Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-05

club after an exciting discussion de-
cided the United States should not aid
the Cubans. The East Corinth boyr
are not disposed to allow sentiment to
interfere with logic as they under
stand 1t.
This is good time of year to remind
people that 1t pays In the end to make
ones purchases at home rather than
go to the metropolis for bargains. An
exchange tells OF a man who went from
Maine village to a Maine metropolis
and bought stove which cost him 1920
more set up than it would. have had
he bought 1t of the local dealer.
A strange woman went into a Saco
store, last week. wrote a note and left
1t for a boy to deliver. The storekeeper
read it and though there was nothing
in 1t to excite suspicion he went and
showed 1t to the city marshal. The
Saco fair fakir seems to have destroyed
all confidence in human nature over
that way.
A Biddeford man puts his pocket
book in the -four barrel to conceal it
from burglars. But burglars are not so
ignorant as not to know that there's O.
good deal OF money in flour nowadays
One firm in Phillips has purchased
10000 pounds of wool this fall and paid
$1,000 more for 1t than the farmers could
have got under the Wilson law,
yet there are those who say prOtec-
tive tariff benefits no one. However,
that can be said about everything.
Phillips Photograph: We do no.
mean to say there are no abandoned
farms in Franklin county. There are q
few. but not half as many as some
would have us believe there are. The
farm that cannot be worked by ma
chinery or cannot without great ex-
pense be put in condition for the now
ing machine and horse rake ought to
be abandoned as farm, any il 1t
hasn't yet, soon will be allowed to
grow up to trees. 1t may do for pas
ture fer some coed farm and when such
q farm is turned into a pasture, or goes
best to woodland 1t does not indicate
a backward, but forward movement
1t is simply survival of the fittest
Conditions do not favor small farms to
any great extent in Franklin county
We are too far from the cities.
No one can say James Eye of Calais. |
hasn't an eye to business. He offers to |
go to Jail as often as possible il only |
the officers will dizzy the commitment
fees with him. |
Those who We're dreaming of KlOn- |
dyke and neglected to pick their cram
berries wouldn't pick up a nugget Il
they fell over it.
The Lewiston bakers had boom
during the breach of promise trial: the
bought bread instead of baking,
SO as to spend good part of the day
at the trial.
Waterville Mail: If a man who had
been present at the second Democratic
State Convention of Maine held in this
city last year had happened. to attend
The Democratic convention at Worces-
ter. Mass, on Tuesday he must have
been struck by the. similarity of the
scenes enacted in each. In the Maine
the Hon. William Henry
Clifford. a Democrat of long standing,
Tried to get a hearing and was Kissed
off the stage. In the Massachusetts
the more youthful but not
ess distinguished Congressman Fitz-
gerald received practically the same
although he was allowed
Ultimately to finish his address through
the efforts Of the oracle of his party in
the Hon. George Fred
Williams. The observer of both con-
would have noticed, however,
his difference. Mr.. Clifford did not at
.empt to secure a hearing by modifying
n the slightest degree the bold attacks
ne started out to make upon the Bryan
Ind free silver wing of his party. while
Fitzgerald plainly did
Just that. The Massachusetts, Demo-
,rat weakened before the wrath of the
free silver men, the Maine Democrat
a bold front to the bitter
end.