Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-12-07

has been the departure of several Of
the sub 5-cont,actors who worked on the
line of the new road. In many of the
towns along the liae these men besides
thew legitimate contracting. contracted
large bins for laoor and supplies.
Some of these parties have gotten out
of sight in most mysterious manner.
Gardiner Reportar-Journal: A re-
script from the law court in an An
droscoggin county case holds that
action against another woman for
alternating her husbands affections.
We do not believe in suits for the
alternating of affections anyway. bu:
there seems to be no reason why
wife shouldn't have. the same redress
against a woman, as the husband does
against man. But then, there are
many things about law that we do not
understand.
Among the many pathetic cases Of
the Portland was the cne of young
lady who was ROBBED of her fiance by
the war with Spain. The attachment
between the two young people was
very strong and her sorrow over his
death was inconsolable. In speaking
of her dead love, shortly before max
ing the visit to relatives at Boston
that had such tragic sequel, the
young lady remarked that when she
died she wanted to look just as badly
as Charlie did when he was in his
coffin. Il have been to see fortune
teller" she remarked, "and she said
would soon meet him in a storm. l
wonder what she meant?" All, poor
girl. how soon the answer came.
IT is almost useless to talk about the
hundreds of pathetic incidents con-
nected with the loss of the Portland.
Such as the two little children who
were sent Sunday by their mother to
telephone to their father. They
thought and she thought the Portland
was in, and that he must be tired out.
He was at rest then, and we do not
know that there is yet any way to get
a message over or through the sea of
death to our loved ones. And then
think of that wife who wrote to her
husband that the insurance had lapsed
ON their little home, and asked him to
renew it. She did not know he was
dead, and so her pathetic little letter
went on it's way, never to be called
for. He was on his way home that
night God grant that he found it.
And then think of that poor lonely
father mourning for his two boys. The
Of y,n = a haon "a.
versed. The young had been taken.
and the old left. The sorrow of tha.
r,oor old man will not be forgotten by
those who saw him. And then those
bright girls. There was faithful
teacher of the school for the dumb.
There was that bright young singer
whose voice was to have been heard IN
Portland this week. There was the
young girl on her vacation. There was
The college boy coming back from the
Thanksgiving recess. There were so
many of them. r
There is one particularly nice old
gentleman in Brldgton whom every
body likes. Above alFother men he is
the idol of young hero worshiper in
the person OF small Doy oI tndl place.
And it is seldom that a hero worship
er has been known to carry his self
sacrifice for the object of his alteration
so far as did this loyal small boy the
other day. Mr.. Allen has bald spot
on the back of his head, and what did
the little fellow do but seat himself in
chair and set his still younger sister
at work to pull out the hair from his
own head on the part corresponding to
his hero's hirsute oasis. The little girl
tried, but unsuccessfully, whereupon he
exclaimed: Pull harder, sis-pull
harder. l want to look exactly like
Mr.. Allen" But by this time his
mother appeared on the scene and put
a summary stop to hair-pulling pro-
ceedings. Fi''->''