Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-07


Peace of mind you surely cannot know
Until to small troubles you attend.
The above verses We're ostensibly
| written by member of the Portland
| Argus staff, whose wife had been given
no end of trouble in darninS her hus-
| bands stockings because he had neg
| lected TO buy a pair of inner soleS 70
cover a rough place in one of his shoes,
After such cruel neglect to one woman
| it would have been no more than 4
| lust retrbution had the muse snubbed
him.
A man is going the rounds of some OF
the Maine schools with proposition to
introduce instruction in the manage
ment of feet and hands. We should
think the teachers would contribute
| enough to provide such instruction.
They suffer not a little from the need
| of it.
| Mayor Bibber of Bath announces that
| the quarantine laws are to be enforced.
That should be taken for granted by
| everybody with a desire to contribute
to the general welfare.
| Iboti - tiihib, VI het 'fft7 '''
club and fine gymnasium. This with
| a yacht club and a boat club would
enable the Shipping city to show de
velopment in the muscular line if in
| nothing else.
A Bath woman said the other day
| that she had never seen a launching.
That's almost like the Celestial who
never saw the sun rise.
| The poverty of the church mouse is
! proverbial but there Seems to be some
thing incongruous about a dove starry
| ing to death in the sanctuary Yet 1t
! is said that the ghastliest sight in Ban
gor today is the skeletons of starved
doves in a church gable-doves that
starved in Imprisonment. Up to a few
years ago the doves had the freedom
of the city, but lately wire guards have
been put in many places to keep the
mild Legged flocks out of house and home.
The front gable of the Hammond street
church is one of the places thus pro
tected, and whoever put up the wire so
| botched the job as to make it cruel
trap, The wire is left loose at the bot
| tom in such a way that while the doves
can easily pass under it to the shelter
of the gable. they cannot get out. Once
| in. they are prisoners, and there, TINS
past winter, many Of the poor birds.
after wearing themselves out in vain
efforts to escape have slowly starved
to death while in the church below
echoed hymns of joy and love. Per
haps. says a local paper, the people in
| the church don't know about the death
trap and the starving doves, but other
people do, for the bleached bones ane
scattered feathers of the victims are in
1 plain view from the street
Portland is bordering over the pros
pect Of a higher tax rate. Modern
methods and Improvements cost money
but the people of a wide awake city
grumble more over lack Of them than
over the extra tax. There's limit
though.
The following announcement in one
of the Bangor papers is an instance of
turning the other cheek with a sus-
picion of sarcasm lurking in the other
eye: II the lady who (by mistake p
took a Juno night lamp from one of
the bargain tables in the Bangor De-
4 illtl
and who was so unfortunate as TO drop
and break the chimney before leaving
the store, will only return we will pre-
sent her with another chimney. E.
| Hobson, manager.
Perhaps towns will pay dog taxes out
of their treasures without bothering to
collect from the owners and perhaps not.
| of Shp,1l1 in M
that the town has got to pay over to
the State a tax proportionate to the
number of dogs in town and if the
owners don't reimburse for this pay
ment it will evidently be to the town
advantage to kill off the dogs and save
money.
Even the ladies may find a little sat
isfaction in this incident, the boy was
soundly cuffed. 1t was at q Sunday
| school supper in one of the Portland
churches, when most of those present
| were ladies' The exercises We're pass
| ing off with great success, when u
small boys prank broke the monotony
very effectually says the Advertiser.
This 12-year- intent on mischief.
took with him box containing a live
mouse. At the proper time, as he
| judged, he opened the box and the
mouse scampered across the vestry.
Some of the ladies saw the creature
and screamed. Then the rest inquired
| what was the matter and when they
| found out that a mouse was loose in the
room a panic ensued that cannot be
described here. The ladies climbed on
chairs and tables and it was quiet "A