Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-20


Across the yard Il sneak thtef crept-
l looked the other way.
The boom in lumber operations waits
a little on tariff certainty.
Wedding bells will chime with the
present plans mature.
Now the Marquand case is settled
and now it isn't.
Texas cotton for Liverpool via Port
land. Maine Well, well.
The South Brewer fellow who threat
ened to Kill the girl who refused him,
and when abruptly thwarted by a mus
cular man left vowing vengeance on
himself. has evidently cooled off. A
November frost ought to be an effec
tive remedy for such suicide germs.
1t would be folly to expect that
among all the Armenians brought to
this country to be cared for. there
would not be instances where the
charitable would feel that they had
been imposed upon. But we remarked
at the time it was first proposed that
probably those who had been able to
escape from Armenia We're better able
TO care for themselves than those left
behind. and we believed in view of the
beneficent results of the Red Cross
charities our energies would better be
turned to the work of ministering to
the latter. 1t seems that several of
those who have been brought here to
be placed in charitable families where
they might receive shelter and food
have brought along with them some
what lofty notions of what should be
done for them. Several in Boston have
refused to go where they had to work
only for their board and clothes until
/ they could learn the language and shift
for themselves. and are content to let
charity take care of them in ideness
A case near home is that of a Water
vile lady who took a young Armenian
thinking he could be of sufficient SER
vice about the house to pay for his
keep" She has discovered that he
belonged to a wealthy family at home
and requires more waiting on than his
la Dor is worth.
Tracks of an enormous moose have
infiamed the sportsmanlike ardor of
East Eddington, nearly all the town be-
ing hot on his trail.
While two of Pittsfield's hustling
citizens We're out cunning the other
day it occurred to them that one was
the assignee of property in the
neghborhood, the assets consisting of
several shoats and odds and ends of
doubtful value. Thereupon they de-
cided to hold an auction and did so,
| notifying everyone they met on the way
to the house. that it was to take place
Immediately. 1t is said the prices of
the sales ruled fair.
Watervlle Mail: That committee of
noted educators that recently met to
discuss the betterment of Names COM
mon schools might learn without very
| much investigation that one reason
why they are no better than they are
is because $3.50 a week isn't pay enough
to entice into the teaching ranks an ex-
tremely high class of talent. A Mig
| gardly policy never produces very rich
results.
Somerset Argus: The National
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union
proposes to honor General Neal Dow
| by calling upon all temperance and
philanthropic societies throughout the
| world to set apart March 90, his birth
| day, as Prohibition day." This is an
appropriate proposition, but what the
general most wants, like everyone else
who is interested in temperance, is
that every day in the year throughout
the whole world should be generally
observed as prohibition day"
| 1t was the little daughter of a minis
ter. who occasionally breaches in Oak
land. that on looking out of the VIM
| dow and seeing her mother returning
alone from church-the father was ex-