Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-03
beat any man who tries to race with it

beat any man who tries to race with it
sooner or later A few days ago a
man passed through Brewer on his
way to Bangor, having walked ten
miles to get drink of whiskey. A few
years ago this man was accounted one
of the best tobacco and cigar statesmen
travelling in New England, and he
commanded salary of from $500 to
$4,000 a year. but is now little better
| than a common tramp.
Waterville Mail: The problem Of
how do deal with the tramp in Maine
is evidently not to be entirely neglected.
1t was one of the most prominent
questions considered at a recent meet
ing of the county officials at their
meeting at Skowhegan and various
opinions were advanced as to the best
plan to be followed. The idea of open
ing stoneyards in which the wanderers
should be forced to labor had num-
| Der of adherents while some thought
that the stoneyard scheme would moi
work we'll in all sections, and that
| tramping should be made State
prison offence. 1t is good thing -
have the matter discussed and the
recommendation that application be
made to the next Legislature to enact
an effective tramp law may result in
seeing that body give it's attention to
this important subject. If the estab-
lishment of stoneyards in the shire
town or in these and other towns will
do the business let us have them, hut if
something so severe as a sentence to
State prison be necessary to rid Maine
of the professional tramp let us have
that. The tramps cost Maine great
many thousand dollars every year and
they do not add to the wealth, the
prosperity or the happiness of the in
habitants of the State in the slightest
degree.
! Sneak thieves are reported to have
taken considerable property of late in
Liberty. Nothing appears to be safe
from them. They have helped them
selves to bee hive. pork, lambs, hens.
apples and even windows have been
removed from uninhabited houses.
Certainly no effort should be spared by
| authorities and citizens to run these
fellows down and make an example of
them.
An Orland correspondent thinks he
has found the meanest man. This in
dividual put up at farmhouse in that
town recently. He had tired horse
He took his dinner himself, beat the
lady who furnished it down to Is cents
took out large roll of bills to pay,
but never fed his horse!
This was cruelty to animals. There
| is law enough if properly applied, to
make fellows of this calibre Sweat
blood"
But hold on!- The Hallowell News
thinks it has discovered meaner man
| still-in fact. THE meanest man on
earth" who is "a well-to-do farmer"
and lives in Maine In dull seasons on
the farm he still turns a penny by ped
ding fish,-not always the, best One
day a neighbor after buying some cod
and being afraid it would not keep
fresh till time for cooking, asked him
if he wouldn't sprinkle little salt on
it, noticing a quantity convenient in
the cart. sWell-yes-I-can,'' slowly re-
piled the fishmonger, but II shall have
to charge you two or three cents
more" We think a man hired by that
farmer would have to work mighty
hard to earn his SALT
| This was to be sure trif1e nigh"
hut NO nartioulor c,ffor;or ,,,oa 5000
stoned by it TO man or beast. On the
whole therefore we are convinced thar
| the Orland traveller is still entitled to
wear the belt
Rockland Courier Gazette: Already
the graduating classes in our high
schools are raising funds to pay the
expenses of graduation The people of
the county will no doubt give just as
generous support this year as in the
years of the past. And why shouldn't
they! The graduating exercises are
public and are given free, although the
graduates are placed at considerable
expense for hall rent, special attrac-
tions. and the like, and there isn't an
attraction of any kind that provides
entertainment to the people that at
tracts nearly as large audiences. So
the suppers and entertainments given
py the scholars should receive nothing
nut the most generous support.
Ihere Is nothing mean about the
citizens Of Rockport when it comes to
pinch. Last spring w. A. Merriam
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