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The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
HEAVY SOILS.
nechnnicnI Condition Improved by

Mechanical COndttlcu improved ny
Proper Maturing. Cropping. Etc.
Nothing is more aggiavating, and
often Improbable. too than to have
heavy muck or clay soil retain the
moisture and frost so late in the spring
that early piowing is out of the ques-
ton. When other soils are in condi-
ton for blowing and cultivating. the
heavy soil Is muddy and sticky, so that
1t Is impossible to do much with IT, OF
course the advice of some would be TO
give up such soil, but when we consid-
er that the heavy muck soil Is often the
richest this would hardly do. What we
need is some intelligent plan to i'm
prove the mechanical conditions of
such heavy soils so they will be less
likely to give trouble. The chief fault
to be found with heavy soils Is that
there is not sufficient porosity in 1t TO
permit water to pereolate through 1t.
In other words, the natural drainage
of the soil is poor, and artificial drain
age Of some kind must be resorted to.
There are several ways to accomplish
4
coarse material to 1t that there will be
a breaking up of the sticky mass. This
will sometimes effect such a cure that
drains will not be necessary. But the
supply Of coarse material must be kept
up continuously and not abandoned
after one year. This would be rather
expensive and unsatisfactory If 1t were
not at the same time fertilizing and
improving the soil. 1t is by utilizing
the right kind of crops that we can I'M
prove thick. mucky or clay soil. First
of all, however, 1t may be necessary to
dress the land with lime In order to
sweeten the soil for the proposed crops.
The land has indigestion, as 1t were,
and fermentation has made 1t sour so
that some crops could not thrive on 1t.
Thirty or 40 bushels of water Stacked
lime to each acre may first be needed
to sweeten the soil so that ordinary
crops will grow.
There Is no better crop to raise the
first year than Indian corn, which can
be planted quite late in the season
when the soil has dried up The corn
roots are coarse feeders and will break
up the soil to large extent, and the
fall corn should be cut early, and a
crop of buckwheat or winter grain OF
some kind should be sowed, to be turn
ed under with the pillow the following
spring. By adding rough plant food to
the soil In the shape of manure the soil
will be further improved. In blowing
the subsoil should be broken up az
much as possible. BY cultivating each
year crops that have deep roots and
are coarse feeders we keep breaking
up the soil so that it has less chance
to get together into thick, compact
masses. There Is nothing better for
this than coarse manure and green
crops turned under every year. blowing
them down as deep as possible into the
subsoi, says an American Cultivator
writer.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05

The male butterflies have the proud
privilege of pocket, but the poke of
butterfly is wonderfully made. 1t is real
ly an extension OF the under wing folded
back on the upper side. but it is exquisite
ly colored and marked like the upper side,
so that it is very hard to detect, and no
one has yet discovered how ii is opened.
although. undoubtedly. the butterfly can
throw it open while he is flying.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
A RespDnSe

To the poems recently published In tn
REPORTER. emitted The Man with tn
Hoe" 1.-The Man behind the Plow" an
1.-The Man who Miks the Cow" an
composed by Amos Head, member c
Harmony Grange:
We've seen your verses, Brother Smiley,
Bout the man who MIXED the COW,
And they were pretty middling,
We're willing to avow.
But the man who ks the hoe,
And the man behi the pillow,
With the man who swings the scythe,
Is the same who milks the COW.
He's just an average farmer,
think you'll all allow.
T And l said, says |, 1.-THE fellow
That's busy, like the bee,
Although it wasn't stated;
Just as likely it was me,
But pray excuse my grammar,
II any fault you see.
And I've curious notion.
That seems too good to keep
To lenRthen out the ditty,
With the man who shears the sheep.
For the loss of milk and butter
Would make a modest racket,
To the howl that you'd be making,
Clothed in a cotton jacket,
With the weather down to zero
And twenty more below,
While facing northern billiards,
And wading through the snow.
With various other labors
Too NUMEROUS to repeat,
To scrape enough together
To make the two ends meet.
For what with cabbage worms.
Potato bugs and blight,
With all the combinations
Which he's OBLIGED to fight,
There's enough to keep him busy
From early morn till night.
So it's not strange he is STOPPING,
As he is growing older,
For he carries, like old Atlas,
All creation on his shoulder.
There's nsught but love and virtue,
That's been of any worth,
But what the sturdy toilers
Have taken from the earth.
And as they're busy scratching,
As experience all confirms,
The harpies follo1 after
And pick no all the worms.
They roost on all the paings,
With cruel beak and eye,
To rob the sons of labor,
As they are passing by.
o sad and weary toilers
Ifyou have any sense,
You'd gather all your forces
And drive them off the fence
Then emulate the wisdom
That's given to the crow,
And set guard to watch them
While you're hoeing out your row.
Then honor to the granger,
With wisdom, sound and deep,
Who, with his other duties,
Takes time to shear the sheep.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
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The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05

R-IP.A-S-S. 10 for 5 cents ct druggists. The!
Danish pain and proi0ng Life. Ono gives relief ~
matter what's the matter viii do you good.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
For Women.

DR.. Tolman's Monthly Regulator has brought
happiness to hundreds of anxious women
There is positively no other remedy known
to medical science, that win so quickly and
safely do the work. Have never had single
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remedy will do this. No pain, no danger, no
interference with work. The most diff cult
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MAN CO., ITO fremont st., Boston, Mass.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
9ELT!M I|k{l&3
Arrange ments of Trains In Effect
Dec 4th 1900

II is leave Skowhegan as fol ows; s.20 \
v. for all points est also to Bangor. Vance
boro. St. Stephen, Houlton, Woodstock, St.
John aud Halifax 1855 P. NJ. for Watervlle
Oakland, Bingham, Lewiston Augusta,
Gardiner and brunswick, Portland and Bos
ton, Dexter, Dover and Foxcroft, Greenville.
Bangor, Old Town, Patten and Honlton via B
A. X. r. & Mattawamkeag;-8. p NJ.
(mix, d. for Waterville enabling passepge TO
connect for Oakland and to take night Pull
man tor Portland and Boston.
ARRIVALS:-7.l5 A. M. mixed from Wa'e i.
Vile, daily except niays:-10.30 A. n,
Passenger from Portland, lewiston, Winthrop
Waterville, Augusta and Bangor;-b.10P \ =.
from all points.
GEO. F. EVANS, Vice Pres, and Gen. hef
r. u. BOOTHBY. General Pas'r Agent
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
BLOOD POISON.


gapd patches the
falling eyebrows
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
Somerset Railway

winter arrangement OF Trains
Effective Monday October 2, '99
frAins Will run rs follows, connecting at Oat,
land with Maine Central Railroad Trains o sno
from Boston, Portland, Lewiston, WsteTvilt
Augusta, Gardiner. Bath Skowhegsp aus Rai
gor
~CF fioston, Portland, Lewiston, ~ Attt'
augusta, 3kowheRAn and BanR"'
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05

II is computed BY statisticans that the
average annual rainfall in the United
States would. if BY some magical or
me hAnicaI device all gathered into one
place, exceed by -four times the volume OF
wafer in Lake Erie which has an area of
nearly ten thousand square miles. and an
average depth of two hundred feet. The
annu, rainfall is computed to be in
volume about the same as all the water in
the Mediterranean, and any person caught
in a storm without an umbrella may. if of
a philosophical disposition. take this fact
into account as evidence of the truth of
the ancient saying that nothing is really
SO bad but it might be consio erably worse
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
CATERPILLAR Eggs

Now is one of the times for the farmer
TO look over his orchard to find the nests
of caterpillar eggs around the ends of the
smaller ,wigs. In the plum orchard look
out for Aevery black knot They should
have been removed earlier than this In
the winter. for every live black-knot pro-
duces seeds or spores twice each year. in
the middle of the winter and in the middle
OF the summer. So that one good. heal
thy black-knot may in est your whole orc
hard with them. OF course any wise orc
HARDEST will cut and burn every one oi
them when seen. But there may be some
who do not know when they are specially
dangerous
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05
How Are Your Kidneyss

DR.. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills Sam
pie free. Add. Sterliny Remedy Co.. Chicago or N
King Leopold OF Belgium has been obliged
to give up all reading nd writing for the pres
ent because of troubl- with his eyes
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05

At Norridgewock, for Mercer. and Smith.
field land Electri, Cars to and from SHOWN.
GAM
At Arson n Sawyer's Mills, tstsrksl.
No. Arson, for North and West New PortShu
Dead River, Flagstaff and Eustis. At Ringhss
70. Forks, Moose River, Msyhed. RtnSshu
and Abbott.
w.M.AvBR SuPT
The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-05

MRs. WINsLow S SOOTHING SYRUP has been
sed for over fifty years by millions Of meth
srs tor their children while teething, with
perfect success. II soothes be child. self ems
ne gums. allays all pain. cures wind colo and
is he best r. medy for Diarrhoea. 1t will re-
ieve ne poor little sufferer immed lately.
4old by Druggists in every part of the world
twenty Eve cents a bottle. Re sure and a,
Tor Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup" and
take no other kind. lv3s
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
Bio Enterprise PAYING Quickly.

The main town on the Ell Paso e.
Northeastern railway is less than two
years old, the railways have been COM
pleted but recently, the sawmills have
but lately been constructed, the coal
mines have but begun to produce; yet
there is a heavy traffic outward in lum-
Der, coal and produce from the noun
tains. A second town is being started
at the terminus of the coal line, and
passenger and general freight business
is good. There is every prospect that
business will be doubled for the railway
within a year. But even on the basis of
present traffic the FL Paso & Northeast
ern will this year be able to pay inter-
est on it's bonds and declare a very
handsome dividend, breaking the early
record of any southwestern enterprise
of magnitude as to a quick and large
dividend. The Messrs. Eddy and their
associates have made no mistake in
choosing a field for operation. All New
MeXicans rejoice in the success of the
investors and hope they may continue
to be amply rewarded for their enter
prise. The results achieved in this in
stance should help to secure the under
taking of similar work in several other
parts of New Mexico.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
Fuel and Factories.

El Paso Is fortunate in having New
Mexico to depend upon for coal for do
mestic uses, but the hope of cheap fuel
from Lincoln county for Ell Paso man
ufactories has vanished. The railways
are too greedy for the Captain coal to
allow Ell Paso factories to take it. Fuel
at S. per tom is not conducive to the
prosperity of manufactures. The min
ing enterprises at Bland have adopted
the right course in establishing a big
power house at the Madrid mines in
this county, where slack can be had.
From this plant electricity will be
transmitted to operate the mills n
machinery at Bland. The enterprises
which Ell Paso might maintain If cheap
fuel were available may eventually be
established in the coal fields. An easy
downhill haul from Captain to the west
Texas metropolis would make cheap
transportation. Doubtless the railway
and fuel company will pursue a liberal
policy to secure the location of manu-
factories at the upper end of the route
consume the slack and poorer grade
Of coal and to make business for the
railway. In event of enterprises being
established in the coal region, Ell Paso
will reap great benefit, but New Mex
leo will also realize from her
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
A Texas Resolution.

Texas has as many political freaks
as Kansas ever had, and a fool break
is made now and then, which, being
worse than many Others, is noted by the
press. Down at Austin the other day a
rantankerous member from Deaf Smith
county, concluding hat Congressman
Roberts was bounced only because he
was a Democrat, introduced a resolu-
tion declaring that the action was steen
kinds Of a shame, and that surely con-
gress was full of men who We're worse
than Roberts, tsnd that he was a hero
for sticking 70 all his alleged wives.
But If a maA should remove into the
county from which this member halls
and attempt to run branch households
he would be pretty apt to have to ride a
rail, and the gentleman from Deaf
Smith county would probably be hold
ing one end of it. Being a Democrat
may, in the eyes of a Texan, ove a
multitude of sins, but it does not cover
the offense of polygamy, except at long
range view.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29

The Denver merchants who made a
fight against the Southern Pacific rail-
way for certain determinations in
freight rates from the coast have APP
parently won before the interstate COM
merce commission. for the company has
agreed that if the case brought before
that body shall be dismissed the Mis-
souri, river rate will be made ITO apply to
Denver. The attorney of the complain
ants has very wisely decided that I'M
less the railway company publishes the
new rate before the commission starts
upon a western trip he will ask to have
a hearing In Denver when the commits
sion returns from the coast. Anybody
who has pushed the Southern Pacific to
a point where that arbitrary corpora
ton goes to making promises of reform
should see that the promises are full
filled before abandoning the means by
which the result was accomplished.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
.crtsn. .!sfnsnts ceass 10 vets tcg.th.

eerdsnt e!s!hsats eests 10 vets tcgsth-
er, This sun mag have stood etili il
joshus'a daS, but now 1t never halts,
and the people, though they may turn
aside from the direct road in politics
and advancement in government to ex-
plore reported short cuts, turn back
when {: ) find they have been misled
and resume the plain road. That is why
Las Vegas will again soon give Repub-
lican majorities in accord With the
views of the most of the people of the
United States. Then there will be a
better administration of public affairs
than at present, and advancement will
result all along the line. Statehood
would hasten the change, doubtless,
and that is why the newspaper which
does not wish to be crowded out of the
procession nor compelled to- increase
the pace, wishes the old order of things
not interfered with at present.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
what We Eat

Is intended to nourish and sustain US,
but 1t must be digested and assimilated
before It can do this. In other words,
the nourishment contained in food must
be separated by the digestive organs
from the waste materials and must be
carried by the blood to all parts Of the
body. We believe the reason for the
great benefit which 10 many people
derive from Hoods Sarsaparilla lies in
the fact that this medicine gives good
digestion and makes pure, rich blood.
1t restores the functions OF those organs
which convert food into nourishment
that gives strength to nerves and mus
cles. 1t also cures dyspepsia, scrofula,
salt rheum, boils, sores, pimples and
eruptions, catarrh, rheumatism and all
diseases that have their origin in impure
blood.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
Having a Great Run On Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy.

Manager Martin, Of the Pierson drug
store, informs US that he is having a
great run on Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. He sells five bottles of that medi-
cine to one Of any other kind, and it
gives great satisfaction. In these days
Of la grippe there is nothing like Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy TO stop the
cough, heal up the sore throat and lungs
and give relief within o very short time.
The sales are growing, and all who try
1t ans pleased with its prompt action
South Chicago Daily Calumet. For sale
BY A. C. Ireland.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
Democratic senatora and the PHILIPPINES.

The Democratic minority in the sem
ate has decided ito support the resolu-
ton of Senator Bacon of Georgia for
giving independent government to the
Philippine islands. Blu as to Hawaii
and Porto Rico, the Democrats propose
to concede that they are already part
and parcel of the United States, and no
so, as they were acquired by annexation
in one instance and by treaty in the
other. AS the Philippines acquired
by the same treaty which conveyed
Porto Rico to this government, the
Democrats are splitting hairs, and to
sustain their position must claim that
Spain had no power to convey the Phil
| ippines, because A~guinaldo and his
! tribe We're vainly trying to claim SOW
| ereignty, although Spain has held the
| country for centuries, and her sover-
| eighty has never been questioned by
any nation. But the Democrats have
to find some point of difference, and so
they assert that while Spain had a right
W Sell VI tcQc 1NiNo, oho N"o eh>
sovereign of Cuba until driven there
from by this government, she had no
right and title to the Philippines, wheye
there was less of a revolution ard
struggle for freedom than had for many
years been going IN III Cuba. While
the senatorial minority has pointed out
the ground the party should occupy, in
the opinion of the senators, to make
an effective opposition political play,
they will find that great masses Of their
party are more intensely Americans
than they are partisans when it comes
to waiving the results Of American va
or, power, blood and treasure. But few
American people wish to throw away
the prize won just because the party
was not in power to which they be-
! longed when the result was achieved.
| Senator Bacon comes from a part of
the country where sentiment and loyal
ty to the Democratic party prevails,
but even in Georgia the majority wou'd
not vote to Withdraw the armies from
the Philippines nor to surrender the is
lands to the natives o when other
nations stand ready to seize that which
the United States has made easy to
take should 1t be released.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
A VOICE.
(Springer %Stockman.)


Give US statehood and we will emerge
from the dark ages of extortion, enter
the light of a new era, and travel up
ward on the ladder Of states. New
Mexico's place will not be at the bottom
either, to start with.
Give New Mexico statehood and she
will prosper. This old dragging along
as a territory with very little progress
has long ago become tiresome and mo-
~notonous. AS a territory we are handi-
capped in a hundred different ways; as
a state many of those barriers would be
removed and there would soon be a
grand change from darkness unto light.
One of the Strongest points in favor
Of statehood, and nj which concerns
the poor man, is the present rate Of in
terest, which all know Is too high, and
under a state government the people
feel that they will have a right to say
something as to what the special rate OF
interest in the territory shall he.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
A Slow Coach Al Las Vegas.

II statehood should come while good
times are at loodtide, many New Mex
leo towns would grow as the result of
increase of population and new enter
priees-Las Vegas, for instance, which
has the making of a considerable city,
with surrounding her which
are but partly utilized. One of the first
results would be the establishment of
an enteqprising Republican daily paper
There which would be a creditable rep
resentatfve of the business interests
and public spirit OF the people OF that
place. At the ann time, the political
hybrA party which has grown as bar
fIAclee gather upon a ship until 1t is
swept Of them, would be removed by
Tia energy Of the eve citizenship
united with the forces which are about
sfeady 10 bring about better political
UondBttons in that city. The newspaper
a~blch trains with the non-progressive
ojonaes1t In politics does not wish any
|cl5ange in the balance Of power, and
rr6ceFo for things to drae along as they
~, rather than run the risk Of holding
~ pceltfofi in the slow march by which
tbe funeral party obstructs the advance
Il hetter conditions in the county seat
Of San Miguel. But the failure TO Sc
cure statehood will not give the do
isothing hybrid party a permanent lease
of NE. The success of amy such ele-
snenk II, IN the nature Of things, but
tsnSporary, although the combination
may deceive ftee1f in this regard. Peo-
pie are sometimes deceived, disposed to
make experiments, or to listen to the
pruuniSes of pretended reformerA. But
Wessn promises r not fulfilled, and
l41ngs grow worse rather than better, !
expeflmenkp are abandoned and dis.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-29
WanIed-North and South Railway.

New Mexico needs a straight north
and south railway. When the Denver
& Rio Grande, which ZONES straight
down from Colorado, and the Ell Paso &
Northeastern, which heads out from Ell
Paso, are linked by the extension of
about $50 miles which 1t Is believed the
former road will make from the capital
city down Through south Santa Fe
county, past the great mining interests
being developed there, and thence due
southwark to the White Oaks country,
the entire territory will be united much
more closely. The probability is that
this work Will be done by the Denver
& Rio Grande within a year or two. BY
that time the gap from Roswell to the
Lincoln county coal fields and a road
from the Texas Panhandle to Albuquer-
que will be built in all probability, and
then one may reach any portion of the
southern end OF New Mexico in a days
ride, instead of having to travel twice
the distance between the towns in the
territory and around through Colorado
or Texas to go from one place to an
other In New Mexico. Mora and San
Juan counties can easily be reached by
railways. Then the people Of the terri
tory will mingle more, establish closer
business relations, and work more in
harmony for their mutual interests.
The time is coming, II not 50 quickly as
intimlated above, when such railway
lines will be built, because resources
will justify construction and traffic be
created thereby.
New Mexico only needs to continue
her liberal policy toward railways, In
dustry in developing mines and in stock
raising, farming and the construction
of reservoirs, to hasten the day when
the railway builders will begin work
to reap the advantages of being first
In new territory. II the prosperous con-
dition of business be not interrupted by
radical political changes threatening to
unsettle the financial. commercial and
protective policies of the nation, which
seem too firmly based and too strongly
approved at present for any reversal,
then New Mexico will receive even
greater benefits in the next four years
than have been experienced in the pres
emit term Of President Mckinley and
under laws and conditions which result
ed from the Republican victory in 1896.