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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

All the costumes of Vanity Fair,
which comes to the Grand Thursday, FRI
day and Saturday, January 20, % and 8.
were made by tailors. Strange to say,
Manager Huber always gets better effects
in the way of structure and color in
gowns from men than from women dress
makers. The plates were drawn by Cecil
Rogerson. who for years assisted in the
getting up of costumes for the Drury
Lane Theatre pantomimes and are consid-
cred very tasty. The arrangement of the
groupings and many dances, marches and
gavottes is by George Topack who was
one of George Fox's pupils Fox was one
of the first men who ever delighted peo-
pie with Humpty Dumpty in this country,
and it is said by old critics that he was a
better clown than the famous Revelle,
who created such a furore in the days
when our dads were gallery gods. There
will be a profusion of clever turns in the
olio and the extravaganza will be Of the
highest order. The curtain raiser is "A
Winter Carnival scene and gives opportn-
nifty for plenty of mirth, music and funny
incident. The finale. Creme de Menthe. -
is as good as the beverage from which it
got it's name.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

from a Baltimore paper, for buckwheat
cakes, is, according 10 my notion.
very good one; of course, a great deal
of the success lies in selecting good
buckwheat and also in the proper
browning, for these cakes only half
cooked are detestable, while theI nice.
brown, hot ones are the most delicious
things ever eaten.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

The engagement of the excellent Boston
Lyric Opera Company closed at the Opera
House last evening. with THE Beggar
Student" At the matinee the always pop
ular Bohemian Girl was sung TO large
and brilliant audience. The engagement
of this company has been distinct sue
cess. and they will be welcomed back,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

exciting and enlivening stage enter
tainment-
OF the work Of the star, Mr.. Cowles.
hardly too much can be spoken in
praise. BY common consent of press
and public, he stands at the very top
and of the Yankee character he has
made a patient and loving study, until
his stage picture of the old farmer
stands out as vivid and amazing nat
ural picture, with not one false note
of voice or gesture to mar it. Both
star and play deserve and will receive
the largest measure of popular ap-
prevail in our city. Seats should be
engaged in advance.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

Purity Butter is clean, wholesome
and delicious. 1t is now the most pop
ular on the market
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-22

army. His fiancee, Alice Adams, en-
deavors to dissuade him, but he is OBJ
durate.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

Alya Agee makes very interesting
potato note in the Ohio Farmer, He
says:
Another years experience confirms
my statement made a year ago in
The Farmer that one can control pota-
to scab by the use of rye sod, II this
Is done In the right way. This is the
fifth year of an experiment on two
acres of land that had become so in
tested with scab that a decent crop of
potatoes could not be grown. Five
successive crops Of potatoes have been
grown In this land, turning n rye sod
under each spring and the seed used
a portion OF the time has not been
wholly free from scab and has been
untreated with any solution to kill the
germs. but the crop Is above the
average in smoothness. The seed last
spring, coming from northern Ohio,
had more scab than seemed safe. but
so far as examination of the hills now
indicates the crop will be all right. II
the rye can be turned during a hot
spell In the spring, it makes the soil a
little acid, and that is fatal to the scab
germs. Two years of that treatment
practically cleaned the field"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
SWEET CORN FOR SEED.
How the Best seedsmen Dry It-Th'
Final Handling.


Final Handling.
II have had no experience with
sweet corn kiln dried and much doubt
whether ii could be so cured with
safety to it's negotiating properties.
The highest temperature | have ever
USED was that obtained by drying it,
one layer deep, on laths supported on
wire within q foot of the ceiling of a
room heated f~ stoves to tempera-
ture comfortable to a person working
there. My ordinary practice is to dry
the corn on lath frames, which rest on
horizontal strips of board secured to
uprights. These horizontal strips are
about eight inches apart, and the ears
of corn are spread on the laths one ear
deep. find 1t convenient to have
about eight of these layers, the first
one being sufficiently high from the
floor TO enaole cats to get at yermin.
ut Is the practice of some of my fell
low seedsmen to spread their corn
about two layers deep on the floor OF
their drying room and again on other
floors built above the natural one by
laying boards on carpenter horses.
making the distance between the floors
about 81 feet. sufficient to enable boys
to turn the corn occasionally by crawl
ing between the floors. When the va
riety is a late one, they expedite the
curing of it by stripping the husks
down mot off the ear as 1t stands In
the field as soon as the corn Is fully
grown. After two or three days, when
thus treated. 1t will tougher sufficient
ly to be beyond material injury from
blackbirds.
I'm my own experience. corn on the
floor is more likely than that dried
on laths to be injured when moisture,
either a rain or snow, fnds Its way
into the dryhouse. The great snow
storm of November last, | found, in
jured a portion of one lot so spread,
while that on the laths above the floor
cured perfectly. Rats and mice are
the great enemies of the scotsman,
and occasionally the red squirrel
claims his share and am always glad
to grant it to the interesting little fel-
low, for | find that he is superior to
the cat in keeping rats and mice away.
A single mouse will give an offensive
smell to a whole barrel of ears, where
In he differs from the squirrel tribe
The foregoing, from The Rural New
Yorker, is of special interest to any
one who contemplates drying sweet
corn for seed, coming, as it does, from
a veteran scotsman. who says further:
In the final preparing the corn for
the seed market every ear has to be
carefully passed through the hand,
some to be rejected because they were
too green when gathered, others to
have here and there a defective kernel
picked out, or the black remnants left
by the blackbirds shelled off, or ker-
nels injured near their butts where
rain soaked into the cobs before they
were gathered and at times ears
which depart from the type needed
are to be rejected. the various wastes
frequently amounting to a sixth of the
entire crop.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
A Somerset Farm.

Fl. B. Whipple, just below Bingham
village, has a grand farm OF one hun
dred and eighty acres, seventy of which
are interval along the Kennebec. The
buildings are In fine order with plenty of
shade about them. The barn is 46x84
feet, and well arranged, with granite
basement for manure storage, and a
wind mill pumps water into all Of the
buildings.
A new silo eleven by fourteen feet,
and twenty five feet In depth, has been
constructed this year and will be filled
with corn, of which five acres of the
yellow variety are grown.
Eighteen Jersey cows and ten heifers
with stock bull, son OF Sheldon OF
st. Lambert, and the team horses con.
stitute the stock OF the farm.
The butter is made at the farm and
sent to Massachusetts at the uniform
price of twenty-five cents the year
around.
The method OF marketing is somewhat
peculiar and we have found it practiced
by several other parties In the State.
The butter Is all sent to one man, he
himself being consumer and he divides
1t among such Of his neighbors or friends
as have arranged for it. By this ar
rangement the farmer Is able to whole
sale his butter at better price than the
wholesale market would return him, and
the consumers are able to get their but
ter at lower prices than II they dealt
with the retailer, and are certain of get
ting the same quality every time. But
ter is the most uncertain article of food
that the consumer buys, and the certain
ty Of obtaining 1t from the same party
every time, II that party Is an ex-
pert producer, proves most satisfac-
tory The party acting as agent for
the neighborhood of consumers is prob
ably remunerated by them for his
trouble in managing the shipments and
distributing the contents of the case, but
this Is not Of great moment, as every
individuals part Is wrapped separately
and marked with his name.
This method of marketing is worthy
of imitation by other good butter
makers and NAV be extended almost
without limit.-Er.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

Cut as soon as first pods turn yellow
or become light brown. If left too
long to ripen. the leaves will drop Off
thus injuring the value of the hay and
straw. The stalks will also become
too hard and tough to cut with NOW
err or reaper. An old fashioned self
rake or dropper Is the best. Put the
beans in small piles, containing good
forkfu each and allow them to cure.
They are b, Il thrashed from the field,
as this saves extra handling, the she'll
ing of the seed and prevents HEATH 8
If stored when not perfectly dried.
Care must be taken in feeding the hay
like corn fodder. for it is rich con-
densed food. advises American Agri-
culturist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
Alfalfa For Hog Pasture.

An Ohio Farmer correspondent asks
whether alfalfa can be sown in an
orchard for hog pasture which has
been ia timothy and clover and is all
heayed out, and Joseph f. Wing an
swers: Alfalfa undoubtedly makes the
best hog pasture of any plant that can
be grown. Whether the soil of this Or
chard will grow 1t or not is another
question. The clover having frozen out
may simply be the result of its having
died from old age, or 1t may be that
the soil is undrained and apt to heaye
things. If the soil is really rich and dry,
| should SOW the alfalfa without any
hesitation. Plow the land deep. throw
ing up an inch or two of new soil and
sowing the alfalfa along about the
middle Of April or later. Cover by roll
ing Be sure the land is smooth, so that
the mower can run over it easily, for
keeping it moved off two or three
times the first summer to destroy the
weeds and to invigorate the alfalfa by
the close clipping is the secret of sue
cessful alfalfa growing. Do not pas
ture it the first year. and Go not pas
ture it the second year too close. and
never allow the hogs to run on 1t when
the alfalfa is frosted, or the plants wi
be DESTROYED.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

doing it every day for years" said the man.
There are physicians who say in good
faith to those whose lungs are worn by dis.
ease 1t is impossible to help you" And
vet thousands of these impossibles have
been helped and healed by Dr. R V. Pierce
whose Golden Medical Discovery has
cured them, when the hollow cheek,
the rasping cough, the burning flush,
and night sweats have all pointed to
consumption
Ninety eight out of every hundred such
impossible cases can be cured says DR..
Pierce What makes him 40 sure Be
cause he has been curing just such cases
for more than thirty years. Golden Med
ical Discovery y is strength to the stomach,
life to the lungs nourshment 10 the nerves.
II makes new blood and the new blood
builds a new body-a AT temple of health.
There is nothing Just as good as " Golden
Medical Discovery, - so let no one deceive
you into accepting substitute
II beg TO state that have use0 three bottles OF
DR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery since my
correspondence with YOU and find great inn
provement in my case" writes Mr.. A. +. No
votnv Of New York N Y BOX G4l7l =" I feel
that | am in need Of no more medical assistance
When | started to take your medicine had
regular consumptve cough OF which l was
afraid and every body cautioned and warned me
very pale and had no appetite whatever. Now
my condition is changed entirely. | do not
cough at all. have gained eight pounds in weight,
have recovered my healthy color, and my appe-
tite Is enormous. | can recommend your medi-
cine as 1t Is a sure cure, no humbug as are
most other patent medicines
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
crop Conditions.

SOMERSET COUNTY: Amount of the
hay crop, 70 per cent. Condition of
fruit, 81 per cent. Condition of the
potato crop, 70 per cent. Condition of
the corn crop sweet, 81 per cent; yell
low, 90 per cent. Comparative acreage
of each: sweet, 81 per cent; yellow, "a
per cent. Potatoes are rusting quite
badly, but no rot Is reported.
GENERAL AVERAGE FOR THE STATE :
Amount of hay crop, II per cent. Con-
dition Of fruit, 30 per cent. Condition
of the potato crop, 80 per cent. Condl-
ton of corn crop: sweet, IS per cent ;
yellow, 81 per cent. Potatoes are gen.
orally reported throughout the State as
rusting quite badly, but not rotting to
any extent ec'y MeKeen's Bulletin.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

Cause and effect-Mr. Dukane 1.-THE Sui
MIR. Gaswell: Eyes; he wished to prolong his
reigny season."
Impossible to foresee an accident. Not impos-
sible to be prepared for 1t. DIR. Thomas Eclec-
trio OIL. Monarch over pain.
She: ~ wouldn't be silly, Algy, II I were
you" He: "Of course not, but not being me,
you can't help It,"
Don't let the little ones suffer from eczema or
other torturing skin diseases. No need for 1t.
Doans Ointment cures. Can't harm the most
delicate skin. At any drug store, 80 cents.
Still in the Ring. Truth rose again, with
great difficulty ~ am not crushed" it said
"but am pretty badly censored.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c
II C. C. G, fail to cure, druggists refund money.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

flNk hfADs OF "a u Llr LOW
plants when moisture and a cool at
mosphere are necessary for producing
a nice solid head The growth of the
plants was rank and leafy, and, al
though they did not head up early,
they did SO rapidly and uniformly as
soon as they began. There was scarce
~ variation in the whole patch.
They were solid. heavy, snow whites
In this connection some points on
the growing of fine cauliflower for ex-
hibition are quoted from the journal
mentioned:
When the heads begin to form, some
quick acting manure, such as nitrate
of soda In a liquid form, will be of ma
terial assistance When they attain
some size shading from sunshine is
necessary TO prevent the heads from
getting yellowish in color This is
easiest done by bending a few of the
outer leaves inward over the head;
just crack the midrib and the leaf will
stay in position without tagging or
whitening
Should they mature a day or two
ahead Of time, it Is better to pull them
up and store in a cool, dark cellar, in
serting the roots in moist soil to pre-
vent whiting, as II left to grow out of
doors they soon get past their best.
In any easy If cut the night before
they are needed and the cut ends in
serted in water. the heads will keep
fresh for a much longer period. Don't
cut too short or take off many Of the
leaves, though 1t is often necessary to
dress a few of the inner ones to show
the head to it's best advantage.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
Winter HOghOuseN.

The Illustration from The Country
Gentleman shows three hoghouses
built together of rails-common 10 foot
rails-an arrangement within the finan-
cial reach of any ordinary farmer AS
many houses as may be needed can be
made in row, thus saving rails. The
correspondent who furnishes the plan
says further:
The houses are double rail pens,
those on the outside being feet
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
Editors Awful Plight .

F. M. Higgins, editor Seneca Qn.)
News, was afflicted for years with piles
that no doctor or remedy helped until he
tried Buoklins AInioa Salve, the best
in the world. He writes two boxes
wholly cured him. Infallible for piles.
Cure guaranteed Only 25c. Sold
At F. II. Wings Drug Store.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

Employer "Confound tAst boy He's never
here when he's wanted!' Clerk: 81 think 1t
must be hereditary with him sir. His father
Is a policeman"
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathnrtic, cure constipation forever
l0c 25c. II C. G. C. fail, druggists refund money
Time to stop. Jack Bachelor: ~ suppose
you will name him after DeweyP" Ned Newly
wed: "Well-er-pp You see, Jane and
both think that Dewey has had honors enonghG
For forty years DR.. Fowler's Extract of Wild
strawberry has been curing summer complaint.
dysentery, diarrhRa, bloody fiux, pain in the
stomach, and 1t has n9ver yet failed TO do every
thing claimed for 1t.
Those loving girls. Helen: "See my new
engagement ring. Don't you think George
has good tsste?" Matte: HE certainly has
in the rlng."
For Over Fifty Years.
Mrs. WIEsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over fftv years by millions OF moth
ers for their children while teething, with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child seftens'
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie and
is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. 1t will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
sold by Druggists in every part OF the world
Twenty five cents g bottle. Be sure and ask
take no other kind. ly3S
Cause and Effect. Mrs smythe: ~ wonder
why old china is so rare and valuable" Mrs
De Jones: "Why, l thought you kept ser.
want"
Beauty Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all inn
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimpes, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, Csc, SOC.
Outward and Visible Sign. "There goes one
of those women's rights reformers." "How do
you knowf" Don't you see his wife is carry
ing the baby9"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
DRINK GRAlN.0

after you have concluded that you ought not
10 drink coffee. II is not q medicine but
doctors order II, because it is healthful, in
MIGRATING and appetizing. 1t is made from
pure grains and has that rich seal brown color
an d tastes Hike the finest grades of coffee and
cost about Il AS much. Children like 1t and
thrive on II because 1t is a genuine food drink
containing nothing but nourishment. Ask
your grocer for Grain o, the new food drink.
is aud 2oc.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

enters by the dark alley at the rear and
enters one of the darkened nests, the
darkness hindering egg eating. The
long cover can be raised for securing
the eggs. The front can be hinged to
let down. thus making 1t easy to sweep
out the nests to keep them clean.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

The great success of Chamberlain 8
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhma Remedy in
the treatment of bowel complaints has
made 1t standard over the greater part
Of the civilized world. For sale by II.
W. Cushing, Skowhegan, Sullivan New
ton, Jackman.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
CHAP AND COMFORTABLE.

CHAP AND COMFORTABLE.
square and those on the inside feet
square, thus leaving a space of u inch
es between the pens, which Is filed
with straw and compacted.
The openings are to the south. The
pens or houses are feet high at this
side and 2i2 feet high Mt the opposite
side, making a slant of 9 inches on the
roof. The pens are covered with straw
and fodder, several heavy poles being
put on for weights. In front of each
house is rail pen in which the SOW
and pigs exercise and eat. These
houses are cheaply constructed and are
warm, comfortable and convenient.
Any farm. | should think, has the
ready material of which these ineXpen-
sive houses are made. never use them
a second time, If a summer lntervenes.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

rangenent for n
poultry house.
The long box
with sloping top
is built against
one side of the
pen. about IL
inches from the
floor. The hen
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

He-Do you care for the old mas
ters?
She-No. prefer the society Of
young people These fussy old profess
ors always want to talk about snct
unlnteresting things.-Chicago Times
Herald.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21


The camphor laurel or camphor tree
of commerce is one of the best trees to
grow in Florida according to an Or
lando grower, who writes to The Farm,
Field and Fireside that it has never
been seriously injured by cold weather.
He says:
have several trees II years old now
40 feet high and IA to IS inches in
diameter one foot above the ground.
The growing of camphor trees in
groves is r%w becoming good bust
ness Thousands Of trees are being
planted every year. The present
process of cutting off part of the top
of the trees at time and distilling
the leaves and twigs does not in the
least injure the tree. When the trees
are years old, the grower takes off
about one-third OF the leaves and
twigs. This is done three or four times
year. New growth soon appears and
fills the space taken off.
Three year. old trees will produce
about one pound of camphor per year
and when Is or 20 years old will pro-
duce three to four pounds, The usual
custom is to plant about 300 trees per
acre, and as land is cheap and trees
are worth about $35 per 1000 q year
old 1t costs but little to make paying
camphor plantation. The cost of la
Dor cuts but small figure In the pro-
duction of camphor, and when the
question of manufacture and duty of
custom house is added to the imported
article 1t can readily be seen that cam
phor can be made to pay in Florida.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
Sexine Pills

Undue men with more bodily and mental
vipor. Danish weakness, cure nervous debil-
ity, lack of confidence varicocele, insomnia
and mind wandering, They help you main
tain self-controi and enable you to think
clearly All effects of past mistakes removed
and drains and losses FOREVER checked.
$Ioo per box 6 boxes tguaranteed) IS 90.
Book free. Peal Medicine CO., CLEVELAND y.
sold by Geo. E. sampson, Corner Druggist
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21

To Cure Constipation in One Week
To Purify the Blood in One Week
To Strengthen Nerves in One Week
To Cure Sick Headache in One Day
Take Cleveland's Celery Compound Tea
Csc, trial size free. II 1t fails to cure
your money will be refunded. a. W
Gushing, Skowhegan, Me.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21
Dissolution OF COpartnership.

The copsrtnership heretofore existing be-
tween r. w. Bowley and p. NJ. Porter, has
been dissolved by mutual consent. f. W.
Bowley retains the business, making all col
iectioRs and paying all the bills Of the firm.
Skowhegan, Me-, August 20, 1899. Sws5s
F. w. BOWLEY
+. M. PORTER.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-21


Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Eemedy.
READ HIS EDITORIAL.
| suffered with diarlf 9t for a loIg time
aud thought | WAS past being cur-1. |
had spent much time and money and
suffert so much misery that | had al
most decided to give up all hopes of re-
eovery and await the sult, but noti..
ing the adver isenent of Chan, berlain's
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
and al } some tes' .moDals stating how
wonderful cures h ID been wrought by
this e n.siy, decided to try 1t. After
tax ng a few do n l WAS entirely well of
that trouble, and | with to say further
to nv renders and fellow-suffers that l
am a male and hearty man today and feel
as we'll as l ever did In my lfe.-O. r..
MOORE. Sold nv H. w. Gushing, Show
hogan, Sullivan Newton, Jackman.