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VOIv. X XIV . PHILLIPS, MAINS:, FRIDAY, A P R IL 4, 1902. N O . 3 4 . SPORTS M E N'S SUPPLIES SPORTSM E N’S S U PPL 1 ES S P O R T S M E N ’S SUPPLIES SPORTSM EN’S SUPPLIES SPORTSMEN’S SUPPLIES. SPORTSMENS SUPPLIES U . M . C . AMMUNITION is sold by all dealers because it is a staple— Shooters have learned to rely upon it. f W l N INCHESTER When you are making; your preparations for Order it by Name REPEATING SHOT GUNS are cheap in price, but in price only. “ Take Down ” your outing in Maine this spring be sure and and insist that your dealer gives you nothing g u n s l i s t at $27.00 and Solid Frame guns at $25.00, but take a STEVENS with you. They are absolute else. U. M. C. cartridges and shot shells are they will outshoot and outlast the highest priced ly reliable and fully GUARANTEED. We make “time tried;” 35 years of progress. double barreled guns, andjhey arenas safe, reliable and handy besides. Winchester Shot Guns are made |RIFLES, - PISTOLS, - SHOTCUNS.t Catalogues. of the very best materials that can be procured, a Nearly ail dealers in Sporting Goods carry our ARMS. thoroughly modern system of manufacture permitting Send for our catalog, it is full of interest. T H E , UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE C O . them to be sold at buyable prices. & & & 313 Broadway, Briegeport, Conn 425 Marhet St., FREE—Send name and address on a postal card for 164 page illustrated catalogue. % J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, { New Yorh, N. Y. San Erancisco, Cal. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS C O ., NEW HAVEN, CT. { No. 155 Broadway, - Chicopee Falls, Mass. } H O PELS AND C A MPSt II O T E L S A N D C AMPS Died of Lead Poison Bangui ky Lakes. t Two hunters went to the upper part Camp Bemis and Birches. Write for free cir TH E RANGELEY LAKES, |I GAME AND FISH ODDITIES j of Phillips last fall to shoot birds. They cular. Cap r. F. C. Bar vEK, Frop’r, Bemis. j Via the PORTLAND & RUMFORD FALLS RY. | had the best of equipments, but evident- Via IlANiiKi.KV or Beaus. jf* Through PALLOR CAR service duritig the Tourist season, j z Mountain View House. We invite our readers to send contri I ly were not very good shots, for the W e mail, free of charge, a book showing half-tone cuts of hotels || billions for this column. j farmer on whose laud they were hunting and camps at all Rangeley Lake Points. ® j said that the trees ail through the sec- PORTLAND & RUMFORD FALLS RAILWAY, Surprised Huriier. I tion where they tramped died of lead | poison before spring. R. C. BRADFORD, Traffic Manager, Portland, Maine. H D. G. Bean of Bingham Bunts a good deal,., but mostly for ash for shovel Dot the Powder. blocks In traveling through the woods Albert Kezar of Farmington avouches : : : Why Co Elsewhere : : : a few years ago he came to a very large for the truth of the following: Two gen yellow birch tree with a big hole on oDe tlemen from Farmington went duck When MAINE Offers You So fluch? side. He thought he would kindle a A BEAVER TALE. shooting up at Sweet pond .last snramet fire in the tree, so he stooped down to What of “ Black EdwardJust one word's Forests-Lakes—Rivers. Deer and Moose. Trout They took along their muzzle loaders, enough, light a match when he noticed a piece Here is situated a hotel ot rare attractiv* - Salmon. 3882 Deer, 259 Moose SHIPPED and old-fashioned powder horns. It so ness in beautiful location for summer board His heart's as tender as his tales C'X "■tuff." of meat in the farther side of the hole. ers ami at the same time in close proximity OC see it’s this way. A visitto the Range- happened that one of them forgot to fill to the best places for fishing on Rangeley ley Lake region without a little run up to From Stations on the He took the cane which he carried and lake. Hunters in the season also find plenty YBeaver pond is as rank a failure as half a his horn, so after getting into t e boat pair of scissors, or the hole of a douglir.ut punched into the snow at the foot of of deer, partridge and woodcock near the he thought he would load his gun, but hotel. The cuisine here is such as to hold with the dough gone Yes, “ Going up to BANGOR & AROOSTOOK R. R. tli6 tree, when up came the jaw’s of a patrons year after year, the rooms are what bid’s” is like smoking opium lying, or having no powder he asked for the loan people from the cities like, large, well lighted “ warts”—it grows upon you; and the man big bear trap. and pleasant. We serve vegetables, berries, who once sets his happy foot on the shores of By Vis itine; Sportsm en, During Season of 1901. of some. He reached for it and just as fish and game at appropriate times in the old “Beaver” is as certain to return as—as— year and the table is always supplbd with well as a punched ‘ quarter.” N ew G U ID E B O O K , “ In Pine Tree J u n gles/’ will be ready about he grasped it, he made a false motion excellent fresh milk and cream. Per * water What do you do when you get there? Most Killed By a Mussel. people fish, others tramp those glorious old April ist. Profusely illustrated Finely printed. Entirely new. Sent and overboard he went. He held to runs to the house from a spring above. This The Editor of Forest and Stream tells is a particularly good place for safe and ■rails and just soak their hearts and minds for io cents in s’amps. both powder horns however, as he went pleasant boating and the drives and walks in the delights of mountain, lake and forest; of catching with a lauding net in a small are unsurpassed. Croquet and lawn tennis for at Ed’s remember, we’re in the sure- G E O . M . H O U G H T O N , Traffic M anager, Bangor, Maine. I down. He was gone so long the other grounds adjoin the house. Write for a free enough backwoods. fresh water pond, a broadbill duck Now as to the fishing, a word or two. I fellow began to get nervous, aud looking circular to Mention this paper when writing. which had a mussel firmly damped to L. E. Bowley, Mountain View House, Guides talk, notwithstanding, I have never | over the side of the boat and down into Mountain View, Rangeley Lakes, Me. yet found 5 and 10-pound trout plenty enough the root of the tongue. The hinge of to be. monotonous—never have, but the rea | the depths below he discovered his sonable man with a fair idea of the proper HOTELS AND CAMPS the mussel was toward the threat, and SPRIMG LAKE, dissemination of “feathers”—*f he chance . It is via the Old . | friend very complacently sitting on the the partly opened valves directed for l.i t h ; Dead River Region. also to be a true sportsman, could ask noth j bottom of the pond emptying the pow- ing better. ward. The bird had evidently seized Best of Early Fishing AVI thin easv reach of Ed’s doors lie (even Somerset Railway, j der from one horn into the other. nature “lies” up there—I wonder why?), 5 or the open mussel and attempted to swal for Salmon, Square Tail Trout and Lake 0 1 ikes in which the fly fishing is simply Oakland to Bingham, Me. Trout that weigh from- 2 to 9 pounds. low it, and the shellfish liad clcs d on One day’s ride fiom Boston Only 2% miles “ great,” and I say this after having fished Tbat you reach the Fishing resorts of the every damp spot in that region many times the tongue so firmly that it could not he Ice Done at Pushaw. ot buckooard road. Lake UK miles long, l>i Take “ Ell Pond,” for instance, around the Mii'es wide, surrounded by moun ains covered moved. That uiis had taken place The ice left Labe Pushaw Sunday willi green wools Cabins a;e very pleasant “bend amon^the pads,” or “Little Island” Upper Kennebec Valley. with a gentle ripple .about sundown. Such | night. The field began to break up ly situated on ttie shore of this lake. Spring The most prominent resorts being Rowe some time before was made evident by beds, new blankets and clean 1 neu make our incessant “rise ” and such a run of fish marks that charming little pond as the acme of fly and Carry Ponds, Baid Mountain Lodge, the fact that all the flesh of the mussel ! Sunday. Seldom does the ice leave so beds all that, could be desired. New boats an 1 fishing possibilities. Moxie, Par in and Pleasant Pond-. Many canoes. Best of stream fi-hing near. We What is there for the “Man beli'nd the gun” others, all having good camp s and" equipment. had disappeared. | early, last year the date being April 25. have canoe trips that take you by some of the up there? Simply this. In the open season Only salmon and trout taken from these wat grandest scenerv In Maine,‘with good fishing he can easily get all the deer the law allows ers.