Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-20

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Roxbury claims a man who WORKED
| his neighbours oxen on Sunday be
cause he had borrowed them ant
didn't wish to feed them a day whel
he couldn't use them.
A Caribou youth concluded h
needed eyeglasses and went to ge
| fitted. He was a long time about !
but finally got just what he wanted
| But Immediately after he remarked
how they aided his sight he discovered
that he had been trying on a pair O
| rims. the lenses being absent. VIVA
| could the poor fellow say?
This little announcement all the way
from Spruce Head breathes as mucl
of beauty and contentment as tht
sweetest pastoral ever written: Beau.
| tiful weather, down here, friends. NJ
snow, no cold, no mud. and nothing
much to do. What is the matter witt
| entertaining winter rusticators IL
Maine. as we'll as elsewhere?''
A little discussion about the young
est deputy sheriff in the State leads the
editor of the York Courant to remark
I'VE beg pardon, but the editor of the
Ceurant was appointed a deputy sher-
iff when at the age of 23. We
think that the youngest in the county
Or State.
The -Bridgton saw mill is waiting fol-
shedding before starting up. 1t had
to wait until Jan. % last winter.
The urchins in Presque Isle are Won
dering how the man who drew a
sixteen pound stick of candy the other
day is going to eat it all alone.
Waldoboro's new chemical fire ex-
tinguisher saved the best schoolhouse
in town the other day and the select
men who ordered it are consequently
we'll satisfied with themselves.
Camden says she has nothing to ash;
from this Legislature. We shall miss
her,
The only objectOr to GARDENERS
shoe factory project is said to be- the
man who thinks they have too many
morning whistles in town already.
AroOstoOk is looking for improve
ment in the potato trade. Already it
has melted twice what last years crop
did.
Maine Statesman: 1t may be doubt
ed If long terms of Imprisonment are
the solution for the tramp problem.
Prisoners are made too comfortable.
While we have got beyond the age
OF torture still the first principle in
punishment should be to make the
offender uncomfortable. You must
make him wish he hadn't done it.
Perhaps the only practical punish
ment for the man who is arrested for
running away from work is to work
rim until he is out of breath. Work
him till he is all tired out Work him
till he thinks the county Jail the most
hateful place in the world. If the
dread of disgrace will not keep a mar
out of Jail, make him dread the pain
fully unending hard work. Jail should
be terror.
The editor of the Bath Independent
admits that he doesn't like to see his
original ideas used by other papers
without credit hut, when he picks up
another exchange and finds the idea
credited to the thief, then the editors
lmpatience finds vent in audible COM
munings in which the French language
by reason of it's facile adaptiyeness
Is employed and the passer by is not
shocked.
The Bath Independent thinks there
is a good deal of support behind that
project to set Brunswick off onto Sag.
adahoc county.
In some Maine towns people are un-
certain whether their local boards of
trade are dead or only sleeping while
in Deering last Saturday evening, the
board of trade had such lively meet
ing that it almost forgot to adjourn
when Sunday came.
Some experts say this is a good time
to gravel streets and sidewalks need
ing gravel. But there wouldn't be a
gravel bank left in Kennebec county if
all the ruts i'll country roads were
filed.
One of those big, enthusiastic, event
full hearings in behalf of woman's
suffrage is in prospect.
The committee on fish and game is
making short work of small pond
and alder stream petitions by refer
ring same to the commissioners.
The Brunswick Telegraph speaking
of the proposition to annex Brunswick
to Sagadahoc remarks in conclusion:
I'm fact, the whole matter seems to
be in rather hazy state and our peo-
pie are at a loss to know just what
they do want. But unless they want
to be carried off hook, bob and sinker