
painless and easy Of application, scts O. 1
puultico, instxu1{ent an0 medicine, givos
Instant relief ard y ~ tnfAllible o11e. tia By
it ss12'Ss - sSSa 81, 8 Nv g Ys.s
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

To lthc people Of tins County we would cay We
have been given the Agency Of DR.. Aachfs Italian
Pile Ointment alphabetically guarantee TO cure
or money Ielundcd-Inte.na External Blind
bleeding or Itching lies. Price 6Oc. hox Nc
cure, No Pay. For sale by Bixby & Buck, Drug
gists.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
Daughters, Wives and Mothers.

We emphnucxll, guarantee Dr.. Aarchini's Cat.
hoilcan Female Kennedy to cure, Female Diseases.
such Ms Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ul-
ceraton. Failing and Displacement or bearing
down teclinY, Irregularities barrenness, Change
Of Lite, LcucorrLoa, besides many weaknesses
springing from the ABOVE, like Headache, Bloat-
ing, Spinal weakness. Sleeplessness, Nervous De-
biiity, Paipatatlun OF the heart etc. For sale BY
p,uggists. Price 81 .0J and u 80 per Bottle. Seno
Is Or. j. b. M.rchi-i. Utica,N. T., foi pamphlet,
free. For sale by bxby q Buck, druggints.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

You are allowed n free trial If thirty days OF the
usc OF Dr. Dyer Ceebr tea Volluic Belt with Bec-
tric Suspensury Appliances, for the speedy relief
And pc. nisnent euro Of Nervous Debiil J, loss vi
Vitaityand Manhood, and all kindred troubles.
Also, iormauy other diseases. Complete re-tora-
ton TO health viRor and manhood guaranteed No
risk is incurred. illustrated pamphlet with full
Information, terms, etc. mailtO FREE by address
ing Voltaic Belt Co, Marhall. Mich.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

Time Is money. A trotting horse that could
20 4, 2:l9 was recently sold At the rate OF s1o2
a second. 1t will be readily seen that horse
able to trot mile an hour ought u be worth
lust S5s3,5 O. Figures never lie
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13
a CARL d.

To all who are suffering from the ndiscretlons oi
YOUTH nei vous weakness, early decay, lors OF man.
hood, &c. Will send a recipe tina will cur' you,
FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy wae dir
covered by u mi sci mary IN Sou h America. SIS
Il elf.addrr-rcd envelope 10 The Rev. JoeEPh Il,
iEnAN taison d. Nep York CITY.
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HERE AND THERE.

REV. II. b. EwELI, OF Pavilion. N. Y says
Of Gilmnre's Aromatic Wino:' believe IL to be
. mnst desirable remedy to be placed In every
family"
THE WIFE. MOTHER AND MAID who sun.
ers from Female weakness and Debility, Will
ind Gilmore's Aromatic positive cure.
GILMOkE's AROMATIC Ia Q great succe
therefore we challenge the porid to produce It's
equal a. a restorative for scome,, For Sale py
Horatio W. Gushing.
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FARM AND GARDEN.

For this department, correspondent is solicited
brief suggestion, facts, experiences accounts OF
crops, stock, etc. Address Agricultural Editor,
SOMERSET REPORTER, Skowhcgan, Me.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

II has been decided by court of competent
jurisciun that there IS just IA much craft upon
the land rs there 10 upon the sea.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

Certain parties have been for years flooding
the country with immense packs OF horse ana
cattle powders which are utter y worthless
Don be deceived by them Sheridant pow
ders are the only kind now known in this conn
Try which are strictly pure They are very
powerful.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

For this department brief suggestions, facts, ,
and experiences are solicited from ladies. Address
Home Department, SOMERSET REroRTEN, Skow
hogan Maine
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

We are informed hy an outsider that great
many bnrks have been VT ckcd In Newark,
D., with II week or twv-oyer one hundred
ours having been killed, owing to she hydropho
bin scare. Dog gone such puns!
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-01-13

senator Mcpherson has scheme for making
Al.-ka our penal colony. But what is the mat
ter with Canada?
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Maine Cent'l r. r.
CHANGE OF TIME.
Attend to it Now.

Many suffering people drag themselves about
with failing strength feeling that they are
steadily sinking into the grave. when by using
Parker's Tonic they would ind cure commence
ing with the first dose. and vitality and strength
surely coming hack to them.
II am 9, year old; have been sick nearly oil
my life and ought tO know something ab ut
medicine by this time. I have usod PAiker's
Tonic freely for more than year, and consider
Il the Of remedy have. ever known. In fact,
now dad no other me picine necessary, For
weakness debility. rheumatism AID that die
troasing all-soneness and pain from which
suffered 90 long. II has NO equal DO not SO
oNls 8 medioiuo."-M Rs. HATTIE N. 0RAvEs. cor
East and Front streets, Providence, r. Il.
pagko1'o Tonic.
fPrcpare80 By Hiscox 4 Co. n. III
Sold BY I'll Dsuggists IN large bottles ss u %
lml7
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A newspaper has been started at Sitka
Printers In search OF IA si.kAL perhaps get one
oy applying early.
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A STANDARD MEDICAL WORK
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-. -.
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This hook should be read by the young for in,truc
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nll-Mon ton LJBcrt
There 10 no member Of society to whom this book
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Address the Peaboly Medical Institute, or Dr. H.
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s. b. Duifcy, mate OF Steamer Ar Zona, had
his foot badly jammcd Thomas Electric On
cured 1t. Nothing equal to 1t for quick palr
rciiever.