Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-14


MT somebody try to move one Of the
other departments to Bangor, Lewis
ton or somewhere else. because for
sooth. 1t would be more convenient for
the professor teaching that branch TO
live elsewhere than Brunswick? The
talk is very silly and amounts to moth
Ing at all. The medical school Is one OF
the departments of Bowdoin College
just as much as the scientific depart
ment, the philosophical department Or
the literary department. In the matter
of the medical department, large pro-
portion Of the professors reside in Port
land instead of Brunswick and Of
course 1t would be more convenient for
them to have their business nearer
home but there is just as much likeli
hood Of the management of Bowdoin
College consenting to having their col
lege appOrtioned out to different sec
tons of New England, as there is to
moving the Androscoggin river
of Portland over the street commission
investigation. 4.-.
BY the laying out of a new street in
Lewiston an old house finds what was
once it's front door, but for generations
past it's back entrance once more ready
for the offices for which it was con-
structed. The front door has been on
the back side Of the house, because 1t
is house 100 years old, that once stood
looking out over the river. One morn
ing recently the old house, with its
unique front hall glass, it's winding old
purltanical front stairs. and it's great
old chimneys awoke to find that it once
more faced on the street. and that its
front side was indeed its front side and
that the door was all right. The street
has waited fifty years for the house to
come to 1t, and as it wouldn't it went to
the house. But 1t was necessary to chip
off corner here and there to make the
lines run straight and this old house
that has seen so many of the genera
tons come and 60. lost corner and IA
gable in the slicing
While Boston and Portsmouth are
clamoring for that new dry dock South
Portland rises to remark that one of
the officers of the recently visiting
squadron informed the people that
swamp just beyond the brcakwater is
just the place.
Bangor is making somewhat slow
progress on it's model Jail yard, but
enough Of the inmates have been kept
at breaking stone to accumulate lot
Of that material which will go to i'm
prove Bangor's streets.
The editor of the North Arson Ad-
vocate has views on this subject and
gives free expression to them after this
fashion: Friday a dozen head of fine
looking young cattle that had been
purchased in another part of the State
were driven through urstreets on their
way to Mt. Vernon. The scarcity IF
good oxen is everywhere apparent in
Maine and the runout farms too plainly
tell the story. The time was when the
Maine farmer kept cattle and many 2
farmer had from,one to half a dozen
yoke. Then it was that the farms were
far more productive and the dollars
Jingled in the farmers pocket. There
is no compost like good farm yard
dressing and 1t is poor economy to buy
commercial fertilizers in large quaint
ties. as many do, where a much more
superior article could be had at home
to the great advantage of the farmer.
The Maine farmer can raise as good
cattle as can be found elsewhere in
New England. and such stock can al
ways be sold at fair margin of profit
What Maine needs is more cattle and
less horses; more oxen grazing on the
hillsides of the now abandoned farms
and less trotting horses who never 20
fast enough to get record below three
minutes" AS the area of grazing
lands diminishes or grows too valuable
for stock purposes and the demand for
beef increases New England farmers
who have found other products more
remunerative will again find profit in
stock raising. There seems to be some
Improvement in that direction already. |