Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-01

stead of 81 years and seven months OF age
Gen. Neal Dow the same week went tf
Boston, addressed large meeting In the
evening, shook hands with thousand OF
more of people and returned to PORTLAND
without indication of fatigue. Are the
mayors of nowadays going to be equal te
such tasks
1t is gratifying to Maine people, this
natural curiosity abo1t her famous son,
which people of other states are manifest
ing. The fact. published by the Eastern
Argus, that Mr.. Reed had shaved off his
moustache went the rounds of the news
papers from Kittery to Klikitat. 1t was
even asserted that Shakespeare himself
would not recognize the e1-speaker. The
echoes OF this CONFUSION had hardly died
away before desire to know where the
noted congressman might pass the sum
mer waxed strong. People appeared
much more DESTROYS of knowing that the
summer resort Mr.. Reed might choose
should be agreeable to him, should afford
him the necessary recuperation before
taking up the duties of speaker of the
next House than they were of the daily
Gunner bulletins from Gray Gables. The
Maine papers fastened to say that he
has purchased the Whipple cottage at
Grand Beach, just beyond Pine Point,
and will pass the summer there with his
family.
Before the above could be sent forth,
however, the N. Y. Mercury had yielded
to the impulse of prophecy as follows The
Hon Thomas B. Reed is a member OF
the Black lake fishing club of New York
which is not political club, although
Charles W. Hackett is its president.
Black lake is situated In the Adirondacks.
The club has a fine house and numbers
among it's members many prominent
Democrats as well as Republicans. The
fishing Is said to be as good as anywhere
in the United States outside of Maine.
Mr.. Reed expects to put in few weeks at
Black lake this summer and 1t is not I'M
likely th6t between bites he will find
time to talk a little politics with some of
his fellow members. st is said that ar
rangements are under way looking to the
transferring of the New York delegation
to Mr.. Reed after Mr.. Morton becomes
convinced that he cannot get the nomi-
nation himself, which is likely to be quite
early in. the game
These reports of 500 and 700 trout
caught by individual sportsmen at
Rangeley this season may induce others
to try their luck there But we would
not be surprised to learn that the new
corners conclude the fellow who would
catch 700 trout is more or less Of a pig not
to give the other fellow q chance.
Nova Scotia imported 121, 800 live lob
sters into the district of Waldoboro dur
ing May.
Whitecap methods of reforming ones
neighbors is sometimes expensive. Some
young would-be toughs undertook to
scare a Charleston man and another
man s wife into being good, assuming of
course that the two people stood in need of
discipline. The court fined the leaders
$40 and costs.
The talk aroused concerning an old
silver mine in Guilford, because some
Boston men recently inspected it, leads
the Piscataquis Observer to remark that
it might be we'll for capitalists to tuIn
their attention to an abandoned slate
quarry in the same town. Maine hasn't
very many productive mines of seither
silver-or gold but she has ample resources
just as profitable, as the shrewdest obser-
vers have already discovered.
There were not a few places where the
occasional showers that blessed some por-
lions of the State during the dry spell
did not come. AS result the hay crop
there was past regeneration by the recent
rains
Some of the Biddeford papers think that
the canton of that city should have
stayed at homo and assisted in the local
rather than go to Lewiston
and participate in the centennial celebra-
ton there Help the home celebrations
even II ones parade feathers aren't SO
much admired as they would be abroad.
Among the graduates from the Port
land high school this year were q son and
a daughter of poor laboring man, whose
daily income is but s1.33 and who moved
to South Portland SO that he could the
letter afford to put his children through
thu high school. This leads CORES
ponlent of the Evening Express to re-
marx do you think that boy will ever
be satisfied with himself when he finds
out what a rugged path he will have to
climb through life to be successful or
even partially sog l may be over cynical
but 1t Is ms opinion that both the father
and son will not be as happy now as the
son would haya been without the high
schoo! education and with an honest
trade. High shool boys are not In
demand and gooomechanics are That
depends. The MN who knows only his