Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-12

that what Alpha really saw was the
lost soul OF the Popocratic party.
Waterville Mail: The smoking of
cigarettes is supposed to be one of the
worst practices that a football player
can indulge in and yet several of the
members of one Of the three teams in
which Waterville people are particu-
larly interested. have followed the
habit throughout the season If any
body has authority in that team he
ought to exercise it right away.
careless sportsman who was doing
some promiscuous shooting near the
railroad in Whitneyville. recently.
ners while in his own house. The bull
let passed through the door and lodged
in the studding on the opposite side OF
the room. Mr.. Corners was sitting
but few inches out of the courae.of
the bullet His daughter Maggi& As
also in the room. but luckily, lfhier
Gather. she happened to be a little&out
Ct range. Sportsmen can not be too
careful in using fire arms Several
times this fall people riding along the
highways through the woods have had
narrow escapes from DEATH
The toll bridge at North Turner is
now about the only one of the kind in
the State
Most of the country roads in Maine
ore row fairly well supplied with sign
boards. There are few of them
however. that are still without them.
Every town in the State should feel
pride in keeping up this important
feature of its highways. 1t pays.
Bath Times: In spite of the warn
ings of scientists that kissing is per-
il"us, we hear of great many bets
made during the campaign in which
either the girls have to kiss the boys
% the boys kiss the girls. Such bets
are admirable in one Wayne one
loses. They are on par with that of
The Brunswick couple. which was that
If Bryan Won the lady was to hold her
hest fellow in her lap and if Bryan
lost, the man held the girl.
A Bath sportsman while out snipe
shooting at Winnegance Creek the
other day. had the good luck to shoot
black duck which fell in the stream
and could not be caught without the
use Of a boat. While he went home
after one. a distance of about a mile
somebody secured the prize and the
gunner is making inquiries to find out
who found it.
DR.. Bailey of the Maine cattle COM
mission, does not agree with the judg-
n'ent of DR.. Choate of Lewiston. that
10 per cent of the cattle of Maine are
afflicted with tuberculosis. He SAYS:
We think the doctor has set the fig
uies high. The facts are sufficient to
us and we believe from them that no
one town in Maine can be found where
four per cent of the cattle are afflicted
with tuberculosis. Our exhibits here
tofore have never shown per cent in
the State. DR.. Choate has applied the
tuberculin test TO droves going to
brighton and as we understand it to
over 1000 head of cattle in the last
year and he has returned TO us but Is
cattle diseased, including the six in
Auburn and those in the Monmouth
herd all of which were reported last
week We have killed more cattle this
year than we have in any previous
year since the Orono herd was
slaughtered and it comes from closer
appreciation of the tuberculin tests
and strict attention to business, but
we firmly believe there is no such pro-
portion of diseased cattle in Maine
We have in this State, for instance
$4,000 new mich cows. Fifteen per
cent of these alone would be 2S,55O
cows. Maine has less tuberculosis than
any other State in New England and
facts, experience and close investiga-
ton of the subject from day to day
show us that the doctors estimate is
four or five times too high
young Bath couple had an exciting
experience one evening recently. They