Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-08

Bangor high school be declared on, ana
does not score as a victory for either side.
Joseph 7. Shaw, referee
"Elias Thomas, Jr., umpire.
Orchard C. Payson, linesman.
Game Warden Atwood of Winterport, is
reported to be despondent While away
from home recently he was taken with
severe pain in one eye. The nearest doc
tor told him the trouble was all IN MS eye.
Not consoled he called upon ahother
healer. The latter told him the opera
ton known as cryocystosyrlngoAata,
klelsis," would have to be performed
and charged him accordingly MI. AT
wood is to be commiserated.
The Clarence W. Clark, who "did'' Ban
gor and Portland in the roles of champion
roller skater and champion bicyclist Is
reported to have married a young, silly,
Denver girl of some beauty and worldly
goods in three days after he got there.
He told in Bangor that he was to marry
a Maine heiress, but Maine girls are not
to be buncoed so easily.
Maine hasn't so many ship masters sail
ing the seas as once but there's some
mighty good specimens left. Searsport
complains that she has but II, IL outward
bound from New York to China and
japan and five returning, where she had
36, ten years ago. It's doubtful, however.
if any of the large number in the past
that hailed from Maine had the record
made by Capt. Bert Williams of Thomas
ton, who though but 40 years OF age
has made So passages around Cape Horn.
"The State of Maine has more claim on
the gratitude of the country at large than
most of her citizens know Of" says a
Maine man whose home pride cannot be
excelled. "If the work of Maine men
was set apart from that of others in the
existing structure of the United States
government, the magnitude of what
would thus be taken out would astonish
the world. The Maine men in Congress
have nearly always been practical in af-
fairs and influential in legislation. Why,
for example, look at just one thing. The
system of patent laws of the United
States, one of the most important branches
of legislation, was the work of Maine
senator whose name is now scarcely re-
membered in his native State. The sys-
TEN has been declared a work of genius
by those best able to judge of their value,
and it has served as model for the nations
of the world John Ruggles of Thomas
ton, Me-, who was United States senator
from 1885 to 1S41, is more entitled to
credit for these laws than any other man.
Yet mention John Ruggles, in any pub
lie assembly in Maine, and how few would
know such man ever lived"
The large game spoils of the Maine for
est were largely does at the first of the sea-
son, whereas bucks now predominate.
Protests have prevailed upon the pride of
the mighty hunters it seems.
The railroad commissioners have said to
the Bangor & Aroostook trains, go
ahead to Presquc Isle, and those who've
been riding on freight trains will not
object to the change.
Furnishing bonds for liquor sellers
isn't turning out to be very lucrative
business in some parts of the State.
The sad drowning accident of three of
the members of the life saving station at
Crumple's Island while returning from a
hunting trip is another instance to prove
that the line of duty isn't the most dan
gerous place in the world.
Madison is getting up an entertainment
that may be put on the boards at Augusta
this winter 1t is entitled "fun for the
Legislature and fees for the lawyers, or
how to get a town divided"
Estimates of Luther Bryant's wealth
are dwindling but his ex -housekeeper still
clings to his memory and thinks there S
enough left for her if she can get it.
The Salem correspondent of the Phillips
Phonograph appears to agree with the
opinion that Maine people are saucy be
cause when they meet man they ask
"Where are you going? What did you
get for those oxen you drove by this noon:
What did you pay for that cow How
old is that horse? What are you doing;
etc We surmise this Salem reporter ism
one of the kind that hustles all over town
| in "a half day asking all he meets, Whats
| the news:'
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Cleveland Currency Scheme,