EDITION — 1------VOL. X X X V III NO. 24. MAKNE WOODS, P H IL L IP S , M A IN E , JA N U A R Y 6, 1916. PRICE 4 CENTS

closed! their houses and gone to North LETTER FROM are trout there we know, for we put IN NO. CAROLINA Cam lima to do winter business at that 31 adult 8-inch teauiti s t’ ere some LOCAL SHOTS resort, but the lake in its new fail j WAKEFIELD years ago; a few have been caught. IN THE WINTER of snow looks just as beautiful as of Now, gentle anglers, don’t all rush WERE BEATEN old. The view from everywhere so ------at once to this Lake expecting to have Proprietor Hill of The Belgrade white and charming against the back-1 Wakefield, Maas., Jan. 1, 1916. more than ‘‘fisherman's luck.” Some ground of the dark pines across the! To the Editor of Maine Woods: days they do, and some days they Mail Match Shot Tuesday Night Entertains the Children and lake. The cold weather of the last' Ice fishing on Lake Quannapowitt, don’t. Some days one bait and then Created Much Interest Carves the Turkey few days has again closed the lakes Wakefield, is yielding many good another, several of them in fact. which the warm spell opened anew strings of fair-sized pickerel and a You all know how it is. We are (Special to Maine Woods.) and the prospect now is that the us- few black bass. The ice is new conveniently situated on the Boston Androscoggin shooters wfere cap­ Belgrade Lakes, Me., Jan, 3.—Bel- ual amount of ice will be harvested about five inches thick, covered & Maine Railroad, Portland Division, tured by the Livermore Falls team grade Lakes lias settled down for the unless smother warm spell comes a- with snow. One four-pound pickerel ten miles north of Boston. We have in the first shoot cf the Lewiston winter. A number of citizens have gain before the ice gets thick enr and one of five pounds have been nearly thirteen thousand population, club. The match was shot “ through, landed Lately, and two two-pound fine schools and churches, several the mails,” that is, Livermore shot bass. Most of the pickerel caught factories, first-das® fire and police at home as did the Andro club and are smaller. The four-pound pickerel deportments, and social life raised tr the results obtained, by telephone di* was a handsome fish, and a smart tLe limit. rec.tly after the match. The range one. While the angler was busy The fishing and hunting season was 50 feet and scores were made with his traps, the fish actually Lu Maine having come to a glorious offhand. The scores were Liver­ wriggled to the hole in the • ice, end, I have ventured spin this let­ more, 120L, Andioscognn 1,148. plunged downward, headfirst and dis­ ter out to unusual length! knowing Whitney with 43 tost nosed out appeared as any sane pickerel ought fulll well how hungry you sporting Stetson by one point for high gun to do. The angler was heartbroken, editors must be fer “ copy.” I beg for the Lewiston club. though ail the while he had seven you will find space to publish the The Livermore scores were higher other good fish to his credit, all of capping enclosed regarding birds in .than Lewiston by two Or three legal length (10 inches) safely laid the woods and around our dwellings. po.nts to a man from Pushard, who away in his creel. We saw a string It. is clipped frem the Boston Post with 45 was high man to Wendafll of 21 caught yesterday This lake i of today. I am one of-the uncrown­ last man with 34. PUMP is one of the best fish . pends in ed (unpaid) deputies of the state and Eastern Massachusetts. It is one always take pleasure in doing work Androscoggin Rifle Club. GUN mile long by one-half wide; not over for the birds. Whitney, 555544444 3—43 16 feet deep in any place, soft bot­ Among, many other modem things Stetson, 555544443 3—42 The “ Good Old Stand-by ” tom and very weedy over a large worthy of mention is our overpower­ Kroon, 544444444 4—41 The gun that users swear by against all comers. area. There are no streams enter­ ing tax rate of $25.20 per thousand. Edwards, 555544443 2—41 Pick out some friend you know who uses one. ing it, cnly three narrow ditches We are almost a city; the political Turgeon, 554444444 3—41 Ask him about it. Let him show you the Solid Breech, Bottom Ejection—shells, smoke and largely overgrown and Impeded by cocoon is about ready to burst open; Kincaid, 555544433 3—41 gases go down away from your face; three Safety bushes and grass. Numerous open certain would-be banner bearers are Hammond, 554444444 3—41 Devices, simple Take-down, the Hammerless patches in the new first freezing grooming themselves, prior to don­ Pendleton, 554444444 3—41 feature. si’ ow the location of several springs. ning the ermine, and all indications Whitebouse, 5 54444443 3—40 Then when you are ready to buy it go to the Remins- ton-UMC dealer in this community. Vou’ll know him by The lake is easily reached by trol­ point to a lively contest at our prim­ Chase, 556444443 2—40 the Rmd Ball Mark of Rmmington-UMC—the Sign of Sportsmen’s Headquarters. ley, one line running along by and aries in February next. Our new Julia, 555444433 3—40 To keep your gun cleaned and lubricatad right, close to the east Shore, and Wiley's up-to-date movie theater is a fine J. White, 5 55444483 3—40 use Ram Oil, the new powder solvent, rust pro- 555444438 3—4 ▼ontative and gun lubricant. boathouse at the end of the park; one, seats about 1,000 and is located Hosmer, also Rosson’s boathouse at the head on Main street exactly opposite City Pottle, 544444443 3—39 Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Hall. All hands come and see us. Abbott, 544444443 2—38 299 Broadway, Naw York cf the lake. About two months ago wTe planted five hundred adult white J. CJ. Hartshorne. Bly, 554444432 3—38 perch in this Lake, and two years H. Coombs, 544444433 3—38 ago three hundred thousand pike- Hibbert, 544444433 3—38 perch fry all alive and kicking. Next PROP. BLACKWELL Woodhouse, 544444433 3—38 season they Should give us same Waliugfond, 554444333 2—37 rare sport, as well as a splendid OFF FOR FLORIDA Haskell, 544444333 3—37 Pelley, 5 5 5 444383 0—36 PLEASANT ISLAND GAMPS pan fish. They grow in some wat­ ers to weigh five or six pounds each; Elliott, 554443333 2—36 HOTEL BLANCHARD On Cupsuptic Lake. Fishing une.. . ^ , , „ , STRATTON MAINE „ . „ „ , , .. c • , , „ are smarter titan a black bass; slim Predicts Big Business for Season Delano, 544443333 3—36 celled. Best of hunting. Special rates _ ^ ___ _ ^ ^ t’ Randall, 544444333 2—36 In the center of the Fish and Game as a pickerel hut marked like a of 1916. for June, October and November. Jordan, 444443333 3—35 Section. Write for booklet. yellow perch, with fins like a perch. Write for booklet. Cushman, 444443338 3—35 WESTON U. TOOTHAKER, Prop., Two of these perch, five inches long, Mr. and Mrs. Dion O. Blackwell of HOTEL BLANCHARD, Curley, 4 4 4 443333 3—35 STRATTON MAINE. E. H. GROSE. Prop. Pleasant Island, - - Maine were caught last season. This lake Round Mountain Lake Camps passed has produced a few white perch of through. Phillips Wednesday en route Getehell, 444443333 2—34 twro pounds each; quite a Lot , of for (New York and Florida, where A Men, 444333332 2—31 five-pound pickerel; one black bass they intend to spend the winter. of seven and a quarter pounds, and Prop. Blackwell reports a very suc- Total, 1143 1 Mountain View House |tons of German earp, shiners, hern-1 cessful year with, his camps filled pout, yellow perch and eels. One practically all the season. Livermore Fails Club. Mountain View, Maine carp was captured at the outlet of The past year, according to Mr. Pushard, 45 | For further particulars write or address the lake which weighed 46 pound®; RHackweflil, was especially successful CooJidge, 43 its spawn weighed three pounds. We during the bunting season. The num Dalit on, 43 | L. E. B0WLEY, had two slices; its flesh, looked Like ber of his guests during the fall were Bartlett, 42 beef, texture fine-grained, and when more than double those of the prev­ Buck, Mountain View, » * » Maine.| 42 cooked with pork tasted not unlike ious year. The cause of this, he Adkins, 42 sword fish. A substantial screen feels sure, is the reduction in the Li­ Larkin, 42 was placed at the outlet before cense fee from $25 to $15. Cloutier, 41 Ed. Grant’s Kennebago Camps planting the adult white perch, just Mr. Blackwell predicts that 1916 Winter, before mentioned. will be the banner year for the sport­ Armistead, 1 41 Log camps with baths, open fires, etc. Best trout fly-fishing, both lake and 41 We have another smaller lake, but ing business in Maine. Robinson, stream, canoeing, mountain climbing, etc. Excellent cuisine. Post Office Ray, 41 and Long Distance Telephone in Main Camp. For rates, descriptive circulars twice as deep as Quannapowitt, Crys­ With hi® camp® already nearly all 40 and other information, write tal lake the source of our domestic booked he look® forward to a pleas­ Waite, 40 CD. GRANT (Si S ON CO.. P. O. Address, Grant’s Me. water supply. This lake is literally ant winter in New York and Florida. Allen, Railroad and Telegraph office Kennebago, Me. 40 full' of fine, healthy fish, but has not Halil, 40 been fished in, except from the shores Sawteile, 40 for more than fifteen years. There WHEN IS A Newherg, Roys, Jr., 39 BALD MOUNTAIN CAMPS B*,a * Hatch, 39 ;S ough to cut Which seems a bit in the WILD DUCK? Bald'Mountain Camps are situated at the foot of Bald Mountain on Mooselookme- % Smith, 39 distance. (untie Lake. Near the best fishing grounds. First class steamboat connections—Auto Jjj; Martel, 39 road to camps—Telephone connections—Two mails dally—Write^or free circular. Christmas was celebrated at the The above question is asked' in a AMOS ELLIS. Prop’r.. Bald Mountain, Maine 0. Jewell, ' 1 39 church With an entertainment by the Washington dispatch, to the Sun, N. I '**• Gilbert, 39 children and a welWIaden tree, the Y., September 9. Bradford, 38 gifts being distributed by Santa Professor T. Gilbert Pearson, In an F. JeweflU, 38 Ciaus. interview said: ‘‘When you go to King, ' 38 Rev. Mr. Gilbert occupied the pul­ a hotel and look down, the bill of Libby, 37 Rangeley Lakes and Dead River pit Sunday. It was. a stormy day fare where it says $6 and then order Small, 37 and but few could get out to hear ‘wild duck,’ how are you going to Pomeroy, ' \ 34 Region his eloquent and forcefull sermon. He know it is wild?’’ WendalLl, 34 is an able speaker and the church isi Professor Pearson says you can’t fortunate in retaining him against of­ tell. He ba® got the gourmands, Total, 1201 AS A HUNTING RESORT fers from larger places. guessing by his declaration that half The Ladies’ Aid have been busy the ‘‘can va shack ducks” for which other members of the local cllub filling a box cf clothing and useful you pay from $3 to $6 are mere'y shot the following score® Tuesday articles for the poor and needy at ‘‘typographical errorsi” on. the bill of This territory is unsurpassed in Maine. It is easy of access fare. He ha® confided to some of night: — Lewiston. The circle is not large Blagden, 544444330 0—?1 and nearly all the camps are open during the Hunting Season. in numbers but does a large amount the bird sharks that most of the wild R. Coombs, 543332222 2—28 of work towards the expenses of the ducks on the hotel menus were rais­ Deer, partridge, duck, bear and small game are very Whit turn, 443332222 2—27 church. ed in a yard and a pond with a wire abundant. Bates, 4 3 3 333332 0—27 M.r. HiiLl of The Belgrade entertain­ fence around them. He positively de­ Non-resident Hunting license fee only 115.00 ed the children of the village with a fies anybody to telll the difference O’ nstmas dinner, Mir. Hill himself when the waiter brings them to. like duck. He says men are mak­ Write the Sa n d y R iv e r & R a n g e l e y L a k e s R a il r o a d for carving the tnrkey. It was a jolly Just because a wild duck is wild ing money raising “ wild ducks” aud booklet with map. little crowd of 30 who enjoyed the is no reason, Professor Pearson says, that the National Association of Au­ feast and gave Mr, Hill three rous­ why it should taste any better than dubon Societies is encouraging the In­ F. N. BEAL, General xManager, Phillips, Maine ing cheers as they departed with a tame “ wild duck” which has aban­ dustry as a means of preserving the pockets well filled with nuts and doned Ms wild ways and settled dow game. ! , ,/ candy. into a plain garden variety, business- (Continued on page four.) MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAIN E, JANUARY 6, 1916.

ions,—the need of game propagation but they have awakened to the fact will drop his piece of raw meat to SPORTSMEN’S in Maine, the needs cf the State that this. iis. an extremely profitable try and steal the portion of another, WILL SHOOT A warden service, and the resident hunt* business' if rightly conducted, and only to have his own filched by : MATCH BY MAIL MEETING era’ registration. We are starting after a complete survey, have issued brother, and buried in a remote corn­ the meeting in the morning -so that bulletin® endorsing the proposition of er, from which, perhaps: it may be we will have time for these and other; fur farming and extending valuable dragged a moment later by a fourth. matters. There will be good infor­ information to those desiring to en­ Rifle Club Arranges Contest with Banquet Will Be Held at the The mink is one of the puzzles o' mal speaking at the banquet. gage in the business. Livermore Falls Team Augusta House the animal kingdom, and he rarelv Bring a friend if you can; every­ During the past eight or ten, years does what is expected of him. On: one will be welcome. Better still there has been a rush, especially h occasions he will put l:ds queer little have him sign the enclosed applicat­ the western section, of New Bruns­ Interest in the weekly shoots of Tlie annual meeting of the Maine face close to yours, while ceiled up, ion and come as a member. wick, and Prince Edward Island to the Androscoggin, Rifle club is, grow­ Sportsmen's Fish, and Game Associa­ snakeldke, wth one or two others in Yours truly, ge into the fox farming business, ing, and each week ®ee» a good-sized tion which convenes at the State a nest of hay and look you fairly in R. J. HODGSON, Pres. and 'hundred's, cf companies have ris­ crowd out to take part’ in the nu it chest. House Jan. 14, promises to be a suc­ the eye with a ludicrously thoughtful en, flourished and made enormous Tuesday night was no exception to cessful one. The Journal has already air. At other time® at the approach profits in selling breeders. It is evi­ the rule, 31 members, being present printed the plans for the meeting of a human he will rush furiously a- dent that during this time S'carce’y and some excellent scores being but the fcSlowing letter sent out by bout the enclosure and start a gen­ MINK FARMING any pelts have been purchased. It made. Hammond wais high man with the president of the association in­ eral scamper, or dart into a hole in has been as far as Canada and east­ a score of 164. cludes the program and will interest the ground, immediately turning a- IN MAINE The following fact® show some in­ many who plan to attend and many ern Maine is concerned, a race to round and peering out as, if to ask produce goed breeding animals to selil teresting comparisons relative to the who will not be so fortunate. The “ What are you going to do about it?” to some other prospectivfe fur ranch­ improvement in shooting by members. letter do dated at Lewistcn and Even since the original garment He can transform himself into half er; he to transfer their progeny to. At the shoot of Dec. 7, there were reads: worn in the Garden of Eden became dozen shapes. Naturally long and another, and so on, all along the line. three whose score went over 150, Dear Sir: inadequate for human, needs, furs lithe, he can bristle his body into a while not a man was over 160. Dec. have been constantly in use as a This made the element of speculat­ fretful, brushy mass, or he can pul We want you to help make the an­ ion a large one and big fortunes 14, there were five over 150 and one nual meeting of the Maine Sports­ covering for the human body. The his length, into half, and lean up a- from a single pair are a fact Fat over 160. Dec. 21, there were six men’s Fish and Game Association a prehistoric man, pursuing his quarry gainst the wire, looking like a stick cannot be controverted. over 150 and two over 160. Tuesday success. We want you to attend'. with, primitive weapons, robbed it cf of stove wood, with feet as knots' and In. all this time, howiever, the night 11 beat the 150 mark while The date is Friday, January 14th, at its skin and fashioned rude garments his nose resembling the slash cf an would-be fur farmers have overlook­ three exceeded the 160 figure. Augusta, and you will be repaid for to protect himself against the incle­ un,skillfully cut tree. He can, stretch ed, in their eagerness to breed ava liu,- Next week the club will shoot a the time and effort. Here’s the pro­ mencies of the weather, or decorated almost unbelievably, and can gc able fox families, one of the most gram : his new robe with ornaments to pro­ through, a crack. He can jump like match, by ma.iii with the Livermore sought-for fur bearing animals—the Fall© club, each to be represented by 10.00 a. m., Business meeting and claim his rank and prowess. In the a squirrel, or act as clumsy as a mud mink, although its possibilities were a team of 30 men. election of officers. Middle Ages the lawmakers Wore turtle. He is the chameleon of the touched upon by the government booh* 2 p. m., Discussion of important ermine and sable; the Wealthy land-j fur bearers; a comedian and a puz­ The first annual meeting of the lets issued by Cana da and the United questions'. lord added furs to Ms. wardrobe; the I zle. club will be held at 7.30 o’clock Tues- States in 1913-14. During the form­ 4.30 p. m., Illustrated lecture by A. Norseman threw a shaggy hide about i day night, Jan. 4. er years continued reports of success In none of its, books on the subject H. Dinsmore. him as he went forth to- battle, or j Tuesday night’s scores were: in breeding mink gained circulation. of fur farming has the Government 8.90 p. m., Banquet.. tanned it into a shield to resist the Stand Prone Total Ranch-bred mink are much more trac ever presented any adequate pictures Meetings and lecture in trail of blows of an antagonist. Hammond, 79 85 164 table than wild ones and bring double of mink, and it is no easy piece of Representatives. Banquet at Augus­ It is no wonder that, with the im­ work to secure them. The pictures Turgeon, 75 88 163 prices. It did not need any govern­ ta House. mense operations of the Dutch fur J. White, 68 92 160 ment endorsement to show that large presented in this issue of Fur News Lash year we had q record meet­ trader, the Hudson’s. Bay Company, Kroon, 68 91 159 profits could be made if breeding were obtained after incredible trou­ ing, but we want this' to be a bigger the exploiting of the Northwestern Fitz, 72 86 158 could he sucicessifiilily carried on, and ble, the wasting of dozens of plates one, even if the Legislature isn’t in territory and the constant trapping Pottle, 65 90 155 a few mink ranches have begun to and hours of time. On repeated oc­ session. The lecture ‘‘Camp Fires of of wild animals by cunning devices C. Abbott, 58 96 154 appear along the Canadian and State casions the camera man was either a Fish Oudturist” is one of the best and alluring baits for the past hund­ Stetson, 65 88 153 of Maine border. It is stllil c f too quick or too slow, but he persist­ of i.ts kind. Mr. Dinsmore is a for­ red years or mere in the United Hosmer, 64 39 153 course, an infant industry, and part­ ed, until he secured several character* mer Maine man, now federal superin­ States, that we read as a plain and Bly, 66 85 151 ly an embryo propositien as yet, te- istic pictures, a® well as some freakish) tendent of hatcheries in Vermont, simple item of news in a daily publi­ ones. Haskell, 66 85 151 • ause not enough, mink have been Chase, 62 87 149 who has had some extraordinary ex­ cation that the skin of a silver black Mr. Tibbetts reads everything prim­ reared to standardize the prizes for Alden, 64 31 145 periences in Yellowstone Park, the fox recently sold for $2,700, although ed on the sub ject cf fur ranching. He ; breeders, which are, as might be ex­ Estes, 69 74 143 Black Hills, Colorado Rockies and the weighing no more than a pound. * says that the principal difficulty in I pected, quite high, as a breeding WaJdfmgford, 59 81 149 Puget Sound region, where he has fur dealer of wide repute who is breeding mink is that the males, are mink is estimated to have an earning Pendleton, 60 79 139 done propagation work. forced to advertise extensively to se­ apt to kill, the female® In the mating capacity c.f $50 a year providing her R. True, 70 69 139 Born and brought up a photograph­ cure material, states it as his belief season, but that he has thus far es­ young can be sold on, a pelit basis Eliott, 60 78 138 er, he has made his own illustrations that in five cr ten years there will caped any casualties from this cause. alone. Blagden, 57 78 135 one. series of which1 shows the life not be more than a third cf the wild As his first pair were bred from do­ Mink breeding is apparently the Lee, 51 83 134 history of trout, photographed under fur bearing animals in existence Feral mesticated or ranch-raised animal® j poor man’s opportunity, for there Hibbert, 65 68 133 v;ater. He tells of many interesting are today; and this means more than! he thinks this may have had some-| net enough ranch-raised breeding- Frost, 59 73 132 things' that go with years of camp is evident on the surface. Not until! thing to do with, it. ‘‘Many amateurs minks to be purchased to start a cap­ W- Webber, , 59 68 127 life spent in the work. The highest recently has the attention of the go - says, Mr. Tibbetts ‘‘have killed their italistic business. In other words, Getchell, 55 70 125 authorities' have given this' lecture a ernments of this country and Canada mink with kindness and attention. large sums of money cannot be in­ Jordan, 51 64 115 cordial endorsement. been drawn, officially to the need fo~ They should of course, have plenty of We shall discuss three big quest­ vested in it at pre-ent. Randall, 66 48 114 artificial propagation cf fur bearers, room, fresh water in large quantities While very difficult to breed from Delano, 35 58 93 and feeding time should be regular. the wild state, ranch-raised mink Whittum, 10 69 79 jiii!iiiiiiiimimii!iii!iiiiMiiiitiiiiiimtiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiii!iiimiiii!iiiiimimii!miiiiiii!ii!iiiiMiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiim:iiiii!iii>- Family rows need not be interfered breed very readily^ It was this Kincaid, 50 20 79 with often, as they are spasmodic knowledge that caused a native of Wocdihiouse, 15 49 64 and usually terminate quickly, except j Maine, Franklin C. Tibbetts, to under Ness, 11 47 58 take the business with the help of a in the breeding season, when a A REAL BARGAIN small company organized and incor­ sharp watch must be kept over them. The Nectar of Autumn. porated in. January, 1915. At first Fish, raw meat and small live ani­ A fine set of sporting camps in one of Maine’s best | mals, mice, rats or rabbits, are the Very few cider barrels ever contain blush ;t might have seemed impos­ enough not to disappoint the owner. | hunting and fishing territories is for sale. On a large pre- | sible to produce mink under the cir­ foods most employed, and Mr. Tib­ —Baltimore Sun. | serve. Excellent camps and many outlying ponds. cumstances. Mr. Tibbett’s. home sits betts, has a Belgian hare pen close by, which affords food for his sixty within a few feet of the electric car Business Based on Credit. tracks and is- surrounded by other sharp-toothed charges from time to Tho checks which pass through th* I $3,000 | houses. He bad, however, a fau time. The owner lias dabbled in clearing house in London and New sized lot in the rear, and after con­ raccoon breeding and has some, fine York in one month in normal times ex­ 1 spot cash takes it. For further information write structing a ten-foot wire enclosure, and extremely tame pets, but has de­ ceed the value of all the existing gold with, the bottom, wired under ground voted his entire time for the past and silver coin in the world at right angles to a distance of two nine months to mink as a business MAINE WOODS, feet from the walls, he procured and feels that bis ‘‘ranch” in the THE CABIN BOAT PRIMER twenty ranch mink from different heart of a city of 60,009 people prom­ H IS is a very in­ ises to be a success. He “ farms” or teresting and in­ PHILLIPS, MAINE sources, from which he has now a T THE family, old and young, of sixty; an cares for mink owned by other ranch­ structive book on mak­ ing cabin boats, canoes, ers, taking as his pay a percentage of CABIN BOAT .iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiitiiitiii)iit>iiiiMiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiitiiiiiiiii]i!iiiiiiiMiniMiitiiiniiit)iiii|tuiuiiti ijituiiuiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiintiiiiiiiJiiitiiiiiiiiiuiiiTiiiiiiiC increase of two hundred per cent. row boats, etc. It tells PRIMER Good prices have been offered for an the increase. In this way he hopes of the various streams and all these animals, but they have to build up a steady income, although one can trip on with a not owning the parent mink. This cabin boat, how to been refused, as Mr. Tibbetts intends equip for such a trip, PROLONG YOUR VACATION to thoroughly go into the business of ranch is the only one in the western what to wear and eat, mink ranching, having come to the end of the State and is attracting cost of a two month’s much attention from many who have trip. It gives descrip­ by having the conclusion that there is more money tions and diagrams, and less risk in this branch of the been, or expect to be engaged in the photographs and chapters on construction, fur business, than, in fox farming. hr raising industry. Mr. Tibbetts’ when to float, when and where to land and Mr. Tib’bett gives his entire attent­ mink family j© increasing; his animals other useful hints. Book is compiled of are in the best of hcAlth. Sooner or facts and observations made by the author. MAINE WOODS ion to the little animals, and has dis­ It contains 267 pages, over 40 illustrations covered things, about their nature later be is going to see their value and diagrams, 32 chapters as follows: that the Government fails to men­ greatly enhanced, and in, the mean­ Down the Mississippi River in a Cabin Boat, Trip Down the Yukon, The Cabin Boat, How to follow you back to the city. Fill out tion in its booklets. They do not time he feels that there is no danger Build a Cabin Boat, The Cabin Boat’s Equipment Furnishings and Furniture, Odds and Ends at make good pets; they are vicious a- of a glut in the mink market cr a Equipment. The Skiff or Tender, The Gasoline decline in the demand, so that he is Launch, What to Wear, Things to Eat. Cabin the blank below, and mail with $1.00 mong themselves and born “ scrap­ Boat Expenses, Cabin Boating Waters, Maps and pers,” as well as being hoggish to e satisfied to let well enough alone.— Landing Lists. B’loating, Floating at Night and in Fogs. Going Up Stream. Weather. Making Fast great degree. The smallest mini­ Fur News. and Some Rope Hints. Landings, Troubles. Care and the deed is done. of the Boat, Ways of Making Money. On Making Notes, Land Hints. Photographing, Game and Hunting, Traps and Trapping, Fish and Fishing, Amusements, Books, Trapper’s Canoe, A Cabin Boat Coon H unt , ARE YOU GOING TO BOSTON ? Price Postpaid, Cloth Bound, 51.00. Young womin going fc* Maine Woods, Phillips, Maine. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK Boston to work or ■ any lady going to Boston t*r pleasure or on a shopping trip without malo escort will TAXIDERMISTS find th e Enclosed please find $1.00 for one year’s subscription to Franklin Square G. W. P1CKKL, TAXIDERMIST Maine Woods (outing edition.) H ouse Dealer in Sporting Goods. Fishing Tack la, Indian Moccasins, Baskets and Souvenirs. a delightful place to stop. A RANGELEY, - - . MAINft Home-Hotel In tho heart, of Name Boston exclusively for wo­ men. S3Q rooms, safs, com­ ‘ 4 Monmouth M occasins” fortable convenient of access, Address. prices reasonable. For par­ They are made for ticulars and prices addres* Sportsmen, Guides, Lumbermen Known the world over for excel­ State ... 1 \J5?c CasU?'' G, Swanson, Supt., II E. Newton St., Boston, Mass lence. Illustrated catalogue free. * --nOW M. L. GETCHELL CO., Monmouth. - Main MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, JANUARY 6, 1916. 3

to kennel®' and breakfast at 7 o’clock right way just whait is- expected Df mer season when the mercury i® siz­ —that is real cubbing, if you keep at them, and they very soon learn to do zling in the nineties or above the 100 is every suitable morning from, mid- the rest. degree mark. August. Now for a glimpse at fash­ A principal reason for the season ionable cubbing. The Inborn Desire to Hunt Fox less' feature of blue reck shooting is Fashionable cubbing begin®, as a that the game is not played on the rule, early in October, after real If the huntsman, comes home from ground as are golf, cricket, polo, soc­ When Yen W ant a Thing Done cubbing has done its. work and made bis first few days cubbing having suc­ cer, football!, etc., nor is it necessary hound®, horses and men ready for ceeded in showing hi® young entry to have a clear field for the base run­ businesis. Probably the hounds- will what a fox smells like, or, better ner as i,n base ball. Another reason RIGHT, Do 8t YOURSELF leave the kennels at 6 ohiook-—an still, what it tastes like, he has gone is that the original “ players’* in the early hour, it is true, but quite a dif­ far toward insuring a successful sea­ trapshooting game were hunters who Real tobacco flavor depends upon the leaf being pre­ ferent story from 4, especially if one son month® later. If he lias- suc­ used the inanimate targets to keep in served in its natural state, possible only by pressing the repeats it every day. Instead of the ceeded in showing his puppies and in form, for field shooting or found in leaves into plug form and keeping it in by covering it staff and a rider or so, there will reminding Iris old hound® that there the cilay birds a substitute for the be a score or more, men and women, with a natural leaf wrapper. The natural flavor and is a difference between fox and cat, vanished game of woed and marsh. all thinking and saying that they are that guinea fowl are not tc. be bayed However, the sport is- not limited to strength of tobacco escape when cut or granulated. going cubbing, but really doing noth­ at any more than suckling pig®, are enjoyment by those who have “ rough­ Take a Plug of Sickle that is even thoroughly dried ing of the sort. They would not to be chased., if he lias stirred up er! if,” but is now followed as much wanf to cub. If'they were told to out so that when you whittle it off it crumbles into dust, that inborn desire of the well-bred by the office or professional man as stay in the road While bounds went the outdoor devotee, but even so it but it will bum and smoke smooth and cool as it has all fox-hound to burnt fox and nothing on acrossi the. fields, if they could but fox, then that huntsman has numbers no mollycoddles, or those < f its original tobacco flavor preserved, unevaporated in only hear the tantaldcsing music from made something out of his cubbing who “lave softly” , in its ranks for its P lug F orm . a distance, i.f it was all covert work seaison. pursuit, especially in th© many and no run; in short, if they got Whittling a pipeful is little trouble, amply repaid Cubbing, real cubbing, can never matches lie,Id, requires that the un­ what they pay they are after—plain holding of individual or club suprem­ in both quality and quantity. Try this experiment and popular, for it involves too much, cubbing—they would stand it for a work and offers too little iai return acy frequently means disregard of judge for yourself. morning or so, then the majority cf to the amateur, who liais to stand by heat or cold, sunshine or storm, and them would go home. and content himself with looking cn. during the winter season shooters are 3 Ounces Slice it as However, it is a® necessary to hunt­ sometimes called on to shoot their Fashionable Cubbing is Good Fun ing as conditioning i,s to a steep­ score standing in snow, ice or slush. 10c youusg lechaser, and, in spite of the labor So this is just a little plea to get irvolved, it is a real joy to those all our friend®,—including those in However, fashionable cubbing give few who are interested in tihe mak­ the newspaper business,—into line them just what they want. They ge ing of the pack and who derive as for trapshooting. This is, the sure the novelty of the early morning ride much pleasure in the schooling of the enough sport that age cannot wither before the sun is up. They get the new entry as they do in tihe gallops jmir be withered by age. pleasure of being with hounds' once these same young hound® will afford We are after the young fellow' of more, and, what they are really after, when tihe regular season, is cn. Too , fifty• He is the boy we want to they get a Short, smart gallop. Fash­ much praise cannot be given, to the take to it—along with his son, and ionable cubbing is so airranged that largely unnoticed work cf the hunts­ his father, too. the corn is cut. anti shocked and the man and hi® staff in the months of In Toronto, wre have a gentleman, countryside fairly clear for riding be­ August and September. We owe John Maugham by name, who is1 76 fore the field is allowed to come cut igated bcire, although only a few them far more than is commonly | years of age, and he still can give with the houndis at all. This pre­ HOUND TRAINING have the courage to admit it—that is, realized, for, as the oft-quoted Peter | most of them a run for it at the real cubbing. Of course, it is just vents- possible damage to the farmers' Beck,ford says, those are the months traps. crops, the one thing always to be a REAL FACTOR as well that tihi® is so, since cubbing “in which a pack i,® either made' ' James Douglas, another citizen, is voided. The only difference be­ calls for no crowd of riders and for m orre d. ’ ’—iSprimgfiel d Repub 1 i cam,. over seventy and shoots as' well at tween fashionable cubbing and actual little oir no galloping across the fields the trap® as he ever did. hunting is that the meet® take place The Novelty of a Gallop Before the still blind and covered with uncut Tihe gentleman' in the accompany­ at au earlier hour, the dressing is com. A® a matter of fact, however, ing picture is Phil Wakefield, the not so formal, and there is possibly a CANADA SHOWS Sun Is Up there aire two sorts of cubbing— High Chief of the Canadian Indians. little more road riding. This article real cubbing, which is hard, serious We wouldn’t like to say how old he deals with, the real cubbing—the two UP WELL work, and fashionable cubbing, which is, but he has been shooting for Fax-hunting has a side-sport, cuib- months’ hard, preparatory grind, all totjng, or cubbing, wbiLoh plays a is not cubbing at all—simply hunting thirty years, and last summer shot a® work and little play, in, the course of It’s interesting to note that Oan- far more important part in the real a little early in the season. It is well, as any of us. In the illustra­ which, the hunt staff accomplish more ada’s trapshooting map shows more sport of hunting, latter in the season, interesting to note some oif the dif­ tion the writer is engaged in con­ and get les® credit for it than at any clubs—in proportion to her population than many people are willing to give ferences. gratulating him on having just turn­ other time of the year. —than there are in the States. lip ed in a perfect score. it credit for. For the sake of those An evening will come when the sun ber6) we ]liajve 350 club's; in the uninitiated into the mysteries of the One Must Make an Early Start sink® into a sea of mackerel clouds, State® there are about 3,500, ten chase, it may be well to explain just all gold and crimson. There wi’l be times our number, While the populat­ BOSTON FORESTRY MEETING »hat cubbing i® and bow greatly it Real cubbing means that the hounds sinks into a sea of mackerel clouds, ion of the State® is thirteen or more differ® from the actual bunting for must be on the road by 4 or 4.30 a hinit of f#U in- the air, contrasting times Canada’s. which it pannes tihe way. Cubbing, o’clock in the morning, so as to reach It is estimated that about 20 Maine oddly with the sultry mid-summer da/. There isn’t any dcuht that our peo accurately speaking, is bound train­ the oovertsiide by the time the day people, men interested in forestry, just drawing to a close. Such, even-ipje wj,]j eventuailiy take just a® gen- and their wives, will attend the 35th ing and exercise, not hunting at all. ha® broken sufficiently to enable the men to see. This early hour is ings always come once in a while is erally to trapshooting as, they do to annual meeting of the American For­ The term covers1 the activity of the August, aind it is for them that the 0(-her real out-door sports, hunting establishment from perhaps essential to avoid the heat of mid­ estry Association in the CopHey-Plaza huntsman has been, waiting. The .next Today it needs but a fleeting Hotel, Boston, Monday and Tuesday, the middle of August until regular summer sun® and to take advantage of the dews, which lie well in covert morning sees (him at the covertside, | gia(n,ce over the Dominion to pick sev- January 17 and 18. The most im­ , hunting begins eartly in November. It long before sun-up. The chances ard oral high spots in tlhie sport that are consists, for the most part, in taking before the sun dries them off the portant subject to be discussed by that be will be repaid, for the cool international interest. There’s this meeting—and one in, which all out the bounds at earliest gray of ground. Real cubbing means that night has sprinkled' dew on the Montreal, for instance, the home of dawn and allowing them to work the huntsman and perhaps lids whip­ New England i>s interested, is the pur­ sweet fern and gree nib,mars, giving cur own Walter H. Ewing, who beat through the coverts near the kennels. per-in will open the gate and nide chase of Federal forest reserves un­ some chance, at least, of scent-hold­ der the provisions' of the Weeks law. Thi® serves the twofold purpose of down the edge of the covert with the ing until the rays of the sun mount For tihe purpose of this law the as­ guttling the hounds in shape, and, at hounds, while anyone else who has- high, enough to scorch the dusty sociation desires a $10,000,000 appro­ the same time, of breaking up the had the courage to turn out of bed at earth,. priation. The meeting will be called titters by scattering the young cub® that hour will he politely asked to Tihe pack probably will consist of a to order by Dr. Henry S'. Drinker of and forcing them to shift for them­ stay in the road. If the morning is* fair proportion, of old stagers'—-the Bethlehem, Penn. Among the Well- selves abcut the countrysiide. a little damp and scent holds wall th steady, line-hunting, oan’t-be-hurried known, Maine people who are plan­ To most people cubbing is an unmi houndis are apt to pick up a line. Out from the covert dairt two or thire type, who have tihe patience to puz­ ning to attend the meeting are Sena­ cubs-, each taking a different pcant a- zle. out what at best must be a very tor and Mrs. Forest Colby of Bing­ oross the meadows, and each ending, weak line—and a sprinkling of pup® ham; Mayor and Mrs. Blaine S. Vale s SANDY RIVER & RANGELEY who have never been entered to fox. almost invariably, in a field of stand­ PHILIP WAKEFIELD, ALFRED of Augusta; Hon. Paysion Vile® of The latter are almost sure to be LAKES RAILROAD ing com. The glorious -crash, of HEWITT. Skowhegan; Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Phil- noisy and excited at first, but be­ TIME TAI1I.E music as hound® break into tongue brick of Skowhegan; J. Fred Phil Ifpp tween the rating they get from the In Effect, December 13, 1915. and drive cut of covert rolls across of Bangor; and Prof. J. M. Brisco of men and tihe scorn, with, which they t,l e W'orld of trapshooters at the FARMINGTON Passertjrer Trains leave Farm­ the little hallow to where the early Orcno, director of the department of O'ympic Games at Henden (near Lon-, ington for Phillips, Rangeley and Bigelow, at riser is impatiently waiting in the are regarded by tilieir more serious forestry at the University of Maine. S. 16 P, M.. and for Phillips at 12.07 P. itf. Pas- elders, in surprisingly short, order don) in 1908, when he won the Indi­ lenger trains arrive from Phillips at 6.55 A. M. road, standing up in Ms stirrups the they lea.ru what i® expected of them. vidual Championship at Clay Targets. >nd from Rangeley. Phillips and Bigelow at 2.10 while and craning Ills neck to catch a t. M . * Once they have settled down to' tihe In Toronto, we have Joe Jennings, Whenever you write to one of our Mixed train arrives at 9.35 A. M. and leaves at glimpse of the fun he is missing. real fox line, once they have become who went over to the States and won advertisers, don’t forget to mention 1L00 A. M. Everything is set for a run—if or a intoxicated with the joy of running the Westy Hogan's Championislhip a Maine Woods. It is impo/rtant to STRONG Passenger trains arrive at Strong regular blazer. The man, in Ms ex­ from Phillips at 6.23 M.. and from Phillips and in ,a pack after that one particular few years, ago, and who probably has you to do so; Important to( us and R*n?eley at 1.34 P. M., and from Bigelow at 1.15 citement, forget® fcir the moment thing which they have been bred, for nc superiors at the trap® in this T. M., and from Farmington at 12.37 P. M. and that August is not November, and h the advertiser naturally wants to M? P. M. P issenger trains leave Strong for centuries to hunt, once they have country. Then there are Hal Bates; rams down Ibis, hat pud siettle© in Me know where you found his naime. brmington at 6.23 A. M. and 1 37 P. M. For caught sight of the older hounds of Ridgetown; E. E, Beatty, of Ham­ Phillips at 12.87 P. M. For Phillips and Range- saddle. Then all at once, the music l«y at 6.47 P. M. For Bigelow at 2 00 P. M. and swarming in a baying, tumbling mass ilton; Umpire Bob Eroslie, of St. stop®, th© rider loosen is hi® grip upon hr Kingfield at 5.50 P. M. above the first cub of tihe year, once Thomas; J. E. Hovey, of Clinton—all Mixed Train arrives from Phillips at 8.46 A. M. his saddle flaps with a sigh, of disap­ MAPS OF MAINE the youngsters have been, bloodied to in-the championship class and repres­ Mdfrom Kingfield at 8.25 A. M.. and from Farm­ pointment, and the huntsman come®* ington at 11.45 A. M. Leaves for Phillips at 1.40 fox, in fact, tihe worst i® over. entative followers, of “Tihe Sport Al­ RESORTS AND ROADS T. M. and for Farmington at 8-45 A. M. trotting down the lane, twanging on Of course, some are longer In I earn* luring.” We could go on with a PHILLIPS Passenger Trains leave for Farming- his horn to collect the panting Maine Woods has frequent inquiries in^ than others, but by the time Lst covering every Province, for there for maps of the fishing regions of the ton at 6.00 A. M. and 1.15 P. M. For Rangeley at hounds. He has had no more fun 5.15 P. M. Passenger Trains arrive from Farm­ cubbing i® over most of them have are many more to name, however, We state, etc. We can furnish the follow­ ington at 12.55 P. M. and 6.10 P. M. From Range- than the chap in the road, but lie has ing maps: given up trying to chase rabbits down! can only touch here and there just •ey at 12.20 P. M. Rangeley 10.15 A. M. done some good work. Hi® houndis Franklin County $ .50 Mixed Train leaves for Farmington at 7.30 A. drain®' or to climb hickory tree® enough to show how thoroughly we Somerset County .50 M., Rangeley 1.20 P. M. and arrives from Farm­ have found fox once more and an­ after chattering gray squirrels. If a are backing a sport that we believe Oxford County ,50 ington at 2 15 P. M. other season fts on. They have sent Piscataquis County .50 pup still fondly imagine® that he iis to be full of rich promise here—'prom RANGELEY Passenger Train leaves for Farm­ a brace of cub® scampering for dear Aroostook County .50 ington at 10.40 A. M. and arrives at 8.00 P- M. meant for any such work as that ise of better recreation, better health, Washington Couniy ,50 Mixed Train arrives from Phillips at 3.45 P. M, life into the earn, and, but for the when tihe October frosts are opening better manhood for all who partied,pate Outing map of Maine, 20x35 in 1.00 Wd leaves at 7.30 A. M. powdery dust of a stubble field, the the chestnut burs, that pup’s' days in | in it. Geological map of Maine .h5 SALEM Passenger Train leaves for Strong at old hounds would have caught one R, R. map of Maine .«5 h50 P. M. and foi Bigelow at 2.38 P. M. the keninelsi probably are limited, un­ To us, it seems obvious that trap­ and shown the young entry just what Androscoggin County .35 KINGFIELD MixedTrain leaves for Bigelow at less bis other qualifications are so shooting is tihe one, outdoor sport Cumberland County .35 Itn A. M. Passenger train leaves for Bigelow at a fox cub tastes like. On- to an­ Hancock County .50 L63 P. M. Mixed train arrives from Bigelow At exceptional as to warrant more time that knows no season and is followed other covert or two, a long jog back Kennebec County .35 H.30 A. M., and passenger train arrives from being spent on, him. It is a curious regardless o,f weather conditions. Bigelow at 4.50 P. M. Passenger train leaves Knox County .35 lor Farmington at 12.30. thing, but in most cases tilne most That h,reaking tihe clay saucers i,s un­ Lincoln and Sagadahoc Counties .35 ique as an al'l-year-’rouind recreation Penobscot County .5o BIGELOW Mixed train arrives from Kingfield PALMER ENGINES AND incorrigible bound at tihe time of en­ nt 915 A. M., and departs for Kingfield and tering often turn,® out the most use­ is proved by the pursuit of the game Waldo County .36 York County .35 Farmington at 10.00 A. M. Passenger train ar- LAUNCHES. in Canada and in the northern states riveg from Farmington at 8.43 P. M. and departs ful after be has bad Ms filing, so toi f®r Kingfield at 4.00 P. M. Special 2 1-2 H. P. engine for canoes speak, and settled down to serious j when the thermometer lingers at zero J. W BRACKETT CO., and light boats, $48.00. Largest stock fact, most I or below and that a majority of tihe F. N. BEAL, Gen’ l Manager, in Maine. Catalogue free. PALMER work. A® a matter of Phillips, Maine. BROS., 39 Portland Pier. Portland, Me. hounds only need to be, shown in the I big handicap® are shot in the sum- Phillips - Maine. MAhNE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, JANUARY 6, 1916.

| seirvime table placed between them, “I believe a fellow couldn’t stand it MAINE WOODS A - •:•: lard Bill® scon grew confidential a as a regular diet a.s well' as other ISSUED WEEKLY the inner man became more animat- meats, but I like it fairly well my­ ed. self. Tom Kennedy’s deer last fai J. W. B rack ett Co. Fly Rod’s Note Book “ I vowed,” he said suddenly, ‘‘to weighed about 140 pounds, and he did Phillips, Maine______never let a year go by without a have some time dividing that meat up B Y F L Y RO D hunting trip down in Maine; now among his friends, I toll you. He L. B. BRACKETT, how could I possibly break till at reso­ was only cut a couple days, hunting, Business M anager lution until next fall,, tell me that, and came back with his first deer.” “ I’ll be with you next fall, Ellis,” OUTING EDITION Fish and Game Department, prouder than ever of the resource® of will you?” Frank laughed good nat- said Frank, “and your resolution,, I pages ...... $1.00 per year * State House, Augusta, Me., my own State. urediy. LOCAL EDITION Jan. 4, 1916. “Don’t get peevish; that was a. know, will, keep till then all rigid, 12 and 16 p a g e s...... $1.56 per year fine resolution, and I’ll guarantee you judging by your enthusiasm now.” Happy New Year to everybody I .then visited the Fish and Game Canadian. Mexican. Cuban and Panama sub­ won’t break it. I’m going along ‘‘We’ll write to some of the Maine scription 50 cents extra. Foreign subscription who reads the Maine Woods from the Department and found the chief clerk, with you.” outing papers and get maps, and' free 5 cents extra. Atlantic to the Pacific! Miss Myrtle H. Hodlgdon with, five as­ “ Fine, fine,” exclaimed KUiis, information about the best hunting It is my good fortune today to a- sistants as busy as busy could be at­ Sntered as second class matter. January 21. “ didn’t suppose you were such a royal localities, then we’ll just pike along gain he at the State House with tending to the enormous correspond­ 9i#9. at the postoffice at Phillips, Maine, under good sportsman; ever go deer hunt­ for the land of balsam and pine, en­ he Act of March 3. 1879. old friends. As usual, the most in­ ence of the Department, issuing li­ ing down east?” ter the deep woods like Maine’s mod­ teresting place is the Fish and Game censes to hunters .and trappers and “ Not since 1910, but I got my deer, ern Adam and Eve, and come out Tae Maine Woods thoroughly covers the entire Department and the State Museum dealers in. skins, cf fur-hearing ani­ state or Maine as to Hunting. Trapping. Camp- a five-prong buck.” witill) the ‘‘bacon” sure us fate.” connected therewith which ranks as mals' and the multitude of duties de­ n* and Outing news, and the Franklin county “ Like the sport?” “ Quite optimistic, my friend, but i ocaily. one of the first in the country. volving upon them at this season of “ You bet; and when I go, I stay cheerful prospect nevertheless. Un­ Maine Woods solicits communications and fish the year. tnd game photographs from its readers. Just as I wia.s coming down the right on the job, and come out with like Estes and his wife, however, As showing how much trapping is When ordering the address of vour paper corridor I was greeted by Curator the goods. I am just longing for an­ we’ll not live on venlscn for a steady banged, please give the old as well as new dene in unorganized townships, I Thomas A. James and Chief Warden other trip the worst way, Ellis,” diet, “ today, tomorrow, and forever,’’ ddress. found by looking at the record, which Howard Wood of Piscataquis county, “Deer hunting is Maine'^5 great as the fellow said who gazed sorrow­ I was courteously permitted to ex­ the latter since 3 o'clock this morn­ sport; I’ve seen a beautiful buck and fully at his plateful of boarding house T H U R S D A Y , JA N U A R Y 6, 1916. amine, that 202 persons tock out li­ ing had been on the way from the doe eating from a farmer’s com field hash.” censes as.hunters and trappers last M oosehead Hatchery in charge of early in the morning, and the farm­ “ Oh, no; we’ll mix in. a little bear WHEN IS A WILD DUCK? some splendid specimens of Moose- year and to take care of their catch er with his shortgun trying to kill meat perhaps. So. long, comrade,” and 133 persons procured licenses, to buy Lead Lake togiue caught specially for the intruders. Dong wild hounds as Ellis rose sleepily from lids comfor­ the skins of fur-bearing animals. (Continued from page one.) the new aquarium. These fish were the beautiful creatures sought safety table chair, with a farewell1 look at Net a small part of the work in taken with hook and line at Deer in flight, carried them over stone the hunting ■ scene over the mantel, this department is occasioned by the The Feeding Important. Island and arrived in splendid condi­ walls, and into the woods in an in­ a beautiful buck leaping wildly over issuance cf licenses to the various tion and soon seemed quite at home stant. Then I have stood at a des­ the snow, and an the distancce the dee usees. Last year 1,675 licenses Professor Pearson is right in say­ in their new quarters.. ignated place and waited for the oth­ glowing, cruel eyes of a lynx as he were issued to resident guides, 13 to ing there is no reason why a wild With others I watched the four and er fellers to "work the quarry round stealthily tracked his prey. non-residents living in territory con­ duck should taste better than a “ tamei a half pounder as he swam around tc my vicinity, sighted and fired at “To the Death!” muttered Ellis, tiguous to the State of Maine, 68 to wild; duck.” It is all' a question of the tank and wished that I might the fleeing creature, and trailed him “ but the deer is always “ game” to dealers in deer skin®, 43 to taxider­ feeding. Some ‘‘tame wild ducks” tempt him, with, a Silver Doctor, or a tv bloody prints, in the snow to his the last, and a rare prize, hardly mists. taste better than some “wild ducks” Brown Hackle, but Hie law is on un­ last resting place; helped get hie won, whether by man or beast.” and there is a great difference in the til next summer. lifeless body to camp, and shipped From reports which are daily hie­ taste of wild ducks of the same I am very proud that the Chair­ him to the city where the man who Buddhism. species taken, in different localities. man of the Commission, Hon. Harry ing received at the department it shot the deer takes the head and hidai An interpreter of Buddhism tells of The mallard in. some places on the E. Austin, is a resident of my heme appears that the game shipment re­ for his share, and the other fellows the eight-fold path by which that Pacific Coast when it has been feed­ town and a neigh.her who lives just cord will, not fall much below that of take the meat, I have seen many a teacher directed to Nirvana, “the ab­ ing on shell fish and other fish Is across, the street. It was. through last year, particularly in view of the deer hanging downward, awiaiting the sence of craving.” The points are as said not to be very palatable. The Iiis efforts that a special appropriat­ fact that a larger number of hunters skillful knife of the man who is to follows: Right comprehension, right resolution, right speech, right way of mallard fed on. wild rice and acorns ion was made b.y the last Legislature transported game by automobile this dress him, and that’s some job, too, earning a livelihood, right efforts, and cereals in the Mississippi Val­ season than ever before. for the building of the fine aquar­ when1 all’s said and done. I have right thoughts, right state of a peace­ I am more proud than ever cf ley is one cf the best table birds in ium which has just been completed, seen deer in all1 their natural haunts', ful mind. , the world. The canvashack when work on it commencing the 14th of Maine’s fish and game resources and found the sport of hunting them, feeding on wiildi celery, wapato and September. which are our ‘‘gold mine” and the fascinating, so it is “ back to Maine” Unavoidable Disappointment. other desirable foods, isi a famous I fancy that when the Maine sooner the people generally realize next fall for me, Frank, sure as Brudder Johnson was a pompous ne­ delicacy but the canvasback when ■ Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Assocda- this fact and the necessary appro­ fate.” gro who took an active part in church work. One night the preacher said: feeding on fish and other undesirable tion meets at the State House on priations are given the department to ‘‘Venison meat tastes about Ike , . , , “Brudder Johnson, will you lead us in foods is practically worthless on the ■ January 14th the members will be carry on its work_ more sure we roujwi steak, b»t w wife cooks it » | prayahr ..Ahm sorry to di8appolot table. surprised to see such' a splendid col­ shall be that the “ goose that lays the it comes pi-etly near to being tender. de Lawd tonight, pahson," replied We once reared some mallards on lection. of our beautiful Maine fish, golden egg” will be preserved by our She rol’s flour, salt, and pepper intoj Brudder Johnson, “but Ah has a cold corn and later removed them to a all the way from fingerling.s to four posterity. both sides of the venison steak with j on mah chest.”—Ladies’ Home Jour- pond in the woods where they found and five pounders, of the following If time permitted I could give 3ome a rolling pin, and frys it in. hot fat.” ( nal. acorns, water lilliies and' other will'd varieties: The ‘‘speckled beaut­ interesting and laughable experiences, ■foods. The birds were excellent ies”—square-tailed trout, also “ silver which were related by wardens who food, of course. Mallards reared in beauties”—land-locked salmon, pick­ called at the office during my stay a barnyard on corn should be no erel, white and yellow perch, black to report results1 cf several missions better fcod birds, than tine common bass, br win trout, hornpout®, suck­ they had been sent on by the Com­ barnyard ducks are. Wild feed® of ers, surf iish, chubs, a rare speci­ missioners. the right kind undoubtedly make the men cf albino salmon and a gener­ The Commissioners are very busy best meat in the opinion of those ous supply of food fish—silver shin­ putting the finishing touches on their fend of game. It is an advantage, ers. Annual Report which will in the peer therefore, to have the birds strong cm It is not ‘‘feeding the elephant” future be Panted for general distri- the wing so they can fly about and but “ feeding the fish” which is the but ion and will furnish much inter- MAINE WOODS procure many desirable wild foods in daily attraction at tihe aquarium, the esting information regarding the work addition to tine grain ration given small fish being fed of ground liver of the office for the paist year. them to attach, them to the home while the shiners afford the neces­ In a few days, if weather and pond. The wilder the birds the bet­ sary food supply for the, larger courage holds good. I shall slant, for ter they are, not only for food but ones. The small boys are already home, going via Oquossoc to Moun­ Conducts a first class job printing department for sport. The laws should contain coming in with a few angle worms tain View and have a sleighride after no ‘‘in captivity” nonsense. in their pocket®' to feed the fish Landlord Rowley's handsome span which specializes on Cainp and Hotel work with. “over the h,iiW»” to Rangeley, and a- Wild Duck Distinguished. Everyone who enters the State galn see “God’s own country’’ cover- House by the north entrance on the e 1 with that stuff which many people An epicure will have little difficulty first floor i® at once entranced by call ‘‘beautiful snow.” in distinguishing a canvashack from a the beautiful case of sea birds at Fly Rod. mallard on the table. The redhead the opposite end of the building; the duck more often is served as a can- scene depicted is the one on the vashack and is not as ©aisily dlistinr sea coast; the most charming back­ FIRESIDE STORIES guished. We believe the blue-wing- ground being Hoe work cf the brush Why not let us help ed teal when, feeding right is a bet­ of Curator James, who, by the way, ter food bird than any cf those just is an artiist a® well' as taxidermist Back to Maine When the Deer named. The teal is easily distin­ and fish cuDiturist. Fine specimens you with your guished. by its size and does not of geese, ducks and Shore birds are Season Opens breed readily in confinement or iin perched on the rocks as well a® advertising? small enclosures. It should be bred swimming across the- marsh, and the (Written for Maine Woods.) wild beside a marshy pond protected whole must be seen to be appreciat­ By Eva M. Furbu&h. from vermin.—The Game Breeder. ed. “Have you broken your New Year’s For an hour I wandered around the resolution, yet, Eillds'?” Frank Web museum, noting the numerous spec­ don’s, skeptical smile grew broader vacua imens which had been, added since as he glanced at hi!® friend and a- my Hast visit. Stepping to admire the wai.ted hi® answer, at the same time magnificent moose group, second to calling the steward to giive an order ^Y ou need not be an none in any museum in the Unfitted for refreshments a® the chum® were We design and print Books, Leaflets Folders, “ad writer” to use these States, standing before it gazing at lazily passing away a January even­ the beautiful winter scene which af­ ing before their Club House fireplace. etc., and would be pleased to furnish samples, columns. State your ford® a most appropriate background “This i® only January 10th, man, a- for this group (another spiecimen of iive, cani’t you give a feller credit dummies and prices on request. wants simply, and above Curator James’ handiwork) I could for doing better than, that, Frank?” really almost believe I was once and Mil® Hoyt gave evidence cf all truthfully. more in tihe great month, woods where slight vexation by a nervous shifting 1 was wont to wander, and thought cf hi & position in the big leather q O r telephone this how thankful we should be that there chair, and looked up at the splendid is a four-years close time on. moose. hunting scene dene In. color®',, and office and the clerk will I was ‘‘brought back to earth” by occupying the entire space above the a friend who accompanied me cm my rough stone fireplace. write your ad. tour around, the museum, asking if “ Most people do worse than, that J. W. BRACKETT CO., this was a partridge, or if that was old boy—they make their reseflutiens q w < ant ads are the a loon, amid where the heaver Were, January first and break them, the if I had ever seen any of them jin the “ morning after” ; let me hear your bigg

for hdirn, getting ready for the elec-1 Brockton, Mass. a jaybird is to Deisarte. But the is to beat and to keep on beating; CLASSIFIED trie Mights. The men shot at 100 birds each, old Illinois trapsliark made good and this instinct can be traced through One cent • word In advance. No headline or Warren Dyer has returned home 18 yards’ rise, unknown angles. There gathered the coin. Tight squeak, other display Subjects in a. b. c, order all his work. Even when looking from Stratton, will,ere he has been were five trap houses and fifteen though, for William, won by only for dead birds he is apt to potter FOR SALE—Desirable house lots in working. traps, three in eacili pit. The match three birds. and stick Inis- nose into every tussock Phillips. Address Maine Woods. Mrs. Elmer Fatter is godng to work was best three in five for a punse of Followed then a race by the A- which he comes across, thus no for Mrs. George Tanguay. $10,000. The British were allowed merican© for a spliendid cup given by doubt occasionally finding a bird PRESSED hay at $16 per ton. Small Mir. Horace Potter has gone to the use of both barrels, the Yanks the British, to determine who was which the retriever would miss, but pigs and shoals. B. F% Beal, Phil­ Lewiston with, hois father, where he being limited to one. champion of the invaders'. It was a in the meantime the latter will have- lips, Me- is taking treatment. Well), all the details were finally ar­ swell scramble and wound up with brought perila-ps three or four. Our ranged and came a time when the Charlie Rudd and Fred Gilbert tied, own opinion is that the spaniel is the Smokers, my “ government seal” cig­ WHEN THE ALL-AMERICAN TEAM referee started the chosen twenty on both sons cf Hawkeyland. In t e more useful dog. Game could not ars are better than most 5 cent ( WENT A-SHOOTING ACROSS their historical test cf skill. Tom snoot-off the Spirit Lake Wizard won be at on many shootings hut for his cigars. Send $1.50 for trial box of T H E SEA. Marshall led off, drew a screaming a close race by a slender margin. aid, am-d Hie owner of such ground 50 cigars and be convinced. J. H. ’eft angle and snuffed the clay close uo Paul North was so tickled over the as that not infrequently placed at Harmon, 195 South. Mulberry street, Some Experiences With Britons and in his usual brilliant style, giving a ’■way the British donated that he the services of field trial promoting Dept. A., Mansfield., Ohio. Scots at “The Sport Alluring.” hint of what was coming from that piloted the boys to London and gave societies would be quite at a loss but gang of fast pointing, hard shooting them a big blowout at Hotel Cecil, a fo” the handy man of the gun dog. FOR SA L E —Beef by the side or j By Billy Bowlegs invaders. And come it did, so swagger indigestion breedery. This Many eistates which have been quarter. B F. Beal. Phillips. * ______f of the San Diego Union. speedy and true that the Yankees eats was full brother to another feed visited for trial purposes during the WANTED—/Hardwood ahhes, will pay won the first fest by a margin cf 63 at the Royal Cafe, given by the last few years could not be Shot over 15 cents per bushel. Will collect j In 1901 an American trap team kills. Tihe second race was such an Englishmen. Then one day the A- without the aid of the spaniel, and, about the middle of March. Gharles journeyed to. England and wised the easiness—Uncle’s men 81 to the mericans hired a couple of vans to while placing the retriever over him Wilbur, Phillips, Maine. Britons to several angles of the good. haul their money in, rambled down Mr. Alington does not withhold admir­ blooie game they wot not of. The But the third and last foray of this to the ocean, bought a ship and ation. A spaniel needs the highest came home. FOR SALE—Second hand s’eigh. story of that classy gang of gunpoint- fruit gathering expedition was “pet­ form of the breaker’s art; when Harold Seedy, Phillips, Maine. ers may prove interesting to readers ty’’ larceny, pure and simple. Honest­ completed no gun dog is more valua­ of the Maine Woods, so here’s where ly, it was a crime. The Jay Bulls ble. What demand there is for real­ ly good spaniels was seen at the dis­ FOR SALE—A good new milch Jer­ it flickers. never had a look-in—they couldn’t DOGS BREAKING persal sale of the Dejine Park kennel. sey cow. W. T. Hinds, Phillips. Paiul North of Cleveland, Ohio, is even get started to peek, so fast the man who really discovered that was the pace—and the final try, the ACQUIRED ACT Records were made that day which the British, were ripe, and a great mix that meant ‘‘Come to me, maz- look like standing for all time, and FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Young, deal: of the American team’s success uma,” showed the childers cf Sammy even at the periodical sales at Al­ sound, acclimated horses. Both, heavy can he blamed on him. The details IT by 93 majority. Of course, there dridge’s repository, which, finished and light. ’Phone 14-4. R. C. Ross, “ Dog breaking ’’ writes Mr. Aling- were arranged by Tom Marshall, team! was heap much happy gladliand stuff with the opening of the shooting sea­ Phillips, Me. ton in the London Field, “ is an art captain for the Americans, and by at the finish, for the Brits were which can only be acquired by ex­ son, signs were not wanting that broken spaniels with credentials can WANTED AT ONCE—Foreman in Captain Butts for our cousins over­ game losers. In fact, they figured perience. Personally, I found all tli always he sold. small clothespin factory. Must be seas. The big noise liappened In the match had been lost to their own books on the subject of very little capable of taking full charge. State happy June time, on the Middlesex people, after ah, so why grouch or use and learned mere in my first age, experience, wages, references, Gun Club’s grounds in dear old Lun- feel sad? practical effort than I ever could etc., fully in first letter. Humphrey nun town. In giving the A- By this time the tight little skies have done by reading.’’ His exper­ Mfg. Co., Keene, N. H. merican team’s personnel each gun­ were hep that your Uncle’s chosen ience with a spaniel of a show strain man’s Indian handle also is hitched on band was a tough outfit, but the makes delightful reading, and It cer­ tj D o y o u feel, Mr. Headed by Chief Long Talk Tom canny Scots were from Mizzou, so the tainly nl eased us to know we cannot RABBITS WANTED—Will pay fif­ Marshall, Keith sto-urg, HU., the others team trekked to Glasgow and perform­ follow his argument that retriever wi Reader, that your abili­ teen cents each. Must be in good were: Heap Talk Fred Gilbert, ed the pleasing operation of separat­ do all that a spaniel can do and in condition and non-poisonous, and Spirit Lake, la.; Kinndkinic Bill Cros­ ing the Highlanders from a wad. It considerably Shorter time. If merely ties are coining all they dressed leaving skins on. Can use by, O’Falllon, III.; Bald Eagle Rolilo was awfully easy, for the burr-r-r gathering of game is meant, our forty per week until April 1st. Tell. Heikes, Daytcn, O.; Bullhead Jack boys refused any handicap, but the friend is certainly right, but no one, are worth? 64-15. M. F. Stevens, Dover, Me. Fanning, New York; Brook Trout Jinj foxy Scotch put up only 500 washers. who has seen the work, done at the Elliott, Kansas City; Higlh Kick Dick! Then, came an individual race be­ leading spaniel trials during the last ^ W h y not do a little EUSTIS Merrill, Milwaukee, and Buffalo tween a Kilty named Fauld© and few seasons will be found to admit prospecting with a Hump Frank Par melee, Omaha. Sub­ the Hon. “ T. Bill” Crosby, who hails that as a shooting companion the re­ stitutes were Ernie Tripp, of Indian­ from the state that owns Auroaria, J an. 3. triever is the more valuable dog. His “ Situation Wanted” ad? apolis, and Ed Banks, of New York. Peroaria and Chicawgo. This affair superiority of pace “is responsible T. C. Bateman of Madison was in Others who made t^e journey were was a little surprise party to ‘‘T. for the saving of tim e1 while his town recently.

H E. THURSTON, It. F. HIMMELEIN. Proprietors.

ODERN M ETHODS applied to automobile retail business— that’s the meaning of the “Maxweli William F. Nye is the great­ M W ay.” You have the privilege of testing, using, enjoying your car after a small down payment, and est authoiitv on refined oils in the the balance is pay as you ride. What about the car? Why, it’s a world. He was the first bottler; has the largest business and NYOIL MAXWELL is the best oil he has ever made. NYOIL •—the car sold under a unique guarantee. For further recommendations ask the owners — Hundreds of HAS NO EQUAL. them in and about It’s made of the kind of stuff that’s put into the larger and higher priced Beware of scented mixtures called cars. The material and workmanship assure long and satisfactory service. Price oil. Use NYOIL on everything /L i- Electric Lighted where a light oil is needed. It pre­ and Started vents rust and gives perfect lubrica­ tion. Sportsmen, use it liberally on F. S. HALEY, your firearms and your rod. You will Telephone 42-23 find it by far the best. Hardware and Upper Village, Phillips, Maine sporting goods dealers sell it in large bottles (cheaper to buy) at 25 c. and in trial sizes at 10 c. Made by W M . F. NYE, New Bedford, Mass. 6 MAI/NE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, JANUARY 6, 1916.

temuiptions in journeys into back PACK AND SADDLE camps or remote ponds and hunting FOR HUNTERS, TRAPPERS, grounds. Human folks' and their four- BOOKS FISHERMEN AND SPORTSMEN IN THE WOODS footed friends form an intimate and united- family. Each have th-e-ir ar­ guments and differences bu-t the wild­ HUNTING DOGS CANADIAN WILDS The following books are endorsed Why travel a couple of thousand erness is conducive to peace and E L L S about the miles- west and spend proportionate by leading publishers, hunters, trap­ e s c r i b e s in a Hudson Bay Com ] good nature with both man and beast D practical man­ T time and money in the pursuit or and each' finds companionship with pers and sportsmen in North America. pany; Northern Indians ner, the training, and their Modes of | rainbow trout and elk when by the the other. The information they contain is re­ handling, treatment, Hunting, Trapping, etc J consumption of a 2Oth part of each, Brid-le trails radiate from Bowlan uinujimibfecds, etc., best Provisions f o r t h e liable, having been gathered from ac­ %% Badapted for night one can hunt deer, moiose and camp to every point of the compass, Wilderness, Things to 7 tual expiences and successful experi­ gjjjjhunting, as well as Avoid, etc., etc. The t speckled trout from the saddle in the each terminating in sport and a com­ gun dogs for daylight 1 ments of men who are leaders in the author (Martin Hunter) wilderness' of Northern Maine. fortable cabin. Some lead to high sport. This book is was with the Hudson i A night’s ride front Boston finds different branches covered by these not intended for the Bay Company for about V altitudes overlooking a vast wilder­ field trial dog men, on.e at sun-nip ait Sherman on the 40 years—from 1863 to | ness up-ended by towering Katahdin works. but is for the real 1903 and the informa­ Bangor & Aroostook. After a beany or Traveler, others traversing burned These books should be in the dog men who delight tion is given from al- i breakfast at a near-by farmhouse, a land or penetrating dense forest to in chases that are most a half century’s hands of every man who goes into genuine. Contains buckboard with mounts for each' remote unfrequented poncls- filled with experience. This book contains 277 pages, the woods, either for pleasure or 253 pages, size 5 x 7 inches, with 45 illus­ thirty-seven chapters as follows: sportsman traiii’ling behind us carries I trout keen for the bright artificial trations, 26 chapters as follows: The Hudson’s Bay Company; The “ Free Trader” us ten miles over a rich rolling farm fly, or flashing traUing-sipoon. Or profit. Part 1—Hunting: Dors, Night Hunting-. The Outfitting Indians, Trackers of the North, Provis­ Night Hunting Dog—His Ancestry. Training ions for the Wilderness, Forts and Posts. About country to tbe ‘‘edge of the woods/'' lore can resort to shank’s mare and the Hunting Dog. Training the Coon Dog. Train­ Indians, Wholesome Foods, Officer's Allowances, ing for Skunk. Opossum and Mink. W olf and Indian Packs. Indian Mode of Hunting Beaver, the jumping off place from, civiliza­ follow u.p tlie East Branch for over Coyote Hunting. Training for Squirrels and Indian Mode of Hunting Lynx and Marten, Indian tion. Here harnesis horses are trails FOX TRAPPING and Rabbits. Training the Deer Hound, Training Mode of Hunting Foxes. Indian Mode of Hunting five miles of quick water and deafen- — Specific Things to Teach, Training—Random Otter and Musquash, Remarkable Success, Things formed inito pack animals, and sad- I in? falls, where leaping salmon as well BOOK of Suggestions from Many Sources. Part. 2—Breed­ to Avoid, Anticosti and its Furs. Chiseling and A instructions-*—*. ing and Ca»e o f Dogs—Selecting the Dog, Care Shooting Beaver, The Indian Devil, A Tame Seal, d'es substituted for rigid and rattl­ j as square tails abound. But saddle .. and Breeding. Breeding. Breeding (Continued), The Care of Blistered Feet, Deer Sickness. A Case tells how to trap,p|j|jj?; ing seats, and tote road and trail for Peculiarities of Dogs and Practical Hints, Ail­ of Nerve. Amphibious Combats, Art of Pulling ar d pack horse are always available snare, poison* r ments of the Dog. Part 3—Dog Lore—Still Trail­ Hearts, Dark Furs, Indians are Poor Shots, A dusty highway. Freed from the rat­ ! and for comfort and companionship, and shoot. Alw| ers vs Tonguers. Music, The Dog on the Trap Bear in the Water, Voracious Pike, The Brass Line. Sledge Dogs of the North. Part 4—The Eyed Duck, Good Wages Trapping. A Pard Neces­ tle and jolt of wheels- we are impres­ novelty and mild excitement, they valuable book . I Hunting Dog Family—American Fox Hound, The sary. A HeroF Adven'ure, Wild Oxen. Long Lake for trappers. I f * Beagle, Dachshui d and Basset Hound. Pointers Indians, Den Bears, The Mishap of Raison. sed with the joy of their absence in ex cell- all other means of conveyance all the methods { and Setters. Spaniels, Terriers—Airedales, Scotch Price, postpaid, cloth bound 60 cents following a deep-rutted road for the Collies, House and Watch Dogs, A Farmer Hunt­ in tbe Maine wilderness. as given in thisW| er—His Views, Descriptive Table of Technical first five miles of our horseback jour­ In The Maine Woods. had been stud- I Teims. ney into the wiild-ernieas, for tote ied out by one] ] Price, postpaid, cloth bound 60 cents. man and he had ] STEEL TRAPS road-s have lost their terror to one FEED THE BIRDS begun trapping mounted on a knowing, agile, forest- HUUIJ - _ T ) F-S r K TBF.S the The work of the National Associa­ when Columbus « , - •. various makes bred pony. Whether ascending or tion of Audubon Societies in protect­ discovered FUR FARMING and tells how to use descending steep, gullied pitches, picla America, more Ml them. Also chapters ing wild birds become® very practi­ than four hun- c 3 ^ __ in-g his way over rough corduroy, j cal at this time of year. It is j-us-t BOOK o fg on care of pelts, etc. dred years ago information | j This book contains wading through miud holes or fording j A sending out to every newspaper, post he would not be about fur-bearing 333 pages, 5 x 7 in., rushing streams, the horseman sits | office, woman’s club and to every half completed. This book is edited by A. animals, enclos­ and 130 illustrations, secure and comfortable at an elevat­ R. Harding and contains about 50 illustra­ ures, their habits, printed on good qual Audubon Society member in New tions, and about 200-pages, is divided into ttF A R M N C , ion affording a broad outlook and cul­ care, etc., and is ity heavy paper. Just England thfe following appeal: 22 chapters, as follows: th e recognized S the book that trappers tivating intimate friendship with his- General Information; Baits and Scents; authority on fu r \ \ have long needed. Foxes and Odor; Chaff Method Scent; toiing pony. ' | ra isin g—n o w in g2 Bj Gives the history of Please Feed the Birds. Traps and Hints; All Round Land Set; Snow ( m . Five miles of logging road finds th \ fourth edition— "steel traps, how made, Set; Trapping Red Fox; Red and Grey; Wire y,' T sizes for various ani­ and Twine Snare; Snare, Shooting, Poison; written from in­ outfit at a massive Log bridge span­ The deep snow covers their usual formation secur­ mals with detailed in­ ning the Seboj-s River. The shore food—insects’ eggs and larvae and My First Fox; Tennessee Trapper’s Methods; structions on where and how to set. This Many Good Methods; Fred and the Old ed from reliable of the stream offering an ideal spot the seeds of weeds—and. they will sources, includ­ book contains 32 chapters as follows: Trapper; Experienced Trapper Tricks; Rey­ Sewell Newhouse; Well Made Traps; A for noon rest, saddle girts are loos­ starve unless we feed them. nard Outwitted; Fox Shooting; A Shrewd ing U. S. Govern­ ment reports. Few Failures; Some European Traps; Proper ened, the pack horses are unburden­ Give them “hayseed” chaff from Fox; Still Hunting the Fox; Fox Ranches; Sizes; Newhouse Traps; Double and Web Steel Traps. Demand for furs ed and securely hobbled, four-footed the barn floor - crumbs, scraps of is increasing yearly while the supply is be­ Jaws; Victor, Hawley & Norton; Jump Traps; friend® find abundant feed by the road meat, bones, and suet; anything eat­ Price, postpaid, cloth bonnd, 60 cents. coming less. Fur farming is a profitable Tree Traps; Stop Thief Traps; Wide industry. Book contains 266 pages, 39 il­ Spreading Jaws; Caring for Traps; Marking s-ide while tea is boiled and bacon able and they will repay you a thou­ lustrations from photographs; 15 chapters Traps; How to Fasten; How to Set; Where fried to accompany the cold lunch sand fold by tjieir work in- the garden SCIENCE OF TRAPPING as follows: to Set; Looking at Traps; Mysteriously from the saddle bags-. Repacking and orchard ail th-e spring. Supply and Demand, What Animals to Sprung Traps; Good Dens; The Proper Bait; Scent and Decoy; Human Scent and and mounting, three miles of climb­ Do it now. Fasten the meat E S C R I- Raise; Enclosures, Laws Affecting Fur D' BES the Family,Box Trap Trapping, Fox Raising, Fox Signs; Hints on Fall Trapping; Land ing finds the outfit out of the lum­ scraps and suet securely to th-e trees fur-b earing Raising in Canada, Skunk Raising, Mink Trapping; Water Trapping; When to Trap; ber works, where it follows a blazed and see how eagerly chickadees and animals, their Raising, Opossum Raising, Muskrat Rais­ Some Deep Water Sets; Skinning and trail through virgin forests of birch woodpeckers- go to it. Tread the nature, habits ing, Raccoon Raising, The Beaver and the Stretching; Handling and Grading; From Otter, Killing, Skinning and Stretching. Animal to Market; Miscellaneous Informa­ and occasional evergreen for . six snow down hard and scatter the hay­ and distribu-’ tion, with Deer Farming. tion. miles- to the main camp and Bowlan seed and crumbs there, or -put It on Price, postpaid, cloth hound 60 cents. practical Price, postpaid, cloth hound, 60 cents. Pitch. Tliis last stage of the jour- 1 a board or box and watch, the juncos methods for ney is the climax of this delightful-, and tree sparrows fill up. Put out their capture. primitive mode cf travel. The pack Contains 245 CAMP AND TRAIL METHODS chaff and grain for the quail and pages, size 5 Land Cruising and Prospecting horse, foster mother and leader of meadowlarks in the pasture. TUiey x 7 inches, H IS is one of the ...-j&aiM the rest, sets the pace, steering her work for us- all summer long, eatin-g with 40 illus­ S A valuable most practical ” book for home­ T broad, towering pack cleverly by insect®. trations. The I books on woodcraft chapter on steaders, hunters, GWP^TRAIL many a menacing obstacle and fol­ ever written contain­ Keep it up while the snow lasts, “ Tracks and Signs” is worth dollars to prospectors, guides ing valuable informa­ METHODS lowing the trail as certainly as though it is- not only a fine philanthropy young and inexperienced hunters and trap­ etc. The writer, tion for all lovers of she were con-sci-cuis of the spots on j but a paying investment for each one pers, as the author shows drawings of the Mr. A. F. Wallace, the great outdoors. an experienced the trees. The soft footing of the j of us. If you want to know more footprints of the various animals. The au­ The author of this thor is personally acquainted with some of land surveyor, land book has spent years forest floor makes travel almost1 about feeding and -protecting birds the most expert trappers in North America, cruiser and pros­ in the woods, so noiseless and the luxurious comfort write to and has also followed the Indians over their pector, in his intro­ knows what is want­ duction says: “ To of roomy range-saddle and the ryth­ Winthrop Packard, Agent, trap lines, and in this way learned many ed by the woodsmen, things which to the white man are not gen­ the men who fol- mical sway of plodding horses induces mountain men, pros­ National Asso. Audubon Societies' erally known. _ low the compass. pectors, trappers and a drowsiness both restful and in sym­ 66 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. The book contains twenty-four chapters the trap and the trail, this work is inscribed. the hardy outdoor people in general. It pathy with the silent surrounding ' This lias been the custom of the as follows: The Trapper’s Art; The Skunk; It is not intended for the ‘Professor’ who contains 274 pages and 68 illustrations. The Mink; The Weasel; The Martin; The can tell you all about things after they are wilderness. A steep descent Association, in past years and it has There are 19 chapters as follows: Pleasures Fisher; The Otter; The Beaver; The Musk­ done (by someone else).” Contains about and Profits of Camping, Selecting a Camp into the valley of the East Branch everywhere met with approbation and rat; The Fox; The Wolf; The Bear; The 200 pages, 5 x 7 inches, good quality paper, Outfit, Clothing for the Woods, Pack Straps, finds the party in the dooryard of a ' cooperation. In that time there has Raccoon; The Badger, The Opossum; The with nearly 40 illustrations and contains 20 Pack Sacks and Pack Baskets, Cooking group of log camps, a stone’s throw been a noticeable increase in the Lynx; Bay Lynx or Wild Cat; The Cougar, chapters as follows: Utensils, Beds and Bedding, Fireapns, The Wolverine; The Pocket Gopher; The Maps; The Compass; Examining and Lo­ above the river, in. ample time f r number of song and insectivorous Hunting Knives and Axes, Tents and Shel­ Rabbit; Tracks and Signs; Handling Furs; cating; Early Surveys; Comer Marks; Mis­ ters, Permanent Camps, Canoes and Hunt­ for supper. Unburdened horses roil birds in th-e country. It’s only one Steel Traps. cellaneous Information; Points for Home­ ing boats, Snowshoes and Their Use, Snow- in l-uxuri-o-us grass, drink copiously of a thousand activities carried on steaders; Prospecting for Gold; Sampling shoe Making, Skis, Toboggans and Trail Price, postpaid, cloth bound, 60 cent*. Ore; How to Locate a Claim; Poor Man’s Sleds, Provisions and Camp Cookery-, Bush and then enter upon a period- of summer, and winter by the Associa­ Ore Mill; Prospecting for Fur; Prospecting feast and freedom with occasional in- Travel, Traveling Light, Tanning Furs and tion., for the protection of birds. for Pearls; Prospecting for Bees; Rations Buckskins, Preserving Game, Fish and DEADFALLS AND SNARES and Camp Cookery; Camp Kits; Guns, Axes Hides, Miscellaneous Suggestions. and l’ackstraps; Building Cabins; Tanning, Price, postpaid, cloth bound, 60 cents. BOOK of in­ Etc.; Getting Lost; The Red River Trapper. A structions fo r Price, postpaid, cloth hound, 60 cents. trappers about these a n d other home SCIENCE OF FISHING made traps by A. R 'lIE most practi­ Harding. This book MINK TRAPPING cal book on fish­ contains 232 pages, ing ever published. sizes 5 x 7 inches, BOOK of in­ struction, g iv -rv / T h e author says; and 84 drawings and A 0 “ For those who have illustrations, printed mg many methods r B of trappingapping. A val-tV m g caught them, as well on good heavy pa­ as for those who per. The most com­ uable book for trap-' pers as it tells in a never have.” This plete book on how book describes the to make “ home­ plain way what you; want to know, that, fish, tells their habits made” traps ever and HOW, WHEN published. Building is if you w ant to catch mink. This and W HERE to deadfalls and con­ catch them; also tells structing snares, as book is edited by - A. R. Harding, con-1 the KIN D of tackle explained in this book is of value to trap­ used for each fish. pers where material, saplings, poles, boards, tains about 50 illus-j trations and nearly] Book contains 255 pages, more than 100 rocks, etc., are to be had for constructing. illustrations, 22 chapters as follows: The book contains 28 chapters as follows: 200 pages, and is TT takes extra fine flour to make Remarks on the “ Gentle Art” ; Rods; Building Deadfalls; Bear and Coon Dead­ divided into 20 chapters as follows: L Reels; Hooks, Lines and Leaders; Flies; A all three eq u a lly w e ll, but falls; Otter Deadfall; Martin Deadfall; Stone /Artificial Baits; Landing Nets, Gaffs, Tackle Deadfall; The Bear Pen; Portable Traps; General Informa­ tion; Mink and Their Habits; Size and Care Boxes, Etc.; Bait-Casting; Fly-Casting; Surf- William Tell does it, because it is Some Triggers; Trip Triggers; How to Set; Casting, Trolling, Still Fishing, Etc.; Use of When to Build; Where to Build; The Proper of Skins; Good and Lasting Baits; Bait and Scent; Places to Set; Indian Methods; Mink Natural Baits; Handling the Hooked Fish; milled by a special process from Bait; Traps Knocked Off; String Pole Snare; Fishing for Black Bass; Fishing for Trout Trail Set Snare; Bait Set Snare; The Box Trapping on the Prairies; Southern Methods; Northern Methods; Unusual Ways; Illinois and Salmon; Pike, Pickerel, Muskellunge Ohio Red Winter Wheat. If you Trap; The Coop Trap; The Pit Trap; Num­ and Pike-Perch; Sunfish, Carp, Catfish and ber of Traps; When to Trap; Season’s Catch; Trapper’s Method; Experienced Trappers’ Methods; Many Good Methods; Salt Set; Suckers; Fishing for Tarpon and Tuna; aspire to blue ribbon bread, cake General information; Skinning and Stretch­ Fishing for Other Sea Fish; Making, Repair­ ing; Handling and Grading; From Animal to Log and Other Sets; Points for the Young and pastry that keep the family Market; .Steel Traps. Trapper; Proper Size Traps; Deadfalls; Steel ing and Caring for Tackle; General Informa­ Traps. tion; Commercial Fishing; Distribution of i Price, postpaid, cloth hound, 60 cent*. Fish—Good Places. looking forwardtoyour next treat, Price, postpaid, cloth hound, 60 cents. Price, postpaid, cloth bound, 60 cents tell the grocer that nothing will do but William Tell— the flour that goes farther. O R DERS TO MAINE WOODS, S

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii .SPFPI A l O F F F R Anyone of the above 60c books and one year’s (hi OP C. H. McKENZlE TRADING CO., PHILLIPS, MAINE. subscription to MAINE W OODS, outing edition MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, JANUARY 6, 1916. «

chambered. This cartridge gives Killing power? replied Horace “ and I can’t reach better accuracy than the .38 short Ans,. It is effective on small game it.” or long. Do not be discouraged by at short range. “Well, lift him off if you can for the results you are getting at target. 3. What length would, you advise, I can’t hold him off much longer.’’ Keep cm trying, remembering that 12, 15 or 18 inch? Horace seized the bear with both the most important thing of all is Ans. It really does not make hands and by exerting all hie ability to pull the trigger without much difference which length you se­ strength, succeeded in getting one flinching cr moving the arm and you lect. hand under his body so as to reach will make progress. Some cf the 4. Would it make a good pistol? the pocket which contained the knife. best shots in the country could not Ans. Not when compared with r Seizing the pocket he quickly rent it hit the target when they started regular target pistol, in twain, opened the knife and placed shooting. i in. his comrade’s other hand. Bean X. Y. Z., Auburn,, Me. quickly inserted the blade in the S. E. H., Francestcwn, N. H. The Marlin people say: ‘‘Black neck of the bear which he never I would like you to give the sizes and low pressure loads, can be uised withdrew till the blood flowed like a or diameter of the different bores of as satisfactorily as the H. P. load in torrent from the wound. guns—12-16-20 gauges in fractions or the .32 Slpecial. What lead (in A New Questions and Answers Department Bruin soon began to lose his decimals of an inch. grains) would you recommend cf strength and rolled partially from his Ans. 12 gauge, .729 inch; 16 gaug semi-smokeless or low pressure smok intended victim sc as to give him. an of Interest to Shooters .662 inch; 20 gauge, .615 inch. less? How would the 32-40 load ap­ opportunity to slip from under him. ply to this cartridge? Torn, bleeding and nearly exhausted J. C. G., Henderson\iTe, N. C. Ans. The best way to get the START 'EM RIGHT. le>s,s efficient results which he gets. Bean fled for the house accompanied 1. I have a Colt’s revolver, Pat. proper load fer any particular make Al< si. otguns of whatever gauge \vhen by Horace and the dog. They in July 25th, 1871, July 21, 1872, No. of cartridge is to write to the manu­ On the festive occasion just past, bored full chbke, for instance, put brief and hasty manner related their 1964, caliber 36—rim fire. It is in facturer of the powder you wish to large numbers cf boyish hearts have. 79% of theiir charge in a 30 inch adventure. Bean’s1 wounds were good shape, five shot with, hand ohas use. Reloading is at best a very dan­ been gladdened by the Christmas circle at 40 yds. With, a 20 gauge dressed, which proved not very seri­ ed cylinder showing stage hold-up. gerous proceeding and it does not present which is capable of causing the load of shot is less than with ous. Ans. Your revolver shoots the .38 pay to take any chances, at all. If more thrills of pleasure to the the 12 gauge and the results are Joshua Dunn, the father of Hor­ rim fire cartridge. you insist on reloading, follow the square inch than most anything else i therefore a thimner pattern at 40 ace, seized his rifle and proceeded to —a new rifle. I know, because I yds. than with the 12 gauge, or in 2. Are there any cartridges to be powder maker’s advice just as closely as you mow how. If yen begin to view the scene of the conflict. When went tl .rough the sensations once my­ other worrls, the 20 gauge has a pat­ found for such an old-timer. If so, he arrived there no bear was. to be try experiments you will stand r self. tern which is as dense as the 12 please state in next issue where I beautiful chance of losing part of seen but he soon discovered his Some proud fathers— Luckily the gauge only when fired at a shorter may obtain same. bloody trail which he followed to a range than the 12. You will find a your anatomy, to say nothing of dis­ number is small—are still under the! Ans. The cartridges above men­ turbing your peace of mind. short distance, where he discovered impression that it is dangerous to full choke barrel will be best in 20 tioned can be obtained through any him lying down with his head press­ give the small boy a real firearm in. j gauge. This wild give as great a cf the hardware and sporting goods ed srugly against his side as if try­ the shape' of a .22 caliber repeater, density of pattern as ycu can get dealers. ing to stop the flow of blocd. Joshua for instance. I wish I could have; with, a 20 gauge and the gun wi'l kill raised lis rifle and sent a bullet just a few minutes personal talk with effectively, only of course at not as W. W., Yates Center, Kansas. through, his brain which put an end each man who thinks in this way. great ranges as the 12 gauge, and 1. I have seen an Automatic Colts to his career. also, i,t will be necessary to hold You might just as well say that a revolver, ten shot- I have looked fin Many a bitter cold night white the boy shall net learn how to swim, for much closer with the 20 gauge. The some of the catalogs cf the largest piercing blast has swept through the fear that he will be drowned! It heaviest 20 gauge load supplied by sporting houses and the only ten AN ANCIENT valley have we slept snug and warm is the duty of every father to teach the factories is 2y2 drams of bulk shot revolver I can find is the Sav­ beneath this creature’s skin which his son how to handle firearms—not smokeless powder and % oz. of shot. age. Do the Colt Co. make a ten BEAR FIGHT though not so valuable by reason of only for the great pleasure which Tl ,e velocity of a charge fired from shot revolver and which ils the best, his extreme age, was uncommonly they will bring, but because accidents a cylinder bore is approximately the the Colt ar Savage revolver? large measuring nine feet in length The story of this struggle with R same-asi that from a full choke bore. Ans. There is no Colt Automatic until firearms are almost always due; bear was written by the late Mark by seven in breadth.—Norway Adver­ Chcke makes: no practical difference pistol excepting the new .22 auto, to ignorance or carelessness and I Tapley. some 30 years ago. Horace tiser. in the velocity. which has a capacity of ten shots rarely happen tc those who know Dunn was the father of Geo. H. Dunn how to handle them. without reloading. Incidentally I who nx>w lives on Pike Hill and Chas REPORT FINES. C, W. B., N. Y. never could see what difference it E. Bean was the father of Mrs.. 1. In the State of Jersey, is It made haw many shots a magazine E. W. C., Durham, N. C. within the law to use a repeating Emma F. Swan of the Pleasant Ridgol y wo paid for Buying Skins Without Will a 20 gauge shotgun develop held so long as it held at least five. Farm at Norway Lake. shotgun, if the magazine is filled wit As to which, is better, the Colt or License. anywhere near the power, range and Mere is the dory: sufficient dummy shells sc that only Savage, this Is a question for you to penetration of the regular twelve During the summer of 1852, cue two loaded shells may be at the com­ decide. I would suggest that you Warden B. E. Stmitli of Augusta gauge bird gun by using twemty- bright sunny afternoon Charles E. an guns. They are satisfactory & Guiles Co., New York. This is, the bear was upon him biting arid one has shown no signs cf weakness if the shooter will not try to over­ no doubt, a wonderful gun, but the tearing the best he could with his siuce it oa^e. The curator thinks load them and is satisfied with the price is too steep for my pocket book. short stumpy teeth and dull' claws. 1 fcherQ il£J a possibility, even a proba- J Ans. Assuming that your hunting Had the bear been young and vigor- j^nty, that both specimens may live, , is to be dene in Jersey, there isn’t ous the unfortunate young man would j t tliey :^VQ they wifi be the only To sit and sew j mu h use in your purchasing a three have been torn in pieces as soon as exhibitions: of the kind in the coun- barrel gum as you could not use it the beast could have obtained a firm try. all day in your State. The only Company grip and brought his hind feet into “Women’s work is never done,” outside of the one you mention mak­ use. But taking advantage of his Daily Thought. they say, and too often this is true. ing these guns is, I think, the Three Commonwealth Hotel lack of tusks and scattering teeth He that will not reason is a bigot; To sit and sew all day is tiring work, Barrel Gum Co., Moundsville, West Beau never losing his presenco of he that cannot reason is a fool, and and often results in headache, back­ he that dares not reason is a slave.— ache and sometimes kills ambition Va. Inc. mind forced his hafld far down his Sir W. Drummond. and takes away the appetite. The Opposite State House, Boston, Mass. th.roat and with a firm grasp held stomach, liver and bowels need exer­ T. L., Fabrics, Philippines. Offers room with bet ar d fast to the roots of has tongue at cise, but they don’t get it when you cold water for $1.00 per day the same time calling loudly for help. Quiet Joys. bend all day over a needle. When I have a Colt .38 Special 5 inch and up, which includes free The brave little deg showed his The joys that are bought with money this sort of work tells on you, you can barrel. Which is better fer target use of public shower hsths. find great relief by taking “ L. F.” shooting, the .38 short or the .38 good will by seizing tihe bear’s hind | are worth nothing compared with the Atwood’s Medicine. It is safe to take long cartridge? I am trying both Nothing to Equal Tbis in New England legs with his: sharp teeth, while the joys that, though sweet and gentle and and acts favorably on the digestive discomfited brute choked, coughed unassuming, are yet deep, enduring organs, regulates the liver and bow­ but I can’t find the difference. As Rooms with private baths and quieting; tlie joys that enlarge the els, and helps a sick headache. it’s a new gun and the first I had, I for $1.50 per day and up; and strangled, as though he had suites of two rooms and bath heart instead of diminishing it, and Women or men who lead a sedentary can’t hit at a target. I shocit high swallowed something little end fore­ which we too often pass by—some- life will find this medicine a fine rem­ for $4.00 per day and up. or low. I am- hoping in the future to most, Horace now appeared on the j wba^ jn the manner of those peasants edy to keep in the home. ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF make better scores. scene. whom one sees in an ecstasy over the FREE.— “ Ye Olde Songs,” words and music Strictly a Temperance Hotel of sixty popular songs sent free on receipt of Ans. I would recommend using the “ Get m,y jack knife quick,’’ said fireworks at some fete, and who pay one outside yellow wrapper from the bottle, Send for Booklet not the smallest attention to the splen­ together with your opinion of our Medicine. .38 Colt Special Cartridge as this is Bean, “ and I will cut his' throat.’’ | STORER F. CRAFTS G en. Manager dor of a summer night.—Sabatier. “L. F.” Medicine Co., Portland, M e . the cartridge for which your gun is “ He lays right on your pocket,” 8 MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, JANUARY 6, 1916.

guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. MiiijchieJl WINTER SPORTS Mr. aind Mrs. Cutler King and lit­ tle 'son of S'tonington, Conn., are at AT RANGELEY Range-ley Tavern for the winter! months. Mrs. Wim. Nottage and little one You’ve hit the Celebration Given by Juniors—Re- have returned to their home in bekahs Install. West Farmington. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Frenich have right tobacco moved to Phillips, Mr, French hav­ (Special Corresponde.'.ce.) ing been transferred to a different when you fire-up some Ran gel ey, Januairy 5.—W. E. Tib­ route. betts and Harry Look went in to Mr, George Oakes,- Who recently Prince Albert in your Kennebaigo Tuesday, Mr. Look return suffered such a painful injury is img from Pcrti'and after spending tbe old jim m y pipe or in .a making dalil’y improvement and it i:s Christmas- holidays with Ms family. now thought that it will not be nec­ makin’s cigarette. A nd Harwood Childs returned Monday essary to amputate more of the you know it! Can’tfget to Dartmouth College. Miss Irene Lmb unless unlooked for complicat­ in wrong with P . A . for it Kemipton to Business College in Lew­ ions set in. iston, Misis Emma Russell to her dut­ At the annual election of officers is made right; made to ies at Phillips, Mason Russell return­ of the Ladles’ Lakeside League the er! to U. of M., Vance Oakes, Miss spread - smoke-sunshine officers which served the past year Stella Haley, “Bun” Tiffany to Heb­ were unanimously re-elected, the only among men who have ron Tuesday. Wednesday, Miss Mar changes being Mrs. Evelyn Boulter, jorie Oakes, Mis® Hildred Robertson, suffered with scorched chosen to serve as Assistant Teach-- Oh.airl.es Gibbs, returned, to Bates. er, Mrs. Emily Nile as Assistant tongues and parched Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Howe and Secretary. throats! The patented family of Rumford were recent guests Mrs. James Miathieson is at her process fixes that— ar i or Mrs. Howe’s sister, Mrs. W. E. home on High, street for the winter. It’s an easy job Tibbetts. The past few days She has entertain­ cuts out bite and parch. to change the shape color of unsalable brands Mir. and Mrs. David Quimby are at ed Mrs. F. B. Burn’s mother, Mrs. to imitate the Prince their home on Dead River road for A ll day long you’ll *sing Albert tidy red«tin, but Kate Blair of Bo-wdoinliamV Mr. Matlh- ii is impossible to imi­ thte winter. how glad you are you’re tate the flavor of Prince ieson was at homle Tuesday. Albert tobacco! The Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Do.ak are re­ Robert Johnson, the little son of patented process protects pals with that! ceiving congratulations on the arrival Gus Johnson has so far recovered of a son, January 4. from bis recent operation for appen­ J. E, Peajkies!, who was a week-end dicitis as to be able to return home guest of Mrs. Addle Richardson, re­ from Dr Ross’ private hospital. turned to ills work at Harvard Law Mrs. Leona Spencer and children School Monday. have returned from Strong, Where ringe l New Years eve a dance was held In they have been the past month. F A Furbish hall. Music by a Rumford Miss Laverna Murphy spent Christ­ the national joy smoke orchestra. The proceeds which a- mas vacation as guest of her aunt in mcunted to about $10 were presented Waltham. Her mother, Mrs. C. C. You take'this testimony straight from the shou1der,jnen. to the Senior class, R. H. S. ’16. Murphy accompanied liter home from You can smoke a barrel of P. A . without a kick I it hands W. L. Butler wias a recent guest of Portland. out all the tobacco happiness any man ever dreamed It. A. Furbish, driving from Farming- Fred Hamm went to Hebron Sana­ ton to Ramgeley in a sleigh. torium Tuesday for an examination. about, it’s so smooth and friendly. It’s a mighty cheer­ Everywhere tobacco is sold you’ll find Prince Albert Goods, belonging toi the Warren He was a pati-ent there dur­ ful thing to be on talking-terms with your pipe and your awaiting your cheerful visit. Stevens estate, also the Frank; tongue — but hat’s what’s coming Buyit in toppy red bags, Sc; ing the summer months, but since his at the same time tidy red tins, 10c; handsome Jacobs estate were recently sold to his return lias apparently improved in as ! pound and half-pound humi­ to you sure you pin your faith to Prince Albert dors—and — in l ' classy settle up the property. C. L. Ham­ health. pound crystal-glass humidor with sponge - moistener top den was appointed administrator of Miss Helen Raymond is doing table R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. that keeps the tobacco so fit t the Stevens property, Walter Oakes, work at the Tavern during the ill­ Eugene Herrick and W. D. Quimby ness of Miss Guida Philbrick. Miss appraisers of the latter, and AJLex Phitbrick is slloWly improving, her Blodgett, administrator. many friends are pleased to note. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Esty returned from up from Haloes Dandling Tuesday to day. They will remain for a few days Tuesday evening occurred the pub- J. Lewis York are pleased to learn Boston Monday, where he accompan­ attend the Rebekah installation. longer. • lie installation of Summit Rebekah that Master York is much improved ied Mrs. Esty, Who is being treated The Jolly Twelve met Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Leenian. Wilcox and Lodge, No. 120. The officers were since his recent treatment in New by Dr. Harvey. At present she Is a afternoon with. Mrs. F. G. McKenzie, son are at their camp on Keimebogo | installed in a very pleasing manner York, and a complete recovery from guest of Mr. Esty’s sisters at Malta- eight members being present. Re­ stream for tire winter. | Ly Dep. Gr. Pres., Mrs. Addie Nor­ ton, Dep. Gr. Marshall, Mrs. Della his slight lameness is now looked for pan. freshments of coffee mousse, walnut Tlhe Juniors held a supper and Wheeler Luce, assisted by the fol­ Judging from the appearance of the Mrs. Harry Reynolds and two filling cake, chocolate cuke and cof­ sociable at the Grange hall Monday lowing Gr. officers: Gr. Warden, Loon Lake mail bag, York Camps Wu children, who have been visiting her fee were served-. Tllie next meeting evening to celebrate their recent vic­ Anna Blodgett; Gr. Ghap., Winifred be a busy place thte coming season. sister, Mrs. M. D. Tibbetts returned will be lieild with Mrs. Warren tory. Tlie girls being the losers Hdnkley; Gr. Sec., Alice Kempton; Mrs. Frank Gile and daughter, Dor­ to her home Saturday. Ross. served the following supper to the Gr. Trea®., Ida Carlton; Gr. Guard, othy left Saturday for Portland, The recent light snows have re­ Mr. and Mrs. G. Lafayette Kem.p- boys who won by 33 points: Sand­ Minnie Spdiier; Gr. Herald, Alice where they will spend part of the joiced the hearts of the rabbit hunt­ ton and Carl Jones were in Boston wiches, pickles-, olives, salads, cake, Oake®. . The fallowing officers were winter. ers who have made the most of their the past week. Carl Jones returned doughnuts, coffee, cocoa. Tlie fol­ installed: P. N. G., Lunette Ross; Mrs. Frank Sprague and child and opportunity tbe past week. Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Kempton lowing program was given: (N. G., Carrie Russell; V. G.f Fred- Miss Shirley Hoar of Farmington are Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Welch were will remain for a longer time- Piano Solo, Winifred Hamm 11 La Soule; Sec., Florence Rridghaan; ’ At the Men’s League Saturday Recitation., Beatrice Ctelby Fin., Alice Hinkley; Trea®., A nixie evening the question: Resolved that Piano Duet, Elizabeth Oakes, Tibbetts; Warden, Mabel Case; Con­ a voting contest is an Injury to a A,Letlua CliiiLus ductor, Helen Raymond; R, S. N. G„ community. Affirmative, Mason Bus Recitation, Carroll Roes Where To Go In Maine Lucy Herrick; L, S. N. G„ Leona sell, J. Sherman Hear; negative, H. Seng, Eleanor and Olive Moore Spencer; Chaplain, Clara Rector; R. C RididlLe, Harwood Childs. Tihe de­ Recitation, Alice Bennett Sup. V. G., Iia Badger; L. Sup. V. G., cision was in. favor of the affirmative Piano Solo, Lita Nile OTTER POND CAMPS Edith. Bills; Inside Guardian, Minnie Are open to accommodate sportsmen for fish­ side, although, the negative side pre­ Darkie Song, Eight Girls ing-and hunting. Send for circular. LAKEWOOD CAMPS, Cushman; Outside Guardian, Maude sented a very eloquent plea. Voted Sailor Song and Dance, Muriel GEORGE H. McKENNEY, Prop.. MIDDIBDAM, MAINE Brooks. The work was executed in Caratunk, Me. In one of the best localities for fishing and to hold tlie suppers every other Tues­ and Evelyn Brown hunting in the Rangeley Region. Camps with day night instead of Saturday thus Tableaux j very pleasing manner and was very or without bath. For particulars write for free beautiful. The manner in which if circular to giving the merdhiamts a good cihance After the program, games were play­ CAPT. E. F. COBURN, was done reflected great credit up- FISHING to attend. ed and. tlie following leaders to head AT Lakewood Gamps, Middledam, Me. ; on the special degree team and its a Blue and Red contest clhosen, Ad on A crew of men under Saul Col­ I mistress, Minnie Spilller. A short John 6arville’s Gamps Hoar and Tlhelma Porter. The even­ VIA RUMFORD FALLS lins aTe at work repairing Prof. Ne- program followed: at Spring Lake Best Salmon and Trout Fishing in Maine. Fly her’s wharf which suffered consider­ ings entertainment and supper were Salmon, square tailed and lake trout. My camps hsning begins about June 1. Send for circular. Solo, H. O. Huntoon are most charmingly situated on the Bhores of House always open. JOHN CHADWICK & CO.. able damage during the fall storms. in el large of Mrs. Frank Badger, Upper Dam, Maine. Reading, Conrad Lamb Spring Lake, well furnished, excellent beds, Miss Laverna Murphy and Mrs. Saul Eleanor Moore, Lita Nile, Alice purest of spring water and the table is first-class, Solo, Faye Worthley elevation 1,800 feet above sea level, grandest scen­ Collins are reported on, the sick list. Barrett, Pauline Rector, Muriel ery and pure mountain air. Hay fever and malaria DEAD RIVER REGION Brown., Aletha Childs., Thelma Porter *>iano Duet, Mrs. Child®, Mrs. unknown. Spring Lake furnishes excellent lake The Sargent. Up-to-date in every Mrs. Ghos. Cushman is now able to Row® trout and salmon fishing and in the neighboring be out after a two weeks’ illness. and Lucille Taylor. A fine time Was streams and ponds are abundance of brook trout. particular. Maine’s ideal family vaca­ Solo, Rena Tibbetts Buckboard roads only 2-12 miles. An ideal family Mrs. Amos EMis is now taking a enjoyed. summer resort. Telephone communications with tion resort. Good fishing and hunting Reading, Mildred Huntoon tillage and doctor. References furnished- Terms few steps each day and expects to A man by the name of Mike Bums, section Cuisine unsurpassed. E. F. Dialogue, Mrs. Clara Quimby, reasonable. Address for full particulars, be able to return home soon. who has been employed at Savage’s JOHN CARVILLE. Flagstaff. Me. Look, Prop’r, Eustis, Maine. P. Alton Quimby The past few weeks have been camps died Monday at the home of Remarks, Mrs. Addie Norton ideal for winter sports’ and we are Mrs. Leona Spencer. The unfortun­ Mrs. Della Wheeler Luce Blakeslee Lake Camps PACKARD’S G AM PS pleased to note that several parties ate man was taken ill while in camjp Delicious refreshments of sandwiches, JOSEPH H. WHITE, Proprietor Rangeley Lakes have taken advantage of the winter and medical assistance was sent for, Best of Bear, Deer and Bird shoot­ assorted oake, coffee and harlequin Rangeley, - Maine pleasures. Mr. and Mir®. Richard his condition being such that tlie ing. Write for illustrated booklet and ice cream were served by the com­ Wheatland, two sons and two daugh­ doctor had him moved to tlie vil­ map. Address, Oct. 15 till May 1st, Open from May 15th to Dec. 1st. mittee. It is estimated that 250 cr Skinner, Me. Summer address, Eustis, ters and four guests have been hav­ lage. After a time Ms relatives Trout and salmon fishing. Deer, part­ better were present. This was cer­ Maine. ing a jolly time at Oisceola Farm were located and a sister-im-Law ar­ ridge and duck hunting. tainly a red letter day for tlie Re­ owned by L. D. Haley. They have rived Tuesday to accompany the re­ bekah® and many word® of appreciat­ as guides, C. L. Hamden, Oinrie and main® to lids- home in Berlin., N. H. Round Mountain Lake Camps. Write forfree RANGELE1 TAVERN 8 LAKE VIEW HOUSE ion were heard from the assembled booklet. DION O. BLACKWELL. Proprietor. Leon D. Haley. The days have been No further particular® could be Round Mountain. Maine On Rangeley Lake. guests. Thoroughly modem. On direct automobile fuill of pleasure, tlhe company being learned. route. Tavern all year. Lake View House Mr. and Mrs. Oma Ellis are guests July 1 to Oct. treated to a genuine snowstorm upon, Dr. Eustis and bride, who was for­ MOOSELOOKMEGUNTIC HOUSE at his sister’®, Mrs. Verne G. PiilB- AND LOG CAMPS. Best fishing and hunting. Booklets. their arrival. Every minute of tlie merly Miss- Margaret Richardson ^re Heart of the Rangeleys. Best fishing region. N. H. ELLIS & SON, Props., bury. Ipecial June and September rates. Booklet. Raugeley, Maine. time has been spent to the best ad­ spending their honeymoon at Indian MRS. F. B. BURNS. vantage, and included sleighirides', Rock and are enjoying camp life im­ sriowsflitee parties., rabbit and fox mensely. Height of Meanness. Come to the'Maine Woods There is a lot of comfort in not hav­ BILLY SOULE'S NEW CAMPS hunting. The party secured a large The Lassell and WMting party Saddleback Lake Camp offers rustic ing an umbrella when somebody wants LAKE MILLMAGASSETT number of rabbits and had good for­ are expected Saturday at the Tav­ September fly fishing for Big Trout. Plenty surroundings and comfortable cabins to to borrow one.—Los Angeles Express. of partridges and deer. P. O. address Ox Bow, anyone looking for good fishing and tune in the latter sport, having a ern, after which they will proceed to Maine. rest. Write for bookletand referencesto hve fox also to their credit. One their camp at Kennebago, where pre­ Where Bluff Wouldn't Work. HEMON BLACKWELL, day the entire party camped out of Dallas, Maine parations have been, made for their “Bah!” sneered the blustery man. YORK CAMPS, doors, cooking and eating in the open coming. “Bluff is the thing. A man can bluff which was a novel experience at this Misis Florence Green, Miss Long his way through life." “ But,” said the RANGELEY, MAINE RANGELEY LAKES Camp Bemis, The Birches. The Barker. Write season of tlie year. The party with and Mrs. Fronefield are at the form­ conservative, “ if you couldn’t swim for free circular. the exception of Mr. Rickard Wheat- and fell in, you couldn’t bluff the J. LEWIS YORK, Prop. CAPT. F. C. BARKER. Bemte. Maine. er’s camp on the shore of Dodge land and son, Steven returned Tues*- river for a second.”—Livingston Pond for a short vocation. Lance