. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . perfumed vast areas of woodsand waters. Ashland, with its elevation of 700 feet above thesea, .stands pre-eminent among the sanctuaries through whoseportals the sneezing, snuffling demon, hay fever, cannot enter,and the cheapness with which comfortable living maybe securedis making this woodland oasis yearly more and more the refugeof the victims of that malady. 24 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. Forest episodes mix quaintly with the everyday life of a townin which one finds so generally th
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . perfumed vast areas of woodsand waters. Ashland, with its elevation of 700 feet above thesea, .stands pre-eminent among the sanctuaries through whoseportals the sneezing, snuffling demon, hay fever, cannot enter,and the cheapness with which comfortable living maybe securedis making this woodland oasis yearly more and more the refugeof the victims of that malady. 24 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. Forest episodes mix quaintly with the everyday life of a townin which one finds so generally the comforts of a high civiliza-tion, may use the telephone and may read the morning papersfrom Bangor at oclock p. m. At the Exchange Hotel,where I dined, some of the towns-people were talking of thepretty adventure that had befallen an Ashland physician a nightor two before. Driving in the dusk through the woods in thesuburbs of the village he was aware for some time that an animalwas running beside his carriage. vSupposing that his Irishsetter had followed him from the house he did not investigate. FfKr KKNT HAS MANY FINE KF-^I DENIES. until, on coming to a hill the horse .slackened pace, and heleaned over the wlieel to .speak to the supposed dog. It was adeer which, at the sound of his \-(^ice, turned and bounded awayinto the woods. Three miles ])el()\v the \illage on the Aroostook River andconnected with the railroad by a .spur of track, is the great millof the Ashland Manufacturing Compan}-, which manufacturesand deals in all kinds of luml)er. For miles up the cliannelextend the booms that liold the logs .sent down the river fromthe various lumber operations of the winter before on its IX FAIK AROOSTOOK. 25 headwaters. These logs are drawn up the long incline, throughthe entrance to the band saws, which cut them into long lumber,with an ease and swiftness that suggests the slicing of the band and the edging saws the boards, planks, joistsand beams pass out
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