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VOL. I RANGELEY, MAINE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895. NO. 13

THE HOTEL ON THE POINT. Run-Away Pond Again. animals or whatever form the murdered But alas! before the “ dry summer” arrived, man assumes can do no harm, they can the silent reaper came and gathered in the From the description given last week, of A Few Facts, Stripped of Effusive only frighten, failing to do this the treas­ poor demented creature. the appearance of Run-Away Pond, after ure can be secured. Whether Uncle Cor­ Speculation. the pond had really run away, it is no bett was lacking in courage, or whether Local Paragraphs. vronder that persons believing in witches, he feared he would be unable to lift out Nothing Deffinite as Yet; But Bound to Be a Credit to the Place. demons, incantations and all that sort of the chest, after he had reached it, is un­ W. P. Eaton of Redington, was in town a thing, should select that spot as the known, but certain it is that the son was Wednesday. R angeley L akes has been aware of all home of supernatural beings. So it was sent alone to do the digging. Rev. H. W. Small will hold a gospel the movements that have been made, or quite natural that “ Uncle Corbett,” who The work commenced, wild and unhead meeting in the school house in Greenvale contemplated, relative to the new hotel, lived in Avon, and was a firm believer in of beasts appeared, but knowing their in­ next Wednesday evening. up to the present time, and refrained from ghosts, spooks, spirits, etc., should in ability to injure him the young man dug Julian K. Viles purchased four boats making mention for the simple reason after years locate hidden treasure in that on. Then the beasts would rush at him while in town the other day, two from Will that Mr. Marble desired the matter to be uncannny spot. snarling, growling and snapping but all Raymond, aud one each from Natt Ellis kept out of print till his plans were per­ There had been a legend for many years, in vain, he gave them no attention. Every and H. W. Loomes. fected. told by the older residents, that two men moment he was nearing the sought for Ever since Mr. Marble bought the point were seen to pass through Phillips, in the chest and every moment the forms and George Wing, of Phillips, ^iade his opposite the Rangeley Lake House, he has early evening, bearing on a pole what actions of the hideous creatures became customary early trip to Rangeley, before expected to build a hotel there, at some light, Wednesday morning. He sells quan­ future period. He has made no secret of tities of early vegetables. this. He has asked advice and opinions from parties whose judgement he thought Supt. Richardson, of the Oquossoc beneficial. Angling Association, says “ the wind will make good fishing.” Intending visitors Up to the present the whole matter rests as it has for some months, Mr. Marble will please make a note of it. does not know whether he will build new The W. C. T. U. celebrate their third' or move the old hotel and add wings to anniversary at the church Thursday that. He has never entertained any bids evening with a program of music, addres­ from Mr. Kane, of Lewiston, relative to ses, etc. Admission free; a collection will: moving the house, should he decide on be taken. doing that. This is tnighty cooi weather for August. Before any change is made a civil engi­ Tuesday night, but for the slight wind neer and a landscape gardener will visit would have brought a frost. We escaped the spot, make and submit surveys and it, however and let us hope the warm plans for the location of the hotel, the wave will be along before there is another cottages, that are to be built on the same chance. grounds, and the walks and drives. The new cottage, now occupied by Adon R a n g e l e y L a k e s will have to put in Smith, Esq., is but one of the many that steam power as it finds great diffiiculty in are to follow. Mr. Marble has often been obtaining help to turn its big press. Not asked why this cottage was so located, that it is a hard job, but the demand for the reason is that it is but the beginning ET, v s • Fv labor in this hustling town is greater of the vast improvements to be made and than the supply. when completed will dovetail into the Vital Boldeau and Peter Boardman, of Marble’s New Cottage on the Point. rest and form a beautiful and complete Skowhegan, drove through Rangeley, whole. Tuesday, with a boat, brought from their seemed to be an iron chest, and a heavy A. J. Haley, of Farmington, the well more and more, terrible to withstand, they home, on their way to Kennebago Lake, one, judging from the way the pole bent known contractor and builder, has been gave out the most unearthly screeches and where they expect to camp fora few weeks. spoken to about the carpenter’s work, and under its weight. They went in the direc­ yells, they would jump at him with the will undoubtedly have it to do. tion of this pond, and the following even­ quickness of a flash but no flesh or blood Henry Hoar is doing an extensive busi­ Tncre are other matters, known to ing one returned alone. The supposition was theirs, the form would seem to pass ness in market gardening this summer. that they were pirates, and were seeking a Irving Oakes drives his team in the village R angeley L a k e s, which will also form a through him, or he would seem to pass part of the new hotel but which are not hiding place for their ill gotten plunder, through it, without feeling any substance. and sells large quanities of green'stuff. at present for the public eye. One little very soon became a fact to the supersti­ At last his spade struck the chest, at just Just now he is marketing bushels of large, feature however has not before been made tious. Those who claimed to know, told that moment------lucious blackbarries of the cultivated of the law of pirates; that when they variety. public, and that is, that the new hotel -**•*-*■***#■* will have a steamier on Rangeley Lake for went to hide money or jewels, lots were Ed. Rogers of Parmachenee, who assists its own use, excursions for its guests and cast to see who should be killed and buried His anxiously awaiting parent heard a Superintendent Danforth in caring for the possibly connecting with a line of coaches with it, and whose duty it was to protect yell as though made by a wild man, and club preserves, was in town Tuesday. He from the terminus of the Rumford Falls & it from all but the rightful (?) owners, in an instant the son reached him and fell will go South this fall as usual and be Rangeley Lakes railroad at, or near South they believing that the one left had the in a dead faint. When he came to his with Mr. Danforth on the latter’s floating Cove. power to change into any animal or de­ senses he could give no explanation of home for sportsmen. mon, and so frighten away those who what he had seen, he only knew it was Our readers, and we have a few of them, All the Knights Templar in Rangeley were seeking’that which was buried. He something more horrid and ghastly than may rest assured, that when anything intend tb be at the Triennial Conclave at also had power to move the treasure to any that had preceeded it. It was too definite is settled upon, they will recieve Boston, next week, they are Eugene I. some other locality, if he succeeded in much arnd he fled. the information, via our columns. 'Herrick, Gerrie A. Proctor, John A. Rus­ frightening the searching party to speak A few days later, when their courage sell, Harry A. Furbish, Leroy A. Smith or utter a sound. It was supposed one of had once m^re come back, they went by JJaugcloy Locals. and Elliott A. Russell. Miss Georgia Esty went down the lakes the two was buried with the chest. daylight to the scene of the nocturnal Monday afternoon with her father. Uncle Corbett had a son, in the hands of adventures. There was the spade and a The Oquossoc Angling Association has again opened its doors and the following Billy Soule, of Pleasant Island camps, tho son the “ divining rod,” of witch hazel, large hole near by showing the amount of are now at the Club House: E: A. .Burley went to Farmington, Friday, to obtain would “ work,” and so between the two labor done, at the bottom of which was wife and daughter, Lawrence; A. DeWitt help for his house. by running lines back and forth the inter­ plainly seen the imprint of the square box section of .the lines indicated the exact that had held the treasures, but the box and wife; Mr. Harrington aiffi wife; Mr. Mrs. Ed. Whorff and son, Carl, and spot where they were to dig for the iron had gone. There were tracks leading out Witter and wife, and F. W. Macullar and Miss Cherry Bangs were up from Haines chest. Visions of immense wealth flitted of the hole that resembled those made by wife, all from Worcester. Mrs. Eben Landing. Tuesday. through their excited brains, soon they a turtle, and as the elder Corbett explained Hinkley is doing the cooking. Misses HattieSherman and Helen Haines, were to dress in velvets and jewels, no it, “ the chest took to itself the legs of a The Bangor and Aroostook R. R. Go., went to Mountain View a few days ago, longer toil, but ever after live at easa, turtle and crawled away.” have inaugerated a series of excursions to on tho afternoon boat, returning by the happiness, pure and adulterated happiness However they did not rest, but again Moosehead Lake. The round trip tickets road on their bicycles. was to be theirs. The next thing was to began the search, and once more it was are good for going Saturday returning Archie S. McKeen, who is staying at dig, but the lavjs for this must be com­ located not far away, but in a bog, so wet Monday and include board at Greenville the Mooselookmeguntic House, has made plied with. It must be done at night, but they could not get at it. “Only waiting except Sunday dinner when the party is some very fine photographs. He is using one person must be present, no matter for a dry summer,” said the old man, “ and sailing about the lake. Rangeley landlords a new process which makes beautiful what is seen or heard, no word must be then we’ll have it. There are thousands of had better see if they cannot secure some views. spoken or it breaks the spell. The demons. dollar's there, all in gold, all in gold.” such an arrangment.

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Farmington & Gardiner R. R. hardest sort of work. Holding them A Missguiding Guide Book. MUSIC AND MARRIAGE. apart as well as he could, he ran his eye A new guide book is out. It isn’t cir­ Light- on the land, light on the sea, A WORD FROM CALIFORNIA IN ITS FAVOR. over their bruised and battered faces, culated much about Rangeley, for the rea­ A happy song in every tree, their disheveled hair, their disordered son that Rangeley “ ain’t in it” for very An answering lay in every rill, To the Editors of Rangeley Lakes: clothes, and asked w'hat they were fight­ much. Glad minstrel Sfthe qperald hill, Some years ago I was in affi*akier and ing abouT!^t“ He hit me in the ja'vVfi'’ said It is namef| “ j^impses of the Gr£at.fc Who in the morning’s,rosy light Is singing for the nuptial rite. talked with many of its lefcaag^itizens No. 1. kLTe hit me first,” said N,o. 2. Pleasure Resfa-tsibf New England. Jffii- about a narrow gauge railroad frpjl Gardi­ “ It’s a lie^sajd No. 1. “ He hit me i§yst, bracing the Mpustains of New Hampshire And well he maw for now at last The cloud that -aarkenod all is past, ner to Farmington, to conn&$ with the and I allow no man, friend or enemytto and the Hunting, "Fishing and Seashbl-e And true love has its own sweet way; Sandy River road and thence with those hit me like that.” They kept it up, for Rerorts of Maine. G. W. Morris, Pub­ Its crown heaven’s own angelic ray; above into the heart of North Franklin’s some time, each trying to get at the other, lisher, Portland, Me.” Its music one, making the shrine wilderness. till the captain pointed to the poor little A Guide Book should be a book that Of both in all their lives divine. A t that time, with more push, the stock fish lying in the lee scuppers, and explained gives facts and not misleading statements. O true, firm ones, who spite of foe for the road could have been secured in a the nature of the first blow. After glar­ Take for instance the opening chapter: Now smile within tho nuptial glow, Light en the land, light on the sea, short time, I do not know but what the ing at each other for a moment, they “ The Dead River region has no equal in May well make sparkling jubilee. outlook is fully as favorable today, though shook hands without a -word and wended the world as a hunting and fishing coun­ Surely in light and bird and chime there are others looking for the business their way below decks arm in arm, and a try.” “ Those desiring to visit these fam­ Heaven breathes full blessing on the time —William Ross Wallace in New York Ledger. that is to be derived from having connec­ cold bottle settled the rest. ous hunting and fishing grounds, should tion with the Franklin County narrow leave the Maine Central Railroad at OUR TWO LANGUAGES. gauge system. The building of the Wis- Does a Man Turn to the Right or Left Strong.” casset and Quebec road may result in a When Lost in the Woods? Not questioning the hunting and fishing One Used In Conversation, the Other In road from Waterville or Fairfield to some Seth Rowe, of Oldtown, got lost in the at Dead River as being good, very good, Written English. point on that line, and a road from one of woods July 27, and was out for six days it is rather extravagant to describe it as A writer in The Educational Review those towns to Farmington w'ould natur­ and five nights before being found. It having no equal. It will be news to regu­ prefaces an extremely interesting article on ally follow. was learned that Rowe had, in his lar patrons of this section to know that English literature in the college by the From Farmington to Gardiner would be ivandering, been walking around in a declaration: “ It is now, I think, generally the Maine Central runs to Strong, while admitted that the first principle of rhetoric the most direct route to tide water, for circle three or four miles in circumference. the new comer will feel somewhat vexed is, write as you speak. The pedantic, de­ summer business, and a ten mile road from It is an understood fact that a man to learn that it is not true. clamatory, Latinized diction that prevailed Gardiner would tap the W. & Q. and give travels in a circle when lost, Or when Under the head of “ Seven Pond Camps” in literary circles 100 years ago is no lon­ the line an all-the-year round open harbor. traveling in the woods and pays no atten­ the author says they are “ In charge of ger the standard king’s English. In order The benefits accruing to Gardiner can­ tion to his course. But it is a disputed Ed. Grant, a great favorite with sports­ to write well, it is necessary first to speak not be overestimated, her market would question which way his circle will be, to men, from Maine to California. This is well—that is, to speak naturally, correctly again be opened to that section of the the right or to the left. A few years ago and strongly.” next to the Megantic preserve, and mem­ This is a clever and cunning as well as State that sixty, and more, years ago she a man went to the top of Bald Head. In bers come and go this way. Public and complete begging of the whole question. possessed; a direct route to the lumber descending he was picking flowers and private steamers are coming and going The assumption that we, English and section of Franklin, Oxford and Somerset botanical specimens and paying no atten­ over the lake and a good carriage road Americans, speak as we write, and that counties would make a sale for her ma­ tion to direction, but in the course of half extends to the foot of the lake, where is tho ordinary rules of rhetoric and gram­ chinery; and the fruits from Franklin and an hour he came to a natural curiosity located the Mountain View House.” mar run through and underlie oral as Kennebec county orchards, and her lumber that he had noticed a short time previ­ A book so nicely gotten up should have well as written language, is an assumption and spool stqck would go that way for for­ ously. An examination showed that he which cannot be verified by evidence. The paid more attention to such statements, man who says “ don’t” and “ can’t ” and eign markets. had gone to the left to make his circle. and not locate, what is evidently a de­ “ isn’t ” and who talks about “ him and A daily line of steamers for Boston We v'ould like to hear from guides and scription of Rangeley Lake, up in the mo” when ho means “ ho and I,” or who would be put on at once and Gardiner others as to their knowledge or experience Seven Ponds section. says “ done” for “ did” or “ seen” for would experience a boom never before in this line. Does it make any difference Many of the important features about “ saw,” can take his pen or pencil in hand known. whether a man be right or left handed ? the Rangeley Lakes are m ot 1 mentioned, and write English which is unexceptiona­ But this is not for Gardiner alone, every but then, they did not advertise; but a ble from the standpoint of person, mood or tonse, thd fact being that written lan­ town along the route would recieve an im­ It is Well Enough to Know. book, to be a guide book, should have had guage is a refinement and possibly an im­ pulse, lower freights and lower rates, with “Mosquito bites,” says a Lewiston more of them. provement on spoken language, but at the more and better markets means more dol­ physician, “ are in a degree dangerous The views in the book are nicely gotten same time as different from it as the dia­ lars for every one. always, and none the less so because the up, just such work as would be expected lect of Yorkshire from that of Cornwall The section of country through which majority of mosquito bites do not turn from the Lakeside Press. or the talk of Yankeeland from the patois this line would pass is one of the most out to be anything more than temporarily From a hurried examination of a bor­ of tho uplands of North Carolina or the beautiful in the state, and would soon distressing. The mosquito is loaded with rowed copy, we have only noted the lowlands of Louisiana. blossom out into a great summer resort bacteria, and possibly disease germs, and Tho writer of the article in question has errors above mentioned, and are unable to fallen into the rhetorical error of, as tho along its whole distance, from Rangeley if they are not introduced into the system say whether more exist or not. vernacular has it, putting the cart before to the sea. ’tis thanks to chance." The easiest remedy the horse. Every written language, pro­ I have touched on but few of the many to get for mosquito bites, and one that is Coplin. tected and fenced in as it may be by rhe­ benefits that would follow, let others add efficacious as any, is the common baking Charley Donnel, of Lisbon Falls, visited torical fences and hedges, each of which is to them and create an excitement till the soda, or bicarbonate of soda. People who his uncle J. E. Harris, this week. bristling with rules and safeguarded by ex­ ceptions to those rules, is only a develop­ line is built. I hope to live to ride over do not have access to a kitchen should Miss Inza Witliey is staying in Dallas its entire length. S ew ard D il l . keep a package of this cheap powder on ment from a spoken language, and wheth­ with her sister Mrs. Alice Bubier. er it be an improvement or not is an open S oquel, California. hand. Moisten the surface stung by the question. At all events it must be appar­ mosquito and pat a little of the powder A. Withey has sold his two year old colt for a good price to a party from Sa- ent to every student of language or philol­ Flying Fish Makes Trouble. on it. Where the skin seems badly swollen ogy that we have, at least in English, two and inflamed, as it is so often the case battus. separate and distinct languages, and that The captains of a steamship plying be­ with young children who have been bitten, Master Elliott Withey yokes and drives if we should attempt to follow the dictum tween Jamaica and Barbadoes arrived bathe the afflicted surface with a solution a steer and a bull. He has hauled all the of the writer in The Educational Review here yesterday from Havana. Some of of the soda and water.” wood and hay for two years. and write as wo speak our contributions his sea stories were so salty that they will to current literature would be speedily y ------Farmers are busy cutting their grain keep a long time. Hore is one: Among side tracked into the editor’s wa,ste paper A Rabbit Dog. and are securing a good crop. Grain his passengers on a recent voyage, were basket. might be better for the genius [Florida Times-Union.] looks the best it has for a number of years. two old quartermasters of the British of the English languago and for the pres­ Army, the best of friends, on their way to Among the amusing discussions during Last Saturday J. R. Harris and wife ervation of its integrity that we should speak as we write, but to adopt the con­ Demerara, says the New York Press. the legislative session at Tallahassee was went to Dallas. Mrs. Harris and Mrs. that on a bill of Sullivan’s of Escambia, verse proposition and write as we speak Sometimes they got into heated arguments, Flagg went down to Mingo point to visit providing for the prompt slaughter of rabid seems tho very climax of absurdity to but invariably wound up with a sip from Mrs. H.’s sister, Mrs. Henry Hoar. those who know and appreciate the dis­ dogs. The reading clerk had just read the each other’s flask. One afternoon as they Company that A. Withey has had with­ tinction between English “ as she is title when an old gentleman,, a represent­ were walking up and down the deck, quar­ in the last two weeks: C. D. Bubier, of wrote” and “ as she is spoke.” —San Fran­ ative from one of the interior counties, reling over the question of disestablish­ Sabattus, Bert Haley, of Harpswell, Chas. cisco Chroniclo. ment, the captain who happened to be arose and with great gravity and dignity Plaisted, of Phillips, Frank Haley of said: “ Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to that looking straight at them from the bridge, Rangeley. An Unappreciated Kindness. bill. I am opposed to it because I don’t Young women who officiously offer saw a flying fish come over the bows and As A. Withey was riding with his little strike the quartermaster who was doing see why rabbit dogs should be killed any older women their seats in the street cars girl they saw a black bear in John Harris’ should look before they leap. A well most of the talking at that particular quicker than any other kind of dogs. I’ve got a rabbit dog. He ain’t much on looks, field, not more than 25 rods from the house. dressed girl saw one of her sex enter a not moment square in the jaw. It was a but I tell you when that dog gets on a hot If his rifle had been taken, he could have overcrowded electric car the other day and terrific bloiv. The fish weighed about trail in the broom sedge, and a little lator shot him. sprang forward with the request that she three-quarters of a pound, and, coming you hear his voice a-yelping in a high key should have the place. “ No, thanks,” re­ and the yelps gettin’ fainter and fainter, Mrs. Florida Batchelder, of this place, w'ith a lively wind, was almost like a plied the other, with the utmost aplomb. till by and by you can just hear ’em down harnessed her horse, went to' Rangeley, minie ball. It nearly knocked the quarter­ in the holler’ and you go there and you “ I never take a cripple’s seat.” “ But master down. He, heated with his argu­ see a little bench-legged yeller rascal did her shopping, and to Dallas, before 10 I ’m not a cripple,” returned the young o’clock A. M.; took dinner, made several ment because on the losing side, supposed barkin’ , his eyes bright and his forehead woman, much mortified. wrinkled with excitement, under a sartin calls and reached home before night. Find “ Ah, in thatcaso I will let my little boy that his friend had taken offence at some tree, jes’ you get you a long pole and meat a woman that can beat that and she will occupy it,” and the 7-year old youngster remark and struck him with his fist. is your’n for dinner.” There was breath­ have to be up and doing. I was pushed into the vacant place. All the British bulldog blood in the less silence during this eloquent appeal on | “ That’s the last time I shall over offor any behalf of the rabbit dog. When it had other was boiling hot on the instant, and, been concluded others rose up and paid woman, if she’s 100, my seat, ” said the hauling off, he delivered a right hand glowing tribunes to the qualities of rabbit Lang Plantation. victim as she “ moved up” to the other end swing that sent quartermaster No 2 to dogs they owned, until one would have Ed. C. Cushman has a yoke of steer of the car. “ Why, she was just, teaching believed that a thing necessary to a man’s j you a lesson not to be so dreadfully con­ the deck. Then at it they went, hammer calves for which he has refused $22.00. candidacy for the legislature in the State of siderate to her age,” rejoined a girl in the and tongs. The captain hurried down to Florida is a first-class rabbit dog. The bill, They are after Al. Withey’s four vear old i penwiper cape. “ It servod you right.” — separate them, which he did only by the by the way, was killed by a large majority. bull. I Boston Herald. RANGELEY LAKES 3

!JTJTJTjnJTJlJTJ'l JTJ~LJ~Lr spoonful of baking powder, one tablespoon­ mess he may handle hundreds of dollars Put this ful of butter mixed well through flour, and in a month. one teaspoonful salt. Mix with sweet The duties of the boys, besides serving milk to a dough stiff enough to roll out the officers at meals, consist in keeping all A Cosy Corner for the Ladies. the staterooms in order as well as the upon the moulding board. Roll into a messrooms. $ sheet half an inch thick, spread with chop­ The stewards are generally old and tried ped apples. Roll dough up as you would men, who have served through the inter­ Into a tasty advertisement in R a n g e l e y L a k e s Any housekeeper, whether of long or roll rolled jelly cake. Pinch ends well, to­ mediate stages of boy and cook, while the and it will come back to you with short standing, has some favorite recipes gether, so juice cannot escape. Place in boys are of every grade of efficiency and that may be of her own selection, or that well-buttered steamer and steam 1)4 hours. every nationality. may have been handed down from remote Serve with cream or milk and sugar, or Next^n importance after the wardroom generations. While it is true that our officers’ mess is the junior officers’ mess, hard sauce. made up of the junior line and staff com­ $ $ $ $ modern cookery is not more toothsome APPLE FRITTERS. than that of our grandmothers, it is better missioned officers and the naval cadets, Make a batter in proportion of one cup and perhaps of all the officers aboard ship. $ adapted to our needs, and in many respects of sweet milk to two cups of flour, a heap­ The members of this mess enjoy life the easier to prepare than dainties of bygone And if you continue to put your ing teaspoon of baking powder, two eggs, most, for though often crowded into nar­ days. Still the fact remains that some of beaten separately, one tablespoon sugar row quarters, where they must eat, sleep the time-honored directious for making- and saltspoon salt; heat the milk a little and live in one room, the buoyant spirit pickles, preserves and catsups, have never of youth asserts itself, and good humor more than milk warm. Add slowly to the been surpassed, and it is the hope of bring­ reigns. beaten yolks and sugar; then add flour ing out these famous recipes that we call In the old navy the junior officers’ quar­ and whites of eggs; stir all together and ters was called the “ steerage,” and it was attention to them now. The next two throw in thin slices of good, sour appies, little more than an inclosure on the berth months will see finished the labor of dipping the batter up over them; drop in deck, were the crowd of junior officers storing up good things for winter’s use, $ boiling lard in large spoonfuls, with a slept in hammocks at night and ate and Into advertising, you will some day have a and whoever has anything choice in the piece of apple in each, and fry to a light lounged by day, but in the new ships of bank account of many line of the above mentioned receipts will the modern navy there are rooms with brow r. Serve with maple syrup or a nice double berths for the junior officers, and confer a favor by sending it to the “ Cosy syrup made of sugar. Corner.” Should anyone wish to “ conceal their comfort is vastly increased thereby. Let us turn to the enlisted men, the their light under a bushel” the name will Put a thickness of leather inside your ironing holder, and note how satisfactory blue jackets and marines, who live on a not be published, but it adds an interest ration issued by the government, each ra­ $ $ the result. T h e H o u s e k e e p e r . when we know to whom we are indebted. tion being of the average value of 30 cents $ Some of the following rules have been per diem. tried by the writer, and others are given Among the enlisted men there are also because they seem worth trying. A soup LIVING ON WARSHIPS grades of rank, and the petty officers, who made from green peas is nice at this time are given more or less authority in the va­ rious departments, generally have a mess when peas are becoming too hard to-serve HOUSEKEEPING ARRANGEMENTS ON by themselves, where they live plainly, but as usual. neatly and well. GREEN PEA SOUP. UNCLE SAM’S BOATS. Carriages! The other enlisted men are divided up Boil peas till soft and mash them in the Something About the Messes—Their Table into messes of 10 or 15 men each, and each OF ALL KINDS, water in which they were boiled. Then mess has a cook taken from their own Expenses Are Paid try the Officers—The rub through a fine strainer to remove the number, who prepares the food with the At Prices which you Can skin. The proportions given are for a Enlisted Men. Are Fed at the Expense ship’s cook and his assistant. Afford to Buy. pint of peas and a pint of water, but can of the Government. This ship’s cook is an important person­ of course be varied to suit the need. Put age among the enlisted men, and upon him To you of the land who have plenty of rests the responsibility of preparing the The Nobby Drop-Axle Buggy, and on to cook again. Melt a tablespoonful room for all the various departments of bean soup and other dishes that are the of butter add a tablespoonful of flour, your housekeeping affairs, it may be inter­ same for all, while the mess cooks prepare Other W ell Known Styles. cook them together being careful not to esting to know how the several hundred the especial dishes for each mess. The burn the mixture. Stir this into the boil­ people crowded beneath the decks of a big ship’s provisions of beans, flour, salt and ing soup and season with a little salt, df man-o’-war manage to exist comfortably corned meat and canned goods occupy in the contracted space allowed. Generally space in large storerooms especially de­ half teaspoonful of sugar, and pepper. well forward on the gun deck there is the Add at last a half pint of milk which has signed for the purpose, and the stock is galley on which all the cooking for the quite extensive when laid in for a long been heating meanwhile and serve oyster officers and men is done. This galley is a cruise. The day’s provisions are served crackers with it. large range fastened down to the deck out in tho morning, and the contracted with iron straps, and from early morning space around the gallery is crowded until TAPIOCA CREAM. till sundown it is surrounded by the cooks, dinner time, when a signal is piped by the Three tablespoonfuls pearl tapioca. preparing and cooking the food for the va­ boatswain, the tables come down from the Pour on a cupful of boiling water and stir rious “ messes” or different tables aboard deck beams above, where they are stored the ship. If it be a flagship—that is, one in a quart of boiling milk heated in a when not in use, the knives, forks and Call at Ross’ Livery Stable, Phil­ bearing an admiral in command of a fleet double boiler. Cook until the tapioca is spoons and agate ware dishes are set out lips, or write to or station, the first mess of importance is from the chest in which each mess keeps clear. Stir in two well beaten eggs, and that of the admiral, who has all to himself its belongings, and in ten minutes the sugar to sweeten sufficiently, and a small a steward, a cook and a boy. He may eat meal call sounds and the 300 or 400 sea­ W. J. ROSS, alone in his cabin or have the captain and pinch of salt. Flavor with lemon or va­ men and marines and engineer force are PHILLIPS, MAINE. nilla and when cold frost if desired. members of his staff with him. Then eating their dinner, which, if in port, may comes the captain’s mess in his separate M rs. A. A. M. consist of fresh meat, roasted or stewed; cabin, with tho same complement of serv­ boiled potatoes, canned corn, fresh bread, A FINE CHOCOLATE CANDY. ants. Next we go down into the wardroom coffee, with perhaps a dessert of “ duff,” RANGELEY This is the exact receipt: One cupful of where the 15 or 20 watch officers, engineer as bread pudding is called, or even “ plum officers, paymasters, doctors, chaplain and grated Baker’s chocolate, three cupfuls of duff.” the same pudding with raisins in marine officers are all together in a big it. If at sea for a long time, salt meat or rniA granulated sugar, a piece of butter the mess, with a steward, a cook and five or size of a walnut, with a cupful of hot corned meat is used, and perhaps hard six servants or wardroom boys, as they are tack instead of bread, and baked beans and water, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoonful called aboard ship. bean soup often appear in the menu. In JU of vanilla. These are the ingredients, and In this mess one of the officers is elected the olden time grog was served out at the AM MILL it is an easy task to boil them down to caterer and has general supervision of ev­ mast each day at noon, but the influence the consistency of candy. Stir it con­ erything pertaining to it—the general di­ of temperance societies stopped this, and rection of the steward and boys and of A. B. GROVEft, Proper. stantly and allow it to boil for ten min­ now the “ jacky” is lucky if he is allowed the menu—and the grumblings of the dis­ utes only. Try it in a cupful of cold water, a bottle of beer before dinner and supper. contented members are directed against —St. Louis Republic. and as soon as it is of the consis­ this official. Long and Short Lumber, Dimension tency of thickened molasses pour into Contrary to the general idea of the civil­ buttered tins. Then with a silver knife ian who visits tho ship, the officers are Who Sent the Pick? Stuff, Frames, and All Stock stir it back and forth till you find it sugar­ not furnished everything by the govern­ “ A friend of mine,” said a citiuen, ing. Then mark in little squares and set ment, but must pay for all their food from “ asked me the other evening to go and for Building-, their monthly pay, and the caterer becomes away to cool. call on some friends of his who had lost tho treasurer of these payments from all the head of the family the day previous. On Hand, or Manufactured APPLE MERINGUE. tho officors. Of course the stewards, cooks He had been an honest old man, a laborer Pare, slice, stem and sweeten ripe, juicy and boys are regularly enlisted in the serv­ with a pick and shovel. While we were At Short Notice. ice, and all hold minor fighting stations, apples; mash smooth, and season with with the family an old man entered who Your orders respectfully solicited, and at which they regularly drill, but every had worked by his side for years. Express­ nutm eg and a little lemon juice, adding a satisfaction guaranteed. small piece of butter, as it adds much to mouthful of food is bought by the officers ing his sorrow at the loss of his friend and themselves. the flavor and makes it richer. Fill a deep glancing about the room, he’ observed a Until quite recently the officers of the large floral anchor. Scrutinizing it close­ A. B, GROVER, pie-plate with a rich under-crust, and messes were required to buy their own ly, he turned to the widow and in a low MAIN STREET, : : RANGELEY, MAINE. bake till done. Then whip the whites of kitchen utensils and dishes, glassware and tone asked, ‘ Who sent the pick?’ ” —Phila­ three eggs for each pic to a stiff froth tableware, but these are now furnished by delphia Press. with a little powdered sugar, in the pro­ the government, leaving the officers only portion of one tablespoonful to an egg. tho napery to buy. It Was Elevating. REDUCTION IN PRICES. Beat until it will stand alone, then spread The steward is intrusted with the duty “ Hello, where have you been for so of buying the daily provisions for tho mess long?” Samuel A. Blanchard, over the pie three-fourths of an inch thick. PHILLIPS, MAINE, and seeing that tho cook prepares them “ Out west.” Return it to the oven and let it remain Gives notice that he will Tap Boots and Shoes properly, and that tho boys servo them “ See any cyclones?” wo or three minutes until slightly using the best of stock, for 35 cents. Satis­ well. “ Only one.” faction guaranteed. iml2 browned. To be eaten cold. His value depends upon his knowledge “ What did you think of it?” APPLE DUMPLING. of marketing, cooking and the discipline “ I was fairly carried away with it lM— he has among tho boys, and last, but far Pittsburg Chronicle. Job Printing Three teacupfuls flour, two heaping tea­ from least, upon his honesty, for in a laree At Rangeley Lakes Printing Office.

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is nearly a continuous rapid. It has been t^kES «fSGOTT Rangeley Lakes. estimated that here alone is upwards of B e s t Trout Bishinz* 1200 horse power, which save at Madrid and IN THE RANGELEY REGION! Published every Thursday morning, by the Phillips is not utilized. Throwing aside the “ trotters” wouldn’t that number of h. Rangeley Lakes Publishing Company, p. about equal the number of horses now New camps, built and furnished in the best possi­ used in the County? It would be easier to ble manner, ample supply of new boats, and every HARRY P. DILL AND ELLIOTT C.DILL, turn a switch, or press a button, and accommodation for sportsmen and families. Editors and Proprietors. watch the invisible power, plow, cultivate Quimby Lake is a beautiful spot, but six miles from and harvest your field than to harness up Rangeley, with a good road direct to the camps, no the old mare and go at it as is done now. tiresome buckboarding. Round Pond, Dodge Pond, Entered at the Rangeley (Maine) Post Offlc and the Kennebago Stream, are but tw o miles It is no use to speculate, it will all come as Second Class Matter. distant. and we will wonder why it was never done before. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, St.00 Per Year In Advance. OPEN FROM O A K E S & PHILLIPS LOCALS. Proprietor®, Devoted to the Interests of the Whole Rangeley Lakes Region. Principal W. W. Austin is back again. May 15th to Jan. 1. RANGELEY, - - - MAINE. Rev. Mr. Ranney went to Redington to preach Sunday. ADVERTISING Rates Reasonable, and will Miss Marian Noble was out from Angle- FOREST CAMPS, LOON LAKE, be made known on application. wood, Saturday. RANGELEY, MAINE. Fred N. Beal and J. W. Brackett have T OON LAKE, situated five miles from Range- Address all communications to exchanged houses. ley, on the Kennebago road, is one of the Ra n g e l e y L a k es , Rangeley, Maine. A. J. Haley has made a record as a hust­ MOOSE, best sporting resorts in Maine, and at the same THE ler, on E. H. Shepard’s house. time the surroundings and provisions for the comfort of guests make it exceptionally popu­ E. H. Shepard’s new house is being CARIBOU, HOME rushed. It is up and boarded. lar with parties who wish to take their fami­ lies from the city during the hot weather. Mail The RANGELEY LAKES is George R. Noble and wife, returned to / D E E R , OF their home in Boston, Tuesday. is received at Forest Camps, daily. Our guests have the advantage of a good carriage road The Best Advertising Medium! Mrs. Hersey. of Waterville, is visiting AND for three miles of the distance from Rangeley THE her daughter, Mrs. D. W. Davis. Village to our camps. Those who would enjoy WHY? Mrs. Powers, of Malden, Mass., is visit­ BIRD the walk for a part of the distance over the GAMIEST ing her sister, Mrs. D. W. Davis. road through the woods can take a carriage at Rangeley for the first three miles and enjoy BECAUSE the people like to read it, and do Miss Georgie Cleveland of Bingham, is TROUT. SHOOTING. that recreation for the last two. Boats and not subscribe on the principle that i t ’s the visiting her cousin, Miss Cora Wheeler. Guides furnished. Open from May 1st to Jan. only one there is. G. A. Winter and wife, of Kingfield, 1st. For terms address, R. S. Y o r k , Rangeley. drove over Monday, returning Tuesday. BECAUSE it is the best that first-class mate­ rial and first-class workmanship can produce. Mrs. F. E. Dunham and Master Rand, of R. S. YO RK & J. F. OAKES, Proprietors. Redington, are visiting Mrs. R. E. Harden. BECAUSE it fully covers the whole Rangeley region, and reaches out among sportsmen Isaac Miller, of North Easton, Mass., # F F ^ v % There is no section in the whole region that affords so much everywhere. is visiting his cousin Lewis Reed,at Reed’s Mills. F # I % T T real sport as at this Lake, the water is If these points do not convince you that it A dozen Sir Knights went to Farming- KENftiEBApO will pay you to have your advertisement in the ton Friday, for drill prior to their trip to # I A I * E * Ra n g e l e y L a k e s , we have still other argu­ Boston. Pure and cold, the trout ever ready to take a fly. More are L NT % II 0 ments which will h it; your case See if we Monday night’s train was late owing taken in these waters than any other haven’t. to the heavy load of tourists hound for s # jst ^ e # W Rangeley. A * li t . L-B.il Pond in the State. The trout are not all small: there are big R a n g e l e y , M e., T hursday, A ug. 22, 1895. A. M. Greenwood and wife, are Y # E # P spending a few days with relatives in trout there, and five-pounders arc frequently taken. Farmington. # H * E # Y Gardiner has raised the $20,000 required Miss Luette Timberlake, with Mellie, HOUSE, for starting her new shoe factory enter­ Emmie and Leon went to Marsquamosyi prise, and joy prevails over there in conse­ Saturday. No sportsman has ever been here and returned without his full catch. Little Kennebago is only three miles away, by row boats. quence. The scheme has been to issue Reed’s Mill will soon be started up for stock at HP per share, bearing interest at the fail sawing. At present the water is Kennebago, Maine. the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, the unusually low. C. E. Parker and wife, recently drove to And is famous for the sport given fishermen. The Headquarters are at the head of Kennebago Board of Trade to assume the stock and Lake. guarantee the interest, the money to pay Rangeley, and from there were to drive to Dead River and home by way of Kingfield. RICHARDSON BROTHERS, the latter to be raised by annual carnival fairs, certainly a truly novel method. Chas. Smith, conductor on the P. & R., The Kennebago Lake House is only ten miles from Rangeley. and the railroad, and is reached has not accepted a position on the Bangor by a buckboard road. The scenery is unsurpassed. And just see what a Board of Trade & Aroostook Railroad, as currently re­ has done—Why not go ahead and form ported. Proprietors. one in Rangeley ? Every private family Lewis Reed of Reeds Mill says that there could secure a house full of boarders and were 19 people fishing on the river near his Parties desiring can have Camps for their own private use. Boats, Guides, and all provisions some business ventures could be brought place one Sunday recently. Pretty fair furnished on application. P. O. Address, Kennebago Lake, Maine. in. Who will start the ball in motion? for Sunday, eh? The returning summer visitors from Redington Notes. Rev. Mr. Ramsey, of Farmington, spent The unmber of abandoned farms, and Rangeley, who stop over in Phillips for Wm. Drisco was in Phillips over Sunday. the first of the week fishing on Redington the empty houses to be seen in the smaller dinner, keep Landlord Matthews on the pond. He had good luck and enjoyed it villages, in the course of a day’s travel in hustle these days. Jack Toothaker spent Sunday in Phil­ very much as he is fond of fly fishing. lips. this county is surprising, and does not give The North Franklin Agricultural Society Geo. Buyers caught 16 nice trout Sun­ the uninformed the reputation that the is receiving a good many enquiries from Supt. Lambert took a trip to Dead River Saturday night. ’ day morning. They would average % county deserves.—Independent. horsemen who intend to enter horses in pound each and were all caught within Between Phillips and Rangeley, on the the races during the fair. John B. Graton, Lewis Reed, of Reed’s Mill, called at three-quarters of an hour rvith a fly. of Starks, will enter a horse in the 2.40 Redington Monday. main carriage road, one sees but three class. About 2}4 million feet of logs remain in abandoned farms. There are several The Grange meeting on Saturday was the pond at Redington. Dallas. “ clearings” that have been given up and well attended. The next meeting^ Aug. A heavy thunder shower passed over Elias Oakes recently purchased a cow of which have gone back to their original 31, is to be a novelty and all members will Redington Sunday morning. Luther Nile. state, and the wonder is that they were want to be present. The sisters are to Mrs. O. B. Goldsmith will spend a few Timothy Tibbetts is 83 years of age and ever lived on. There are no vacant houses have entire charge and show the brethren weeks with her son in Phillips. what they can do. is cutting three teeth. in Phillips or Rangeley, and but two or Rev. W. W. Ranney, of Phillips, held Chas. Adams is burning a coal kiln three in Madrid, those owing to the re­ Mr. Daniel Noble and wife, of Pittsburg, services in Redington, Sunday. Pa., and son Howard, of the Massachusetts The fishing in the pond is now very good Colman Drew is attending it. moval of the spool factory a few years Institute of Technology, Boston, arrived quantities are caught every week. ago. No, Bro. Goodwin, this section of in Phillips Saturday evening. They will Mrs. Lucinda Tibbetts, is 76 years old make a short stay with Mr. Noble’s par­ Mrs. Perry Wilbur, who has been sick, and has been blueberrying theee times this North Franklin is not given up wholly to has so far recovered as to he out again. season. bears; just take a ride up and see. ents and visit his brother at his cottage, Anglewood, on Rangeley Lake. Engine No 4 of the P. & R is now in the Asa Peary, of Dallas, finished cutting round house here waiting for the repairers his hay Friday, he is now 68 years old and The Lewiston Journal has a leading Charles Smitli has sold his house on to fit her up anew. Main St. to W. B. Hoyt, the marble cut about 14 tons this year in 31 days editorial headed “ Maine Electrical Devel­ worker. Mr. Hoyt wall not move in till Miss Pickard who has been doing kitchen without any help. Ho has lived alone for opment” and calls attention to the fact November and at that time will remove work at the boarding house, has returned almost 15 years, doing his own house work and the work on his farm that “ Old Mousam Falls” at Sanford, Me. his business to the lower village. His to her home in Phillips. present intention is to erect a work shop Supt. Davis and a crew of men were may be in the general electric business be­ directly in the rear of the post office. working Saturday and Sunday resurrect­ fore Niagara. It isuseless to dream of the ing the engine that tipped over Friday. Clarence Hinkley and Loren Haley were The books that the State were to fur­ what may be, but it would seem that a arraigned before Trial Justice' Smith nish for the Free Public Library, have They have an excellent fire arrangement Tuesday afternoon, charged with intoxi- prediction can not be made that may not arrived. There are over a hundred vol- at the mill, can give 300 pounds steam pres­ crtion and disturbance of the peace at the come true. From Sandy River Pond to umns, mostly history and biography. A sure and throw water all over the building. home of Lucien Oakes in Dallas, Sunday Phillips,on that one branch of Sandy River set of Parkman’s History is among them. Mrs. O. B. Goldsmith has been very busy morning.They pleaded not guilty but It is the best history of the early settle­ with her dressmaking business this summer. Justice Smith, after heading the evidence, are numerous natural waterfalls and from ment of North America that is published Since May she has made 48 dresses for fined the former $5. and costs and the latter the ponds to the Small place, in Madrid, and as interesting as fiction. Redington ladies. $10. and costs. The costs amoudt to $10.51.

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WEEKLY REGISTER.

T r a n s c r ib e d f r o m t h e RANGELEY LAKE HOUSE R e g is t e r .

W ednesday, Aug 14. W . C, Tallman, Boston. J. N. M. Clough, Do. With the Sportsmen. F. B. Manville and wife, Waterbury, Ct, F. A. Noble, Chicago, 111. F. L. Cady and wife, Boston. Master F. M. Cady, Do. W . F. Smith, Do. G. S. Perkins and wife, W orcester, Mass. Mrs. Fallett, N. Attleborough. H. M. Stanley, Do. Dr. and Mrs. J. Curtis Smithe. Washington. T h u r s d a y , August 15. Thirty came to Rangeley, Saturday SALMON ALL AROUND HIM. Abbott H. Thayer and son, Scarborough, N.Y. Dr. A —and son, Brooklyn, N. Y . night. Howard Clapp and guide, Boston. Twenty-seven regular boarders at Billy A Sportsman’s Adventure With Rangeley Ernest H. Cady, Hartford, Ct. Salmon Fishing. M. Toscan Bennett, Do- Soule’s Pleasant Island Camps. T. A. Hanley, Boston. Walter Twombly and Amos Ellis are at A . Michael and wife, Do. Freeman Tibbetts told a good salmon The latest arrival at Moxy Ledge is a A. B. Toward and wife, Do. Kennebago guiding the Strong party. story the other day and we’ll give you the L. D. Crafts, Holyoke. fog horn five feet long. E. A. Pierce and wife, New York. benefit of it. There is at present a scarcity of guides, L. V. Winship and family are spending Albert Gunnell, Springfield. s o many boarders are about the regions. “ A salmon,” said he by the way of Geo. E. Clark, Portland. the week at Camp Burnside. Wm. A. Blair, Jersey City. “ A good season for deer,” is Rufe preface, ‘ ‘is noted for bobbing up at the R. Byington, Newark. Camp Lucky, on the Cupsuptic Stream, Crosby’s prediction for the fall shooting. most unexpected places after it has been F r id a y , August 16. hooked. “ A few years agO'a sportsman has been open for a few days. W. H. H. T. Farrar and wife, W orcester, Mass. Freeman Tibbetts and two boys from who preferred fishing alone was out on McKeen and Archie have been staying Miss Lorraine Wightman, Lowell, Mass. Camp Tim went up to Mountain Pond, Miss Emma L. Hathaway, Portland. the lake. He had a bite and struck a large there. Dr. Aug. S. Thayer, Do. Friday, returning Saturday. The fishing salmon off to the right of him. The salmon Anglewood was well filled last week, Mrs. Aug. S. Thayer, Do. was very poor. J. C. Piper, Bath, Me. started off with a suddenness which set the there being present Mr. and Mrs. J. B. M. A. Webster, Do. Arthur Oakes took a party to Camp reel humming. , Noble, of Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. G. W . Morris, Portland. Saddleback Wednesday morning. These John W . Shrowood, New York. “ To continue in his own words,” said Noble of Boston, and Rev. Dr. Noble and Grant Squires and wife, N. Y. City. camps have been fairly well patronized this Freeman, ‘ ‘ ‘About this time I saw a salmon Fred Noble, of Chicago. Chas. Stedman. N ew York season and are becoming very popular. Mrs. J. StaiT, Do. break over the left. I thought to myself Mr. John S. Adams, of Brookline, Mrs. B. DeVivo, Do. J. O. Nile, of the Steamer Irene, says Mrs. Nt. R. Nye, Brooklyn. N. Y. that after I landed the fish I’d hooked I’d Mass., is negotiating with John Z. Ev­ Wm. C. Remmick, Summit, N. J. the salmon in Rangeley Lake are not all go and get that one. Few minutes later I erett, of Phillips, for purchase, or long E. H. Drew. Boston. dead, as the boat crew saw lots of them T. M. Imper, Hartford. saw one over the port bow and then one lease, of Camp Everett on Oquossoc Lake. O. E. Flagg, Do. about the boat at the outlet. There were off to the rear. Gee Whillikens! thinks I Failing to secure it, he will purchase a Chas. Friedlander, Boston. some good sized ones there too. G. W . Ives and wife, New Haven. to myself there must be salmon all around lot and build. Liny Ives, Do. J. C. Piper, of Bath, called at the officehere. The place seems full of ’em. About Wm. J. Ives, Do. Owing to the sickness of a young lady at Miss M. R. Haddock and maid, New York. Saturday. He came via the Dixville this time a salmon came flying over the Marsquamosy, Mr. Timberlake and family, “ Mary I . ----- , Do. Notch, Colebrook and the steam ers on the bow of the boat trailing a line after it. Mrs. Way, Greenfield Hill, Ct. have been unable to take their regular Miss Milbank, Do. Rangeley chain of lakes. He enjoyed the I jumped and grabbed the line and after outing, up to this week. Now that the G. M. Whitin, Whitinsville, Mass. trip hugely and caught, while staying a a time landed the fish that I started in on. S. Y . Dudley, Do. boys from Camp Tim have gone home, the H. H. Field, Phillips. half hour at Middle Dam, a nice trout. Come to find out ’ twas only one fish I’d family will occupy that cottage for a short Mr. and Mrs. R. W . Day, Springgeld, Mass. been seeing.’ ” Masters R. F. and W . B. Day, Do. There have been lots of big salmon seen time. Miss Glover, Do. in the channel just above the dam at the A party from Anglewood went down to Sa tu r d a y , August 17. foot of Rangeley lake the last few days. EVERY ONE WAS THERE. the Mountain View House in a row-boat H. A. Tucker, Boston. One pair of beauties, it is estimated, would E. H. Houghton, Melrose, Mass. Saturday. On their return they had a Mrs. Mary C. Houghton, Do. weigh 8'lbs. apiece. Better come up and Large Outpouriag to Attend tlie head wind to pull against, squalls struck Miss Marion Dnton, Melford, Mass. have a try at them ye city fishermen. Miss Helen Gerrish. Lebanon, N. H. FisR Hearing on the Magalloway. them, the boat shipped water and all hands D. W . Davis and tw o daughters, Phillips. Trout fishing at night has been written got wet. J. B. says he will do his boating Mrs. J. M. Hersey, W aterville. [Special to R a n g e l e y L a k e s ]. Mrs. J. L. Powers, Malden. about quite extensively in Forest and on dry land, after this. D. W. Murphy and wife, London, Eng. M a g a l l o w a y S e t t l e m e n t , Aug. 15$.— Wm. R. Folsom and wife, N. Y. City. Stream, the present season. There are The B oy’ s Camp, at Camp Tim, returned There was a lively hearing here Thursday W. H. Newschaper. wife and daughter, Do. places South and West where they have to their homes Monday. They have had a Chas. E. Lansing, Do. on the petition of John Danforth et al., to Edwin C. Sweetser, Philadelphia. good fishing at night. Such a practice is very pleasant time, and have visited nearly have the upper falls on the Magalloway T. King, Boston. not common about the Rangeloys, there all the camps and fishing resorts in this Stephen H. Foster, Do. protected by special law. The hearing W alter G. Smith, Philadelphia. was a time, however, when quantities section. They have been as quiet, orderly was before the State fish commissioners Wm. Rudolf Smith, Do. were taken from Quimby Lake at night: and gentlemanly a lot of boys as have ever E A. Lord and wife. Rosemont, Pa. and was held at the house of Jimmy Clark. Miss Lord. Do. “ Moonlight fly fishing” it was called, but been here, and we hope Mr. Taylor will Almost every farmer within a radius of W. A. Stokes, New York. it was learned that the leader was loaded make arrangements for next year and C. W . Lester, Do. with split shot, and cast over the “ spring eight or ten miles was there and some F. C. Andrews, Do. bring a largely increased number. H. Blackman, N. Y. City. holes” that were full of fish. A pause of a came even from Colebrook, N. H. In all E. H. Wakefield Jr. and wife, Boston, Mass. a few seconds, then a quick pull and there were fifty people present. The Prof. S. R. Morse, of Atlantic City, N. Geo. A. Dexter. Do. J., and who is owner with Mr. Timberlake Richard W. Lodge, Do. often times each fly held a trout. Not one farmers opposed Danforth and had a P eter Olsen, Do. of them “ bit” however, though taken on lawyer from Colebrook to aid them and of Marsquamosy, was in the village Fri­ Miss E. R. and Miss Helen Olsen, Do. cross-question superintendant Danforth. day. He has purchased Mr. Timberlake’s Edwin H. Lincoln, Do. the fly. The law making close time from Ralph F. Brazer, Lowell, Mass. sundown to sunrise, did much for the pro­ The latter handled his own case and did interest in the steam yacht Iona, and has W. Roger F ------Media, Pa. removed her to Wayne pond, where he has James F. Duffy, Providence, R. I. tection of the fish. well, too. The farmers met Danforth’s C. D. Thompson, Do. petitionwith a counter petition, asking that a cottage. We are sorry to have the Iona Miss Stedman, Boston. leave these waters but have no doubt she “ Rennard. Do. Mooselookmeguntic House. all the streams flowing into the Magal­ “ Whittier, Do. This house is having its share of the loway from (and including) A bbott’s will be replaced by a larger and better “ A . P. Whittier, Do. Mr. T. J. Whittier, Do. summer business, being well filled nearly Brook in Wilsons Mills to the New Hamp­ craft. E. N. Whittier. Do. all the time, about 20 regulars at present. shire line be closed to fishing. From that It is reported that Frank Wilbur, of Wm. C. Harmon, New Haven, Ct. G. H. Scranton, Do. The fishing on the Middle Ground, just point they hoped to secure the co-opera­ Phillips, is to build a cottage, on the lake, C. F. Smith and wife, W orcester, Mass. above and in front of the hotel, is now tion of the New Hampshire fish commis­ to rent. There have been many calls for Mrs. R. A. Thriving, Do. very good, many trout are taken each day, sioners. Both Mr. Danforth and Mr. cottages, during the summer, by small Su n da y, August 18. the largest one caught Monday weighing Rodgers, his assistant, signed this peti­ parties who wished for a week’s outing. John W. Shrowood, N ew York. tion, as well. Camp Burnside has been occupied a James A. Sates, wife and guide, Gardner 2% lbs. The boarders recently chartered a H. M. Pierce, King and Bartlett Camps. steamer and had an excursion, visiting all Both petitions will be in the interests greater part of the season—and on Long Monday, August 19. the camps and points of interests on the of better fishing, and it is probable that Pond at that. Go ahead, every year the fish commissioners will ultimately A . Michael and wife. Boston. Cupsuptic and Mooselookmeguntic Lakes. brings more people and more calls for E. L. Rogers, Camp Caribou. Mrs. Furness and daughter, Mona, of grant the petitions. The commissioners’ camps! John Chadwick, Upper Dam, Me. decision on Thursday’s hearing will be re­ Mrs. John D. Mclnnes, Philadelphlia. Auburndale, Mass., are among the recent Camp Burnside, Long Pond, was occu­ E. A. Smith, Hartford, Conn. arrivals. ______served till after the hearing on the second pied last week by the following: Mr. and Wm. C.Harmon, New Haven Ct. petition.______G. H. Scranton, Do. This Liar Ought to Have a Prize! Mrs. L. B. Abbott, Miss Mary Abbott, A. W. Stephenson, New York City. [Bangor News.] F. S. Newton, Burlington, Vt. Phillips. Boston. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Humphry, Ed. Page, Bangor. Fish stories are generally looked upon Philadelphia. Miss Mary Harmon, Buf­ Mrs. Dora Fuller, of Congress street J. A. Sutherland. Boston. with suspicion, but doubtless the lucky falo. The party had a jolly time at the G. F. Burns. Portland. Portland, formerly of Phillips, will leave R. W . Parks, Westfield, Mass. man wffio figured in the following can camp, and Thursday drove to Rangeley Sept. 1, to take up her residence at Ithaca, F. R. Parks, Do. vouch for itr truth. A party from the and went on an excursiion over to the is­ H. Goodwin, N. Y . City. N. Y., where her son, Howard, enters Cor­ Edward Penfield, ■ Do. Kennebec were fishing in Damariscotta land and down to the Mountain View. Mr. E. G. Johnstone and wife, Boston. nell university this fall. lake from a boat, when one of them caught Julian A. Johnstone, Do. They were accompanied by Mr. and Miss Ida M. Wadman, Do. the end of fish pole in his watch guard “ It seems almost incredible,” said Super­ Mrs. Frank Toothaker, of Phillips, with M. N. Smith, wife and tw o children. Do intendent Beal, “ how the running time on Miss Lillian Byres, Do. and flung his gold watch overboard into the Sandy River road has been changed. whom the party is boarding for the sum­ F. E. Clark, Do. 40 feet of water. About an hour after, and When the road first started it used to mer. F. T. Tibbetts, Portland. take an hour to run from Strong to Phillips, ClaveraL Butler, Philadelphia. a quarter of a mile distant, they caught Horna M. Rumsey, d o . and, if you were in a hurry, ’ twas quicker Lots of good fish are beirtg taken near a s*x pounder and noticing his fulness and to take a team. Nowadays we make the Nichols Milbank, y . City. the Mooselookmeguntic House on the Dr- ^os‘ iu Baltimore. Peculiar appearance, he was opened and seven miles in from 14 to 16 minutes and Thos. S. Latimer, Do. there was the gold watch still going. think nothing of it. “ Middle Ground.” E. A. Butler, wife and daughter, Lawrence. 6 RANGELEY LAKES

FROM WAY OUT WEST. payment in his own sterling pieces, will be likely to strike a bargain any more ad­ To Editors of Rangeley Lakes: vantageous to himself, by means of them? Seeing, in your last issue (of Aug. 1st) Considering the full peculiar situation, the N. Y. Sun’s really poetic lines upon how can they add to his forces? The value of the wheat is estimated in dollars, each “ The Maine [that is, Tom Reed’s] Si­ A t Sa d d l e b a c k Mo u n t a in P o n d s. lence” and your nomination into the Presi­ one of which contains, legally, a hundred 3150 feet above the Sea. line Log Cabins. Large and Small Game in Abundance. This cents; and these cents offset an equal num­ (1895) is the first season that this region has been opened up to sportsmen. Sure Fly Fishing dency of that same mute man, has led me Any Month in the Season. The exclusive lease of the entire region is granted to a guide of to touch upon the topic. You ask the ber of the corresponding fractions of his twenty years’ experience with sportsmen. All old parties are especially invited to give my question: “ Was there ever a time when metal. Will the seller of the grain, new place a trial. Address, they [Senators Frye and Hale] were not whether the original producer or the MARTIN L . PUETJBR, Proprietor, Rangeley, Maine. wholly in accord with the masses of their broker, gain anything by receiving gold, party?” instead of silver? Allow me to question you in turn. Do The legitimate answer very much depends, you mean to include simply the “ masses” if he desires an article duly credentialed The SEVEN PONDS, in Maine or those throughout the United for hoarding, the former is it. States? If the latter, are you prepared Right here we have arrived at the sta­ These Ponds, situated 27 miles from Rangeley, by Buckboard to Kennebago; thence (after tion where we can try, at any rate, to get crossing the lake by steamer), by good trail and row boat to Beaver pond. From Kennebago with evidence sufficient to indicate that lake six miles by boat; thence by trail to the Meadow Grounds camp, four miles. Here is found the masses are ready to second your a mental photograph of'the striking apt­ excellent fly fishing and a com fortable camp. From the Meadow Grounds there is a mile and a ness, the calling significance, the grandeur, half of boating, and a two and a half mile trail to Beaver pond. No party has, after visiting nomination? Beaver pond, disputed but what the distance as given would hold out. Before me lies a newspaper illustration the marvelous symetry-which-is-beauty of ROUTE EROiU ROSTOV.—Take Boston & Maine. Maine Central, Sandy River and Phil­ of a reporter’s three-fold attempt at an the goldite’s theory in the case. The gross, lips & Rangeley Railroads to Rangeley, and Buckboard at Rangeley for Kennebago lake. interview. At the left is a rude sketch of light-weight gladiator has pushed its fine­ a building, upon which is printed: “ Bill, grained, denser opponent into complete ED. GRANT, : : Rangeley, Maine. Governor of Ohio, Closed.” Away off retirement—in other words, the holders of upon the corner of the roof, almost out of the gold have piled it away out of sight sight, is part-of-a-head, showing one ear, and beyond public reach—for how long? two eyes, nose and a Napoleon Bonaparte to what intent? toward what concievable C am p Saddleback, of General Washington chapeau. Next beneficial result to themselves? Do they toward the right is “ his Grandfather’s calculate that, during its hiding, by some Hat” —a gigantic, several-stories-high mysterious trick of legerdemain, it, like a A l T RIVBR ROND, hat. Upon its top is a bird (of some sitting hen, will hatch ceaseless succession rooster species as I judge) perched upon a of premiums? Can they contrive to make A. L. OAKES, Proprietor. it serve as a basis for compound-interest weather vane. Farther down is a win- ^a^OOD FLY FISHING and Hunting. Brook Fishing. Pure Spring Water. Trail to the dow-in-the-hat, out of which peek the procuring loans? wifi they be able to buy summit of Saddleback Mountain, 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. For Circulars and whiskers, face, and-so-forth, of a man. their bread with it, upon the proposition Below is a door. Over it is “ Ben,” and not to disturb its eternal slumber? Can information, address, A . 3L-. O A P C E S , W m i iKIM e. upon it, “ closed.” Next, still toward the they count upon its greater capacity, right, appears the baffled reporter. He while passive, to compete with its adver­ seems to be traveling in the direction of sary—that is, are they so visionary as to the hat. His legs are bent; the left arm to believe that an army routed is more is outstretched, from the hand of which potent for victory, in every consequence of apparently have just dropped several staying routed?” HINKTBY’S. blank slips, probably the tablets for tak­ Don’ t you see—you,“ Bill” “ Ben” & Co. Hustlin' ing down the desired talk. His hat is up- —how neatly the plan supplements, dove­ over-off-of his head. Whether the hat tails into your words in behalf of “ home darted up, or the head ducked down, de­ industry?” ponent knows not. Last comes a tree, In spite of Wilson-Cleveland-Gorman- This popular hotel is open for visitors at all mixed-and-muddled - Democratic-tariff - re­ with dense foliage. High aloft is a very For the Boat. times. Only a minute’s walk from the station little hat tucked upon one of the phreno­ form, giving J. Bull the extraordinary privilege of marching - up - and - marching - Short distance from lake steamers. Table logical bumps of a correspondingly big The offer which Ra n g e l e y L a k e s made to down-the hill, Jonathan if left to pull wool, well-supplied. Good beds. Terms reasonable head. On the tree’ s trunk is a sign: the guides of Rangeley and vicinity has by no “ Tom—not at home.” Underneath the practically unhindered by foreign under­ means been forgotten. picture is: “ Their opinions on Silver.” bidding. Quiz. D e n v e r , Colo., Aug. 17. Every day or so a guide drops in with one or Near the close of the last session of Con­ gress, the following hit was mailed to more new names and asks to have them R a n g e l e y L a k e s does not intend to credited to him in the contest. Some guides your (I have the right to say, still, our) enter into a political discussion. Its Tom. allusion to Senators Frye and Hale as are writing to their sportsmen friends who will EBEN HINKLEY, An attempted brief philosophical tracing being with the masses of their party re­ not be able to come this way the present sea­ of causes and effects—six or several perti­ ferred more particularly to this State. son. In this way our list has received many nent (or impertinent) questions—a tragedy Yet we still think that their position is valuable additions, and is growing every day. Proprietor, (or a comedy; which?)—gold; silver; wool; with the masses of the party. Our Denver Our original offer was as follow s: wheat. friend may differ with us on some points, To the Guide who brings us in, before the You can select such portions of that but as a Maineite he will, we feel sure, in Rangeley, : • : Maine. 1st of January, 1390, the largest number of heading as shall seem to carry out your spite of the “ Tom. Not at home,” feel idea of fitness. the thrill of State pride should“ our Tom” yearly subscriptions—over twenty-five—to Suppose the dire disaster—the awful be the man. RANGELEY LAKES, we will make a pres­ predicted catastrophe—to have come upon ent of one of those $35 painted boats, made us, the Rubicon to have been crossed, the Bar Harbor’s Rum War. by either C. IV. Barrett, II. TV. Loomis, or die cast; free silver at last is rampart; and There is’nt as much going on in a social Baker Tufts, as the winning guide may Precious Coward—gold, in accodance with way at Bar Harbor this year as usual, select. the prophesies recorded in the yellow but there’s excitement enough in the liquor Guides contesting for this prize will bear holy book, has been driven out of circula­ war to make up. The Bar Harbor Record tion—into children’s stockings; “ a very tells of one affair as follows: in mind that all names submitted by them few feet under ground” in farmers’ cellars; There was a rather exciting raid Mon­ must be those of visiting tourists or sports­ behind ponderous, burglar-proof, adaman­ day night. Constable Bunker accom­ men and not local residents. The proprietors Job Printin tine doors of banks or safes. panied by i*he night force of police entered reserve the right to reject any or all names Well, the Boston owners of New Eng­ Patrick Ford’s restaurant followed to the on this count. land manufactories-in-general, require sun­ door by a street mob of 200 or more. As The contest is still open,and from now on we dry millions of wool. A British merchant soon as the officers were inside the door hope to see it even livelier than in the past. pesponds to the call with a ship-load of the lights were suddenly extinguished. There are several who are close together, but the tariff-unbound materal. He demands Tho constable demanded that they be re­ NEATLY EXECUTED, a given price, reckoned by his standard, lighted. Mr. Ford said he had no use for or four times the same, measured by ours the light, if the officers had they were, at (of course the “ intrinsic” worth of the liberty to turn them on. Of course no one “fifty-cent dollar” has dropped now to knew where the button was. Police Hig­ at least as low as twenty-five cents!). gins stepped forward and locked the door. The Hustler Boston meets him with the aggravating Mr. Ford unlocked the door. After a A t This OFEICE. taunt that it can go him four-fold better little the lights came on again but no in Ohio and elsewhere in this ge-lorious liquors could be found. silver-lined Republic. Will he refuse the The officers made other searches the white tender, and stalk, indignantly back, same night with like results, the crowd Will Get There! with his freight and his blessed liberty to outside welcoming them from each ♦nth D r .!!. J. KENDALL’S QUICK RELIEF, Toothache and headache goodbye. trade ? If so, will some expert cipher out shouts and jeers and in one instance stone I'm going to get a bottle of Quick Relief the net profit of his speculation? throwing. On » previous night the officers And keep it nigh,— Heart failures and all internal pains,— Perhaps he will conclude to take in a entered a saloon just as a customer had entrance, the officers in pursuit. He stub­ Don’t worry, it will cure you, all the siime. cargo of wheat, on his return journey. purchased a couple dozen bottles of beer bed his toe and fell, breaking every bottle Warranted to cure Colic in horses, or money refunded. For sale at G. A. Proctor’s, Range- Since he has none of our cheap trash, in the and when he saw the officer started on a but one, which the officers took possession ley, Me.; Kimball Bros. & Co., sole proprietors. shape of money, he will be obliged to make run with the basket through the back of. Enosburg Falls, Vt. 3m7* RANGELEY LAKES 7

AUGUST IIS WASHINGTON. down here today, on purposeto bring yd$ Lposed new line fr^fr^Mt. Desert Ferry to that soap, I Lacked up to the door to un- Eastport is builtXand it now seems likely load, and dumft all, I forgot to take it.” to be done in the ifear"future) Maine will Timely Topics of Interest at the q; OJ cor V s______3 Ji F i s hill!? H od s never need any mOre: --railways within her National Capitol. ^ MORRIS, THE OUTLAW,SEEN. : borders. The Maine Central has done a ------■: A larger business thus fait in 1895 than since [Special Corouspondenceof Ran g e le yL akes]. toVT Called at a Sporting Camp and Asked 1892, which is one of the signs of the im­ W a s h in g t o n , D. C. Aug. 20.—"'the ini­ for Food. M a d e a n d n ,8 ITU provements in the time^. No other State tial number of the Washington’ Evening aoh-oi jY. -rialy has so many and such delightful summer Times made its first appearance the fifth. Charles Morris,’ the guide who shol Warden Collins up on the Allegash a short resorts, and few States can furnish to the R e p a i r e d . It has leased a full wire day service of the sportsman so much large game as can the time ago, has been sesn; he was fleeing United Press. It is eight pages, and is “ Dirigo” common-wealth. well received. from the officers of the law, and was dis­ Columbia Commandery, of this city, is trustful of everyone he met; he was just making extra exertions and preparations “ sobering off” from his prolonged spree, GOOD FOR VACATIONISTS. for attending the triennial conclave of and was in a weakened condition; the men The Best Material Used. he met gave him food at his request, and Two-Handed or “Yankee Whist’ Is the Knights Templar at Boston. By the pro­ Latest Diversion. gramme this commandery is to be the first he went on his way. to open the exhibition drill, to take place It was Monday, a week, that a party of Two-handed whist. I will be prepared to make and repair rods on Wednesday, Aug. 28. Six commanderies young men from Massachusetts, in the Old whist players will probably be sur­ from the 15th of June to the 15th of Septem­ Maine woods for a vacation outing, were prised to know that it is possible to play are to contest, though not for a prize, still a very interesting and scientific game of ber. Sportsmen who leave their rods with it will be one of the most brilliant and camping on the banks of Long lake, or whist with only two players. me for repairs when they return from their fascinating features of the week. Em. Com. rather on the streem between Long lake “ Double dummy” and “ single dummy” fishing trips can get them on their return the Sir Frank H. Thomas proposes to give and Round pond, at 3 o’clock in the after­ were never very popular with the votaries next season. of this game and were classed in with old some new evolutions that will astonish noon. They were eating their dinner, maids and casino and other games which the spectators. The Germania Band, of cooked over the camp-fire, and were dis­ allow time for gossip during the play. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Boston will furnish music for this drill. cussing the details of the shooting of The new game, while not so interesting Warden Collins, when a canoe shot around or so scientific, fills in very well where The talk of Cleveland for a third term there are not four players to make up a El. T. H O A R , candidate continues in the hotel lobies, a point and came sailing up to the bank regular game, and gives a very good op- where the few politicians left in town are near which they sat. portunity for a display of skill. wont to congregate. The general tone is In the eanoe, at the stern, sat a man It is generally known as “ Yankee NT A I. INI S t . , IV A INI O TO I ^ I t whist,” and, as in option whist, all dis­ that silver will be an issue in the conven­ whom they knew at once to be him who putes about your partner’s play and the tion in which case the President will not was fleeing from the officers of the law, possibility of drawung a poor partner are cleave much congealed water. He has charged with the commission of the crime done away with. T v ? e i y c a 1 3-v ]F\ O . which they at the moment were talking of; In playing the game the whole pack of been outspoken for a gold basis and on cards is used. First deal two cards, al­ that, as most other “ local issues,” he is it was Charles Morris, the guide. ternately, first to your opponent and then not to be moved. Morris would not leave his canoe; he was to yourself. These cards are kept separate Office Hours. The estate of the late Ex-Senator Henry evidently distrustful of everybody he met, from the other piles. Then deal the cards face down in 24 piles, 12 in front of the 6.45 A. M. to 12 M. 12.30 P. M. to 6 P. M. B. Anthony ran up, way beyond, the ex­ for he watched the campers closely and non dealer and 12 in front of the dealer. 6.30 P. M. to 8.30 P. M. pectations, or calculations of everyone. kept his rifle handily. He was very hungry Next deal the rest of the pack face up­ £200,000 was about the limit placed by and said so, and asked the young men if wards on each of the 24 piles already dealt. Each player will then have 12 packs of Sunday. those who were considered to be in posi­ they could give him some soup, which was two each in front of him. The two cards 10 to 11 A. M. 5 to 6 P. M« tion to know, but when it was announced about the only thing his system, weakened first dealt are taken up and looked at. as £800,000 there was a surprised murmur by his long drunk, would stand. They Then the non dealer looks at the two cards Mails Depart. that sounded like, “ gracious where’d he had no soup, but gave him coffee and rice, in his or her hand and the 12 face upon the board and -names the trump, whatever and after talking with them, and offering Railway Mails, Daily, 10.45 A. M., and 1.30 P. M. get it?” suit he or she thinks to be the most favor­ Down the Lake, Daily, 7 A . M. “ The Little Red Schoolhouse,” as the them liquor, of which he seemed to have a able from the cards which are turned up. For Kennebago Lake, Monday, Wednesday, emblem of the A. P. A., is making trouble good supply in his canoe, he left them. The game then begins with the non dealer,' and the game is carried on the and Friday, 7.50 A . M. in the pension office, together with other Morris talked to the party of his crime. same as in an ordinary game of whist. For Greenvale, Daily, on arrival of train designs which a Canadian painter has He said that he had watched some of the You must follow suit if you can. As soon placed on the huge pillars in the main hall officers trying to find his trail, and that as the card which is exposed is played, Mails Arrive. supporting the roof of the pension build­ he had seen his brother and a deputy sheriff and the trick on which it is played is taken up, the card underneath is turned Railway Mails, Daily, 7.10 P. M. ing, which has just been repainted. pass up the Allegash in a canoe as he lay up and the game is continued until this Up the Lake, Daily, 10 A. M. The contract called for an imitation of hidden in the bushes. He believed that he process causes all the cards to be exposed, From Kennebago Lake, Tuesday, Thursday sienna marble on these great pillars, and was to be shot on sight, and for that but not, however, until long toward the and Saturday, 4 P. M. reason was very much afraid of showing close of the game. From Greenvale, Daily, 9 P. M. the Canadian employed by the contractor Consequently there always enough un­ to do this special work had apparently himself even to his brothers. certainty about the strength of your own Mails CLOSE Fifteen Minutes Before simply carried out the contract, but some hand and that of your opponent’s to give D eparture. of the pension office clerks, upon studying Heads and Tails. plenty of opportunity for careful and thoughtful playing. the seemingly aimless veins on the pillars, “ Heads I win, tails you loose” has been Every trick taken over 12 counts as one E. I. HERRICK, P . M. have discovered a number of figures which beaten by the boys in Sandwich and Bou­ point, and the game is usually 10 points, seemed to them to have significance. rne, Mass. It is now “ heads I win, tails although any number of points can be played. > The most remarkable was a “ little red I win.” Muskrats were making sad havoc The game has not been introduced very LAND IN CALIFORNIA. schoolhouse,” with an American flag, a with the cranberry bogs and the two extensively at present, and in many whist towns voted to pay a bounty for their clubs it is practically unknown. I can sell parties who are desirous of locating shield and a masonic emblem just below in California, Real Estate in any quantity from destruction. Each town made the sum Where the game originated is unknown, it, which has aroused the feelings of some but if played properly it will be found to 5 to 1000 or more acres, situated in, what I con­ of the Catholics and some of the Protest­ twenty-five cents but neither consulted the be very interesting. sider the best part of California, from 20 to 50 ants employed in the building. other as to what part of the rodent should miles from the ocean, just brought into the Imagination may have much to do with receive the bounty. The result was, one Saranic Lake correspondence of Boston market by the Coast Line R. R. from San it all, and to be an impressionist, is a fad paid on the head and the other on the tail. Globe: Miss Mabel Weld of Boston, and Francisco to Los Angelos. I do not urge peo­ that is freely indulged in. One may see The boys caught on and kept mum, their Miss Wiggins of Yonkers, are heroines of ple to leave Maine, but if any aro coming here, I can help them to land at from $5 to 150 per in clouds a variety of images, any thing in game netting them fifty cents for each one a very exciting adventure at Cascade lake. acre, as good as can be bought in other parts fact, from the “ little red schoolhouse” to caught. It was nearly a year before the The young women started out Monday of the state for £400 per acre. Climate fine. the Vatican. town fathers discovered the trick. Both morning at 10 o’clock for a climb up Pitch- Well wooded, pine and oak. Good water. The Louisiana Senators are not having held town meetings and each town voted Off mountain. They did not return at This is the best chance for a poor man to get sweet success in attempting to have Comp­ to reverse the order of things Again the noon, buL nothing strange was thought land and make a start of any place I have seen troller Bowler’s decision in refusing to pay boys kept mum simply carrying the heads until late in the afternoon, when a search­ in this state. For particulars write or call on the sugar bounty reversed, and much loud to the town that formerly paid bounty on ing party was organized. It was after me. talk is indulged in. If it should result in tails, and tails to the former head town. dark when the young women were found, Address, SEWARD DILL, Soquel, Santa Cruz Co., California; or the Comptroller being sustained, he will It was too good to keep and at last the wandering aimlessly about and nearly ex­ A. R. BOOTH. officers learned of the new order and both also go down in history as a “ biger man” hausted, three miles from the trail. The El Paso de Robles, San Louis Obispo not than Grant, but of Congress. towns repealed the law. The cranberry coming of morning would have been no Co., Cal. The Navy Department is testing to pro­ vines were saved and the towns are really great benefit to the lost ones, as they cure the best machine gun. no poorer than before. were in the wildest and least settled sec­ tion of the wilderness. Absent Minded. Maine, the Nation’s Summer Resort. Rather exciting for a summer resort, A good many years ago there lived a few A Maine correspondent of the New York don’ t you think? miles out of Philligs village a farmer whose Tribune writes: This State has more to memory was very treacherous. He had do with the entertainment of the rest of Down in Scarboro two bike riders think H promised to bring to one of the merchants the world than any State in the Union, and they have discovered the meanest man in {Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-J a barrel of soap. Several times he was derives an estimated revenue from its sum­ that county. They had been riding in the tent business conducted for m oderate Fees. 5 {O ur office is O pposite U. s . Patent O ffice? seen and asked regarding it, but it had mer visitors of £10,000,000, and is constantly hot sun and were nearly dead from thirst. \ and we can secure patent m less time than those| been forgotten, and promises were made increasing this amount as new steamboat At the only house in sight they rode into tremote from Washington. . . . 5 J Send model, drawing or photo., with descripA to bring it next trip sure. lines are started and better accommoda­ the door yard and asked to be allowed to )tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of? One day the merchant saw him drive his tions afforded the traveling public by the get a drink of water. They were refused, J charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. 2 » A Pamphlet, “ Ifow to Obtain Patents,” with? ox team and cart round to the back door Boston & Maine and the M.C. railways,the point blank, he said water was scarce and >cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries J and he felt the soap had at last arrived. two great controlling lines in the state. It he did’nt know when it would rain. Prob­ £sent free. Address, Fancy his astonishment when in came the may be truthfully said that no State en­ ably he had several barrels of hard cider farmer, evidently much excited, and ex­ joys better railway facilities than thp in his cellar, from which he would have C.A.SNOW&CO. O pp. Patent O ffice, W ashington. D. C. claimed. “ I yoked my oxen and drove greater part of Maine, and when the pro- sold them a drink. 8 RANGELEY LAKES

AMONG THE ORDERS. j That Sunday morning rain was a lively It looks business like to see the doors Native green corn is in the market. of the Oquossoc open. one! J. E. Scott and wife have returned to Society Notes, Rangeley. Simon Oakes’ new cottage is nearing A party of Greenvale boys went up to their home in Brooklyn. Mountain Pond Thursday. Friday, Sept. 6, Regular meeting Rangeley completion. Ed Greenwood and wife, of Phillips, Commandery No. 408, Order of the Golden More and more of the Dead River busi­ W. H. Ellis has been burning the cut- were in town over Sunday. Cross. Meet in Church Vestry. down on his Greenvale farm. ness is coming to Rangeley. Sixteen passengers went down the lake Wednesday p. m., Aug. 28, Regular meeting Postmaster E. I. Herrick and G. A. W . C. T. U.. at the Library. Forty for Rangeley and four for Dead Monday night, twelve of them going to Proctor, Esq., made a call at Moxy Ledge, Wednesday, Aug. 28. Regular meeting of River, was Monday night’s story. Indian Rock. Thursday. Rangeley Lodge, No. 200. I. O. G. T., meet George Haley and wife, of Phillips, are Col. E. M. Robinson, Mrs. Ilda Haines in Church Vestry. in town visiting friends and relatives. Two more boards have been pulled out and daughter Fay and Miss Edna Worth- Frank Kempton and his nephew, Herbert down at the dam and the water in Range- ley were at Moxy Ledge Thursday. Society Notes, Phillips. ley Lake is steadily falling. Deane, made a trip to the top of Saddle­ Five hours and three hold-ups to oil the Monday, Aug. 26, Regular meeting Mt. Abram The Rangeley pulpit will be occupied Lodge, No. 65, A. O. U. W . Hall in Bates back, Monday. wagon is the record of a couple of Range- next Sunday morning by J. H. N. Knox, Block. Dell Sawyer has left the employ of the ley damsels who drove back from Phillips Tuesday, Aug. 27, Mt. Saddleback Lodge, I. O. Rangeley Lake House, and his place is D. D., of Baltimore, Md., and a large Monday morning. O. F„ No. 92. Hah, Beal Block. taken by Lee Mitchell. audience should greet him. Isaac Eilis went to Bemis Saturday, Wednesday, Sept 4, Annual Communicaion, The expected ball game to have been Mrs. Tibbetts, the Rangeley laundress, and hired to work on the Rumford Falls Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 67, F. & A. M., played at Haines Landing last week was has all the work she can possibly do dur­ and Rangeley road. They want 20 horses at Masonic Hall. given up on account of some of the local Thursday, Sept. 5, Regular meeting Cushman ing the summer season. and lots more men. nine being employed as guides. Post, No. 87, G. A. R., at Grange Hall, at Geo. Pickens, the popular driver on the The Cascade stream at Greenvale, was Leonard Pratt and Arthur Beedy, of 7.30 P. M. Dead River and Eustis stage line, has almost dried up before Satuday and Sun­ Thursday Sept. 5, Regular meeting Woman’s been off duty on account of a bad sore on Phillips, were in town the first of the week day’s rains. There was no water in the Relief Corps at Grange Hall, 6.30 P. M. buying oxen and steers. Mr. Pratt would main stream near the bridge and only a Saturday, Aug. 31, North Franklin Grange, No. his left hand. like to buy a lot on the shore of the lake slight trickle through the other branch. 186, Patrons of Husbandry, at Grange Hall. Dennis M. Davenport and wife, who for a cottage. Regular meeting at 8 o’clock P. M. have been looking after Camp Tim during Rev. H. W. Small started Monday Saturday, Sept. 7, Regular meeting Phillips the stay of the B oy’s Camp, returned to Geo. M. Esty went to Phillips Thursday, morning for a carriage drive down through Commandery, No. 402, Order of the Gold­ Phillips, Monday. to locate the trouble on the telephone line. Phillips, Farmington and from there to en Cross. Bates Hall. He found many insulators off, but one office Rumford, his old home. He was joined at Herbert Deane, of Taunton, Mass., is on the line had its ground on, which ren­ Farmington by his father and expects to visiting his uncle, L. J. Kempton. Mr. dered a portion of the line useless. be gone about a week. Local Paragraphs. Deane came most of the way on his bicycle. He made the trip from Portland to Phillips One of the contractors for the Rumford Ed Greenwood, of Phillips, says a boat James Searles and wife are visiting at on his wheel in one day. Falls and Rangeley Lakes railroad who built about the size of a row-boat, with a Eustis, Kingfield and Freeman. has a section near Bemis was in town last deep stern for the propeller shaft to set be­ In addition to a large local subscription Lots of visitors in and around Rangeley. week. While in town he purchased a low water line, then put in the machinery list our advertisers have the benefit of a large quantity of supplies of local dealers. he has in the large boat and one can get Steamer traffic is unusually good just lengthy list in Redington. Quite a part about the lakes easily. now. of the Redington trade can be brought to Harry Pierce drove over from King Bart­ The first of the native green apples are Rangeley if our advertisers devote a little lett Sunday night in order to take the The Story of Aladdin and the Wonderful in the market. attention to the matter. train for Lewiston, Monday morning. Lamp, is not such a marvelous one after all. You see it illustrated right here in A1 Withey, of Lang Plantation, was in Myrtle Esty, the little daughter of Mrs. Mr. Pierce now has 24 guests at his camps Rangeley very frequently. In the morning town Friday with a load of lambs for George Frees, died very suddenly Tuesday and, singularly enough, 20 out of the 24 you see a load of lumber being delivered at sale. morning, from membraneous croup. She are from Philadelphia. some vacant spot, next morning you will was a bright sweet-tempered little girl, There was a large attendance at church Misses Maggie S. Hinkley and Anna L. see a house near completion. And so it and will be sadly missed by her young Sunday, to listen to Dr. Albert H. Heath, Hobart drove to Phillips Saturday after­ goes on new houses are an every day oc­ noon returning Monday. school mates. The funeral services were of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Dr. Heath has held Wednesday. many old friends in and about Rangeley currence. Geo. S. Wing makes early morning visits who are always glad to listen to his “ Guess Warren Stevens will have to to town, leaving his home in Phillips at Billy Soule was up from Pleasant Island preaching. have an extra horse to haul to-night’s 2 o ’clock in the morning. Friday, and reports that his camps are all filled, but if there are any excursions Monday morning was cool, consequently mail,” said Mail Agent Bigelow, laugh­ Will Grant was out from Seven Ponds who wish dinner provided for them a two no surprise was manifested when C. T. ingly, on the train, the other night. Then Saturday, and helped the base-ball-foot­ days notice will be all that he will require. Richardson, Supt. at Indian Rock, walked he held up to the view of those in the ex­ ball ground scheme quite a bit. When the proprietor of these camps prom­ in and reported that he had that morning press compartment a bundle consisting There is not another town in the County ises entertainment it means as good as seen a floating cake of ice in Rangeley Lake. of two letters and a postal card. “That whose streets show so much life all the can be had. If a certain belief is true, then may be a is all of the Greenvale mail for to-night,” he continued, “ but that’s three times as time as those of Rangeley. There is said to be a feeling among the time when it will be impossible for him to much as he had the night he went down George Pickens reports that Mr. Blanch­ U. S. secret service detectives, that Dr. report anything of the sort, much as he with only one postal card.” ard, of Dead River, started Thursday for Bradford, the counterfiter, who got away would enjoy doing it. Skowhegan, with forty bushels of blueber­ from his keepers in New York, is secreted The trip to Martin Fuller’s camp While returning to Rangeley from the ries. some where in the Rangeley or Dead River “ Among The Clouds,” and onto the top direction of Quimby Pond, Sunday night, Ira D. Hoar, could not find his cow region. If some of our guides can only of Saddleback Mountain, is fast becoming Mr. H. T. Farrar, of Worcester, Mass., Thursday night, but Friday morning she get on to him, they wont have to do any one of the most popular trips in the lake had the misfortune to lose a pocket book was found dead in Mrs. Julia Hinkley’s more guiding. region. A party of ten made the trip last containing nearly S100. A thorough search of the route, made that night, failed pasture. Engineer Toothaker and fireman Grover, week, and prononnced it the very best to show up the missing article. Mr. Far­ Hon. Joel Wilbur, Mrs. Wilbur, Rev. of engine No. 4 of the P. & R. gravel train, time of the season. The party consisted of rar had the pocket book when at Chas. had a narrow escape Friday morning. Lafe Kempton and wife, Lyman Kempton Dr. A. H. Heath, Mrs. Heath and daugh­ Quimby’s for he bought a few apples there, ter Lucie, were at Camp Cnateauguay for They were backing the train on log track and wife, Misses Hattie Sherman, Lillian so it must have been lost this side of that a few days last week. No. 2, for gravel, and when on the bridge, and Helen Haines, Geo. Young, J. A. Nile, place. The pocket book was later found over Redington stream, felt the engine tip. A. O. Burrill. Going as far as Mr. Collin’s Wm. C. Brackley and Reuben Tilton, of by L. J. Kempton’s nephew and returned Both jumped and escaped, but the engine by team, they made the rest of the journey Temple, returned from Kennebago farm to the owner. blueberrying grounds Thursday. They went bottom up in the bed of the stream. on foot, and reached the top of the moun­ And now the prospect is f<*r still report finding lots of berries. So suddenly did the engineer jump that he tain soon after noon. The day was clear, had no time to shut off steam and the and the fine view amply compensated for another new steamer on Rangeley Lake. The Rangeley Lake House is filled to drivers were working industrhjjusly for the long walk thither. The moulds for a 55 foot boat having ar­ overflowing each night, so that guests rived at the railroad station, addressed to some time afterwards, as it lay in the The ladies of the W. C. T. U. met at the have to be lodged in private families. F. C. Hewey. It is learned that the keel stream. The damage will be small. The Library Room on Wednesday, Aug. 14, Looks as though the summer rush was on. of the proposed boat is to be laid in Oc­ cause was the giving way of supporting and elected the following officers, Presi­ The Kennebec Journal had some fine tober and completed in the spring in sea­ logs of the bridge. dent, Mrs. H. W. Small; 1st Vice Presi­ pictures of Gov. Cleaves Adj’ t. Gen. Con­ son for next season’s business. Mr. Billy Soule, of Pleasant Island Camps, dent, Mrs. C. F. Quimby; 2nd Vice Presi­ nor, Col. Kendall and Col. Philbrook. The Hewey has had quite an expedience as was in this office recently, and says there dent, Mrs. Emma McCard; Tresurer, Mrs. Journal need not be ashamed of its work, owner of boats on Rangeley Lake, but was no rebellion at the Island on the day Lafe Kempton; Cor. Sec., Mrs. G. A. and the officers should be proud of their has never, we think, built one, though he of the iVcent excursion from Farmington. Procter; Rec. Sec., Miss Maggie S. Hink­ good looks. rebuilt, partially the Molly. Evidently it On the return of the party it was currently ley; Chap., Mrs. G. R. Pillsbury. Also is expected that there will be lots of busi­ In union there is strength, the business talked by them that the reason they did the following Superintendents were elected. ness in the future. men as well as all citizen should unite in not go up to Billy’s camps was because Miss M. S. Hinkley, Young Ladies’ Juve­ forming a Board of Trade. There may be the cook “ rebelled” and declared she would nile work; Mrs. E. Rowe, Scientific In­ some manufacturing concern that is look­ not under any circumstrnces attempt to struction; Mrs. E. P. McCard, Sunday Conclusion of Hotel Register. ing for a chance to locate,and a live Board get up a dinner on such a short notice. School Work; Mrs. G. R. Pillsbury, Tem­ [Continued from page 5.1 of Trade, such as Rangeley could have, T uesday, August, 20. The proprietor says there was nothing of perance Literature; Mrs. Frank Kempton, A. W. Jones, Portland. might catch them. the sort, that he notified the managers Narcotics; Mrs. Marshall Carleton, Evan­ W . N. Bates and son, Boston. A Dexter Clairvoyant led the wife of a Chas. R. Baker, Brooklyn. it would be impossible to accomodate them gelistic Work; Mrs. E. L. Toothaker, Chas. C. Jarlon and wife, Portland. would be suicide to the brush heap in a bog, as the notice was so short and he had Systematic Giving; Mrs. G. A. Procter, H. F. Talbot, Chicago. and in the night time too, where was found A. P. Putnam. Boston. thirty-five at his camps at the time. Securing homes for homeless children; Dr. A. “Howard, Clemsford, Mass. the nearly lifeless body of the husband. R a n g e l e y L a k e s regrets the mistake in Mrs. C. F. Quimby, Lumbermen; Mrs. Ly­ I. T. Fristan. Lewiston. She had better keep the secret of her the item, but it was received on what was man Huntoon, Soliciting Committee: E. M. Walker, Portland. powers to herself,or the poor wives will be supposed to bei’eliable information, and it Mrs. G. R. Pillsbury, Chairman; Mrs. E. looking up the absentee, when he is at was believed to be true by those who made P. McCard, Mrs. E. Rowe, Mrs. G. A. DIED. “‘lodge.” up the excursiop. Procter. Miss M aggie H in k l e y , Sec. Rangeley, Tuesday, Myrtle Esty, aged7 years.