Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-19
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of great Importance to the future well
fare of the State. In last weeks issue
the Eastern Gazette makes plea for
the cultivation Of pine and spruce on
the so-called waste lands and on the
many abandoned farms. 1t is a crop
that does not yield a profit in one year
or ten years. but in quarter of cen
fury the timber will be worth hundreds
of dollars to every acre. Maine is be-
ing ruthlessly stripped of it's best tim
Der, and numbering operations are not
| carried on in the most intelligent and
far-seeing way. To fill the demand in
years to come will not be possible un-
| less man joins the efforts of nature.
The writer of the article claims that if
a 20 acre field,valueless now. beplanted
with pine burrs in rows a rod apart
and few days each year devoted to
| trimming the trees, the timber in 20
years will be worth $4,000 on the
| stump. Not a bad investment for n
Maine young man to make. We ali
| wish we had gone into the business Il
score of years ago. Maine has today a
greater percentage of forest area than
| any other state in the Union, but no
doubt If most of the present abandoned
farms had been abandoned to forest
long ago the State would be richer.
| Stockton is up In arms over the
shooting of a harmless old sheep by
two brave young men who thought
they were Kidding the community of q
wild cat of 'injun devil'' that has been
said to be in the community. The
sheep had strayed into a cellar, ana
the young man who came upon her
there had blood curdling tale to tel,
about a dark form with glaring eye
balls and long claws that sprang at
him with a hideous yell and nearly
killed him before he could escape. His
| friends went with revolvers to avenge
his injuries ca, and now the farmer
whose sheep received four bullets
| wants somebody to pay the damages.
Portlahd's big celebration and con-
ventions: will be eclipsed by the grand
baby show that Is scheduled for to-
morrow at Peaks Island.
Brunswick has reformed since col
lege closed. A stranger in search of Il
cigarette visited 10 stores on Maine
street and was unable to procure box
| of coffin lacks 2SY"t
Another credit mark goes to the
| record of the Kennebec and Boston
boats for not losinggd trip during the
recent gale.
The Niben Club. of Bangor now
proudly claims the best bicycle path
in the country. 1t is built for six miles
straight away through beautiful
region of forests and meadows, over
the old road bed where in the thirties
there steamed the second railroad train
in the United States.
Augusta. Hallowell and Gardiner
| claim to be quite musical cities. but at
present none of them support music
store.
That was pretty mean man in Saco
who hired boy for haying at $3.50 per
week, and then refused to give him
more than 81 because the little follow
| drank so much milk. The average
Maine farmer is not that kind of a
man.
The poor. abused canine occasional
ly gets the laugh on his tormentors
| young man who is stopping at q
| M n a m, tr;o 10, Iii
a dog which was in his path as he went
| along the beach on his bicycle. The
man fell from his wheel and broke his
collar bone. 1t is not known that any
thing happened to the dog.
The man with his bicycle tire
punctured should always be, and gen.
orally is, an object of sympathy, but
the soulless corporation has no pity on
him. One electric road in the State
has a rule against the transportation
of bicycles and carries it so far as TO
exclude disabled machines. We won't
name the road. Under existing cir
cunlStances it has woes enough of it's
own.
| Scashore boarlers are hoping the
water will be calm enough this week to
allow few fish to be caught for the
| table.
In Freedom, one day last week, in
three adjoining fields three farmers
were respectively sowing grain, hoeing
corn. and gathering hay, variety Of
| farm work seldom seen in one day.
BiddefOrd has small boy, French
man named Cote, who is likely to win
fame most any day now by going to
New York and jumping from the
Brooklyn bridge. Steve Brodie isn't in
1t with him for ambition. Almost any
day you can find him jumping from the
highest place he can find about the
Biddeford coal sheds and when a
schooner is anchored in the harbor he
secures permission and climbs UP the
rigging and does pretty jump. He
says that he has not yet been up far
enough to satisfy himself He'll get
there if he keeps on.
The harvesters of drift wood and
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