Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-15

Splendid specimens Of we'll preserved old
aze are not usually found among tho DE-
| vos<es Of the fashionable watering places.
Old Orchard has them this season however
They are .so elderly ladies'. Mrs. Nzthers
sxsi "a, snd Mrs.. Basns, aged IL, both Of
Dover. y. H.. and th~y plunge and dive
and swim throaxb the great wares With all
the visor and zest Of Youth
''Of course eanpnsesiags are not rhAr
| they usi 10 be, " said venerable Jgmss Par
kSf Of Maiden sho 10 stopping IL the Old
/ orchard eAmparoand. Religion isseif il
| not what it ~ss when vas = boy. Nov,
| look at all these tsnts. and the wells on the
ground and the gas stoves in the kitchens.
AMI the hammoeks. and all tie eonvenien-
ess that minister 10 pleasure. None Of
| that sort Of thing vas known when fret
sent 10 esmpnissting. Then the preaching
wss about all the luxury there was In the
| meeting. Those old fellows didn't need
any tents. They just stood up on = stump,
OF on rough platform made from split tim
bers, and they preached right gu, In the
open air, and you could hear them for a
| mile lust renfing the skies With the poser
| Of their eloqusnee. The eampmeetiags
| nave changed . good deal since / was .
boy
White caps are disgrace to any commu-
nifty and Dayton has some that deserve
punishment At the whipping post. A Day
ION citizen who had brought legal proceed
ings against a neigbbor that had insuited
his wife was called upon by white caps who
made him promise TO drop the matter. He
promised and then deciding that a poor
promise Of this kiqd was better broken than
kept, brought the proceeding, to settlement
nett day.
bright Milford young lady recently
had a school teaching experience which
While annoying was sufficiently funny to al
most make up for IL. She was hired to teach
ANAL school in sparsely settled district
n a neighboring town, wages 90 week
.ad board around. As sls was the extent
of the fund, her time was to be six weeks,
80 the agent informed her. At the end of
the first week, she returned home. The
Intelligent school board had been button
hoiei by an enterprising agent for snstom-
,csl charts for the use of schools, who
had so impressed them of the desirabiity
n these aijuncts that purchase Of the
chart was made at a cost of SIS. and the
The district now has the chart but the
scholars seem to be no better of for there
/, nobody to teach its mysteries to them.
Blood will tell and it's very evident
from last weeks celebration that the people
Of Machas inherited all the ability Of their
Revolutionary ancestors To accomplish what
they undertake.
Aroostook Republican One Of Lime
stones prominent Democrats planted less
tina . 80 acres of potatoes this spring. He
ssys he would have planted double that
number had il not been for the uncertain
position Of his party on the tariff question.
That same gentleman voted against his own
Interests when he voted the Democratic
ticket and il brave enough to acknow ledge
that fact.
Unprotected women should bear in mind
that since the pressure of hard times a law
les. element has been finding It's way into
the State. The attempted assault on two
women in East Lebanon by tramps last
week serves as a warning.
The shridgmeut of the message from
the President Of the U nited States to the two
houses of Congress- at the beginning of the
second session of the SD Congress, with
the reports Of the heads Of departments
and selections Of accompanying documents
has been issued from the government print
ing office.