Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-22
MAINE GOSSIP.
IT'S sad about the poets
Who're born or so tits said,
That the fact is not discov cred
Til after they are dead.

1t is surprising, the amount of mail mat
ter that is sent out with insufficient postage.
Of course the recipient of q letter or pack
age has to pay the amount due. Not long
sgo Saco young lady mailed at the Biddt-
ford office bunch of party invitations ad-
dressed to Biddeford young men. Forget
ting that the postage on q drop letter in q
free delivery city is not the same - in cities
without delivery. she put only one-ceDt
stamps on them. Consequently, every young
man who was fortunate enough to get an in
vitation had to pay cent for it.
The duty ON hay will be reduced 81 per
ton if the Wilson bill becomes law. This
was probably what two Democratic citizens,
residents of New Sharon village, had in
mind recently, as they drove through Main
street with big load of nice hay, on which
they were seated fiourishing q relic of the
Last campaign-a banner bearing the words
| "tariff reform'-and cheering loudly. Lo!
change. In front of Swift's store the sled
slued and over went sled, hay and men
topey turvy. There! that's just how yer
burned tariff reform will work on us-and
you Democrats, tool" remarked an old Re-
publican farmer dryly. Even the ex-Demo-
cratic postmaster had to grin.
A Biddeford boy was before the munich
pal court of that city the other day for
throwing q bone at q playmate. 1t was
shown that the bone was thrown at dog,
and the hitting of the boy purely accidental.
White was not punished.
The Waterville Sentinel says that sew
eral Colby University boys drove down to
Augusta, Monday evening to witness the
performance of 'Faust" in that city, and
returned in the wee small hours. On their
way back they discovered wild cat in thu
Vassalboro woods and INDUCED in pistol
practice. Owing to the optical delusion of
the students little Vassalboro miss is now
mourning the loss Of her pussy.
The strain of the tramp nuisance is just
now being particularly felt by the Aroostook
county Jail at Houlton. All of its available
space has teen taken and still the pres
sure continues. No wonder that the pa
pers of the county are calling for the es.
Enlistment of Workshop
These are warm times ia the village
school at Madrid notwithstanding the winter
weather. This school has been more or less
annoyed for some time past by set of I'M
ruly pupils. Some of them loaded sticks
of wood with gunpowder last fall but their
Guy Fawkes plot was exposed by small
girl, and, what might have been, its serious
consequences were averted. The present
teacher 10 now having her share
of trouble. She commenced BOARDING
with the agent who is the father Of one Of
the unruly boys. This boy became so I'M
governable that he was expelled from
school. Where upon the teacher was eject
ed from her boarding place and had to OBJ
tain new quarters which were furnished her
by Mr.. Valentine Berry. Some steps have
been taken to send this boy with others to
the reform school. The agent has taken
measures to have Miss Doyen turned out.
The majority of the district, however, sup
port her. and the leaders say that she shall
finish her school at all hazards.
The district is right. A teacher who
does his or her duty fearlessly deserves the
support of the decent people of the COM
munity. The boy who is given parental
assurance that if he has trouble al
school, he will have trouble at home il
| usually the one who has no trouble in either
place.
1t is foolish and shortsighted parent
who upholds child in defying the just au-
thority of = teacher. No greater injury
than this could be done = boy or girl, and
the evil results Of such an unwise course
rarely fail to make themselves manifest in
after years.
! A boy who 10 in his teens and hasn't
br aims enough to submit himself to the au-
thority of his teacher at school should not
be permitted to detract from the advantages
Of his better behaved fellow pupils. He is
. distracting element and should be sum-
MARTY expelled.