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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
Sheep Notes.

Feed the lamb if you want sheep
As we'll turn wolf among the ewes as
a scrub ram.
Starve the sheep, and then you will
probably say that sheep do not pay.
For every sheep that dies from grub in
the head thousands die from other causes.
The wise shepherd begins to feed the
lambs month before he sees them, and
the foolish one month afterward.
The Lincoln has been regarded as the
largest sheep, but the Cotswold has been
disputing its rights to this distinction.
There is yet call for improvement in
our common sheep. We must feed as
well as breed them up. We starve our
sheep, and consumers justly complain OF
our mutton.
Sheep need a variety of food, and their
condition will be improved by giving
them an occa sional variation. Clover hay
is the most valuable for sheep feeding.
Peas and oats may be fed once day.
Pea straw or oat straw is good for the
second ration. Roots of almost any
description can be given the sheep
occasionally and regularly, if they are at
hand Ensilage is one of the feeds that is
not well known yet in the west, yet it is
one of the best sheep foods in existence
Formers GUIDE.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
KlOndike Gold.

A pamphlet entitled Klondike and the
Yukon Gold Fields has been issued by
the Canadian Pacific Railway. 1t is re.
plete with the most interesting matter in
regard to this new country that is now
attracting such widespread attraction. In
addition, information of miscellaneous,
but useful, character is fully given where
by one contemplating going to this new
Edorado may learn exactly what provis-
ions, what clothing, what hardware, camp
outfits, ect., should be taken to insure
success and riches. furthermore full
timetable is included in this pamphlet,
showing the best methods of reaching
the far Northwest. There are also many
items of the latest and most valuable news
that will be of great interest to anyone
contemplating starting for the Gold
Fields. If you are interested in the SUBJ
ject, copy may be obtained free of
charge, at 1877 Washington Street, Bos-
ton, Mass.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

One of the simplest and best RENE
dies for inflammation or strain is to
battle the eyes i'll warm water. Another
good remedy is solution Of salt and
water made by putting teaspoonful OF
fine table salt into a half pint of water.
Let it boil, and when coid strain it, re-
moving any particles or sediment, Put
ting this on the outside of the lids is
simply waste of time. The eye should
be opened, the lids drawn back, and the
inflamed portion touched with Il camels
hair brush dipped i'll the salt water.
Outside applications do not reach the
seat of the uilment. A teaspoonful OF
boracic acid in half pint of water pre-
pared in the same way is excellent. Ii
there are granulations and very serious
Inflammation, boil teaspoonful of
alum in pint of water until it is dis
solved, then strain or filter as described
and apply with camel's hair brush
several times day. This is one of the
most efficacious of remedies. - New
York Ledger.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
To Make Small Farms Pay.

Small farms can be made to pay if
properly utilized. One farmer in New
York State who has but twenty-five acres
keeps two horses, one COW and raises two
pigs each year, growing all the food re-
quired to support his family and stock,
making poultry and eggs his specialities.
try, claiming tina it was less work than
hauling milk to the railroad station in
winter. and that eggs bring good prices
every year. The result was that he made
fair profit, while farmers with large
farms claimed to have made nothing.
When farmers decide that poultry can be
made leading object on farms, and not
given up to women children, they will
have source of income better than many
others and for every month in the year.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
The Saloons aud Prosperity.


A week or two ago the writer was in an
Iowa town Of 500 inhabitants. 1t has
two saloons and two drugstores. The
saloons pay mulct tax of $1,000 each,
the drugstores none, During 1896 these
two saloons "took in" $40, 900 from sales
by the glass and key. 1t is estimated
that the drugstores half as much more,
making the net sum OF $40. 900 paid out in
one year for drink in this little town. Now
if saloons "help the trade of a town"
this town ought to be booming, but it is
not The best store buildings in the
town are vacant. Stocks are run down ;
the hotel man wants Ito get out, and
hard times is the subject of fourhfths of
the conversation of residents and strang-
ers. Ten miles from there is dry
town." both surrounded by the same class
of population This latter town has its
best buildings occupied, its poorer ones
vacant. Paint is used freely and often.
Sidewalks are repaired, and travelling men
will tell an inquirer that in the dry town
merchants discount their bills, and in the
wet one ask extensions-not in all cases,
but many. In the wet town one merchant
told the Looker-On he frequently knew of
some farmer GLOWING in enough in one
day at the saloon to pay an account due
him for over year. Now, If the writer,
not being prohibitionist, can see this
so plainly, what an argument could some
professional prohib." get in this wet,
soggy town.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
Care of Early Lambs.

January and February are the months
during which the very early lambs will
come, and as they will bring from S. to 81
when or 3 months old, if we'll bred.
every lamb lost means large reduction
in the profit. 1t may be less trouble to
the farmer to allow the ewes an open shed
and yard well Uttered, but it will be more
economical to have a warm place for each
eve, where but few are together. or where
single eve can have pen to herself
until she brings forth her lamb, as the
first twenty-four hours on cold day may
so affect the lamb as to distroy it or
render it weakling. Young lambs are
tender at first, but if the farmer will try
to be with the ewes, and look after them
until the lambs are strong, he will save
them. and the good prices for his labor.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
Children and Sweethearts.

often wonder if mothers of little
daugters appreciate what they are doing
when they jest with them about their
"little sweethearts" and "beaux.n There
is SO much of this kind of talk that the
clear eyed listener sickens in the hearing.
While boys and girls are young they
should be comrades, playmates, friends /;
but the possibility of tenderer relation
existing should never for moment enter
the heads of inpo children. When
Mabel's mother speaks of twelve. year-old
Jack as her "beau," and the little girl
tlushes with self-consciousness or with
anger, the irreparable wrong has been
done. She will never again regard Jack
as the jolly boy who was "great fun. :"
The bloom has already begun to come off
the peach. The longer boys and girls
are kept in ignorance of the fact that they
can be anything but dear friends the
happier they will be. They cannot help
knowing that grown men and women love
and are given in marriage, but the
grown up" period seems very far off to
them, and those who love them should
keep them children as long as possible.
They can be children but once -Harbey'S
BaSar.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

Don't make your boy do work that you
couldn't do yourself.
Don't stand idle because you can't get
your price. Half loaf is better than a
whole loafer.
Now is good time to start an agri-
cultural library on the cooperative plan.
1t should include both books and papers.
Every farm neighborhood may have a
small one,
When cow gets off her feed, change
of diet is the proper remedy. Every
farm cellar ought to have few stock
beets mangels or other roots to be fed
out as appetizers occasionally.
The young stock ought to be well fed,
supplied with plenty of bedding, and
should not be kept in draught.-lRaSS-
achnSettS Pionehman.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
The Manure Problem.

What to do with manure in winter de-
ponds largely on the severity of the sea.
SOD. To haul it on frozen ground and
spread it over the surface will result in a
large portion of it being carried off
by rains. In this section it happens that
occasionally warm spell results. If the
ground will permit of SO doing, the man
ure may be spread on plowed ground, and
then worked into the soil with first cul-
tivator and then harrow. following with
field roller. Should the weather be-
come cold, and the ground freezes. the
manure will be made fine by frost, and the
rains will dissolve the soluble matter to be
absorbed by the earth.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
The Great Pie Question.

(Coi T. ". Hiegfnson IN the Ft6,aa,)
atlantic
once heard talked over between two
respectable ladies, says Col. t. w
Higginson in the February Atlantic,
some disrespectful remarks of mine on
the American pie. had said in lecture
that the average pie of the American rail-
way station was something very white
and indiges,ble at the top, very moist
and indigestible al the bottom, and with
untold horrors in the middle | had
given this lecture at Fall River, Mass.
and was returning by way OF the steam
boat to Providence, when heard one OF
my neighbors ask the other il she heard
the lecture.
mo" she answered, 81 didn't. But
Miss Jones, she come home that night.
and she flung her hood right down on the
table, and saws she, There says she,
MIR. Jones, I'm never goin, to have
another o. them mince pie, in the house
just as long as live, says she. There
was Sammy says she, he was sick all
last night, and | do believe it was nothin'
In all the world but just them mince pies,
says She"
"Well," said the other lady, slow, de-
liberate parsonage, al do suppose that
them kind of concomitants amt good
things"
Here the conversation closed, but Mr..
Weller did not feel more gratifed when
he heard the Bath footmen call a boiled
leg of mutton a "swarry," and wondered
what they would call roast one, than /
when my poor stock of phrases was re-
inforced by this unexpected polysyllable.
Instead of wasting so many words to de
scribe an American railway pie, | should
have described it, more tersely, as 'con.
comitant.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

To what extent the government touch
es the private life of citizen of the
United States is shown in IA very striB-
ing way by Professor Eugene VAN
baugh of the Harvard Law school i'll an
article in The Atlantic Monthly. From
the time that a man rises, all through
his business and social activity of the
day until he goes to bed again, the gov
eminent touches him at every step, pro-
viding for him, regulating him, telling
him what he may and what he may not
do, until there seems hardly the neces-
sity to discuss increasing the scope of
government, SO rapidly is it becoming
wider and wider under the natural tend
Bnoy of the times.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

The Indianapolis Journal makes some
very sensible remarks which are as ap
plicable to Maine as to Indiana, and we
bespeak for the following extract from its
editorial careful reading by our young
farmer readers. The tendency of young
men born and reared on farms to leave
the country for towns and cities is GER
tainly an unhealthy movement in large
sense and Improbable to many of those
who embark in it. Properly and steadily
followed, there is no safer business than
farming, nor any more certain to yield
satisfactory results. In very many
instances they who abandon it for city live
to regret the change. The farmers insti-
tutes and farmers themselves ought to be
able to develop higher interest in the
occupation and more of a certain sort OF
esprit de corps among those who follow
it.n
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

Whereas Stanton Day did, on the eth day
OF July, A. d. 1897. mortgage to the undersign-
ed, the Messalonskee National Bank Of Oak
Maine, q lot of four foot wood, being about
$50 cords, hauled to the mill OF the Moosehead
Pulp & Paper Company in "Solon," Maine, by
Kennebec River. and east OF the track of the
Somerset Railway, to secure the payment Of Q
certain note for $2500, dated the 9Th day Of
Bank; whereas the condition OF said mortgage
Is broken.
Notice is, therefore, hereby given Of its in
tentiOn to forecloee on said mortgage for
breach Of the condition.
Oakland, Me-, Jan. 8, 1888. 3w2
Messalonskee National Bank,
]. Z. HARRIS, Cashier.
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Messengers Notice.
STATE OF MAINE.

SOMERSET 50: COURT OF INSOLVENCY.
In the case OF Theodore B.Weston of Madison
Insolvent Debtor.
This is to give notice that on the l4th day OF
Jan. A. d. 1898, q warrant in insolvency was
issued out OF the Court OF Insolvency for said
County OF Somerset, against the estate Of
said Theodore b. Weston, OF Madison adjudged
to be an insolvent debtor on petition OF said
debtor, which petition was filed on the l4th day
of Jan. A. d. 1898. to which date interest on
claims is to be computed. That the payment
OF any debts to or by said debtor, and the
transfer and delivery Of any property by him
are forbidden by law. That meeting OF the
creditors Of said debtor, to prove the ir debts
and to choose one or more assignees OF his
estate, will be held at a Court Of Insolvency
to be holden at the Probate Court Room in
Skowhegan, in said County, ON Tuesday, the
1 tn day of Feb. A d. 1898 at one O'Clock in the
afternoon.
Given under my hand the date FIRST above
written. 2w3
FRANK l.. HARDING, Deputy Sheriff,
as Messenger of said Court Of Insolvency
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
Hard Cider.

There is probably no kind of drink that
is more dangerous to the temperance
cause then cider after it has begun to
ferment. The combination of alcohol
with the malic acid of the apple is es-
pecially bad for digestive organs The
sweet cider, for the sh TT time it remains
sweet. is nice pleasant drink. But so
soon as fermentation begins it should be
turned into vinegar as soon as possible.
Warming little of this to near blood
heat, and pouring this with some yeast
into the barrel, will make it into vinegar
very quickly.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
George Eliot.

Much surprise has been expressed at
the keen sense for business shown in
the letters of George Eliot quoted in
Mrs. ELEPHANTS book about the Black
woods. But it turns out that the letters
were really dictated by George Henry
Lewes, who was an able business man
and looked after her affairs SO closely
that, in spite of the comparatively
small bulk of her work, she left large
fortune behind her, all of it earned by
her pen during career of 3 years.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

o. w. o. Hartman, when sheriff of
Tyler Co., w. Va, was at one time al
most Frustrated with cold. He used
Champerlain's Cough Remedy and was
so much pleased with the quick relief
and cure 1t afforded him, that he gave
the following unsolicited testimonial !:
$40 all who may be interested, wish to
say, that | have used Cham oerlain's
Cough Remedy and find 1t invaluable for
coughs and colds" For sale by Horatio
w. Cushing, druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
From Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Augusta,
waterville Skewhegan and BANGOR.

0sFlsg stations; at which trains will stoI
on signal or notice to Conductor.
twin not stop except 70 leave or taxi Freight.
MIXED train between North Arson and Bips ham.
W. N. AVER 5UPr.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mercer, (and Electric
Cars to and from Skowhegan.) At Arson foi
Sawyer's Mills, (Starks);
No. Arson, for North and West New Portland
Dead River, Flagstaff and Eustis. At BiAghan
tor Forks, Moose River, Mayheld, Kingsbur,
and Abbott.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
Farm Notes.

A desirable rent for small family
Apply at SIMPSONS corner drug store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

STATE OF MAINE-SoMERsRr COUNTY
The following Bills OF Cost were allowed at the
december term OF the s. j. Court, 1897
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
Somerset Railway.
CHANGE OF TIME
Commencing Oct. 4th, 1897.

Trains will run ~ follows, connecting at Oak.
land with Maine Central Railroad Trains to AND
from Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Watervillt
Augusta, Gardiner. Bath Skowhegan and Ban
gor.
For Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Wsterville
AnEustA. SkoWheKAn and BANGOR.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
BILLS OF COST.

STATE OF MAINE SOMERSET COUNTY.
The following bills of cost were allowed at tn,
September term of the S. j. Court, 1897.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27

STATE OF MAINE-soMERsEr COUNTY.
The following Bills of Cost were allowed at the
December adjourned term of the C. c. Court
1897.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-01-27
STATE OF MAINE-soMERsEr COUNTY.

The following Bills of Cost were allowed at the
August adjourned term of the C. c. Court, 1897.
I.aE.Ho q ], Rnn &c &c
The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-15

insufficieutly nourished Improper, insuf-
hcient nourishment is starvation.
When a mans head aches il is because
the tissues of the brain do not receive
sufficient nourshme mt from the blood, or re-
ceive impure and unhealthy nourishment.
When man gets nervous and sleepless, 1t
means that the blood is not properly nour
ishing the nerves When his skin breaks
out with hlotches and pimples and erup.
tions, il means that the skin Is being fed
upon the impurities of the blood. Almost
every known disease is primarily due to
improper nourishment through the blood,
which is the life stream. Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is the greatest
of all blood makers and purifiers. 1t gives
edge to the appetite corrects all disorders
of the digestion, makes the assimilation OF
the life giving elements of the food per
feet. invigorates the liver promotes secre-
tior and excretion. and vitalizes the whole
body. II makes firm. muscular flesh, but
does not make corpulent people more cor
pulent 1t cures qs per cent. OF all cases
of lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and
kindred affections, which, II neglected,
lead up to consumption. II is the best OF
all nerve tonics and restoratives. Kept by
all medicine dealers
I was taken i'll in February lso7 with head
ache aud pain in my back. writes II taddis
ESQ Of an South I street Tacoma Wash. "
called IN a doctor and he came three times. He
said was bilious but kept getting worke /
took Is cough 80 that could not sleep. only by
beng pTopped up in bed. My lungs hurt me
and got so poor that was iust skin and bone
thought was going to die. used two bottles
OF pr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and ii
made me sound and we'll. II saved my life
No remedy relieves constipation so
quickly and effectively as DR.. Pierce's s
Pleasant Pellets. Thew never gripe.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-15

Bulletin No. 6 of 1893, issued from the
office Of Secretary B. Walker McKeen of
the State Board of Agriculture, has been
received and gives the crop record for
the year for Somerset county. viz:
Amount of hay crop, ll3 per cent.
Condition of fruit, 81 per cent. Condi-
ton of potato crop, rs per cent. Condi-
tion of corn crop: Sweet, 81 per cent;
yellow, "a per cent. Comparative acre.
age: Sweet, SO per cent; yellow, 20 per
cent. Potatoes have rusted quite badly,
but have not rotted TO any extent"
The general average for the State is:
"Amount of hay crop, l15 per cent.
Condition of fruit, 56 per cent. Condi-
ton of the potato crop, 81 per cent.
Condition of corn crop: Sweet, "a per
cent yellow, 95 per cent. Comparative
acreage of each: Sweet, % per cent;
yellow. 80 per cent. Some rust on po-
tatoes is generally reported throughout
the State, aud little rot in most coun-
ties
The Maine Farmer makes = summary
of ;he situation in the State in which 1t
appears that the lay crop was the larg-
est in the history OF the State, and the
farmers say that they never knew more
excellent fall feed for the stock. Grain
of all kinds has ripened well, and there
will be heavy yield per acre. In only
comparatively few sections of the State
is there reported a shortage in grain.
The corn outlook is excellent, and the
canning factories are all running in full
blast. The apple crop of the State will
fall far below the average. In the great
apple producing sectious of kennesec,
Franklin, ndroscoggin and south
eastern Oxford, the yield is very light.
The crop outlook this year is such that
the farmers feel that the year is to be a
prosperous one TO them.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-15
HOme-Seekers Excursions.

On the first and third Tuesdays in
September and October, 1898, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway
will sell round-trip tickets good 2l
days. from Chicago, Milwaukee and
other points on its line, 70 a great many
points in South and North Dakota, and
o;h-r western aud other southwestern
states at about one faie. Take trip
and see the wonderful crops and what
an amount OF good land can be purchas-
ed for little money. Further Dforma-
ton as to rates, rou es,. prices of farm
lands, erc., may he obtained on applica-
tion to any coupon ticket agent or by
addressing the following named persons :
w. E. Powell, General immigration
Agent, 4l0 Old Colony Bldy., Chicago;
Fl. F. Hunter, immigration Agent for
South Dakota, 29l Dearborn Street :,
Chicago, or Geo. II. Heatford, General
Passenger Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
3137
The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-15
A CRITICAL Time
During the Battle of
Santiago.
SICK OR WELL, A RUSH NIGHT
AND DAY.

The Packers at the Battle of Santiago de
Cuba Were All Heroes. Their Heroic
Efforts in Getting Ammunition and Ra-
tions to the Front Saved the Day.
P. f. Butler OF ptck-trsin NJ. 3,
writing from >anriago. De Cuba. on
July 23d, say: We Ii had diarrhora
in NOR. or less viii, nj form, and when
we landed we had no lime 10 see q
doctor. for II WAS case of rush and
rush night and day TO keep the troops
supplied with ammunition and ratious,
but thanks 10 Chamherlain's Col C,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, We were
able TO keep ut work and keep our health ;
in fact, | sincerely heiitve that NJ one
critical time this med cine was the in =
direct saviour Of our army, for If the
packers hid been unable 10 work there
would have been no way of getting sup
plies 10 the front. There were no roads
that wagon train could u.s.. Ny com
rade and my self hat the good fortune tt
Lax in n supply of this medicine for our
pack train before we left Tampa, and
know in four cases it absolutely saved
life"
The above letter wes written 10 the
manufacturers uf this medicine, the
Chamberlain Medicine Co., Des MONIES,
Iowa. For sale by Horatio W. Cushing,
Skowhegan, ana Sullivan Newton,
Jackman.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-15
TO CERTAIN SUBSCRIBERS.

There are several hundred subscribers
on the REPORTER list who are owing us
nine dollars or more whom We have re-
peatedly and politely asked by letter to
pay US the amount due, and have advised
hem if they could not pay in full to pay
US in part and that it would be much
better for them to pay US than to settle
with an attorney or with a collection
agent We dislike to fill the columns Of
the REPORTER with statements of this
kind and have refraned from doing so,
except to very limited extent. and now
merely wish to state TO the above de-
scribed subscribers who are our debtors
to the amount named above, that unless
they adjust these accounts with MS on or
before October Ist we shall feel obliged,
without further notice, to allow some one
else to collect them.
Please remember that all subscription
accounts OF So 90 and upward will be
placed in an attorneys hands October Ist
unless there shall, at that time, be good
reasons for doing otherwise. 6w33
J. O. SMITH & Co.