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The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Put Out the Camp Fire.

From the turning of the leaves until the
time when the snow falls there are few
days on which a spark dropped in the
woods may not begin forest nle.
Throughout this season every one who
takes vacation with pipe, camp kettle
and gun is distinct menace to the wei
fare of the forest which he visits, and the
only return he can make for the pleasure
which nature gives him is to take all posi-
bic care and precautions against the dan
gers which attend his presence. Ihls Is
the least he can DO and is only duty I'M
posed by >decency. Nor is it diihcuit
one, for the necessary precautions are
few and simple. Among the hundreds OF
sportsmen and campers who are already
securing the woods from the southern APP
palachians to northern Canada and across
TO the region of the Rockies, there is none
to whom they should prove burdensome.
In regard TO camp-fires-proba6ly the
greatest source of danger-the following
set of rules from a recent editorial IN
Forest and Stream is clear and complete
Never build d fire where its flames can
communicate to grass OF brush or branches
OF trees.
"Never build fire where the spark can
be carried to bush, trees. leaves or grass
.'Never build fire without first noting
the lay of the land with respect to control
ling ii after it is kindled.
"Never leave camp for the day with the
fire TO burn unattended. Extinguish IT
thoroughly.
Under no circumstances, when NOV
ing camp, leave the hre 10 ourn Vi
shoulder Put it out
TO extiuguish fire build upon the
ground where there is turf, the roots OF
trees of other vegetable matter in the soil
pour water upon it until the ground is
thoroughly soaked; then dig around about
and well outside the circumference, throw
ing the earth in toward the centre, and
then wet it down again"
To this may be added:
Never use inhammable wads In gun.
Make sure that match is cold before
you throw it away.
Never empty pipe near forest litter.
Whoever observes these precautions
may feel reasonably sure that he at least
has had no hand in whatever obstruction
the autumn season may bring. Though
to observe them is the least camper can
do, it is also, in most cases, the most;
and when the most is so little one is under
a double obligation not to shrink.-1he
Forester.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Turf, Farm and Home: On a recent
ride through a southern Somerset town
for miles, every house was neatly paint
ed and the grounds carefully picked up
and kept In order. The only break In
the general neatness of the district was
at house located cid to the road with
handsomely kept yard on the south
side, while on the north side quite near
the house and In plain sight from the
road was pile Of rubbish which looked
as though 1t had been the receptacle of
broken fencing, limbs of fruit trees and
the like for good many years. This
unsightly pile was the one break In a
ride of several miles through section of
Maine unsurpassed for well titled farm
and handsome and we'll kept buildings,
and its rarity made 1t all the more OBJ
noxi0us and uncalled for. The time was
when such piles were so common, even
In the best portions of our State, that
they were passed by as the general
thing, rather than the exception, and
caused no comment, but fortunately that
time has passed and now the best rural
districts are kept as neatly as the village
and city homes, thus adding another
attraction to life upon Maine farms.
Let the good work 60 on. 1t can hardly
be overdone. At least there are good
many sections of Maine where there is
no immediate darger of 1t.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Maine. and especially the forest region
of Maine, is at present receiving very
favorable consideration as place for the
cure of consumption. For some years
some physicians outside of this State have
been sending patients with this disease
into the Maine forests with good result.
and an associ ',ion whose purpose it is to
advice cansumptive patients in regard TO
suitable places for the climatic cure OF
their malady, is now turning Its attention
seriously to Northern Maine. That is a
sensible move to cure our consumptives
in our own New England climate. es-
pecially those who are not well to do,
whether they send them to Maine or not.
II is move which is in line with the
teachings of the sanitariums which has
done much to overthrow many former
notions about the climatic requirements
for consumptives Tile Sanitary In
S9eCteT,
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Don't trifie with me, Miss McCur-
dy" pleaded the young man desperate,
ly. wait till have finished Do
need to tell YOU. after all these weeks
how completely aud absolutely your
image fills my heart? Have you not
seen? DO you not know? Have not
betrayed myself by my looks. by the
tones of my voice, by the eager joy
that lights up my features whenever
you appear? Must | put in words the
feelings | can no more disguise than
can
"Mr. Whitgood." interrupted the
young woman. are you in earnestT'
"Glycerine Mccurdy." he said. draw
ing himself up with injured dignity,
do you think I'm doing this on bet?'
Chicago Tribune.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Somerset drops.

The latest board OF agricultural bulletin
gives the following rating for this county.
Amount of hay crocp, 81 per 'ent. Con-
dtion of Fruit, 81 per cent. Condition
of the potato crop, 50 per cent. Condi-
ton of the corn crop sweet, sc per cent ;
yellow. 81 per cent. Potatoes are rusting
but not rotting to any extent.
The general average for the State is
Amount of hay crop, 7o per cent Con-
dtion of fruit, 96 per cent. Conditions
of the Potato crop, rs per cent. Condi-
ton of the corn crop: sweet, So per cent ;
yellow, 81 per cent. Rust on potatoes Is
quite genarally reported but rot does not
prevail to any great extent.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Sulphur VIII Put Out Fires.

Grant me space in your paper to make
more generally known fact which has
been known to me many years and doubt
less to others, that sulphur thrown into
the fire OF a stove. furnace or fireplace will
instantly extnguish the fire in chimney
or fue. II small bag or parcel Of sui
phur. say three or four ounces, were kept
In handy place and used when needed
as directed above. it might be the means
of saving property and perhaps life LET
ter in Ne70 York Times
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
How to Prevent Group.

We have two children who are subject
to attacks of Group. Whenever an at
tack Is coming on my wife gives them
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and 1t
always prevents the attack. 1t is a
household necessity In this county and
no matter what else we run out Of, 1t
would not do to be without Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. More of 1t is sold
here than of all other cough medicines
combined.--J. M. NICKLE, of Nickle
Bros, merchants, Nickleville, Pa. For
sale by II. W. Cushing, Skowhegan, and
Sullivan Newton, Jackman.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

HOMEMADE CORN CUTTING SLED
Ing against the bottom as the sled
passes over them after cutting the
stalk will wear the bottom.
In making our knives we took an old
six foot crosscut saw and cut into two
equal parts. Each blade was taken TO
the grindstone and the back ground to
an edge We were careful to grind
only one side. and this the one on each
blade that would be underneath when
the small end was extended toward the
front. AT first we tried mailing the
blades TO the platform. but soon found
that this was not sufficient to hold
them securely. When they were bolt
ed with round headed bolts. with heads
beneath. ii was much more satisfac-
tory. In order to hold the blades there
should be at least six bolts through
each blade.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Banker Routs "A Robber,

J. r. Garrison, cashier of the bank of
Thornville, Ohio, had been robbed of
health by q serious lung trouble until
he tried DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption. Then he wrote: ut is
the best medicine 1 ever used for a
severe cold or bad case of lung trouble.
l always keep bottle on hand" Don't
suffer with coughs, colds or any throat,
chest or lung trouble when you can be
cured 80 easily. Only SOC and s1.0O.
Trial bottles free
At F. II. Wings Drug Store.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Waahington. ID. @

Warrington, ID. q.
Genesee Pure Food Co, LIE Roy, N. ";
Gentlemen:-Our family realize SO mucl
from the use Of GRAIN-O that ! feel I mus
people are interested in their health and the
welfare Of their children they will use nj
other beverage. have used them all. blu
GRAIN-O have found superior to any, fo
the reason that II is solid grain.
Yours for he alth. G. F. MYERS.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Things grow very fast in the short
Arctic summer AS soon as the snow
melts off in many places the ground is
covered with vine which bears small
berry something like huckleberry. par
wong it is called. 1t is sour and has a
pungent taste. and the Indians leave off
work and 60 porwong hunting. examining
themselves with the berries.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Old fashions in dress may be revived,
but no old fashioned medicine can re-
place Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Dsrihoea Remedy. For sale by Fl. w.
Cushing, Skowbegsn, and Sullivan New
ton, Jackman.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

AN.Flag stations; At which trains will aI0p
on signal or notice to Conductor.
sStops only to take or leave Freight.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mercer, and Sm alou
field and with Electric Cars to and , itu.
Skowhegan. At Arson, for 6swyers M Ma't
(Starks). At No. Arson, for North ana W." ia
New Portland. Dead River, Flagstan1 ,s ~.
Eustis: At Bingham for Forks, MOOSE h'''
Msyfeld, Kingsbury and Abbott.
WI AVER SUPr
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

uUMORS, boils, pimples and all
n eruptions are due to impure blood,
and by purifying the blood with
Hoods Sarsaparilla they are CURED.
A little salt added to an egg cools 1t, and the
egg consequently beats into froth more
quickly.
Richard: "Whst's got into Billy? He goes
ID bathing bslf-s. dozen times every day. ;
Robert: "The doctor advised him to take
drink of whiskey upon coming out OF the wat
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
9 IN[TRME1&3
Of Trains In Effect
Juno 26th, 1900

Trains leave Skowhegan as foliows:60 A. M.
Mondays only for Waterville, Oakland, Winth
rop, Portland and Beston;-s.05 N. for all
points " est also to Bangor. vanceboro. st:
Stephen, Houlton, Woodstock, 81 John and
Halifax $50 P. M. for Waterville Oakland,
Bingham, Lewiston. Augusta, Gardiner and
Brunswick, Portland and Boston, Dexter!
Dover and Foxcroft, Greenville Bangor, Old
Town, Patten and Houlton via & A. R. R.
Mattawam keag; $40 P. N (mixed) for Water
vile enabling passengers TO take night Pull
man for Portland and Boston.
VILE, daily except Mondays:-lo.So A. M.
Passenge from Portland, Oakland, Wstervflle,
Augusta and Bangor;-4.60 p. M. from all
points ;--8.55 P. M. Saturdays only from bos-
ton, Portland, Lewiston. Winthrop and Water
vile.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Superfiuous. Park: "I've just had my tel
ephone take n out" Lane: what for?' Parke:
my next door neighbor put one In"
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartc, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. II C. G. C. fail, druggists refund money.
A German doctor finds that only in one case
out of 10 are both eyes in good condition..
For Over Fifty Years.
MRS. WINsLow 8 SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over fifty 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 a bottle. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and
take no other kind. 1Y38
Many a woman ands on q pedestal because
she doesn't know how to get down.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve aud vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder worker. that makes weak men
strong All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
Many man thinks he is waiting for lead
ing Of Providence when he is really too lazy to
do any hustling for himself.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

Blood Poison
victim firmly within the the monster before the true nature OF the
swollen glands patches the mouth scalp ulcers on tongue
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10c or $50.
II C. c. c. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
A 80 cloth dipped in alcohol will clean
piano keys.
ut was almost a miracle. Burdock Blood
Bittels cured me of a terrible breaking out all
over the body. / am very grateful Miss
Julia Filbridge, West Cornwell Conn.
"Think-So" Method.-Markleigh: "Your
office seeris badly mussed NY. Have you no
janitor?" Bsrkleigh: I'VE have one but since
he became faith curist he has been give the
Office absent treatment"
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Beat for the Bowels

No matter what oils you, headache to can
Ger, you will never get well until your bowels
are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure
you without grippe or pain, produce easy natu-
raj NOV ements, costs you just 10 cents to start
getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy
Cath artic, the genuine, put up in mental boxes,
every tablet has c. C. c. stamped on it. Be-
ware of limitations. AS
Case in point She: Talked hole through
an iron pot! What an absurd expression!'
He: "Oh. don't know. | know man that
swore his way into q steel jail"
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
How Are Your Kidneyss
DR. Hobbs SparaQus pills cure all kidney ills. Sam
ME free Add Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or N. Y


DR. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills. sam
ple free Add. Sterling Remedy Co.. chicago or Ne T.
Working Together: "Dr. Dosem and his
wife seem to be in league together. don't theyf
"How SOP why he is trying to boom his
new dyspepsia cure. while she Is running a
cooking school,"
boon to travellers Dir. Fowler's Extract of
Wild Strawberry. Cures dysentery, diarrh9a,
seasickness, nausea. Pleasant TO take Acts
promptly.
sprin King OF coarse salt on the sidewalks
and driveways will destroy grass and weeds.
Only ono remedy in the world that will at
once stop tchiness of the skin in any part of the
body. Doan's Ointment. At any drug store, DO
cents.
AS Advertised Don't you hire any servants
at all to keep this hotel clean? My room Is In
awful dirty condition." complained he victim
OF the summer hotel lad" THAT is he fault
of the wind!" declared the proprietor. olandly !;
'you know we advertise: "Swept by ocean
breez 81"
Monarch over pain. Rurns, cuts, sprains,
stings Instant relief DR.. Thomas Eclectric
Oil. At any drug store.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-10-04
Many woman ands on pedestal because
she doesn't know how to get down.

Many q man thinks he is waiting for lead
ing Of Providence when he is really too lazy to
do any hustling for himself
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12
A MINING Poet.

up In Maine is q new book of verse
by a new poet, Holman F. Day, and is de-
scribed on the title page as Stories of
Yankee Life Told in Verse" Some OF It
is fairly good and some of II is pretty bad
suggesting the thought that contingent
OF the Coogler family may at some time
or other have settled in Maine and inter
married with the ancestors of Mr. Day.
But there really is a rugged strength
and vigorous movement about some OF the
verses which Justify their appearance in
so ambitious a form as book. There is
not much real poetry in them, but there
is good deal OF local color. They are II
sort Of cross between Will Carleton and
James Whitcomb Riley.
For instance, here is a character easily
to be recognized from Maine to Mexico,
but he is unpoetic:
EPHRua KEPT THREE BOGs
Ephrum Eels he had to scratch burned hard to
keep ahead.
But he always kept three dogs,
He couldn't keep dollar bill to save lis life,
they said,
But he always kept three dogs.
He said he might-havs been some one d he'd Nd
half chance
But getting grub from day to day Civ Ephrum
such q dance
He never got where he could <hed the patches of
bis pants,
But he always kept three dogs.
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Epbrum's young ones never looked as though they
was half fed,
But he always kept three dogs,
The house s;egld te 80 eo!d his folks s"id have
sa. 2.,;f,ip s,p' ...rre dogs
Ore w's r..t ~ sa.irr dos, 'z& two o: 'eia was
Their 80 ~ss III Of Satan; they was always
Till Peor:s dufSsa iasir picture in half dozca
towns,
They 'bnted Ephrums poll tax cause he was too
But EEpihirum kept his dogs.
How he scraped up cash to license EN- it amt
in Inc to say,
But l know he kept his dogs.
And when a suff'rin' neighbor ambuscaded 'eif
Eph swore
Then in a kind Of homesick way he hustled round
for more;
He struck a lucky bargain, and, by thunder, he
bought four!
Jes' kept on a-kccpin' dogs.
And here is another, in a different VEIN
It's the weirdly witching hour Of the woods
When the guide suspends the kettle in the ash
limbs crotch,
stirs the drovsy, drowsy embers till the coy
fire beams
And fickers, dance like gnomes and elves athwart
the glowing dreams
OF the sleeping townbred fisher who is stretched
with placid soul
On the earth in sweeter slumber than his town
couch cajole;
All, tits tough on bone and muscle, is this ehas-
ing after tun-
And sleeper gets to sleeping forty knots along
But the guide is up a-stirring- monstrOus shape
with haring torch,
Prodding up the doing fire fer the woods dog
watch"
And the slow. unelosing cyelids Of the startled
dreamer see
THIS dreadful apparition thrown in shadows on a
tree.
And his heart for just a second goes to skirrop
ing about,
As it topped when he was wrestling with that
fve-three-quarter trout.
But the ogre leaves the shadows, leans against a
And remarks, The waters bilin'; won't ye have
And he F wakes to night of the fsherman's
Afar the weird lit of the dolorous loon
Floats up from the heart OF the fair, velvet
A globaie of sound wirging slow in its fight,
As elin a note erome ever blew,
1t wells from the waters, "Ah-loo-hoo-ah-hoo-
o. spell Of the f,sesti o, glimmer and CLEAN
From the sheen OF the lake and the mst-breath-
ing streaml
Tho night and the stsrs and the dolorous loon
NdAe SIC slIelj Ot lle JUNE
The spruces sing the lyric of the woods dog
watch;''
The kettle as it bubbles in the ash-limbs crotch,
The rustic Of the spindles of the hemlock and the
pine,
The erackie where the licking tongues of rudy
fire twine,
Tie oboe, in the distance, Of the weird and lone
some loon;
G!ais chorus sings the lyric Of the blessed month
of june
There is a considerable range between
these two pieces, and the last quoted in
Gioates that with a little more attention
to foim the author could do much more
in the way OF nature poetry than he has
done Fair attention has never been
given TO the woods and mountains Of the
great New World, and the great American
nature poet, who shall breathe the spirit
of Emerson, with the perfection of style
found in Poe or Aldrich. and the large
originality of Walt Whitman--such a
poet is yet to come. (Boston: Small,
Maynard G. Co. sloo)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12
CURRENT VERSE.


Into the Great White Gate Of the North
- ne stately ships go sailing
here the waving flags of the cold strpar, forth
Ana The bitter winds are wailine
The sentinel iceberg mods and dips
The sun comes up from his long eclipse.
And the shining stars are paling.
The Ice King shouts ''You have marked the earth
With strength that is past denying,
But here alone from primeval birth
Have | watched the swift years flying.
Secure in the businesses of the cold,
The centuries watched ! built my hold,
With their eyes turned North in dying
"And viii you pass through the Great White Gate
That guards the realm o; my dwelling?
Shall before you vaSsal wait.
And bend TO your proud compelling?
Away! So long the wind shall blow,
The wonderful secret only know.
Shall never be yours Tor telling
But human courage and human viii
Shrink not from the undertaking,
And hopes high flood when the pulses thrill
Ebbs not, though the strength be breaking.
The ships still strain toward the distant North,
And life and yaor and love go forth
To the sleep that knows waking.
Yea, born with purpose that knows no fear,
And daring that asks glory.
Men leave Dehind what ia known and dear
And seek for the Ice King hoary.
Wrecks streyv the way Of the Great White Gatei
Unheard the tales of the grim North waitl
Oh, who shall bring US the story!
Curtis May, in the Youths Companion
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12
When the Circuit Rider Came.

In the backwoods Of Ohio in the days OF long ago,
When religion religion. not a dressy fashion
show.
When the spirit OF the Master fell as flames of
living FIRE.
And the people did the singing, not trained
artistic choir,
There was scarcely ripple in lies gently
flowing tide.
No events to draw the people from their daily
toll aside.
Naught to set the pious spirit Of the pioneers
afame.
Save upon the rare occasions when the eircuit
rider came.
He was usually mounted on the sorrisst of nags.
All his outfit for the journey packed in leather
And he'd travel with the Bible or the hymn book
in his hand.
Reading sacred word or singing Of the happy
promised land.
How the toiing wives would glory in the din
ners they would spread.
And how many hapiess chicken or a turkey
lost its head
By the cleaning chopper welded by the hand Of
For it wasn't very often that the circuit rider
came
All the settlement around us would be ringing
That there'd be meetin' Sunday, and we'd
taller up our shoes.
And we'd brush our homespun dress suits, pride
And we'd grease our hair rith marrow till it
shone like golden truth.
And the froeks of insey-woolsey would be donned
by the all the girls,
And with heated old fire pokers they would make
their corkscrew euTis;
They were scarcely queens of fashion, but were
lovely just the same.
And they always looked their sweetest when the
circuit rider came.
As preacher, holy Moses! how he'd swing the
living word,
How he'd draw the pious "brethrin' yet closer
to the Lord,
And he'd raise the hair OF sinners sitting on the
hackInost seat
With his fiery, lurid pictures Of the everlasting
heati
We have sat in grand cathedrals, triumphs of the
builders skill,
And in great palatial churches meath the or
gan's mellow thrill,
But they never reused within US such reverential
flame.
As would burn in that old schoolhouse when the
circuit rider came.
Denver post
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-12
Bernard shnw,s Latest work.

AN Unsocial Socialist" by C. Bernard
Shaw. will not come &C surprise to read
srs familiar with the works OF thai author,
because nothing could surprise them much
Mr.. Shaw never does the things one would
expect from an ordinary man.
Like plays Pleasant and Unpleasant"
the present work deals with situations and
characters entirely out OF the ordinary line,
but It is the forte OF the author TO ham
die the most extraordinary material in
Euch a way that 1t appears perfectly natu-
raj His hero and his heroine are both
unique in their way. but, given the char
Hcters as he concoiyes them, the working
put Of their motives and !nelina;ions Is
wholly logical and Inevitable.
The picture Of girls school, given in
tho first chapter, is a piece Of wonderfully
One work. Jane Carpenter, Gertrude Lind
BAY, and Agatha Wylie are all girlish types
familiar TO every student of the civilized
maiden, and they are portrayed with n
skill, delicacy. and intuItiye truth which
Is far beyond the power OF the average
masculine writer. These three women, as
they appear in the first chapter, raw school
girls. and as they are shown in the last.
women Of tho world In their several d.