Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-14

Maine ice melted fast In New York
the past eight days.
the H' s'ss1. = 'r'"'' i" Is'ne parts of
1t was easier for the New Brunswick
girls to come to Calais than for the
Fusileers to cross into the Oueen,a
dominions.
Ninalhaven intends to have enter
tainment enough to keep the boys at
home Labor Day.
The individual who took Mexican
dollar for an American has been heard
from. He was a clothes wringer agent
and knows more than he did.
| south Paris urchins are warned that
the extreme penalty for putting stones
on the electric car track is $500 fine or
three years imprisonment
| Our advice to susceptible people to
stay away from those collection STAN
pcdcs. such as occurred at Old Orchard
| few days ago. seems to apply to the
case Of one poor woman who was pres
ent. Urdcy the Influence" she threw
her watchf into the collection basket
1t was all she had to give. Moreover
ii was a Keepsake given her by her
mother, now dead. After she had come
out of her dazed condition and thought
the matter over in her rational mind
SHE concluded that She should have the
watch back again. They would not
return it to her. DR.. Simpson is re-
ported to hold Christ responsible for
the work done at Old Orchard at these
meetings. Perhaps for practical pur-
poses it may be well to hold DR.. Simp-
son accountable, at least for the
present
Brewer has man who is termed
the wood-sawins poet. He is writing
Popocratic campaign songs. He thinks
ii Bryan and Sewall are elected some
other poor fellow will have to saw the
wood while he gathers in the free sill
Yer. IS dollars to l by the other man.
The Maine General Hospital has erected
a bill board fence alongside portisn of
its property. The revenue from it may be
considerable but the annoyance to those
who reside in the locality will be more
they say.
Now some of the good people of
Bath have got the curfew conversion
and want to convert the city to that
idea. They want other peoples children to
be in the house by o'clock winter and Q
o'clock summer evenings. -. -.
All gunners that indulge in killing
cartridges before close time is off
should be reported and advertised in
the daily press.
Turf. Farm and Home: There is
one shark here who is working a very
sly dodge. He is located at a small
hotel in quiet town. He does not
advertise in any way but drives a fine
team and with his running mate they
seek out the sick and invalid. as a rule
among the poorer classes. Calling at
the house of the sick they look the
patient over carefully and at once are
able to tell just what the trouble is-F
and what treatment will effect a rapid
and permanent cure. The price of a
sure cure is put at from So to 500
according to the ability of the Victim
to pay. Three quarters must be paid
down and the balance can be sent to
the doctors office" when the patient
is satisfied that a permanent cure has
been effected. The bait is tempting
~ NJ hp IL
HI sees a chance to get well and then
defraud the fraud out of the quarter
remaining unpaid. So the three-qua--
tiers are paid and operations com.
mencc and end. The scamp has got
his money and the victim has his meg
icine and his disease and the chapter
ter is closed. Now medical registra-
ton bill that, cannot and will not pro-
tcct the people against such an impo-
sition as this is not worthy of the row
that its enactment caused.
The st. CroiX river is alive with sal
mon these days. Fishermen are con-
sequently attracted thither These
facts raise the question: why not have
our kennebcc salmon back again?
There is II whispered story that
Candidate Staples silence is the result
of his being in the chrysalis state,
and that he will soon burst the dull
cocoon and sail into the sunlight a.
glltterng silver-bug with Ii stripes
on either wing. Biddcford Journal
Perhaps he's waiting to get the nomi-
nation of the new original Democratic
party. Then again, perhaps he doesn't
know what to say.
But one of the 40 signers for the first
Universalist church in Waterville, il
living.
IN Pain,