Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-23

conversation. and discussed the free
coinage of iron at the ratio of 80 to /,
and many other vital matters. On the
subject of the suppression of witcli-
craft on the island Mr.. Frye said a
few words regarding his knowledge of
witchcraft. whereupon Mrs. Frye asked
what he knew OF witchoraft: but the
senator always quick at repartee. said
he refused to disclose family secrets.
They had jolly time. and congress-
| men, editors. professors. ministers.
lawyers. business men, and their wives
and friends Joined in the spirit of the
occasion as only Squirelites can.
How Lewiston perspired, and frothei
at the mouth, and tore it's hair, and
ripped the seams in its neither garment
when it heard the rumor that Rigby
was to steal the State fair There will
be merry music in the air before such a
plan can be carried out. Lewiston says
Portland once had chance to support
the State fair and couldn't do it half
decently and now can have no claim
to it. There is talk of a mile track at
Lewiston. so the Sun says. SO that city
can be on the big. circuit with OLD
Orchard and Rigby. The Sun claims
the Portland papers have been padding
the attendance at Rigby, and the re-
cent fair wasn't much of an occasion
after all. 1t says there We're not more
than 5000 people at Rigby. Thursday
when the Argus estimated the crowd at
10000.
The fish liar finds himself handi-
capped by the law limiting the anglers
catch of certain kinds u fish to so
pounds. He must not be discouraged,
however, but must have recourse to
ether incidents of his piscatorial ad-
ventures than heavy catches. He
must dilate on the size of some of his
catch. or more likely. some that he
barely failed to catch. This last al
ways furnishes safe field to operate
in, for like stories told by westerners
to the ears of fasteners they have to
be accepted because none of the hear
crs are able to say from personal
knowledge that they are not true.
There are plenty of chances left for
the constitutional fish" liar to get in
his work. and it will require a more
stringent law than any passed by the
last Legislature to drive him out of
his long and well cultivated field.
The reasons why people move are
many and strange, but novel reason
is that of Thomaston young couple
who have not been married many
moons. They own a favorite dog
which has been allowed to share their
sleeping room. The said dog became
the habtation of a colony of feas. An
application to a druggist procured a
prescription that effectively cleared the
dog of the troublesome visitors, but
with malice aforethought they took
possession of the bed, causing the &C.
cupants to vacate.
Rockland Courier-Gazette: The
crews of the life saving stations along
our coasts have returned to duty after
a long and well earned vacation. To
those who do not know the money ex..
pended in the keeping up of these sta
tons seems to be money thrown away.
| This is wrong impression as evil
denced by the yearly report but re-
Gently published. Many million dol
lars worth of property is yearly saved
and what is still more important many
human lives are rescued from a grave
beneath the white capped angry
| waters. The duties of life saving crew
| is no sinecure but is fraught with hard
work, much hardship and many perils
even when the ocean is at rest and the
waters playfully lap our rugged Maine
| coast. But when storm arises AMI
| the waters are dashed in their fury, ami
a vessel loaded with merchandise and
withhuman lives aboard is tossed abou.
at the mercy of the sea, then the real
work of these men Of the life saving
station begins in earnest. They know
not such word as fear, the one
thought uppermost in their minds is to
save property and life; what is more
precious than life? The danger is well
known, but these are thrown to the
| winds. Who ever. heard of life saw.
ing crew who refused to attempt a res
cue? No one. Let us then rever the
man who wears the blue cloth and
brass buttons of a life saving crew. His
face may be bSpnzed and rugged. his
1 hands hard and callOused. burt there
beats in his breast heart that is ten
der and sympathetic; he has MIND
that possesses more Intelligence thar
the average man and his muscles stand
out all over his manly frame like unto
whip cords. He is a man TO commant
our respect, our esteem, our admira.